Casiotone For The Painfully Alone & CONCERN & Urgent Talk & Offbeat DJs

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Children For Breakfast are getting back into the swing of things, and this month are extremely proud to bring you CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE all the way from California USA all the way to THE SHAKESPEARE. The solo project of Owen Ashworth is touring a few dates in the UK in support of two new albums. In keeping with this duality he will play a solo electronic set & a full band set.

The two albums are the highly anticipated and aptly titled studio album "Vs Children" out on April 6th and the singles and rarities collection "Advance Base Battery Life" out March 10th through TOMLAB.


***CFTPA***
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casiotone_for_the_Painfully_Alone
http://www.cftpa.org
http://www.myspace.com/cftpa

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone is the beats-and-keys solo project of singer, songwriter Owen Ashworth. Drawing heavy influence from traditional Americana as well as 80's synth pop and commercial hip hop, the music of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone is a curious mix of austere character studies and playful electronic programming.

With his 4th album proper Etiquette, Ashworth changed the focus from a decidedly utilitarlian aesthetic to a broader production spectrum that finally gave his affecting song writing the space it deserves. In collaboration with producers and musicians like Jherek Biscoff (of The Dead Science and Degenerate Art Ensemble) and Jason Quever (The Papercuts and Pan American Recording Studio), the sound of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone has grown to include pianos, organs, strings, flutes, drums, and pedal steel guitars in addition to Ashworth's signature electronics and drum machines.

Live, Owen Ashworth recreates his recordings using a makeshift dub soundsystem. Glitchy drum machine rhythms, battery-operated synths, melodic loops, and hand-triggered samples are routed through various echo boxes and filters to accompany his slow, deliberate vocal style.

"If ever someone steals a Mr Whippy van only to then career it round town singing morosely to the Tanoy ditties playing out, I want Owen Ashworth to soundtrack it" DROWNED IN SOUND

"Wonderful fragments of half-missed opportunities and forgotten moments of happiness....The result is unbearable tragic beauty" PLAN B

"A kind of lo-fi Pet Shop Boy" THE GUARDIAN

"Casiotone for the Painfully Alone deliver electro-pop that is as intimate and earnest as it is sugary sweet. Much like Stephen Merritt (Magnetic Fields), CFTPA’s Owen Ashworth is fluent in the craft of storytelling" ARTROCKER

"kitsch electronic ditties made by a nerdy outsider lamenting life’s cruel ball-kicks...No doubt this will be the album that makes him bigger than air" NME

***CONCERN***
http://www.myspace.com/nostophilia

With him CFTPA will be bringing his own support band CONCERN steeped in mystery and intrigue it is the solo endeavor by Gordon Ashworth, who is perhaps best known for issuing complex harsh noise missives as Oscillating Innards, and being Owen's brother. That said, Concern is an entirely different affair. Here, Ashworth's principal focus is on the drone - shimmering, multi-layered and dynamic, he stretches loooong tones into gorgeous sonic tendrils which dissolve or implode into impossibly nostalgic field recordings and static.

"filled us with an overwhelming sense that something exciting was going to happen" THREE IMAGINARY GIRLS

CONCERN also features on many of CFTPA most implausibly brilliant tracks from Advance Base Battery Life including some awesome Bruce Springsteen re-imaginings.

From Sheffield we have rising underground stars making a splash in and out of their hometown.

***URGENT TALK***
http://www.urgenttalk.net/
http://www.myspace.com/urgenttalk

This city's finest experimental bleep and strings adventure poppers formed from the ashes of HEARTYEAH are a completely different animal.

Having just released two excellent EPs & and && they are keen to bring these to life.

"UT take their cues more from M83's blissed-out take on shoegaze/electronica ('I Love Our Network)', or The Unicorns at their most bleepy and playful" DROWNED IN SOUND

"Urgent Talk are therefore a noisy, energetic, (arguable) pop band with everything going for them. They are, in short, incredible...Urgent Talk’s existence is definitely a massive win for the universe" LINE OF BEST FIT

With OFFBEAT DJs for inter-band entertainment!

THURSDAY 23RD APRIL
THE SHAKESPEARE
WHICH IS HERE: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=THE+SHAKESPEARE+SHEFFIELD&fb=1&split=1&gl=uk&view=text&latlng=11893249581381198550
DOORS 8PM
£6 ADVANCE


+++++++OFFICIAL AFTERSHOW PARTY+++++++

After the bands have finished, we advise you all to go along to the official aftershow party at THE HARLEY hosted by up and coming Sheffield favourites PANDAPOP a proper indie disco featuring a live performance, with plenty of time to get from The Shakespeare to The Harley, by

4 or 5 Magicians
http://www.myspace.com/4or5magicians

Brighton's This Is Fake DIY signed band will be performing around midnight so you can enjoy their lo-fi bedroom fuzz and glorious art-pop fuzz.

"Think Supergrass meets Shellac, we're struggling to think of one solitary loser who won't like this band" NME

"the sort of lo-fi attack jam that Kurt Cobain would have creamed over" Rocksound

Party til 2am