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Doors
9pm / 18+ / £FREE!
Ten Feet Tall and Generator present a stunning free showcase
of top North Eastern talent. We're too good to you. Billingham
bunch One Night Stands top the bill and although the lazy
comparison to Maximo Park is pretty much inevitable, ONS
are far more than mere copyists. They've already gigged
alongside hotly tipped indie-kids Team Waterpolo and Parka
and we reckon give it a few months, and big things could
be on the cards for this lot.
Completing the bill are female-fronted Cumbrians Birds
Vs. Planes (Formerly Stars of
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Track and Field), who unleash a sassy indie-pop racket
influenced by The Pixies, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Interpol,
and Newcastle's Left At Montreal, whose beautiful soundscapes
and jangling guitars make for a band that your ears are
going to well and truly fall in love with.
The venue (formerly Vienna) is the official warm up to our
monster club night SUMO, located over the road - handy.
Drinks are sweet cheap, and it's the only place to get Sumo
Advance Tickets and play Mario Cart til your thumbs
drop off.
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Doors
10PM / 18+ / £6.00
Box
Office 01642 729729
Seetickets.com
0870 264 33 33
In town Rocket Vintage
Empire shows 01642 253 553
Info 01642 247755
Those motherfuckers from hell, The Datsuns, couldn’t
resist another trip to Middlesbrough after the immense
set at The Empire last year. New album Head Stunts (an
anagram…) hits shelves on Oct 6th, so expect a taste
of new blood from the Kiwi quartet plus the classics Harmonica
Generator, Sitting Pretty and In Love.
Led Zepplin’s John Paul Jones produced an album for
them, Metallica worship them, Velvet Revolver took them
on tour
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around the world and they’ve won more awards for their
live show than we’ve had New Zealand Lamb dinners.
Glammy, grimey rock and roll as it should be, scuzzy riffs
the size of eighteen-wheelers and Dolf Dastuns tradwmark
howl, make them a truly unique rawk proposition.
Sumo’s live room only holds about 300 so please do
get a ticket early for this. The rest of the club will open
up at 11.30pm so if you miss out on a ticket, we’ll
see you all at the aftershow, which runs til 3.30am with
the area’s finest Rock, Punk, Metal, Indie, Electro
DJs in 3 rooms of alternative clubbing.
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Doors
7.30PM / 14+ / £10.50
Box
Office 01642 729729
Seetickets.com
0870 264 33 33
In town Rocket Vintage
Empire shows 01642 253 553
Info 01642 247755
These cheeky young scamps from Helmsley pretty much stole
the show at both Middlesbrough Music Live 2007 and Middlesbrough
Music Live 2008 and with a top ten album and a handful
of hit singles to their name, we’re chuffed to bits
to have them back in Boro. Signed to Vertigo Records (Razorlight,
The Killers, The Rapture etc) and fresh from the sold
out MTV2 Spanking New Music Tour, The Guardian reckon
that One Night
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Only’s summery indie-pop songs “have the addictive
quality of early Supergrass” whilst here at TFT HQ,
we think One Night Only mix the best of The Kooks youthful
exuberance with The Killers knack for writing anthemic pop.
Quite a combo.
New single 'You and Me' is undoubtedly their finest tune
to date and is sure to be one of the sing-a-long favourites
of this year's Festival season where ONO are already confirmed
for Glastonbury, Leeds/Reading and T In The Park to name
but a few. Come October, they'll be on top of their game
for sure.
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Doors
7.30pm / 14+ / £15
Box
Office 01642 729729
Seetickets.com
0870 264 33 33
In town Rocket Vintage
Empire shows 01642 253 553
Info 01642 247755
Former Mercury Award and BRIT Award nominees The Guillemots
are led by the wonderfully eccentric Fyfe Dangerfield
and their music has received critical acclaim all across
the board - with The Guardian describing them as "brilliantly
indulgent and wonderfully imaginative." Having spent
their Summer performing at all the major festivals and
even supporting REM at their sold out Rose Bowl gig, The
Guillemots will be in fine form for us here in Middlesbrough.
Bizarre yet brilliant tracks like Trains To Brazil,
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Made-Up Lovesong #43, Annie Let's Not Wait and Get Over
It have established the Brummy bunch as one of the nation's
finest indie- rock bands and acquired them many a celebrity
fan - including none other than Jonathan Ross and Sir Paul
McCartney!
