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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

Pigeon Detectives

Event: Pigeon Detectives
Venue: Cambridge Corn Exchange, The
Date: 24 May 2008 - 17:30
Event details: One of the UK's fastest rising indie bands make their biggest headline appearance in the city. With the success of debut album Wait For Me which spawned the singles Romantic Type, I Found Out and I'm Not Sorry, the band look set to capitlise on their success with a new album in 2008.

More info: www.thepigeondetectives.com

Look See Proof

Event: Look See Proof
Venue: Portland Arms, The
Date: 13 Jun 2008 - 20:00
Event details: http://www.myspace.com/lookseeproof

"This is pure pop with all the good bits present and correct: choppy, insistent guitars, a pounding beat and harmonies a go-go" - NME

The Shills

Event: The Shills
Venue: Portland Arms, The
Date: 24 May 2008 - 20:00
Event details: Bulldozers & butterflies. The Shills walk a fine line between delicate beauty and jolting, body shaking rock. Formed in early 2004, they have been cultivating a sound built from exacting musicianship & creative flexibility. The Shills have just released their self titled debut LP. The ten songs on the album are a diverse and dynamic display of the young band maturing and hitting their stride. Whether the slashing stomp of "Slackjaw America," or the danceable textures of "Big Indifference," The Shills deliver a stand out debut. The Shills draw on a wide range of influences such as The Beatles, Soundgarden, Radiohead, Pearl Jam, Jeff Buckley, Queen, Queens of the Stone Age, Pedro The Lion and many more. With a nod to the past The Shills are making accessible yet challenging new sounds. As a live act The Shills have built a solid following throughout the Boston and New York areas. Their passion and precision on stage will draw you in leave a lasting impression.

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Fighting With Wire

Event: Fighting With Wire
Venue: Portland Arms, The
Date: 12 May 2008 - 20:00
Event details: Fighting With Wire emerged from the ever creative Northern Ireland music scene in 2003, the brainchild of guitarist Cahir O'Doherty (Jetplane Landing / Clearshot) and drummer Craig McKean (Clearshot). An idealistic bunch, they've since done what rock bands are meant to do: they wrote a bunch of songs, and took to the road. The last three years has seen them play shows with the likes of Reuben, Biffy Clyro, Million Dead, Seafood, YCNI:M and Future Of The Left, racking up hundreds of miles and honing their live show into a ferocious explosion in the process. After putting out a number of limited edition DIY singles, they took a breather at the end of 2006 and finally started work on their longawaited debut album. Recorded in Northern Ireland and finally completed in mid-2007, Man Vs Monster is a dynamic beast of a record - raging out of your speakers one moment yet gentle and intricate the next, and all without losing focus of what's important: the song. What's next for Fighting With Wire? More touring and more songs, we would expect.

strawberry fair green area benefit gig

Event: strawberry fair green area benefit gig
Venue: Portland Arms, The
Date: 21 May 2008 - 00:00
Event details: Keltrix, Cambridge's newest acoustic-folk-rock band, play Strawberry Fair as one of the headline acts, on Saturday, 2 June. To support strawberry fair, they have organised this benafit gig evening. Suggested donations of £5, but feel free to donate more as it is all going to a good cause!

 

The October Game

Event: The October Game
Venue: Portland Arms, The
Date: 9 May 2008 - 19:30
Event details: The October Game formed in early 2005 from the ashes of their previous band insomnia. After having written a wealth of new material in the first half of the year they decided to record an album. Summer 2006 saw the release of this, their debut album, Box Of A Billion Lights. This work was predominantly performed and recorded by The October Game at their homes in Bedfordshire, their friends lending a hand with some additional performances.

Violet Violet

Event: Violet Violet
Venue: Barfly - closed 4 June 2008
Date: 11 May 2008 - 14:55
Event details: Tasty, barbed musical morsels snatched from the fingers, mouths and hearts of PJ Harvey, Sleater-Kinney and Huggy Bear, heavily seasoned with violet violet's own arty brand of vibrant wit and wisdom. This is gossip rock. It's edgy, full-on bitching, harmoniously delivered by a feisty trio of sardonic sirens. Tumbling tunes stuffed full of perfect and primal tribal rhythms with buzzsaw bass, gyrating guitars adn a dual-pronged lead vocal attack that's guaranteed to get you singing and bopping along to their infectious DIY dance floor ditties. 

Tune in, take note and listen to their woah-a-oh! You'll be unable to resist the violet violet range of sound: from infectious disco beats to hard screaming riot grrrl noisiness, each skit telling tales of bad dress sense, nasty nights out and crushing one-liners.
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