Shrag

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SHRAG
Fresh from a storming set at this year's Indietracks festival (not to mention a UK tour with The Cribs), Brighton's noise pranksters celebrate the release of their fifth single with this show. Expect jagged post punk, ragged electro pop and a bundle of ramshackle, runaway energy, alongside nods to everyone from Le Tigre to Penetration. And if you ask them nicely they might even sell you their forthcoming album before it hits the shops.
“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://www.myspace.com/shrag

THE LOVES
From Cardiff, The Loves mix pop psychedelia and C86 indie with a dash of Jack Daniels and beatnik cool. They released their debut single on Radio One DJ Huw Stephens’ Boobytrap Singles Club in 2001 and then made several singles and an LP with the esteemed Track And Field Organisation. They also recorded four Peel Sessions in two years (one of which was broadcast live from Peel Acres on Valentine’s Day), and have recorded sessions for Marc Riley on BBC 6Music and BBC Radio Wales. Their second album “Technicolour” was released on Fortuna POP! and was made Album Of The Week by The Sunday Times. A new album “Three” is set for release in early 2009.
'A wide-eyed retro-chic indie-pop sextet that sound like The Monkees playing at being The Velvet Underground.' – (NME)
http://www.myspace.com/lovetheloves

SMOKERS DIE YOUNGER
A bunch of smokin', drinkin' waywards from 
Sheffield with too much time on their hands and a predeliction for early Pavement and, almost inevitably, The Fall. Already championed by
Steve Lamacq and Mark Riley, their debut album 'X Wants The Meat' was
released through the ultra-hip Sheffield Phonographic Corporation label 
(The Long Blondes).
“Smokers Die Younger throw a deliciously cheap sounding organ and some remarkably warped trumpets into a mix of Wire and Nation of Ulysses, and then infuse the resulting eclecticism with an unifying dose of anger, sarcasm, hurt and skewed humour.” (Drowned In Sound)
http://www.myspace.com/xwantsthemeat
http://www.smokersdieyounger.com

plus DJs playing indiepop, punk rock, 60s psych and soul till late