Children For Breakfast Present: This Town Needs Guns & Six Gallery (US)

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This band don't need much of an introduction. It's Children For Breakfast bringing you This Town Needs Guns and it's at The Harley.

This Town Needs Guns
http://www.myspace.com/thistownneedsguns

Oxford is home to the oldest University in the English-speaking world, but more recently has been acknowledged as a musical hotbed with a habit of producing some of the most vital bands around today (Radiohead and Foals, to name a few). Their latest export is This Town Needs Guns, a band being hailed as the darling buds of the thriving UK indie scene. The band have toured across Europe with the likes of I Was A Cub Scout, Meet Me In St Louis, Rolo Tomassi and Maps & Atlases and the release of 2007’s split EP with Cats And Cats And Cats garnered critical acclaim from fans and press alike.

This Town Needs Guns entered the studio in April 2008, setting out to find an intricate balance between indie rock, catchy pop and technical prowess, all while ignoring the lure of special effects and studio wizardry. Through this process, their debut full-length Animals was born; a collection of songs that bring to light the band’s pure, clever and earnest song writing ability. Tim Collis’ guitar sounds as though it’s being caressed by 6 hands as his brother, Chris, flings his sticks around the drum kit not wanting to leave any tiny patch un-touched. Bassist Jamie Cooper completes the rhythm section with his dancey, jazz influenced bass lines while Stuart Smith’s vocals dip and soar, taking this record from thought provoking depths to sky-scraping triumphs.

“This Town Needs Guns have delivered one of the most accomplished records of twiddly un-genre-label-ifying music to date” The Line Of Best Fit

“When This Town Needs Gun hit their mark they sound stylish, sussed and like reformed mathcore men Minus The Bear covering seminal Mancunian miserablists The Smiths.” Kerrang

“these songs are emotions transformed into technicalities, love and loss and sadness and insecurity translated into complex time signatures that are arrhythmic yet soothing, mathematical but moving." The Fly

“This Town Needs Guns deliver accessibility marked ‘avant-rock’, their Minus The Bear/Foals-recalling material blessed by charm and character singular while echoing enough established work to warrant repeated investigations, as layers are peeled and sweetness bleeds from the gaps between the fret-taps.” Clash Music

"Oxford's finest professional guitar noodlers" Drowned In Sound

In support, from across the pond;

Six Gallery (US)
http://www.myspace.com/sixgallery

SIX GALLERY formed in the summer of 2005 as a four-piece instrumental act in the small university town of Athens, Ohio. In just two short years they released two EPs, graduated from college, relocated to Columbus, Ohio, replaced a drummer and played around 100 shows throughout the Midwest and Northeast.

With the release of their debut-album, in June 2009, they have attracted the attention of prominent independent labels, radio promoters, and booking agents alike. As a consequence SIX GALLERY has shared the stage with national acts like Maps and Atlases, The Heartland, La Dispute, The Ataris, Andrew WK, Kevin Devine, The New Amsterdams and Mouth of the Architect.

Often compared to contemporaries such as Minus The Bear, Maps and Atlases, and Aereogramme, SIX GALLERY will be re-releasing their debut album, "Breakthroughs In Modern Art", on March 22nd in Europe and on March 23rd in North America

“The musical machine gun of Will Vokac and Ben Schreiber's finger-tapped guitars is still there, but the addition of Daniel Francis' fervent vocals has pushed the group into uncharted territory. One could go on and on about the ways in which Francis bounces from expression to expression, often ripping into a soulful cry before sinking into a whisper (give the standout “Built to Last” a try). His rambling lyrics drop facts, allusions, secrets, and tall-tales with equal earnestness and we're not sure whether to believe all of it or none of it. The sheer excitement his stories offer sprints arm-in-arm with the sparkling guitars with an incredibly balanced, energetic effect.” - Absolutepunk

And from Sheffield;

Pirouettes
http://www.myspace.com/wearepirouettes

They're complicated.

They're influenced by Explosions In The Sky, The Police, Minus The Bear, Fleetwood Mac, Battles, Cursive, Bright Eyes, Portugal The Man, The National, Sigur Ros, American Football, Bloc Party, Death Cab For Cutie, Joy Division, Thursday, Patric Wolf, NWA, Fugazi, Hot Water Music, At The Drive In.

They're good.

With guest DJs

The Harley
Glossop Road
Friday 21st May
£5 advance / More On The Door
Tickets from the venue & wegottickets.com