Indie_Rock_Post-Punk_Alternative
444 Club presents StRANGtIME + ScreamSayonara + The Lowlifes
ScreamSayonara:
"ScreamSayonara are an energetic, dynamic three piece band from Birmingham (UK) whose influences are drawn together from many genres and eras to create the band's unique sound"
Venue: The Rainbow Pub, Digbeth High Street, B12 0LD
Time: 7pm
Cost: £5 / £3 NUS
Links:
http://www.myspace.com/kamikazeevents
http://www.myspace.com/strangetime
http://www.myspace.com/screamsayonaramusic
Coming Up ..... Wednesday 3rd September
Indie_Pop_Experimental_Progressive_Folk
This is Tomorrow presents Flux with Das Wanderlust + Ace Bushy Striptease + Bumblebees + Lime Chalks + Autumn Store DJ’s
Das Wanderlust:
Das Wanderlust are a three-piece based in north eastern England who, since the beginning of 2008, have consisted of Laura Susan Simmons (mostly singing and keyboards), Andrew Richard Elliott (mostly guitar and keyboards), and Wesley John Stephenson (mostly drums).
Work on their long-awaited debut album ‘Horses For Courses’ is now fully completed, the first single from which is scheduled for release on 6th October 2008. Ahead of themselves as usual, work on material for a second album is already well underway.
As a group Das Wanderlust enjoy confounding others’ expectations, and have been tirelessly contradicting themselves since their first live performance nearly four years ago. They abhor what they regard to be the artistic dishonesty and misplaced arrogance of many of their musical peers, and yet constantly worry that they fail to live up to their own high standards of integrity and lack of pretence. They find the smokescreen and mirrors of affectation employed by many other groups both hilarious and infuriating.
All of which is to say nothing of the music, which they themselves find it hard to classify beyond the deliberately vague self-applied term ‘wrong pop’. Critics seem similarly unable to agree on what they are, veering in opinion between structureless avant-garde experimentalism and super-melodic noise pop. The band, naturally, disagree with both schools of thought…
Artrocker
When was the last time you heard a band who made your head feel like it was going to burst open? When was the last time you went to see such a band live, only to discover that not only were they as wondrous and superlative as you’d hoped, but also more mystifying and more startlingly arresting than you’d expected? If you’ve ever heard Das Wanderlust’s records or seen them live, you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about…
The Guardian
If John Peel were still walking this earth and muttering inanities to himself in the wee small hours about bedroom pop there's no doubt that Das Wanderlust would be held to the heart of the great man. Is that a chiming chorus of recorders? Is that a young woman in a pinafore dress shrieking her eyes out? Is that the sound of Kenicke being throttled in their sleep? Hell, yes…
NME
Das Wanderlust follow in the frolicsome tradition of post-riot grrrl popsters Bearsuit and Bis. Their weirdo witticisms have resulted in shed-loads of hype and tours with similarly minded comrades like Art Brut…
Plan B magazine
Screeching, stomping and wailing, their hyperactive school orchestra songs build a sugar rush that recalls the nausea of a waltzer ride, along with the syrupy splatter of messy shapes and bright colours… Music as comforting and sticky as an ice cream on a hot summers day...
Das Wanderlust have so far released two 7" singles and a demo EP. The first single, The Orange Shop, was named by BBC 6music's Marc Riley as his no.1 single of 2006, and reached no.14 in the annual festive fifty. They have recorded sessions for Huw Stephens at Maida Vale (BBC Radio 1), for Marc Riley in Manchester (BBC 6music), and for John Kennedy at XFM. They have performed at various UK & European festivals including the inaugral Latitude Festivals of 2006, and as the sole representatives of the BBC at Eurosonic Festival (NL) in 2007, which was accompanied by a half-hour live slot on Radio 1. They have toured with Maximo Park, Art Brut, Persil (NL), and many of their friends. They'll play for you too if you ask nicely.
The Bumblebees:
They are the bumblebees, a well-formed three-piece with enough audacity to play for half an hour. They have ambition. They have morals. They have fun.
They are self releasing their debut EP on 1st september
Venue: The Yardbird, Paradise Place, City Centre
Time: 8pm
Cost: £3
Links:
http://www.myspace.com/thisistomorrowuk
http://www.myspace.com/daswanderlust
http://www.myspace.com/acebushystriptease
http://www.myspace.com/thebumblebeesinfestya
http://www.myspace.com/limechalks
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