Week Commencing: 13/6/05
By: Toby L
Glasto,
Is looming. You may well have noticed, as per a prior posting, that the rockfeedback arsenal will out there en masse, causing ructions and initiating some uber-exclusive(-ish) private partying. More news here.
Next week, meanwhile, also sees the next Basement Club of sorts; a hi-jacked version, at least, via our sister record-label Transgressive Records. It'll feature a DJ-set from Hope of the States, plus live-sets from newcomers Jeremy Warmsley, Ladyfuzz and Larrikin Love - more info as follows:
Transgressive Records
:present:
THE BASEMENT CLUB
:featuring:
LADYFUZZ
+ LARRIKIN LOVE
+ JEREMY WARMSLEY
+ HOPE OF THE STATES (DJ-set)
plus further guest, rockfeedback DJ's
@ HIGHBURY BUFFALO BAR, N1
THURSDAY 23RD JUNE 2005
Just £3:00 Entry / 8pm 'til 2am
In order to reserve advance entry, email us at thebasement@rockfeedback.com., or stating your no. of tix-request and mobile-phone number. More info on the bands here:
LADYFUZZ: Fresh off the road with The Futureheads and The Rakes, Ladyfuzz perform a rare / low-key headline date in their capital. New single 'Hold Up' is released the following week on Transgressive, following their sell-out debut, and Trash favourite 'Oh Marie' (currently an underground Stateside club hit and hot eBay find). The band used to number Tom Vek and Kele of Bloc Party in their line-up and are the most infectious art-pop threesome presently lining a British/or beyond stage.
LARRIKIN LOVE: Fresh from shows with fellow Transgressive exponents and media darlings Mystery Jets and The Young Knives, this vital, thrilling new London foursome take in all of ska, Irish jiggery, white-boy reggae and Libs-y agit-pop, yet meld it in a vacuum of charisma, honesty and poetic home truths that so very few could match. Frontman Edward Larrikin is one of the great British frontmen of our age, and will convert you. Their debut single 'Six Queens' (a John Kennedy/Xfm and 'NME' Stereo fave) is out this week via the esteemed Young & Lost Club.
JEREMY WARMSLEY: Currently garnering the sort of buzz and excited whispers that all too few could anticipate in the overcrowded, oft cutthroat climes of the London capital, the half-French/half-Cambridge boy Warmsley only needs a guitar, pair of specs and winning vocal (and maybe some pedal looping effects) in order to shine. His star is swiftly rising, with Radio One / BBC 6 Music and Xfm plays already lining his debut 'I Believe In The Way You Move'. A Transgressive EP follows in the Autumn.
- Plus: DJ-sets from the rockfeedback massive, and top-40 slaying, epic prog-pomp-strings-bolstered-sextet combo, HOPE OF THE STATES.
It's a quiveringly decent line-up. Please join us. See you next Thurs @ 8.
And, before all the charts, thanks to all those that gave us feedback on our debut 'rockfeedback tv' shows for MTV2 - repeats due shortly, stay tuned for that info, with more content set for broadcast in the channel later this year - view the official site here.
UK Charts this week: U2 fail to knock off (so to speak) the Crazy Frog from the top of the charts (oh, for f**k's sake...); Ordinary Boys are 16 with 'Boys Will Be Boys'; Good Charlotte manage 30 with 'The Chronicles of Life & Death'; The Departure's re-released 'All Mapped Out' is 33; Saint Etienne garner 36 with 'Side Streets'; Audioslave scrape 40 with 'Be Yourself'; LCD Soundsystem and 'Disco Infiltrator' are 49; the ragged, rugged scrapings of Neil's Children provide the 56 spot; and 'God Knows' from Mando Diao obtains 64. Albums... Coldplay of course topple Oasis by snatching the top spot with 'X&Y'; White Stripes come third with 'Get Behind Me Satan'; The Tears are 15 with their debut, 'Here Come...'; and Sons & Daughters' terrific 'The Repulsion Box' snags 70.
See you next week.