Thursday 10th September 2009
Future Of The Left + Victorian English Gentlemens Club + Dinosaur Pile Up + Kasms + White Belt Yellow Tag + Kong
@ 229
229 Great Portland Street , London , W1W 5PN
7.45pm , £12.50 adv / £14 on the door
A Fistful Of Fandango
in assoc Last FM, BMI, Schuh, Artrocker & Converse - plus The Boy (DJ set)
FUTURE OF THE LEFT
Future Of The Left formed in 2005, Cardiff. Kelson sang in Jarcrew, Falco and Jack played in Mclusky until before both bands split in early 2005. Original line-up also included Hywel Evans (the Truckers of Husk, also formerly of Jarcrew). On one hand, Future Of The Left are a band much like many other bands are a band. Three men, wielding bits of wood and metal stru ... more »

STAGE 1 HEADLINE: ONSTAGE AT 10:00
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Photo: Mei Lewis
 
VICTORIAN ENGLISH GENTLEMENS CLUB
Victorian English Gentlemens Club are a Cardiff-based 3-piece, playing triangular art-racket, who have recenty celebrated their 1st birthday. People have described their music as 'simple, gritty, awkward and completely compelling', 'FRANTIC, URGENT, SHRILL and UNSETTLING', 'brilliantly shambling', 'wildly veering', 'a raw unfinished sound knocking you off your centre of gravity', ... more »

STAGE 2 HEADLINE: ONSTAGE AT 9:30
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DINOSAUR PILE UP
Dinosaur Pile Up ride in a 6 seater burning inferno that goes by the name of 'Truck DeLorevan Bigland' and travel at molten hyper-speeds. The name of the band was birthed when a young Matt watched King Kong... he subsequently wrote some kick ass songs, disappeared for a while and returned with the mark of the mighty riff on the back of his arm, thereby marking the ... more »

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Photo: Liam Henry
 
KASMS
Kasms are following in the creepy steps of Siouxsie and Polly Jean by creating dark, tortured soundscapes with a femme fatale edge. The Dalston quartet recently proved their spiky case with the ‘Taxidermy’ single and get bonus fandango points for having a guitarist called – rather excellently – Scott R Walker. ... more »

STAGE 2: ONSTAGE AT 8:30
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WHITE BELT YELLOW TAG
White Belt Yellow Tag 'These Yorkshire lads have found a way to unite the atmospheric solemnity of Elbow or Doves with the pop-rock rush of Dinosaur Pile-Up or Nine Black Alps. Heaving with hurt, portent and downhome northern vocals, it's the best of both worlds' (NME). ... more »

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KONG
Kong is not a name chosen by accident. It does not describe an effeminate collection of callow fuckers thrust together by a desire to look plucked or sound eager to please. All are/were/shall be in other, perhaps more commercially viable bands, which is notable only because it fills out their biography and creates the impression of a deeper back-story, ... more »

STAGE 2: ONSTAGE AT 7:30
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Photo: Martin Cogley
The Archetypes formed in the summer of 2007, sharing a love of music ranging from Bruce Springsteen to Irish indie band The Frames. After two years of gigging together they recorded their first EP which can be fou... »
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