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STAGE TIMES : Mon to Thurs - 8.15 /9.00 / 9.45 / 10.30pm: Fri & Sat - 8.30 / 9.15 / 10.00 / 10.45pm
Sun - 1st band 8.45 / 2nd band 9.30 / last band 10.15pm
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FEBRUARY 2010

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Wednesday 3rd February

BEYOND THE SUMMIT
Making your nose bleed with ferocity and well turned songs of fury.
KRYSTAL VAYNE Heavy tunes with a punky twist and prog like intros.
VIBRACORE An intense groove machine with Black Crowe swagger and passion, get into it man!
GEEQ A molten clever heavy pop rock three piece with flecks of muse and even Marilyn Manson...sharp.
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Thursday 4th February

THE ROAD
SENOR AL & THE J.J'S
PATCH KIDS
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Friday 5th February

SECRET CINEMA
THE HAANDS
THE SPITFIRES
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Saturday 6th February

GAMBLING HEARTS Whatever happened to my rock 'n roll? These boys wear it on their rolled up Marlboro red sleeves. Scuzzy bad boy rock.
THE CAVALIERS A band relentlessly on the up! "The Cavaliers are four indie chaps who have been hiding in Pete Doherty's closet, inhaling the, er, atmosphere and waiting to break out and steal a billion indie hearts. - Ed Alex Miller, NME
THE OLIVERS
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Sunday 7th February

THE LINES Post-punk legends The Lines performed and recorded in the late 70s and early 80s, but never truly broke-up. Sessions continued through the 80s, which will see the light of day soon, and now, many years after their last show, they are playing together again..
JOWE HEAD & THE DEMI-MONDE Head was a founder member of the legendary Swell Maps and went on to join the Television Personalities. He is backed by a new band called The Demi-Monde for an ambitious new album called "Diabolical Liberties". The sound is psychedelic, using electronic and acoustic instruments, with a european folk influence plus indian and moorish elements.
VALERIE & HER WEEK OF WONDERS- "Three years ago I started writing little lullabies for my animals... and then the diabolical Jowe Head arrived, and a band of merry corruptors joined with him to twist and torture and turn them into the dulcet pop soundtrack of my child's heart breaking
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Monday 8th February

NEO SUPER VITAL Tim O’Donovan never fails to entertain and this evening’s performance was no different. Working his way through the sea of sweaty dancing bodies to serenade them while standing on the bar and inviting adoring fans to join him onstage, that Neosupervital magic got every foot in the venue stomping.
BENJAMIN BLOOM 'Paradise found in gigantic expectations'
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Tuesday 9th February

THE VIOLET MIND Flying groove riffs and an ear for a wrenched vocal line and heavy guitars these Essex boys bring it on.
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Wednesday 10th February

THE YARNS
THE MAVERICATS A breath, a rhythum a fiesty rolling soundscape 3 piece of acoustic guitar, bass 'n drum.
KINGFISHERS CATCH FIRE Close harmonies intricate melodies and an intensity from this country influenced mob
LECTRIC LAX Young searing post-punk - ambitious Division with Suede like front man sealing the deal.
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Thursday 11th February

THE SKANX An 11 piece collective that wanna make you dance all night. Horns bass drums and a jump-up in your face sound from sarf london.
RED SKYS Early Simple Minds/U2 with the ambition of red rock, dashes of Roxy, early franz and modern Leon...A quality 'going places' band.
THE FLACK Ben Sherman sharp, buzz cuts and music to match. The sound of the suburbs, Dead 60's with an extra spoon of speed.
FLEXABILITY Think foals friendly fires with big catchy choruses, these boys have the looks and charm to break the big time...
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Friday 12th February

