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February at 12 Bar: final monthly Blang
Monday, 13 February 2012
Blang Final. The monthly Blang nights started in February 2002. Tonight will be the last as we celebrate our 10th birthday and say goodnight.
Blang @ The 12 Bar Presents
12 Bar Club, Denmark Street, WC2
Monday February 13
Sergeant Buzfuz
All The Queen’s Ravens
Slate Islands
and a late set from deXter Bentley
£5
Doors 7.30
Bar ‘till 2 am.
8 30 Slate Islands
A Celtic noir punch made from folk, cabaret and the delicate and monstrous observations of Highland storyteller Polly MacLean. Expect their debut album on Blang later this year. “well executed, witty and more than a little disturbing. You wonder what other dark tales you'll find lurking when the album drops later in the year.” (Sounds XP)
www.slateislands.com
9 15 All The Queen’s Ravens
Putting the flame into flamenco, All The Queen’s ravens whip up a storm of Spanish and English folk rhythms led by the dueling voices of Laura Hillman and Charlotte Aggett.
www.allthequeensravens.co.uk
10 00 Sergeant Buzfuz
Tonight Sergeant Buzfuz unveil their fifth album ‘Go To The Devil And Shake Yourself’ which chronicles the story of the papacy from St Peter to the early 15th century. "Popes manages to be political, amusing, adventurous, intelligent and incredibly memorable, features which are rare in isolation, and seldom ever found in the same song at the same time. It’s quirky without being whacky, imaginative without being self-indulgent, and funny without being throwaway. It may even at times make you feel angry." (Sweeping The Nation)
www.sergeantbuzfuz.com
11 00 deXter Bentley and the JERMS
Now a quintet, Richard deXter Bentley, presenter of Resonance FM’s Hello Goodbye show and possessor of fine folk-soul tenor voice and the JERMS, spinners of delicious warm acoustica, sing beguiling songs about everything from taking a girl who hogs the candy floss to the beach to the death of NY Doll Arthur Kane. The latter, a 7 inch white vinyl Blang release prompted The Mag to praise its “great mini-climaxes spread throughout it's four and a bit minutes” (steady on!) and caused the Norman Records reviewer to speculate “I'd like to think he looks like David Essex and has an eye for the ladies!”
http://hellogoodbyeshow.com
www.12barclub.com
Holloway Tales
Tuesday, 27 December 2011
Blang @ The 12 Bar Presents:
12 Bar Club, Denmark Street, WC2
Monday January 9
Blang presents Holloway Tales
Featuring: Joe Murphy (Sergeant Buzfuz), Paul Hawkins, Polly MacLean (Slate Islands), Partition, Hillfield and Stone, Depresstival, The Big Fibbers, Sneezy Stu and Suzanna Catz
£5
Doors 7.30
Bar ‘till 2 am.
8 15 Holloway Tales
On a Saturday afternoon in November ten songwriters assembled at different points of Holloway Road and spent the day roving around the pubs and cafes. Their mission, to write a song inspired by something they’d seen, heard, experienced or imagined that day. Tonight they present their songs.
9 15 All acts play another 2 songs each.
www.sergeantbuzfuz.com
http://outsiderpop.com/tag/paul-hawkins-thee-awkward-silences
http://slateislands.com
www.myspace.com/thebandpartition
http://soundcloud.com/rob-hillfield
http://www.facebook.com/Depresstival
http://www.bigfibbers.co.uk
http://www.myspace.com/thesneezyts
http://www.susannacatz.co.uk
December Blang at 12 Bar Club
Monday, 12 December 2011
Blang @ The 12 Bar Presents:
12 Bar Club, Denmark Street, WC2
Monday December 12
Ricky Spontane
Fear Of The Forest
Listen Lisse
£5
Doors 7.30
Bar ‘till 2 am.
8 30 Listen Lisse
Lisa McKendrick sings from her third album ‘Sunset Over Cairo’. Minimalist post-punk drone-rock.
www.listenlisse.com
9 15 Fear Of The Forest
Kate Arnold (ex-Sergeant Buzfuz) unveils her new experimental ethnomusical quintet. Tonight Kate (dulcimer/violin/vox) is joined by Jon Clayton on cello and players of electric guitar, hurdy gurdy and Arabic percussion.
10 00 Ricky Spontane
Ricky Spontane, "the Liverpudlian garage-punk behemoths it's ok to snog during your first date", as the NME once said of them, return to the London stage for the first time in over two years, in a rare live appearance.
Singer Richard Batchelor breaks out of self-imposed Parisian exile, to be joined by Stephen A Wood, Talya S Davies and Bozwell Feign, to promote their new limited-edition mini-album, "Spontane 3", which, rather logically for the Spontane, is their third album, hot on the heels of the critically acclaimed "Spontane Time" and "Hit The Town", and appearances on such fab compilations as the Blang "Fruit Machine" album, and Guided Missile's "Hits And Missiles", among many others... They will be playing selections from "Spontane 3", as well as old favourites; rockers, rollers, slowies and strollers. It’s Spontane time again!
www.rickyspontane.co.uk
www.12barclub.com
November Blang at 12 Bar Club
Monday, 14 November 2011
Blang @ The 12 Bar Presents:
12 Bar Club, Denmark Street, WC2
Tuesday November 14
Sheepy
The Magnetic Mind
The Soft Close-Ups
£5
Doors 7.30
Bar ‘till 2 am.
8 30 The Soft Close-Ups
Lounge-pop torch songs from ex-Luxembourg singer David Shah aided and abetted by Aug Stone.
