FEATURED SHOW
MAPS
MALCOLM MIDDLETON
THE EARLY YEARS
FANFARLO
MONKEY SWALLOWS THE UNIVERSE
ROYWORLD
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Wednesday 5th September 2007
Maps + Malcolm Middleton + The Early Years + Fanfarlo + Monkey Swallows The Universe + Royworld
@ 229
229 Great Portland Street, London, W1W 5PN
07:45pm
£10
MAPS Maps come from a town called Northampton. The music is made by James Chapman in his bedroom. Maps will be playing a lot more shows this year. Ben, Phil, M ...
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ONSTAGE AT 10.00 PM
MALCOLM MIDDLETON Malcolm Middleton has a prowess for scalding wit and melodies excluding both serenity and desolution like a sigh. A folk-blues guitarist of the hard knocks-post punk s ...
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ONSTAGE AT 9.30 PM
THE EARLY YEARS The Early Years have a vision to create washes of psychedelic guitar noises meshed in with feedback, drones, distortion and wah set against a strong metronomic beat. The Early Years admire the noises of Mogwai, Acid Mother's Temple, Spiritiualized, all Sonic Boom's stuff, Neu, Can, Tortoise, 33.3, Isotope 217, Jeff Parker, Stars of the Lid, The Teardrop Explodes, ...
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ONSTAGE AT 9.00 PM
FANFARLO Fanfarlo recently, finally, completed their supremely accomplished debut album. This record, gestated in the dull chrysalis of childhood, emerges into the world a beautiful full-formed butterfly, one of nature’s wonders. Indeed it is hard to think of a record so resolutely positive that isn’t made by people of faith. And what I said about sense of pla ...
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ONSTAGE AT 8.30 PM
MONKEY SWALLOWS THE UNIVERSE Monkey Swallows The Universe are an acoustic indiepop band from Sheffield, centred around the original founding duo of Nat Johnson & Kevin Gori, who formed the band in 2004. The band expanded in 2005 to include Catherine Tully on violin, Andy George on cello & Rob Dean on drums. In February 2006 the band released their debut album 'The Bright Carvings', on the independent rec ...
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ONSTAGE AT 8.00 PM
ROYWORLD Royworld make ambitious, stadium-bound pop, influenced by the likes of Tears For Fears, Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel and The Arcade Fire. The band recently released 'Elasticity/Tin Man', on Label Fandango, which just happened to be the recipient of Label Fandango's first daytime Radio 1 airplay. Woop woop. ...
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ONSTAGE AT 7.30 PM