Wednesday, 16 July 2008

Coming Up ..... Tuesday 22nd July
Rock_Post Punk_Indie_Funk

Humbucker presents Angel Heart + To The Side Fringe + Sonic Sound System.

Angel Heart:

We are a newly formed band, who are now a 4 piece band consisting of :- Alan The Fonz guitar and vox Aaron Foy guitars Hayley Dyke bass guitar and Nathan Gavin drums ,Alan began playing guitar at a very early age playing guitar in bands with his brother Dave A K A Doug Sutheran playing thier first gig at the Odeon theatre in Shirley Solihull in the seventies with a band called the Black Blood Band ,DOUG Produced Angel Hearts recent EP at his DJS@52 Studio and is finding great success with his band Dusk who can be viewed as one of Angel Hearts friends. Alan then played in various bands with his brother doug . after a break from music Alan formed Bond Street in the mid eighties, Bond Street merged into After The Rain some members left and some joined and this was the birth of Alans most successful band to date The Reign signed to rooster records The Reign released the debut single in 1987 and were close to signing a major deal with CBS records before splitting in 1989 The Reign can be viewed as one of Angel Hearts friends .Alan did not play in any other bands until 2007 when he formed Angel Heart .Aaron Foy began playing guitar whilst at school and soon became a natural to the axe ,through his school years Aaron played with several line ups some of those line ups included his girlfriend and bass player Hayley Dyke Aarons ability and determination shows in his playing ,his dedication and input into the material alan has wrote has been priceless, Hayley was unsure whether or not she wished to continue playing but she was soon back into groove of things and has become a major asset ,her style of bass playing fits in great and as aarons girlfriend and a great friend of both alan and nathan we are all pleased to have her . Alan Aaron and Hayley met Nathan in the winter of 2007 and all became good friends very quickly, Nathan was at this point playing guitar with a band but he expressed an interest in joining angel heart as a drummer an instrument nathan has been studying as a student at stratford colledge , Nathan a music tech student brings many attributes to the band he is a talented guitarist ,drummer, and vocalist.

Venue: The Sound Bar, Corporation Street, City Centre, Opposite Aston Uni
Time: 7.45pm
Cost: £4/£3
Links:
http://www.myspace.com/theiconspresentsoundbar
http://www.myspace.com/angelheartuk
http://www.myspace.com/deathtothesidefringe
http://www.myspace.com/thesonicsound

Coming Up ..... Tuesday 22nd July
Indie_Pop_Folk Rock


The Autumn Store presents The Smittens + The Zebras + Red Pony Clock.
All these bands are from outside the UK!

The Smittens:
The Smittens are a five-piece indiepop band from Burlington, Vermont and like to think of themselves as a DIY twee pop explosion. Dana Kaplan, Colin Clary, David Zacharis, Holly Chagnon, and Max Andrucki, with help from the talented Emily Hilliard, switch up instruments, song-writing, and singing to create brilliantly lyrical and hyper-catchy pop songs of all colors, shapes and sizes. Formed on a whim at a party in 2002 by a group of popkids who wanted to make for their friends the kind of music they love, the Smittens have emerged as one of the country’s best-loved underground indiepop quintets, with headlining slots in the past year at the New England, New York, Toledo, and Athens Popfests. The band’s hotly anticipated third album Pop Your Heart, mixed by Eric Masunaga, will be out in early 2008, on Athens, Georgia’s indie institution Happy Happy Birthday To Me. The critically acclaimed 'Gentlefication Now!' and 'A Little Revolution' are both now available through Happy Happy Birthday to Me.

Red Pony Clock:

From the sun-kissed shores of San Diego, CA comes Red Pony Clock, an ever-shifting musical collective with a penchant for jubilant horn arrangements, effervescent vocal harmonies, and confessional song-writing. Primarily a recording project based on the songs of Gabe Saucedo & Tony Prudhome; the live Red Pony Clock lineup can oftentimes swell into the the double digits, with members switching back and forth between a wide variety of non-traditional instruments, such as trombone, banjo, accordion, & vibraphone. RPC will pretty much try to work with whatever they can get their hands on. The same goes for their song-writing, which has been known to take from such diverse influences as mariachi, disco, country, jazz, & R&B.
At first listen, the density of Red Pony Clock's music can be overwhelming, even confounding. But take heart!! While most twelve-headed monsters are intent on luring you under your bed only to inflict unspeakable acts of torture, Red Pony Clock would rather help you build a pillow fort in which to chill out and have a sing-along. Or better yet, a jamboree!!!
Over the course of 6 years, Red Pony Clock has gone from being a one-man lo-fi recording project to the incalculable, cult-like assemblage of today, sporadically releasing their music on 7" records, cassettes, and hand-decorated CDRs. Their latest release, God Made Dirt (HHBTM records), marks RPC's first foray into professional studio recording. With the help of their old friend, Roy Silverstein at Habitat Studios, Red Pony Clock has finally made the record they've been trying to make since they started. It's a boundlessly sprawling work, made to be absorbed as a whole, and brimming with the spirit of a band who makes music only because they love it more than anything else in the world.

Venue: The Sunflower Lounge, 76 Smallbrooke Queensway, B5 4EG
Time: 8pm
Cost:
Links:
http://www.myspace.com/theautumnstore
http://www.myspace.com/thesmittens
http://www.myspace.com/redponyclock
http://www.myspace.com/ilikezebras

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