“such a talented, criminally overlooked lyricist/vocalist." (God Is In The TV)
"David [is] still disturbingly blessed with an unnerving knack for cobbling together a nifty slice of attractively drilled candy pop” (Losing Today)
www.myspace.com/thesoftcloseups
9 15 The Magnetic Mind
The 60s psych-garage and West Coast folk-rock inspired Magnetic Mind are like a mix of the Nuggets folk, pop and punk compilations, but with Ellie Foden as lead singer they mostly bring to mind The Great Society. Currently recording their first single with Liam Watson at Toe Rag.
www.myspace.com/themagneticmind
10 00 Sheepy (Predator EP launch)
Alan McGee would have sold his drugs and leather trousers and commandeered a taxi to Liverpool had he heard Sheepy in the heyday of Creation Records. The lyrics are a mix of innocence and urban observation. The music stands effortlessly with the best of that city’s pop music heritage over the last 50 years. His first single on Blang, Predator, is a punk-pop joyride but that’s just the start. There’s a lot more to come from this skinny young Scousepop dreamer.
http://www.reverbnation.com/sheepy
www.12barclub.com
October Blang at 12 Bar Club
Monday, 19 September 2011
Blang @ The 12 Bar Presents:
12 Bar Club, Denmark Street, WC2
Tuesday October 4
The Dead Class
Vamos
Jowe Head And The Demi-Monde
Sergeant Buzfuz
Facebook event
£5
Doors 7.30
Bar ‘till 2 am.
8 15 Sergeant Buzfuz
"another two effortless tunes. Danny's Room is situated somewhere inbetween Simon And Garfunkel and The Beatles at their most maudlin, it's a gorgeous lament. Molly's Bar is more upbeat with a chorus which impales itself in your head from first listen...Like Belle And Sebastian with the 'twee' trimmed off, perfect for the summer, and one of their best singles to date" (Sounds XP)
www.sergeantbuzfuz.com
9 00 Jowe Head And The Demi-Monde
After appearing last month with experimental folk troupe Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders the Jowe Head season continues with the former Swell Map/Television Personality’s psych-folk-drone-rock ensemble The Demi-Monde.
MySpace
9 45 Vamos
Originally formed in Liverpool but based in Galway since 2004 Vamos are headed by squabbling laughing energy-wired brothers Tomas and Vinny Wood. Their raucous’n’roll power trio Vamos is a high voltage itch that just has to be scratched.
Vamos Facebook
10 30 The Dead Class
Conversely The Dead Class are based in Liverpool and fronted by mercurial Galwegian Villy Raze. A high-octane express train ride filled with punk pop sparks.
MySpace
www.12barclub.com
September Blang at 12 Bar Club
Friday, 05 August 2011
Blang @ The 12 Bar Presents:
12 Bar Club, Denmark Street, WC2
Tuesday September 6
The Real Bad Habits
Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders
Luge
and a late set from Joe Murphy
Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=215865051799573
£5
Doors 7.30
Bar ‘till 2 am.
8 30 Luge
In the 70s Jordan and McQueen were Scots internationals who played for Leeds and Man Utd. Now Jordan and McQueen are the guitarists in West London London jangle pop combo Luge.
www.myspace.com/letsluge
9 15 Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders
Jowe Head (Swell Maps/TVPs/etc) and songwriter Catherine Gerbrands (guitar/autoharp/harmonium/saw) join forces to create neo-folk songs of shimmering fragility.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzRR5XJjg8o
10 00 The Real Bad Habits
This seven piece carnival formed at school in South East London. Their horn and rhythm sections swing together to create a rollicking party of ska and rocksteady.
http://www.badhabits.org.uk
10 45 Joe Murphy
Sgt Buzfuz singer plays solo. “REM would kill, hopefully each other, for songs like these” (Unpeeled)
www.sergeantbuzfuz.com
August Blang at 12 Bar Club
Sunday, 24 July 2011
Blang @ The 12 Bar Presents:
12 Bar Club, Denmark Street, WC2
Tuesday August 2
Pale Man Made
The Buzfuz String Band
The Fifth Runway
and a late set from Skye’s Diamond
Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=261150747235042
£5
Doors 7.30
Bar ‘till 2 am.
8 30 The Fifth Runway
Paul Carr (guitar/vocals) and Chris Scobie (keyboard/vocals) present a narrative song cycle of surreal English music hall ditties with echoes of Bonzos, Kevin Ayers, Pete Um and Noel Coward on Mandrax. Originally written for a series on Resonance the story has unravelled into a forthcoming second series due in the Autumn.
www.soundcloud.com/thefifthrunway
9 15 The Buzfuz String Band
Acoustic line-up of Buzfuz tonight. “Referencing 1960s punk, psychedelia, Krautrock, Irish folk, glam rock and drone, Buzfuz achieve a harmonious, chiming mash-up, sounding like none of the above” (Aesthetica)
www.sergeantbuzfuz.com
10 00 Pale Man Made
C86 old-skool indiefrom the North East featuring male-female vocal interplay, bittersweet lyrics and discordant jangling. Debut album “Oh, My Treasured Things” was a Huw Stephens album of the week on Radio 1. Songs about wild boars, snooker players, giant squids and evil MPs.
www.myspace.com/palemanmade
10 45 Skye’s Diamond
Tom Evans produces ambient soundscapes from a bass guitar and effects pedals.
http://soundcloud.com/skyes-diamond-uk
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