New band night @ Eric's Liverpool - Fri 18 Nov

New band night @ Eric's Liverpool

Friday November 18

The Fallows, All We Are, Super-Cannes and Get Back Colquitt

Eric's, Liverpool - £5 tickets on door 730pm

Ellesmere Port band The Fallows have been together for around 18 months, bringing together years of experience on the Liverpool scene and a variety of musical influences to their infectious sound. This summer saw them play a blinder at the Chester Rocks Festival on same bill as Iggy Pop &The Stooges and last month they had a sell out hometown show.

Their recent single release Lazy Eye, is an uplifting and energetic follow up and a contrast to the brooding and bluesy debut release The Caine. With a fierce and melodic rock'n roll edge, coupled with catchy riffs and brutally honest vocals, The Fallows explode on stage, building, drawing and electrifying the crowd with a soaring and powerfully delivered sound.

All We Are are the new Liverpool based Alt-Pop-Psychedelic-Folk Trio given the thumbs up by Tom Waits at the International Songwriting Competition 2011! UK/Liverpool band All We Are is a neatly matched trio of musicians Rich, Guro & Luis. Their three part vocal harmonies and kettle-whistling guitar float over flowery bass and hypnotic drums that rise from soft and haunting, to driving anthemic endings and electrifying live shows.

A kaleidoscopically spinning soundtrack to your reccurring daydream… All We Are have now written and filmed their second EP in a cabin in Norway to be released in late 2011-early 2012, and touring the UK and Europe with Stealing Sheep and Love Inks.

Get Back Colquitt are an Indie four piece from Liverpool, with more tunes than you can shake a glow stick at. With dangerously infectious hooks and beautifully addictive melodies that have the energy of Mona and a nod to Bombay Bicycle Club, the band received airplay on Radio 1 after only a few months of being together. With a triumphant support slot with Life In Film at MOJO earlier in the year, they supported The Twang in Ooctober and release a single this month, the rest of 2011 looks like being an extremely exciting year for GBC.

Super Cannes, a band in the old school mould, putting the quality and depth of their music before commercial success. Expert musicianship lies behind a beautiful dark and twisted sound, combining psychedelia, epic indie, and art rock. Influenced by everything from Radiohead and Pink Floyd to Aphex Twin and Joy Division their sound is a 'physical and shifting thing' (Liverpool Sound City) and draws you in immediately. These four charming musical troubadours are deserving of the commercial and critical success that is sure to come knocking.

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More Eric’s shows Announced

Monday November 14 – Jim Lauderdale (support tbc)£10 
Friday November 18 - The Fallows, Super-Cannes & Get Back Colquitt £5
Friday December 2 - The South (support tbc) £20 

Saturday December 3 - Altered Images (support tbc) £20

Eric’s, Mathew Street, Liverpool

Doors 7.30pm

Tickets are available from the venue www.ericslive.com and www.ticketline.co.uk

On Monday November 14, there will be a special gig from Grammy winner Jim Lauderdale. Jim featured in the Gwyneth Paltrow film, Country Strong, as a member of her band and performed with her as band leader on rhythm guitar at the 2010 Country Music Awards

Recent  appearance  on Austin  City Limits  as a  member  of  Elvis Costello's  Sugarcanes band,  and  2010  performances  with  Willie Nelson.

When Jim Lauderdale was a North Carolina teenager back in the 1970s, he had a straightforward idea of what he wanted to be when he grew up: a tenorsinging, banjo-playing bluegrass musician.  As it turned out, the banjo playing fell by the wayside, and so did much of the tenor singing.  But the bluegrass musician part?  For the answer, consult any of the half-dozen stellar bluegrass albums Lauderdale's made over the past  decade and a half, including 2003's Grammy for  Best  Bluegrass  Album  with Ralph  Stanley - or,  even  better, just spin  the  Americana  icon's  debut  for  Sugar  Hill  Records, Reason  And Rhyme.

Friday November 18 sees The Fallows, Super-Cannes and Get Back Colquitt.

The Fallows have been together for around 18 months, bringing together years of experience on the Liverpool scene and a variety of musical influences to their infectious sound. This summer saw them play a blinder at the Chester Rocks Festival on same bill as Iggy Pop & The Stooges.

With a fierce and melodic rock’n roll edge, coupled with catchy riffs and brutally honest vocals, The Fallows explode on stage, building, drawing and electrifying the crowd with a soaring and powerfully delivered sound.

Get Back Colquitt are an Indie four piece from Liverpool, with more tunes than you can shake a glow stick at. With dangerously infectious hooks and beautifully addictive melodies that have the energy of Mona and a nod to Bombay Bicycle Club, the band received airplay on Radio 1 after only a few months of being together. With a triumphant support slot with Life In Film at MOJO earlier in the year, and an up and coming support slot with The Twang in October plus a single release in November, the rest of 2011 looks like being an extremely exciting year for GBC.

