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Coming Up ..... Saturday 26th July
Dub_Reggae_Jungle_Old School Dancehall_Dubstep Friendly Fire and Whomanity presents “DUB”. 2 rooms of Dub, Reggae, Jungle, Old School Dancehall and Dubstep with Aries + Juggla + Jan Jah + Didi + Jamanji + Olbi Iyah. The night is hosted by Pablo Rider and Lionart.
Venue: The New Unit, 71 Lombard Street, Digbeth, B12 0QU
Time: 10.30pm until Morning
Cost: £2 before 11.30pm, £4 after
Links:
www.myspace.com/jamjahsound
www.myspace.com/ariesuk
http://www.friendlyfiremusic.com/
Coming Up ..... Saturday 26th July
Electro_Downtempo_Beats_Breaks_Soul Tongue and Grove residents Jim the Grin + Richard Bentley, Jim’ll Mix it and very special guests hammer out Electro-Funk-Soul-Breaks-Jazz-Disco.
Venue: The Bulls Head, St Mary’s Row, Moseley
Cost: £FREE before 10pm, not much more after
Links:
www.myspace.com/jimthegrin
Coming Up ..... Saturday 26th July
Indie_Electro_Rock_Classics_Experimental
Coming Up ..... Saturday 28th June
Metal_Hardcore_Progressive_Rock
Rehab Promotions presents GOREFEST!!!
Godsize + Forlorn + Slab + Left to Bleed + Broken Faith + Mista Talvi + The Archer Home + Brawl
Venue: The Black Horse, Jennens Road, next to Aston University
Time: First band on at 5.30pm
Cost: £FREE
Links:
www.myspace.com/rehab_brum
www.myspace.com/gorfest
www.myspace.com/godsize
www.myspace.com/ontheslab
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Coming Up ..... Saturday 28th June
Two Events at The Hare and Hounds
Indie Tunes_Electro Beats
Venue 1 The Hare and Hounds 
Dirty Laundry presents The Lines + Lady Rain + their clubnight.
Fresh new indie, modern electro and a few classics (check out the list on their myspace)
The Lines:
Comparisons have been made to many a great bands of the past, most notably the sonic guitar histrionics of The Verve, but with influences stretched from Radiohead to The Rapture, The Lines deliver their songs with masses of energy and depth. It’s the amazing single-minded belief, coupled with an explosive live sound and songs with timeless melodies, that point to Alex, Chris, Dean & Ryan being destined for big things in 2008.
News of sold out local shows quickly spread to promoters up and down the country, and invitations came to support artists such as The Twang, The Charlatans, Editors, Jack Penate, The Holloways, Babyshambles, Little Man Tate and The Maccabees to name just a few.
Venue: The Hare and Hounds, High Street, Kings Heath
Time: 9pm – 2am
Cost: £3
Links:
http://www.myspace.com/dirtylaundryclub
http://www.myspace.com/wearethelines
http://www.myspace.com/ladyrainband
Electro Tinged Indie_Electro Artists
Venue 2 The Hare and Hounds
Mosco:Disco with DJ’s Lucie, Jack Slack & Andreas
From their myspace:
‘Mosco Disco was created by Leanne, Lucie & Chloe in August 2003. Leanne liked messing around with vintage clothing and cut+paste, Lucie liked tinkering with vinyl and Chloe enjoyed baking and random bouts of unconsciousness. So we celebrated our little trio by launching a web-site and decorating the bond-cave (Red bar & lounge) with vintage clothing and cakes, calling it MOSCO DISCO PIPPADEE PARTY. Since then we have borrowed the creative talents of various Birmingham DJs - Scott Bleepz (Panic), Adam Shelton (below), TAK!, Matt Ridding (remake/remodel), Ross T (below), Jack Slack (Slackers Delight, Ping Pong Club), Ollie (Not Cricket) Satori, Kat, Guy Carlos, Dom, Chris. We also borrowed the pen-man ship of mosco people and Birmingham graffiti-artists to create papier-mâché shoes. Regular guests are Leannes pop-up-cut-outs, and ceramic cats have been known to grace our decks. Michael Valentine-west (AKA Twiggy) played live for us at the Rainbow and we took over the Kitchen in the Custard Factory for New Years Eve 2005, showing films and shorts in the Theatre. Mosco is now a regular at the Bulls Head in Moseley with resident DJ Lucie and we plan to do some one-off parties, more art-related stuff and will launch a new web-site soon. We LIKE TO PaRTY, LIsTEN TO ELeCTrO, 80s & SYNtH PoP, BOrrOW ThINGs, EATCAKES, PAPIeR-MACHe, cuT-OUtS.’
