upcoming tours and shows

retired_kishnata · 10-21-2005, 01:11 PM

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Originally posted by Antpocolypsenow:
:thup: Cool i'll have a listen and see what i think

I'm going to check them out as well, heard a lot of good things already.

By the way my reply to you was my 4000th post :thup:

retired_kishnata · 10-21-2005, 01:15 PM

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Originally posted by Full Collapse:
haha, The Mascara Story and Fighting With Wire are supporting Reuben on the full UK tour?

Thought it was just the Irish dates.

The Mascara Story are utter gashery, Fighting With Wire quite good though.

Yes full UK tour.

A small venue near me (The Windmill) had a Northern Irish band weekend festival with the following bands. I didn't go in the end. But did I miss much?

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Fri 14th 'NORTHERN IRELAND: THE NEXT GENERATION' WEEKEND
*The Debonaires
*Yakuza
*Just A Word
*Contraband Four of the best new bands from Belfast, Derry and around those parts.

THE DEBONAIRES (Bangor, C.Down)
...straddle the gulf between thrusting robotic rock and pure pop perfection with the ease of a 5000 ft tall cyborg programmed with Michael Jackson's least paedophilic dance moves. Prepare to be crushed under their mighty riffs and choruses, scarred by their razor sharp hooks and slayed by their unique line in 'witty' stage patter.
http://www.thedebonaires.co.uk

YAKUZA (DC - DUNGANNON / COALISLAND, Co. Tyrone)
Raised on an unsteady diet of The Birthday Party, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr and Truman's Water, these twisted mid-Ulster hallions have an amazing batch of new songs which take the electric white boy blues of debut album One Nation Under Awed to a seedy post-punk disco before locking them in and burning the bastard to the ground. They'll take your face off and enjoy themselves doing it.

JUST A WORD (Armagh City, Co. Armagh)
Hip-hop you don't stop, especially for this heavy hitting crew of white bread mutha****as comin' straight outta Armagh City with balls the size of cathederal bells and even bigger tunes. They're five stone cold killers who'll **** yo' **** up real good with their gritty tales of Northern Irish urbanity and fine head nodding grooves.
http://www.justaword.com

CONTRABAND (Banbridge, Co. Down)
Like a vagina with teeth, the screaming punk rock of Contraband is not to be f**ked with. If The Distillers' Brody Dalle spent less time on picking out her carefully pre-ripped outfits and getting up the duff by passing members of Queens of the Stone Age, her band might have a shot at sounding as raw, visceral and downright lethal as this Banbridge three piece. Incendiary.
http://www.contrabandrebelgold.com

ADVANCE TICKETS
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/7335 £4

Sat 15th 'NORTHERN IRELAND: THE NEXT GENERATION' WEEKEND
*The Answer
*Delaware
*Tracer AMC
*Tom McShane Band
*The Lingus
*Trip Fontaine Six of the best new bands from Belfast, Derry and around those parts.

THE ANSWER (Downpatrick, Co. Down)
The finest classic rock band in Ireland, The Answer have the chops to make the sound of yesteryear their very own via a set of kick ass tunes including the recent single Keep Believin,' their debut release for the AC/DC affiliated Albert Productions label. They've supported The Darkness and Ash, made a mess at the Kerrang Awards and will be kicking seven (hell's) bells out of Brixton tonight before they head out on 'The New School Of Rock Tour' with Tokyo Dragons and others which winds its way through the UK until December.
And...NEWS just in...The Answer were named 'Best New Band' at the Classic Rock Awards held in london at the start of October.
http://www.theanswer.tv

DELAWARE (Belfast)
. offer classic westcoast American pop with a country twang, infused with harmony, melody, passion and charm. They're obviously having a blast everytime they take to the stage - and believe us, their enthusiasm
is infectious. One of the most promising bands in Northern Ireland, period, they get the good times rolling with ease...