THE ELOQUENTS Ripping speakers groove laden songs and choruses that evoke ATV and The Clash's funkier moments.
EPISODE ONE Nostrils smarting from the vinegar on your chips these north london post-shoegazing-neu-wavers play songs to fall over to. The brittleness of Big Black/Shellac with Sonic Youth's melodic sensibilities.
HATE ASHBURY These bright young shadowy eyeliner heavy emo rockers have a touch of pure pop to mark their punchy songs to the next level.
CHEATING THE REAPER Drowning in a sippin' whisky barrel of hendrix and page with a modern twist on classic rock.
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Saturday 13th February

DIMINISHED 5TH Metal with crushingly epic, heavy movements adjacent to blast-fuelled rawness, a predominant melody, whilst inevitably producing a fresh and powerful sound. Think Masadon and Neurosis...
EL SCHLONG A frightening fall into viscous riffs and a dark imagining of a future world where everything you know is wrong. The sirens are blasting in my head...
DOPE FIGHT
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Monday 15th February

THE REVERENCE This tight Brighton three piece have the melodic intent of Blood Red Shoes with the nagging urgency of We Are Scientists.
DIRTY KNEEZ Classic alternative rock sound from this female fronted band, touches of Blondie in the vocals and even pink!
GEMMA MEWSE
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Tuesday 16th February

STOP.MOTION.TRIO Powerful new London-based live outfit influenced by the deep moods and driving grooves of post-rock, instrumental jazz and experimental electronica.Think Belew era Crimson but with a rich vein of psychedelia!
LUCINDA ROSA The big sound of The Editors/Interpol with eighties raincoats wrapped around their dark hearts
SIRAN
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Wednesday 17th February

NURSERY OF NAUGHTINESS Do the future dance to the fuzzed up knifed beats and twisted driving rhythms from these chemical prodigy slims. Bigged up by the arbiters of taste-witness! "these boys have made their mark and proved their worth in the dance scene...in my top 5 for real!" (Jay Cunning KissFM) "I thought it was a really enjoyable, Prodigy inspired slab.'(Eddy Temple Morris - XFM)
FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY
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Thursday 18th February

TO HUSS TUSS A modern sounding Talk Talk with a nod to the synth pop and the early eighties floppy fringed depeche mode.
THE DEAD SIGNALS Serrated guitars pin drums turning you inside out, like slint crossed with sonic youth and kidney bingoes wire...nice.
LES VENS Big Star/Husker Dü- big searing slabs of melodic noise from these good looking oxford boys.
ELLIS With a clutch of classic influences these youngsters have ambitions of the who dylan and the kinks in their scratchy uptempo moments.
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Friday 19th February

MEN + GODS Heavy kholed and dark glam rock T-Rex meets QOTSA in whisky soaked harley crash.
THE BIG DIRTY The psychedelic dream turns nasty, dark and twisted, a heavy Dead on mandrax and strychnine.Outta sight!
SUBTERRANEA Femme fatal fronted rock orgasm, with flashes of Garbage and RATM.
WINTERS EVE Powerful and richly evocative vocals from singer Lena. This is shadowy heavy gothic rock with prog overtones.
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Saturday 20th February

LUNA RAI Swaggering straight out of the electric rock'n roll circus and setting the controls for the heart of the sun, these Bracknell boys are the essence of groove based rock and special brew dreams!
MAD STARING EYES Camdens finest and winners of the John Peel Best New Band competition, they have fistfuls of catchy songs reminiscent of the Pixies We Are Scientists or the Clash mixed with Bloc Party. Not to be missed...
A LEAP IN THE DARK An Eno inspired Talking Heads with heart wrenching soaring songs tied to a scratchy urgency. K.D.F. www.myspace.com/kdfband A hard edged Pastels/Mission from Burma with healthy doses of sixties garage in an upto date jerky indie fashion. Yay!
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Sunday 21st February

FRAGMENTS OF FAITH A hard heavily processed NIN/Ministry touching on a more metal Curve, with female vocals to the fore.
HÄNS BRIIKX Long haired scuzz rockers. Bad ass rock'n roll from these L.A lovin' Mötley Guns crew.
WE ARE THE CHEATED A full on searing rock 'n roll assault. Heavy spikey and in your face from this kentish 3-piece.
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Monday 22nd February

