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BERUIT Tuesday 26 June tickets selling fast

Eat Your Own Ears presents 
BERUIT
plus special guests

Tuesday 26 June 

KOKO, 1A Camden High Street, Camden, London NW1 0870 432 5527

Tickets £12.50 from: www.ticketweb.co.uk Tel: 08700 600 100 www.seetickets.com 0871 22 00 260 and Rough Trade, Covent Garden, London 0207 240 0105l  

www.beirutband.com www.4ad.com/beirut

BEIRUT is the work of the 20 year old Zach Condon. His music is inspired by a love of European folk music, as filtered by a fertile imagination raised in New Mexico and currently resident in Brooklyn. 

Tonight they deliver orchestrated pop for fans of Sufjan Stevens, Calexico, Arcade Fire, the Magnetic Fields, Klezmer, Neutral Milk Hotel, and the Boban Markovic Orchestra. There are no guitars; instead, horns, violins, cellos, ukeleles, mandolins, glockenspiel, drums, tambourines, congas, organs, pianos, clarinets and accordians all build and break around Zach Condon's deep voiced crooner vocals, swaying to the Eastern European beats like a drunken 12 piece carnival band. Their live set is a glorious sweep of music, striking in its emotional content and stunning in its scope. 

plus special guests

PANDA BEAR (of Animal Collective) AT 93 FEET EAST

PANDA BEAR (of Animal Collective) 
plus special guests 

Thursday 8th March 
Doors 7.30pm

93 Feet East, 150 Brick Lane, London EC1 Tel 020 7372 8668 

Tickets £10.50 from: www.ticketweb.co.uk Tel: 08700 600 100 www.seetickets.com 0870 060 3777 and Rough Trade, Covent Garden, London Tel: 0207 240 0105l 

www.paw-tracks.com www.myspace.com/animalcollectivetheband

PANDA BEAR core member of the hugely acclaimed Animal Collective, plays a very rare show at 93 Feet East, 150 Brick Lane, London EC1 to launch his new Paw Tracks release 'Person Pitch'. Panda Bear mixes triumphant melodies, pitch perfect vocals sung humbly over ambient rhythms and electronics.

Fusing Panda’s dramatic life changes over the past few years (marriage, moving to Lisbon, becoming a father) with his ever-increasing sonic palette (standouts include Caetano Veloso, Berlin Techno, Scott Walker, and Kylie Minogue), Person Pitch is suffused with the kind of feel good modern toe-tapping pop that seems harder and harder to find these days. 
 
Paw Tracks feels that the passing of time will show Panda Bear’s Person Pitch sitting alongside the great solo albums of Paul McCartney, George Michael, and Ghostface Killah.  Luckily we don’t have to wait.

 

plus special guests THE STRANDED HORSE 

GREEN GARTSIDE (Scritti Politti) & ALEXIS TAYLOR (Hot Chip) support K&S at KOKO

Eat Your Own Ears presents
KIERAN HEBDEN (AKA FOUR TET) AND STEVE REID 
GREEN GARTSIDE (Scritti Politti) & ALEXIS TAYLOR (Hot Chip) 
DJ JAMES HOLDEN 

Thursday 29 March 
Doors 7.30pm 

KOKO, 1A Camden High Street, Camden, London NW1 0870 432 5527

Tickets £13.50 from  www.ticketweb.co.uk Tel: 08700 600 100 www.seetickets.com 0870 060 3777 

www.kieranhebdenandstevereid.com 
www.steve-reid.com 
www.hotchip.co.uk
www.myspace.com/scrittipolittiofficial
www.jamesholden.org

Tonight KIERAN HEBDEN (FOUR TET) and veteran jazz drummer STEVE REID promote their 3rd release Tongues on Domino Records.  

