Underachievers Please Try Harder
www.myspace.com/underachieverstrying...having a break for a bit. See you next year. Next year is already shaping up really well indeed! Exciting stuff...Mood: relaxed
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Underachievers Please Try Harder
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- Last Login: 12/21/2009
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General
Bi-monthly 2 floor extravaganza at Saki Bar every 2nd and last Saturday of the month. Many special guests downstairs whilst we are upstairs- bands/ artists/ guest DJs. It's £3 in with a flyer or before 11.30pm, £4 after or without flyer for both floors, and you can go between the two as you please! There's also great Saki drink offers like £2.80 doubles!Music
Belle & Sebastian, Magnetic Fields, Camera Obscura, Wolf Parade, The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, Jeffrey Lewis, Pavement, Arcade Fire, The Smiths, Sonic Youth, Jens Lekman, Pulp, The Shins, Pixies, Neutral Milk Hotel, British Sea Power, The B-52's, Animal Collective, Suede, Blondie, Gang of Four, The Vaselines, Silver Jews, early REM, Deerhunter, PJ Harvey, Interpol, Felt, Le Tigre, The Fall, Low, Talking Heads, Fleetwood Mac, The Beatles, The National, Dexys Midnight Runners, The Replacements, No Age, Guided By Voices, The Pastels, The Cure, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Idlewild, Patti Smith, Neil Young, The Ramones, Hole, Grandaddy, Flaming Lips, David Bowie, Why?, Cut Copy, Bishop Allen, Orange Juice, The Thermals, Modest Mouse, Cocteau Twins, Echo & The Bunnymen, Television, Kate Bush, Nick Cave, The Velvet Underground, Love, Asobi Seksu, Dan Deacon, Radiohead, Yo La Tengo, Super Furry Animals, Herman Dune, TV on the Radio, Kenickie, The Modern Lovers, Vivian Girls, Dinosaur Jr, The Chameleons, L7, Weezer, Bikini Kill, Lloyd Cole & the Commotions, Bjork, Los Campesinos!, Bearsuit, Wilco, Daniel Johnston, Mew, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Suburban Kids With Biblical Names, The Notwist, The Radio Dept., Stars, Big Star, Eels, Midlake, Chad VanGaalen, The Lovely Eggs, Arab Strap, Scott Walker.
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- Status: Single
- Zodiac Sign: Libra
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About me:
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From the outset, the principle aim of Underachievers was to do things differently. We set out with no ambition larger than having an open party for like-minded indie/ alternate music lovers. Dubbed 'the best kept secret in Manchester' (myvillage.com) the night became a cult for music lovers tired of the notion that non-mainstream music made you pretentious or elitist. It could be amazingly fun, and anyone that witnessed an early days dance-off saw that we achieved this! The main strength of the night has always been the playlist and that chance to hear something you might not anywhere else.
In unlikely circumstances, the night outgrew it's first home and moved to Saki Bar, Rusholme (at the start of the curry mile). It now takes up both floors of this venue twice a month. The DJs matured and evolved with the night. 1 year old in April 2009, the night is now at the epicentre of Manchester's DIY music community. Upstairs we hold legendary indie disco's where 'requests are treated as a challenge' (PYT). Downstairs, we use to showcase the talented people of Manchester. We call it an open forum for the creative people of Manchester and host bands, guest DJs and pretty much anything we think we can get away with!
It has been noted in press such as the MEN that Underachievers has fast become 'the best place to discover the best new bands of Manchester.' We like to work with raw, original talent and give them a crowd. The band's seem to find this a refreshing alternative to the lazy line-ups and promotional demands of many long established live music venues. Most of the bands can also be regularly seen ripping it up on the Underachievers dancefloor upstairs afterwards!
As much as the night has evolved, the night has never lost what made it special in the first place. Everybody is welcome and downstairs with the open forum, anyone can be involved. Just drop us a line and we'll see what we can do. There are no ego's. We will never be anywhere near as important as the wonderful music we play, or the band's we host.
We also like dogs alot. 'Dogs are outstanding.'
Who I'd like to meet:
Friend Space (Top 25)
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Dave
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Gaz
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J.Mitch
Joe Mitchell
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Kirsty...
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Jenny
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SAKI BAR
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katie
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Deaf To Van Gogh’s Ear
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Gary
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Help Stamp Out Loneline…
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The Lovely Eggs
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Beat The Radar - Album …
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The Cavalcade
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Uranium Lake
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Young British Artists
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Pull Yourself Together
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Bear Driver
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football
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PLANK!
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Asparagus
Asparagus Next Left
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Cherryade
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Mushaboom
Phill Mushaboom
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All My Heroes Are Weird…
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Panda! Panda!