You're likely to hear the sounds of... hot chip. roxy music. depeche mode. DEVO. black ghosts. chikinki. inner city. whitey. alex kid. s.m.d. italo disco. crystal castles. the gossip. donner summer. metro area. altern8. klaxons. human league. !!!. m.i.a. michael jackson. uffie. green velvet. peaches. madonna. n.y.p.c. daft punk.
Venue: The Hare and Hounds, High Street, Kings Heath
Time: 9pm – 2am
Links:
http://www.myspace.com/moscodisco
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Coming Up ..... Saturday 28th June
Indie_New Rave_Electroclash
The Temple host one of the rooms at Dragoneye on Broad Street. They play the latest Indie, New Rave, Electro-Clash & Breakbeat. Other rooms at the night have mod/60's/retro and classic indie .
The guys are also looking for DJs in view of a regular slot. Check out their myspace for more info.
DJ’s: Nilesh (Indie,Electro) + Jake Tutu (Electroclash) + Ashunt (Electro)
Venue: The Dragoneye, Broad Street, City Centre
Time: 11pm – 6am
Links:
http://www.myspace.com/gonetothechapel
Coming Up .....Saturday 31st May
Live_Electro_Bands
Vice/Fly53 Party with BURAKA SOM SISTERMA (live) + BUMBLEBEEZ (live) + MAPEI (live) + ZOMBIE DISCO SQUAD (DJ Set) + TAYO (DJ Set) Chicks Dig Jerks also Djing
Venue: The Rainbow, Digbeth
Time: 8pm – 2pm
Cost: FREE TO ALL UK STUDENTS! REGIESTER AT http://www.fly53tour.com/(Check links for non-students or have a hunt around for that fake NUS card you had….just kidding!!
Links:
http://www.myspace.com/fly53tourhttp://www.myspace.com/chicksdigjerkshttp://www.myspace.com/Mapeihttp://www.myspace.com/thebumblebeez
Coming Up .....Saturday 31st May
Blues_ Garage_ Country_ Rock_ Psychedelic
10 Lives present The Black Apples + The Ganders +The Solomons + Bugners Eye
The Black Apples: A 3 piece electric blues band, created in 2004 in an old disused pot bank with a ghost…. One door no windows and a concrete roof…. The walls are lined with black plastic and images of the past, the room is dark, cold and damp. The volume is loud fusing old with new…. The apples play when ever and where ever they are asked to play, from backstreet to Main Street, audiences large and small…. The songs are distorted blues maybe from a different time, maybe from a different place, or maybe just distorted…. As an apple is just an apple green, red or black…..
The Ganders: Think Dirty Heavy Blues Rock... that, whether you like it or not will have the hairs on your neck standing. Thunderous lows, screeching highs with belting vocals that will make every bit of you want to move. Shaking the foundations of Birmingham with a powerful, electric, energetic live performance... DEFINATELY makes The Ganders worth a look in.
THE SOLOMONS are a two-piece outfit who formed in the summer of 2006 around the squalid rehearsal rooms of the West Midlands. They tired of squandering their talent in numerous unfulfilling local groups and decided to go it alone playing their first love- bluesy, boozy rock & roll.
Musically pulling influence from out of tune ‘60’s garage, rhythm & blues, Phil Spector soul and the proto-punk pioneers, The Solomons howl the blues like their lives depend on it. JOHN PRESLEY wrestles his ’58 Hofner guitar, scattering layers of noise, drone and subtle delta picking over TOM BEVAN’S Moe Tucker meets John French rhythms.
Lyrically, The Solomons songs are known for portrayals of the seedy side of life with a penchant for stories of heartbreak, inebriation and teenage lust. These vignettes of the low life are delivered through Johns’ whisky soaked and nicotine stained snarl. It is no surprise then that The Solomons have been compared to Tom Waits and ‘Safe as Milk’ era Captain Beefheart by the press.