MIS-LED Indie punkers with early Green Day and a large dose of in the city Jam from this energetic 3 piece.
TAXIDERMIA Special show from these future stars...
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Tuesday 23rd February

THIS HARMONY Just when you think these bright well dressed indie boys from italy are going down the Doves route they warp into Tortoise and start throwing gypsy violins into the mix.Eclectic indeed...In a good way. Like a Kletzma Joy division!
ANIMAL NOISE 3 piece Agitpunk-skiffle! They've stolen Willie Nelson's beaten and bruised acoustic guitar and used it for their own hi-energy violent femmes type noiselets! Cat gut rockin'!
ALEX RAYMENT & FRIENDS A rolling collective of violins, washboards and good times, with poignant songs about the day to day struggles of living.
ELLIE CORNELL An accomplished fingerpickin' folkstress with strong yet intimate voice. Tori Amos and Ani Difranco go into this heady mix.
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Wednesday 24th February

ALAREIKS Brutal yet musical, this Viking/Death Metal band are recent stars in 'Tattoo Couture'.
RUINOUS DECAY Technical and progressive death metal, Terroriser Magazine says - "Back after a season in the sub-underground abyss, Ruinous Decay are a foul scabrous proposition on wax, tapping up some rough cut 'Blessed Are The Sick' vibes and getting their fuck-off riff face on."
MONSTERWORKS NZ/UK band recently releasing new album 'Singularity' available from Casket records."...features a heaviness defined by death metal moments, the heavier end of traditional metal, ripping power thrash, and arresting guitar harmonizing that in totality gives the album a progressive flair." - Pit Magazine. "2112 for the download generation. Yes - it's that good." - Classic Rock Magazine.
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Thursday 25th February

OLKA DOT Lead by the silk voiced Olga this band of russian speaking émigrés make art folk rock for the motherland.
KESTON COBBLERS CLUB Traditional English folk in contemporary clothes from this modern 3 guys 'n 1 girl band. Ukuleles, banjoes, washboards a fistful of melodies and a promise to 'heel your soles'!
RUDERALIS Brightons rising stars are coming to infect you with their uptempo Housemartins sound with 2 MC's for your listening pleasure.
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Friday 26th February

EMERGENZA
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Saturday 27th February

EMERGENZA
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Sunday 28th February

WRETCHED TOAD Like an ultra heavy Blue Cheer- this is a full on rock machine that takes no prisoners!.
ICARUS
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MARCH 2010

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Tuesday 2nd March

JEEPS With an fresh indie-pop/shoegaze sound they evoke early Dinosaur/My Bloody Valentine or the current crop-Crystal Stilts/Pains of Being Pure at Heart
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Wednesday 3rd March

THE REACTORS
GREAT STUFF McDUFF Three piece caught somewhere between the jam & the strokes, with passion and comitment to the fore.
THE 335 A beefed up white stripes, dirty scuzzy 60's tinged fuzz rock-with the clash somewhere in the mix...
HUNDRED STREAMS The red shed gives birth to a hard edged and expansive interpol/editors sound with touches of later arctic monkeys.
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Thursday 4th March

HUMPHREY BROWN Like the Grateful Deads very first album this is psychedelic blues rock but still coming from the garage Paul Revere & the Raiders end of the 60's. An exploding plastic inevitable managerie of sounds and colours!
BEYOND REASON With a fresh ep. just released this is forthright and in your face it has a wiff of Undertones Biffy and the Ruts.
THE DIRTY REDS Classic song writing like The Beatles playing in the style of Green Day or a more intricate Hüsker dü.
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Friday 5th March     Buy Tickets HERE

