tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90350534104391953912024-02-18T18:14:48.528-08:00Bands & BooksBands and Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01682359899938175700noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9035053410439195391.post-22022167217811795322012-09-05T02:54:00.000-07:002012-09-05T02:56:20.432-07:00Reader Profile: Al Hutchins<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Stop Press! </b>Joining the Amnesty international fundraising birthday party at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/456370251054349/" target="_blank">Power Lunches next Sunday</a> is the West Midland's finest wordsmith, Al Hutchins!</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over the years Al's supported- in no particular order- Steve Tasene's "Klepto" (Bham Rep), Malika Booker, the late great Hovis Presley, Simon Munnery, John Hegley and Francesca Beard; </span></i><i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">performed with The New October Poets at The Poetry Cafe and Ledbury Poetry Festival, and been main support to pop group Guillemots at both The Alexandra Theatre (Bham) and Brixton Academy in London. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">" I wish I could find the words to describe the level of enthusiasm I feel for Al Hutchins' work; I'm a big fan, but poems like, "Man Reading Gibbon On The Midland Red", "Loneliest" and "I Don't Wanna Do Or See Shit" come to mind. I only pick out these three to illustrate the breadth of which he's capable. </span></i><i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But what can you say about poetry that poetry can't say about itself ?!" </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">Al joins <a href="http://welovebandsandbooks.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/reader-profile-tim-wells.html" target="_blank">Tim Wells</a>, <a href="http://welovebandsandbooks.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/readerband-profile-sid-griffin_25.html" target="_blank">Sid Griffin</a> and <a href="http://welovebandsandbooks.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/band-profile-ralegh-long-primary-three.html" target="_blank">Ralegh Long & the Primary Three</a> to complete our lineup for this very special fundraiser. There are a limited number of £3 advance tickets available <a href="http://lovebandsandbooks.eventbrite.com/" target="_blank">here</a>, otherwise there are tickets on the door at £5, with all proceeds going to Amnesty. The night kicks off at 7:30 sharp! </span></span></div>
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Bands and Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01682359899938175700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9035053410439195391.post-14010789063990959442012-09-01T09:15:00.000-07:002012-09-01T09:17:54.567-07:00Reader Profile: Tim Wells<div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">If you don't have <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/456370251054349/" target="_blank">Sunday September 9th</a> etched into your calendar as the date of the Bands & Books birthday charity fundraiser extravaganza, then you should probably do that right now! In the meantime, allow us to introduce you to Mr Tim Wells, erstwhile Bands & Books DJ, and poet extraordinaire! Tim Joins <a href="http://welovebandsandbooks.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/readerband-profile-sid-griffin_25.html" target="_blank">Sid Griffin</a>, <a href="http://welovebandsandbooks.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/band-profile-ralegh-long-primary-three.html" target="_blank">Ralegh Long & the Primary Three</a> and <a href="http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=nX_XLjXPwbQ&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DnX_XLjXPwbQ&gl=GB" target="_blank">Al Hutchins</a> to complete our lineup for next Sunday's <a href="http://powerlunchesltd.co.uk/" target="_blank">Power Lunches</a> show in aid of Amnesty International.</span></div>
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Bands and Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01682359899938175700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9035053410439195391.post-26320171507050092372012-08-30T02:16:00.001-07:002012-08-30T02:21:29.869-07:00Band Profile: Ralegh Long & The Primary Three<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Joining </span><a href="http://welovebandsandbooks.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/readerband-profile-sid-griffin_25.html" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Sid Griffin</a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.donutpress.co.uk/index.php?authors&id=9" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Tim Wells</a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, and latest addition to the </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/456370251054349/" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Bands & Books Amnesty International fundraising 1st Birthday party BONANZA</a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX_XLjXPwbQ" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Al Hutchins</a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, is Ralegh Long & the Primary Three. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can catch Ralegh Long, Tim Wells, Sid Griffin & Al Hutchins in a musical/literary/poetry smash-up on the 9th September at <a href="http://powerlunchesltd.co.uk/" target="_blank">Power Lunches on Kingsland Road.</a></span><br />
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Bands and Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01682359899938175700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9035053410439195391.post-68612344992753969432012-08-25T04:38:00.003-07:002012-08-25T04:38:58.140-07:00Reader/Band Profile: Sid Griffin<div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
