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The Go! Team

The Go! Team
Junction 1, The
The Go! Team are an English, Brighton-based six piece band (with two drummers) whose songs are a mixture of action theme songs, cheerleader chants, guitars and early hip hop, with a hint of '70s funk. Their songs are a mix of live instrumentation and samples from various sources.

We Smoke Fags – Barfly, Cambridge, 16 April 2008

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We Smoke Fags – Barfly, Cambridge, 16 April 2008
Barfly - closed 4 June 2008
We Smoke Fags (previously The Belmont Fantastics) are an English trio, comin' straight outta Holloway (London). They categorize themselves as ‘Electro Skunk Rock' which makes a lot of sense if you listen to their music.

The band members are:
Joey - Vocals/Guitars/programming
Leeroi - Bass/Vocals
Harry - Guitars/Vocals

Metronomy

Metronomy
Barfly - closed 4 June 2008
Joseph Mount writes and records music using the name Metronomy. Oscar Cash, Gabriel Stebbing and Joseph Mount perfom that music live and still call themselves Metronomy. Joseph Mount lived in Devon for a time, moved to Brighton and has finally settled for a while in London. On the way he has recorded one album and remixed many bands and artists. Soon a second album will arrive. Until that album arrives (at which time i'm sure a proper biography will be written) please enjoy what's available here and fill in any gaps with your own imaginings. (Trick or Teatz Video By Arthur and Cherise)

The Courteeners

The Courteeners
Barfly - closed 4 June 2008
There's nothing better than a band or artist that can divide opinion straight down the middle. Radiohead, Oasis and Pete Doherty are three that immediately spring to mind, and it won't be long before The Courteeners are added to that list, if they haven't been already.
Ian Brown recently said that too many of today's artists spoke like politicians, saying nothing of any real interest other than toeing the industry line and repeating what most people already knew. Enter one Liam Fray, frontman, guitarist and main songwriter with Manchester quartet The Courteeners. In the few months his band have been in the public eye he's already made a name for himself as someone who likes to share his opinion somewhat - no matter what it may be - and this evening, before the band's first date as main support on The Coral tour, is no exception.
We're sat outside Nottingham's Rescue Rooms on a pleasant October evening with Fray and drummer Michael Campbell. Guitarist Conan Moores and bass player Mark Cuppello are inside grabbing some food. Let the tape roll...

Art Brut

Art Brut
Barfly - closed 4 June 2008
Art Brut are an English indie rock band. Their debut album, Bang Bang Rock & Roll, was released on May 30, 2005, with its follow up, It's a Bit Complicated, released on June 25th 2007. Named after French painter Jean Debuffet's definition of outsider art -- art by prisoners, loners, the mentally ill, and other marginalized people, and made without thought to imitation or presentation -- South London's Art Brut make brilliantly simple, cleverly stupid art-punk. Tagged by NME as part of the "Art Wave" scene that also includes bands such as Franz Ferdinand and Bloc Party.

John Otway + The Morning People

John Otway + The Morning People
Barfly - closed 4 June 2008
For a long time after his big Top Ten Hit record, John Otway really did not know what he should do next. He did not know if there was anything which would come anywhere near the euphoria of being in the charts.

But lying in bed one morning, he thought that now could possibly be the time to achieve a long-standing ambition of his - to do a World Tour. Years ago he had a plan to buy a round the world ticket and do a gig at every plane stop. 

The more he thought about it, lying in bed, basking in his recent glory, the more he realised that these were the dreams of a mere one hit wonder.

Having a top ten smash hit he was now in a position to do things properly and not scrimp and cut corners. So, he started by coming at the world tour from the opposite direction. Instead of trying to work out what he could afford, he just asked himself what is the sexiest aircraft in the world and which are the most prestigious venues. 

The answer to the first question was the Airbus 340, and the answer to the second The Carnegie Hall, New York; Vegas, and Sydney Opera House. It was time to get out of bed and use Google.

It turns out that you can get an Airbus 340 for a couple of weeks to circumnavigate the globe for around a million quid, and both the Carnegie Hall and Sydney Opera House have within their complexes halls that hold around 600 people. 

It started to look feasible...

Surrounded!

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Surrounded!
Kettle's Yard
New Live Electronic Music for Several Loudspeakers by members of MEME@Anglia Ruskin University.

The multiple speaker arrangement allows the sound to manifest itself physically, and be moved arround the room. the performance is of a pre recorded soundscape that will be controlled and directed arround the room. The pieces are regularly mood pieces, that cunjure up an atmosphere through the timbre of the sound, and the presentation of the sound in the physical space. Often the performer is also the composer of the music. 

This afternoons concert is directed by Julio d'Escriván.

Silent Histories

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Silent Histories
Kettle's Yard
Soundscapes and compositions on the themes of stillness, technology and place. 

Musical contributions by Tom Hall, Richard Hoadley and other members of the Department of Music and Performing Arts, Anglia Ruskin University.

Cherry Hinton Hall (Folk Festival)


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Screaming Banshee Aircrew

Screaming Banshee Aircrew
Barfly - closed 4 June 2008
Since the Screaming Banshee Aircrew crash landed onto the alternative runway things have never been quite the same. With their volatile stage show and cutting raw-rock sound, the crew have always been a band that have excelled in delivering dance floor stompers, lip trembling sombre ballads and bone shaking crowd pleasers - all effervescently entwined with spectacular, energetic and superbly executed stage performance. 

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