JUNIOR BOYS
plus special guests

Thursday 16th November

Doors 7.30pm

Cargo, 83 Rivington St, London, EC2A 3AY Tel 020 7739 3440

Advance tickets ?8.50 from: www.ticketweb.co.uk Tel: 08700 600 100
www.seetickets.com Tel: 08701 201 149 and Rough Trade, Covent Garden, London Tel: 0207 240 0105

www.juniorboys.net
www.dominorecordco.com

Unique canadian electronic pop digital disco outfit JUNIOR BOYS promote
their new album ‘so this goodbye’ out at the end of September on Domino
with a live set that sees them pay homage to kraftwerk, scritti
politti, and ‘violator’-era depeche mode as they blend synth-pop with a
melodic slice of electro and live drums.

‘…suggest talk talk produced by timbaland…. junior boys’ spectral
vision of electronic pop is an understated, unpredictable delight. THE
GUARDIAN

‘junior boys blenderize the long-underground sound of electro with the
overground sound of me decade bands such as talk talk — the end result
is something fresh.’ ROLLING STONE

‘its heights eclipse virtually all other music this year.’ PITCHFORK 8.9/10

“both ‘birthday’ and ‘last exit’ pair quaint synthpop arpeggios with
irregular rhythms more suggestive of contemporary r&b; the array of
wiry analog tones highlights greenspan’s shadowy voice as though
illuminating him in profile.” THE WIRE

BAT FOR LASHES
plus special guests

Tuesday 31 October
Doors 7.30pm

Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Road, London W6 020 8222 6955

Tickets ?8.50 from: www.ticketweb.co.uk Tel: 08700 600 100 www.seetickets.com
Tel: 0870 060 3777

BAT FOR LASHES create an
intimate, cinematic world, reminiscent of the nocturnal wanderings of
Kate Bush and the heartfelt prayers of Cat Power. Natasha composes
songs that rise out of a dark, heartbreak wilderness and take you on a
journey in to the light. Taking influence from 70’s film soundtracks,
weather phenomena, childhood Halloween parties and a David Lynchian
vision of suburbia, they occupy the tenebrous space between innocence
and a loss of innocence and come straight from the storyteller’s heart.

Tonight she plays material from her critically acclaimed debut album
Fur and Gold with a live set as she delivers majestic vocal howls,
whispers and hiccups to a backdrop of soaring strings, esoteric folk
instruments, distorted guitar, bass rumbles and thunder-clap drums.
There are also interludes of exquisite heartbreak ? the piano ballad
?Sad Eyes? has on more than one occasion left audience members in tears.

?a neverending story of fantastic dreams and heartbreaking reality? the
chapters unfold with a sense of wonder and slow, powerfully evoked drama?
Bat For Lashes inhabit a magical kingdom you won?t want to leave? 5/5 The Guardian

?Bat For Lashes has clearly and equivocally her own voice? entrancing. One
of the year?s most exciting debuts? Music Week

?reinvent Siouxsie/Kate Bush/Bjork mystical sex, musical travelogue and
poetic dreamstate for the contemporary singer-songwriter milieu. The results
are nothing short of breathtaking? 4/5 Observer Music Monthly

?gentility laced with exotic-eccentricity? genuinely affecting? Mojo

?the imagery is uncompromisingly disturbing and anti-arcadian? one of the
most stupendous, haunting debuts in ages? Sunday Times

?a fine way with arcane drama? an astonishing debut? 9/10 Rocksound

?Khan manages to come across as earthy and funny as well as ethereal and
lovelorn, and this impressive record?s animal magnetism strengthens with
every play? The Observer

“an album so laden with mystic portents and pagan symbolism it could have
been used as the soundtrack to the remake of The Wicker Man… an intriguing
palette of sonic strategies on the cusp between folk and the avant-garde”
4/5 The Independent

?there?s something unique on this debut. Her voice floats over electronics,
handclaps, piano and autoharp, while her mystically-shaped lyrics feature
weeping seals and ghostly horses? otherworldly? Q

?feels like stepping into a magical world? remarkable songs? Daily Telegraph

?casts a rich sonic spell, mixing one part distilled desire to one part each
of Hanner house of autoharp, cob-webbed piano, mytical electronics? it just
about transports you? Independent Information

?Tim Burton flavoured chamber-pop? Sunday Telegraph

?a divinely phantasmagoric affair packed with elemental images both
beauteous and beastly? to listen to Bat For Lashes is to be pulled into some
exotic otherworld ? a place sometimes dark and disturbing, at others sweetly
exultant. Expect magic? Time Out

PLUS SPECIAL GUESTS

JAMES YORKSTON and The Athletes

Tuesday 12 September with ABSENTEE, FIONN REGAN
Wednesday 13 September with FIONN REGAN
Doors 7.30pm

The Borderline, Orange Yard, Manette Street, London, W1 020 7734 5547
www.meanfiddler.com