Steve Reid is the legendary drummer who in 1964 at 19 years of age played on Martha Reeves & the Vandellas’ ‘Dancing In The Street’, and subsequently went on to play with Miles Davis, Fela Kuti and James Brown (think about that for a moment), not to mention Fats Domino, Sun Ra, Peggy Lee, Chaka Khan, Dexter Gordon, Dionne Warwick and many, many more. Their unique live show blends Kieran's electronic experimentation with Steve Reid's laid back yet complex driving polyrhythms. 

GREEN GARTSIDE (Scritti Politti) & ALEXIS TAYLOR (Hot Chip) 
Whilst discussing the various merits of Jodeci, Biz Markie and Paul McCartney's recorded works, Scritti Politti's Green Gartside and Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor decided they should take their newly-found fondness for song and sound beyond the pub, and into a smaller room where they could write and record together. They have set about doing this, and this will be their debut live outing. They will be competing for the 'highest voice' prize throughout the evening.

DJ JAMES HOLDEN has managed to carve out a niche for himself that is all his own – try and pigeonhole his sound at your peril. The boy wonder with a maths degree from Oxford University honed his production and DJing craft in his student digs, with a £500 computer and some free software, and took the dance music world by storm in 1999 with the powerfully emotive ‘Horizons’ on Silver Planet. Although he has since moved on from the progressive sound that made his name, the haunting melodies of the genre can still be found twisting eerily in and out of the warped soundscapes of his more recent productions.

Like his productions, James Holden’s DJ sets draw in elements of house, electro, breakbeat, techno and genres that probably haven’t even got a name. As far from ‘minimal’ as you could possible get, simply because there is so much to draw you into this weird and wonderful hazy musical world – James Holden is the man to get even the most jaded dance music aficionado excited about music again.

BATTLES play Scala May 16th

BATTLES AND GUESTS play Scala, London o May 16th

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Tickets at: http://www.ticketweb.co.uk

  • "Just the Finest in mutant, post everything, kraut disco" Time Out 15/02/06
  • "One avant garde child prodigy, two indie guitar nerds and one borderline metal drummer thrown together in a filthy basement studio in Brooklyn, Battles have proven to have such an appeal live" The Wire Jan ?06
  • "Monumental Sound" Independent
  • "Live rep to die for, Instro-math riot of rhythm'n'sound" Mojo March ?06
  • "The cream of underground avant garde jazz and post-rock" mind bending. Devilishly complex" The Observer
  • "Wonderfully hyperactive yet carefully formulated music" Rock Sound
  • "Out to defy all expectations"

"A new force to be reckoned with"

"One of the most exciting avant-garde experimental outfits to emerge in years. Let the battle commence" Rock Sound

  • "Amazing what you can do with instruments these days" Independent 12/02/06
  • "Impossible to categorise,Battles are out to F@*! Your minds, and who are we to stop them" Rock Sound
  • "Diverse backgrounds are reconciled with focus and precision" Uncut March
  • "Staggering, mindblowing, ridiculous , technically dazzling" Vice Feb ?06
  • "It's as if they've taken a lesson of Joy Division and shown how its to be done -correctly" Flux

The Aliens at Scala Thursday 8th Feb

THE ALIENS

KID HARPOON
9BACH
Thursday 8 February
Doors 7.30pm
Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, King?s Cross, London N1 0207 833 2022
Tickets ?10.50 from: www.ticketweb.co.uk Tel: 08700 600 100 www.seetickets.com 0870 060 3777 and Rough Trade, Covent Garden, London Tel: 0207 240 0105l
www.myspace.com/thealiens1
www.kidharpoon.com
www.myspace.com/9bach
THE ALIENS have history – between them they have been behind some of the most enthralling british music of the last decade. John Maclean and Robin Jones were members of the Beta Band. Gordon Anderson was a founding Beta Band member who went on to record two albums under the Lone Pigeon moniker. You could make parallels between Anderson and Syd Barrett, both geniuses blighted by psychiatric problems. The difference, of course, is that Anderson has come back – albeit as an Alien.
After a packed out Dingwalls in November tonight they step it up to play the Scala as they deliver an upbeat set of psychedelically inclined rock and acid dipped electronics, as they bring a freedom of spirit and a certainty of intent that immediately sets them out from the current crop of guitar slingers. Inspired by Sergio Leone and Serge Gainsbourg, Brian Eno and Brian Wilson, Larry David and Ol’ Dirty Bastard, their songs in the key of Fife reference the past whilst belonging resolutely to the future.
“… Like Quincy Jones stumbling into a kaleidoscope full of sherbet and acid… like something the Betas might have come up with if they also had Ben Folds, Prince and Beck on board… NME
Hotly tipped singer songwriter KID HARPOON delivers a set of catchy youthful storytelling taking Leonard Cohen, Billy Bragg and Syd Barrett as an influence on his songs.

