Dirty Fakirs are back....
After a break from the gigging scene, the Fakirs are back with a new line-up... a new sound.. a bigger sound... a better sound!!
Still heavily influenced by Rock, funk, jazz, blues, dance and soul, the Dirty Fakirs have finally mastered the sound they have been searching for since forming a few years ago.
Keep you eyes open for the DF in a town near you... your guaranteed a great night...
Just thought i'd drop by and let you know our debut album "Swings & Roundabouts" is out now. CD's can be ordered directly from our myspace using the PayPal button, Also the album is available for digital download on all the major stores including iTunes, Play.com and amazon.com.
You can have a listen to some of the tracks on myspace as well, we'd love to know what you think. As i didn't want to spam your page too much with html, jpeg's, and links, all the information is on ours so pop over and check us out.
LAST EVER GIG AT THE ROYAL OAK AS IT IS SHUTTING DOWN!!! Stacked Promotions Battle of the Bands 2009 Heat 2 at the Royal Oak 20th June. Come vote for you favorite band or just come for a good time. The third heat 3rd July and 25th July final will be held at the YMCA Halifax and its bring your own booze.
"the Brownies could be Xerox Girls' attitudinal, imperiously cool nieces and nephews. Brilliantly out of step with current modish indie trends, full of heart-in-mouth moments and a hatred so finely tuned it's almost sexy, Means To An End is a handstand, a cartwheel and a kick in the nuts and it demands your immediate surrender." - THE GUARDIAN SINGLE OF THE WEEK
This is a huge scoop for us and definitely a gig not to be missed!!
Support for the evening comes from Anola Gray and I Saved Latin. Two of the areas finest up and coming bands.
We've got a fantastic line up for April, with three great bands including Wintermute who are probably just about the hottest live act in Leeds at the moment and surely destined for very big things this year.
Wintermute: New Big Scary Monsters signings Wintermute are making preparations for the release of their debut album 'Robot Works' (due out on 27th April, produced by James Kenosha). Having gone up and down the country four times playing their high-energy, intensely passionate, but strangely catchy take on math-pop and twice played at the legendary Leeds Festival, this Leeds-based four-piece are turning into a techy, but poppy, force to be reckoned with.
'A curious combo of At The Drive-In and Interpol, splashed with a bit of Foals-ian mathletics, tight and adventurous, Wintermute are cool.' NME
The ABC Club: Shoegaze guitars and ethereal vocals are a well proven combination, and The ABC Club don't put a step wrong to disprove this. Having played at Leeds Festival in 2007 the band are racking up performances supporting bands such as iForwardRussia!, Grammatics, Glasvegas and Make Model.
Minus Jack: Fantastic melodic guitar pop from one of Bradford's most up and coming new bands.
Friday April 3rd
Royal Oak, Clare Road, Halifax - 8. 30 to 2pm
Reg Carlo and the Squid taking us through till 2
£5/4 (frequent doggers)
THE WITCHES + Leni Ward + The Latter Day Saints
THE WITCHES
"THE WITCHES formed late 2007 and have been described as one of Manchester’s most interesting and avant-garde bands right now. The spirit of grunge and garage is turned into a deviant cocktail of sawn off sonics and musical trickery, whipping up a sonically charged garage-glam spell on every ear. Currently recording their debut Grimoire with Nine Black Alps Guitarist David Jones, The Witches, just on their value of sound alone, have created something truly unique.
Leni Ward set up her own home studio and recorded "Body". She is the sole composer, performer, producer and recording engineer. Mastered by Tim Debney (Thom Yorke, Low, British Sea Power, Lily Allen), Body was released on British independent label Tunica Adventitia Records.
Beginning life as a cathartic exercise, in an attempt to rid herself of the traumas experienced during a prolonged childhood illness during which time she was put on experimental drugs trials, Body quickly expanded to cover a wide range of topics, from mortality to philosophy.
The album combines electronic and traditional instrumentation. Leni has quickly gained fans in England and beyond. Songs from the record were soon played on BBC 6Music and other national, local and internet radio as well as national television.
The Latter Day Saints are a four piece Halifax based band. The band consists of Arron on vocals and rhythm guitar, Stu on the drums, Boo playing lead guitar and John on the bass guitar. We are primarily an indie rock band but are influenced by all types of music.
Friday April 3rd
Royal Oak, Clare Road, Halifax - 8. 30 to 2pm
Reg Carlo and the Squid taking us through till 2
£5/4 (frequent doggers)
THE WITCHES + Leni Ward + The Latter Day Saints
THE WITCHES
"THE WITCHES formed late 2007 and have been described as one of Manchester’s most interesting and avant-garde bands right now. The spirit of grunge and garage is turned into a deviant cocktail of sawn off sonics and musical trickery, whipping up a sonically charged garage-glam spell on every ear. Currently recording their debut Grimoire with Nine Black Alps Guitarist David Jones, The Witches, just on their value of sound alone, have created something truly unique.