Back from our Summer hols, having had a restful time witnessing the exertions of Team GB from the exhausting heat of Istanbul; team B&B is delighted to bring you news of our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/456370251054349/" target="_blank">September 9th Amnesty International fundraiser! </a></div>
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books; Gram Parsons: A Musical Biography (1985), Bluegrass Guitar: Know The
Players, Play The Music (2005), Million Dollar Bash: Bob Dylan, The Band &
the Basement Tapes (2007) and Shelter From The Storm: Bob Dylan’s Rolling
Thunder Years (2010). In addition Sid wrote for BAM, the L.A. Times, German
Rolling Stone, Gosh!, spent ten years writing for Q, wrote for Mojo starting
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national radio. He is a native of Kentucky, a graduate of the University of
South Carolina and now lives in Camden Town, north London. He has compiled and
annotated over forty collections, anthologies or reissues for various record
labels such as Rhino, Warner Bros, Universal and PolyGram, perhaps most notably
Flying High, the well-received collection by his old friend Gene Clark (the
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<i><span lang="EN-US">Sid Griffin is a raconteur, a solo performer
of note with two solo CDs out, a mandolinist with “alt-bluegrass” heroes the
Coal Porters, the resident musicologist on BBC 6 Music’s Radcliffe &
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<span lang="EN-US">Sid will be telling us stories about Bob Dylan and singing us some songs. <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1817075537">We can't wait to see you there!</a></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://lovebandsandbooks.eventbrite.com/" target="_blank"> </a></span></i></div>
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Bands and Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01682359899938175700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9035053410439195391.post-8951298668785447592012-08-09T02:29:00.001-07:002012-08-09T02:29:55.283-07:00Bands & Books & Amnesty International & Pussy Riot<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 1st Birthday Party for Bands & Books on Sunday September 9th will raise money for Amnesty International. This means that aside from the wonderful talents of Sid Griffin, Tim Wells & Ralegh Long and the Primary 3, you will also have a chance to help an organisation whose
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Amnesty carries out the most unbelievably awesome work, including recently campaigning for the freedom of Bands & Book's favourite feminist punk protest band Pussy Riot. If you're not familiar with the story of the arrest and detention of <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;">Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alekhina and Ekaterina Samutsevich, it would do you no harm at all to</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #574d4a; line-height: 16px;"> <a href="http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/press-releases/amnesty-international-demands-russia-release-punk-singers-detained-following-church-performance" target="_blank">read a little more on the subject</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;">You can help to free Pussy Riot</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #574d4a; line-height: 16px;"> <a href="http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx?c=6oJCLQPAJiJUG&b=6645049&aid=517749" target="_blank">here</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;">You can support Amnesty International, and catch some unbelievable live music and reading <a href="http://lovebandsandbooks.eventbrite.com/" style="color: #574d4a;" target="_blank">here</a></span></span></div>Bands and Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01682359899938175700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9035053410439195391.post-3627442716138470632012-07-09T08:08:00.001-07:002012-09-06T04:16:13.893-07:00Bands & Books 1st birthday party<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Bands & Books is 1! </b></span><br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 2010 Zoë made a series based on music and psychogeography for Resonance FM. The archives can be found here. She is now working on a book with Wilko Johnson and Cadiz Music, who produced the award-winning Julien Temple Dr Feelgood film Oil City Confidential. Her first novel is also coming to life...</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We first encountered Stuart performing in the basement of the Queen of Hoxton at a night notable for the warning signs on the way in, informing everyone they would be subjected to the potentially harmful effects of live smoking. This turned out to be a requirement for performers wishing to exercise the legal loophole allowing them to smoke indoors. The performance itself was a reading from Stuart's debut book, <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stories-About-Smoking-Boxed-Edition/dp/0330525158" target="_blank">10 Stories About Smoking</a>, which came out on Picador in 2011. Did we mention it was utterly fantastic?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222;">- The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222;">- The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde </span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222;">- Fear and loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You should totally go and download their E.P. so you know all the words in time for the 21st. Meanwhile stay tuned for some more band & reader profiles over the next few days. Next up <a href="http://stuartevers.blogspot.co.uk/">Stuart Evers.</a></span><br />
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Get down to the delightful Power Lunches arts cafe on the 21st June for the official Bands & Books Summer Party, starring:</div>
