Jim Lockey & The Solemn Sun
www.facebook.com/jimlockeyandthesolemnsun

“Amazing. A beautiful piece of music with a heavy message” – Zane Lowe

“A Mumford-like blend of folk, country and punk” – NME

“Corking debut from rising UK rockers… Acoustic-led songs that bristle with an energy redolent of a punk rock record collection and love concerts in hot rooms. A blast” – 4/5 Kerrang!

“Death is a triumph… equal parts Gaslight Anthem and Frank Turner” – 5/5 Big Cheese

“…one of the best, singer-songwriters I’ve met… Deserves to be massive” – Frank Turner

Hotly tipped Cheltenham quartet, Jim Lockey & the Solemn Sun deliver their blend of Alt.County/Rock with the passion and vigor of the greats. Signed to Xtra Mile Recordings, and championed by label mate Frank Turner, these early months have seen the band named as one of NME’s ‘bands to watch’, perform at SXSW Festival and release their eagerly awaited follow up to 2010’s ‘Atlases’ to critical acclaim and airplay on BBC Radio 1.

The Louisiana website:
www.thelouisiana.net

TICKETS:

£7adv | Ages 16+

www.ticketweb.co.uk/event/62763

www.bristolticketshop.co.uk/?/131001LOUJIML1

www.seetickets.com/see/price.asp?code=712885

Kathryn Williams
www.facebook.com/KathrynWilliamsMusic

“In years to come, I’ll look back at the records I’ve made and not have any regrets about a man in a suit making me fit in with fashion. They’re small, sketchy pieces. I’m not trying to make Big Art”.

Kathryn Williams may not be trying to make Big Art. But, for many of us, the art she makes is as big as it gets. Her ability to take an everyday observation and grab it from the ether, boil it down to its essence, and then send it back out, in a song that breaks your heart, with a voice that instinctively understands the power of restraint and of melody that drifts like thought, of lyric that pricks like a needle, or conscience, probably both.

Williams released her first album, ‘Dog Leap Stairs’ on her own Caw Records label in 1999. The follow-up, ‘Little Black Numbers’, garnered a Mercury Prize nomination, bringing her to the attention of a wider public. A spell with EastWest / Atlantic followed (‘Old Low Light’ in 2002, and the ‘Relations’ covers album in 2004), before she returned to her independent roots with 2005′s Over Fly Over. Kathryn has since released a further 3 studio albums on this label: ‘Leave to Remain’ in 2006, ‘The Quickening’ in 2010 and eighth album, ‘The Pond’, in 2012.

Williams has also collaborated with Neill Maccoll, John Martyn, Badmarsh and Shri, Thea Gilmore, Tobias Froberg and Ted Barnes. ‘Two’, released in 2008, is the first project to be released under joint names. Williams and Maccoll co-wrote most of the album, with the exception of “Innocent When You Dream”, which is a Tom Waits song.

The Louisiana website:
www.thelouisiana.net

TICKETS:

£15adv | Ages 16+

www.ticketweb.co.uk/event/52641

www.bristolticketshop.co.uk/cgi-bin/shop.cgi?group=Louisiana

www.seetickets.com/see/price.asp?code=703452

BlackWolf

http://www.reverbnation.com/ukblackwolf

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BlackWolf return to their hometown Bristol for the first time since their sold out show @ The Fleece with The Union Earlier this year.

This time round they will be performing a full headline slot including never before heard songs from their upcoming debut album!

Pledge on BlackWolf’s debut album here: http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/ukblackwolf
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The Louisiana – Less than 5 minutes from Temple Meads train station/major bus route. – http://goo.gl/maps/TlaAB

http://thelouisiana.net/

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Tickets: £5 ADV

Ticket link: Coming Soon

Full Details: http://www.reverbnation.com/show/10513574

Six. By Seven
www.facebook.com/sixbyseven

Nottingham’s six. by seven, released their first album, The Things We Make to rave reviews in 1998. Five Peel Sessions followed, an appearance on ‘Later With Jools Holland’ and much touring. The band gained a strong underground following, and released four more albums.

Lead singer and creative force, Chris Olley preferred to shun the limelight, releasing internet only albums of wide ranging music and building valve distortion boxes for a number of famous bands with fellow guitarist, Martin Cooper.

In 2011, Olley formed the drummerless version of six. by seven, macabrely named ‘The Death Of Six By Seven’ with long time original member and Hammond Organ player, James Flower and ex- six. by seven bass player, Pete Stevenson as well as Martin Cooper on guitar. Gigs followed and so did five internet only singles and an album.

After a wrong phone call to a music shop and a chance meeting in London, Olley found himself having a beer with ex Placebo / Boo Radleys drummer Steve Hewitt. It turned out to be a magical and divine coming together as Hewitt said, “There’s nothing for it, I should throw my drums in the car and come up to Nottingham and get you rocking again.”

What followed was four months of rehearsing old songs Olley had written over the last five years, before the band recruited producer, Dan Austin (Massive Attack, Doves, Biffy Clyro) and recorded 9 tracks at the legendary Moles studio in Bath.

This July sees the release of what is arguably six.by seven’s most accomplished album. Nine songs of pure drumming dynamite, feral guitars, and a string of songs dealing with the human condition and its broken dreams.

It’s a new start by a band that refuses to lie down and stop rocking.

New album out July 2013.

The Louisiana website:
www.thelouisiana.net

TICKETS:

£10adv | Ages 16+

www.ticketweb.co.uk/event/58629

www.bristolticketshop.co.uk/?/130723LOUSIXB1

www.seetickets.com/see/price.asp?code=708669

Dinosaur Pile-Up
www.facebook.com/dinosaurpileup

Formed by Matt Bigland in 2007, Dinosaur Pile-Up are an English alternative rock band, often compared with the Seattle grunge scene of the early 90s.

The band released My Rock ‘n’ Roll EP in late 2008 and the Traynor 7” and The Most Powerful EP in the Universe in 2009. Also in 2009, they played on the BBC introducing stage at Leeds Festival and were invited on tour with alternative rock group Pixies on their European tour.

Debut album Growing Pains was recorded solely by Matt Bigland playing all the parts on the album in a home studio in Bridlington. After the release of Growing Pains in October 2010, Dinosaur Pile-Up began a full UK tour, also playing in the rock exposure tour and various dates across Mexico, as well as supporting slots with bands such as Feeder, Cage the Elephant, Turbowolf and Twin Atlantic.

New album Nature Nurture will be released on 13th May 2013.

The Louisiana website:
www.thelouisiana.net

TICKETS:

£7adv | Ages 16+

www.ticketweb.co.uk/event/58631

www.bristolticketshop.co.uk/?/130719LOUDINO1

www.seetickets.com/see/price.asp?code=708654

Tues 16th July | £7adv | 7:30pm | Ages 16+
Warm Soda
www.facebook.com/warmsoda777

Perfecting the blend of glitter and grime that earned Bare Wires a soft spot in the hearts of the bubblegum-popping, foot-stomping masses, Matthew Melton joins with bassist Chase Oren, guitarist Rob Good, and drummer Ian McBrayer as Warm Soda. With their debut LP, Someone For You, the outfit charts the familiar territory of power pop, glam, and punk, but with a decidedly more confident stride. The twelve resulting songs smack of sugar but sate an appetite that craves more than something sweet, their initial taste of preeminently listenable simplicity giving way to a lingering flavor of their compositional complexity. The group continues to cook up universally palatable jams out of Good & Melton’s Fuzz City Studios in Oakland, CA, and plans to take them on the road this year, cruising America’s historic highways in the spring and crossing the Atlantic for a European tour before summer’s end.

The Louisiana website:
www.thelouisiana.net

TICKETS:

www.ticketweb.co.uk/event/54535

www.bristolticketshop.co.uk/cgi-bin/shop.cgi?group=Louisiana

www.seetickets.com/see/price.asp?code=704891

The Lucid Dream
www.facebook.com/theluciddream

‘noisier northern hopes”
NME Magazine

‘reverb drenched majesty’
The Fly

‘beautiful traditional psychedelia’
Lauren Laverne, BBC 6 Music

‘jangly psychedelia, listeners tip of the week’
Steve Lamacq, BBC Radio 2

The Lucid Dream were formed in Carlisle, Cumbria, in 2008.

On the back of ‘Erbistock Mill’ EP, and 3 sold-out 7″ single releases (‘Love In My Veins’ ‘Heartbreak Girl’ ‘Hits Me Like I’m Stoned’), the band have gained acclaim from the likes of NME, Q, Frank Skinner, Steve Lamacq and major support from BBC 6 Music (Lauren Laverne, Gideon Coe, Tom Robinson).

Most recently, the band were selected as full UK tour support to A Place To Bury Strangers, and followed this up by supporting Death In Vegas. This was on the back of supports to Spectrum, Crocodiles, Captain Beefheart’s ‘The Magic Band’, and The Aliens, to name a few.

The long-awaited debut album, ‘Songs Of Lies and Deceit’, will be released on 1st July 2013 (on CD/download via Holy Are You Recordings, and on limited vinyl via The Great Pop Supplement).

The Louisiana website:
www.thelouisiana.net

TICKETS:

£5adv | Ages 16+

www.ticketweb.co.uk/event/56397

www.bristolticketshop.co.uk/?/130713LOULUCI1

www.seetickets.com/see/price.asp?code=706169

Goldheart Assembly
www.goldheartassembly.com

“This London six-piece’s life-affirming melodies will remind you why you fell in love with pop.” The Guardian

“Such is the inherent sweetness of Goldheart Assembly’s debut that the listener can’t fail to be touched by its charms.” BBC

“They take a joyous acoustic beardy bunch of ideas and mess around with them like a cat playing with a ball of string. And they smile at each other on stage – which is so out of character for new bands these days (unless it’s a nervous tick) that it’s actually quite infectious.” Steve Lamacq

“…the way they switch between playing the kind of ballad that wouldn’t sound out of place at midnight on the Pyramid Stage (‘So Long St Christopher’) and a garage belter like forthcoming single ‘Oh Really’ suggests this is a band with the whole world ahead of them.” Martin Robinson, NME

Goldheart Assembly is a British alternative pop-rock band from London, England formed in 2007. The band bonded over a mutual love of The Beatles and named themselves after a Guided By Voices tune, Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory.

The band’s debut single, a double A-side featuring the tracks So Long St. Christopher and Oh Really, was released in 2009. In late 2009 they signed to the independent UK label Fierce Panda Records and their debut album, Wolves and Thieves, was released in March 2010. In 2011, Goldheart Assembly toured the UK as main support for Band of Horses.

