Electronica
Robot vs Dinosuar is back upstairs at Island Bar on Friday 16th May with live electronics from Datassette and Lone, plus the usual full-spectrum totaltronic DJ selection featuring the likes of aphex twin, autechre, battles, boards of canada, the books, broadcast, cylob, the flashbulb, four tet, germlin, holy fuck, hood, kid 606, matmos, max tundra, mouse on mars, polysics, the postal service, prefuse 73, squarepusher, stereolab, amon tobin, tortoise, venetian snares, luke vibert, xiu xiu, susumu yokota and whatever else we might have lurking about in our record collections...
Admission is £3, or £1 if dressed as a robot or a dinosaur! Doors open at 8:30. Free pin badge on entry! Full selection of cocktails available! Any requests? Drop them a comment! (link below)
Venue: The Island Bar, Suffolk Street Queensway, City Centre
Time: 8.30pm start
Cost: £3 in or £1 if dressed like a robot or a dinosaur
http://www.myspace.com/lonemusic
Coming Up .....Saturday 17th May
Global Psych_Freak Folk_Turf Surf_Kraut Schlock_Electronik Mud_Glam Jams
The Monthly B music nights has DJ’s Andy Votal + Dom Thomas + The Judge & Mac (Senseteria Katusi).
Live Magnetic music comes from Twinkranes (Dublins delayed response to Neu and The Silver Apples) + Seeland (Tim Felton / Billy Bainbridge)
Also Secret Cinema screen an undisclosed vintage freak film
Venue: The Hare and Hounds, High Street, Kings Heath
Time: 8pm – 2am
Cost: £5 on the door
Also on the night in the other room:
VIVA BRAZIL! Live Samba / Reggae Drummers & DJ's with Oya batucada
Check out this link for more information:
http://www.myspace.com/oyabatucada
Live Magnetic music comes from Twinkranes (Dublins delayed response to Neu and The Silver Apples) + Seeland (Tim Felton / Billy Bainbridge)
Also Secret Cinema screen an undisclosed vintage freak film
Venue: The Hare and Hounds, High Street, Kings Heath
Time: 8pm – 2am
Cost: £5 on the door
Also on the night in the other room:
VIVA BRAZIL! Live Samba / Reggae Drummers & DJ's with Oya batucada
Check out this link for more information:
http://www.myspace.com/oyabatucada
Coming Up .....Saturday 17th May
Indie_Beats
Chicks Dig Jerks Club Party – Check the myspace for line-up (link below)
Venue: The Rainbow, Digbeth
Time: 9pm to 4am
Links:
http://www.myspace.com/chicksdigjerks
Coming Up .....Saturday 17th May
Venue: The Rainbow, Digbeth
Time: 9pm to 4am
Links:
http://www.myspace.com/chicksdigjerks
Coming Up .....Saturday 17th May
Punk_Hardcore_Metal
Rehab present The Fortunate + Redeye Militia + Serpion (As Hope Dies Tommorrow) + As Worlds Collide
Venue: The Black Horse
Time: 7pm - Midnight
Cost: FREE ENTRY
http://www.myspace.com/redeyemilitia1
www.myspace.com/hopediestomorrow
http://www.myspace.com/asworldscollide
http://www.myspace.com/thefortunatex
Rehab present The Fortunate + Redeye Militia + Serpion (As Hope Dies Tommorrow) + As Worlds Collide
Venue: The Black Horse
Time: 7pm - Midnight
Cost: FREE ENTRY
http://www.myspace.com/redeyemilitia1
www.myspace.com/hopediestomorrow
http://www.myspace.com/asworldscollide
http://www.myspace.com/thefortunatex
Coming Up .....Saturday 17th May
Indie_Rock_Punk
It's been one hell of a year for '10 lives' who invite you to celebrate with them on their first birthday at The Flapper.
To celebrate the line-up includes Dirty Soul who are launching a brand new ep only available at the gig, Gravity Crisis, Augustine, The Solomons and Ipkins
And if you've not seen or heard the bands here are what people are saying about them
Dirty Soul:
'DRUM SKINS AND GUITAR STRINGS AREN'T HIT, THEY'RE ATTACKED WITH THE CONTROLLED FEROCITY OF A PRIZED FIGHTER'- BBC. CO. UK
'SPINE-TINGLING' - THE FLY
'THE SOUNDTRACK TO A HUNDRED THOUSAND NERVOUS BREAKDOWNS' - MEDIA ASSASSIN
'EVERY MOVE,WORD AND RIFF IS BURSTING TO GET OUT'- POWPOWPOW
Gravity Crisis:
"Certainly the best demo to land on my desk this year"
Steve Lamacq - BBC6 Music
"Punchy, golden era indie choruses weave and then soar from a super heavyweight backing. TGC are a wrecking ball, riddled with pop hooks, that you'll want your face to be smashed in with over and over again"
THE FLY
"Like Graham Coxon if he'd been raised on Motorhead instead of the Kinks"
NME
"How the Midlands awakes! The Gravity Crisis will be in danger of kick starting an exciting scene. For once the NME hit the proverbial nail. Certainly this twin guitar four-piece fires along like a rock'n'roll McLusky or English and artrock Pixies. Perhaps a tad more straight ahead (but also hooky) than the post-punk from Leeds and the North East (Forward Russia and Dartz!) but equally abrasive and flat-out. No releases to date but lets hope Artrocker Club dates help change all that ! I'd almost be tempted to mention 'old school' ... as in Detroit Garage Rock, Scandinavian art-punk (International Noise Conspiracy stylee) and UK punk-pop (Mega City 4) - any way it's full-throttle.
