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- Shield Your Eyes / Nitkowski /...
The Boileroom
25 November at 19:00 - Johnny Foreigner // Internet F...
The Boileroom
26 November at 19:30 - Chew Lips // The Other Tribe /...
The Boileroom
27 November at 19:30
The BOILEROOM
Wednesday November 25th
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Shield Your Eyes
Nitkowski
Sly & The Family Drone
The garage/math/thrash discordance of Shield Your Eyes is a wayward celebration of broken amps and good intentions. Centered around the twisting guitar anti-histrionics of Stef Kettering, their spira...ling compositions seamlessly incorporate flailing improvisation and obsessive compulsive songwriting: the result being a disorientating journey through the minds of three young men with an unhealthy interest in badly damaged thrift-store effects pedals.
Doors: 7:00pm
Entry: £5
Admittance: 18 +
Advanced Tickets At: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/63200Read more
BOILEROOM // GUILDFORD
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Shield Your Eyes
Nitkowski
Sly & The Family Drone
The garage/math/thrash discordance of Shield Your Eyes is a wayward celebration of broken amps and good intentions. Centered around the twisting guitar anti-histrionics of Stef Kettering, their spira...ling compositions seamlessly incorporate flailing improvisation and obsessive compulsive songwriting: the result being a disorientating journey through the minds of three young men with an unhealthy interest in badly damaged thrift-store effects pedals.
Doors: 7:00pm
Entry: £5
Admittance: 18 +
Advanced Tickets At: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/63200Read more
Time:Wednesday, 25 November 2009 19:00
Location:The Boileroom
Edd Owyn Leo'nard Thomas Whats the best way to contact the people who book the bands?
The BOILEROOM Tickets for Johnnt Foreigner selling fast, this one's a 16 + too... xx
Location:The Boileroom
Time:Thursday, 26 November 2009 19:30
Gav 'Ravenous' Porteous
This sat at the boilerooms! http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.
With special guest TOM REAL (Disco of Doom/ Passenger Records)
Location:The Boileroom, Guildford
Time:Saturday, 14 November 2009 19:00
The BOILEROOM Reggae at the Boileroom!!! xx
Rachel Shephard whats going down sat nite?
The BOILEROOM La Shark: most definitly contenders for best support act of 09'. Good Shoes shortly. Siiiiiiiiiick. xx
The BOILEROOM Is preparing for the mighty Kane FM takeover tomorrow night!!
Tim Folland whos playing on december 20th ?
The BOILEROOM
BOILEROOM // GUILDFORD
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 27TH
CHEW LIPS
THE OTHER TRIBE
TIFFANY PAGE
STROBE CIRCUS
There is nothing quite usual about Chew Lips. Not their way of making music, or their live shows, or indeed, their inception. After doing the Indie Band Shuffle in previous bands, in the spring of this year vocalist Tigs and mult...i-instrumentalists James Watkins and Will Sanderson eventually decided to start making music together, with only one edict: not to sound like Just Another Guitar Band.
With only that in mind, the trio subsequently decamped to a friend’s studio to test the waters of the Chew Lips sound. “We had no idea what we wanted to sound like, only what we didn’t want to sound like”, says Tigs. “And I think that helped us. We didn’t know what we wanted to do, so we just did everything”. The result was the organic and purely accidental evolution of their current, electronically enhanced sound. Experimenting and improvising, they wrote 10 songs that first day.
Before long, the newly hatched Chew Lips had booked themselves their first gig: they took over a friend’s heaving house party in New Cross, with Tigs standing on a washing machine improvising the forgotten lyrics while punters hung from the rafters and sweat dripping off the ceilings. But even through the chaos, a blueprint for the band was formed, with Will and James facing each other, swapping between keyboards, guitars and bass, while Tigs had the run of the stage. Since then, they have racked up coverage in everything from Dazed and Confused to Jalouse, been the subject of A & R brawls and even had a champion in the legendary form of Steve Lamacq, who unequivocally declared them his favourite band of 2008 (and the best unsigned band in the country) after hearing their demos, landing them a coveted slot at the BBC Electric Proms in the process.
