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Dot to Dot Festival – Saturday 2nd June

mao6E34gf — Tue, 01 May 2012 17:35:34 +0000

Dot To Dot are pleased to announce the following acts for 2012…

THE DRUMS // PULLED APART BY HORSES // WILLY MASON // WAVVES // DOG IS DEAD // WILLIS EARL BEAL //HOORAY FOR EARTH // LUCY ROSE // POND

Admiral Fallow // Bastille // Beth Jeans Houghton // Bondax // Broken Hands // Clock Opera // Deaf Club // Dirty Goods // Islet // Jake Bugg // Kyla La Grange // Lulu James // Murray James // The Night // Patterns // Peace // Pearl & The Beard // Rae Morris // Random Impulse // The Rumour Said Fire // Ryan Keen // Scoundrels // Summer Camp // Swiss Lips // THePETEBOX // Turbowolf // Vadoinmessico // Wonder Villains // Plus many more!

Dot To Dot | Advance Tickets

Shabazz Palaces – live on Friday 11th May

ben — Tue, 01 May 2012 14:54:06 +0000

Black Up is the new sonic move from Shabazz Palaces. Like rich velvet hijabs or gold threaded abayas. Luxury as understood by the modest. Shabazz Palaces. If Bedouins herded beats instead of goats and settled in Seattle instead of the Atlas Mountains, this would be their album. Forward thinkers but nostalgic for a sparer time when ancient astronomers only recognized five planets. Hip hop. Black light uses electromagnetic radiation to eradicate microorganisms, but shabazz didn’t come to kill a sound, just to shine their own incandescent lamp on this. Hear. Hard and clear. Fifty thousand years in the making. Honorable.—palaceer pink gators. Produced by Knife Knights.plcrs at Gunbeat Serenade Studio in Outplace Palacelands. It was recorded and mixed in Lixx-alog by Blood.

Click play above to listen to ‘Swerve’ by Shabazz Palaces.

Shabazz Palaces

Simple Things Festival 2012 with Squarepusher live, Death In Vegas live, Simian Mobile Disco, Caribou plus lots more – Sunday 6th May

ben — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 07:10:44 +0000

Spread across a multitude of city centre venues. Simple Things is a one day music and visual festival situated in the heart of Bristol. Launching in 2011 the festival is back for 2012 with an increased capacity and a far more diverse eclectic lineup. Having sold out last year, we’ll be adding more venues to the event this year to ease the load on you all. A very limited number of cheap early bird tickets are now on sale now at Bristol Ticket Shop We’re very excited to announce our first confirmations, with many more to come. For more info visit the Simple Things Facebook event or website.

Inland Sea – live on Wednesday 9th May

ben — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:38:24 +0000

Espousing an unpretentious indie-sweetness … the band fell the crowd into a mesmeric quiet, everyone just-about remembering to breathe when they finish. Young Brisbane Band will leave you gob Smacked. Five part harmonies (3F/2M), great instrumentation and most importantly fabulous songs – they’ve only played a handful of gigs but do yourself a favour and check ‘em out, bloody impressive.

Inland Sea

The Black Belles – live on Tuesday 8th May

ben — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:26:25 +0000

Formed in Nashville USA. Mentored by ex WHTIE STRIPES front man JACK WHITE through his THIRD MAN RECORDS Label, the BLACK BELLES are very hard to miss. The band create a dark blend of 60′s Garage Rock and Soul with a modern twist! Support from Dynamite Pussy Club!

Click play above to listen to ‘What Can I Do’ by The Black Belles.

The Black Belles | Dynamite Pussy Club

Weird Dreams – live on Tuesday 1st May

ben — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:20:03 +0000

Having just finished a tour in support of The War On Drugs, Weird Dreams hope to puncture the bubble of recognition with their sunshine infused sway-rock. They have an eerie guitar pop sensibility that instrumentally makes for a pleasantly surreal ambience layered with intriguing lyrics and gratifying vocal harmonies. Adding to this this is their sweet Male Bonding/Cheetahs connections via bassist/backing vocalist Hugo Edwards.

Click play above to listen to ‘Holding Nails’ by Weird Dreams.

Weird Dreams

Lydia Loveless – live on Wednesday 25th April

ben — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:12:50 +0000

If you believe in Rock ‘N’ Roll, you pray for people like Lydia Loveless. Her defiant tone is matched by songs that put country and punk on equal ground, unvarnished and direct. An old soul in a 21 year-old’s body, Lydia Loveless sings about the kind of heartache usually reserved for someone working on her third marriage. She Manages to conjure up both Exene and Neko Case.

Click play above to listen to ‘Can’t Change Me’ by Lydia Loveless.

Lydia Loveless

Start The Bus Associated Festival : Beacons Festival New Announcements

mao6E34gf — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:08:52 +0000

Our associated festival : Beacons is pleased to announce further additions to the line-up to the festival this summer, which includes a northern exclusive from Mercury prize nominated Wild Beast. New additions include The Felice Brothers, Julio Bashmore, Real Estate, Oneman, Cloud Nothings, Koreless, Willis Earl Beal, Andrew Weatherall “A Love From Out Space”, Jacuzzi Boys, Stopmakingme, Weird Dreams, Bleeding Knees Club, Tall Ships, Blacklisters, Souljazz Soundsystem & Luvjam. Head to the Beacons website for more info and tickets, Regulars Cards holders can get a discount!

THEESatisfaction – Friday 20th April

mao6E34gf — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:27:41 +0000

THEESatisfaction are Stasia Irons and Catherine Harris-White. Stas was born and raised in Tacoma, Cat in Seattle and Hawaii. The pair live/laugh/love/dance and create in Seattle, WA. They write, produce and perform their own material, funk-psychedelic feminista sci-fi epics with the warmth and depth of Black Jazz and Sunday morning soul, frosted with icy raps that evoke equal parts Elaine Brown, Ursula Rucker and Q-Tip. PLUS.. Roots and Hip hop collide in the official release party for the debut single of ‘The Subversions’…live dub mash ups and rhymes from the new signees to Bristol’s ‘High Noon records’. 7″ Dub pressure on decks from Dj Ben Dubuisson (high noon), w/ DJ Skint.

Click play above to listen to ‘Mourning SAMO’ by THEESatisfaction.

THEESatisfaction

iconAclass – live on Tuesday 10th April

ben — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:05:01 +0000

iconAclass is the new project from MC/producer Will Brooks best known as dälek. As front person and co-producer in the group Dälek he explored the left of center/ wall of noise world ala My Bloody Valentine meets Public Enemy on 6 studio albums. iconAclass, his newest solo project, see him maintaining the gritty view of boom-bap he is know for, while returning to his roots.

Facebook Event | iconAclass