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Friday 15th August 2008
THIS IS NOT PYTHON'S 'CHEESE SHOP' SKETCH
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food
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Posted by: adie,
3:36 PM
Us Fandango bods don't have do some stupid things but rarely more stupid than make an ill-advised purchase from the likes of Kennedy Fried Chicken and their 'ilk'. We do not advise that. On deciding upon one's choice of 'side' to our disgusting 'meal' of 2-pieces-of-chicken-and-chips with-a-can-of-drink-and-a-side-order-of-coleslaw-or-beans, our conversation with the man in the shop went thusly:
Shop idiot: "Would you like coleslaw or beans?"
Me: "Coleslaw plz."
Shop idiot: "I don't have any coleslaw."
Me: "OK, I'll have the beans then."
Shop idiot: "I don't have any beans."
Me: "..."
In the end he decided to give me a 50p discount and I left with my 'food' which is now in the bin. I'd take a picture, but my camera got nicked.
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Tuesday 12th August 2008
DIARY OF A FARMER'S BOY: #3 STANLEY GOES TO A 'PROPER' FESTIVAL
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, latitude
Posted by: Stanley Munger,
5:42 PM
Stanley Munger lives out and about and beyond the third field from the left somewhere in Britain's fine rolling countryside. In each and every issue of Zine Fandango he will be clambering down off his tractor and climbing on his soapbox to give us the tittle tattle on life outside Camden Town. Allegedly.
Alright there. Now then. One of the great things about living in the middle of Nowheresville, postcode oblivion, is that because hardly anything significant musical ever happens when anything significant musical does happen within a 500 mile radius it is very very significant indeed. Consider that around these parts people still talk in hushed, reverential tones about Forward Russia (so hushed in fact that you couldn't hear the exclamation marks) playing a 'gig' in Ipswich three years ago and you can well imagine the seismic ructions caused by the arrival of the Latitude Festival in East Angular two years ago. Actually 'seismic' and 'ructions' are wholly
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Tuesday 29th July 2008
IS THIS LEGAL?
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mp3s
, clever technology
, simplify media
Posted by: adie,
12:42 PM
"Yes. Music is streamed friend-to-friend, and only within small, private groups. There are limits to how many friends can be on your Media List and how many listeners can concurrently stream music from your computer. Friends cannot burn remote songs to CDs, transfer them to an iPod or MP3 player, or access them when you are logged off."
Ahoy. We just joined up to this thing:
www.simplifymedia.com
... which lets you share your iTunes/Winamp collection with friends... as long as your computer is turned on and you're logged in. A bit like remote access, but for a group of people, and only streaming music. COOL BEANS, HUH?
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Friday 18th July 2008
LIVE SPLURGE: ALPHABEAT
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alphabeat
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Posted by: adie,
7:01 PM
Alphabeat
London, iTunes Live @ Koko
16 July 2008
At tonight's competition-winners/guestlist-only gig, Alphabeat are in danger of becoming bloated. What were tight slabs of slick pop in previous live appearances, post-album they're under the impression we all know the songs although – let's face it – most people are here for 'double-headliners' CSS. The songs now come as extended 12” mixes (if you don't know what we mean, ask the 1980s) verging on the self-indulgent. This crowd is not quite ready for it. Other than the weirdos like us who've been listening to the original version for almost a year, the recent UK release of the album hasn't quite implemented itself in people's heads, and for those 'hardcore' fans who fear change, it's time to sniff disapprovingly at the overly polished (extended) remake of new single 'Boyfriend' (“don't you touch my boyfriend/ he's not your boyfriend/ he's MINE”). And while Anders S
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Monday 7th July 2008
AN IMPORTANT AND ACCURATE GUIDE TO MUSIC: #1 THE BATTLE OF THE BANDS
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, guide to music
Posted by: Pamela Stitty,
12:42 PM
Every Local Band dreams of winning the Battle Of The Bands, the winner of which will get an Argos guitar and three days recording time in a Top Notch Local Recording Studio in which the band's 'amazing' new demo will be recorded much to the joy and anticipation of A&R scouts around the land. The lucky winner of a Battle Of The Bands will have gone through several 'heats' and the voting will have been done by all their mates. Of course this means that the promoter has already pocketed £1,000 for a single gig due to the amount of mates paying in and won't have to pay the bands because they have the honour of playing such a valuable and ground-breaking competition.