Leni Ward set up her own home studio and recorded "Body". She is the sole composer, performer, producer and recording engineer. Mastered by Tim Debney (Thom Yorke, Low, British Sea Power, Lily Allen), Body was released on British independent label Tunica Adventitia Records.
Beginning life as a cathartic exercise, in an attempt to rid herself of the traumas experienced during a prolonged childhood illness during which time she was put on experimental drugs trials, Body quickly expanded to cover a wide range of topics, from mortality to philosophy.
The album combines electronic and traditional instrumentation. Leni has quickly gained fans in England and beyond. Songs from the record were soon played on BBC 6Music and other national, local and internet radio as well as national television.
The Latter Day Saints are a four piece Halifax based band. The band consists of Arron on vocals and rhythm guitar, Stu on the drums, Boo playing lead guitar and John on the bass guitar. We are primarily an indie rock band but are influenced by all types of music.
doghouse all dayer. family friendly. this sunday 15th. arden road social club, bell hall, halifax 5 bands. full line up at www. doghouseuk. com cheap bar, home made food, free car park. kids entertainer at 4pm in separate room. £6/5 for regulars. u16 £1 u4 free
Andy Votel is internationally respected amongst djs, record collectors and producers as a champion collector of obscure psych-folk-prog-hip hop-jazz-trash-kraut-fuzz-tropicalia and funk. He is co-owner (with badly drawn boy) of Manchester based label Twisted Nerve and has remixed tracks by Ian Brown, Death in Vegas, Lamb and The Avalanches.
The evening will also feature a special live performance from Jonjo Feather. With two highly acclaimed singles under his belt on Dead Young Records and his debut album due in April, this will be his first hometown show in over a year.
Additional dj sets come from Leeds Hi-fi Club’s Boogaloo residents (latin, funk, 60's beat, ska) and Laputa’s Johnny Boy (psych, funk, freakbeat).
“God bless Andy Votel.” David Holmes
"Raspy sensuality and buzzed up distorted swagger...the beats are off kilter and original...the Leeds scene has something to cheer again, go Jonjo, go." The Daily Mirror
For Advance tickets call 01422 845265 Email boxoffice@tradesclub.info
Just thought i'd post you a little message to let you know Vinnie & The Stars second single "Spaceship Blues" released on IVOLV Digital is now available for digital download on iTunes, Play. com, Amazon. com, Napster, Deezer, and many more. The single also features two live B-sides "Dreaming" and "Spaceship Blues" recorded at the Sheffield Boardwalk supporting The Martin Harley Band.
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You can preview the tracks on our myspace player, Please check em out and let us know what you think.
Following the release of their critically acclaimed debut, Spokes are embarking on an extensive UK headline tour scheduled for November.
The grand sound of their album People Like People Like You was compared to the likes of Arcade Fire by the music undergrounds most influential press.
Spokes will be captivating audiences with material from their forthcoming second album, sharing stages with Volcano! and Mogwai along the way.
"The emotional intensity and waves of melody heard in their songs sound like they come as naturally to the band as breathing." (Drowned In Sound)
"Spokes were next and could well be my new favourite band. This 5-piece had me absorbed from the second they stepped on stage to the second they finished. With all the vigour and natural emotion of say, a temperate Broken Social Scene, their poignant waves of unassuming melody and up-tempo variation was captivating.” (Narc Magazine)
"Spokes are a five-piece outfit from Manchester who, with their debut album 'People Like People Like You', have already started tongues wagging in praise for their inevitable effect on the future of music." (Subba Cultcha)
WEBSTERS INTERIORS Websters Interiors formed in the winter of 2007. Previously to the occasion, three of the band members had tried to form a band, to no success. It was on one particular day, a thursday if I remember correctly, when the four of them began playing the way they do, for the first time. From this moment on, the talent and creativity of Websters Interiors began.
All four of the members live in halifax, and met at NHGS 6th form, although now, most of the
Just a quick update for you on the goings on of the Mostly Toast world..
The studio in The Northern Quarter is now fully up and running. We are going to open the studio up to singer songwriters every Saturday for what we are calling our "fastrack" service. It's like a drop in centre for musicians to get a song recorded, all for just £20!! Check the blog for more details....
The Mostly Acoustic gigs down at Nexus and the monthly Mostly Toast nights at The Green Windmill are going really well. We've had some amazing musicians playing some great music.
Box Kid are still in the studio but the recordings are sounding great and we're really looking forward to getting them mixed, mastered and released!!
To Sophia have already finished their recordings and have an album launch night sometime soon!! They will also be launching a new website in the very near future too!!
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