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Henry Rollins: Spoken Word

Event: Henry Rollins: Spoken Word
Venue: Junction 1, The
Date: 27 Aug 2008 - 19:00
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If Henry Rollins were a question on a multiple-choice quiz, the correct answer would be "D. All of the above." Best known to some as the frenetic frontman for punk rock legends Black Flag and later the Rollins Band, and to others for his sharp-tongued spoken performances, Henry Rollins is an actor and an author. He's a businessman and a philanthropist. He's a GRAMMY-nominated singer and a GRAMMY-winning spoken word artist. He's an ad pitchman, a USO veteran, a world traveler and a TV host. And above all else, he's a tireless performer, averaging more than 100 shows a year for the past two and a half decades.

Spoken Word
Henry followed up his show "Caught in the Zipper" - a two-week run at New York's Zipper Theater in March and April 2005 - with four shows in two nights at McCabe's Guitar Shop in Santa Monica, CA on April 15 and 16, 2005, with his share of the proceeds going to Hollygrove Children & Family Services in Los Angeles. In May 2005, he completed a sold-out and critically acclaimed tour in Australia. His most recent stint at New York's Town Hall became an IFC television special entitled "Uncut from NYC."

"25 Years of Bullshit" saw Henry celebrate his 25year history on the road with an extensive North American tour from August through November 2005 and into Australia and Europe during early 2006.

www.henryrollins.com

The Music

Event: The Music
Venue: Junction 1, The
Date: 26 Jun 2008 - 19:30
Event details: Originally formed in 1999, The Music are one of the most enduring bands on the indie scene. Influenced by the Madchester groups of the late eighties and early nineties, with a definite leaning towards the Oasis breed of loud, sleazy rock'n'roll, The Music have managed to survive the onslaught of newer, more crisp indie bands by staying just exactly as they are.

The All New Adventures Of Us

Event: The All New Adventures Of Us
Venue: Barfly - closed 4 June 2008
Date: 7 Jul 2008 - 19:30
Event details: "Tanaou lives in Northampton, England... where shoes come from.

We are seven strong and seven years old. We like to make things, write things, play things & draw things.

We run our own record label called GOOD GUYS WEAR BLACK B.R. (Bedroom Recordings), which is pretty much a vinyl only label (occasionally we do limited handmade cassettes too). We started the label to release our own music aswell as other stuff that we like & support. We're also just starting to put out a few independent books too, the first one being "Everything Is Better Under Covers" By Jaime (Tanaou), which is out in July and is a collection of short stories, poetry & other writings... There a few others on the way too.

We do most of our recordings in a studio in Umea, in the North of Sweden where our friend and practically our eighth member Magnus Lindberg (who also plays in the band Cult Of Luna) helps us put our music onto tape. We've made so many great friends and spent so much time there in the 5 years since we first started going there that the Umea snow feels just as much like home as Northampton does.

The only loose objective of Tanaou is to create some nice sounds, tell some stories, see some new places, spend time with our friends and make some new ones, but if by doing theses things we can make a few people think a little harder and dig a little deeper then that's very much cool by us!"

The Winter Kings

Event: The Winter Kings
Venue: Boathouse, The
Date: 25 May 2008 - 20:00
Event details: The Winter Kings, fronted by Austin Kehoe and Max Delderfield, create lyrically interesting alternative music with an intelligent edge. Their music interweaves melody and meaning, an exploration of tension and resolution, with a live set which successfully runs the gamut from acoustic introspection to alternative rock. Based in Cambridge, England, The Winter Kings play actively on the local scene and have developed a large fan base in Cambridge and London and also online.

The Winter Kings' style is a mix of genres in the vein of Nick Cave, Joy Division and The Editors. Already impressing promoters across Cambridgeshire, they also plan to collaborate with the the No More Landmines Trust, which will include a national release of their song 'Landmines', whereby the single will be sold for £1, with all proceeds used to help the work of The No More Landmines Trust.