Some Battle Of The Bands competitions are considered far more high class and involve an annual bunfight across an entire country, as bands battle for a place in a Secret Tent at a Major Music Festival so they can mention on all future press releases they played this festival to the 10 mates who HADN'T gone to see
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Wednesday 2nd July 2008
INITIATION TO INDIE
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, that petrol emotion
Posted by: Mr Pointy,
4:35 PM

Hideous
Jim Kerr, lead singer of Simple Minds, was my hero and back in the mid ‘80s when I was about 16 and they were at their stadium-filling height, I excitedly booked tickets to see them at Milton Keynes Bowl. I arranged to meet my Glaswegian friend David in the queue - he was not hard to miss being 6ft 7, carrying a big Scotland flag, and being a doppelgänger for the singer of Big Country. He’d assured me that all the true Minds fans would be dressed as Jim Kerr, so I asked my mum if I could borrow her beret and black leggings. She finally agreed under strict instructions that I didn’t ruin/lose them, as the beret was my grandmother’s. To top it off, a big white shirt, black waistcoat and a belt with a big buckle, raided from my dad’s wardrobe, left me looking half Leprecon/half Frank Spencer.
On the big day I travelled up
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Tuesday 17th June 2008
SURF'S UP! ON THE SPLASH WITH THE WAVE PICTURES
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wave pictures
Posted by: adie,
3:44 PM

The Wave Pictures
Some misty eyed indie ‘kids’ of a certain age have been waiting for a British band like The Wave Pictures for the last few years since London popsters, Peel-faves and general cult heroes Hefner called it a day. While The Wave Pictures almost quite literally fill that hole – bassist Franic and drummer Jonny recently played Hefner songs as part of Darren and Jack Hefner’s backing band at the Luminaire and 100 Club – their lyrically driven, jagged sound mainly derives from over the pond in the form of Jeff Lewis and The Mountain Goats... who they also happen to have collaborated with.
Celebrity chums, a string of CDR releases and two ‘proper’ albums later – ‘Sophia’ and this year’s wonderful ‘Instant Coffee Baby’ - international fame is theirs for the taking, right? “We played on a boat in Amsterdam,” says frontman Dave Tatt
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Wednesday 11th June 2008
PANNING FOR GOLD
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panning for gold
Posted by: fandango,
12:13 PM
Fandango tries to make sense of some new demos and releases.
THE RRRS - ‘My Valentino/Forbidden Kiss’
Deliriously upbeat nuggets of pop genius from that well-known hotbed of new talent, Leamington Spa. Think Britpop chancers Echobelly sped up and dosed with Ritalin, with a flamboyant stage show to die for.
www.myspace.com/therrrs
THE HOSTS – ‘Wake Up’
They have suits, they hail from Sheffield, they are meat and two veg... but in a good way. www.myspace.com/thehosts
STORNOWAY – ‘The Good Fish Guide’ EP
Utterly bonkers Belle & Sebastian-tinged schmindie (with a bit of British Sea Power thrown in for good measure) from Oxford. Will be a must-see at this year’s Truck Festival.
w
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Friday 6th June 2008
BROKEN RECORDS: SEVEN PIECES AND SEVEN INCHES
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Posted by: Stan_Low,
4:22 PM

Broken Records
Post rock. There. We said it. Again. For those still interested in the remaining six hundred or so words, you’ve made the right decision. As post rock continually seeks to reinvent itself, it’s reassuring to know that there are some bands that are more interested in actually being taken seriously, regardless of whether the fickle finger of RADIO PLAY is pointing in their direction.
