FEATURED SHOW
SHITDISCO
FRIENDLY FIRES
SIMPLE KID
FIGHT LIKE APES
OPERATOR PLEASE
SO SO MODERN
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Thursday 6th September 2007
Shitdisco + Friendly Fires + Simple Kid + Fight Like Apes + Operator Please + So So Modern
@ 229
229 Great Portland Street, London, W1W 5PN
07:45pm
£10
SHITDISCO Shitdisco are one of those precious longterm fierce panda projects: otherwise known as four rapscallions from Glasgow they have been delighting the drugcrazed ...
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ONSTAGE AT 10.00 PM
FRIENDLY FIRES Friendly Fires have been tipped for great things, with a string of limited releases under their belts. One of their first gigs ended up being a John Kennedy Xfm ses ...
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ONSTAGE AT 9.30 PM
SIMPLE KID Simple Kid returns to the scene to support his second album, 'SK2'. Irish-born Ciaran McFeely (aka Simple Kid) has veered away from the post-modern, cut and paste stylings of his groundbreaking debut album '1' for a more organic, traditional approach to songwriting and production. Despite still featuring the fuzzed-out acoustic guitar and banjo over big beat ...
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ONSTAGE AT 9.00 PM
FIGHT LIKE APES Fight Like Apes hail from Dublin and weigh in at over six hundred pounds. Fight Like Apes combine the Synth with the Sword in a heroic conflagration of loutish vocals, brutal bass and digital distortion. Formed in 2006 from the remnants of various 'crap bands', with an avowed intention to scare audiences with 'poppy songs played so obnoxiously that everybody leav ...
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ONSTAGE AT 8.30 PM
OPERATOR PLEASE Operator Please began life as a band in the depths of the Elanora high school music block preparing for the awesome-o annual battle of the bands comp 2005. After winning the said competition in front of a phenomenal crowd of 15 and walking away with a box of doughnuts, the band was made as permanent as a permanent marker. 'We like lots of things from kitties to c ...
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ONSTAGE AT 8.00 PM
SO SO MODERN So So Modern are a four-person collective interested creating a more fun and meaningful future through performance and music. Based in Wellington, New Zealand, they recently released the 'Friendly Fires' EP, which is nice considering another band on the bill tonight. Think of a mash-up of Q And Not U, The Faint and Blood Brothers and you're nearly there. SO SO ...
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ONSTAGE AT 7.30 PM