Electronica_Electro_Emotronic
Robot Vs Dinosaur will be returning to Island Bar on Friday August 15th, with live services resuming following July’s free entry DJ-only event.
This time ’round we have a headline set from ex-Plone and current ZX Spectrum Orchestra/Modified Toy Orchestra mainstay Mike In Mono, a man who’s passion for bubbling analogue synth-pop and gorgeous vocodered vocals is matched only by his unswerving penchant for binary and hexadecimal numbers.
In sharp contrast, Milton Keynes-based Girljoy’s cute yet nerve-shredding chipcore assault will be coming at you like a goomba on fire, taking us back to the good old days when high-scores meant everything and (more often than not) you had to blow into the cartridge to get it to work.
And as per usual we’ll also have DJs playing the likes of aphex twin, autechre, battles, the books, broadcast, ceephax acid crew, chris clark, cornelius, cylob, dntel, the flashbulb, four tet, germlin, holy fuck, matmos, max tundra, mouse on mars, the notwist, OOO, plone, polysics, polygon window, the postal service, prefuse 73, pulseprogramming, ulrich schnauss, squarepusher, stereolab, amon tobin, to rococco rot, tortoise, venetian snares, luke vibert, xiu xiu, susumu yokota and whatever else we can find knocking about in the dark corners of our hard discs.
Venue: The Island Bar, Smallbrook, Queensway, City Centre
Time: 8.30pm
Cost: £3 or £1 if dressed as a robot or dinosaur, with free pin badge on entry
Links:
http://www.robotvsdinosaur.co.uk/
http://www.myspace.com/monoinmike
http://www.myspace.com/girljoymusic
Coming Up ..... Friday 15th August
Rock_Alternative_Acoustic
Platform Promotions present Two + Understar + Boomshadow + The Tricks
Two:
With sparkling nods towards the rock n roll greats, diverse music and cultural influences, TWO bring together rocking guitar riffs, soaring melodies, thundering bass lines and funky powerhouse drumming. All wrapped up with a contemporary cool new sound.
The art of writing classic hook-laden songs is what TWO are about.
United by a passion for creating great music combined with a huge respect for each other’s musical talents and capabilities, Ray Loverock and Tiff Bryan have created the ultimate band.
TWO add colour back into our bland musical landscape and are a formidable live band, delivering stunningly energized and electrifying shows where they play as a three piece with excellent drummer Dan Guest, who completes the live sound of TWO.
Rock ‘n’ Roll greats with a loved-up pop sensibility....Welcome to the unique sound and look of TWO.
Boomshadow:
Four men. From (near) Birmingham. A rock experience. Formed from the heart of the earth when the world was but young, these titans of rock have now come into your mortal realm. The fires and magma have formed them into purest rock. Or something like that anyway. Its not just four men having a bit of a blast or anything.
The Tricks:
A wise man once said, "Give a man a fish and he will feed his family for a day. Give him the means to catch his own fish and he will feed them for life." Albeit they'll probably be sick of fish after a week or so. I don't think the wise man was from Wolverhampton. Had he been, he may have said,"Give three friends some beers and they'll be happy for the afternoon. Give them drums, guitars and a shedload of beers and they might make it to the end of the week..." Well it's been a long week and The Tricks have emerged from the darkness (Birmingham) armed with a handful of songs and a thimble full of enthusiasm. Little did they know that these three wise guys were about to embark upon the journey of a lifetime, taking them from epic highs to unfathomable lows, from frantic to insanity via melancholy to their final destination of happy, happy joy. Fresh from the South of Bilston tour, The Tricks were decisive that they needed something else. Something that would take them to the edge. What could it be? Of course, a lead guitar player, that would bring soaring lead lines, virtuoso soloing and signature riffage - What they got was Russ. Now world domination was that little bit closer..........
Venue: The Spotted Dog, 104 Warwick Street, Digbeth, B12 0NH
Time: 8pm
Cost: £4
Links:
http://www.myspace.com/platform_promotions
http://www.myspace.com/twoonline
http://www.myspace.com/bandboomshadow
http://www.myspace.com/thesneakytricks
Coming Up ..... Friday 15th August
Indie_Rock_Garage_New Wave_Acoustic
444 Club present Escobar + The Joe Fox Band + The Abbots + Barnesy + Tuck Shop DJ’s.
The Abbots:
Just as Cardiff says "all we wanna do is play our music to people who wanna listen, and have a good fuckin' laugh along the way" and in that sums up the agenda behind the band! The Abbots are a three man outfit with Chris Woodley blasting out strained Vocals, Bass and Occasional Lead Strummings, Tim (Cardiff) Jones on Lead/Rhythm Guitar (and all the high bits that sound fuckin' mint!), and the newest addition to the band is Chris Newman (yeah, another fuckin' Chris) who comes in on sticks to push the band forward. Undoubted influence comes from the Stone Roses, Hendrix, Oasis and a good stiff Brandy.
Venue: The Rainbow, Digbeth, B12 0LD
Time: 8pm
Cost: £4 adv, £5 on the door
Links:
http://www.myspace.com/kamikazeevents
http://www.myspace.com/tuckshopbirmingham
http://www.myspace.com/escobartheband
http://www.myspace.com/thejoefoxband
http://www.myspace.com/theabbots
http://www.myspace.com/barnesyboy86
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