Live: South Eats London, Sat 27 Oct
We are playing live with the wonderful Shimura Curves at the launch night of SOUTH EATS LONDON, “an odyssey through the happier ranges of human emotion in the form of a club night.” Here is what they have to say:
Saturday 27/10 - SOUTH EATS LONDON at The Deptford Arms, 52 Deptford High Street, SE8 4NR: Another new party to blow your neon socks off. Bands, buns, bingo and balloons! Tonight - shimmery pop wonders from Shimura Curves, Hong Kong in the 60s and Dora Brilliant. Party from 8pm-1am with the resident deck monkeys. Free entry all night.
The Deptford Arms is in walking distance of the following stations:
Deptford BR
New Cross tube
New Cross BR
Deptford Bridge DLR
Greenwich DLR
Greenwich BR
Here’s a Google Map. Deptford BR doesn’t seem to appear on it, but it’s actually the closest station to the venue.
There will be a free CD for attendees, featuring tracks from us, Shimura Curves and Dora Brilliant. Free entry x free CD = worth the trip to New Cross, surely?
Super Pop Art
Things have calmed down a bit now so I’d better give a report about the PopArt superhero all dayer. We were rather pleased about how our covers of Brainiac’s Daughter and That’s Really Super, Supergirl went; we worked on them specially for the gig and it was the first time we played them in front of an audience, and probably will be the only time. Two superhero-themed XTC songs back-to-back - what a concept!
Another first for us: our gig got reviewed. It’s strange to realise that one is public property now. I mean, if you put yourself out there, play live, have websites and the like, then people have a right to talk about you I suppose. It’s just very weird to have strangers do it without any prompting from you!
Anyway, more gigs should be coming up in the autumn so I look forward more reviews.
Thanks to Simon Scott for taking lots of great pictures of us! See them here.
Lostmusic gig
The turnout for this was a little sparse, probably because of an enforced venue change late in the day to dreaded South London (am I the only person sad enough to live down here?). However, we didn’t mind, as it was a nice venue, our set went quite well and we got to meet and watch the delectable Mono Taxi. So thanks very much to Trev and Lostmusic for putting us on. You can see some photos of us and the other bands that our host took here.
30 August Change of Venue!
The Lostmusic Presents gig with Mono Taxi will now be taking place at The Grosvenor (17 Sidney Road, Stockwell, SW9 0TP) and not at the Horse and Groom as previously advertised.
Tickets are still £4 in advance (from We Got Tickets) or £5 on the door. Come along!
Listen to me, Melora
Join us at the PopArt Comics All Dayer on 2 September 2007 for our first show of the autumn. It’s bound to be fun and we’re busy honing our comic-related covers in preparation. We are not doing Jaan Pehechaan Ho. No way.
Lostmusic Presents…
The venue has been confirmed as the Horse & Groom, Shoreditch, London, and a beautiful gig poster has starting popping up on the internet:
Tickets are £4 in advance and can be bought here: wegottickets.com/event/20089.
The show is being put on by the lovely lostmusic.co.uk.
A Long Overdue Report
I almost forgot to report back on the the Bloomsbury Bowl gig that we played last week! The venue was great as always and we had some apparently-prize-winning hot dogs there. Organ Morgan, who headlined, were very good too.
I have to say we were rather taken aback by the first public airing of Insignia, a song we’ve had for a while; the new backing track took on a character in a live setting that none of us could have possibly predicted and, frankly, we were ill-prepared for the dance-rock juggernaut that came out of our amps. It was a lesson learned.
Here we are looking pretty cool:
At The Good Ship
Here’s a slideshow of photos from our gig at The Good Ship.
For a full-screen slideshow, or if it isn’t working above, click here.
Listen While You Bowl
We’ve been confirmed to play the Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes‘ new Monday band night, Strike!, on the 16th of July. The venue is great, so come along if you can. There will be two other bands, and DJs ’til late.
Sunday Night Adventure Club
We played a mini-gig at Josie Long’s Sunday Night Adventure Club on 17 June to warm up for our first proper performance at the Good Ship. Thanks, Josie!
Tim and I made this flyer to go with the night’s music festival theme.
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