Islet (live) at Nation / Wed 29th Sept / Free gig ― Saturday 19, 2010
Doors 8pm / Free entry
Islet are a four-piece Cardiff experimental rock band. Islet comprises of members (or past members) of The Victorian English Gentlemens Club, Attack + Defend, Fredrick Stanley Star, and Them Squirrels. Their debut ‘mini album’, Celebrate This Place, was released on June 14th to positive reviews. Much was made in the press of the band’s success despite a lack of online presence, however Islet now have an official band website (isletislet.com). Since forming, Islet toured with Los Campesinos!, played Swn Festival 09, were part of Huw Stephens’ ‘Happy Huw Year’ Tour, have supported Teeth Mountain and Lovvers, and have featured on BBC Radio Wales and in the NME.
Iron Wagon & Limn Presents - Washed Out (live) + Small Black (live) ― Tuesday 18, 2010
Washed Out is Ernest Greene, a young guy from Georgia (via South Carolina) who makes bedroom synthpop that sounds blurred and woozily evocative, like someone smeared Vaseline all over an early OMD demo tape, then stayed up all night trying to recreate what they heard. There’s a sense of longing and distance in Greene’s somber, filtered vocals, but it’s what he does compositionally that makes Washed Out stand out. Backed by gently pulsing, Balearic-tinged disco, Greene’s voice takes on a new dimension. Reminiscent of groups like The Glass and the Chromatics, Washed Out is the music to end your night with, when the city is quiet and the walk home, long.
Small Black is the Long Island duo of Josh Kolenik and Ryan Heyner, and they make the kind of hazy lo-fi we’ve been hearing a lot this summer (live, they add Pitchfork.tv contributors Juan Pieczanski and Jeff Curtin to the mix). But as much as the season is about goofy sunglasses and cold beer, it’s also about those garden-crippling late-month frosts. And these guys have that sense of yearning on lock. The pieces that comprise “Despicable Dogs” seem so Frisbee-friendly that you’d expect any emotional relevance to be rendered moot, from the tacky drum machine to the heavy processing on that tubular guitar noise, to the glossy melancholic key plunks. But it both warms and bruises at the same time. “Do it without me, do it when I’m gone,” goes the hook. Such gimmick-free sentimentality can often prove too difficult to finagle, but “Despicable Dogs” is a guaranteed soul-stirrer.
We at Limn are proud to host the afterparty of the Washed Out gig at Nation of Shopkeepers with FREE ENTRY From 10.30 onwards, we will be supplying visual and audible stimulus - overhead projectors, live art and a Serato crate full of electronica, idm, beat music and synth driven hip hop. Trust us, it’s stupid good.
Our guest artists for the night…
Crim Collective - http://www.crimcollective.co.uk/
Kristyna Baczynski - http://kriskicorp.blogspot.com/
Liam Alvy - http://liamalvy.wordpress.com/
jamajamajimjam - http://blackleafcompany.com
Tom Moore - N/A.
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The Nextmen @ Nation of Shopkeepers - Fri 21st May 2010 ― Wednesday 24, 2010
The Nextmen are critically acclaimed Hip Hop DJs and producers they are Dom Search (aka Dominic Betmead) and Brad Baloo (aka Brad Ellis). The two members also run their own independent record label, Custom Records, a joint venture with Fat City Records. They have been prolific remixers since 2000, have been responsible for a string of popular Hip Hop Mixtapes, and are perhaps most well known for their 2 man, 4 turntable DJ sets (often fronted by an MC, usually MC Wrec or Dynamite MC) which include music from all genres and occupy the space between turntablism and club based DJing. Their first album “Amongst the Madness” (Scenario) was popular on the Hip Hop scene and included performances from MC’s from the US and UK. The second Album Get Over It, released in 2003, featured such artists as American Rapper J-Live and Cutty Ranks. It showed a marked change in their sound, with a more electronic production sound. Dom Search appeared on two Groove Armada albums, “Vertigo” and “Goodbye Country, Hello Nightclub”.
