The folk wot grace & invade our lives Social awkwardness Jeff LeVine comics Kandinsky Searching for real Pop bursting with fruity goodness American Splendor Pretending not to be geeks when we may as well just admit we are 80s hand drawn album sleeves Wile E Coyote for his persistance Trios of legend (3 amigos, 3 stooges, 3 kings, 3 blind mice, 3 is the magic number etc). The Starries The Carpenters Fugazi Primitives Soeza Thingy Stapleton Mew Dinosaur Jr Jetplane Landing No Fun At All Panda Love Unit Sugar Minus The Bear Nation Of Ulysees Rival Schools Husker Du Socratic The Hidden Cameras Delgados
3 cheery bears drizzling melodic honey onto hot buttered alterno-rawk.
The trio met in a boozer to change the way things are done. Now they're doing it.
Shana Tova are pop purveyors boasting more hooks than a Peter Pan convention and more catchy than a Velcro Virus!
Robot Vs Dinosaur returns to Island Bar on Friday July 18th, with a free-entry event!
We'll be DJing laptoptronica, indietronica, breakcore, drill 'n' bass, chipcore, abstract techno and other made-up genres from the likes of Aphex twin, Autechre, Battles, Boards of Canada, The Books, Broadcast, Cylob, The Flashbulb, Four Tet, Germlin, Holy Fuck, Hood, Kid 606, Matmos, Max Tundra, Mouse on Mars, the Postal Service, Prefuse 73, Squarepusher, Stereolab, Amon Tobin, Tortoise, Venetian Snares, Luke Vibert, Susumu Yokota and many more.
Doors open at 8:30, with a free badge on entry! Huge cocktail selection available! Dress code: robot or dinosaur! Please visit http://www. robotvsdinosaur. co. uk for more info.
Toby Godshank plays Birmingham! Toby Goodshank made his high-profile debut playing acoustic guitar in The Moldy Peaches whose presence is all over the Juno Motion Picture Soundtrack. (No.1 in the Billboard Charts.)
Get your arses down to RvD on Fri! No excuses for you this time, Qwills..!
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Robot Vs Dinosaur returns to Island Bar on Friday 20th June, with live electronic madness from Portmanteau and Arc Vel, plus DJs playing our usual brain-bothering selection...
£3 entry, or just £1 if dressed as a robot or dinosaur! Check out our lovely new website at http://www. robotvsdinosaur. co. uk for more info.
...will hopefully see you at the Yardbird tomorrow, anyway... Laters Seb RvD
Easily one of the most important bands of our times (and we don't say that lightly), Stars of the Lid are the highpoint of the ambient genre. Their influence on the music that really matters over the last decade has been huge, and we're incredibly honoured to be hosting them again in Leeds. This gig will be very very different, and very very special. Stars of the Lid have excelled at designing subtle, minimalist epics which sound like they're being played on a single multifaceted organic instrument. A wise man once described SOTL as "divine classical drones without the tedious intrusion of drums, or vocals. "
The Declining Winter is the musical project of Richard Vincent Adams of Leeds UK, the co-founder of the continuing group Hood and a full time stricken office worker. What does it sound like? Richard says "cassette tapes spilling out of the glovebox of a 1970's Datsun Sunny somewhere in the north of England, captured on Super 8 film". He's not far off. Live he is joined by a few more people to bring the beautiful pastoral feel to life. Wonderful stuff.
TOMORROW NIGHT >> @ ISLAND BAR, BIRMINGHAM! Come join the SCC club night party – we’re gonna bring you some all 3-Piece Kung Fu action with Oxfords Pop-Punk Messiahs THE YOUNG PLAYTHINGS (Smalltown America Records) // we’ve also got you Brum’s very own Mutant-Grunge Post-Punkers SABOTAGE LEFT // and rising Alternative DisChord Wizards SHANA TOVA // £3 ENTRY 8.
Golden Diskó Ship combines a mass of instruments and found objects (guitars, viola, glockenspiel, sticky tape, compact disc cases, toys…) together with perfectly crafted laptop electronica to form a world of beautiful, original and individual music - “…dreamy, experimental folk electronica that sounds like walking on the beach with the sun in your eyes."
The Declining Winter is the musical project of Richard Vincent Adams of Leeds UK, the co-founder of the continuing group Hood and a full time stricken office worker. What does it sound like? Richard says "cassette tapes spilling out of the glovebox of a 1970's Datsun Sunny somewhere in the north of England, captured on Super 8 film". He's not far off. Live he is joined by a few more people to bring the beautiful pastoral feel to life. Wonderful stuff.
Hands and Fingers makes minimally gorgeous cerebral music. He mixes samples, acoustic guitars, glockenspiel and ambient atmospheres with drum breaks that have been described as "Tortoise having a fight with Four Tet in the dark, with John Bonham trying to split them up". It's ace. Very ace.
A Forest of Sound presentation. It’s £4 on the door, doors are 8pm.
<KateGoes To The Teen Age; + Voluntary Butler Scheme, Tokyo Storm Warning + The Dead Fish
with records being played by Grandmaster Gareth and Teenage Projections from FilmFicciones.
THURSDAY 3rd APRIL
at the HARE AND HOUNDS BIRMINGHAM Kings Heath High Street, B14 7JZ
8pm - midnight £4adv/£5 door
Dress up as a teenager from any era. punks, hippies, teddy boys, goths, ravers, mods, rockers, bugsy malone, frenchie, the fonz, 80's kids, bboys, harry potter, any teenager etc
Best Costume wins a NEW KateGoes CD "Happy Dancing" exclusively available at FOPP music stores.
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