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DJ & Graphic Novel projectionist:</div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first Bands & Books of 2012, and the first one in our new home of Power Lunches in Dalston took place on Sunday the 29th May. Thanks to everyone who came down, thanks to Abigail, Zolan, Sibyl & the rest of God's Mama, Morte Point, James "Evey" Eve and the guy who did the sound. And the barmaid. For those of you that didn't make it, here is a little taste of what you missed. </span><br />
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The Next bands & Books will take place at the MIGHTY <a href="http://powerlunchesltd.co.uk/">Power Lunches</a> again on Thursday 21st June.<br /><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Bands and Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01682359899938175700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9035053410439195391.post-15731887402079883372012-04-23T12:15:00.000-07:002012-04-23T12:15:09.538-07:00<h2>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Band Profile: God's Mama</span></h2>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't think I have the right vocabulary to describe just how much we at Bands & Books HQ are looking forward to this one! Let's just say we're jittering about and listening to </span><a href="http://soundcloud.com/gods-mama/goon-spy-bbc6-tom-robinson" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">this</a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> epic performance on Tom Robinson's 6 Music show, and generally feeling woozy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes WOOZY, that's what I came up with. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, for those who have yet to encounter God's Mama, here's their bio (spoiler, think of the perfect possible band for Bands & Books; that):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Where so many female vocalists in Really Heavy Bands play on the contrast with whispers, drawls, or exaggerated girlishness, Sibyl Madrigal, a Texan performance poet, growls and snarls to match the post-punk / slowcore grind, making this a mixture of Swampland and Spiderland ...</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>... 20 years ago, Kim Gordon deadpanned: “England didn’t invent punk-rock; girls did.” True, the girls of this decade’s post-punk revival have lasted longer than most, but God’s Mama point to the flaw: where are the older Women making punk? (written by Michael Mellor, Nov 2010)</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Read more:<a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Gods-Mama/11138614871" rel="nofollow" style="cursor: pointer; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/pages/Gods-Mama/11138614871</a></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Sibyl Madrigal, the group’s lyricist and singer, is an infamous performance poet who has worked with players including Lol Coxhill, Paul Rogers, Pat Thomas and Alex Ward for many years. Her work has shocked and delighted discerning audiences from Dallas to New York to London to Edinburgh to Amsterdam ...</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Alex Ward, the group's guitarist, discovered at the tender age of 14 by the late great Derek Bailey, was born to play. a sickeningly talented multi-instrumentalist who has played with Eugene Chadbpourne and come to the attention of anyone of note.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>On bass, the band features the moody magic of Darren Morris, who works with DJs and producers including Tim Goldsworthy (DFA Records & Massive attack), Ashley Beedle, David Holmes adn Jagz Kooner (Reverend And The Makers, The Whip). His bass beats like the very pulse of God's Mama's own heart.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>On drums, Lee Morris is arguably the most bitchin' powere drummer in the world of rock! And yes they're brothers too.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>The first album is on sale at Ray's Jazz, Foyles (3rd floor) and Sister Ray's, Berwick Street, London.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>We are the tightest, mightiest, strangest band to bend the rock world in years, at least since Janis Joplin's first furtive fumblings with Patti Smith.</i></span></div>
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See God's Mama very much doing their thing alongside Morte Point, Abigail Tarttelin and Molly Naylor on Sunday 29th April (THIS SINDAY) at Power Lunches in Dalston. </div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222;">At 24, Abby is a Huffington Post blogger, Books Editor at London fashion mag PHOENIX and one of the youngest published novelists in the UK. Her book FLICK, a big ball of quirkiness, sex, drugs, humour and sorrow, bashed onto the scene in 2011, receiving rave reviews from, amongst others, GQ.com, who predicted FLICK to be a 'slow burn cult classic'. Abby has read before at many a Literary Death Match and is looking forward to the mash-up of music and words that is Bands and Books. Visit her online at: </span><a href="http://imakethingsup.tumblr.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">imakethingsup.tumblr.com</a></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just as we're interested in our band's reading lists, we like to get some insight to our reader's musical proclivities. Abby sent us a list of some her favourite songs, and by the magic of the internet, you can enhance your browsing experience by listening to them RIGHT NOW:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can catch Abby in person reading at Bands & Books Spring edition next Sunday, so get yourself down to <a href="http://welovebandsandbooks.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/were-back.html">Power Lunches</a>, we kick off from 7:30!</span><br />
