Designer Magazine Presents - March 2012 Gig Listings - Dry Bar / Roadhouse

March 2nd @ Dry Bar - 7pm doors - £5 (14+)

The Imogen Styles
Hollywood or Bust
Lizzie Tupman
+ more TBC

The Imogen Styles "We want to make pop music that feels like you've been slapped after you've heard it. We want to write pop songs like 'Blue Monday', or 'It's A Sin', or 'In For The Kill' ... they pretty much succeed in that!!!

* March 3rd @ The Roadhouse - - 7pm doors - £5 (18+)

Funf at The Roadhouse feat...
The Room
The Reveres
The Auditeurs
Colombia
+ 1 more TBC

Funf is one of Manchester's most popular local band showcase nights. Funf bands for Funf pound with drinks offers all night. At this one there's rumour's Salfords Super Hero Knight Warrior will be making an appearance in costume - don't have a clue - google it? It's funny!!!

* March 5th @ Dry Bar - 7pm doors - £5 (14+)
French Wives
Bob Dean
The Vox

Overflowing with melody, their songs flutter the heart strings with grace and vigour' The Scotsman on French Wives - think Belle & Sebastian / Camera Obscura - memorable, melodic pop music with interesting and intelligent lyrical content

* March 17th @ Dry Bar - 6.30pm doors - £5 (14+)

Metal on Metal launch night featuring..
Kids With Machetes
Propax
Skies Turn Black
Lute
Lynchpin

Designer Magazine's new metal night Metal On Metal (named after the Anvil song) launches with an amazing headline set form metal / dubstep crossover act Kids With Machetes. Have to be seen to be believed

* March 31st @ Dry Bar - 6.30pm doors - £5 (14+)
The Montoyas
Loaded Dice
Grounds
Kat Mullen
Transition Baby

Showcases have become something of a dirty word in 2012 as every man and their dog likes to think they can put on a showcase

However Designer Magazine gigs are different  with 12 years experience running the music website and 7 years running the gig our ears are finely tuned into picking out only the very best that means students earning online associates degrees in
music can listen to all the best music in one place before getting back
to their studies.

With 4 amazing bands and Kat Mullen, literally the best female vocalist we've had on our gigs ever - this is not to be missed!!!

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Designer Magazine presents The Imogen Styles at the Dry Bar Mancester

Designer Magazine have THE IMOGEN STYLES headlining our Dry Bar Gig on Friday March 2nd... last time they played we described it as "an arena show in a basement venue - epic"

Top Of The Pops performance, complete with high energy electro synths, flashy retina-searing visuals, some serious pouting and a surplus of double hand claps.
Basically, imagine the opposite of an acoustic set. That's what THE IMOGEN STYLES are all about.

"I like pop with a punch", says wired frontman and song writer Christopher Dresden Styles. "I'm not much of a fan of subtlety. That isn't to say I can't appreciate the realm of the more understated pop song, but it's not what we want to do. We want to make pop music that feels like you've been slapped after you've heard it. We want to write pop songs like 'Blue Monday', or 'It's A Sin', or 'In For The Kill'. We want people so say "wow" after hearing one of our tracks. If we were being pigeonholed, I suppose you could call us 'Exclamation Pop'. If you must."
Fronting the band alongside CDS is Syma - like the very best pop stars, she needs only one name. Imagine the impossibly charismatic lovechild of Madonna and Debbie Harry, with a commanding off-kilter vocal similar to Deborah Evans-Strickland meets a baritone Sarah Nixey. That's Syma.

The following review of their recent headline show at Manchester’s famous Dry Bar in December 2011 sums the whole package up perfectly:
"Imagine if the Pet Shop Boys were fronted by Jarvis Cocker, with Chris Lowe reincarnated as a sassy bitch".

You can't argue with that.

The same gig was also described by the experienced venue promoter as "amazing" and "like an arena show", and that they'd seen nothing like it "in seven years of putting on live music".
If reading the above has piqued your interest and you'd like to experience THE IMOGEN STYLES live, then the band are again headlining Manchester's Dry Bar on Friday 2nd March 2012, with a stage time of approximately 10pm. Email your details through to info@theimogenstyles.com if you'd like to be placed on the guestlist.
If you'd like to see / hear more about THE IMOGEN STYLES before their headline gig, then here are the links:

WEBSITE: http://www.theimogenstyles.com

 MUSIC: http://www.theimogenstyles.com/music.html 

FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/TheImogenStyles
TWITTER: http://www.twitter.com/theimogenstyles

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