TRACER AMC (Belfast)
Tracer AMC offer the finest in atmospheric instrumental post-rock. Like a sonic cathedral crumbling into the ocean down a cliff face at sunset, their music is by turns beautiful, haunting and powerfully moving. Their recently released album Islands is the assured follow up to 2004's acclaimed debut, Flux and Form. Their multitextured, pedal enhanced tunes are very, very good live.
http://www.traceramc.co.uk

TOM McSHANE BAND (Belfast)
Like a hot salty tear rolling down the cheek of the most beautiful face you can imagine, the music of Tom McShane is at once captivating and heartbreaking. His are tender tunes plucked straight from a broken and patched up heart, performed with rare poise and passion. With his band in tow, Tom can shift gears between wistful laments and sundappled guitar pop with ease. To know him is to love him.
http://www.tommcshane.co.uk

THE LINGUS (North Antrim)
....offer feel-good indie rock and roll the way it used to be made. Sugar's brightest moments collide with Teenage Fanclub's infectious energy and enthusiasm , with a hint of The Wonder Stuff's penchant for the absurd, in a collection of melody drenched songs you'll be humming for weeks.
http://www.thelingus.tk

TRIP FONTAINE (Derry)
From the maiden city and featuring talented songwriter Kevin Nash (ex-Fighting With Wire), this lot have the tunes, the grooves and the moves to bring the pain to any venue they choose. They're stone cold foxes and no mistake.

PLUS........FREE BBQ!!! from 5pm til it runs out.

ADVANCE TICKETS
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/7336 £5

Sun 16th 'NORTHERN IRELAND: THE NEXT GENERATION' WEEKEND
*V//Formation
*The Evangelists
*Panda Kopanda
*Inch High
*Ego Six of the best new bands from Belfast, Derry and around those parts.

V//FORMATION (Belfast)
Formerly known as The Ponies, this lot are barely out of the gate and are already being tipped for greatness. Big melodic tunes with wirey guitars and crashing backbeats make their brand of bottom heavy indie rock
something you'll want to buy into repeatedly.
http://www.poniesmusic.com

THE EVANGELISTS (Derry)
Presenting their delightfully skewed collisions of skronking guitars, jackhammer rhythms and provincial sexual repression via a live show that defines the word 'unpredictable,' The Evangelists will have you singing, laughing, moshing and scratching your head all at once. Part cabaret tragedy, part scattergun aural assault, all the way great.
http://www.theevangelists.tk

PANDA KOPANDA (Belfast)
This year's Letting Go EP on Belfast's HOWL Records marked a major turning point for this well regarded Belfast act, displaying a new-found confidence in the execution of their bittersweet indie tunes which call
to mind The Postal Service, Deathcab For Cutie and Pavement. They'll break yourt heart and make you like it.
http://www.pandakopanda.com

INCH HIGH (Newcastle, Co. Down)
With a KKKK review for debut album Look Kids, It's Big Ben already under their belts, Inch High's catchy pop rock sound should appeal to fans of Foo Fighters, and other such masters of stadium friendly catchy and
crunchy tunage.
http://www.inchhigh.co.uk

EGO (Bangor, C. Down
...are young, good looking and deliver their spiralling sugar rush of frantic rock riffage, metal style licks and melodic sing-along vocals with bags of energy to spare. Perfect MTV2 ready fodder without the posturing bullshit? We think so.
http://www.egorock.com

PLUS........FREE BBQ!!! from 5pm til it runs out.

ADVANCE TICKETS
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/7337 £5

retired_metcalfl · 10-21-2005, 01:15 PM

And what a good post with which to do it, congrats :thup:

retired_metcalfl · 10-21-2005, 01:17 PM

I've heard and like Contraband from that list, don't know many others though

retired_brat7 · 10-21-2005, 01:19 PM

I've been gig-less for a month now

since the brilliant Thrice gig at the Barfly, but next month (29th November) comes The Bled/Fear Before The Marches Of Flames/The Fall Of Troy gig which should be absolutely amazing :cool: and Biffy Clyro on their 4 night tour of King Tuts in Glasgow (15th December), although Infinty Land isnt my favourite album, it should still be a good night :thup:

retired_ghamdika · 10-21-2005, 01:24 PM

The only ones I've seen/heard are The Answer and Inch High who are both quite local to me. Inch High aren't too bad, The Answer are fairly rubbish 70's throwbacks tbh.

The Debonaires and Contraband are supposed to be quite good but I doubt you missed much.

retired_kishnata · 10-21-2005, 01:24 PM

I really can't wait till The Bled gig.

All I have gig wise is.
26th November - Part Chimp, Todd, Optimist Club, Bullet Union (provisional not got tickets yet)
28th November - The Locust.
30th November - Johnny Truant (provisional)
1st December - The Bled
14th December - Nine Black Alps (again).

Its all quiet on the gig front for me for over a month, and I don't like it