Welsh folk outfit featuring members of the Super Furry Animals 9BACH play a selection of folk, poppy songs arranged for guitar, harp, drums and bass, drawing on influences from Zappa, Dylan to Will Self and Chris Morris.


FIONN REGAN at Dingwalls tonight Tudesay 6th February


Dingwalls, Middle Yard, Camden Lock, London, NW1 8AB Tel 020 7267 1577
www.dingwalls.com
Doors 7.30pm
Tickets on the door
Praise for ?The End of History?, Fionn Regan?s beautiful and beguiling debut album?

?With little instrumental decoration, this is similar to Dylan?s early albums, but with the flow of a Nick Drake ? a stunning combination.?
The Times ? 4 Stars ****

?Woven through the wonder is Regan?s gorgeous voice, as spellbinding as anything his imagination can conjure up. Folk has a new Pied Piper?
The Guardian ? 4 Stars ****

?A beguiling amalgam of Jackson C Frank, Paul Simon and Mark Kozalek? A debut that oozes rare confidence, startling maturity and originality.?
MOJO ? 4 Stars ****

?A wonderful album. Regan sets his cap at the genre and sweeps it off its feet?
Sunday Times ? 4 Stars ****
?Dublin?s most luminescent songwriter?
WORD
?a slow-burning beauty of a debut album?
The Independent on Sunday ? 4 Stars ****
?Despite evocations of folk/acoustic music?s long history here, the truth is there are no reference points and ?The End of History? is a singular and original vision of folk?s shining modernity.?
The Fly ? 4 Stars ****
?Fionn is one of the most gifted young Irish folk singers since Donovan was hailed as the new Dylan back in the mid-60s? he occupies an original space all his own.
The Sun ? 5 Stars *****
?Fionn Regan?s greatest weapon is to coax dazzling rivulets of sound from his acoustic guitar, although his knack for vivid lyrics is a close second.?
Metro ? 4 Stars ****
?Flawless indie-folk? a joy to behold?
Drowned In Sound ? 8/10
?He’s as gifted a guitarist as Nick Drake, but his poetry is singular and pregnant with complexity? Fionn is a genius.?
Rock Sound ? 8/10

?these acoustic arias evoke a more rarefied world? Regan is possessed of a rare talent?
NME ? 7/10
?A booty-bag of pastoral ballads and jangly meanderings, this debut from Dublin songbird Fionn Regan is equal parts Simon and Garfunkel, Bright Eyes, Paul Auster, the Buckleys, and quite lovely?
Plan B
?Here?s a confident debut album, with good reason to be so. This folk-ish singer-songwriter from Dublin ranges boldly in mood, musicality and matter, with his briskly plucked laments sitting smartly alongside literary references, poetic asides and brightly witty storytelling. Very assured.?
The Independent (Information) ? 4 Stars ****
?While there are aspects of his music that bring to mind other performers ? his guitar-picking is abit Bert Jansch, his voice is reminiscent of Nick Drake ? he is his own man, with his own unique sound-world. In a word: haunting?.
The Telegraph
?There?s a new luminary in our midst. The Irish born Fionn delivers a spell-binding release that captures the essence of early-Dylan’s symbolist songwriting by way of Baudelaire, the delicate vocal delivery of Jose Gonzales, and the classical romanticism of Nick Drake.
gigwise.com ? 4 Stars ****