Take Edinburgh’s Broken Records, a seven-piece with a dramatic twist on the current fad of aiming to be a form of Arcadian Fire. The twist being…
“That we’re bloody not! Have you listened to David Byrne?!?” Jamie is the gas that powers the Broken Records lantern and this trying not to be lazy journalism. Luckily interviewee and interviewer know that there is so much more going on, hence the Fandango office going a bit potty wh
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Monday 2nd June 2008
DIARY OF A FARMER'S BOY: #2 STOWFEST!
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Posted by: Stanley Munger,
3:12 PM

StowFest: tomorrow's stars... today!
Stanley Munger lives out and about in yonder fields of the countryside. In each and every Zine Fandango he will be floating his pasteurized opinions on our cockney rock'n'roll lifestyles past our very eyes. We hope.
Alright there. Out here in the big countryside we have to make our own entertainment and then bloomin' well walk a long way to get to it. You cockney types might be able to flip flap from the Dublin Castle to the 229 like a big flip-flapping thing flop flipping through Regents Park like you've got quality indie venues on every cobbled street corner but out here the Camden Crawl is what us locals call your rush hour in North London. More pertinently, far out where the Mungers reside it's a 25 minute hike to the nearest pub which allows covers bands to get bendy with '
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Wednesday 28th May 2008
THE GRIPES OF ROSS: #1 BAND NAMES
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Posted by: Andy Ross,
4:26 PM
Comments: 3
 Forward Russia!
Andy Ross: providing the solution to the world's problems.
Band names eh, what's that all about?
The sixties. The Beatles/The Rolling Stones/The Kinks/The Who/The Beach Boys/The Doors/The Animals/Herman's Hermits - ah, 'the' exception proves the rule.
Then the seventies. Steely Dan.Supertramp.Blue Oyster Cult.Peters And Lee. Dearth of 'the'.
Not so long ago around Camden Crawl time was back to the 'thes'. The Rifles, The Rakes, The Holloways... ah! such fond memories!
So now it's all names with lots of punctuation marks: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!; Does It Offend You, Yeah?
(Yeah is quite a good start for coming up with a band name. How about The Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeahs - don't think that
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Friday 16th May 2008
HELLO FROM SUNNY BRIGHTON
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great escape 08
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Posted by: adie,
10:10 AM
 Sexy views.
I write from the Royal Albion hotel. 'Love Is All Around' by Wet Wet Wet is my unchosen background music. Some Old People are singing along.
The rest of Team Fandango is asleep.
We are at The Great Escape.
The hotel is pretty grim and old fashioned. Word of warning - it's best to read the reviews of your chosen temporary abode BEFORE booking room. Last night we were even accused of losing our key because the guy in reception didn't look hard enough for it. Had to wait for five minutes outside our door for someone to let us in. There seem to be six different keys for 100+ rooms. Very secure.
We're laughing though; the room Tom Fandango and I are staying in is WELL
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Friday 2nd May 2008
DIARY OF A FARMER'S BOY #1
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Posted by: Stanley Munger,
12:29 PM
Comments: 1
 This is quite obviously a panda with a hi-hat
Stanley Munger lives out out and about in the countryside. In every Zine Fandango he will be giving his onionized opinions on the cockney rock’n’roll lifestyle. We bet.
Alright there. Here’s a funny thing. The other day I decided it was high time I ambled into Big London Town to do a little bit of business so I thought I’d get myself a room at a hotel in the West End. Nothing too flash - us country folk don’t do flash unless it’s lemony and in a bucket with a nice big mop - just a mid-budget chain like the sort advertised by ageing once-alternative comics. Anyhoos I telephoned the hotel and then nearly fell off my trumping tractor when given a quote that was dang near £15.00 more pricey than normal!
“That’s more expensive than usual isn’t?” said I.
“Yes it is,” bea
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Thursday 18th October 2007
SAY HELLO: THE MOTHS!
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the moths
, me my head
Posted by: adie,
12:49 PM
 The Moths!
UPDATE FROM THE FUTURE: The Moths! have now metamorphed into Me My Head, so perhaps this article should be retitled 'Say Goodbye'.
The Moths! are Fandango regulars but it's been a whole six months since they last played for us, which just happened to be the launch of their single on Label Fandango. Following on from an appearence at In The City, the band, now expanded to a five-piece, return to the Borderline on Nov 1st for some Fandango/BMI action.
