Wednesday 22nd April 2009
Wintermute + The Screening + The Author + Record Department
@ 229
229 Great Portland Street , London , W1W 5PN
7.45pm , £6 / £5 with flyer
16+
WINTERMUTE
Wintermute are new Big Scary Monsters signings, making preparations for the release of their debut album 'Robot Works' (due out on 27th April, produced by James Kenosha). Having gone up and down the county four times playing their high-energy, intensely passionate, but strangely catchy take on math-pop and twice played at the legendary Leeds Festival, this L ... more »

ONSTAGE AT 10:20
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THE SCREENING
The Screening are four young men from Leicester who make bright-eyed laser-eared indierock which is as well-crafted as their haircuts and crunchy as heck. The Men From Kasabian are fans. It’s that kinda groove. ... more »

ONSTAGE AT 9:35
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THE AUTHOR
The Author started life on the Jersey in the Channel Islands evolving their distinctive and mysterious style of music in isolation from the mainland. A collective of weird and wonderful creatures: a cockney and Geordie song writing partnership lead the madness, with an Aussie drummer, and two Jersey natives on bass and synths. Amongst their relatively untouc ... more »

ONSTAGE AT 8:50
MP3s: Listen and Buy
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RECORD DEPARTMENT
Record Department are very pithy young people, as evinced by their online biography which starts with Figure 1: [“Flattering and unnecessarily detailed history of band”] and proceeds merrily through to Figure 5: [“Witless sign off laced with self adulation and cajolery”]. It’s a blast. And so in fact is their tense, perturbed sonic racketeering. ... more »

ONSTAGE AT 8:05
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Maria Byrne is an Irish singer-songwriter, originally from Cork and based for the last few years in London. Maria's sound is derived from such influences as Regina Spektor, Nina Simone, Feist and Sinead O’ Con... »
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