'Surprise support comes from Liverpudlian upstarts BELLS FOR RENÉ, who dance through a set of compelling and jeery garage melodies and techno twiddling. These youthful wonders wear their hearts firmly on their sleeves, and are startling, graceful and utterly exciting. They've already made mince meat of tonights headliners'
Tom Norton (Art Rocker)
'Crosswords by Bells for René, sure holds the quality of a track destined to be an anthem. The boys are sure on top form throwing in catchy guitar riffs mixed with the energy expected from one of their live shows.
This is the song that shows the character of Bells for Rene. The 'in your face' drum beat and the anarchical lyrics of a manipulated Carly Simons sent out to somebody 'You so vain, you write a song about it'.
It's not hard to imagine the reaction of a room of their energetic fans or first timers, jumping wildly around to the colourful indie-electro mash up and shouting the lyrics back.
This band are defiantly showing promise and having energy and reaction similar to bands such as The Arctic Monkeys and Operator Please, I can see them pasted all over next years sell-out festivals.'
Haltsmal Music Magazine
'A youthful looking indie band started up in the back room at Bumper with teenage fans working their way to the front. Self proclaimed “better than an elephant in a tumble dryer” Bells For Rene played a surprisingly phenomenal set knocking every other band of the night out for six. Their danceable indie-disco tunes really took the quality of the evening up a notch and had the venue captivated by their youth and such obvious talent. It is rare to get a band such of this being confident enough to chat to their audience, but these lads had no problem waxing tales of waking up with dog muck on coats and apologising for a previous show where they hadn’t played a certain song. With an evidently substation fan base already and with gigs at venues such as Manchester Academy under their belt this energetic band are ones to watch. Their catchy track “Silent Disco” is still in my head.'
Andy Clark LSMedia
THE DAILY POST:
Local boys Bells for Rene provide us with indie disco with powerful riffs, the odd synth arpeggio and plink, some nice 808 claps, a very strong lead vocal and some nice harmonies. Radio One's Huw Stevens likes these boys and you can see why. Catchy, and I would say the smallprint on the CD sums them up nicely - "somewhere between Arctic Monkeys and the Klaxons". I'd also throw in some Joy Division-esq guitar licks to boot. Floor-filler potential!
-PETER GUY
【LITTLE TOKYO schedule】 ■2009/07/05（Sun） ＠ DRAGON CLUB ■2009/07/29（Wed）＠ Zher the ZOO YOYOGI ■2009/08/11（Tue）＠ SHIMOKITAZAWA Cave Be ■2009/08/31（Mon）＠ WOMB presented by 『xxxDorothy』
CONFIRMED BANDS FOR 2009 INCLUDE... NINE BLACK ALPS KID BRITISH WAVE MACHINES MISTY’S BIG ADVENTURE THE TRAVELLING BAND TEN BEARS THE VORTEX THE MAYBES KARIMA FRANCIS THE JESSIE ROSE TRIP FRAZER KING CASIO KID GIDEON CONN THE GAY BLADES THE WHISKYCATS TEN BEARS ..... with around 200 bands over the weekend
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Hi, you know the gig you said you havn't been confirmed yet for (Sam)? i picked up a booklet on the festival today and it has you down in it playing at 8.45! hope tonights gig in Birmingham goes well. nice new profile pic too this background is better than your offical sites xx
Hey guys, good show last night. Sorry we couldn't stay longer but we was both pretty shattered. How was the last act on? Been doing that jumbling up the words thing to come up with a band name like you suggested Neil and I've come up with some pretty good ones. Look forward to seeing you guys soon.
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