ROLLERPALOOZA

Event information

Black Lips
http://www.myspace.com/theblacklips

"Black Lips have a reputation for crazy live shows that have included vomiting, urination, nudity, band members kissing, Power Wheels races, fireworks, a chicken, and flaming guitars" - Wikipedia

"‘Mixing garage's crude guitars and scratchy throated delivery with skewiff country, blues and psychedelia, their fourth studio album ignites with the same rapturous energy as The Sonics and The 13th Floor Elevators" - The Guardian

"Is there any other band on the planet like Black Lips? In a world that plays it safe a little too often, their spluttery carnage-inducing garage-rock is a true, exhilarating alternative" - The Fly

"‘The most fun you can have with your clothes on" - Fused Magazine

"Jesus Christ - this really is brilliant... Snake-hipped, insidious and utterly fucking magnificent" - NME

+ Mika Miko
http://www.myspace.com/mikamiko

"Mika Miko rock. It's like the girls from the library and the girls from the coffee shop got together and played a mix of Sleater Kinney and Chicks on Speed" - Duck And Cover

"Like At The Drive-In and Pretty Girls Make Graves... A fiercely independent modern punk band" - Prefix

+ Gringo Star
http://www.myspace.com/thegringostars

"'All Y'all' is an exuberant rush of early Kinks guitars, tambourines, handclaps, multi-part harmonies, and bits of tinkly piano, all catchy" - Pitchfork

"Gringo Star – should be literally showered with the same kind of exasperated stammering and fawning heaped onto the stars of the early days of rock and roll, as if these guys were new versions of the Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Buddy Holly, Beatles’ and all of the American standards in doo wop and R&B that were raging through Detroit and Memphis and Harlem" - Daytrotter

+ The Manhattan Love Suicides
http://www.myspace.com/themls

"For anyone who loves fuzzed up guitar assaults, feedback, hit and run gigs, female vocals, melodic pop, ear splitting minimalist noise and hates a hell of a lot of other things..." - The Manhattan Love Suicides

+ Brontide
http://www.myspace.com/brontidetheband

"Brontide are mathy and marvelous, danceable without being dumb. InstruMental in all the right ways. I say: yay!" - DrownedinSound

+ The Hipshakes
http://www.myspace.com/thehipshakes

+ Urgent Talk
http://www.myspace.com/urgenttalk