Coming Up ..... Saturday 2nd August
Psychedelic_Experimental_Alternative



Stop Scratching presents Nisennenmondai + Support + Stop Scratching DJ’s.

NISENNENMONDAI nisennenmondai, it took me a while to be able to spell that by heart, are three girls, they are noise band, they are from japan, they make mesmerizing yet amazingly rymthic noise. think mika miko meets lightning bolt, or something like that. lovely.

Venue: The Hare and Hounds, High Street, Kings Heath
Time: 8pm start
Cost: £5
Links:
www.myspace.com/nisennenmondai
www.myspace.com/stopscratching

Coming Up ..... Saturday 2nd August
Metal_Thrash_Punk_Rock



Rehab Promotions presents Vialate + Dirty Minds + Naked as Christ

Venue: The Swinging Sporran, Priory Queensway, City Centre, B4 7LL
Time: 8pm
Cost: £3
Links:
www.myspace.com/vialateuk
www.myspace.com/dirtymindzpunk
www.myspace.com/nakedaschrist

Coming Up .....Monday 9th June
Noise_Rock_Electronica

It’s Just Noise presents Moha! + Alienist & Dream Dreams the Dreamer + Charlie Butler + Interlard

MOHA! (Berlin/Norway)
members of NOXAGT & ULTRALYD on Rune Grammofon play a mindbending and intensely mathematical mix of free noise/rock/electronica
www.myspace.com/themoha
Watch YouTube video: MoHa! Live at Stimul Festival

ALIENIST & DREAM DREAMS THE DREAMER
collaborative set between NIC BULLEN (Napalm Death/Black Galaxy/etc) and MATT (Esquilax/Doom Patrol etc) www.myspace.com/monium13
www.myspace.com/dreamdreamsthedreamer

CHARLIE BUTLER
of MOTHERTRUCKER and THE HUBBLE CONSTANT fame, described as 'Earth meets Springsteen loop pedal action'
www.myspace.com/mothertrucker

INTERLARD
loud abrasive noise rock
www.myspace.com/interlard

Venue: The Rainbow, 160 High Street, Digbeth, B12 OLD
Time: 8pm Doors
Cost: £5
Links:
http://www.myspace.com/itsjustnoise
www.myspace.com/themoha
www.myspace.com/dreamdreamsthedreamer
www.myspace.com/mothertrucker
www.myspace.com/interlard

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Coming Up .....Tuesday 10th June
Acoustic_Folk_Roots_Bluegrass

Bohemian Jukebox presents Little Sister + Atlantic Crossing +Richard Chappell

Little Sister
Playing original arrangements of world folk music (from Irish to Ladino to American Old-time Country), as well performing their own songs and tunes, armed with an arsenal of musical weaponry.
“The homegrown answer to the Be Good Tanyas!” Birmingham101 Magazine

Atlantic Crossing:
Melisa Devost, Corbin Murdoch, Sarah MacDougall
These three young artists represent the finest in Canadian songwriting. Unabashedly personal in their writing and fierce in their convictions, they create achingly beautiful lyrics that speak of life in the stunning, harsh, often contradictory landscape of the North.

Rich Chappell
Styled around American Alt-folk, playing with any stringed instruments he can get his hands on!
“A lovely little affair, mostly centring around singer-songwriters but with other stuff too. (Some quite surprising other things at times.) I liked the vibe, and indeed the value - four quid gets you four musical acts and a chit that lets you get a shot of absinthe for a pound. You can’t say fairer than that.” (russl.wordpress.com)

Venue: Hare and Hounds, High Street, Kings Heath
Time: 8.30pm doors
Cost: £4
Links:
http://www.myspace.com/bohemianjukebox
http://www.myspace.com/littlesistermusic
http://www.myspace.com/atlanticcrossingthreecanadiansongwriters
http://www.myspace.com/richardchappell

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Coming Up .....Tuesday 10th June