The Louisiana website:
www.thelouisiana.net

TICKETS:

£7adv | Ages 16+

www.ticketweb.co.uk/event/60599

www.bristolticketshop.co.uk/?/130711LOUGOLD1

www.seetickets.com/see/price.asp?code=710749

Mikky Ekko
www.mikkyekko.com

John Stephen Sudduth, aka Mikky Ekko, was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, son of a tar plant manager. Around age 7 his father became a preacher and relocated the family to Mississippi, moving frequently from small town to small town. Surrounded by southern gospel, poverty and the resilient past of the deep south, the roots of his own music began taking shape. Mikky then moved to Nashville, where he waded through various bands and odd jobs while surviving the dream. Despite the grind, Ekko continued to experiment with his writing and voice.

Out of this experimentation, the track “Who Are You, Really?” was born and posted online. It wasn’t long before the song found the ears of Michael Volpe (aka Clams Casino), the elusive New Jersey-based producer whose slow, spaced-out productions have led to collaborations with the likes of A$AP Rocky and Lil B. Clams invited Mikky to New York to write together and the two became fast friends. The first song written and produced by the pair resulted in Mikky’s debut single, “Pull Me Down.” With the backdrop of Clams’ ethereal production, Ekko’s vocals are beautifully showcased.

The Louisiana website:
www.thelouisiana.net

TICKETS:

ON SALE FRI 10th MAY 2013

£8adv | Ages 16+

www.ticketweb.co.uk/event/60021

www.bristolticketshop.co.uk/?/130710LOUMIKK1

www.seetickets.com/see/price.asp?code=710246

Alela Diane
www.aleladiane.com

Alela Diane is pleased to announce some select UK shows around the release of her 4th album, About Farewell, out June 24 in Europe and July 29 in the UK on Believe Recordings. The album serves as an eloquent goodbye to lovers from years past, coupled with some poignant last walks down memory lane. While the lyrics deal most directly with Alela’s recent divorce, the album explores her entire last decade of relationships with tremendous honesty and nuanced insight.

The entirety of About Farewell was built around Alela’s voice and simple guitar arrangements. These stripped-down folk songs are a perfect vehicle for Alela’s impressive emotional range. She’s able to convey heartrending vulnerability at one moment, then bold wisdom and unflinching directness at the next.

Nowhere is this palette so rich as in the live shows, an intimate treat for audiences lucky enough to catch her this year. In the season of spring, the heart has thawed and we turn to the promise of budding possibilities. A once-heartsick Alela has said her farewells, and now is the time to meet the new, more fully actualized woman.

The Louisiana website:
www.thelouisiana.net

TICKETS:

£12.50adv | Ages 16+

www.ticketweb.co.uk/event/61961

www.bristolticketshop.co.uk/?/130707FLEALEL1

www.seetickets.com/see/price.asp?code=712020

Sat 6th July | £4adv | 7:30pm | 16+

Goodnight Lois:
www.facebook.com/goodnightlois
Rock band from Bristol. Recently released “Hollywood’ out now on iTunes. Debut album out in the summer. A storm is coming. Don’t forget to batten down the hatches.

Genetic:
www.youtube.com/officialgenetic
UK hip hop artist, producer, songwriter. The best rhymes in the country.

Joshua Milton:
www.facebook.com/joshuamiltonmusic
Young Singer/Songwriter hailing from Bristol, South West England.

September Falls

Josh Record
www.joshrecord.com

Debut ‘Bones’ EP out now

Following his recent sold-out show at The Lexington, London multiple radio plays and a thumbs-up from The Sunday Times Culture, folk-soul troubadour Josh Record’s star is definitely in the ascent.

Joined by his three-piece band – guitarist Tom Prothero, keyboardist Alex Montague and backing vocalist/drummer Kandice Holmes – the 25-year-old Brixton singer-songwriter adds another string to his bow with the announcement of a number of UK headline shows.

Josh’s debut ‘Bones’ EP is out now on indie label National Anthem. It features the heart-swelling radio mainstay and lead track ‘For Your Love’ which has been given the seal of approval by Steve Lamacq and championed by the likes of Zane Lowe and Annie Mac on Radio 1 as well as John Kennedy and Jon Hillcock on XFM.

The EP is also available as a limited edition white vinyl 10”.

The Louisiana website:
www.thelouisiana.net

TICKETS:

£5adv | Ages 16+

www.ticketweb.co.uk/event/57517

www.bristolticketshop.co.uk/?/130704LOUJOSH1

www.seetickets.com/see/price.asp?code=707488

Thy Art is Murder
www.facebook.com/thyartismurder

Australian extreme metal band, THY ART IS MURDER, have been making an unmistakeable impression in the underground metal scene since their initial conception in late 2005. They have headlined countless sold out live performances, sold over 10000 copies of their releases, received over 2 million ‘fan video’ plays on ‘YouTube’ and ‘MYSPACE’, and have over 100,000 ‘Facebook’ fans.

Originally forming out of Sydney’s western suburbs with members all around 15 years of age, this incredibly hard working 5 piece band released a 3-track demo entitled “This Hole Isn’t Deep Enough For The Twelve Of You” in early 2007 and began playing local shows, quickly becoming renowned for their unrivalled highly energetic and uncompromising live performances. After independently touring the east coast of Australia, they returning home to write and record their infamous debut EP, “Infinite Death”, which was released in August 2008 to an overwhelming response, achieving a top 10 chart position on the AIR charts and selling out its initial pressing within weeks.

After the release of their EP, THY ART IS MURDER received a huge explosion of popularity online with a massive amount of activity and plays on their official ‘MYSPACE’ profile. The EP, and specifically the song “Whore To A Chainsaw”, became a huge underground hit worldwide and garnered them substantial local and overseas attention. The release was promoted extensively over the next annum with the band headlining several successful tours, gaining them a huge fan-base nationally around Australia.

Early 2010 saw THY ART IS MURDER commence self-production of their debut full-length album. On its release in late July 2010, “The Adversary” sold over 2000 copies in its first week and shortly after the band embarked on a largely sold-out launch tour around Australia. After several more of their own, they joined the very successful ‘MISTAKE CLOTHING’ tour with CONFESSION, followed shortly by supporting DESPISED ICON on their national Australian farewell run, then finishing the year with THE RED SHORE on their national album release. This extensive live coverage solidified their position as one of the most popular modern metal acts in Australia.

THY ART IS MURDER spent the majority of 2011 continuing to focus their sonic live assault on their home territories, including the second ‘MISTAKE CLOTHING’ tour and a national run with main support coming from Germany’s WAR FROM A HARLOTS MOUTH. Late in 2011, they locked themselves away and commenced writing and rehearsing material for their sophomore album. A pre-production demo song entitled “Infinite Forms” was posted online which showcases a more mature and focused song writing approach while still retaining the brutality, heaviness and unharnessed aggression of their previous material.

The Louisiana website:
www.thelouisiana.net

TICKETS:

£8adv | Ages 16+

www.ticketweb.co.uk/event/56939

www.bristolticketshop.co.uk/?/130701LOUTHYA1

www.seetickets.com/see/price.asp?code=706943

Sun 30th June | £12:50adv | 7:30pm | 16+

SIMONE FELICE
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Simone Felice is a celebrated songwriter, author, and poet. He was born on 4 October 1976 in Palenville, New York, a tiny working-class hamlet in the Catskill Mountains.

At the age of 12 the young Simone suffered a brain aneurysm and was pronounced clinically dead for seven minutes following emergency brain surgery in a local hospital. Upon recovering he spent several months in intensive care, relearning basic motor skills, including reading and writing.

When he was 15 he started a punk band with friends, making weird noise-rock in his grandpa’s barn. Their emphasis was on head-banging and freaky storytelling. By 18, he had quit school and was fronting the band (by this time calling themselves Eight Body Trunk, in homage to the 1950’s Lincoln Continental an aging mafioso drove up and down the streets of their shabby town) as they played barns, bars, and low down clubs, including New York City’s fabled CBGB’s.

Eventually the young rockers went their separate ways and Felice began writing poetry and vignettes, leading to the publication of his first collection, The Picture Show, when he was 22 years old. He began performing these bizarre monologues regularly at the historic Nuyorican Poets Café in New York’s lower east side, garnering the young poet invitations to read in London, Los Angeles, Harvard University, San Francisco and Berlin.

In 2004 and then 2005, Simone published his first short works of fiction, Goodbye Amelia, a coming of age story about a small-town girl with secrets to keep and a hunger to see the world, and Hail Mary Full of Holes, a fable noir about a prostitute struggling to survive at the dawn of the Reagan era.

In the Fall of 2001, just after the attacks on New York City, Simone began writing songs with his brother Ian. Together they retreated to the woods they grew up in, where jobless with a cheap guitar they wrote and made recordings (two archived collections know as The Big Empty and Mexico) with their friend Doc Brown. In this manner the two brothers clocked four years in complete obscurity, sewing the seeds of what would become (with the edition of younger brother James in the Winter of 2006) The Felice Brothers, whose subsequent albums Tonight at the Arizona, The Felice Brothers, and Yonder is the Clock have garnered international renown, earning these Upstate New York natives an inarguable place in the Great American Songbook. Over the group’s history, from starting out playing New York’s subways and streets, to Radio City Music Hall and beyond, brother Simone has been one of it’s key lyricists, writing and co-writing some of the boys’ most beloved songs, including Don’t Wake The Scarecrow, Frankie’s Gun, Run Chicken Run, Ruby Mae, Whiskey in My Whiskey, Love Me Tenderly, Hey Hey Revolver, Mercy, Wonderful Life, Your Belly In My Arms, The Devil Is Real, and Radio Song to name a few.

At the request of iconic record producer Rick Rubin, Simone flew to California in the late summer of 2008 to play drums on the Columbia release I and Love and You by The Avett Brothers. Lending his signature Catskill Mountain funk to the Avett’s riveting songwriting and Rubin’s thoughtful production, Felice appears on some of the albums stand-out numbers, including the title-track and hit single I and Love and You.

In the winter of 2009 personal tragedy reared its head when Simone and his long-time love lost their first child in a still-birth. It was then that he retreated to a cabin in the Catskill’s with his old friend Bird and began writing and recording the songs that would (unknown to them at the time) become The Duke & The King’s album debut. Taking their name from the itinerant Shakespeare theatre grifters in Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn the duo released the gripping Nothing Gold Can Stay in the Summer of 2009 to critical acclaim, being hailed as one of the most haunting and honest albums of the year. 2010′s followup Long Live The Duke & The King has been similarly praised, incorporating the voices of friends Simi Stone and Nowell Haskins to realize their own special twist on the classic idea of a ‘singing band’.

On 2 June 2010, after a series of fainting spells, Simone underwent emergency open-heart surgery at Albany Medical Center when doctors discovered that a childhood congenital disorder had left the 33 year old with an irreversible calcification of the aortic valve, leaving only 8% blood-flow to the body and brain. Just two weeks after the surgery he joined his brothers on stage at Pete Seeger’s annual Clearwater Festival to help rid their beloved Hudson River of industrial waste. The following month their child was born in a summer thunderstorm, a healthy blue-eyed girl whom they named Pearl Simone Felice.