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<br />Bands and Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01682359899938175700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9035053410439195391.post-76508705049715445922012-04-09T01:43:00.000-07:002012-04-09T01:43:52.575-07:00Band Profile: Morte Point<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fresh from a brooding debut performance at London's 229 the Venue, we're psyched to present Morte Point. Expect tumbling rhythms, spacious, menacing guitar work over delicate vocal melodies and throbbing bass lines:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>At the moment I'm just about to finish Philip Roth's Everyman, and my next books will be Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian and Scarlett Thomas' Our Tragic Universe, both of which I'm taking on holiday. I also recently re-read The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles and Simon Reynolds' Retromania - a brilliant analysis of our nostalgic music scene.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"></div><br />
<i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A recent discovery is Edward Thomas' poetry, and I rediscovered Raymond Carver's short story collections. I'm looking forward to reading Cathedral, which I just bought. I also loved the film of The Hunger Games, which is a great adaptation of a fantastic children's novel.</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>I was recently inspired by the triumvirate of novels from American heavyweight authors Jonathan Franzen, Jennifer Egan and Jeffrey Eugenides: Freedom, A Visit From The Goon Squad and The Marriage Plot are three of the best novels I have ever read and proof that the American novel is as healthy as ever.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Writers I am intending to read soon: </i></span><br />
<i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">James M Cain</i> <br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Elizabeth Bowen</i></span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </i><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>I think it would be fair to say that our music is inspired by a number of books and their characters. With particular songs we've been influenced by 'Infinite Jest', Cormac McCarthy, Anne Sexton, 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn', Ted Hughes, Annie Proulx, Virginia Woolf. All of the good depressing ones!</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.25pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span lang="EN" style="color: #2a2a2a;">I just finished re-reading ‘The Sound and the Fury‘, it’s wonderful and always bizarre, I love it when he Faulkner writes about the smell of the night and the sound of death. I’d have to echo Richard about Jennifer Egans ‘ A Visit from the Good Squad’ and Franzens ‘Freedom’ which I recently read too, both amazing, as well as 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, which was beautiful.</span></i><span style="color: #2a2a2a;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.25pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Catch Morte Point playing with God’s Mama, alongside performances from writers Molly Naylor and Abigail Tarttelin at Bands Books Spring,<a href="http://powerlunchesltd.co.uk/"> Powerlunches Arts Café</a> on Sunday 29<sup>th</sup> April from 7:30, pre-order cheaper tickets <a href="http://bandsandbooks-esearch2.eventbrite.co.uk/?srnk=1&ebtv=C">here</a></span><o:p></o:p></div>Bands and Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01682359899938175700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9035053410439195391.post-19545873466028767852012-03-21T12:40:00.001-07:002012-03-22T04:30:54.299-07:00We're BACK!<div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">After a hiatus enforced by the meandering waters of life, we're back in a big way! Bands & Books is delighted to announce its new home in the basement of Dalston's stupendous <a href="http://powerlunchesltd.co.uk/">Power Lunches</a>. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Excited as we are about our new home, we are also excited with the line up - more of which later. First things first, dates: Bands & Books April is going to take place from <b>7:30 on Sunday 29th</b>. You can <a href="http://bandsandbooks-esearch2.eventbrite.co.uk/?srnk=1&ebtv=C">pre-order tickets here</a> for £3, or it's a fiver on the door. Or you can email me at <a href="mailto:welovebandsandbooks@gmail.com">welovebandsandbooks@gmail.com</a> with the words</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> AUSTERITY BRITAIN in the subject line, and you can come in for free, provided you promise to help out with marketing and/or miscellaneous jobs that need doing on the day. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We have, I think, our best lineup yet! </span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As usual, we'll be profiling each of our acts in the lead up to the night, but in the mean time, here's a sneak peak at what you can expect:</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When literary titans such as these turn their considerable talent to wooing, you better believe they come out with some great lines. I'm sure one or two of you reading this blog will have at some stage attempted to tackle <b>James Joyce's</b> epic masterpiece <b>Ulysees</b>. I will admit not getting on with it myself, however had it contained more prose along the lines of his letter to <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">Nora Barnacle in 1909, I suspect I might have made better progress:</span></span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>I am delighted to see that you do like being fucked arseways. - James Joyce</i></span></span></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://assets.flavorwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/charles-bukowski.