Indie_Rock_ Alternative

Humbucker presents Textbook Rumours + The Likely Lads + Eastern Gun Club + Go Lazerus

Venue: The Sound Bar, Corporation St (Opp Aston Uni)

Time: 8pm

Cost: £4 , £3 NUS

Links:

www.myspace.com/theiconspresentsoundbar

www.myspace.com/textbookrumours

www.myspace.com/thelikelylads0

www.myspace.com/easterngunclub

www.myspace.com/golazerus

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Coming Up .....Wednesday 11th June
New Wave_Indie

Stop Scratching DJ’s are playing at the Danananan Akroyd gig

Venue: The Rainbow, Digbeth
Time: 8pm
Links:
http://www.myspace.com/stopscratching

Coming Up .....Saturday 7th June
Electonica_Indie_Pop_Noise



Stop Scratching present Gay against You (Live) + DJsets from MeMeMe (Liars Club) + Tuck Shop + Bang! Bang! + Alex Fitxpatrick (Holy Roar)

Gay Against You
this two piece hail from glasgow and have been furiously doing the uk gig circuit for 2 years now, during this time they built up quite a buzz for themselves based mostly around their eccentric, in your face live sets. Their music is a perfect example of how erratic vocals and glitchy electronics can co-exist with stunning pop sensibilites to create something wholy refreshing.

Venue: Rootys at the Custard Factory
Time: 9pm – 4am
Links:
http://www.myspace.com/stopscratching
http://www.myspace.com/gayagainstyou
http://www.stop-scratching.blogspot.com

Coming Up .....Saturday 7th June
Indie_Pop



The Autumn Store present Lime Chalks + Pete Green + Little My

Venue: The Sunflower Lounge, 76 Smallbrook Queensway, Birmingham, B5 4EG
Time: Doors at 8.30, bands finish at 11ish and it's followed by an indiepop disco until 1am.
Links:
www.theautumnstore.co.uk
www.myspace.com/limechalks
www.sparklemotion.co.uk
www.littlemy.org

Coming Up .....Saturday 7th June
Indie_Rock_New Wave

10 lives present The Garage Flowers (ft Alex Lowe - Hurricane no.1) + Copious + The Galleon Ryders + The nEat

The Garage Flowers:
Kick ass garage rock/pop/blues/alt. country band from London and Scotland. Formed by ex Hurricane1 vocalist ALEX LOWE.

Venue: The Flapper and Firkin, Nr NIA, City Centre
Time: 8.30pm
Cost: £3 in
Links:
http://www.myspace.com/10livesmusicvenue

Coming Up .....Saturday 7th June
Punk_Rock_Alternative



Rehab present The Abortions + Dangers Close + Haggard Sue + Drop Dead Darlin + NOYFB

Formed on the eve of 2008 after jamming together and in other bands across South Wales for years The Abortions have been keeping busy, writing songs, practicing, playing shows and just recorded a new CD with Andy Zippy near Glastonbury somewhere.

They are a punk band, They play whatever music they like, how they like and say what they like because they can, and so can you! They like to rock because they are musicians and music fans, every performance should be a purging, played like your last!

Venue: The Black Horse, Jennings Road,
Cost: FREE ENTRY
Links:
http://www.myspace.com/rehab_brum
http://www.myspace.com/theabortionsuk
http://www.myspace.com/dangersclosemusic
http://www.myspace.com/wearedropdeaddarlin



Coming Up .....Saturday 7th June
Indie_Garage_Pop



Betty & the id promote a special thank you gig this Saturday upstairs at the Tap & Spile real ale pub on Gas Street, just off Broad St.

For your £3 admission you get a copy of the Neutron World CD or a copy of a limited "At home with Betty & The Id" cdr if you already have the EP, they may have some t-shirts too.

Support is from the Peoples Republic Of Mercia, + DJ's playing their wildest and weirdest 7"'s and in tribute to Sparks current tour where they are playing every song in their repertoire, Betty & The Id will be doing the same!

