THE RESEARCH
THE SHORTWAVE SET
DARTZ!
plus special guests

Tuesday 6th June
Doors 7.30pm

Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Road, London W6 020 8222  6955
www.theresearchgopop.com  
www.theshortwaveset.com

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

THE RESEARCH a three piece from Wakefield with a gift
for sunshine melodies play a tight live set of art-rock-pop as they mix
minimalist guitars, punchy bass lines, swelling keyboards and pounding
rhythms… Marrying memorable choruses with fuzzy casio keyboard riffs
they have created a distinctive woozy sound that works as an eminently
recognisable backdrop to their tales of love, both lost and gained.
Imagine the emotional witterings of David Gedge or Darren Hayman but
sitting over rumbling basslines and shambolic electro rhythms and you
get the tear stained picture. The trick though is that whilst the
lyrics veer from the deliriously happy to, more often, lower lip
wobblingly sad, the music is almost uniformly upbeat and positive.

THE SHORTWAVE SET play a glorious live set cherry
picking old half-remembered psychedelic samples, cut up beats and
soulful vocals that alternates between the playful and pleading… Its a bit like The Avalanches taking a nap under a tree made entirely of St. Etienne records!!

“Crafted from a Powerbook and an Alpine range of charity shop
vinyl, The Shortwave Set play a treasure trove of fuzzy psychedelia,
jerry-built pop and seemingly limitless good vibrations” The Independent
“Rich and Inventive… resembling a 1960’s harmony group such as rthe Fith Dimension produced by Dj Shadow…” The Times
“Jaunty and uplifting is the best way to describe the eccentric 60?s sounding grooves” XFM

DARTZ! are part of the north yorkshire indie rock
scene. they’ve been on tours with the likes of iforward russia!, the
cribs, editors, help! she cant swim and melt banana. They rank in the
top 100 uk bands on myspace.com with 30,000 listens since their first
demo went online in may 2005. Tonight they play a live set of of
art-rock-punk with swirling guitars and raw basslines.

ABSENTEE
BAXTER DURY

SUNNY DAY SETS FIRE

tonight Monday 15 May

Doors 7.30pm

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

www.absenteemusic.co.uk
www.sunnydaysetsfire.com

Tickets 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

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”

BAXTER DURY the son of the late great Ian Dury makes
music that sounds like the Velvet Underground at a New Orleans mardi
gras.. Wurlitzer’s spin beneath mirror balls, guitars float like
ectoplasm and songs hop along on a flurry of tin can rhythms…

SUNNY DAY SETS FIRE a London based 3 piece are already
being hounded by the majors, as they promote their debut release which
is overflowing with twisted pop charms, dripping with classic
influences – Mercury Rev, Beach Boys, 60’s psych, Flaming Lips..

VETIVER
HUSH THE MANY
DROWSY
JEREMY WARMSLEY

Wednesday 10th May
Doors 7.30pm

93 Feet East, 150 Brick Lane, London EC1 Tel 020 7372 8668

Tickets ?10 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

www.vetiverse.com www.hushthemany.com http://fat-cat.co.uk www.jeremywarmsley.com

San Francisco band and part of the Devendra Banhart clan VETIVER
deliver a live set that gracefully navigates the choppy waters of folk
and pop as it blends shimmering melodies and intimate songs with the
jumpiness of old Cajun music with gentle vocals matched against
finger-picking acoustic guitar duets, a tasteful hint of slide guitar
and minimalist drumming, and simple, sturdy cello lines from Alissa
Anderson.

?Like the tall, narrow grass that is its namesake, Vetiver is fragile
sounding but strong, densely layered with melody, texture, and rhythm
yet uncluttered.? Andy Cabic’s wistful tones at times remind one of
Nick Drake, Neil Young hobo folk, and even Cat Stevens as they meander
along the dusty road of Americana.” Guardian

HUSH THE MANY deliver an incredibly diverse and lyrically penetrating
array of songs, from the “exquisitely fragile and delicately balanced’
to the ‘sublimely unhinged’. Powerful vocal interplays, expansive
guitars, and seductive cello place Hush The Many in their own untapped
and potent world of innovative music and songwriting.a quartet who
operate in that fabled half lit world that exists between classically
lined soft psychedaelia and the stranger more enticing and timeless
elements of English folk…

Finnish singer-songwriter DROWSY plays a set of warm, witty, intimate
and deeply charming songs that should see him recognised as a
contemporary of the likes of adem, king creosote and iron and wine.