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://assets.flavorwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/charles-bukowski.jpg" width="271" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A spoken word artist and comedian hailing all the way from north London, Sean Mahoney is an associate poet to the roundhouse with the Rubix collective and in the space of two years feels like he's performed in the upstairs of cellar or basement every pub in london has had a comedy or poetry night. He's writing his third biography for a gig today and feels funny talking about himself in third person but is incredibly happy to be doing it for bands and books. The night and idea excites him, his favourite performers have performed there, he's been on the blog a few times and is super happy he's been asked. Ready to go BRO!</span></i></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Erykah Badu- Honey, Window seat</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Statik Selekta- Play the game (featuring big KRIT and Freddie Gibbs)</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kendrick Lamar- A.D.H.D., Poe mans Dreams</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Neil Young- Revolution blues, On the beach.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Steely Dan- Deacon blues, Aja, big black cow</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Big KRIT- No Wheaties</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Roots- Make my.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jay Electronica- Exhibit C</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fleet Foxes- Helplessness blues, Sim Sala Bim</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Little Dragon- Shuffle a dream, Ritual reunion</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">9th Wonder- Now I'm being cool</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gillian Welch- Relevator, Wayside/back in time, Miss Ohio, Wrecking ball</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fabolous- Drugs do this to me.</span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Listen to Sean's playlist on Spotify <a href="spotify:user:jimmylemas:playlist:0IxyH6dr48Qsh6CoR5ASVJ">here</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It would be absurd for you to miss our <a href="http://welovebandsandbooks.blogspot.com/2011/11/bands-books-christmas-special.html">Christmas special</a>, we have further lineup announcements to make, so watch this space, we're also promised some mince pies courtesy of our friends over at <a href="http://iwanttobakefree.blogspot.com/">I Want to Bake Free</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See you from 7:30pm at the <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/place?q=the+victoria+grove+road+mile+end&hl=en&cid=14363869124807655684">Victoria in Mile End!</a></span></div><div><br />
</div>Bands and Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01682359899938175700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9035053410439195391.post-74860984177566978882011-11-29T02:44:00.000-08:002011-11-29T02:44:58.112-08:00Band Profile: The Bishops!<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Like most people right now, we at Bands & Books HQ are busy decking the halls with bells of holly, but we took a few moments out to post a preview of our <a href="http://welovebandsandbooks.blogspot.com/2011/11/bands-books-christmas-special.html">Christmas Special </a>headliner, the Bishops:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>Heralding from London, the band consist of twin brothers Mike Bishop (vocals, guitar) Pete Bishop (vocals, bass), younger brother Alex Bishop (vocals, guitar) and Scotsman Chris McConville (drums). Originally a three piece (Alex joined at the end of 2009) the band recorded their self-titled debut album 'The Bishops' at the infamous Toe Rag Studios, produced by creative analogue genius Liam Watson. This was released internationally in 2007 and followed up with their second album 'For Now' in 2009. Later that year the band celebrated their 500th gig at the historic 100 club in London. </i></span><br />
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Since then the band have grown from a three piece to a four piece lineup, welcoming younger brother Alex Bishop into the band. This year they released an EP 'Sojourn', their first material together. It marked a departure from the prominent garage/beat sound of their first two records into a more contemporary and alternative direction. The band are currently recording a brand new album which looks set for release next year. At the Bands & Books Xmas party the band will be playing new songs from their forthcoming album!</i> </span><br />
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As is customary, we wanted to find out what's in the bishop's library, they gave us the following tidbits:<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mike: I've enjoyed recently 'The Master & Margherita' by Mikhail Bulgakov as well as 'Grapes of Wrath' by John Steinbeck being one of my all-time favourites.</span><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Pete: Favourite book 'Tropic of Cancer' Henry Miller. Curently reading 'We' by Yevgeny Zamyatin.</span><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chris: Highway to Hell 'The Life and Times of Bon Scott'</span><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Alex: Favourite fiction book: 'Ocean, Sea' by Alessandro Baricco, Favourite non fiction book: 'The Van Gogh Letters' by the man himself! </span></span></i> <br />