Felice’s first novel, Black Jesus, has recently been bought by award-wining publisher Allen & Unwin (Atlantic Books/London-Sydney) and will be released as a paperback in late Summer. It tells the story of a young Marine shipped home to his nowhere town after being blinded in action by a homemade bomb, and the unexpected friendship he finds with a mysterious dancer who arrives there fleeing darkness and violence of a different kind. Part love story, part protest of the broken promises lying at the heart of the American dream, Black Jesus is a passionate, twisted hymn to the marginalized and forgotten.

Simone lives less than a mile from the creek-house he was born in, and travels his own country and abroad sharing his songs and stories.

Sat 29th June | £8adv |7:30PM | Ages 16+

Dub Colossus Dub Band
www.facebook.com/dubcolossus

This project is the vision of Dub Colossus – Dubulah – aka Nick Page. Composer, guitarist, bass player and programmer Nick has worked with a long list of notable artists and eccentrics.

From Glastonbury, to WOMAD, audiences have delighted in the big sounds created by this big band. The full 12 piece Dub Colossus live band is a tight, vibrant and exciting band. A spectacle to behold, the band includes a four piece brass section, percussion, keyboards, krar, bass, drums, guitar, and of course the stunning vocals of Tsedenia and Mimi, mixing up traditional Ethiopian sounds with modern dub twist.

The Louisiana website:
www.thelouisiana.net

TICKETS:

£8adv | Ages 16+

www.ticketweb.co.uk/event/55349

www.bristolticketshop.co.uk/?/130629LOUDUBC1

www.seetickets.com/see/price.asp?code=705270

Death or Glory Presents-

All Cramped Up
(Cramps Tribute)

https://www.facebook.com/pages/All-Cramped-Up/401247016615224?ref=ts&fref=ts

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Sheena

https://www.facebook.com/sheenaband

Louisiana

http://thelouisiana.net/

16+

More info and tickets soon

Thur 27th June | £5adv | 7:30pm | 16+

Strobe
www.facebook.com/strobeofficial

Winter Milan
www.facebook.com/wintermilanband

New School Futures
www.facebook.com/newschoolfutures

Sun Machine
www.facebook.com/pages/Sun-Machine/116918648389757

Tue 25th June 2013 | £5adv | 7:30pm | 16+

Fjokra
www.reverbnation.com/fjokra

Goodnight Harvey
www.facebook.com/TheBewildered

The Bewildered
www.facebook.com/TheBewildered

Mon 24th June | £5adv | 7:30pm | 16+

Jane Thomason
www.facebook.com/JaneThomasonSongs

Sarah R-K
www.facebook.com/sarahrkmusic

Rebecca Cullen
www.facebook.com/rebeccacullenmusic

James Slater
www.myspace.com/jslatermusic

Rebelution
www.facebook.com/rebelution

On Jan 10th, 2012 the Santa Barbara, CA based band Rebelution released “Peace of Mind” through their own label 87 Music in partnership with Controlled Substance Sound Labs. Peace of Mind was released as a multi-length triple album which includes Peace of Mind: Acoustic as well as Peace of Mind: Dub. Marking the highest chart debut of Rebelution’s career, Peace of Mind debuted at #13 on the Billboard Top 200, #1 Reggae and #1 Independent albums as well as #4 on the iTunes overall album chart. The band previously had four top 10 albums on the Reggae chart and their 2009 release Bright Side of Life debuted at No. 54 on the Top 200 and #1 Reggae.

Rebelution kicked off their “Peace of Mind Tour” the day after the release, selling out shows at Philly’s The Electric Factory, The Hollywood Palladium, Denver’s The Fillmore, The Fox Theater in Oakland and Hard Rock in Orlando, FL.

Peace of Mind marks the first time Rebelution has expanded beyond their usual self-production enlisting producers Michael Goldwasser (Easy Star All-Stars), Amp Live (Zion-I), Yeti Beats (Kool Keith, George Clinton), Keith Armstrong and Errol Brown (Stephen, Ziggy, Damian, and Bob Marley). The album builds upon the band’s signature style while venturing into new musical genres from the lush strings incorporated into the gentle “Route Around” to the driving guitar and synths throughout “Lady In White”.

Rebelution has developed into a front-runner for grassroots, independent and tour driven music groups. The band continuously tours across the States, ventured to South America and Europe, and has previously performed at Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits among others.

The Louisiana website:
www.thelouisiana.net

TICKETS:

£8adv | Ages 16+

www.ticketweb.co.uk/event/57909

www.bristolticketshop.co.uk/?/130623FLEREBE1

www.seetickets.com/see/price.asp?code=707960

Fri 21st June | £5adv | 7:30pm | 16+

Evacuees
www.facebook.com/pages/Evacuees/186952978001644?fref=ts

A Life in Orange
www.facebook.com/alifeinorange?fref=ts

BLOCK
www.facebook.com/pages/BLOCK/501439616581081

Roll OnTwo
www.facebook.com/rollontwo

The Electric Soft Parade
www.facebook.com/electricsoftparade

Following a 6-year hiatus, The Electric Soft Parade return with Brother, You Must Walk Your Path Alone; the first single from their forthcoming album IDIOTS. It’s been a long six years since the band’s last record, 2007′s No Need To Be Downhearted, but they’ve not missed a step.

IDIOTS is their best album yet, possessing an as-yet-unheard focus, the brothers’ distinctive ELO-via-The Everly Brothers blood harmonies gloriously intact, not so much as a note surplus to requirements.

It started with the 10th anniversary of Holes In The Wall. Worthy of celebration, the duo called in longstanding live band members Andrew Mitchell, Matthew Twaites and Damo Waters and booked a string of shows. A full European tour with Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds followed. It reminded the brothers of what they’d been missing, and with a newly energised fanbase they decided it was time to turn the 100-strong batch of demos Thomas had been working on into something more concrete.

Having re-teamed with the producers of Holes In The Wall, Chris Hughes and Mark Frith, the band is set to release Brother, You Must Walk Your Path Alone, their first single to be taken from the album on Helium Records. The track is available to download now via their website and iTunes on 16th April. Its’ parent album IDIOTS will be released on 17th June.

The Louisiana website:
www.thelouisiana.net

TICKETS:

£8adv | Ages 16+

www.ticketweb.co.uk/event/59107

www.bristolticketshop.co.uk/?/130617FLEELEC1

www.seetickets.com/see/price.asp?code=709777

Poltergeist
www.daspoltergeist.com

Poltergeist are an instrumental dynamic power trio featuring original Echo & the Bunymen members Will Sergeant on guitar, Les Pattinson on bass, and also featuring Nick Kilroe on drums.
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“We create a form of rock music with its toes paddling in the progressive ocean foam of the sixties and seventies and its head in the bone dry air of the present day” said Sergeant. “There are 12 notes in a scale and we intend to use most of them.”

The Louisiana website:
www.thelouisiana.net

TICKETS:

£10adv | Ages 16+

www.ticketweb.co.uk/event/59605

www.bristolticketshop.co.uk/?/130617LOUPOLT1

www.seetickets.com/see/price.asp?code=710075

Big Deal
www.facebook.com/weareabigdeal

A lot has changed for Big Deal since the release of their critically acclaimed debut album Lights Out back in September 2011. Big Deal’s bedroom-composed songs struck a pure and resonant chord with music fans and critics all over the world. Built on the duo’s gilded melodies and just two guitars, it was this sparse set up which allowed their intensely honest and at times, shockingly intimate lyrics to take centre stage.

Big Deal’s live shows were unmissable affairs. As word spread, so they began to leave behind smaller venues, moving onto larger stages in the UK, Europe and America.

Post-SXSW 2012, Big Deal travelled to southern California where their second album, June Gloom, began to take shape. Appropriately for the transatlantic twosome, the lion’s share of the writing was split between California and London, before they retreated to the countryside. With the help of producer Rory Atwell and the addition of an airtight rhythm section, Big Deal set about capturing June Gloom at Lightship95, a converted lighthouse vessel moored at east London’s Trinity Buoy Wharf.

June Gloom not only marks a sonic step forward, but lyrically, the duo broaden the themes of their previous work. Where Lights Out mapped out an internal world, here Big Deal continue to anchor their songs with emotion while looking outwards too.

Fleece website:
www.thefleece.co.uk

TICKETS:

£7adv | All Ages*

www.ticketweb.co.uk/event/62227

www.bristolticketshop.co.uk/?/130616FLEBIGD1

www.seetickets.com/see/price.asp?code=712470

* Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult and leave by midnight

Koffin Kats

https://www.facebook.com/koffinkats

www.koffinkatsrock.com
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Radio Nasties

https://www.facebook.com/Radionasties

16+ | Tickets- £8 adv
(More on the door)

Available from-

Rock Shop St Nicks Market
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Cautioners
www.facebook.com/pages/Cautioners/407436909307259

Cautioners are a lively Bristol 3-piece who’s stated aim of ‘not taking things too seriously’ is belied by their ambitious arrangements and accomplished presentation. Since the soft release of their debut EP ‘Mountains Over Time’ in summer of 2012 they have been busy writing and recording the follow up, ‘Conditional Identity’, as well as preparing to finally announce themselves on the live scene.

Hello Lazarus
www.hellolazarus.com

ForgetMeKnot
www.facebook.com/#!/forgetmeknotmusic

The Louisiana website:
www.thelouisiana.net

TICKETS:

£4adv | Ages 16+

www.ticketweb.co.uk/event/56881

www.bristolticketshop.co.uk/?/130614LOUCAUT1

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Access To Music presents The Unsigned Takeover

6 Bands from Access To Music performing a range from acoustic, rock and alternative.

wednesday 12th june 2013 | £5adv | 7:30pm | 16+
£4adv from ATM college if you are a student !

Tue 11th June | £8adv | 7:30pm | Ages 16+

Frankie & The Heartstrings
www.facebook.com/frankieandtheheartstrings

Frankie & The Heartstrings are a 5-piece band from Sunderland, Northeast, United Kingdom.

Having met in early 2009 over a mutual appreciation of cocktails (lead singer Frankie Francis worked in a pub frequented by drummer Dave Harper and guitarist Michael McKnight), Sunderland indie romantics Frankie & the Heartstrings made a miraculous leap from unknowns to Wichita Recordings hopefuls in little over a year. Joined by second guitarist Pete Gofton — brother of Lauren Laverne of Kenickie and BBC fame — and bassist Dennis Mennis, the five-piece was ready and able to build up a loyal and vast following on the back of a couple of singles that blended energetic guitar jangles with boyish charm and sharp melodies.

