King Of Spain

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KING OF SPAIN (South London)
..released their debut album ‘Battleships and Aeroplanes’ earlier this year. The album, which is full of gloriously catch indie-folk tunes, sea shanties and lullabies has received the following praise:
'Welcome King of Spain with open arms. Reeking of Hefner and The Go-Betweens, this album stands as a homage to a great school of underground indie… awesome’ – NME
‘These four blokes from South London have captured that raw Britishness of a Libertines record better than twenty other bands who were trying harder could do’ - Bearded
www.myspace.com/kingofspainmusic

MY DEVICE (Brighton)
Following the release of the album ‘Jumbo Fiasco’ at the end of 2007, My Device have spent the last 18 months dividing their time between the studio and trips to New York, where they are building themselves quite a fan base. Here’s what the press said about ‘Jumbo Fiasco’:
'Their second album hurtles through 14 relentlessly intricate songs in 35 minutes, evoking classic art-pop from early Eno, The Fall and XTC through to current post-punkers The Futureheads and The Young Knives, dispatched with the intensity of hardcore punk' - Q
'My Device offer 14 tracks of completely insane and extremely fun post punk... they'll definitely be a hit on the dance floor of every indie disco' - Drowned In sound
'Sounds a bit like Modest Mouse and Les Savy Fav having a penknife fight whiles Wires On Fire watch on. This is obviously brilliant' - Artrocker
‘A must-see act’ - Notion
www.myspace.com/mydevice

ANTON BARBEAU (Cambridge via California)
In recent years Anton Barbeau has been quietly but quickly building a global fan base with his esoteric and highly-original brand of psychedelic power-pop, his mind-bending stage show and his auto-neurotic humour. His 5th album ‘The Automatic Door’ was released in the Summer of 2007.
‘Anton Barbeau represents the Sacramento chapter of that nameless coterie of enduringly reliable, acid-tinged singer-songwriters’ – The Sunday Times
'Barbeau's beaming, carefree melodies belie a compendium of fears and diseases - wherein suffragettes, lepers and beauty queens co-exist in balmy, barmy harmony with billy goats, big business and psychic twins.' - Plan B
'This man sure arrived in the wrong decade and has been showing the world this since the late '80s, but his dedicated followers are happy he's here now, myself included' - Kruger Magazine
www.myspace.com/antonbarbeau