Of course, none of this would be of any consequence without fantastic songs to back it up, and this is something Chew Lips have in spades. Every song sounds like it could be a planet-bestriding, galaxy swallowing pop smash, with Will and James’ gorgeously whirling and mutating Casiotone/guitar/bass/drum machine attack providing the perfect backdrop. So “Twin Galaxies” hums and throbs along on waves of barely contained frustration and burbling, almost LCD-esque blips and bleeps, while the harder edged “CLVR1” comes packed with enough simmering attitude to knock you out with the flick of a wrist. And on the imminent first single “Solo” – due for release in March on revered Parisian label Kitsune – Chew Lips alternately capture the yearning, impatience, beauty, confusion and impermanence of youth, with Tigs summing up the hopes and dreams of a whole generation with the fist-pumping battle cry of “we don’t want to wait, there’s no time, no time”. This is pop music alright, but pop with a gloriously vivid, almost cinematic sweep; as well as a human heart, filled with a very real sense of longing and desire, in amidst the shiny, clattering electronica.
Doors: 7:30pm
Entry: £6
Admittance: 18 +
Advanced Tickets Available At: www.wegottickets.com/event/61181Read more
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 27TH
CHEW LIPS
THE OTHER TRIBE
TIFFANY PAGE
STROBE CIRCUS
There is nothing quite usual about Chew Lips. Not their way of making music, or their live shows, or indeed, their inception. After doing the Indie Band Shuffle in previous bands, in the spring of this year vocalist Tigs and mult...i-instrumentalists James Watkins and Will Sanderson eventually decided to start making music together, with only one edict: not to sound like Just Another Guitar Band.
With only that in mind, the trio subsequently decamped to a friend’s studio to test the waters of the Chew Lips sound. “We had no idea what we wanted to sound like, only what we didn’t want to sound like”, says Tigs. “And I think that helped us. We didn’t know what we wanted to do, so we just did everything”. The result was the organic and purely accidental evolution of their current, electronically enhanced sound. Experimenting and improvising, they wrote 10 songs that first day.
Before long, the newly hatched Chew Lips had booked themselves their first gig: they took over a friend’s heaving house party in New Cross, with Tigs standing on a washing machine improvising the forgotten lyrics while punters hung from the rafters and sweat dripping off the ceilings. But even through the chaos, a blueprint for the band was formed, with Will and James facing each other, swapping between keyboards, guitars and bass, while Tigs had the run of the stage. Since then, they have racked up coverage in everything from Dazed and Confused to Jalouse, been the subject of A & R brawls and even had a champion in the legendary form of Steve Lamacq, who unequivocally declared them his favourite band of 2008 (and the best unsigned band in the country) after hearing their demos, landing them a coveted slot at the BBC Electric Proms in the process.
Of course, none of this would be of any consequence without fantastic songs to back it up, and this is something Chew Lips have in spades. Every song sounds like it could be a planet-bestriding, galaxy swallowing pop smash, with Will and James’ gorgeously whirling and mutating Casiotone/guitar/bass/drum machine attack providing the perfect backdrop. So “Twin Galaxies” hums and throbs along on waves of barely contained frustration and burbling, almost LCD-esque blips and bleeps, while the harder edged “CLVR1” comes packed with enough simmering attitude to knock you out with the flick of a wrist. And on the imminent first single “Solo” – due for release in March on revered Parisian label Kitsune – Chew Lips alternately capture the yearning, impatience, beauty, confusion and impermanence of youth, with Tigs summing up the hopes and dreams of a whole generation with the fist-pumping battle cry of “we don’t want to wait, there’s no time, no time”. This is pop music alright, but pop with a gloriously vivid, almost cinematic sweep; as well as a human heart, filled with a very real sense of longing and desire, in amidst the shiny, clattering electronica.
Doors: 7:30pm
Entry: £6
Admittance: 18 +
Advanced Tickets Available At: www.wegottickets.com/event/61181Read more
Time:Friday, 27 November 2009 19:30
Location:The Boileroom
The BOILEROOM
THE BOILEROOM // GUILDFORD
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 26TH
JOHNNY FOREIGNER
INTERNET FOREVER
LADY & THE LOST BOYS
“Forward-thinking young guitar-slingers...turbo-charged, noisy and downright promising” - NME
"…a breathless, deathless rush of possibilities, Ritilan rock exploding with ideas and imagination." - Kerrang!