Seeing them play one of their famously engaging sets in the neighboring city of Newcastle — after only a couple of months of locally scattered shows — was enough to convince Wichita to offer the band a management deal. Soon enough, they were also receiving attention from none other than Rough Trade founder Geoff Travis, who agreed to put out a limited run of 777 7″s of single “Tender” with no strings attached (no pun intended), while they also released 888 copies of the same release on their own Pop Sex Ltd label. Following shows alongside North-East angular punk outfit the Futureheads, the group’s momentum saw them sign completely to Wichita in April 2010 and play festivals such as Glastonbury, Latitude, and the Reading and Leeds weekend. Meanwhile, guitarist Mick Ross replaced Pete Gofton, who had decided to concentrate more on production duties.

In October 2010, Frankie & the Heartstrings duly released 999 copies of the single “Ungrateful.” Not content with having Frankie Francis compared to Edwyn Collins by critics, the band were blessed with having the ex-Orange Juice frontman produce the track. They then embarked on a U.K. tour with fellow indie popsters Summer Camp before returning to work on their full-length debut for Wichita/Pop Sex. The album, titled Hunger, was released in February of 2011.

The Louisiana website:
www.thelouisiana.net

Spectrals
www.facebook.com/spectrals

TICKETS:

www.bristolticketshop.co.uk

www.seetickets.com/see/price.asp?code=704656

The Weeks
www.facebook.com/theweeksmusic

“The sound of wind through the pines, bare feet brushing through leaves, snapping sticks like the spines of the weak. When we started we were small and strong at heart, five southern souls damned to speak the truth. But with this responsibility comes pain and loss. And as the years passed our numbers grew smaller, and there were four. This did not stop these brave soldiers of thought, keepers of truth. They were older now and their soft footsteps through the forest had grown louder and stronger. Like the dust filled hoof beats of a thousand wild horses, they layer sound like musket fire, their melodies bend and twist like train-tracks. A music shaped from the calloused hands and wrinkled faces of their fathers. They have walked through the fire wide-eyed and crazy, and came out enlightened. You cannot stop these men, your armies can’t cease their hands, dampen this thunder, or silence their tongues. We have trudged through the muddy swamps to freedom.

Our shoes are tattered and torn, but our feet are dry. As for our places in history, we will run naked through your streets before we sit decorated in your halls. ”

The Louisiana website:
www.thelouisiana.net

TICKETS:

£6adv | Ages 16+

www.ticketweb.co.uk/event/60615

www.bristolticketshop.co.uk/?/130610LOUWEEK1

www.seetickets.com/see/price.asp?code=710761

Joe Gideon & the Shark
www.facebook.com/joegideonandtheshark

London thoroughbred brother and sister duo Joe Gideon and The Shark are a sight and sound to behold. Joe Gideon pounds bass and guitar whilst narrating his autobiographical tales of misadventure, and little sister Viva (The Shark) drives the whole thing along with glorious drums and piano and 8-track, often all at the same time. Meandering through soundscapes that take in beat-fuelled rifforama, voodoo-injected grooves and melodious beauty, their sound is both comfortably spacious and foot-stompingly intense. And highly original.

Viva’s artistry is gracious and almost gymnastic, evidently a trait learned from her days as a ribbon-twirling athlete (a rhythmic gymnast to be precise) who represented the UK in the Barcelona Olympics (Incidentally, Viva got the ribbons out once more when starring in the video for Archie Bronson Oufit’s ‘Dead Funny’.

Gideon was not around to witness his sister’s glory, instead he was on the opposite side of the globe on the jury panel judging Miss Bolivia. In a roundabout way, this microcosmically befits the picture painted by the band.

Formerly to be seen in the ‘dread-fuelled’ Bikini Atoll (produced by Steve Albini and released by Bella Union), Joe Gideon and the Shark have discarded the darkness and have walked into the light. This light is in part provided by Gideon’s humorous and fantastical monologues which hook you in to their world.

A Joe Gideon and the Shark record thus provides and indie rock classic and a talking book all for the price of one. Just over a year old, this band has already gained the respect of their contemporaries and have been invited to play with the likes of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Seasick Steve, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Duke Spirit, Archie Bronson Outfit, Scout Niblett, Sons and Daughters.

The Louisiana website:
www.thelouisiana.net

TICKETS:

£9adv | Ages 16+

www.ticketweb.co.uk/event/56173

www.bristolticketshop.co.uk/?/130609LOUJOEG1

www.seetickets.com/see/price.asp?code=706037

Saturday 8t June | £8adv | 7:30pm | 16+

Ben Marwood
www.facebook.com/pages/Ben-Marwood/24698357745?ref=ts&fref=ts

Brand New Album + UK Tour dates

The latest labour of love from folk underdog Ben Marwood, Back Down is released 13th May 2013 on Xtra Mile Recordings.

The third and final part of a loose trilogy that began back in 2008, the follow-up to 2011′s acclaimed debut album Outside There’s A Curse finally sees the self-deprecating solo songwriter swap the bedroom-based 8-track for a studio approach.

Recorded over an eighteen-month period where finances allowed, Back Down retains the coiling, intense lyrical style that earned its predecessor so much attention. Joined on record by a collection of friends and fellow musicians, mostly from the Reading scene he calls home, songs switch naturally from the stripped-back, bare bones of guitar and vocals to full-band affairs with a distinctly live feel, all click tracks and metronomes discarded (“including the parts that needed it” – Marwood). Thirty-five minutes of melody half-sung, half-spoken, but always pointed regardless of whether the targets are his own shortcomings or a BBC One light entertainment show, this is pop music for the bitter.

Oxygen Thief
www.facebook.com/oxygenthief666?fref=ts

Chris Webb
www.facebook.com/pages/Chris-Webb-Music/330419645467?ref=hl

Ieuan Williams
www.facebook.com/ieuanwilliamsmusic?ref=ts&fref=ts

Fri 7th June | £7adv | 7:30pm | 16+

Metropolis Music presents

Drenge
www.facebook.com/drengeboys

Marnie Stern
www.facebook.com/marniestern

Marnie Stern is a musician, songwriter, and guitarist from New York City, citing influences that contribute to her sound, including Hella, Lightning Bolt and Yoko Ono.

In early 2007, Kill Rock Stars released her debut album, In Advance Of The Broken Arm. It was well received by critics, and most favorably by The New York Times, citing it as “the year’s most exciting rock ‘n’ roll album.”

In mid 2007, Stern toured the US and UK with Hella’s Zach Hill and The Advantage’s Robby Moncrieff in support of her debut album.

In 2008, Stern was named one of Venus Zine’s “Greatest Female Guitarists of All Time,” in their spring 2008 issue, and was nominated “Female Artist of the Year” and “Punk Album of the Year” for the 2008 Plug Music Awards.

Marnie Stern’s second album, This Is It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That, was released October 7, 2008. Upon release, it garnered the title of “Best New Music” as well as #44 on “The 50 Best Albums of 2008” from Pitchfork Media. Stern toured Europe and the US in support of the album with former U.S. Maple guitarist Mark Shippy, bassist Malia James, and a varying lineup of drummers.

In December 2011, Marnie Stern performed at the Les Savy curated day of the of the ATP Nightmare Before Xmas festival (curated by Les Savy Fav, Battles and Caribou).

Sky Larkin
www.facebook.com/skylarkinskylarkin

The Hysterical Injury
www.thehystericalinjury.co.uk

The Louisiana website:
www.thelouisiana.net

TICKETS:

£10adv | Ages 16+

www.ticketweb.co.uk/event/44129

www.bristolticketshop.co.uk

www.seetickets.com/see/price.asp?code=698234

Mon 3rd June | £8adv | 7:30pm | Ages 16+

MMX
www.facebook.com/mmxofficial

The Louisiana website:
www.thelouisiana.net

TICKETS:

www.ticketweb.co.uk/event/54023

www.bristolticketshop.co.uk

www.seetickets.com/see/price.asp?code=704668

Entry: £6 ADV | 7.30pm | 16+

Tickets: www.Bristolticketshop.co.uk

Cocos Lovers:
www.cocoslovers.com

Operating well beyond the remit of alt-folk, Cocos Lovers (pronounced Co-Coss) are a distinctive musical force, seamlessly channelling influences from Africa, the US Deep South and several other real and imagined corners of the globe, while staying ever faithful to their Kentish roots. Hailing from the small but musically rich town of Deal, they are a close-knit 7-piece band of family, friends and former au pairs. Their music swells with powerful choir-like harmonies and glorious widescreen melodies, and they’ve earned a reputation for fantastic live performances with an ever-changing instrumental line-up of mandolin, banjo, acoustic and electric guitars, harmonica, violin, musical saw, flute and a unique blend of drums and percussion.

Cocos Lovers have become big festival favourites with performances at Glastonbury, Cambridge Folk Festival, Green Man Festival and Sidmouth Folk Week, amongst others. They’ve toured the UK and Europe to great acclaim, supported Mumford and Sons and Stealing Sheep, count Laura Marling and BBC6’s Guy Garvey, Cerys Matthews and Tom Robinson amongst their fans, and have received further airplay on various American, European and Antipodean radio networks.

June 2013 sees the band embark on their Gold or Dust UK Tour which is then followed by their third Album release in early July!

WIll Varley: www.willvarley.com

In 2001 Will Varley invented music as we know it today. After a short stint playing the acoustic clubs of London, he was signed up to EMI records with a half a million pound contract. The following year his first single got to number 497 in the Afghan charts. Around the same time, due to the pressure of this success and a rigorous touring schedule, Varley started experimenting with hardcore drugs. By 2005 he was having drugs for breakfast, lunch and dinner. One time he even mistook a small child for a drug and tried to inhale him.

After a long break from music, Varley has finally revealed he is working on a new record which will be made up entirely of Wham! covers. In a statement last week Varley said “They were always a big influence on me, right from the start, so I wanted to give something back to them”. The album “Whamalo Varley Wham” will be released on Smugglers records June 2014…

Saturday 1st June | Tickets- £8 adv | 7:30pm | 18+

www.facebook.com/snowblind.england
Snowblind are by far the UK’s best Black Sabbath tribute. Highly accomplished and experienced musicians sharing a great passion for early Black Sabbath in particular, resulting in an unforgettable experience for all having the privilege to see them perform. For those that missed Black Sabbath in their first incarnation this is definitely the closest you are ever likely to get to the real thing. Snowblind have a repertoire of over two hours’ of early Black Sabbath classics to draw from.

See more info at www.snowblind.org.uk

+ Support TBC

Tickets- £8 adv
(More on the door)

Available from-

Rock Shop St Nicks Market
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Bristol Tickets Shop-

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Ticketweb-
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Seetickets-
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A Fear Of Fiction & Fleece Presentation:

Coasts
www.facebook.com/coastsband

Coasts is the result of a unique evolutionary process, a classic example of survival of the fittest, that has seen the band evolve from various musical projects, covering an expanse range of genres. Conceived almost a year ago, this Bristol-born five-piece has a wealth of musical knowledge, which becomes glaringly apparent through their concise, catchy song structures and animated and dynamic live performances.