"This is not convenient music to listen to, but neither
is it difficult - Guillemots' audience will not be decided
by age or style but rather by whether they want to step
through the windowpane; whether they want to involve themselves
with an overblown, over-the-top world of orchestras and
golden-age cinema story telling. 9/10." Drowned In
Sound
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18+
/ 8pm / £12.50
VERY LIMITED TICKETS
Box
Office 01642 729729
Seetickets.com
0870 264 33 33
In town Rocket Vintage
Info 01642 247755
One of the most exciting and on-the-edge bands of recent
years, The View broke through in 2007, releasing their
debut album, Hats Off To The Buskers. A whirlwind of destruction
and great tunes the View embodied all that is vital about
rock 'n' roll. Their debut album sold in excess of 300,000
copies and their notoriety went before them as good old-
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fashioned hard work saw them out on the road almost constantly.
Decamping to rural Wales in the early summer of '08 with
producer Owen Morris (perhaps the only man able to not only
channel their schizophrenic ideas & plans but also to
simply keep up with them) they set to work on their second
album. As yet untitled, the record will perhaps come as
a bit of a shock for those expecting a re-run of the 1st
album's infectious collection of tracks; still heavy on
the joyful rush that made their debut so exciting, the album
also weaves its way from rip-roaring heads-down boogie to
Tayside sea-shanties via moments of real beauty.
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10PM
/ 18+ / £7.00 ADV
Box
Office 01642 729729
Seetickets.com
0870 264 33 33
In town Rocket Vintage
Empire shows 01642 253 553
Info 01642 247755
"One of the wildest, most incendiary live bands on
the circuit... rock has not seen a band this untamed for
an age. 4/5" The Guardian
Hailing from Kentucky, USA via Leytonstone, East London,
Cage The Elephant recently released their debut self-titled
album on Relentless Records. Recorded in Nashville, the
albums mix of blues tinged indie rock 'n' roll takes influence
from the likes of Jet, Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Arctic
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Monkeys and reminds us here at TFT HQ of Gomez collaborating
with Kings Of Leon to write massive pop hits... which is
no bad thing! In fact, it's a very good thing! CTE's notorious
live shows have earned them support slots with everybody
from Queens Of The Stone Age to Foals to The Pigeon Detectives
- not to mention slots at all of this year's top festivals,
where their stunning single 'Ain't No Rest For The Wicked'
was one of the undoubted sing-a-longs of Summer! Head over
to www.relentless-records.net/cagetheelephant/ and get yourself
a free MP3, and then get yourself over to www.seetickets.com
and get yourself a ticket.
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18+
/ 8pm / £12.50
'Exquisite' **** Uncut
'Heart-on-sleeve atmospherics' **** Mojo
'Finely crafted songs' Q Magazine
Good news that Teddy 'Top Ten' Thompson has confirmed
for January after postponing his original show to tour
with James Blunt. Teddy Thompson is the son of legendary
UK folk stars Richard and Linda Thompson, and although
there's no denying the echoes of his father's droll delivery
and quirky time- signatures, long-time collaborator Rufus
Wainwright and melodic-pop legends
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Crowded House are equally good reference points for this
inspired singer-songwriter.
Born in London but now based in New York, he recently recorded
his fourth full length album with Marius de Vries, a man
whose extensive production resume includes work with acts
as diverse as Bjork, Madonna and David Gray. You may well
have heard Teddy on various films including Brokeback Mountain,
40 days and 40 nights, Psycho and I'm Your Man - a film
tribute to the legendary Leonard Cohen.
Tickets / Info : 01642 525-199
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14+
AGES / 7.30pm / £11
Box
Office 01642 729729
Seetickets.com
0870 264 33 33
In town Rocket Vintage
Empire shows 01642 253 553
Info 01642 247755
Hailing from Pittsburgh, PA in the USA, political punks
Anti-Flag have been described by Tom Morello of Rage Against
The Machine as ‘The most important emerging band
in the US - uncompromising, ferocious and absolutely right.
In desperate times like these, the world needs a band
like Anti-Flag to set shit straight.’ Kind words
from a man of Mr Morello's credentials. Since releases
on legendary punk labels like Fat Wreck Chords, New Red
Archives and their own A-F Records imprint, Justin Sane
and co are now signed to Major label RCA.
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This has sparked criticism from some fans but as the likes
of System Of A Down, The Clash and the aforementioned Rage
Against The Machine prove, it is possible to be signed to
a major label without selling out! Famed for their political
mentality, the band were one of the leading names involved
with the Rock Against Bush campaign and throughout their
career, they've carried a strong anti-war, anti-racisim
and anti-fascism message. Musically, Anti-Flag's sound has
earnt them comparisons to bands like Bad Religion, Pennywise
and Propagandhi and they've toured on the main stage of
the Warped Tour many a time - not to mention recently touring
the world with Billy Talent. We can't wait to see and hear
them tear apart (metaphorically speaking!) The Empire for
a very special 14+ ages gig.
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