ARTROCKER MAGAZINE
"An epidemic in the waiting"
MEDIA ASSASSIN
Augustine:
"Augustine are one of the most spine-tingling, wonderful bands on the Birmingham circuit at the minute... Unmissable."
Emma Lilley / The Fly
"A band to look out for are Augustine – they should have a hit with their very catchy synth-rock Emergency Song."
Ciarán Ryan / bbc. co. uk
"They were my band of the night, and in my opinion a band that will be a household name in a year or so. That good! If you see them on a gig line up, go to this gig!"
Tom Glibbery / Last. FM /
"The squat Flapper & Firkin is pretty packed tonight and the bill lives up to the anticipation. Augustine hit us with a chiming, swaggering fop-pop that has a close-shaved spikiness."
Jenny Gilroy / Skif
Heres what they say about Ipkins
"A lovely lad' - Sammy's Mum
'DRUM SKINS AND GUITAR STRINGS AREN'T HIT, THEY'RE ATTACKED WITH THE CONTROLLED FEROCITY OF A PRIZED FIGHTER'- BBC. CO. UK
'SPINE-TINGLING' - THE FLY
'THE SOUNDTRACK TO A HUNDRED THOUSAND NERVOUS BREAKDOWNS' - MEDIA ASSASSIN
'EVERY MOVE,WORD AND RIFF IS BURSTING TO GET OUT'- POWPOWPOW
Gravity Crisis:
"Certainly the best demo to land on my desk this year"
Steve Lamacq - BBC6 Music
"Punchy, golden era indie choruses weave and then soar from a super heavyweight backing. TGC are a wrecking ball, riddled with pop hooks, that you'll want your face to be smashed in with over and over again"
THE FLY
"Like Graham Coxon if he'd been raised on Motorhead instead of the Kinks"
NME
"How the Midlands awakes! The Gravity Crisis will be in danger of kick starting an exciting scene. For once the NME hit the proverbial nail. Certainly this twin guitar four-piece fires along like a rock'n'roll McLusky or English and artrock Pixies. Perhaps a tad more straight ahead (but also hooky) than the post-punk from Leeds and the North East (Forward Russia and Dartz!) but equally abrasive and flat-out. No releases to date but lets hope Artrocker Club dates help change all that ! I'd almost be tempted to mention 'old school' ... as in Detroit Garage Rock, Scandinavian art-punk (International Noise Conspiracy stylee) and UK punk-pop (Mega City 4) - any way it's full-throttle.
ARTROCKER MAGAZINE
"An epidemic in the waiting"
MEDIA ASSASSIN
Augustine:
"Augustine are one of the most spine-tingling, wonderful bands on the Birmingham circuit at the minute... Unmissable."
Emma Lilley / The Fly
"A band to look out for are Augustine – they should have a hit with their very catchy synth-rock Emergency Song."
Ciarán Ryan / bbc. co. uk
"They were my band of the night, and in my opinion a band that will be a household name in a year or so. That good! If you see them on a gig line up, go to this gig!"
Tom Glibbery / Last. FM /
"The squat Flapper & Firkin is pretty packed tonight and the bill lives up to the anticipation. Augustine hit us with a chiming, swaggering fop-pop that has a close-shaved spikiness."
Jenny Gilroy / Skif
Heres what they say about Ipkins
"A lovely lad' - Sammy's Mum
It's all for a measly £4 and they're sure the lovely gaffers at the flapper might throw a cheeky vodka shot on entry to the gig, so it probably works out at £2.80 for 5 fantastic bands, can't argue with that.
The first band will be onstage at 8pm and not to be missed, so get there early.
Venue: Flapper and Firkin, City Centre (Nr NIA)
Time: First band 8pm
Cost: £4
Links:
www.myspace.com/dirtysoultheband
www.myspace.com/thegravitycrisis
www.myspace.com/augustinemademecry
www.myspace.com/thesolomons
www.myspace.com/ipkins
www.myspace.com/thegravitycrisis
www.myspace.com/augustinemademecry
www.myspace.com/thesolomons
www.myspace.com/ipkins
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