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</span> </div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We are thrilled about our Christmas special lineup, and have some more acts to brag about yet, so watch this space! See you on the 16th December at <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/place?q=the+victoria+grove+road+mile+end&hl=en&cid=14363869124807655684">the Victoria</a> from 8pm!</span></div>Bands and Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01682359899938175700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9035053410439195391.post-69161263009514596342011-11-22T02:37:00.000-08:002011-11-22T02:37:06.787-08:00Reader Profile: Molly Naylor<div style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">By now you will no doubt have the Bands & Books Christmas Special etched into your calendar and artfully annotated with hearts and quavers, but it doesn't hurt to reiterate the date, so here goes:</span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</style> <![endif]--> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black;">Molly Naylor is a writer, performer,</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">poet and theatre-maker. Her solo show,</span> <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Whenever I Get Blown Up I Think Of You</span> <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">debuted at the Edinburgh Festival</span> <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Fringe in 2010 to critical acclaim, which proceeded an international tour.</span> She was commissioned to write an audio adaptation <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">of the show for BBC Radio 4, which was described by the Guardian as ‘a brave, funny, tough and beautiful piece of writing’. </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Her adaptation of the book of Malachi was staged at</span></span><span style="color: black;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The Bush as part of Sixty-Six Books, published by Oberon.</span> </span><span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">She has written for The Independent and </span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">her poems have</span><span style="color: black;"> been <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">featured on BBC Radio </span>and in <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">publi</span>cations including Rialto, The North, The Londonist and Pen Pusher. She frequently performs and reads at festivals and events worldwide. Her first book – an illustrated text of her live show - is available from Nasty Little Press. </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black;">Molly also delivers workshops and lectures in creative writing, solo performance and poetry in education. She is currently developing a new show commissioned by Battersea Arts Centre.</span></i></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><i><br />
<a href="http://www.mollynaylor.com/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">www.mollynaylor.com</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></i></span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As is customary, we asked Molly for her favourite bands, this is what she had to say:</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <i>Bands is hard isn't it? Fucking hell. Okay. I'll put:</i></span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></i></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">Nico, The Middle Ones, Nick Cave, The Smiths, Neil Young, Sam Cooke, Wave Machines, The Mountain Goats, David Bowie, Pulp and The Slits. And the Rednex, obviously. </span></i></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Well, we have no complaints about any of that, here is a Spotify </span><a href="spotify:user:jimmylemas:playlist:732gHXfG1Gu0gFXiYiO2xK" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">mixtape</a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> just for you Molly!</span></span></div>Bands and Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01682359899938175700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9035053410439195391.post-20258992320845828422011-11-17T04:16:00.000-08:002011-11-17T08:07:25.142-08:00Bands & Books Christmas Special!<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The greatest show on Earth returns for a Christmas spectacular, featuring fantastic live music, live books, and all the usual fun, but with a predictably tedious festive twist! Save the date; it's happening on </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">December 16th at </span><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/place?q=the+victoria+grove+road+mile+end&hl=en&cid=14363869124807655684" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">the Victoria</a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Watch this space for updates, we'll be blogging about our performers in the coming few days! In the meantime, if you have any questions or would like to contribute, perform, design us a better flyer, DJ, make us a book themed mixtape, or just thank us for being here, </span><a href="mailto:welovebandsandbooks@gmail.com" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">email us! </a>Bands and Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01682359899938175700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9035053410439195391.post-49872184300046308772011-10-19T04:56:00.000-07:002011-10-20T07:23:49.507-07:00Bands & Books 2: Full Line-up revealed!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With <a href="https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=258305674214247">Bands & Books 2</a> happening this Friday from 7PM it's time to reveal the full lineup, we have a packed show crammed full of band & book goodness featuring:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><i style="text-shadow: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-shadow: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"We Used To Make Things are an 8 piece who delve into the world of sweet pop music mined from the classic canon of Kinks, Zombies, Blur and The Beatles. Powered by brass and a kicking bottom end you are likely to find their uplifting music taking you to a place usually reserved for the likes of The Arcade Fire and The Muppets. At the heart of all of this though, are set simple, catchy and infectious songs that are also rolled out for intimate acoustic sets."