Playhard Launch

Event information

Rock/Pop
PLAYHARD launch.

£6 Entry/£5 Advance. 8pm to 2am

BandWagon Gigs social at the venue 4pm-7.30pm

Play. Love. Music. Dance. Hard.
The best in new music thrills and some established favourites.

Exit Calm - heavily tipped for, and on the brink of, greatness. This is the show to catch before they head out on tour with Marion. "You will witness something that leaves you speechless and transfixed" (GigWise.com), "A penchant for all things epic" (Q Magazine), "So far out in front of the rest of the completion at present, it's frightening" (Drowned In Sound)

Moones sold out Islington Academy on their first outing a few months ago and created an instant. Guitarist Laurent 'Lags' Barnard is better known for on stage rioting with one of the UK's best-known hardcore punk bands, Gallows, but Moones' sublime melodies and beautifully realised atmospheric soundscapes harken back to timeless British institutions, The Beatles and Pink Floyd. This is gonna be something special.

Pink Cigar - have thundered through the London circuit earning a reputation for the fiercest live show in town ("instantly attention-grabbing stage antics" - Big Cheese), it's energy you just can't buy,. They've played with Razorlight, Eighties Matchbox B Line Disaster, are picking up press / festivals / attention and launched their self released EP at a bursting Hawley Arms.

The Sea have won international fans acclaim, supported Muse, The Enemy, toured UK, Europe and USA extensively, recorded their new album with producer John Cornfield (Muse, Supergrass, Oasis, Razorlight) and played 20 sellout gigs in seven countries in 22 days finishing triumphantly in London. After a hiatus recovering from an accident they continue their rise tonight.

Plastic Youth - Southend new wavers produced by Verve guitarist, Nick McCabe. - digging their danceable tunes, they release debut single 'Death Row' the week before this show.

Morrissey & Marshall - soaringly beautiful in an epic, Dublin, style. When Greg Marshall decided to climb, uninvited, upon the stage already occupied by Darren Morrissey, and his (former) band a year ago, the ensuing double vocals created magic. They have writing and performing together ever since.

Playhard is streamed live world wide for a party of epic proportions.

Plus movers n shakers galore: There will be an early doors musicians / promoters social hosted by BandWagon Gigs site; "This mega-handy site aims to take gig bookings into the future" (NME).
Register at http://bandwagongigs.com and make new connections.

This evening's event is also in association with the 2012 International Live Music Conference (presented by Live Nation, AEG etc) 9th-11th March - lots of high profile delegates from the world of live music, coming to rock. http://www.ilmc.com/24/

In the right place: Playhard presenters Heather Minx Ferguson (Minx Media) and Caffy St Luce (Rocklands) have found the right place to mix up-for-it-crowds with their extended music and art family to make Entertainment with a capital E.

The Purple Turtle - revamped and with a proper stage!
"The Turtle has become a more than respectable venue - like a larger, seething version of the 12 Bar Club." (Daily Mirror).
"The place to be." (Abolish Confusion).

@playhardgigs monthly at The Purple Turtle http://facebook.com/playhardgigs