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Dan Reed
Tuesday 7th Feb
£10 advance
Dan Reed was born in Portland, Oregon, but in early childhood moved to South Dakota after his mother remarried the owner of a cattle ranch. Growing up on 2000 acre’s of land as an only child gave Dan plenty of time to daydream and it was here, riding tractor in the summer sun that Dan first fantasized about becoming a musician while listening to the Doobie Brothers, Kiss, Cheap Trick and Van Halen blaring on the tractor cabs’ AM radio. All through his high school years he played trumpet in the school band, while studying Shoto-Kan Karate, and participating in every sport he could get his hands and feet in to, but it wasn’t until a Japanese exchange student named Tsutomu Oki taught him how to play guitar that Dan realized that this was what he was searching for… the world of writing songs. After graduating from Aberdeen, South Dakota’s Central High School, he packed his bags and headed west to Portland, Oregon, his place of birth and the closest ‘big city’ he could find near the ocean, a place he held in his childhood memory and missed dearly living in the Midwest.
Dodgy
Saturday 18th Feb
£15 advance
Having spent the Spring of 2011 in the studio, writing and recording a new album, the band went to Denton, Texas to work on mixing the songs and "Stand Up In A Cool Place" will be released on Strikeback Records in February 2012, following an extensive Autumn/Winter tour of the UK.
‘What Became Of You’ is the first single to be taken from ‘Stand Upright In A Cool Place’, the first album of new material from the three original members of Dodgy since the platinum selling ‘Free Peace Sweet’. Rather than following the trend of bands reforming to play their classic albums in full, Dodgy boldly announced that on their recent, extensive UK tour, it was their new album that would be previewed live in its entirety. Luckily it was a gamble that paid off; the tour was successful, audiences enthusiastic and ‘What Became Of You’ just one amongst several highlights from the new material.
If Dodgy were to play one of their classic albums in full (there are no plans at the moment), it might well be ‘Homegrown’ resulting in a set order opening with ‘Staying Out For The Summer’, ‘Melodies Haunt You’ and ‘So Let Me Go Far’ – all hit singles in their own right. It is perhaps no coincidence that when Dodgy first established themselves with the release of ‘Homegrown’, it was the last time the UK was in the midst of a major recession, with ‘Staying Out For The Summer’ a somewhat ironic but uplifting anthem for the times. Perhaps timely then, that ‘What Became Of You’ has been chosen as the song for their return, counterpointing another uplifting melody with lyrics very much reflective of now, questioning how much leaders and major institutions have rapidly lost any integrity as they rely on spin, mistruths and blatant lies to hide their own shortcomings and failings.
‘What Became Of You’ is released on February 20th.
Steve Cradock
Sunday 26th Feb
£10 advance
Steve Cradock is familiar to most as the long-serving guitarist in Paul Weller’s band. What’s less well known is his capacity for writing the sort of heart-melting pop songs most bands would give their eye-teeth for. “I did two months on tour with Paul (Weller) and I’d built up a bank of songs” he explains.
“I played them to Andy Crofts (Moons/Weller band) while we were away and he he really encouraged me to get it finished. He ended up helping me out with some of the lyrics too, which was great. He made me feel that I was ready to do another record.” Andy Crofts also wrote 5 tracks for the album.
Rewind. Born in Birmingham and raised on a teenage diet of The Who, the Small and lashings of Jam, Steve’s first band The Boys were a ferocious power-pop outfit when the Mod scene was so underground you could smell the moss on their parkas. Inspired by the The Stone Roses, his next band, Ocean Colour Scene (formed with ex-Fanatics singer Simon Fowler) reflected the new techniclour gestalt. Within a year – with Steve still just twenty-
OCS were at the vanguard of a second wave of bands, only for label wrangles to delay the release of their debut album. Recruited by Paul Weller for his band in 1993 (Weller recalling Cradock from his days in The Boys), the guitarist’s infectious enthusiasm soon kick-started OCS back into life, with second album Moseley Shoals spawning four Top Twenty hits including karaoke perennial ‘The Riverboat Song’.Alternating between OCS and a role as The Modfather’s musical consiglieri ever since, Steve only got round to making he solo debut, the splendid Kundalini Target, two years ago.
All of which brings us to Peace City West. Recorded over a fortnight at Deep Litter Studios in Devon with a revolving cast of musicians including drummer Tony Coote, multi-instrumentalist Fred Ansell and actor James Buckley on guitar and vocals, it’s as richly melodic as you’d expect from someone with such an established musical pedigree.
Henning Wehn
Wednesday 29th Feb
£10 advance
You may well have heard Henning on BBC Radio’s “Unbelievable Truth”, “News Quiz”, “Now Show” and “Fighting Talk” or seen him on “QI” , “Dave’s One Night Stand”or “Edinburgh and Beyond” – now’s your chance to see the self-appointed German Comedy Ambassador to the UK in the flesh in his sell-out Edinbugh show, “No Surrender”. Tuetonic jolliness at its best. Come along … or else. Deutschland über alles!