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Plastic Zoo
Plastic Zoo Plastic Zoo
Comments
Dec 16 2009 10:23 AM
Dec 13 2009 9:14 AM
Dec 4 2009 12:57 PM
Nov 24 2009 10:30 PM
Nov 1 2009 5:41 PM
"Prepare yourself to be modestly outraged - McCabe is kicking against the pricks, and declaring homosexual cliche's bankrupt" - Artrocker
"If you like punk, you'll love this. If you're queer and like punk, you'll spunk your pants. Ste McCabe is authentic and brilliant." - Boy George
Buy it here - http://www.cherryademusic.co.uk/buymm.html
Love Ste x
Oct 30 2009 6:02 PM
Oct 2 2009 8:07 PM
Sep 20 2009 9:36 AM
We're just making sure that everyone knows that our debut album 'Horses For Courses' is available to buy from our little record label's online shop:
http://www.donttellclare.co.uk/shop.htm
Its been selling faster than we expected, and we currently only have around a quarter of our stock left - so we thought we'd better you all know that if you want a copy then now would be a good time to pick one up! If you buy it from the link above then you're buying it direct from us, the label aren't taking a cut - so its a bit like Fair Trade for struggling musicians.
International mail-order is available, just follow the instructions.
Thank you very much, and sorry for making a mess of your profile. If its any kind of consolation, we don't have a MySpace bot, so I'm leaving these comments the old fashioned way. Three -and-a-half thousand of them. My life is so exciting.
Lots of love
Das Wanderlust
xxx
Sep 18 2009 7:50 AM
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Jul 24 2009 2:38 PM
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Jun 20 2009 12:50 PM
Jun 18 2009 1:42 AM
EP Launch Night 8pm Friday June 26
Fuel Cafe, Withington, Manchester
featuring: Amida + The Shrieking Violets + Monster Island
May 28 2009 9:07 AM
NLF3's music has been described as "a kitsch This Heat" by The Wire, and compared for its rhythms to a 2009 version of the Ege Bamayasi-era of Can. The Guardian even spoke of them as "a Radiohead seduced by the idea of live improvisation". The members of NLF3 - F.lor, Mitch and Don Nino - name influences as varied as Pierre Henry, Fela Kuti, Steve Reich, Ennio Moricone, as well as Syd Barrett, Zappa, Fantomas, Aphex Twin, and Sonic Youth. Strange gurus indeed, for a music that, after all these comparisons, still sounds unique. NLF3 is the story of three music lovers – two brothers in blood and a third in spirit – united by the same passion: to make music, record it and take it all around the world. In that regard, their kinship with Battles and Animal Collective, with whom they have toured, seems perfectly natural - they all belong to the same generation of musicians and have the same desire to discover new territory, to explore new possibilities and to bring together past and future. It comes as no surprise either that the brothers F.lor and Don have lived in Germany as well as the US, and have spent some time in Nigeria where their father introduced them to the great Fela Kuti and others like the sculptor Twin Seven Seven. www.myspace.com/nlf3
May 12 2009 9:20 PM
May 12 2009 12:32 PM
TICKETS
Buy tickets online from any of our three online vendors
Tickets are priced at:
Full Weekend Wristband £19.50 adv
Single Day Tickets £10.00 adv
CLICK HERE TO BUY FROM TICKETLINE
CLICK HERE TO BUY FROM SEETICKETS
CLICK HERE TO BUY FROM WEGOTTICKETS
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
**** CHECK THE MYSPACE BLOG FOR FULL MUSIC AND ARTS LISTINGS ****
May 7 2009 2:09 PM
May 5 2009 10:08 PM
Thanks for finding us on MySpace!
Be sure to check out some tunes.
best wishes,
Ben
May 5 2009 1:10 PM
Did you get a chance to listen to our music yet?
Either way, much love from your favourite Norwegian dude, Kris :D
May 2 2009 11:53 AM
Please note Wulf Wulf are no longer playing, Cryptic Salve Band and Samuel Sharp have stepped up to the plate!
May 1 2009 9:01 PM
Apr 27 2009 3:39 PM
Wednesday May 6th @ Cafe Saki
Bishop Allen
"If Modest Mouse spent a year in a Chuck E Cheese ball pit, they might emerge sounding like the delightful Brooklyn quartet Bishop Allen." (Rolling Stone)
Married To The Sea
Taking influence from The Weakerthans, Ted Leo and Death Cab to name but three, there’s a healthy pop sensibility to MTTS’ intelligent brand of indie-pop (The Fly)
Amida
Manchester's own jangle pop extraordinaires.
tickets from
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/45897
facebook
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=99236045545&ref=nf