VENUE / HEAVEN,
THE ARCHES, VILLIERS STREET, LONDON, WC2N6NG 

TIME / 19.00
TUBE / HIGHBURY AND ISLINGTON
TEL / 020 7619 6720
TICKET INFO / £9.50
URL / WWW.MYSPACE.COM/THETEMPERTRAP,WWW.MYSPACE.COM/MAGISTRATESBAND 

THE TEMPER TRAP's atmospheric, captivating sound – created using grand guitars, pulsating rhythms and yearning vocals – achieved rapturous acclaim at South by Southwest in March 2009. Expect an energetic live experience from this four piece from Melbourne, who draw influence from early U2, sound at times like Coldplay, but also have a twist and creative drive similar to that of Tv On The Radio and Vampire Weekend.

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Jack Penate's head is full of incredible songs and plays some of the most effervescent guitar pop since the Housemartins. His new album takes in an amalgamation of influences ranging from gospel to reggaeton to Balearic, but still offers up the most golden of pop nuggets.

This combined with the Fridge’s legendary sound system, will prove Jack’s deserved reputation for breathless live shows.

http://www.myspace.com/jackpenate

The Fridge Nightclub
Town Hall Parade
Brixton Hill London
SW2 1RJ

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Eat Your Own Ears presents
The xx
Plus special guests

Hoxton Hall, 130 Hoxton Street, London N1 6SH 020 7684 0060

August 16 and 17 2009
Doors 7pm

THE XX play their first ever headline show in Hoxton Hall.

The London quartet, featuring the dual lead vocals of Romy Madley Croft and Oliver Sim (who also play lead guitar and bass guitar respectively), Baria Qureshi (keyboards and guitar) and Jamie Smith (beats, MPC sampler).

These four nineteen and twenty year olds are childhood friends who formed while attending south west London’s Elliot School – the comp whose alumni also includes such acclaimed boundary-pushers as Burial, Four Tet and Hot Chip.

Bonding over a shared love of dark, emotive 80s guitar sounds and the high-end sheen of American R&B, The xx’s unique sound befits a band whose wide range of influences include everything from Aaliyaah to Cocorosie, Rhianna to The Cure, Missy Elliot to The Chromatics and Mariah Carey to The Pixies.

These influences combine via beautiful, hushed vocal duets and a brilliantly inventive use of samples and low-end frequencies to produce a stark, sweet melancholic pop.

The band’s debut album is due for release on the show day on XL Recordings imprint Young Turks.

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Due to high demand, Bill Callahan will play a second night at Islington's Union Chapel.

Eat Your Own Ears presents
BILL CALLAHAN (Smog)
plus special guests

Wednesday 19 August
Thursday 20 August – NEW DATE
Doors 7.00pm

The Union Chapel, Compton Avenue, Islington, London N1 2UN 020 7226 1686

Tickets £16.50 advance (subject to booking fee)
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www.dragcity.com/bands/smog.html

BILL CALLAHAN (Smog) radiates a peculiarly male energy: an unspecified
kind of careworn rage, an acute sense of restlessness. As an autobiographer, Callahan is a rogue trader with an unreliable commodity, a conscientious objector to the confessors club that constitutes singer-songwriting.

Though new album Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle has a lighter feel than earlier Smog releases, the songs featured contemplate religion, nature and Callahan finding his own place. Callahan’s trademark bass vocals and his songs dark introspection find their perfect home in the gloom of the Union Chapel.

Dingwalls, Middle Yard, Camden Lock, London, NW1 8AB
Monday 1 June

Emerging from the same experimental scene as Animal Collective and Black Dice,
Gang Gang Dance blend African rhythms, Middle Eastern dance music, industrial, noise, grime and more. Today's skewed pop and eerie vocals are less chaotic than their earlier work, glistening with Arabian synth lines and delayed out shimmer guitar.

“Correct us if we're wrong, but the album of 2008 has just arrived on our doormat. It's called Saint Dymphna, and it's by Gang Gang Dance. 'One of the best albums we've heard all year… astonishing in it's breadth and quality'.
Fact Magazine

“Their sound is natural yet manmade, gangsta yet gentle at varying turns throughout their seemingly improvised sound.”
I-D Magazine

“… St. Dymphna spins scattered global sounds into a dance both ethereal and ecstatic.”
Plan B Magazine

“St. Dymphna is a super- produced, dancefloor-ready rebooting of tribal psych… The eclecticism is exhilarating…”
Uncut Magazine

“Gang Gang Dance may now ascend to the bona fide league of geniuses.”
NME

“St. Dymphna further ups Gang Gang Dance's ritualistic ante and might be their best yet.”
Time Out

“… a glorious celebration of sonic excess.”
The Observer

“It all sounds wonderful, sparkling and glistening.”
Wire Magazine

“Their album is enormous” – Dave Sitek, TV on the Radio

”Gang Gang are the sound of some soon to be found tribe lurking in the wigs of forever. Gang Gang Dance seamlessly blend the sound of something so otherworldy while seeming so familiar. The pied pipers of Never Never Land.” – Simon Taylor, Klaxons

PLUS ABOUT
Alexis Taylor of Hot Chip, Charles Hayward of This Heat and legendary improvisers Pat Thomas and John Coxon, known for their sublime improvisations offer up anarchic piano, guitar and electronics underpinned by relentless, turbulent drums reminiscent of Can or Neu! with the funk of Sly and the Family Stone meets Love.

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