InMe
Friday 9th March
£12 advance
After fans were left spilling out of a packed 5000 capacity Bohemia Tent at Sonisphere Festival 2011, InMe’s loyal hordes could be excused for feeling the need for a full UK tour;
Dan Reed
Tuesday 7th Feb
£10 advance
Dan Reed was born in Portland, Oregon, but in early childhood moved to South Dakota after his mother remarried the owner of a cattle ranch. Growing up on 2000 acre’s of land as an only child gave Dan plenty of time to daydream and it was here, riding tractor in the summer sun that Dan first fantasized about becoming a musician while listening to the Doobie Brothers, Kiss, Cheap Trick and Van Halen blaring on the tractor cabs’ AM radio. All through his high school years he played trumpet in the school band, while studying Shoto-Kan Karate, and participating in every sport he could get his hands and feet in to, but it wasn’t until a Japanese exchange student named Tsutomu Oki taught him how to play guitar that Dan realized that this was what he was searching for… the world of writing songs. After graduating from Aberdeen, South Dakota’s Central High School, he packed his bags and headed west to Portland, Oregon, his place of birth and the closest ‘big city’ he could find near the ocean, a place he held in his childhood memory and missed dearly living in the Midwest.
Dodgy
Saturday 18th Feb
£15 advance
Having spent the Spring of 2011 in the studio, writing and recording a new album, the band went to Denton, Texas to work on mixing the songs and "Stand Up In A Cool Place" will be released on Strikeback Records in February 2012, following an extensive Autumn/Winter tour of the UK.
‘What Became Of You’ is the first single to be taken from ‘Stand Upright In A Cool Place’, the first album of new material from the three original members of Dodgy since the platinum selling ‘Free Peace Sweet’. Rather than following the trend of bands reforming to play their classic albums in full, Dodgy boldly announced that on their recent, extensive UK tour, it was their new album that would be previewed live in its entirety. Luckily it was a gamble that paid off; the tour was successful, audiences enthusiastic and ‘What Became Of You’ just one amongst several highlights from the new material.
If Dodgy were to play one of their classic albums in full (there are no plans at the moment), it might well be ‘Homegrown’ resulting in a set order opening with ‘Staying Out For The Summer’, ‘Melodies Haunt You’ and ‘So Let Me Go Far’ – all hit singles in their own right. It is perhaps no coincidence that when Dodgy first established themselves with the release of ‘Homegrown’, it was the last time the UK was in the midst of a major recession, with ‘Staying Out For The Summer’ a somewhat ironic but uplifting anthem for the times. Perhaps timely then, that ‘What Became Of You’ has been chosen as the song for their return, counterpointing another uplifting melody with lyrics very much reflective of now, questioning how much leaders and major institutions have rapidly lost any integrity as they rely on spin, mistruths and blatant lies to hide their own shortcomings and failings.
‘What Became Of You’ is released on February 20th.
Steve Cradock
Sunday 26th Feb
£10 advance
Steve Cradock is familiar to most as the long-serving guitarist in Paul Weller’s band. What’s less well known is his capacity for writing the sort of heart-melting pop songs most bands would give their eye-teeth for. “I did two months on tour with Paul (Weller) and I’d built up a bank of songs” he explains.
“I played them to Andy Crofts (Moons/Weller band) while we were away and he he really encouraged me to get it finished. He ended up helping me out with some of the lyrics too, which was great. He made me feel that I was ready to do another record.” Andy Crofts also wrote 5 tracks for the album.
Rewind. Born in Birmingham and raised on a teenage diet of The Who, the Small and lashings of Jam, Steve’s first band The Boys were a ferocious power-pop outfit when the Mod scene was so underground you could smell the moss on their parkas. Inspired by the The Stone Roses, his next band, Ocean Colour Scene (formed with ex-Fanatics singer Simon Fowler) reflected the new techniclour gestalt. Within a year – with Steve still just twenty-
OCS were at the vanguard of a second wave of bands, only for label wrangles to delay the release of their debut album. Recruited by Paul Weller for his band in 1993 (Weller recalling Cradock from his days in The Boys), the guitarist’s infectious enthusiasm soon kick-started OCS back into life, with second album Moseley Shoals spawning four Top Twenty hits including karaoke perennial ‘The Riverboat Song’.Alternating between OCS and a role as The Modfather’s musical consiglieri ever since, Steve only got round to making he solo debut, the splendid Kundalini Target, two years ago.
All of which brings us to Peace City West. Recorded over a fortnight at Deep Litter Studios in Devon with a revolving cast of musicians including drummer Tony Coote, multi-instrumentalist Fred Ansell and actor James Buckley on guitar and vocals, it’s as richly melodic as you’d expect from someone with such an established musical pedigree.
