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AFTERSHOW PARTY
Featuring EROL ARKAN / METROPOLIS /
KABOOM / ROCKBOX DJs
from 10.30pm / £10 / £8 advance
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When the last Marshall amp has been carted from the stage, ultra-cool electro DJ Erol Alkan - founder of legendary London clubnight Trash – is the late-night party host for audience and artist alike. Founding father of a scene that launched The Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Bloc Party, he’s now turned super-producer and has put his name to recent albums by Mystery Jets and Late of the Pier. And – famously – his mash-up of New Order’s Blue Monday and Kylie’s Can’t Get You out of My Head was performed by the lady herself at the Brit Awards. Expect mash-ups and madness long into the wee small hours from a all-star line-up that also includes residents from Metropolis - the Empire’s regular Saturday night superclub.
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TURIN BRAKES
8.50pm - 9.35pm
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It’s too easy to pigeonhole long-time friends Olly Knights and Gale Paridjanian, with their summery acoustic guitars, hushed harmonies and vocals recorded as though stretched out on a sunbeam. But underneath the shimmery cool British space-glam and classy SoCal folk-pop lies an uneasy social nakedness, fully formed and brutally emotive. Over to the guys… ‘some say we make a sweet spine-tingling kind of noise while others say we are quietly seething. But at our core we are a music-making, song-writing duo more than a little obsessed with guitars. And some say we even rock like monkeys!”
Expect something very special indeed from a band whose back catalogue features 4 hit albums, including 2 Top Tens.
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JOHN POWER
7.40pm - 8.20pm
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The early history you already know. Original member of the La’s, left to form Cast, sold a ridiculous number of records – a dozen hit singles, most of them Top Ten. Sandstorm / Walkaway / Finetime…if you’re beyond a certain age then the words and melodies will be emblazoned on your heart.
And since Cast split eight years ago?
Quietly doing his own thing – critically well-received low key releases and spell-binding live shows in a new musical vein – ‘acoustic folk session of campfire songs, rock and roll, blues and other conversations with the ether that invite the listener to gently depart the here and now, and enter a warmer, wiser world.’
And definitely, deliberately, no Cast songs. Until now, that is…
This is the very first time that John will be playing the Cast hits alongside his newer solo material. He’s come to terms with his past musical life, and is comfortable with what he’s achieved musically since he split the band. Join him as he celebrates a remarkable songwriting career…in its entirety.
This promises be very special indeed!
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DARKER MY LOVE
(change from brochure)
6.30pm - 7.10pm
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Atmospheric Californian rockers as seen on tour with Band of Horses….overdriven Gibson bass? Check. Black groove and white rock? Check!
Yes, psychedelia is alive and well, maaaan… swirling in clouds of dry ice, sunburnt guitar squall and My Bloody Valentine feedback. Darker My Love’s fuzzy, echo-drenched storm soaks up forty years of shoegaze from The Grateful Dead through Teardrop Explodes, Charlatans and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. Ex-Nerve Agents, Distillers and The Fall, this laidback LA five-piece have the savage drone thing down to perfection but, hey, they can do the pop thing too – check out Pale Sun and Two Ways Out.
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THE WILDCATS OF KILKENNY DO
‘RUM, SODOMY AND THE LASH’
5.10pm - 6.00pm
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Back in 1985, The Pogues’ Rum, Sodomy and the Lash was THE album to be seen carrying away from Alan Fearnley’s record shop on Linthorpe Road. Produced by new wave legend Elvis Costello, it’s a brilliant cascade of anger and beauty. And it arguably marked the peak of Shane Magowan’s songwriting, with A Pair of Brown Eyes and the rousing Sally MacLennane nestling proudly alongside genre classics like Ewan MacColl’s Dirty Old Town.
Not forgetting, of course, the track The Wildcats of Kilkenny – the song from which a certain infamous Teesside combo stole their name! Now, 25 years on, they’re repaying the compliment by performing the entire album live from start to finish. Augemented by an army of mandolins, saxes, tin whistles and banjos, the Wildcats pay the ultimate tribute to this classic and influential album in a performance that has never been seen before, and may never be again.