Tickets ?10.50 www.ticketweb.co.uk Tel: 08700 600 100 www.seetickets.com 08701 201 149 and Rough Trade, Covent Garden, London Tel: 0207 240 0105l

www.jamesyorkston.co.uk
www.dominorecordco.com
www.absenteemusic.co.uk
www.fionnregan.com
www.myspace.com/fionnregan

JAMES YORKSTON is a singer / songwriter in the best folksy tradition,
weaving together a seemingly effortless mix of sweet melodies, haunting
lyrics, irrelevant humour and the odd blast of harmonica. Tonight sees
James play a full band show to promote his brand new album ‘The Year Of
The Leopard’ was produced by former Talk Talk member Paul Webb
and out on Domino Records in late September.

“Yorkston entrances and beguiles – finger-picked guitar, accordion,
mandolin, whistles, pipes and sampled sounds all build into a
breath-on-glass blur of love and swoon.” (Mojo)

ABSENTEE play a live set that sees them mix poignant Smog like melodies
with Bonnie Prince Billy’s quirkyness with the gnarled drawl of
say Tom Waits. Absentee have songs better than either of their
mope-rock peers have written in years, being friends with The Magic
Numbers….

“these songs make each hair on the back of the neck shiver like leaves in the wind.” Five Stars NME

“fabulous songs, streaked through with dark humour and drunken
warmth…perhaps the best of the new London hopefuls”. Record Collector

“wonderful, sordidly warm alt rok” Rocksound

Dublin born FIONN REGAN is an extraordinarily talented young artist
perhaps destined to be regarded as one of most unique voices of his
generation. A few listens to his debut album The End of History out
August 7th on Bella Union should be enough to affirm this proclamation,
for he has mapped out an artistic vision that is distinctly his own.
Anyone who hears this record or has witnessed one of Fionn’s
impassioned live performances will know that he is a truly magical
presence and a vocal talent with incredible versatility and range.

“A beguiling amalgam of Jackson C. Frank, Paul Simon and Mark
Kozalek… fluid finger-picked cadences… outrageously melodic… and
startling maturity and originality.” MOJO 4/4

PEACHES and band
HERMS
plus special guests and djs

Friday 13 October
Doors 7pm

Kentish Town Forum
9-17 Highgate Road, Kentish Town, London, NW5 1JY Tel: 020 7284 1001
www.meanfiddler.com

Tickets ?14 from www.seetickets.com 0870 060 3777 and www.gigsandtours.com

www.peachesrocks.com
www.xlrecordings.com/peaches
www.myspace.com/peaches

PEACHES is a phenomena; the self-made, self-produced,
do-it-yourself leader of the electro punk movement and master of the
original dirty lyrical classic (check ?Fuck The Pain Away? and ?Shake
Yer Dix? for confirmation). Unique with her minimal pumping beats and
loved by true innovators as diverse as Deborah Harry, Iggy Pop, Bjork,
Josh Homme, Lil Kim, Kelis, 2 Many DJs, M.I.A. and LCD Soundsystem not
to mention the entire fashion and art world. Her live shows are
legendary – a one-woman Kiss concert that has left the pop world in awe!

Tonight Peaches promotes her recent release on XL ‘Impeach my Bush’, a
massive record, with a live set featuring for the first time in London
a full live all-girl onslaught featuring Samantha Maloney (Hole,
Courtney Love band, Motley Crue, Eagles of Death Metal) ex-Courtney
Love guitarist Radio Sloan and JD Samson from Le Tigre on keytar and
sequencing.

Peaches has sharpened her raw, minimal sound; subsonic bass, snappy
beats, electronic hiccups, 10 Marshall-stacked AC/DC riffs into a
devastating hunting weapon… a near perfect distillation of Peaches
“thing” which is as vital as ever, motherfucker. -NME

HERMS support

PLUS special guests and djs

Eat Your Own Ears and Mystery Jets present

‘What Colour Is Sound’ a tribute to Syd Barrett

MYSTERY JETS

TELEVISION PERSONALITIES DANIEL TREACY

KID HARPOON

LUPEN CROOK

MICK ROCK

plus VERY special guests

Monday 18th September

Doors 7pm

The Union Chapel, Compton Terrace, London N1 2UN 020 7226 1686
www.unionchapel.org.uk

Tickets ?10.50 from: www.ticketweb.co.uk Tel: 08700 600 100 www.seetickets.com 0870 060 3777 and www.wegottickets.com

www.mysteryjets.com www.kidharpoon.com www.televisionpersonalities.net www.mickrock.com

Syd Barrett, undeniable genius and founder of rock legends Pink Floyd,
passed away on Friday July 7th of complications related to diabetes. It
is with great sadness as he was an inspiration to many people.