Henning Wehn
Wednesday 29th Feb
£10 advance
You may well have heard Henning on BBC Radio’s “Unbelievable Truth”, “News Quiz”, “Now Show” and “Fighting Talk” or seen him on “QI” , “Dave’s One Night Stand”or “Edinburgh and Beyond” – now’s your chance to see the self-appointed German Comedy Ambassador to the UK in the flesh in his sell-out Edinbugh show, “No Surrender”. Tuetonic jolliness at its best. Come along … or else. Deutschland über alles!
InMe
Friday 9th March
£12 advance
After fans were left spilling out of a packed 5000 capacity Bohemia Tent at Sonisphere Festival 2011, InMe’s loyal hordes could be excused for feeling the need for a full UK tour;
if
a
34 date
tour
across
the UK
and
Ireland
doesn't
prove
that
this
is
a
band
who
give
back
what
they
get
from
their
fans
then
not
much else
will…
February 2012 will see InMe’s fifth studio album, “The Pride”, released; the tour schedule around the album will take in the sweatiest of venues around the UK and Ireland from Plymouth to Aberdeen to Dublin, culminating in the slightly less intimate finale at London’s Islington Academy. Joining InMe will be two of the UK’s finest underground bands who will be announced in the coming weeks.
“The Pride” will be released via Pledge Music, an innovative approach that puts the artists and their fans
February 2012 will see InMe’s fifth studio album, “The Pride”, released; the tour schedule around the album will take in the sweatiest of venues around the UK and Ireland from Plymouth to Aberdeen to Dublin, culminating in the slightly less intimate finale at London’s Islington Academy. Joining InMe will be two of the UK’s finest underground bands who will be announced in the coming weeks.
“The Pride” will be released via Pledge Music, an innovative approach that puts the artists and their fans
in
control
of
the
development
of
the
album.
Having
seen
the
overwhelming
support
frontman
Dave
McPherson
received
for
his
solo
album
in
March
2011
via
the
same
route,
it
was
clear
to
InMe
that
their
fans
would
want
to
be
involved
in
how
“The
Pride”
was
released.
Starting
in
November,
the
InMe
Pledge
Music
campaign
will
offer
up
a
multitude
of
incentives
to
fans
all
pointed
towards
the
ultimate
goal
of
helping
InMe
reach
as
many
fans
as
possible
as
they
embark
on
the
second
phase
of
a
journey
that
is
far from over.
King Pleasure & The Biscuit Boys
Friday 23rd March
£13.50 advance
King Pleasure & the Biscuit Boys are more than just the world's greatest swing band, they are an institution! The band have been on the road for two decades playing every European country as well as the USA and Russia and recording ten CDs. Dazzling musicianship, riveting stage performances, more than 50 TV appearances (including, somewhat bizarrely, five episodes of Teletubbies) and 75 radio broadcasts have established them as the Kings of Swing.
Paul Jones on BBC Radio 2 called them “the hardest act to follow since the parting of The Red Sea”, Atomic Magazine from New York wrote “To those who say that swing is a musical form best left to Americans, prepare to be proven wrong. This British combo is bullet-proof!”.
The Guardian said “Behind the fun and rollicking good times lies an outfit skilled enough for the horns to come on with the bite and precision of the Basie Band”. Now Dig This magazine wrote “This is their best, most inventive album to date” and the Sunday Mercury said “A joyous jamboree of Jazz. King Pleasure? King Wonderful!”
Previously announced shows include; Tuesday 21 February - Beth Jeans Houghton, Saturday 25 February - Altered Images (re-scheduled date), Saturday 31 March - The Selecter feat. Pauline Black &Gaps Hendricks and Sunday 25th March 2012 - Richard Herring.
King Pleasure & The Biscuit Boys
Friday 23rd March
£13.50 advance
King Pleasure & the Biscuit Boys are more than just the world's greatest swing band, they are an institution! The band have been on the road for two decades playing every European country as well as the USA and Russia and recording ten CDs. Dazzling musicianship, riveting stage performances, more than 50 TV appearances (including, somewhat bizarrely, five episodes of Teletubbies) and 75 radio broadcasts have established them as the Kings of Swing.
Paul Jones on BBC Radio 2 called them “the hardest act to follow since the parting of The Red Sea”, Atomic Magazine from New York wrote “To those who say that swing is a musical form best left to Americans, prepare to be proven wrong. This British combo is bullet-proof!”.
The Guardian said “Behind the fun and rollicking good times lies an outfit skilled enough for the horns to come on with the bite and precision of the Basie Band”. Now Dig This magazine wrote “This is their best, most inventive album to date” and the Sunday Mercury said “A joyous jamboree of Jazz. King Pleasure? King Wonderful!”
Previously announced shows include; Tuesday 21 February - Beth Jeans Houghton, Saturday 25 February - Altered Images (re-scheduled date), Saturday 31 March - The Selecter feat. Pauline Black &Gaps Hendricks and Sunday 25th March 2012 - Richard Herring.
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