Folk-electronica extraordinaire JEREMY WARMSLEY plays a live set that
sees him deliver songs that conjure up a layer of mystery and
romanticism and makes you think of the classic songs of years gone by
recorded by badly drawn boy and produced by boards of canada. 

MY LATEST NOVEL play Cargo on Monday May 15th

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

Doors
7pm-1am

Tickets ONLY ?5 and available from www.cantaloupegroup.co.uk/shop
www.ticketweb.co.uk

www.mylatestnovel.com

My Latest Novel?s stunning debut album – ?Wolves? ? was released last month to great critical acclaim?

?takes the moody experimental rock of Mogwai and gives it the
orchestral scope of the songs on Sufjan Stevens? Illinoise? The
Inverclyde Arcade Fire have made an auspicious start.?

WORD magazine

?More than just the new Arcade Fire? it rewards multiple visits?

NME ? 9/10

?An eerily beautiful set steeped in folkish melancholy and bucolic
dreaminess. Taking notes from Chemikal Underground?s golden years, it?s
an accomplished, beguiling effort that?s worth keeping on repeat.?
OMM ? 4 Stars ****

SILVER JEWS
plus special guests chosen by the band

Saturday July 15th
Doors 6pm
 
Mean Fiddler, 165 Charing Cross Road, London, WC2 0EN
Tel: 020 7434 9592 www.meanfiddler.com

www.silverjews.net
www.dragcity.com

Tickets ?16 advance from www.ticketweb.co.uk Tel: 08700 600 100 www.seetickets.com Tel: 0870 060 3777 and Rough Trade, Covent Garden, London Tel: 0207 240 0105

After selling out two dates at the Scala in April skewed rock idols SILVER JEWS will play their 3rd ever London show at the Mean Fiddler on Saturday July 15th.

Mainstay Berman, (who founded Silver Jews with Pavement’s Stephen
Malkmus and Bob Nastanovich in 1990), has promised a live extravaganza
in the wake of last year’s excellent Tanglewood Numbers album (the
band’s sixth ? it featured ‘honorary Jews’ Will Oldham, Lambchop’s Tony
Crow and ex-member Malkmus amongst others). As one might expect from
the self-proclaimed ‘dumbfounding psyche-theistic humanist
hawk-rockers’, this will be no everyday gig?

“The Scala show was… Utterly thrilling: a 17-song set that ranged
blissfully across the entire back catalogue, punctuated with engaging
banter from the frontman and, in honour of old times perhaps, a dirty
joke. It was practically a blueprint for live shows; anyone would have
thought Berman had been at this for years.” 4/5 The Guardian

Plus special guests chosen by the band

TUNNG
SOL SEPPY
plus special guests

Wednesday 3rd May
Doors 7.30pm

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

TUNNG play a mesmerising mix of folky acoustics and
busy electronica, overlaying electronic crackles, gorgeous harmonies,
bewitching mantras and synthetic beats that are reminiscent of early
Beta Band, ‘The Wicker Man’ soundtrack and Four Tet.

“The vocals… float across a tapestry of acoustic sounds and burbling
electronica… There’s a hint of what we might call the “old, weird
England” of Powell and Pressburger, or Robert Wyatt, the static
electricity of crystal radio sets.” The Guardian

New York based and former Sparklehorse collaborator SOL SEPPY delivers
the most enchanting and bewitching live set of alluring vocals, catchy
guitar riffs to form a sound that swoops from the celestial to the
downright grungy, inhabiting a space between Hope Sandoval and
Bjork.