SHRAG (BRIGHTON) & TUNABUNNY (ATHENS, GA) TOUR 2012 - SHEFFIELD

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nothingshortoftotalwar presents...


SHRAG/TUNABUNNY UK Tour 2012


TUNABUNNY (Athens, GA)

Tunabunny is, for now, less of a criminal element than it used to be. On 2010's debut album (Happy Happy Birthday To Me Recordings), you had to listen closely to hear the Blondie, to hear the Abba, to hear the pop. Some people just heard noise. Some people thought it was glorious.

The album received rave reviews in some unexpected places, including Everett True in Australia ("this music makes me deliriously happy"') and a top-5 end of year placing on the BBC's website. This led to a successful East Coast USA tour in Spring 2011, and a prestigious slot at Athens Popfest supporting Throwing Muses.

Now comes '(Song For My) Solar Sister', the lead single from the 'Minima Moralia' LP, released August 2011. This year's Tunabunny marks a shift from noise towards melody, from chaos towards structure, from indifference towards rapture, It signals a Tunabunny more pop, yet more intense; more accessible, yet more desperate; more comforting, and yet more uncomfortable.

"The greatest band from Athens, Georgia since Pylon; Tunabunny's half-songs are fuller than most songs around for the simple reason that they haven't had the spirit and imagination and inspiration bashed and bullied out of them." (Everett True BBC)

"...it's angry kids reading anarchist tracts in Snoopy tees, it's furrowed brows, shrews, scabbed knees, borrowed dresses getting ripped on midnight rambles, it's contortion, distortion, sense and dissonance, yesterday and tomorrow, ABBA and Crass in a scuffle over the last alcopop of the party."

http://tunabunny.tumblr.com/
http://www.facebook.com/tunabunny



SHRAG (WIAIWYA Records - Brighton, East Sussex)

An exhilarating blend of dirty, distorted post-punk guitars, shouty riot grrl-style vox and fantastic pop songs, alongside nods to everyone from Le Tigre to Penetration.

Their debut album garnered comparisons to Love is All, Gang of Four and B-52s, and led to a UK tour supporting The Cribs, appearances at both London Popfest and Indietracks festivals, and a session for Marc Riley on BBC 6music.

Their second album "Life! Death! Prizes!" was released on WIAWYA Records in October 2010 and was named Album of the Month in Artrocker Magazine. The band are currently working on their third album due for release early 2012 on Fortuna POP! (Crystal Stilts, Herman Dune, Allo Darlin') and WIAIWYA. The tour is in support of the lead single from the album.

"A spectacularly bitter indie girls-set-on-stun dual vocal attack, in what is one of the better bands to juxtapose schmindie twee and angered literary abstraction since 1990s unsung legends Prolapse." (The Guardian)

http://shragband.bandcamp.com/
http://www.myspace.com/shrag


plus Support.



Friday 27th February

The Riverside
1 Mowbray Street
Neepsend
SHEFFIELD
S3 8EN

Doors 8.00pm
£5adv/£6door