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No Bones presents - EGYPTIAN HIP HOP // IS TROPICAL // YUCK - Sat 6th Feb ― Wednesday 27, 2010
Two underground and blog hyped acts and one relatively new band that will be doing some great stuff this year. London trio Is Tropical wear masks. They are the kind of dudes who enlist a Mystery Jet to help them bash out a rampaging Fela Kuti cover. They also steal boats. After the jump they talk cocktails, Jim Morrison and sonic booms. Manchester youngsters Egyptian Hop Hop were Guardians new band of the day in October 2009 they sound like erm, well not Hip Hop or Egyptian, maybe a bit like Quando Quango or Klaxons on methadrone, download their track ‘Rad Pitt’ its pretty er…Rad? Yuck is the new off shoot from members of CAJUN DANCE PARTY
Doors 9pm / £3 on the door
www.myspace.com/istropical www.myspace.com/egyptianhiphop www.myspace.com/yuckband
Casiotone For The Painfully Alone to play No Bones Christmas Party! ― Tuesday 20, 2009
On Saturday 19th December 2009 Casiotone will play the NO BONES Christmas party. There’s only 150 tickets available for this Casiotone gig, the actual Christmas party will be after the gig. which will finish around 10.30pm.
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Fryars & Django Djano confirmed for Sat 24th October! ― Wednesday 26, 2009
This is pretty sweet news, the awesome Fryars finally play Leeds after keeping his fans waiting an extremely long time. Not only will this be a pretty amazing gig but the double biller is being filled with Scottish newcomers Django Djano. They recently scored a full page in the NME in the Radar section and I caught them at Latitude in July and they have something quite special going on. This will be an immense night. Tickets are on sale now for £3.00 from Jumbo, Crash and Seetickets.com
www.myspace.com/fryars www.myspace.com/djangotime tinyurl.com/FRYARSLEEDS
EVERYTHING EVERYTHING announce UK tour and play Nation of Shopkeepers ― Wednesday 29, 2009
EVERYTHING EVERYTHING (LIVE)
Monday 19th October / Doors 7.30pm / Free Entry
“Quirky” and “complex” are qualities you either value in pop, or you despise. Everything Everything, four musicians who released their debut single Suffragette Suffragette at the tail end of 2008 and operate from Manchester but hail as individuals from Newcastle and Kent, make shamelessly quirky, complex pop. We say “shamelessly” because they openly admit to being a fan of such an underrated latterday exponent of everything-at-once pop – you might say everything-everything pop – as Max Tundra, the highly idiosyncratic musician who records for Domino and whose every song sounds like several different acts from several different eras jamming on Jools Holland’s head (we wish). Everything Everything are that rarity – a band you could quite reasonably describe as Tundra-esque. It probably won’t happen again - taken from The Guardian’s ‘Band of the Day’ column
www.myspace.com/everythingeverythinguk www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/may/21/new-band-everything-everything
MONOTONIX set to raise hell at Nation of Shopkeepers ― Tuesday 28, 2009
MONOTONIX (LIVE) + CASTROVALVA
Friday 21st August 2009 / 7.30pm / Tickets £3.00 from Jumbo, Crash & Seetickets.com
Tickets are £3.00 available now from - http://tinyurl.com/MONOGIG
Monotonix are a garage rock band from Tel Aviv, Israel. They released their debut EP in 2008 and have toured the United States and Europe, including notable appearances at SXSW. Dissatisfied with the state of the music scene in their hometown of Tel Aviv, the Israeli trio Monotonix formed in November 2005. The band, which has grown out of the disbanded Mono Addicted Acid Man, consists of singer Ami Shalev, guitarist Yonatan Gat, and drummer Haggai Fershtman (Ran Shimoni filled in for Fershtman on some tours), started recording, influenced by Led Zeppelin, the Sonics, and Thin Lizzy. Shortly after forming, they began playing shows at local venues. They frequently set up on the floor among the crowd, playing shows raucous enough to result in the power being shut off or the police called in.
In 2008, the band signed to Drag City, where they have released Body Language, and have continued their all-year touring.
www.myspace.com/monotonix www.myspace.com/castrovalvamusic www.last.fm/music/Monotonix
JULY AT NATION OF SHOPKEEPERS ― Friday 3, 2009
It’s been a great first month at Nation of Shopkeepers. More images charting June’s events will be added to the site shortly. In the meantime, check out the Listings section for details of July’s happenings.
LOVEFOXXX (CSS DJ SET) PLUS GUESTS ― Wednesday 20, 2009
Lovefoxxx (CSS DJ Set) / Dinosaur Pile Up (Live) / Skull Juice / Casper C / Good Form Club / Kill The Rhythm / No Bones DJs / The Old Romantic Killer Band (live) / Drowned in Sound vs. Death By Shoes / Er…Kentucky DJs and more.
We’re proud to present Lovefoxxx who is the lead singer from provocative art-dance sextet CSS from Sao Paolo, Brazil. She will most likely be spinning everything from Bowie to Diplo and we imagine she’ll be as unpredictable as she is on stage. Bloggers Delight residents Casper C and Skull Juice will stop over another night in Leeds after playing Stag and Dagger at The Faversham, good lads!
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