Playing Lach’s Antihoot
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This coming Friday (August 5th), Andy’s playing one of the slots at Lach’s Antihoot at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Kicking things off at midnight he’ll be doing a couple of songs at the start of three hours of pretty much anything goes, from comedy to dance, spoken word, magic and performance art.
Facebook event here.
Lach used to run now legendary The Fort open stage in New York that was the epcicentre of the New York Antifolk movement , graced by performers such as Beck, Regina Spektor, Ben Kweller and The Moldy Peaches in their early days – now he’s bringing it back to Edinburgh from August 4 – 29 for it’s second run following 2010′s rave reviews.
“NYC’s infamous open stage! Lach discovered Beck, Regina Spektor, the Moldy Peaches, who will be next?
5 Stars (Herald).
‘Face-ache funny!’ (Guardian).
For weekend tickets click here: Lach’s Antihoot.
http://www.antifolk.net
http://www.gildedballoon.co.uk/
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Back home
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We have returned from Paris intact, despite one nuclear hangover an overindulgence in pastry and leaving our guide book with all our notes in Amelie’s cafe.
Thanks to everyone who came to whoop, holler, dance and flash at us at the Pop In (scary!), Mark McCabe and The Sick To The Back Teeth Ofs for supporting with a great one-off band set and to Denis, Flo and the lovely gang that run it for having us.
Expect some exciting Autumn Shift related festival news very soon…
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No sleep till Paris
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Just over a week till the Pop In show with Mark McCabe & The Sick To The Back Teeth Ofs. Can’t wait!
Tell us your coming on Facebook here.
Paris support confirmed
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Exciting news – the support for our Paris gig in July will be Mark McCabe & The Sick To The Back Teeth Ofs. We first met Mark in early 2007 on a trip to play a gig a Kilau in Aberdeen when we were Fuzzystar was composed of just two folks so it’ll be great to be meeting up again in Paris with a big bunch of our noise-making friends.
This’ll be a special show as Mark’s getting this band of noise-makers together to back him for the occasion! Want to hear what that might sound like? Head to http://www.markmccabe.co.uk and imagine crazy backing in your head.
Off to Paris
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Hello,
Hope you’re well.
Just confirmed! We’re heading off to play our first show in Paris. In July we’ll be heading to the City Of Light with some new material (can’t wait!).
We’re also in the process of putting together a few dates outside of London so stay tuned and sign up to our mailing list for more announcements on this side of the pond soon, and some Festival action later in the summer…
Bye for now,
// Fuzzystar
March 26th at The Wilmington Arms
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On a Saturday in March we’re returning to The Wilmington Arms with three great bands/artists…
Facebook event here.
Tickets: £5 in advance: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/112028
£6 on door.
Freakscene presents…
Something Beginning With L
Consisting of Lucy, Jen and Jon the outfit originally started life as a solo project before morphing into the 6 limbed shape it now retains. The band fashion beautifully maudlin pop coated in chimes, whirrs and lovely melodies.
“Sounds like the Breeders stargazing at Adem’s ‘Love and Other Planets’, with the brittle drum and guitar parts smoldering-ember vocals making for moments of scuzzy disorder and sweet transfixion. Another little miracle courtesy of Devon via Brighton’s always excellent Drift Records.” – Time Out
“Wonderfully woozy, synth-laden pastoralia.” – The Sunday Times
http://www.myspace.com/somethingbeginningwithl
Pollyanna Valentine
Pollyanna Valentine is the muse of Charley Sharp, via New York City…California… Arkansas, USA. Charley met Pollyanna at The car wash.
http://www.myspace.com/pollyannavalentine
Jess Bryant
Jess Bryant is a songwriter living in London. She has been described as ‘haunting’ a fair few times. She currently has an ep out called ‘Dusk’ which is available on iTunes.
“If Jess Bryant isn’t widely adored pretty bloody soon, we’re going to take to the street and start smacking random strangers ‘round the face. ” – RockFeedback
http://www.myspace.com/jkcbryant
£5 in advance.
£6 on the door.
Doors 8PM.
Acoustic at Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes, Sunday February 20th 2011
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Andy (and hopefully one or two of the band) are playing a wee acoustic show this weekend at Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes as part of Unsigned Sundays run by All Adored … it’s a late afternoon type thing from 6 – 9:30pm and he/they’ll be on sometime in there for half an hour. It’s also free. There’s a Facebook event for it here.