Venue: Tap & Spile, Gas Street, just off Broad Street
Cost: £3 (includes free CD)
Links:
http://www.myspace.com/bettyandtheid

Coming Up .....Wednesday 21st May
New Wave_Indie

Stop Scratching + Chicks Dig Jerks present Aids Wolf + Mirror! Mirror! + Chupacabra

‘AIDS Wolf embraces the hate. If they can’t draw you in, they will make you run away cursing and bitching. Their songs speak to the terminally alienated, the relentlessly negative, the inherently repugnant. The Montréal four-piece (two guitars, drums and insane warbling) formed in early 2003, to the protestations of most of humanity. Since the beginning, they’ve sought to live the life: to practice complete aesthetic immersion, create music in some form every day, and live healthfully to facilitate their creative endeavors, no vacations allowed. AW greets our modern gloom with heady zeal.’

Venue: The Rainbow, High Street, Digbeth, B12 0LD
Time: 8pm – 1am
Cost: £5 on the door
Links:
www.myspace.com/aidswolf
www.myspace.com/chicksdigjerks
www.myspace.com/mirror
http://www.myspace.com/wearechupacabra

Coming Up .....Wednesday 21st May

Drone_Soundscape_Classical_Alt

Polar bear promotions present Stars of the Lid + Chris Hibbert

Although it has been since the turn of the millennium that either member of Stars of the Lid has lived in Austin, the story began as such.... In 1990, Adam drunkenly wandered into the former KTSB radio station on 21st. and Speedway where Brian was rockin the airwaves with some nifty records by Rod Mckuen. He was proclaiming that his car was out of gas, and he hit a deer. It turned out that he was definitely drunk. And although there was blood on his car, Brian saw no deer. This incident was the catalyst that ignited their strange musical relationship. Originally formed in Austin, Texas on Christmas day 1992, Stars of the Lid (one of the most apropos names in all of music) have scratched out quite a niche for themselves in the amorphous world of ambient classical music. From their almost-rock beginnings to the almost-classical fugues of recent albums, Stars of the Lid have excelled at designing subtle, minimalist epics which sound like they’re being played on a single multifaceted organic instrument. They offer subtle, endlessly evolving stories about the dynamics of sonic texture, at the same time seeming to offer a picture of pure, unfettered consciousness. Their music are largely beatless soundscapes composed of droning, effects-treated guitars along with piano, strings, and horns; volume swells and feedback fill the gap of rhythmic instruments, providing dynamic movement within the songs. A wise man once described SOTL as "divine classical drones without the tedious intrusion of drums, or vocals."

Venue: The Hare and Hounds, High Street, Kings Heath
Time: Doors 8pm
Cost: £12 (from Polar Bear Records, York Rd, Kings Heath)
Links:
www.myspace.com/starsofthelid
www.myspace.com/polarbearrecords1
http://www.hareandhoundskingsheath.co.uk/

Coming Up On.....Saturday 3rd May
Electro_Noise_Indie

Stop Scatching (The Launch Party) in association with Tuck Shop presents Talibam! + Gentle Friendly + Apatt + Chops. & DJ’s: Goodbye!Mother + Daisvy von Howl + Tuck Shop + Stop Scratching

Talibam!this two peice noise outfit hail from new york and have been turning heads everywhere i look recently. they use twisted electronics and free jazz stylings to create their own beautifully orchestrated chaos. with a captivating and energetic live show to boot, this is one not to be missed. also it's the release show for their stop scratching tape, featuring 40 minutes of unrealesed material & with the partying going on until the early hours with djs from vice and london's howl club, what more could you want?

Venue: Rootys, Custard Factory, Digbeth

Time: 8pm – 4am

Cost: £4

Links:
http://www.myspace.com/stopscratching
http://www.myspace.com/talibam
http://www.myspace.com/gentlefriendly