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DANNY AND THE
CHAMPIONS OF THE WORLD
4.00pm - 4.40pm
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1998 might not have been the best time to form a London-based alt-country band… after all, the world was awash with spiky indie guitars, and Blur and Supergrass reigned supreme. But Grand Drive – with Danny George Wilson at the helm – cut through prevailing trends with a brand of gritty, honest Americana that even saw the likes of Wilco and The Jayhawks doff their caps.
Twelve years on, Danny – under his new guise – has made his eleventh studio album Street Of Our Time, and it’s still stuffed full of the kind of stomping, spirit-raising singalongs that evoke the spirit of Dylan’s late 60s country hoedown heyday.
‘The real thing – they are the champions’ – Q Magazine.
‘A bit special’ – The Independent.
‘Slots right in between peak Kerouac, Pat Garrett-era Dylan and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young’ – Mojo
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KASSIDY
2.55pm - 3.30pm
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Ah, we wish they all could be California Girls. But the sweet Beach Boy harmonies you can hear are coming from four hairy Scots who look like Lynyrd Skynyrd… but sieve the aforementioned good vibrations through an ‘Exile On Main Street’ colander. The beat box stomps hard, as a gang of Glaswegian gunslingers at campfire give it the full-on widescreen harmony treatment and boogie on down, country-style. Outlaws and renegades never sounded so good… lose yourself in musicianship without feedback, rhythm without synths and melody without samples. ‘We take that acoustic West Coast thing and shake it up in a pot with more modern influences and see what we can get,’ they say, ‘And when it all gets going its like a wall of harmony, its mystical’. Think Florida via Sauchiehall Street with indie verve!.
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AIRSHIP
1.50pm - 2.25pm
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One of XFM’s Top Tips for 2010 - a floppy-fringed Manuncian fourpiece whose searing, anthemic guitars provide the ideal back-up for frontman Elliott Williams’ passionate, rusty-razor-edged vocals.
The band come fresh from a huge European support tour with the mighty Editors, whose epic sound they share. And they’ve come back to find spanking new debut EP Algebra gaining some belting national reviews. Look out for the video as well, the missing link between Little Big Planet and Exploding Dog figurines.
“Terrific and melancholy” – Culture of Me.
"The glacial shimmer of Sigur Ros and the dark wonderment of the band's favourite record, the Cure's Disintegration" – The Guardian.
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LITTLE COMETS
12.45pm - 1.20pm
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Brilliant, summery, pop-perfection from ‘the UK's answer to Vampire Weekend’!? Like The Futureheads covering Paul Simon, these cheeky chappies certainly know how to pen a tune! In their own words they play 'kitchen sink indie' music, citing Debussy, Roald Dahl, Ella Fitzgerald and Paul Simon as influences. If you're not familiar with 'kitchen sink music', head over to their MySpace and check out their splendid tracks such as One Night In October, Adultery and Joanna. They've toured with the likes of The Noisettes and Hockey and they've been selling out some top venues recently on their own headline tours, so we're very greatful to them for stepping in at the last minute to fill this slot. Cheers lads! [Replacing Babeshadow].
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OUR SECRET SINS
12.00pm - 12.30pm
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Like a lairy Teesside version of Arcade Fire, Our Secret Sins have had a sensational rise to glory… barely two years old, and they’ve already got the likes of 6 Music’s Tom Robinson showering them with praise. ‘Intense, venomous, synth cult pop’ he reckons, and who are we to argue? Maybe we shouldn’t be surprised that they’re now looking ready to take on the world…
Metro magazine called them “The alternative soundtrack to an Irvine Welsh novel”. What they don’t mention is that Our Secret Sins are an amazing live spectacle as well, with air-punching anthems like We’re so Alive ready-made to soundtrack messy nights out in town centres all over Britain.Immerse yourself in a very special kind of Sin.
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