Having spent their formative years absorbing lo-fi garage and punk, The Solomons have a fiercely independent ethic to match their primal blues stomp, and a reputation as a formidable live act, culminating in headline slots in Birmingham as well as frequent gigs in Liverpool and London.
Bugners Eye: After attempting to emulate the bands that made the biggest impact on the nineties five lads became four, then three, stopped trying so hard and grew a set of knackers, resulting in a simplistic blues driven sound that will knock the froth off your pint.
Venue: The Flapper and Firkin (nr NIA)
Time: 8.30pm
Cost: £4
Links:
http://www.myspace.com/theblackappleshttp://www.myspace.com/thegandershttp://www.myspace.com/thesolomonshttp://www.myspace.com/bugnerseyebandwww.myspace.com/10livesmusicvenue
Coming Up .....Saturday 31st May
Modern Indie_Electro Beats
Dirty Laundry is Birminghams FRESHEST Indie Night. On the last Saturday of Every Month at The Hare & Hounds Kings Heath, Dirty Laundry invites you to come get MUCKY! Listen the freshest Indie & Electro Beats mixed with the classics to give you many a eargasam and get you dropping foot like MJ. Dirty Laundry will also bring you The best new live bands from around the country supported by Birminghams finest talent.
Line-up: The Brascoes + Sabotage Left + Team Penetration (Drop Like Bombs)
Venue: The Hare and Hounds, High Street, Kings Heath
Time: 9pm
Cost: A few ££
Links:
http://www.myspace.com/dirtylaundryclubhttp://www.myspace.com/teampenetrationhttp://www.myspace.com/thebrascoeshome
Coming Up On.....Saturday 26th April
Two Events at The Bulls Head
Indie Tunes_Electro Beats
Venue 1 The Hare and Hounds
Dirty Laundry presents Ratty Rat Rat, Indie Pop from London, plus their clubnight.
Fresh new indie, modern electro and a few classics (check out the list on their myspace) - it all starts at 9pm and is £3 in b4 11pm.
Electro Tinged Indie_Electro Artists
Venue 2 The Hare and Hounds
Mosco:Disco with DJ’s Lucie, Jack Slack & Andreas
Mosco Disco was created by Leanne, Lucie & Chloe in August 2003. Leanne liked messing around with vintage clothing and cut+paste, Lucie liked tinkering with vinyl and Chloe enjoyed baking and random bouts of unconsciousness. So we celebrated our little trio by launching a web-site and decorating the bond-cave (Red bar & lounge) with vintage clothing and cakes, calling it MOSCO DISCO PIPPADEE PARTY. Since then we have borrowed the creative talents of various Birmingham DJs - Scott Bleepz (Panic), Adam Shelton (below), TAK!, Matt Ridding (remake/remodel), Ross T (below), Jack Slack (Slackers Delight, Ping Pong Club), Ollie (Not Cricket) Satori, Kat, Guy Carlos, Dom, Chris. We also borrowed the pen-man ship of mosco people and Birmingham graffiti-artists to create papier-mache shoes. Regular guests are Leannes pop-up-cut-outs, and ceramic cats have been known to grace our decks. Michael Valentine-west (AKA Twiggy) played live for us at the Rainbow and we took over the Kitchen in the Custard Factory for New Years Eve 2005, showing films and shorts in the Theatre. Mosco is now a regular at the Bulls Head in Moseley with resident DJ Lucie and we plan to do some one-off parties, more art-related stuff and will launch a new web-site soon. We LIKE TO PaRTY, LIsTEN TO ELeCTrO, 80s & SYNtH PoP, BOrrOW ThINGs, EATCAKES, PAPIeR-MACHe, cuT-OUtS
You're likely to hear the sounds of... hot chip. roxy music. depeche mode. DEVO. black ghosts. chikinki. inner city. whitey. alex kid. s.m.d. italo disco. crystal castles. the gossip. donner summer. metro area. altern8. klaxons. human league. !!!. m.i.a. michael jackson. uffie. green velvet. peaches. madonna. n.y.p.c. daft punk.
Hare and Hounds, Kings Heath. 9pm-2am
Coming Up On.....Saturday 29th MarchIndie Tunes_Electro Beats
Dirty Laundry at The Hare and Hounds in Kings Heath is Birmingham's newest monthly Indie night.Fresh new indie, modern electro and a few classics (check out the list on their myspace) - it all starts at 9pm and is £3 in b4 11pm.