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Autumn Sessions #5 at The Macbeth, Hoxton, Sunday February 6th 2011
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This coming Sunday our friends at Autumn Shift are putting on another one of their great Autumn Sessions shows! Unfortunately we won’t have the full band along this weekend but Andy is doing a wee acoustic slot on the bill, before probably getting quite drunk enjoying the stellar acts…
Here’s the full line up links/info below, click on the gig to see Myspace links etc.
Autumn Sessions #5 – Facebook event.
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Christmas gig
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Hello,
On Friday, December 10th we’ll be having a bit of a seasonal fun to end 2010 at The Wilmington Arms, with a few friends and bands we’re fans of! Namely, Moustache Of Insanity, Hexicon and The Croshaw Family. Here’s the details below and more info on our festive accomplices below that…
What: A festive celebration – normal tunes for the humbugs, Christmas songs and mince pies for the rest. Just bring your festive cheer.
Where/when: The Wilmington Arms, Friday December 10th.
Tell us you’re coming! http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=176277469052009
Getting there info: The Wilmington Arms’ website.
Doors: 7:30pm.
Entry: £5.
Band practice was getting a bit hectic...
Moustache Of Insanity
Moustache of Insanity are Nik and Bill, two ninjas hellbent on kickstarting a transglobal funtastic casio pop revolution. They play noisy bleep boom pop magic that, if you’re lucky, might just melt your face. If dinosaurs were still around, they would most definitely like this kind of music. Especially the cool ones with long necks.
“These guys are brilliant. Twee-casio-pop ahoy, they are a bit like Moldy Peaches with tiny keyboards and facial hair. One of the most fun bands we’ve heard in a while.” – Pull Yourself Together, Manchester
http://www.moustacheofinsanity.com
Hexicon
Hexicon started as a lo-fi voice/guitar/french horn combo in 2004 and got told they sounded like a junk shop Beach Boys. Now on Haircut Records this melodic sextet have played on bills alongside some of their favourite people including James Yuill, Darren Hayman, Fanfarlo, SFA and Tender Trap. When not on Hexicon duties, Mike and Paul also play in Allo Darlin’, and Tom can also be heard playing Horn on Darren Hayman’s most recent records.
“Hexicon make the sound of mellow hillbillies tripping in the countryside” - Artrocker
http://bunkeronthehill.com/hexicon/
The Croshaw Family
Since 2006 The Croshaws have built up a regular following hosting bi-monthly nights at the Betsey Trotwood. Whatever they choose, we can expect it to express their penchant for classic bluegrass, alternative country, old-time rock’n’roll not to mention a few festive specials. Previous tour support slots for The Duke & The King and Alasdair Roberts indicate it’s bound to be worth a listen…
“…a set moving from cloud-floatingly delicate numbers and the most innocent vocal lines, to nod along mid-west driving music.” - Yorkshire Evening Post
http://www.myspace.com/thecroshawfamily
Sparklehorse tribute update
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What started as a conversation between two impatient Sparklehorse fans culminated in a tribute night that went hectically but by most accounts pretty well, even if we do say so ourselves. Filled to comfortable capacity and slightly beyond, a great atmosphere in The Wilmington Arms was the end result! – so thanks to everyone that came along to enjoy an evening of Sparklehorse and hear the many great acts and varied covers. We’re extra chuffed to report night was also a success financially, raising over £250 for Mind in honour of Mark Linkous.
Now, thanks to the artists, and Nick Fraenkel who recorded the night we have a (quite) rough and lo-fi room recording of the night for anyone that missed it or wants to try re-living any hazy memories of it at home. The vocals/mix are sometimes a bit wonky because of the sound mix needed in the room so it’s not always ideal listening material but will hopefully give you a nice wee snapshot of the night. We’ll also have versions of Jess’s covers to add to this soon too…
Feel free to add your comments on the night/performances if you were there, we didn’t really get much chance to chat properly with all the running around… thanks heaps for coming though!
Andy Tx + Jess Bx
p.s. Check out the picture of the ‘horse attendant’ on the door… I’m sure there’s a pun here we’ve missed. Foal to capacity perhaps? No, ok then…
It’s A Wonderful Night – A Tribute To Sparklehorse by sparklehorse
Jane looks after admissions...
Post gig: Andy, Jess and the horse.
