Designer Magazine presents...Dry Bar / Roadhouse Gigs Listings - Jan-Feb 2012

Big welcome and happy new year to you all - we have a fantastic set of gigs in January and February starting this Thursday with a fab metal showcase headlined by One Night Stand With Fate

The national press & radio are being very supportive of Fearless Vampire Killers, Doyle & The Fourfathers and The Headstart in particular so let's ramp up the support in Manchester as well

Designer Magazine Gigs have a firm ethos - BEST TOURING BANDS - BEST LOCAL BANDS - BEST VENUES

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JANUARY

* January 19th @ Dry Bar - 7pm doors - £5 (14+)

One Night Stand with Fate

Brooke Hollow

The Zero Symphony

Arctic Front

Torn From Tomorrow

One Night Stand With Fate have shared the stage with bands such as Deaf Havana, The Ocean Between Us, Polar, Betrayal, Hey! Alaska

* January 28th @ Dry Bar - 7pm doors - £5 (14+)

Fearless Vampire Killers

SavingSyenna 

Tainted Memories

Gravestars

Morphine Ghost

Fearless Vampire Killers. Death pop punkers from London via the Waveney Valley. Previously described as a mix of Justin Timberlake and Protest the Hero the live show is often ram-shakle and always sweaty. So stick it to the Heartataks and come feast! ;;

FEBRUARY

* February 3rd @ Dry Bar - 6.30pm doors - £5 (14+)

Sam Smith & Company

Events Untold

The Room

Heseltine

Ryan Jarvix

The Big Indie night with headline slot Sam Smith & Company

Main support is from Events Untold featuring members of The Sticks with new member Will Rush

* Feb 4th @ The Roadhouse - 7pm doors - £5 (18+)

The Montoyas

The Zetlands

The Statements

Fidel & The Castros

The Mannequins

Funf is Funf Bands for Funf Pound with drinks offers all night - its widely known as one of the best monthly showcases in Manchester

* Feb 13th @ Dry Bar - 7pm doors - £5 (14+)

The Headstart

Our Innocence Lost

Jacks Not Smooth

De'Nova

Underdogs

The Headstart are a Leeds based pop punk band as recently seen on tour with Framing Hanley, My Passion and Blitz Kids 

* Feb 15th @ Dry Bar - 7pm doors - £5 (14+)

My Extraordinary

Years

Big False Assembly

This is How We Fall

Defcon 3

My Extraordinay have shared a stage with the likes of Elliot Minor, Young Guns, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, My Passion & Yashin amongst many others.

* Feb 18th @ Dry Bar - 6.30pm doors - £5 (14+)

Skint & Demoralised

Daystar

The Centrals

Arterix

Edwin Miles

Skint & Demoralised recently signed to Manchester's own Heist Or Hit label and are about to release their 2nd album "This Sporting Life"

* Feb 24th @ Dry Bar - 6.30pm doors - £5 (14+)

Mr Tom

Apollo's Heir

Photo Electric Effect

Taylor & Leigh

Raven & The Lyon

Mr Tom have recently finished working with James Kenosha, noted for his work with Pulled Apart By Horses, Dinosaur Pile-Up, Dry The River

* Feb 25th @ Dry Bar - 6.30pm doors - £5 (14+)

Doyle & The Fourfathers

The Versions

Pigeons In Motion

Mathew Petit

Bad Cardigan

Doyle & the Fourfathers are currently all over 6Music with their "Welcome To Austerity" single. If you like Scott Walker, Jarvis Cocker, The Divine Comedy, Blur, Elbow and The Smiths, you'll love Doyle & The Fourfathers

DESIGNER MAGAZINE PRESENTS...... SKINT & DEMORALISED

DESIGNER MAGAZINE PRESENTS...... SKINT & DEMORALISED

FRIDAY APRIL 1ST - DOORS 7PM
DRY BAR LIVE, OLDHAM STREET, MANCHESTER
£6 online from We Got Tickets / See Tickets (plus mobile phones from Ticketsense - Text skintmanchester to 82028)

* Tickets include a free Skint & Demoralised poetry zine featuring rare lyrics / poetry not available online - only available to advance online / mobile tickets *

PLUS SUPPORT FROM
Candour
The Shang Highs
Arterix
The Disappeared


SKINT AND DEMORALISED

When Wakefield spoken word artist Matt Abbott (now 22) formed a musical collaboration with Sheffield-based producer MiNI dOG on MySpace in May 2007, neither of them could have guessed what would happen next. After just 6 months they received national airplay on BBC Radio 1 from Steve Lamacq and Colin Murray, and within 9 months they’d signed a lucrative record deal with Mercury Records (Universal).