</span></span></i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dog Binary author Alex Macdonald (he's the one in the middle) will be reading from his new book, we asked him for a bio and received the following information: </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-shadow: none;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; text-shadow: none;"><span style="text-shadow: none;">Nikesh Shukla is the author of the Costa First Novel Award-shortlisted novel, 'Coconut Unlimited' ('...a riot of cringeworthy moments made real by Shukla's beautifully observed characters and talent for teen banter.' Metro) and the Channel 4 Comedy Lab 'Kabadasses' starring Jack Doolan, Josie Long and Shazad Latif. His writing has featured on BBC2, Radio 4, and BBC Asian Network. He has performed at Royal Festival Hall, Book Club Boutique, Soho Theatre, The Big Chill and Latitude. He likes Spider-man comics. A lot</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; text-shadow: none;">.</span></span></i></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">As well as all of these wonderful acts, we will be listening to music selected by <b>Hatty Ashdown</b> (music "</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">themed around Les Dennis Autobiography 'must the show go on?' Or The Smiths 'All men have secrets') and <b>Tim Wells</b> ("</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px;">expect soul, (proper) R&B and a splash of blues") And of course, some Book Themed Mixtapes. See you Friday!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px;">Times: 7PM-1AM (main performances between 8-11)</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px;">TIP: you can order delicious food from the venue or there's a chippy across the road</span></span>Bands and Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01682359899938175700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9035053410439195391.post-22648632852632433912011-10-18T08:05:00.001-07:002011-10-18T08:08:02.968-07:00Reader profile: Bruno Vincent<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As we're just days away from the return of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=258305674214247">Bands & Books</a>, it's time for another lineup announcement! Joining Nikesh Shukla, Tied To The Mast and We Used To Make Things is the delightful Bruno Vincent:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bruno Vincent is the co-author of several bestselling humour books including Do Ants Have Arseholes, as well as a collection of macabre tales for children called Grisly Tales from Tumblewater. His latest book is called <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Christmas-Carol-II-Contagion-Every/dp/184358509X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1318949963&sr=8-1">A Christmas Carol II: CONTAGION. </a></span><br />
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<i>If anything is evident in the world of music, having a DIY attitude gets things done. The Pixies did it in 1987 with the ‘Purple Tape’ and Sub Pop changed an industry from the ‘inside out’ in the 1990s with the same ’can-do’ attitude. It’s happening all over again with Mostar Records and Tied To The Mast.</i><br />
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<i>Embracing a cacophony of sounds, and melding the DNA strands of Nirvana & Sonic Youth, the haemoglobin ‘Plain Lazy’ debut single brings together the slacker art rock of Beck & Pavement, whilst sitting comfortably alongside the British song-writing of the Kinks and Supergrass. Tied To The Mast create a Frankenstein monster of Alt Rock that submerges influences from both sides of the Atlantic to create a sound that is distinctly their own.</i><br />
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<i>Recorded, produced and mastered in their own studio somewhere in the depths of the South Downs in Sussex, their debut Mostar single begins to hint at the band’s wider sound – one that is explosively evident during their live sets and brings together an organic product of bone crushing riffs, barstool sing-a-longs and sundrenched tunes.</i><i> Tied to the Mast are setting sail for higher ground, so pull up a chair, a bottle of rum and come on board.</i><br />
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<em>"It has a haunting feel of old Pavement songs, of old Blur vibes and I reckon that this is the start of a beautiful reign for this band... It's another song to make memories to before the sun leaves us for another year" </em><strong>The Indie Swan</strong><br />
<em>"Big mesmerizing guitar sounds and some poppy vocals that compliment each other perfectly" </em><strong>Fake Plastic Tunes <br />
</strong><em>"Less is more and Plain Lazy, is nothing but lethargic, but fantastic" </em><strong>RoomThirteen.com <br />
</strong><em>"Tied To The Mast have managed to encapsulate the slacker-grunge pop made famous by Nirvana.. and are already stamping their authority on the music world" </em><br />
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</strong><em>"Following in the footsteps of The Pixies" </em><strong>Atomic Sound Magazine</strong></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><em></em> </span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><em style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"No other band are making music like this at the moment"</em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> - </span><strong style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">AMP Magazine </strong></span>Bands and Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01682359899938175700noreply@blogger.com0