VYVIENNE LONG Although Dublin-born cellist Vyvienne Long has been best known for her work with Damien Rice, that may be about to change. She began experimenting on stage with quirky adaptations of popular hits and obscure classics. When she returned to Ireland, Long played her version of the White Stripes anthem 'Seven Nation Army' on the Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show. This led to its inclusion on last year's 'Even Better Than the Real Thing Vol 2' where it was picked in several reviews as one of the highlights of the compilation. Her onstage band is made up of three cellos, piano, double bass and drums to make a refreshingly original soundscape that defies categorisation. Aside from her solo work, Long also performs regularly with the National Symphony Orchestra and continues to work with Rice.
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Saturday 6th March

ROUGH SCIENCE a real future-klash with ska funk and punk influences in there...coming on strong with a Test Icicles/Dead 60's sound.
ZALINSKI Classic rock influences, but this is new and fresh. With a groove based heart there are touches of reef or the chillies in there too.
CREATURES OF LOVE Dark shadowy street corner cigarettes from this electronic boy/girl raven haired 2 piece. Sharp, deep and emotional.
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Sunday 7th March

DEADLY CIRCUS FIRE Rawk! ultra heavy, guitars crushed with pylons and draining the national grid.The sound of steel girders.
GHOSTS & GOBLINS Punky influences in this Soundgarden/Subpop heaviness. Metal with a healthy grungey coating.
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Wednesday 10th March

VIKTOR & THE HINTER Sophisticated songwriting with Ray Davies' influence to the fore. A village green sound for modern london and all it's quirks and foibles. Shows a musical maturity beyond there years.
CIRCLE ROUND THE PARK Elbow/Doves influences from this bright brash 3 piece from london.
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Thurssday 11th March     BUY TICKETS HERE

THE INVASION OF... Garry Powell (The Libertines/Dirty Pretty Things) collaborates with Farma G (Task Force) on an indie collision of breaks and guitars. Jerky and groovey, it has the catchy-ness of pop with fresh upfront vocals and scratchy post-punk guitars. Ones to watch for the future, it won't be long before this goes over the top!
LIGHTS Canyons of sound crush and envelope you. Expansive and arena sized songs from hese heart broken young men. Like the majesty of the Universal or Maps...
BLOW Big chunky choruses and a no holds barred attitude, this five piece lay it on the line with their anthemic rock 'n roll.
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Friday 12th March

EMERGENZA
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Saturday 13th March

EMERGENZA
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Sunday 14th March

SEAGULL KINEVIL
UTTOXATOR
CHAOS:BABY Their music is a blend of old school attitude and dirty grunge with a rock base. They say their influences are "we feed off of each other and alcohol" and describe their sound as "ice-cream & cigarettes".
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Wednesday 17th March

AQUALEEM
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Thursday 18th March

TACOMA NARROWS BRIDGE DISASTER complex and dynamic soundscapes drawing on a myriad of influences including Isis, Russian Circles and Red Sparowes.
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Friday 19th March

DAVID CRONENBURG'S WIFE 'Sarcastic, sardonic and articulate… I can guarantee once you’ve heard this, it will stay in your head all day.' (Music Week)
TINY TIGERS tiny tigers are a new wave punk band formed from an obsession with music,tea cakes, Chistopher Guest, Douglas Coupland and the 1940's.
DEATH RETRO Deathretro combine a heady mixture of 'Exterminator' era Primal Scream, Soulwax & QOTSA - thumping beats, electronic rock soundscapes and state of mind lyrics made for the sweaty clubs and dancefloors.
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Saturday 20th March

JACK RABBIT SLIM
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Thursday 25th March

CHARLIE SAVIGAR Nice radio friendly pop songs with lovely harmonies .. .she can rock a bit in a soft shuffle boogie/rnb style, that sometimes puts you in mind of prime T Rex…
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Saturday 27th March

RUTHLESS TRUTH No gimmicks, no pretences, just classic rock played with passion and pride, it's original music with an old school edge, played by four guys who will give you everything they have to make your night.
BEGGARS CANYON
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