The band have made swift progress, honing their sound through constant gigging and touring across the UK, where the bands exciting live show sees their fan base continuously grow.

Coasts are a highly ambitious group of friends with a diverse plethora of musical influences. Their sound reflects this and though summery, upbeat and dance centred, their music incorporates a much darker, fuzzier, slacker-rock element.

Auction For The Promise Club
www.facebook.com/auctionforthepromiseclubmusic

Ayre Point
www.facebook.com/AyrePoint

The Louisiana website:
www.thelouisiana.net

TICKETS:

£5adv | Ages 16+

www.ticketweb.co.uk/event/53019

www.bristolticketshop.co.uk/cgi-bin/shop.cgi?group=Louisiana

www.seetickets.com/see/price.asp?code=703800

Thur 30th May 2013 | £5adv | 7:30pm | 16+

Sam Eason
www.facebook.com/SamEasonMusic

Joe Probert
www.facebook.com/JoeProbert

Harry Gould
www.soundcloud.com/harry-gould

Adam Britton
www.facebook.com/adam.britton.581

Ben Cooling
www.facebook.com/pages/Ben-Cooling-Acoustic/260362767321205

The Dunwells
www.thedunwells.com

Utterly natural. There’s no more fitting description for both the music of The Dunwells as well as the story of their magical rise from the pubs of Leeds, England to an American record deal and a stunning debut album in just two short years.

The group is two brothers, two cousins and totaling five best mates who simply love to sing and play music, and do so together. “We are genuinely best mates,” explains singer, songwriter and guitarist Joseph Dunwell. “We sometimes bicker and fight, but then we hug and make up and go out for a drink.”

When they make music, the results exemplify the equation that the sum of the parts can be even greater than the whole. Striking an organic blend between acoustic and electric roots music laced by luscious vocal harmonies by all five members, their songs and sound feel both bracingly fresh while at the same time as warm and familiar as a dear longtime friend.

The Louisiana website:
www.thelouisiana.net

TICKETS:

ON SALE FRI 26th APRIL at 9AM

£8adv | Ages 16+

www.bristolticketshop.co.uk

www.seetickets.com/see/price.asp?code=708742

www.gigantic.com/the-dunwells/louisiana/2013-05-29-19-30

Charlie Parr
www.charlieparr.com

Many people play roots music, but few modern musicians live those roots like Minnesota’s Charlie Parr. Recording since the earliest days of the 21st century, Parr’s heartfelt and plaintive original folk blues and traditional spirituals don’t strive for authenticity: They are authentic. It’s the music of a self-taught guitarist and banjo player who grew up without a TV but with his dad’s recordings of America’s musical founding fathers, including Charley Patton and Lightnin’ Hopkins, Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly. With his long scraggly hair, father-time beard, thrift-store workingman’s flannel and jeans, and emphatic, throaty voice, Parr looks and sounds like he would have fit right into Harry Smith’s “Anthology of American Folk Music.”

Parr’s forthcoming album, Barnswallow will be his eleventh studio release. Most of his recordings, including Roustabout (2008), Jubilee (2007), Rooster (2005), King Earl (2004), 1922 (2002) and Criminals and Sinners (2001) eschew typical studio settings. His inspiration is drawn from the alternately fertile and frozen soil of Minnesota. Parr grew up in the Hormel company city of Austin, Minnesota (population 25,000) where most of the world’s favorite tinned meat, Spam, is still manufactured. And he hasn’t moved far, drawing sustenance from the surprisingly large, thriving and mutually supportive music scene of Duluth: Parr’s 2011 album of traditional songs, Keep Your Hands on the Plow features locals including Charlie’s wife, Emily Parr; old-timey banjo/fiddle band Four Mile Portage; and Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker of the renowned alternative rock band Low.

Boat To Row
www.facebook.com/boattorowmusic

My Two Toms
My Two Toms
www.facebook.com/mytwotoms

The Louisiana website:
www.thelouisiana.net

TICKETS:

£10adv | Ages 16+

www.ticketweb.co.uk/event/44575

www.bristolticketshop.co.uk/cgi-bin/shop.cgi?group=Louisiana

www.seetickets.com/see/price.asp?code=698476

SUNDAY 26TH MAY

TICKETS:

www.seetickets.com/event/princess-chelsea/the-louisiana/704102 //
www.wegottickets.com/event/217311 //
www.ticketweb.co.uk/event/54147 //
gigantic.com

One Inch Badge presents:
PRINCESS CHELSEA

“Absolutely Sublime” – Rolling Stone

“If you have a stomach for the ravishingly strange, check out Chelsea Nikkel’s magical yet menacing morality tales” – The Guardian

Having been cherry picked by ALT-J for their upcoming tour, we’re delighted that Princess Chelsea will be headlining Green Door Store.

Princess Chelsea is the recording project of New Zealand based composer, Chelsea Nikkel.

Nikkel studied classical piano throughout her childhood as well as dabbling in drums, guitar and clarinet. While at high school she discovered her love of composition – writing and recording her first song “Monkey Eats Bananas”.

After leaving high school she formed Auckland band Teen Wolf, with friends Vincent Lum and Brad Fafejta. Teen Wolf combined Nikkel’s classically driven keyboard lines with the frenetic energy of garage punk.

Nikkel is associated with a pop collective centered around her New Zealand based label ‘Lil Chief Records’ (The Brunettes, Ruby Suns). She has toured as a live member of The Brunettes and currently plays the role of Linda in the label’s own Paul McCartney / Wings tribute band ‘Disciples of Macca’.

Nikkel has spent the better part of her twenties developing her production and engineering skills and the result is her debut ‘Lil’ Golden Book’ – a home experiment that has been called “a triumph of high concept production”.

+ Support

THURSDAY 23rd of APRIL 2013
at Green Door Store, Brighton
Under Brighton Station, BN1 4FQ
£7.00 gbp adv. + booking fee // 7.30pm til 10.30pm // 18+

Bristol:
http://www.seetickets.com/event/princess-chelsea/the-louisiana/704102 //
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/217311 //
http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/event/54147 //
gigantic.com

Death or Glory Presents-

Control

http://www.myspace.com/controlrocknroll

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Control-hooligan-rock-n-roll/103753232992294

+

Not Since the Accident

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Renegade-Sounds/227109757342426?ref=ts&fref=ts

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Disruptive Influence

https://www.facebook.com/DisruptiveInfluenceUK?ref=ts&fref=ts

16+

Tickets- £8 adv
(More on the door)

Available from-

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Seetickets-

http://www.seetickets.com/Tour/CONTROL-DISRUPTIVE-INFLUENCE

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Please note onstage times and support bands are subject to change.

Thu 23rd May | £8:50 | 7:30pm | 16+

The Beards

The concept of The Beards is simple – A rock band that exclusively perform songs about just one subject: Beards. With a three-album back catalogue of crowd favourites like If Your Dad Doesn’t Have a Beard,You’ve Got Two Mums, You Should Consider Sex with a Bearded Man and No Beard, No Good, The Beards continue in their ceaseless journey to make the world a more beard-friendly place.

The Beards have gained a cult following in Australia after touring the nation relentlessly over the last few years. Notable performances include the Falls Festival, The Big Day Out, Woodford Folk Festival and of course their visit to Alaska to perform at the World Beard and Moustache Championship’s opening ceremony.

The Beards have always combined the brilliant and the comedic in creating online content and the success of this is evident. Their YouTube channel has received over two million views and their clips have received national attention on Australian television.

In 2012 The Beards released their third album Having a Beard is the New Not Having a Beard. The album’s first single You Should Consider Having Sex With a Bearded Man came in at 99 in Triple J’s Hottest 100 and was nominated for the 2012 APRA Song of the Year. The album is nominated for ARIA Comedy Album of the Year 2012. Their album launch and consecutive second single tour sold out nationally and received rave reviews. The release of the second single film clip ‘Got me a Beard’ saw the band receive increasing international attention. The fully animated clip has been shortlisted for a number of international film awards and received over 600,000 hits world wide on YouTube.

The Beards are responding to their international audiences and will take their bearded message to the North America and Europe in 2013.

Bearded men, put down those trimmers – the Beard Revolution has come

Wed 22nd May | £5adv | 8:00pm | 16+

South Divide
www.facebook.com/southdivide

SKIES
www.facebook.com/SKIES.UK

Manners
www.facebook.com/mannersofficial

City Of Six
www.facebook.com/CityOfSixUK

Tue 21st May | £5adv | 7:30pm | Ages 16+

Young Kato
www.facebook.com/weareyoungkato

Since the release of the critically acclaimed Young Kato EP in the summer of 2012, Young Kato have been touring the UK tirelessly with headline shows across the country and successful support slots with a wide array of bands, including Spector, Bastille, Swim Deep, We Are Scientists and Peace.

Young Kato packed out the Gloucester Guildhall in late summer for their set at this year’s Underground Festival where they played main-stage and then sold the venue out themselves a month later at their headline show.

Having now been signed by BMG for both publishing and recordings and following a quick trip, swapping cold for colder, to perform a string of shows in Russia, the band headed straight into the studio with a fistful of killer demos and producer Gordon Mills Jr. With an average age of just 18, Young Kato have continued their knack of writing incredibly danceable, synth edged indie-rock and rapidly produced three potential singles in those first recording sessions. The video for ‘Something Real’ is typically exuberant and sees singer Tommy Wright risking life and limb being dragged on a rope through the streets of the UK.

Along with a slew of other notable up and coming and already successful bands, Young Kato’s music has already been featured heavily in cult hit TV series Made in Chelsea. And following an influx of enquiries about their songs in particular to the shows producers, Young Kato were asked if they could feature one of their live shows as the backdrop to the opening episode in the much anticipated and forthcoming second series. The episode will air on April 8th and features four of the band’s songs from a blistering performance at the Camden Barfly in 2012.

Young Kato release ‘Something Real’ on June 3rd via BMG Records.

Meadowlark
www.facebook.com/meadowlarkofficial

Flags
www.facebook.com/flagsuk

TICKETS:

www.ticketweb.co.uk/event/55207

www.bristolticketshop.co.uk/?/130521LOUYOUN1

www.seetickets.com/see/price.asp?code=704992

No Godzilla No
www.facebook.com/NoGodzillaNo

American You
www.facebook.com/americanyou?fref=ts

Colin

I’m Designer
www.facebook.com/imdesignerband

Sun 19th May | £7adv | 7:30pm | 16+

DHP present:

SOPHIE DELILA

www.facebook.com/SophieDelila
www.sophiedelila.com
www.twitter.com/sophiedelila
www.youtube.com/user/sophiedelila
www.myspace.com/sophiedelilamusic
www.sonicbids.com/sophiedelila

“This girl is the real deal” is how one leading British tabloid describes Sophie Delila.