Their time with Mercury was a rollercoaster ride; from being flown out to New York to record their debut album with The Dap-Kings (who also played on Amy Winehouse’s “Back to Black”) to playing in front of four disinterested fishermen in the Scottish Highlands, there hardly seemed to be a dull moment.

Singles “The Thrill of Thirty Seconds”, “This Song Is Definitely Not About You” and “Red Lipstick” gained wide levels of national airplay in 2008 and 2009, which allowed Skint & Demoralised to start building a following. They toured the UK in February 2009 (which included a date at the Roadhouse in Manchester) before being a success on the major festival circuit. However, when Mercury decided not to release their album it looked as though S&D’s short and hectic life was coming to a premature end.

Abbott always peppers their live performances with short bursts of spoken word; a testament to influences John Cooper Clarke and Jon McClure, which always adds a unique aspects to their gigs. He also performed a spoken word/stand-up gig at Manchester’s Night & Day just before Christmas which, apart from one Winehouse-esque heckler, proved to be a huge success.

Fast-forward to 2011 and they’re back on the gigging circuit; this time without a major record deal, but with a second album ready to launch and a live band ready to blow the socks off their audiences. Brand new tracks such as “The Lonely Hearts of England”, “43 Degrees” and “Fireworks” have proved to be popular on the band’s YouTube page, so make sure you bring yourself along to see what the band have to offer. As you already know...there’s never a dull moment.

Join us on facebook 

http://www.youtube.com/user/SkintandDemoralised

DESIGNER MAGAZINE PRESENTS...... SKINT & DEMORALISED

FRIDAY APRIL 1ST - DOORS 7PM
DRY BAR LIVE, OLDHAM STREET, MANCHESTER
£6 online from We Got Tickets / See Tickets (plus mobile phones from Ticketsense - Text skintmanchester to 82028)

* Tickets include a free Skint & Demoralised poetry zine featuring rare lyrics / poetry not available online - only available to advance online / mobile tickets *


SKINT AND DEMORALISED

When Wakefield spoken word artist Matt Abbott (now 22) formed a musical collaboration with Sheffield-based producer MiNI dOG on MySpace in May 2007, neither of them could have guessed what would happen next. After just 6 months they received national airplay on BBC Radio 1 from Steve Lamacq and Colin Murray, and within 9 months they’d signed a lucrative record deal with Mercury Records (Universal).

Their time with Mercury was a rollercoaster ride; from being flown out to New York to record their debut album with The Dap-Kings (who also played on Amy Winehouse’s “Back to Black”) to playing in front of four disinterested fishermen in the Scottish Highlands, there hardly seemed to be a dull moment.

Singles “The Thrill of Thirty Seconds”, “This Song Is Definitely Not About You” and “Red Lipstick” gained wide levels of national airplay in 2008 and 2009, which allowed Skint & Demoralised to start building a following. They toured the UK in February 2009 (which included a date at the Roadhouse in Manchester) before being a success on the major festival circuit. However, when Mercury decided not to release their album it looked as though S&D’s short and hectic life was coming to a premature end.

Abbott always peppers their live performances with short bursts of spoken word; a testament to influences John Cooper Clarke and Jon McClure, which always adds a unique aspects to their gigs. He also performed a spoken word/stand-up gig at Manchester’s Night & Day just before Christmas which, apart from one Winehouse-esque heckler, proved to be a huge success.

Fast-forward to 2011 and they’re back on the gigging circuit; this time without a major record deal, but with a second album ready to launch and a live band ready to blow the socks off their audiences. Brand new tracks such as “The Lonely Hearts of England”, “43 Degrees” and “Fireworks” have proved to be popular on the band’s YouTube page, so make sure you bring yourself along to see what the band have to offer. As you already know...there’s never a dull moment.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/SKINT-DEMORALISED/10318141835
http://www.youtube.com/user/SkintandDemoralised