“Vicious, hotly-...tipped and sonically huge... the smarts of Pavement, the groove of Pretty Girls Make Graves, the drive of Fugazi and the detached shoutiness of Gareth Campesinos! Johnny Foreigner are worth their hype in gold” – Clash
"The interplay between the dual male and female lead vocalists is as excitingly fresh noise as this reviewer has heard all year." - Rock Sound
“Some of the most exciting indie-pop sounds put to record by a British band in a long while… domestic debut release of the year – hands down.” - Drowned In Sound
In 2007 Johnny Foreigner burst out of Britain’s second city amongst a hurricane of thrilling New-Wave Fight-Pop, armed with a blistering array of melodious, discordant rackets that leave an immediate, indelible mark on the brain.
In the words of the band themselves: “Our album came out, the music press decided we were HOT STUFF and loads of people bought it or robbed it off the internet and said yay this is good and started singing songs back at us. Some singles fell off the album, they got played on Teh Radio and Teh Television enough to make people think we’d Made It and now took helicopters everywhere. We got very flattered indeed and spent most of the summer playing in fields or to people marginally more drunk than ourselves. It was pretty spesh.”
Now, in 2009, with literally hundreds of shows under their belts alongside the likes of Idlewild, Los Campesinos, Young Knives, Blood Red Shoes, The Subways, Hundred Reasons, Dananananaykroyd, Forward Russia and many more Johnny Foreigner are back with their Alex Newport (At The Drive-In, Meet Me In St. Louis) produced sophomore album “Grace And The Bigger Picture”. A relentless blast of inventive, exciting, angular art-pop, it’s an album that will ensure Johnny Foreigner won't be strangers to you for long.
Doors: 7:30pm
Entry: £7 ADV/£8
Admittance: 16 +
Advanced Tickets At: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/61280
Read more
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 26TH
JOHNNY FOREIGNER
INTERNET FOREVER
LADY & THE LOST BOYS
“Forward-thinking young guitar-slingers...turbo-charged, noisy and downright promising” - NME
"…a breathless, deathless rush of possibilities, Ritilan rock exploding with ideas and imagination." - Kerrang!
“Vicious, hotly-...tipped and sonically huge... the smarts of Pavement, the groove of Pretty Girls Make Graves, the drive of Fugazi and the detached shoutiness of Gareth Campesinos! Johnny Foreigner are worth their hype in gold” – Clash
"The interplay between the dual male and female lead vocalists is as excitingly fresh noise as this reviewer has heard all year." - Rock Sound
“Some of the most exciting indie-pop sounds put to record by a British band in a long while… domestic debut release of the year – hands down.” - Drowned In Sound
In 2007 Johnny Foreigner burst out of Britain’s second city amongst a hurricane of thrilling New-Wave Fight-Pop, armed with a blistering array of melodious, discordant rackets that leave an immediate, indelible mark on the brain.
In the words of the band themselves: “Our album came out, the music press decided we were HOT STUFF and loads of people bought it or robbed it off the internet and said yay this is good and started singing songs back at us. Some singles fell off the album, they got played on Teh Radio and Teh Television enough to make people think we’d Made It and now took helicopters everywhere. We got very flattered indeed and spent most of the summer playing in fields or to people marginally more drunk than ourselves. It was pretty spesh.”
Now, in 2009, with literally hundreds of shows under their belts alongside the likes of Idlewild, Los Campesinos, Young Knives, Blood Red Shoes, The Subways, Hundred Reasons, Dananananaykroyd, Forward Russia and many more Johnny Foreigner are back with their Alex Newport (At The Drive-In, Meet Me In St. Louis) produced sophomore album “Grace And The Bigger Picture”. A relentless blast of inventive, exciting, angular art-pop, it’s an album that will ensure Johnny Foreigner won't be strangers to you for long.
Doors: 7:30pm
Entry: £7 ADV/£8
Admittance: 16 +
Advanced Tickets At: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/61280
Read more
Time:Thursday, 26 November 2009 19:30
Location:The Boileroom
The BOILEROOM Just announced: Grammatics, Dec 1st. Fuck. Yes. xx
Source: www.wegottickets.com
Leeds-based Grammatics formed in April 2006 with best friends Owen Brinley and Dominic Ord deciding to form a band after the demise of Owen’s previous band Colour of Fire. The line-up was pieced together with the addition of Rebecca Dumican and Rory O’Hara and Michael Repeat. ...
