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May The Fierce Be With You!
16th April 2015
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* MAY THE FIERCE BE WITH YOU! *
* FIERCE PANDA & CLUB FANDANGO JOIN FURCES FOR MONTH OF GIG FUN! *
* GET THE ‘PANDA21’ COMPILATION ALBUM FOR FREE! *

Never ones to avoid a spot of pained pun-themed marketing topspin the fierce panda label and Club Fandango promotions have invented 'May The Fierce Be With You' to tie together a handful of especially smashing gigs by panda artistes such as Desperate Journalist, Doe, Helsinki and Longfellow that are a’happening throughout the month of - yes - May.
Rather handily, all four of those artistes appear on the brrrrrand new ‘PANDA21’ compilation album which you can buy on iTunes or get for FREE if you buy any of their records from www.fiercepanda.co.uk right now. And those shows look like this...

TUESDAY 5TH MAY
LONGFELLOW
+ SYKES + ALBERT GOLD
LONDON HOXTON BAR & KITCHEN
TICKETS £7:www.wegottickets.com/event/313176

South London alt.pop dreamboats Longfellow launch their fierce panda 'Remedy' EP, four tracks of heart-on-sleeve emoting and bloody big choruseseseses including the radio smashette 'Medic'. Support is from electropoppers Sykes and nu-soul man Albert Gold, himself pushing his own 'Into The Wild' fierce panda single.

TUESDAY 12TH MAY
HELSINKI
+ THEO ALTIERI + FELDSPAR
LONDON DALSTON SHACKLEWELL ARMS
TICKETS £7: www.wegottickets.com/event/313864

Raffish Babyshambler Drew McConnell brings his Helsinki (in)side project to East London to launch the 'Keys' single (out on the panda on May 18th). Fresh off a tour promoting his 'A Guide For The Perplexed' album, expect ragged acoustic scufflings and mightily organic choruses a'plenty. Support is from bluesy Swindon stomper Theo Altieri and gracefully genteel indie rocksters Feldspar.

FRIDAY 22ND MAY
DOE
+ MATAGOT
LONDON CAMDEN, THE STILLERY
FREE ENTRY

Febrile London boy / girl / boy punkstas Doe play a free show to tell the world about their 'First Four' album and current 'Avalanche' / 'Basement' single on fierce panda's reborn singles 'club'. Support comes from riot poppers Matagot singing songs about girls, bodies and things that make them angry.

THURSDAY 28TH MAY
DESPERATE JOURNALIST
+ CuT + NEIL'S CHILDREN
THE 100 CLUB, OXFORD STREET, LONDON
TICKETS £7: www.wegottickets.com/100club/event/311906

Scowling indiegothpop strutters Desperate Journalist launch their hectic 'Hesitate' single (out May 25th), dragged riffing and screaming from the artily-acclaimed 'Desperate Journalist' album, with their biggest London show so far. Support is from gritty glamsters Cut and the comeback kids Neil's Children.

Don’t forget, buy any record by Desperate Journalist, Doe, Helsinki, Albert Gold or Longfellow from www.fiercepanda.co.uk - or indeed buy any fierce panda record at all – and get ‘PANDA21’ for free…

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