Hello The Moths. Who are you and what are you wearing?
We are James and Dave. Dave is wearing a brown t-shirt with what looks like Cher on the front and James is wearing a top that looks as though it should be inside out but isn't.
What can The Kids expect from the The Moths experie
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Wednesday 17th October 2007
SAY HELLO: POPULAR WORKSHOP
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popular workshop
Posted by: adie,
12:10 PM
 Popular Workshop Popular Workshop like to FUCK SHIT UP and are to return to Fandango to do just that as we return to Room 2, 229, on October 23rd. It's gonna be dead good. We asked some questions.
Hello Popular Workshop. Who are you and what are you wearing?
Hello Fandango. I'm Jake, I'm wearing shoes.
What can The Kids expect from the Popular Workshop experience at Club Fandango?
Probably to be IDed for booze... Oh sorry, capital K. Erm, noise and moisture, and the hard sell.
Would you say your influences are mainly from the distant past or the present and who/what inspired you to start a band in the first place?
I've got a very bad memory and a short attention span, so neither. I can't remember why we started this band
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Tuesday 16th October 2007
SAY HELLO: SAM ISAAC
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Posted by: adie,
12:04 PM
 Sam Isaac Sam Isaac makes 'beautiful, pounding, love pop' (NME), sounding not unlike what The Spinto Band might've sounded like if they've been brought up in the English countryside. He headlines Club Fandango at the Dublin Castle on Nov 6th, so we thought we'd fire a few questions his way...
Fandango: Hello Sam Isaac. Who are you and what are you wearing?
Sam: Hello words on a screen from Club Fandango person. I am boy that makes music type noise and I am wearing broken dunlops, comfy pants, jeans and a brown hoody with a Mr Scruff badge on its left breast.
What can The Kids expect from the Sam Isaac experience at Club Fandango?
They can expect lots of good looking boys on a stage in a band formation playing all the parts to my songs. Like drums and guitars and pianos and cellos a
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Saturday 1st September 2007
CAPTAIN BIGGLES' GUIDE TO BEING INDIE
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, stupid band names
Posted by: Captain Biggles,
1:30 PM
In which our intrepid reporter Captain Biggles guides you, the Fratellis-worshipping public, through the moral maze of Indiedom in all its charity-shop-chic glory. This episode: 'What's in a bloody stupid name?'
Hello there chaps. Now then, if I said you over a flagon of ale "Dinaburg, Tobal Kostanay, Grbalj and Differdange!" you would think I'd fallen right off my bastard rocker and landed on my mental head. But no, these are actually the real names of genuine football teams who have recently vacated the sunny delights of the Costa Del Shag to partake in the first round of the globally acclaimed Intertoto Cup. In football parlance Chelsea, Man United and Spurs it ain't. Yet this is exactly the sort of mind-bendingly alien wordage poor Emily from Big Brother sees when she glances at a gig guide. For outside of the Fopp-bustin' top ten where hardcore indie guitar tykes like Snow Patrol and The Feeling dominate there is a netherworld of cranky bands with c
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Monday 6th August 2007
RHONA'S RANTS #4: INTERMITTENT FAULTS
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Posted by: adie,
1:28 PM
Poxy computers, I'm having to write in Wordpad on the old 98. The XP has been in and out of the repair shop for nearly two months. It's got an intermittent fault and closes down at random. We're on first name terms in the shop now; they are replacing the motherboard this time and I hope that this will solve the problem.
I hate intermittent faults. Usually it's instruments like keyboards that are most likely to give me grief, especially if they've been dropped. You never know who to blame, is it their equipment or mine? I tend to assume that it's my end first unless the band tell me it's usual.