‘What Colour Is Sound’ is a tribute to Syd by some of those who have
found him a great inspiration on their music and life with all profit
going to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. www.jdrf.org

Perhaps the ultimate Mystery Jets hero is Syd Barrett, whose Mick Rock
portrait hangs in their boat yard rehearsal studio, ringed by a
lifebelt… ‘He embodies an attitude that we feel kinship with… that
kind of innocence…” Tonight they play an acoustic set of their
favourite Syd Barrett songs as well as some of their own that have been
influenced by Syd.

“Hearing “piper at the gates…” for the first time wasnt like a
drug trip (i was 9) or even necessarily a mind expanding experience. It
was like a warm hand being laid on your shoulder while the other one
pointed to a whole new world, one which was as imaginative as it was
non-sensical. Almost like peter pan taking wendy by the hand and
showing her a crow’s eye view over london. I feel like Syd could have
turned his hand to almost anything, i am just immensely gratefull that
he chose music. Watching him playing the guitar is much like quietly
observing a child building a castle made from sand. Sliding his fingers
up the neck almost as if discovering the placement of the notes for the
first time. His lyrics were like those of someone looking through a
kaleidoscope, reciting what he saw before him with quiet amazement.” Blain of Mystery Jets.

One of the most influential british pop bands of the postpunk era TELEVISION PERSONALITIES’S DANIEL TREACY delivers a strong collection of crisp tracks with withering observations, laced with humour and cut with flair.

Hotly tipped singer songwriter

KID HARPOON delivers a set of catchy youthful
storytelling taking Leonard Cohen, Billy Bragg and of course Syd
Barrett as an influence on his songs.

LUPEN CROOK plays a live set of mangled music hall and
acid-folk thats playful and melodic, think a mix of an addled Syd
Barrett, the original punk-poet, Patrik Fitzgerald and Beck. It’s
earthy, fresh and honest.
Photographer and friend of Syd,

MICK ROCK will compare the evening and tell some memories and stories.

Plus VERY special guests 

BAT FOR LASHES
plus special guests

Tuesday 12 September

The Spitz
109 Commercial st, Old Spitalfields Market, London E1 6BG 020 7392 9032
www.spitz.co.uk

www.batforlashes.co.uk
http://myspace.com/batforlashes

Tickets ?7.50 from: www.ticketweb.co.uk Tel: 08700 600 100 www.seetickets.com 0870 060 3777 and Rough Trade, Covent Garden, London Tel: 0207 240 0105l  

?like Bjork stranded on a stormy moor, the debut single from Brighton?s Natasha Khan is both beautiful and haunting? NME

BAT FOR LASHES create an intimate, cinematic world,
reminiscent of the nocturnal wanderings of Kate Bush and the heartfelt
prayers of Cat Power. Natasha composes songs that rise out of a dark,
heartbreak wilderness and take you on a journey in to the light. Taking
influence from 70’s film soundtracks, weather phenomena, childhood
Halloween parties and a David Lynchian vision of suburbia, they occupy
the tenebrous space between innocence and a loss of innocence and come
straight from the storyteller’s heart.

Tonight she launches her debut album Fur and Gold with a live set as
she delivers majestic vocal howls, whispers and hiccups to a backdrop
of soaring strings, esoteric folk instruments, distorted guitar, bass
rumbles and thunder-clap drums. There are also interludes of exquisite
heartbreak ? the piano ballad ?Sad Eyes? has on more than one occasion
left audience members in tears.

?the imagery is uncompromisingly disturbing and anti-arcadian ? one of
the most stupendous, haunting debuts in ages? Sunday Times

?It?s wild swans calling and emerald slippers pattering, mystery and
mysticism and bad weather. It?s storytelling, fantasy and the desire
for discovery, creation and procreation. It?s the thunderstorm when
Heathcliff returns to Wuthering Heights, or the tornado that whisks off
Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz? and her voice, like rain on your heart?
Plan B Magazine

?Khan has a mystical magic that?s distinctly her own? The Observer

 ?promisingly original ? conveys every bit of the spine-tingling sinister uniqueness of Never For Ever-period Kate Bush?
delicately malevolent? a burgeoning talent? Metro

?Khan manages to put this indescribable feeling of dreams and
nightmares, and of her religious upbringing in suburbia, into a context
which can relate a genuine depth of emotion ? impressive? The Fly

?wizards and wolves, whispers and thunder ? Natasha Khan traverses
magical realms, peeking around dark corners and leading us into
beautifully spooky territory ? this enchanting songstress is perfectly
poised to step into the light? Flux

?simply oozes star quality … Khan creates her own world and sucks you
in. Bat For Lashes walk that line between commercial and ethereal.
Their music is monumental? launch.com

?levitating beautifully at the exact fulcrum of the Bjork-Talk
Talk-Antony & the Johnsons triangle? utterly enchanting? playlouder

?unquestionably unique? Make no mistake: Bat For Lashes will take you somewhere else? Dummy

PLUS SPECIAL GUESTS