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Coming Up ..... Friday 17th October
Punk_Rock_Soul

Coldrice presents Black Diamond Heavies + The Solomons + Coldrice DJ’s playing Rock’n’Roll, Punk, Blues, Garage, Trash & 60’s Soul

The Black Diamond Heavies:
The Black Diamond Heavies hail from the southern States of America but spend most of their time in a blue Van or a white van unleashing their punk-ass bues all over the world "This Tennessee-Hailing Duo have produced a debut of filthy Southern blues that makes the Black Keys seem like choirboys" --NME . . . "the Heavies like to keep things as raw and ground-up as dirt - drums with a trashcan rattle that sound huge and far away (like they were recorded in a wide-open space down the street) and overdriven Fender Rhodes. That’s all there is to it, but then again, there’s so much more." --Phoenix New Times . . . "Gospel-blues-punk preacher-isers John Wesley Myers and Van Campbell baptise you in beatific raptures of Hammond, Rhodes and Drums, literally stripping the sound down to its scantily-clad soul. Almost too perfectly Myers is the literal son of a (Baptist) preacher man, whereas Campbell descends from a Bourbon-distilling family. As it is, you can absolutely bloody tell too, such is the whiskey-swilling testifying herein. Voodoo shuffles its sinicious way through..." "... swigging, swaggering and setting the VU meters swinging right through the red like a shamans trance-eyes for the entire ceremony till the closing corpse-raising broadsides you with it’s mutant Tina Turner chicken-dancing on a Motown mamba mantra. Funky cactus-caressed wagon-train blues...." "... aren’t so much like Canned Heat as they heat yer can, violate viscera and turn your pupils to pulp direct from the pulpit. "...draped in ditch-dirt and paying the tab at the Devils Inn with small change from the confession box, while swabbing woulds with sandpaper." -- Stu Gibson

Venue: Barfly Dragon Bar, 78 Digbeth High Street, B5 6DY
Time: 9pm - Late
Cost: £6
Links:
http://www.myspace.com/coldriceunderground
http://www.myspace.com/blackdiamondheavies
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=98238258 (solomans)

Coming Up ..... Friday 17th October
Indie_Punk_New Wave_Electro

Chicks Dig Jerks / Tight Fit present Hawnay Troof + Mirror! Mirror! + You Love Her Coz She’s Dead….!!

Venue: The Sunflower Lounge, 76 Smallbrook Queensway, B5 4EG
Time: 8pm
Cost: £4
Links:
http://www.myspace.com/chicksdigjerks
http://www.myspace.com/hawnaytroof
http://www.myspace.com/youlovehercozshesdead

Coming Up ..... Friday 17th October
Live Electronica

Robot vs Dinosaur present Line + Cyan341 + Kone-R (DJ Set) plus DJs playing the likes of Aphex Twin, Battles, Matmos, The Postal Service, Amon Tobin & Venetian Snares

Venue: The Island Bar, Suffolk Street, Queensway, B1 1LT
Time: 8.30pm – Late
Cost: £3 Entry, £1 if dressed like a robot or a dinosaur
Links:
http://www.myspace.com/robotversusdinosaur
http://www.robotvsdinosaur.co.uk/