Intermittent faults can ruin my night; I try this, that and the other in soundcheck and think I've solved the problem only for it to reoccur during the set. For example, the other week I had an intermittent loud buzz on a keyboard. I changed the mic. lead, it buzzed. I changed the jack to jack lead, it was ok for a couple of minutes, then it buzzed. Time is ticking b
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Thursday 28th June 2007
RHONA'S RANTS #3: 'ACCIDENTALLY' ELECTROCUTING SINGERS
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rhona's rants
Posted by: adie,
1:25 PM
Rhona here on the desk. Please ignore me unless the sound is truly terrible. I get real paranoid if you all turn round and look at me. Then I know I'm really in trouble. In fact, in all the years I've mixed, the biggest complement I've ever had was from a stranger who said "I listened to the band for 10 mins and then realised that they sounded too good. I looked around and saw you."
My aim is to make bands sound like themselves - only better.
Bands have said to my employers that I care about their music; not true, I care about my sound. Club Fandango gives me good bands which makes my life easy. But you know I get a buzz from producing and getting the best out of a band, it isn't enough for a band to play the same song at the same time; they need to play at the correct relative volume too. Good dynamics are so important. With a really good band, once I have set the desk up right I should only be using one finger - 'oh the bass needs boosting' or 'oh guitar
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Thursday 28th June 2007
NEVER... WITH JOOLS
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Posted by: adie,
11:52 AM
 A smug git, yesterday
Jools Holland. He's a disagreeable fellow to look at isn't he? If only his show didn't actually feature him and we'd be alright, but he's all over it all like a vaguely sinister B&S fan is over a vinyl copy of Tiger Milk. "How lovely", a nation says in woe. With his greasy hair, ill-fitting black shirts and beltless jeans, he is the original sausage-fingered Rumpleskiltskin of smarm, shouting in his snooty tantrum-voice like he's been kicked down the bottom of a well and talking to the camera like he's about to either bed it or murder it. Stop it, stop it now.
After what seems like 201 years since the first episode, 'Later...' still begins with the obligatory group jam, the musical version of watching an out-of-sorts member of your family breakdance at a funeral: look at the bands - look at their faces -
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Tuesday 26th June 2007
SAY HELLO: TIM TEN YEN
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Posted by: adie,
11:47 AM
 Tim Ten Yen Tim Ten Yen is the handsome young singing salaryman who, accompanied by his Sinister Cat, sings songs just for you. As these songs are Very Good, Tim has been booked several times by Fandango and is set to perform his pop songs again on July 11th @ The Fly, supporting Shut Your Eyes and You'll Burst Into Flames, Maths Class and Diskoboy.
We took this opportunity to use Tracey Emin's '60 Second Interview' from today's edition of 'Metro' to find out more.
You're not a conventional choice to represent us at the Venice Biennale, are you?
No, and so it is a real honour to be asked. At school I loved drawing guns and battles in space, so I am really happy.
Do you see it as competition?
I try not to, but I think if I'm honest I would like to win. I think trav
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Tuesday 12th June 2007
BANDS WHO TECHNICALLY SHOULDN'T EXIST: THE 'OFFICE' BAND
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office bands
Posted by: adie,
12:16 PM
 Lovely, smiling boys in a wonderful band (we're sure) Well you know the type - they're 'headlining' on a midweek in a London toilet venue in December and although they've got a half hour soundcheck that begins as the other bands dutifully pile up their gear at the side of the stage you just know that headline fever has gone to their, erm, heads. The office band is in town!
For the next hour or more they will be tweaking fussily at the overpriced and suspiciously new equipment that sits awkwardly with the battered old PA and monitors of the venue. The drummer (in shorts, natch) fiddles mardily with his Zildjin drum kit that you just know his Dad drove to the gig for him even though he's 31, as the guitarist, who thinks its somehow critical that he checks all the settings on every one of his overpriced pedals, ignores the engineer's request to turn th
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Monday 21st May 2007
RHONA'S RANTS #2: METAL, MOSHERS AND TOY TORTURERS
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Posted by: adie,
11:38 AM
Bitter and twisted here; the poor fool on the mixing desk. It’s my job to run on time, create order out of chaos and try my best to get a sweet sound.
The kind of sound that I end up with depends on the band; I spend a lot of time setting up the rig - it is a bit like decorating a room in that the better you prepare your walls, the nicer the finish will be. Even if things are running really late I still take the time to set up correctly because cutting corners ends in grief... I have to know what is working and how well.