The band have been described as, "an accessible, more electric Nick Cave" by Agenda Magazine. They recently featured on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire's The Audio Files and their track 'Fall from Grace' appeared on the cover mount cd of January 2007's issue of Playmusic Magazine.

Dag For Dag

Event: Dag For Dag
Venue: Barfly - closed 4 June 2008
Date: 20 May 2008 - 19:30
Event details: Dag for Dag are an American Born, Stockholm based Alternative Tropical Rock Band whose delicate, winsome melodies and interchanging boy/girl vocal lines will certainly appeal to fans of Belle And Sebastian and their ilk. But beneath their folky exterior the band have a knack of writing dark, wry, arresting pop songs.

Rob Brown

Event: Rob Brown
Venue: Bun Shop, The
Date: 19 May 2008 - 21:00
Event details: With his unique style and presence Robert delivers a wealth of styles and emotions throughout the roots spectrum. His psychedelic folk cum blues cum jazz performances are unique yet accessible, eccentric yet consistent.

In The past year Robert has played a Headline show at the Cambridge Folk Festival and the Clare World Music Festival. He also played Solo Acoustic support for Lulu on her last UK tour.

Either performing solo acoustic or with full percussion including a 6ft Gong, the live shows are full of sonorous dynamics with an intensity and energy radiating from the stage.

Robert is releasing his debut album on his own label. But is always looking for a dedicated progressive label to release his songs to a larger & wider audience.

Robert is also happy to be approached by labels or artists requiring material for thier own releases. Robert has an extensive back catalog ranging from country Ballads to Hardcore Rock.

Bun Shop, The

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alto45 + Tiger MCs + The Puncture Repair Kit

Event: alto45 + Tiger MCs + The Puncture Repair Kit
Venue: Portland Arms, The
Date: 9 Jun 2008 - 20:00
Event details: ALTO45

Lab-coat wearing lo-fi popsters, supplying small town melancholia, to anyone with five minutes to spare, brought together by a shared love of car boots sales, robots, Daniel Johnston and the mid-range audio frequencies. An eclectic mix of lo-fi pop, downbeat and experimental electronica in the vein of Grandaddy, Leonard Cohen and Add N to (X), if you will. Cosmic, melancholy pop with cheap electronics and civilised guitar. Originally from the countryside, now residing in uptown Norwich, alto45 release records on their own Happy Capitalist Recordings along with other releases on Sickroom GC, Robots and Electronic Brains, NROne, Howlback/Mummy Where's The Milkman and MQ Projects.

www.myspace.com/alto45

 

TIGER MCS

Fragile, melancholic and yet playful, dreamy lo-fi pop from Norwich, in the vein of M. Ward and The Mountain Goats. Tiger MCs began playing live in 2002 as a side-project and antithesis to noise-drenched, epic mid-fi band Postalowa. Gradually developing a sound typified by concise, energetic guitar playing and rambling half-sentences for lyrics, Tiger MCs released several tracks on Norwich-based label Metal Queen Projects, culminating in the 'Piston-Pawed' EP. Last year saw the release of debut album, 'We Go Out', on Cherryade Records, home to The Bobby McGees, Steveless, etc.

www.myspace.com/tigermcs

 

THE PUNCTURE REPAIR KIT

If Gorky's Zygotic Mynci or the Delgados had formed in Cambridge then they might have sounded very much like The PRK - grandiose orchestral pop on a budget.

www.myspace.com/theprk

Queensryche

Event: Queensryche
Venue: Cambridge Corn Exchange, The
Date: 21 Jun 2008 - 19:30
Event details: After unexpectedly having to pull out of their support of Thin Lizzy at the Corn Exchange in November, Grammy nominated US rockers Queensryche come to Cambridge with a headline tour. They'll be performing tracks from new album Take Cover plus classics from their 1988 album Operation Mindcrime, widely considered to be one of the greatest rock concept albums of all time.

Please note this is an all seated show.

More info: www.queensryche.com

R*E*P*E*A*T

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