A Parisian-bred singer, pianist, guitarist, writer and producer, she is currently seducing Europe with her brand of soulful melodic pop. Delila was born into a family of musical aficionados; her father, an accomplished piano player, even once had Ray Charles and Marvin Gaye round for dinner when Sophie was a baby.
Growing up, Sophie was influenced by a lot of blues, jazz and classical music and early on she fell in love with Stevie Wonder as well as the Beatles. She began playing the piano at age 5 and within a few years was racing home from school to write songs and record in her father’s home studio.
So it’s not surprising that at 17 she won a scholarship to the revered Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. After graduating she hit the New York City soul scene for a couple of years before moving to London in 2005 to take her career to the next level.
Lured by London’s explosive music scene, Delila wrote, gigged and produced and in 2008 Delila landed a record deal with Universal.
Whilst working on her first album, Delila became increasingly sought after for artistic collaborations.

Throughout 2009 she was one of the lead singers in the critically acclaimed band Nouvelle Vague, featuring on their last album as well as their live European tour.

She opened for one of her childhood heroes, Lionel Richie, at the Bercy Stadium last year, and more recently has been seen singing live with Plan B on Radio 1Xtra’s Live Lounge as well as Taratata, which is France’s equivalent of Later… with Jools Holland.

The singer is also in demand in the fashion community, with the iconic French label Hermes enlisting Delila to help bring the brand to a younger, more hip generation. A key project tying in with this is a concert on the Liberty Music Stage at the Carnaby Street Festival later this year on June 5th. This preceeds appearances at UK music festivals including Rockness.

Her highly anticipated debut album, Hooked, was co-written and co-produced with Sophie by Steve Booker, the man behind much of Duffy’s multi million selling album. In addition, an array of leading musicians and producers have collaborated on the record.

In 2011 Sophie has been working on writing and recording her next record.

ABOUT “HOOKED”:

“Hooked is a soul album with a rock heart“ – Elle

“Sophie Delila oozes Motown class. Following the success of Duffy, UK radio is surely primed and ready“ – Music Week

“Superb vocalist Sophie Delila glided through the cult sing-along “Song” in a potentially show-stopping manner”. – Independent

“Delila’s the real deal with an organic confident sound, strong distinctive vocals and a superb band“ – The Daily Mirror

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Sat 18th May | £4adv | 7:30pm | 16+

Bright Street
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Shake the Tree
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Beartown zodiac
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Michael Vickers
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RIOT|NOISE release their debut album ‘Stand For Something’ on June 3rd 2013. With a sell-out show at Bristol’s O2 Academy 2 to preview the album, an additional Bristol date has been added at The Louisiana.

RIOT|NOISE
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Koshiro
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New Device

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With What Remains

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“They’ve pulled it off brilliantly..The five main tracks here tie together perfectly to create a sprawling work that’s a joy to explore and get lost in. The end result is a beautiful, breathless and brutal mind fuck” – Kerrang!

“It’s almost impossible to describe their sound…One thing’s for sure; the quality rarely dips and the delivery is captivating”- Rocksound

“Arcane Roots are all about the musical muscle, blending their own brand of At The Drive-In grit with massive Biffy hooks” – Total Guitar

“Arcane Roots have stumbled onto the perfect combination of pop and rock to create a truly awesome sound…the band have done well to catch their musical power on record, having said this it is live where the band really show their true potential, with a blistering show that leaves you mesmerized and begging for more.” – Alter The Press!

The James Cleaver Quintet
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The Louisiana website:
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TICKETS:

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Wednesday 15th May | £5adv | 7:30pm | 16+

Madeleine Black
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Broken Kick
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Metastate
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Western Approach
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Audiophiles with Q&A and live performance from Mary Spender.

Audiophiles is a music lovers night, where we invite people to join us in discovering music and meeting new friends.

We look at and discuss 6-7 newly released albums from a cross section of music, we also have quizzes and raffles to win, gig tickets, CD promo’s, posters and stickers.

We also invite down bands to have a Q&A session with us and then play a short set in the Louisiana cellar.

This session we are delighted to invite down Mary Spender to discuss her latest EP and play a short intimate set.

We ask for a £2.50 donation to cover our costs.

Come along to our sessions and sign up for further sessions here:

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Balthazar
www.balthazarband.be

Balthazar are an alternative pop band, with rock, electro and hiphop influences, formed at the end of 2004 in Kortrijk-Belgium.

The Louisiana website:
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Mon 13th May | £5adv | 7:30pm | 16+

Highlives
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Arizona Law
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Riot of the Reckless
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Sun 12th May l | £5adv | 7:30pm | 16+

My Story
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Race Car Hearts
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Former Friends
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Sat 11th May | £9adv | 7:30pm | Ages 16+

Still Corners
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Exquisite new album Strange Pleasures out on May 6th via Sub Pop

“Another dreamy, widescreen pop gem” – ["Berlin Lovers" Track Post] Gorilla Vs. Bear

“Fireflies is their most immediate and starry-eyed song to date, with Tessa Murray’s multi-tracked vocals navigating their way through gorgeously empty terrain dotted with cymbal washes and gently pulsing synth tones.” – [“Fireflies” Track Review, "Best New Track”] Pitchfork

Many bands lay claim to the adjective “cinematic.” But how many can claim a truly cinema-worthy moment as part of their inception? It was a dark and foggy night when Still Corners songwriter Greg Hughes first laid eyes on vocalist Tessa Murray. “It sounds stupid but it’s completely true,” he recounts. “I was on a train that was going to London Bridge. But for some reason it went to this other stop. And I got out, and this other person got out. It was Tessa.”

It was a fitting moment for the American musician who came to London to pursue a career in music. A devoted cinephile—whose first release Remember Pepper recalls both the youthful tone of French New Wave and the unease of Italian horror—Hughes sees film as a major influence, from the projections (created by band member Leon Dufficy) that feature heavily in their live performances (“It’s nice to have something lovely to look at”), to the free-floating grace of debut full-length, Creatures of an Hour. “There’re just certain things in certain movies, like older horror movies and other foreign films, that you see sometimes. They just have a certain vibe and atmosphere,” says Hughes. “You’ll see a girl walking towards a train, it’s very atmospheric. There’s a great vibe in that—all these little bits, these tiny moments. That’s what I was trying to go back to. To bottle that up and put it into a song.”

Recorded at Hughes’ own studio in Greenwich, the devil is truly in the details of Creatures of an Hour. Fusing whispered intimacy to the emotional expansiveness of composer Ennio Morricone, Hughes crafts deceptively simple songs that linger like half-remembered dreams. Lead single “Cuckoo” shines in its simplicity, a single drumbeat, ghostly guitar, and distant organ highlighting Murray’s haunting soprano as she asks, “I’d like to read your mind/can you read mine?” “It’s about confusion,” explains Hughes. “It’s about being confused. Am I going crazy? Does this person like me? What’s happening? That’s the vibe of the whole record really.”

Elsewhere, the tone isn’t so much one of emotional conflict as it is pure atmosphere. Like a world-class art director, Hughes fills the set of “Endless Summer” with walls of reverb and splashes of longing, echoing a very real conflict in his own life—the pursuit of the illusive London sun. “It’s about wishing and chasing after the fleeting sun of England and wishing for an endless summer—or at least that the summer would go on a bit longer,” he says with a laugh. “It only seems to last about a week here!”

For the time being, Hughes is happy to maintain Still Corners’ musical mystery as—like many artists—he’s discovered less is more. “I don’t like to talk too much on decoding the songs. It takes the mystery away,” he says, cagily. “I like when people listen and then come up with their own kind of thing.”

Still Corners are releasing their debut LP Creatures of an Hour on October 11th. Tour dates to be announced soon.

So grab some popcorn and stick around, for Still Corners this is just act one.

Woman’s Hour
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Laws of Motion
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Friday 10th May | £6adv | 7:30pm | 16+

The Ramona Flowers
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The Slumbertones
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Peyote
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Joe richardson

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IMPORTANT: This show has been postponed. New winter date to be announced in the summer. There are currently no tickets available for this date.

Mon 9th May | 7:30pm | £8adv | Ages 16+

Gramme
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?”An Influence on every record you’d ever want to dance to in a sweaty room above a pub, this record deserves your attention” – The Guardian

“Gramme are amazing and have influenced Hot Chip a lot over the years, it just sounds great when ?they play together” – Joe Goddard (Hot Chip)

?”Fills the gap left by LCD Soundsystem and joins the dots between them, ESG, A Certain Ratio and Donna Summer” – Rough Trade?

After more than a decade of silence – no gigs, no music, no nothing – Gramme return with their debut album Fascination. The cult around the band and their lone release, the Pre-Release EP, continued to grow until in 2011 some mysterious 12″ bootlegs of Like U began to appear, with edits by Joe Goddard of Hot Chip. A few months later self released white labels begin to circulate with new Gramme material. Those recent EP’s have gone on to form Fascination, the first full studio album by Gramme.

Gramme is the musically pioneering band that went missing in action sometime around 2000. Originally signed to Trevor Jackson’s Output label, the band emerged in the mid-nineties with a sound so out of step with the cultural milieu they found themselves swimming against the tide.

The band recorded the seminal Pre-Release EP in 1997 but it was not released until 1999. The EP was produced by Trevor Jackson and was made in hours rather than days, accurately documenting the fever and sweat of those early sessions. It was a cult hit and acknowledged by Tim Goldsworthy and James Murphy as an influence on the early DFA sound.

Gramme 2012, now a streamlined four piece but equally as passionate and excited by the possibilities of their own music making. With three new 4 track E.P.s already on the shelves this year, reportedly selling out before the dust had time to settle. The next step is a 12 track long player. The album
represents about two and a half years of sporadic but intense writing, jamming, recording and editing and at least three complete fresh starts. The aim was finally to create something immediate and in the present but something that would also stand the test of time. It needed to work in the club, the car and the kitchen simultaneously.

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Wed 8th May | £4adv | 7:30pm | 16+

Tom Mitchell
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Louise Parker
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Harry-Gould

Howard Sinclair
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Sometime in the spring of 2012 the musicians that would go on to form the Chicago & Minneapolis based trio ON AN ON found themselves at a tipping point. The three of them—Nate Eiesland, Alissa Ricci, and Ryne Estwing—had played music with one another in various capacities for the better part of a decade. Most recently, they had shared the stage and studio as three fifths of the indie-pop outfit Scattered Trees, which had seen its fair share of success. But with the band’s studio time only a few weeks away and the other members now spread out across the country pursuing other endeavors, they would chart their own course and come out stronger for it. What emerged was ON AN ON.

