Shonen knife

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Damnably is proud to present a third Shonen Knife show at The Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes, Tavistock Square, close to Russell Square tube, Euston and Holborn. Tel: 0207 183 1979

Shonen Knife Extra Show (First 2 SOLD OUT)
June 29th
7.30pm
Tickets £7.50/£10.00 on the door


Shonen Knife are a super influential all-female Japanese pop-punk band formed in Osaka, in 1981, by sisters Naoko Yamano and Atsuko Yamano. The Ramones loving food obsessed trio (with Michie Nakatani) effortlessly create kooky songs with upbeat infectious melodies and exuberant lyrics often about sweets and animals. The bands twenty-seven-year career has seem them tour the world with Nirvana (on the Nevermind tour), Sonic Youth, the BMX Bandits, and as part of Lollapolooza.
They also recorded sessions for John Peel, appeared on MTV’s Beavis and Butthead, 120 minutes, the Conan O’Brian show and even wrote “Buttercup (I’m a Supergirl)” for that for the hugely popular cartoon ‘The Powerpuff Girls’.

The band have a new Bassist (Ritsuko Taneda), a new album called ‘Super Group’ and have now decided to embark on a world tour again!


“When I finally got to see them live, I was transformed into a hysterical nine-year-old girl at a Beatles concert.” Kurt Cobain

http://www.myspace.com/shonenknife


Smallgang (Hooked Up Records)

North London stylish art rockers just finished theirdebut album ‘labours’ and are exactly like 'The Magic Numbers' (but good and less beast like) being as the band is made up of two sets of rock siblings.They mine a silky baritone voiced Smog meets Dinosaur JR via the Go betweensand/Scott Walker kind of sound and set to break into your hearts this year and steal important bits.
www.myspace.com/smallgang


Crumbling Ghost (London)



Formed late 2008 this exciting new post Doom, PsychFolkcore London 4 piece features members/x members (who makes up these crazy names?) of Koresh, Mordros, Fantaplastic, Among the Missing, Pombagira, Smallgang and Huge Baby that just provided Damo Suzuki (Can) with one of his LOUDEST guitarofrenzied backing bands.

They band are Influenced by Pentangle, Martin Carthy, Earth, Electric Wizard, Iron Monkey.



Plus Silver Rocket DJ's

Plus Naoko (Shonen Knife) will DJ

and Special Guest!!!!!!
Damnably is now a bit over 2 and a half years old and we have put on over 50 bands (often more than once) and frequently got gig of the week in Time Out, The Independent, and were even voted Club of the week in The Guardian! plus airplay and plugs on XFM/Radio One and Radio 6 from John Kennedy, Laura Laverne, Huw Stephens, Rob Da bank, Steve Lamacq and Tom Robinson.

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