If I am unlucky enough to mix a metal band, my sound ends up as a wall of noise - the distorted guitars fill every frequency they can find... Then there is the drummer from hell who beats the shit out of his kit non-stop, bashing the cymbals so hard that they crack. They totally remind me of Animal from the Muppets. A good drummer has dynamics, he can play loud and soft... And what a pleasure that is.
I've e
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Thursday 17th May 2007
SAY HELLO: THE DISPLACEMENTS
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displacements
Posted by: adie,
6:40 PM
 The Displacements The Displacements must be doing something right because they've found themselves with not one, not three, but TWO Fandango gigs lined up this month - Dublin Castle on May 22nd and The Borderline on May 31st. Seems likes a good idea to find out more about them, eh?
Hello The Displacements. Who are you and what are you wearing?
Howdy, we are an ambitious band from Leicester, and ha, what a time to ask, nothing at all apart from one red sock and writing all over my arms – can't speak for the other three.
What can The Kids expect from the The Displacements Experience at Club Fandango?
Something to remember, and hopefully something that'll feel different and mean as much to them as it does to us. Bone also adds that a Displacements gig is a "highly charged sexual affair
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Tuesday 10th April 2007
SAY HELLO: LOOK SEE PROOF
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Posted by: adie,
5:29 PM
 Look See Proof Club Fandango and our chums fierce panda and Tigertrap Records take over the Ocean Rooms at this year's Great Escape festival in Brighton. You can find us there on May 17th with The Moths, Land Of Talk, Make Good Your Escape and Look See Proof. For the second in a currently irregular series of 'features', we fired off some questions to the latter.
b>Hello Look See Proof. Who are you and what are you wearing?
I'm David and I'm wearing black jeans with black plimpsoles and a Dykeenies t-shirt! Wordddd!
What can The Kids expect from the Look See Proof experience at Club Fandango/Great Escape?
Well being our first Great Escape there is going to be plenty of energy and we are going to inject some indie pop into people's veins! Should be good!
Would you
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Saturday 7th April 2007
RHONA'S RANTS #1: THE POOR SOD AT THE BACK OF THE ROOM
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Posted by: adie,
1:02 PM
Club Fandango has been foolish enough to ask me to write a column every month and have told me not to be too polite; they may be sorry. For those of you who don't know me, I'm the poor sod at the back of the room, with the mixing desk. My job is to create order out of chaos, to make bands sound loud enough to get you off (but not so loud that your ears bleed) and to run on time.
That's a joke, run on time, in my dreams... I do usually manage to finish sound check on time but that's only the beginning. Will door staff get in on time? God and the buses willing. Then will he disappear for a pint? Will he be able to get the float or is Eastenders on?
Even if we do get the doors open at 8.10pm, what happens? Well, nothing! No one comes through and the band just disappears! It doesn't help that I'm really not good at faces - I end up walking through the bar looking hopeful. To me, most bands look the same, young, and good-looking(ish!) but with no distinguishing features.
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Monday 19th March 2007
SAY HELLO: SITUATIONISTS
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Posted by: adie,
4:37 PM
 Situationists 20th March 2007: Club Fandango hits The Dublin Castle for its weekly dose of Camden FUN, featuring The Highs, Omerta, Situationists, and The Rivers. We chose one pop group at random to find out a bit more and pose some really difficult questions Parkinson or Paxman would no doubt be proud of.
Hello Situationists. Who are you and what are you wearing?
Daniel - a bath rugby top I bought when I was 15 due to sudden lapse of fashion sense. It suffices however when I grab anything from the drawer upon getting up.
Sam - Right now? A smelly dressing gown.
What can The Kids expect from the Situationists experience at Club Fandango?
Sam - Nice music interspersed with awkward stage banter.
Would you say your influences are mainly
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The Ed: I'm going to have to get one.
jeanne: andy ross - as in 'vimto fever'?????
jeanne x
Adie Nunn: Poor old Shut Your Eyes And You'll Burst Into Flames split up a week ago. IT'S ALL OUR FAULT.
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