For ON AN ON, the precariousness of breaking new ground only three weeks before recording with accomplished producer Dave Newfeld (Broken Social Scene, Super Furry Animals, Los Campesinos!) provided a jolt of creative energy. The musicians had become disenchanted with their past approach to songwriting and recording, finding the process of striving for polished pop both tiresome and constrained. Newfeld proved the perfect counterpart to their initial vision for the record, encouraging them to push boundaries and go with their instincts.

According to Eiesland, the sessions were something of an exorcism: “We really wanted to get away from the sterility of our previous approach to recording.” Eieseland, Ricci, and Estwing embraced musical risks that in the past it might have shied away from. In the studio, the band members explored a natural chemistry and honed their sound; synthesizers, scattershot electro beats and ambient ear candy gave guitars, bass and drums a ghostly sheen.

While the melodies might clue one in to the trio’s evolved sonic palate, it’s through the album’s themes that the group member’s respective evolution becomes most apparent. Eiesland wrote the majority of the lyrics, in the process coming to terms with death and the traps that life springs upon us. Whether letting his intuition guide him on “I Wanted To Say More” (“You are a saint and you’re the devil/Every word I spoke to you, I thought that they were wings/ But they were only feathers”) or owning up to life’s inevitability on “All The Horses” (“A family tree will split in two halfway through its life”), there’s a tempered calm to the thought-provoking imagery he espouses through his words. Estwing offered up his own lyrical séance on his lead vocal track “Cops,” although the bassist says his message—that the police can be surprisingly corrupt—is more direct.

After smashing everything they knew to pieces, they pulled themselves together around Give In, ON AN ON’s ten-track debut album – a dream-washed textural journey armed with a biting perspective on life, love, and the commonality of loss. It is an affair that sizzles with electricity and calls one in with its unnerved openness.

The Crisis Project (EP Launch)
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Stantz
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Sunday 5th May 2013

st Brendan’s Showcase
My Iron Romance + Candy Floss Bunny’s + Shed + The Micras + The Mule Skinners + The Pin Ups

Sat 4th May | £5adv | 7:30pm | 16+

Fire At William
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Giving Into Ghosts
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Diving Bell
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The Divided Circle
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Cursor Major

Atomokraft

Samuel Powell

Jemima Surrender

The Blunderbuss Press

2nd May 7:30pm| £6adv | Ages 16+

The Temperance Movement
www.thetemperancemovement.com

The Temperance Movement are a blues-drenched, soulful, loud and explosive rock and roll band drawing on their combined influences and experience to turn heads in the music industries on both sides of the Atlantic.

Formed between London and Glasgow in the summer of 2011, 5 like minded musicians decided to take a break from their touring with other acts to write, play and record music influenced by the records which first made them passionate about rock and roll.

Having been a long time in the making, the project came together quickly and the band had half an album written and recorded within a month of first meeting. They cut their tracks live in the studio and take the same energy onstage with them every time they play live, carrying the torch for a fading generation of live bands.

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Treetop Flyers are a London five-piece who specialise in rootsy, folk-tinged rock, that harks back to the golden age of the Laurel Canyon music scene. Since the release of their debut EP, To Bury The Past, in 2009 they have been gathering pace with a reputation for their live performances, which earned them the winning spot at this year’s Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition. They will be performing at the festival this year on Other State.

With their single “Things Will Change” slated for release on 23rd May through Communion Records, a launch party on the same day at the Borderline in London, a tour with Duke Spirit and slots at Hop Farm, Feis, Wood and various other festivals this summer, you won’t be short of chances to hear them.

Hot Feet
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The Cadbury Sisters
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DHP Concerts Presents

Alessi’s Ark
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“The Still Life”

(Bella Union – 15th April 2013)

Travel, adventure and personal revelation mark the new album by singer-songwriter Alessi Laurent–Marke of Alessi’s Ark. The Still Life is a work both lucid and heartbreakingly lovely, a sonic landscape that roams a wide range of emotions, with (as the songwriter explains), “Nature and love, as common threads”.

“I wanted to create a musical landscape that varied in sound,” Laurent-Marke says, “but an overriding feeling of ‘stillness’ remained throughout the album. I also wanted to step back from playing acoustic guitar and immerse the songs in very different sound settings from previous recordings.”

Only a few short years into her career, the London-based Laurent-Marke – who began playing music and launched a fanzine, Brain Bulletin, during her secondary school years in West London – is already prolific: her first, self-released EP, 2007’s Bedroom Bound, garnered the then-teenage artist a major label deal and attention around the globe.

A debut album soon followed, with Laurent-Marke heading to Omaha, Nebraska to record with producer Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes, The Faint, Rilo Kiley). The resulting Notes from the Treehouse (EMI/Virgin, 2009) was a testament to both her evolving talents and to her affinity with a new wave of American singer/songwriters.

Her most recent release, 2011’s Time Travel, was praised by the press, with MOJO swooning, “The understated arrangements suggest you’re listening to a woman with impeccable taste…”, and NME remarking, “the songs have a deftness that defies her years”

Still only 22, Laurent-Marke continues to explore. The last few years have seen tours through England and across the Continent – supporting artists including Mumford & Sons, Laura Marling, Villagers, and Laura Veirs – with the young singer backed by a revolving cast of musical collaborators, her own ‘Alessi’s Ark.’ These adventures fuelled the creative inspiration for what would become The Still Life.

To record the album, Laurent-Marke returned again to America, to the small town of Athens, Georgia and the studio of producer Andy LeMaster (of Now It’s Overhead), who has worked with everyone from Bright Eyes to the Drive-By Truckers.

“I had heard brilliant things about Andy as a person, from musicians I’d met while recording the first album in Omaha,” says Laurent–Marke, “and I felt extremely fortunate to spend time together and work so closely on this album. He brought some very gifted, beautiful musicians on board and I was moved by their warmth in Athens.”

That warmth is all over The Still Life: in the shimmering production, in the players’ performances and in the slow, sweet syrup sway that underlies all the album tracks. You can hear summer in these songs, almost see the fireflies and the Spanish moss hanging lazy from the oaks.

“The phrase ‘the still life’ has always resonated with me,” says Laurent-Marke of the album’s title. “In my mind ‘The Still Life’ is what we’re all aiming for, the chapter in our lives that we find peace and understanding, within us and in our surroundings.”

That feeling of peace, or the desire for it, threads through each of the album’s tracks. There is a comforting singsong undulation on tracks like “Veins are Blue,” “Mountain,” and “Money”. “The Rain” captures the calm disconnect that comes with travel, the feel of passing landscapes set to the whistle and roll of train tracks rhythms. On songs like The National-cover “Afraid of Everything”, Laurent-Marke goes deliciously dark and deep, embracing a spooky western swing that calls to mind flames licking at black night and low howls at a high moon.

The latter, along with the magical “Sans Balance” (which boasts lyrics in both French and English), are the only two tracks recorded outside of Athens. Enlisting Brit producer Nic Nell in South London, Laurent-Marke’s found a perfect match to LeMaster, two producers creating sound that brings the album together as a united whole.

In the end, The Still Life is Laurent-Marke coming into her own, finding a place at the centre of her inspirations that reflects the truest parts of herself. And from the sound of it, that’s a very good place to be.

“I hope that this album is good company for the listener,” says Laurent-Marke, “ I tried to create something that would leave them happy, leave them with a feeling of peace. To me, the best thing an album can be is a friend you can rely on.”

Critical acclaim for “Time Travel”, the second album from Alessi’s Ark:
“the songs have a deftness that defies her years” NME – 8/10

“Reverb-laden memoirs such as Blanket and Stalemate mine a rich source of melodic fuel…” MOJO – 4 Stars ****

“As precocious as Laura Marling, the 12 songs reveal a talent that’s on the verge of becoming something special… Beautiful and beguiling, the album gets under your skin” The Guardian – 4 Stars ****

Ralfe Band

16+ (16-18 year olds If accompanied by a guardian)

Mon 29th April | £4adv | 7:30 | 16+

Awake by Design

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The Rock and Roll Circus

We Used To Have Horses
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Electric Jesters

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In the backroom of a spruce but empty pub, the sort that increasingly defines London’s King’s Cross, Jamie N Commons is telling the story of an evangelical preacher from Alabama who strangled his wife, chopped her up and popped her body in a freezer. Thankfully, there’s context: this is the story of “The Preacher”, the first (and arguably best) song on Commons’s debut blues EP, The Baron. Still, dark stuff.

Commons smiles: “A lot of my songs touch on religion,” he explains. “I find it interesting. But the songs I write tend to be more…” Hellfire and fury? “Exactly. There are many sides to religion and that is one of them.” Suffice to say, “The Preacher” is a rumbling, spit-furious punch of a song, all crucixes and wayward flocks. Very Grinderman. In fact, the entire EP is heavy on Nick Cave-esque themes: executions (“The Preacher”), heartbreak (“Lola”), and suicide (“Hold On”), to name a few. Unlike Cave, though, 22-year-old Commons has a lax view of religion. While his father, a printer, isn’t religious, Commons happily attended church as a child with his mother, the secretary of their local church in Gloucester. Any probing for religious discord in the family proves unproductive: “Religion wasn’t a raging issue at home,” he says. “I’m open to it.”

Born in Bristol, Commons moved to Chicago with his family at the age of six after his father’s job transferred there. Home to Muddy Waters et al, the Windy City was pivotal in his discovery of the blues. The first gig his father took him to was the Allman Brothers: “I have strong memories of strange-smelling smoke and the guy next to us howling like a wolf.”

Returning to the West Country at 16 with a skewed accent, he taught himself the brass tacks of the guitar and, aged 18, moved to London to study music at Goldsmiths in New Cross, a requisite for any modern musician: recent alumni include singer Katy B and electro-composer, and classmate, James Blake, “Although I didn’t really know what he [James] did. It wasn’t until the third year that suddenly he was off to meet Universal and it was like, oh.” A graduate in the guise of Struwwelpeter, Commons certainly dresses New Cross: plaid shirt, tight-ish black jeans and felt Preacher’s hat bought (alarmingly) from TK Maxx: “Not cool, nope, but I lost my other hat.”

Singing the blues at 22 is a tough call. It’s not just the baggage and breadth of the subject matter: you also need the right pipes and without them you risk parody. Fortunately Commons has them. After spending years trying and failing to imitate Gregg Allman, he found a substitute and the resulting sound is both rasping and lovely but inevitably studied, something he defends: “If I didn’t think it was genuine I wouldn’t sing in that way.”

