Fandango Is Eight
23rd February 2009
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A candle-blowing Club Panda press release
The Headline: CLUB FANDANGO CELEBRATES 8TH BIRTHDAY WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM ITS BLACK-EYED WETNOSED BAMBOO-CHEWING PANDA-EARED FRIENDS!!!
The Thing: CLUB PANDA & CLUB FANDANGO PRESENTS
The Bands: THE FIRE ESCAPES + A SILENT FILM + GOLDHEART ASSEMBLY + DUOLOGUE
The Date: TUESDAY MARCH 3RD 2009
The Place: LONDON CAMDEN DUBLIN CASTLE
The Doors: 7.45pm – 1.00am
The Damage: £6.00 on the door / £5.00 with flyer
The Truth: once upon a fairytale Club Fandango was launched upon an unsuspecting gig-going public on a Tuesday night at the Dublin Castle in Camden Town in March 2001, ie way back when even the hearty Tuesday eve likes of Artrocker and White Heat were mere twinkles in their promoters' eyes. Roughly 400 Tuesdays at the Dublin Castle later Club Fandango finds itself lurching into 2009 indelibly inked on the live music ordnance survey map by virtue of sheer bloodyminded persistence mixed with the odd supergreat gig. You were there in your droves for Arctic Monkeys, Death Cab For Cutie, Keane, Bloc Party and Kaiser Chiefs. We were there on our own for Mister Bastard & The Snotting Buttpunchers. We all went home happy.
Rather merrily, the first Tuesday of each and every month sees the recently remotivated fierce panda live arm Club Panda twitch into jitterbuggin' life down Fandangoway. And so it is that 03.03.09 witnesses a triple whammy promotional hoedown with the Panda and the Fandango joining forces at Club Fandango's eight birthday party. Got that? Good. Now get this: in the true tradition of our haphazard booking philosophy since those hazy days of the early '00s we have assembled a mentally eclectic bill. And that mentally eclectic bill looks something very much like this…
THE FIRE ESCAPES (onstage 10.15pm) are four boys and one velvet-toned
girl vocalist who play otherworldly melodic pop with a frazzled guitar
noise and a classic psyched-out nous. And they mention The Wolfhounds
on their myspace. Shimmy shimmy shango they're playing Club Fandango
indeed…
www.myspace.com/thefireescapes
A SILENT FILM (onstage 9.30pm) are Fandango (ir)regulars from
Oxfordland who build epic'n'electric indiepoprock towers with guitars
and a piano and a few blocks of melodic concrete they found lying
around the rehearsal room. Their debut album 'The City That Sleeps'
came out to many media hugs last autumn and tonight they promise a
welter of new tunes to accompany the belter that is 'You Will Leave A
Mark'.
www.myspace.com/asilentfilm
GOLDHEART ASSEMBLY (onstage 8.45pm) are shiny new Fandango favourites
by virtue of a terrific New Year appearance at this very venue where
the neatly bearded fivesome delivered a set of alt.folk-country.pop
with beaming smiles and dreamy harmonies. Plus bonus top trumps for
having one vocalist who is the spit of ELO's Jeff Lynne circa 'Roll
Over Beethoven'.
www.myspace.com/goldheartassembly
DUOLOGUE (onstage 8.00pm) are four London-based youths with a seven
year glitch, dallying with Radiohead's freeflowing creativity and the
glacial post-apocalyptic pop chill of Bark Psychosis. And we don't
write that every day…
www.myspace.com/duologuemusic
