SICK! Liverpool - 12 Live Bands on 2 Floors inc Polly Mackey & The Pleasure Principle and Panic!

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SICK! - 12 Live Bands on 2 Floors
On a mission to make Live music fun again ...

Panic! Smiths + Morrissey Disco between and after the live bands!

Downstairs: Indie / Rock / Electro
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Polly Mackey & The Pleasure Principle

This year Polly Mackey and the Pleasure Principle have played SXSW in Austin, Texas, won supajam against 1,700 other bands to play at FIB Heineken Festival in Benicassim, Spain played MTV Music Week, The Great Escape Brighton, and gigs across the UK - and now they are playing Sick!

"Polly has a FANTASTIC voice - strong with a really wonderful quality to it...it has something that makes me sad to my bones in a really good way...I definitely want to keep an eye on Polly, I think she is a great talent and I'd be very interested to see how she develops"
Marsha Shandur - XFM Radio


The Mono LPs

"The Mono LPs are one of the most original and interesting bands to come out of the North Wests recent explosion of new music. The Liverpool five-piece boasts an array of musical styles taken from the bands eclectic influences, which range from the intimate storyteller to the hard-edge guitar pounding RocknRoll. One of the things that set this band apart from most others is the unique sound of the cello weaving its way through the electric riffs and thumping bass lines. This array of musical ideas is fused together by a solid snapping backbeat which is laced with subtle harmonies completing this exciting and original sound."


Run Toto Run

"Lead singer Rachael Kichenside has the single most beautiful voice you are likely to hear this year. " (Liverpool Echo)

"A curious mix of anti-folk and airy, Postal Service-indebted electronica. " (NME)

"Gorgeous… another indication that Manchester is crawling with talent. " (Steve Lamacq, BBC Radio 1, 2 and 6 Music)

"A delightful blend of high tech and lo tech acoustic and marvellous song writing" (Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music)



Bagheera

"...When four separate people say 'did you see the first band?, they were ace,' it's a safe bet they're ones to look out for " (Peter Guy, Liverpool Daily Post)


Town Bike

"One of the livelier bands around right now , if not the liveliest, are Liverpool’s Town Bike who don’t fail to impress with their fun packed shows.

They dress in personalised bowling shirts and sound like The Ramones. Hell they could well be the forgotten offspring of Helen Love’s Debbie and Joey for all I know. The band have now released their début full length and it sounds exactly like their live shows which of course to these ears is brilliant." (Indie-MP3.com)


Sensorites

The Sensorites cite influences as diverse as The Beatles, Oasis, Nirvana, The Smiths, The Stone Roses, The Kinks, Radiohead, Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Massive Attack, Bert jansch, Jonn Martyn, The Funk Brothers, Bjork, Joni Mitchell, Nick Drake, The Rolling Stones, Joy Divison, New Order, The Beach Boys, Cat Power, David Bowie, T-Rex, Led Zeppelin, Sex Pistols, The Clash, Low, Manic Street Preachers, Cat power, The Band, Barrington Levy, The Beach Boys, Buena Vista Social Club, The Funk Brothers, Doves, Fleetwood Mac, Free, Groove Armarda, Happy Mondays, Johnny Cash, Muse, Nick Drake, Portishead, Queens Of The Stone Age, Smashing Pumpkins, Soulsavers, Stevie Wonder, U2, The Undertones - and many many more


Upstairs: Acoustic / Folk / Indie / Poetry
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Maxi Dunn "Welcome to Soonville" Album Launch Party

"Welcome To Soonville brims with fantastic modern pop songs which on first listen sound bright and as sunny as any classic pop songs sound. Dig a little deeper however and the lyrics betray a real depth of emotion. This is gripping stuff and while it is hoped that Maxi has now got her life back on track and to her liking it can’t be denied that the songs on this album are robust and fully formed." (Jon Kirkman, Rockahead)


The Big I Am

"The Big I Am are Colin Heaney on cuatro, ebow, and vocals; Peter McPartland on ukelele, bass, and vocals; and Steve O'Toole on piano and organ. They have an acoustic, folk-tinged pop sound that's much harder to categorise than the description we've just used! They've been gigging around the local scene and have been making lots of fans along the way." (Liverpool Acoustic News and Reviews)


Carrie Hayden

"Carrie Hayden was born in Worcestershire in 1985 and it didn’t take her long to realise that when she spoke she sounded like she’d been tanning Marlboro Reds since she exited the womb. After trying to sing along to the likes of Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey and failing miserably she came to the decision that she was going to have to find another way to entertain the neighbours. At fourteen she started writing three chord songs on an out of tune piano. Inspired by artists such as Tracy Chapman, Sheryl Crow and the Beatles her hobby grew into an ambition. After a two year performing arts diploma and a gap year singing vocals on dodgy trance tracks she managed to blag her way into Paul McCartney’s fame school - LIPA. Here she met a handful of like-minded individuals in the form of Andy Neve, Jostein Austvik, Andrew Grevey and Yuka Hamomoto and began to make sweet music. With comparisons to the likes of Joni Mitchell, Carole King, and Tracy Chapman, Carrie treads complex emotional ground with a light-hearted step. Her music is unashamedly honest and at the same time carefree and catchy - a diary of thoughts and feelings left open for you to get lost in, modest and personal yet reassuring and relatable."


Steve Regan - Poet

Steve Regan is a writer, broadcaster, comedian and radical poet. He was behind the popular "Sam Brady" tv review column on the ITV Oracle service back in the 1980s and he now runs the "Bards of New Brighton" poetry group on the second Monday of the month at The Magazine pub in New Brihgton. Often controversial, always entertaining



Ian Nenna - Poet

Some of Ian's work is hysterically funny, some is heartfelt and profound - either way he always entertains 100%


Quality bands from start to finish?
Brilliant Atmosphere?
Only £4 entry?
That's a SICK! night out!