Super Cannes, a band in the old school mould, putting the quality and depth of their music before commercial success. Expert musicianship lies behind a beautiful dark and twisted sound, combining psychedelia, epic indie, and art rock. Influenced by everything from Radiohead and Pink Floyd to Aphex Twin and Joy Division their sound is a 'physical and shifting thing' (Liverpool Sound City) and draws you in immediately. These four charming musical troubadours are deserving of the commercial and critical success that is sure to come knocking...

On Friday December 2 it’s The South.  After 20 years, ten studio albums, five greatest hits compilations, thirty-four chart singles, 15 million record sales worldwide and performing in front of millions of fans, when time was called on The Beautiful South in 2008, not everyone was ready to leave the party.

Dave Hemingway and Ali Wheeler, lead singers with the band - along with departed songwriter Paul Heaton – were having too much fun to get out the pipe and slippers, and so The South was formed. Armed with a sensational back catalogue of hits such as ‘Song For Whoever’, ‘Perfect Ten’, ‘Rotterdam’, ‘Don't Marry Her’, ‘You Keep It All In’, ‘Old Red Eyes Is Back’ and many others, there is a long way to go on this particular road.

This band has history and pedigree. Dave Hemingway’s musical career stretches back into the Eighties.  He became a founder member of The Beautiful South after the demise of The Housemartins.

On Saturday December 3 there’ll be a rare gig from Altered Images. One of the brightest stars in the 80s new wave sky, Altered Images are best remembered for their number one single Happy Birthday' and bubbly lead singer Claire Grogan.

She started her 30 year long career as a schoolgirl popstar. By day she was studying for her A Levels and at night she was touring with Siouxsie and the Banshees, playing festivals alongside Echo And The Bunnymen, The Human League, U2 and recording sessions for legendary DJ, John Peel.

had worldwide success, selling millions of records, which topped the charts in several countries. They recorded three Top 10 Albums – Happy Birthday, Pinky Blue and Bite.

They were voted Best New Group at the NME awards the same year they were invited to play at The Royal Command Performance. After an 18 year gap in performing with Altered Images, Clare was persuaded to sing their hits again. It promises to be a great night.

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The Sums debut album launch at the Zanzibar Liverpool

THE SUMS

 DEBUT ALBUM 'IF ONLY' & LAUNCH 

 Saturday 29th October at the Zanzibar Liverpool

The Sums

The Fallows

Rob Smith ( acoustic )

The Ladykillers

DJ Andy Carroll  ( Classic State set )

7.30pm till 1.00am

£5.00 from Probe and the Zanzibar or £6.00 on the door

"If Only" available from Townsend Records on download and cd from Monday 17th Oct.

Out of the ashes of their previous band  ‘Smaller’ rose ‘The Sums’ with a stronger arrangement of musical master pieces. " We aim to put Liverpool on the moon and not only on the map " says singer Digsy.
Based in Liverpool , Smaller were a part of the UK Brit pop scene who smashed into the indie top 10 with classic singles taken from the critically acclaimed album  Badly Badly, featuring the tracks, Stray dogs and bin bags , God I hate this town and Is,  with Noel Gallagher on guitar.

The band were very much in demand and toured with The Stereophonics, Catatonia, Paul Weller and Oasis. Then in 2005 the bands singer/song writers Peter ( Digsy) Deary and Chris Mullin decided to end Smaller and take a new avenue of creativity and formed The Sums.

Armed with Lee Watson on guitar and Bren Moore on drums, they soon attached a loyal following and played rocking gigs around the UK and Ireland…one of the highlights being a 11,000 Capital of culture gig at Liverpool’s  Echo arena in which they were the shinning lights amongst many stars. Digsy along with Chris Mullin write strong, passionate, addictive melodies an pen lyrics which are as sharp as a knife!
"It's been hard for us to exist as a band with a minus zero budget. This album captures an honest representation of who we are and how we sound with out any major label production. A lot of people have been waiting a long time for a release from us, and after all this time, its good to be able to share what weve created, and to be put back in a position to move forward musically and prepare for the next album" says  Chris Mullin songwriter and bass player from the band.
Guitarist Lee Watson provides fantastic guitar work and ensures strong and to the point riffs are put into the mix, and with his valued creative input, Lee always provides and adds the finishing touches to the tracks.
Unfortunately Bren Moore had to leave the band due to personal commitments and back in to the hot seat came Chris Campbell who was drumming with the lads as Smaller in the later days….
The Sums:
Peter ‘Digsy’ Deary – Guitar / Vocals
Chris Mullin – Bass / Vocals
Lee Watson – Guitar

http://thesums.net
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Sums/15632295525
http://twitter.com/#!/chrismully

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