With the aid of his highly proficient five-piece band, it all comes together. The EP is a sombre, five-track traipse through some deep south backwater, and that he once sent them mixtapes of the Band and JJ Cale to emulate is unsurprising. But it’s also a sound at odds with the man in person. Commons is actually terribly polite, self-effacing, nervous even. After all, this is his first interview and “no, blues singers don’t get media training”. We leave the pub in favour of a windy terrace where, two Guinnesses and two cigarettes down, he is finally relaxed enough to blow his own trumpet. Apparently Elvis Costello is a fan (he loved Commons’s cover of “15 Petals”), as is swamp-rock legend CC Adcock – an artist featured heavily throughout HBO vampire drama True Blood – who has invited Commons to New Orleans. “So yes, maybe I’ll get a new hat there. Not a preacher’s though,” he says. “I’m on the search for a wide-rim Stetson.”

The Roving Crows
www.rovingcrows.com

Multi award winning original folk-fusion outfit. Formed in early 2009 The Crows inexhaustible energy and unrivalled ability to connect deeply with the audience gives them real stand-alone status. The Crows fuse folk, ska, reggae and klezmer in a unique and energetic performance.
The Roving Crows’ line-up boasts fiery fiddle playing, trumpet, guitar, drums and vocals and comprises:
Caitlin Barrett – Fiddle player, singer and co founder of The Roving Crows. An experienced musician with a vast repertoire, her strident and formidable fiddle style has been developed over many years of self-study.
Paul O’Neill – Lead singer, guitarist, and front man of The Roving Crows, Paul is a founder member of the band, with a background in theatre and writing he scribes all lyrics for the band.
Greg Wilson-Copp – Trumpet player and backing vocals – Having recently studied Music Technology at Birmingham UCE he has many years of performance experience with various different groups.
Tim Tolhurst – Drummer and backing vocals – Currently studying popular music at the University of Gloucestershire; his dynamic style has been influenced by the likes of Keith Moon and Joe Morello.
Lawrence Shaw – Bass – Newest member of the band hailing from Evesham. He has played in rock bands for the last 6 years whilst studying sound engineering at Staffordshire University. Now a full time musician with The Roving Crows.
Winners of Best Folk Act at the Exposure Music Awards 2012.
Winners of Top Celtic Rock Band and Top Fiddle Player at The Irish Music Awards 2012.
“Songs you can sing along to, with tunes you can dance to – a winning combination” Shelley Rainey, Bright Young Folk (2012)
“Great party music…I love that band” Paul O’Grady, BBC (April 2012)
“Really individual Celtic folk rock group” Mike Harding, BBC (Nov 2012)

Foreign Affairs
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Foreign Affairs are an Indie/Folk/Americana Band. They’re core, being two brothers from the South-West. They’re catchy music infuses the best of English folk, American Country and modern Pop.
Lawrence Purnell (Vocals, keeys and Mandolin) is eighteen and Adam Purnell (Guitar, Harmonica and percussion) is Twenty-Three. Foreign Affairs have been playing venues and radio sessions around their hometowns of Bristol and Bath while recording their debut EP in South Wales.

Adam has also played sessions with artists such as Sam Beeton and The People The Poet.

Sarah Proudfoot & Tom Mitchell
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www.mitchellmusic.co.uk

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Fri 26th April | £4adv | 8:00pm | 18+

The Vulgar Chorus
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Grant And The Feeltones
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Give Me Memphis
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Thur 25th April 2013 | £5adv | 7:30pm | 16+

Shogun
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Ruins
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The Bewildered
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C.A
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Wed 24th Apr | £5 | 7:30pm | 16+

Silent Theatre
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Sonic Sunrise
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The Hartletts
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The Danny Black
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t’s said that some people are born old and stay that way for the rest of their lives. The Physics House Band might be in their early 20s, but not for them a life of drinking shots at Guetta-powered pop nights. Oh no, they’d much rather be giving their jazz fusion albums the concentration they deserve and practising being really very good at their instruments.

Unfashionable notions of musicianship are at the core of their live performances but let’s be clear here – The Physics House Band are not chin strokers. In fact they’re one of the most exciting new bands to take to the Brighton stage in recent years. Adam wrestles with his bass like he’s in a funk band, while Dave flails on the drums chaotically and Sam leaves no part of his keyboard untouched. And the sounds, wow, the sounds!

An assault on the ears that can still make you dance, they come on somewhere between the psychedelic explorers of the 60s, the prog bands and jazz fusion artists of the 70s, the technical metal of the 80s and the post rock of the 90s – all with the 21st century precision of math rock. If you thought The Mars Volta were coasting then you’ll love The Physics House Band.

They play so fast and so frenetically that you struggle to keep up but, caught in their tractor beam, you just can’t get away. There are few bands that have such a live pull in Brighton this early on in their careers and with material this difficult. They’re absolutely stunning and have already picked up fans of all gig-going ages. They’re a popular support act with promoters because of the big crowds they bring with them.

“We’re not trying to exclude non-musicians, which is why we try to put on a really exciting show,” explains Adam. “So we write stuff that grooves, stuff that the layman can still kinda go and nod their head to. You don’t need to think, ‘Shit they played something in [a time signature of] 19/32’, but can still come away and say, ‘That was really cool, what the fuck happened? I enjoyed that.’”

And enjoy it you will, muso or non-muso, as the trio throw themselves into playing so hard you’re not sure if they’re going to break themselves, the sound barrier or your ears. There’s no doubt they’re completely out on their own in a way we haven’t seen since AK/DK.

“There’s no trend there because for a start the music is instrumental,” says Sam. “Our passion is to make music with no shelf life, as well as not attaching to a trend. I suppose the name reflects that. It’s Physics because the elements of physics are sound, heat, light and electricity – all the things that come in to music performance, not, you know, fashion and things like that.”

More than anything, watching The Physics House Band makes us glad that they found each other. Like how, say, the Pixies were meant be together, we can’t imagine this trio tolerating playing with anyone else. Sam has a history with the precision of classical and jazz, while Dave has been playing the drums for 14 years and Adam, whose dad was a musician, has always taken the director role in bands.

“It’s good to be able to give someone an idea and they’ll take it and make it better,” says Adam of his current bandmates. “You think, ‘Fuck, I didn’t even think of doing it that way!’ They’ll do it immediately, better than I thought of, which is really, really satisfying. It’s difficult to find in musicians this good.”

“It’s very rare for drummers to get to go crazy with fills,” smiles Dave, “or just try and do the most complicated stuff. You usually get told to calm things down or be quiet, whereas these two promote the madness.”

With so much musicianship going on it’s little surprise that there’s no room for vocals in The Physics House Band songs, but initially the trio played as part of a five piece with a guitarist and singer, who didn’t fancy playing one of the gigs they had lined up. Instantly, the split band just seemed right and instrumentals were the way forward.

“We try to write musical parts that are expressive enough to take the place of where lyrics would have been,” explains Adam. “So we have something that would evoke the same kind of emotion or feeling as a lyricist. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. I guess when you go for stranger sounding things, they take you to the stranger places which a vocalist would usually guide you to.”

So does that mean they’ll always be an instrumental band? Not necessarily.

“It’s called The Physics House Band because it’s always open,” says Dave.

“We could have 15 saxophone players next year or a gospel vocalist,” reckons Sam. “It’s House Band because, like music as a substance, it’s free flowing. Who knows where we will be in 10 years, or even in one year. It could be totally different.”

Before they turn into a completely unrecognisable group they have an EP to release, the one that they’ve been working on for nine months. It’s 25 minutes and six tracks long, which seems pretty restrained when you consider the excesses of their influences. But then it’s probably better to think of it as one piece of music.

“I suppose that’s where the background of classical music and jazz comes into play,” thinks Sam. “Those long scores, building atmospheres, reprised themes. It’s like taking someone on a journey to the sun.”

In the meantime we’ll have to make do with the jerky, ultra heavy space jazz of ‘Titan’ from the ‘Sea Monsters 2’ compilation and seeing them live, this month at Chris Tomsett and Richard Norris’ Psychedelic Festival in Lewes, and in a dream support slot for Mars Volta-offshoot Zechs Marquise.

“It’s gonna be a really, really great gig,” says Adam. “It’s just great to play with someone who’s like us and almost competing with them.”

“We’ll definitely compete with them,” smiles Dave.
“Yeah,” nods Adam. “I was trying to be modest.”
With this level of ambition and talent we can’t see that false modesty lasting long

Mon 22nd Apr | £4adv | 7:30pm | 16+

Roadhouse Blues Band
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Pennydrop
www.facebook.com/pages/Pennydrop/488377134533550?fref=ts

Declan Galpin Music
www.facebook.com/declangalpinmusic

Gathering Voices
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Access To Music Bristol
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presents

Rival
A 4 man rock band from the outskirts of Bristol. Each member has emerged from the depths of society to help form this ultimate and original band! Their chosen name… Rival.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rival/268840903158969?fref=ts

http://www.rivalband.com/

Life line
www.facebook.com/pages/LifeLine/300701853280864
several of our songs can be heard on sound cloud for your infinite pleasure. Also, this page is the location for all of the LifeLine random rants and hilarity that ensues with being your most favourite band ever!

Interflux
Interflux UK is a band formed in aberaeron in 2010. They play a mixed style of original music influenced by many genres.

http://www.facebook.com/Interflux.UK?fref=ts

Fossil Collective, a two-piece from Leeds, consists of multi instrumentalists David Fendick and Jonny Hooker.

Their first recordings saw them taking inspiration from classic albums by Neil Young, Fleetwood Mac and Simon and Garfunkel and suggested comparisons with more contemporary artists such as Fleet Foxes, Midlake and Bon Iver. But in truth their exquisitely structured songs and glorious, rich harmonies owe as much, if not more, to a solid English song tradition, and their material holds that distinct English quality that many North American artists hanker after.

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www.seetickets.com/see/price.asp?code=679909

If the name Ben Montague sounds familiar, that would be because you heard his debut single ‘Haunted’ which became a major radio hit two years ago. At the time Ben didn’t have a record deal or an album to his name. Fast forward to 2012 and Ben, with a label behind him, is ready to launch his debut album ‘Tales Of Flying and Falling.’

Recorded at Rockfield with producer Dave Eringa (Manic Street Preachers, Idlewild, Kylie) ‘Tales Of Flying And Falling’ is a set of songs that make sense together; that document a relationship that was right, went wrong, then came right again. It’s an album that will make his fans fall for him all over again. “This was always my dream – to make an album with one producer, in one studio,” says Ben. “To take my time and make sure every song sounded as good as it could. Working with Dave was amazing. He’s a rock guy; I write pop songs. We bonded over old-school desks and old-school mics and a love of authentic, epic music.”

‘Tales of Flying and Falling’ was released on 2st January and was immediately made Radio 2’s Album of the Week.

Ben, who was recently the main support for The Wanted on their UK Arena Tour, will be relentlessly hitting the road this year to showcase songs from his forthcoming album. The full list of dates and more information are at www.benmontague.co.uk.

Alex Taylor
www.alextaylormusic.com

Tickets:
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15th April 2013 | £6adv | 7:30pm | 16+

Sion Russell Jones
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Shannon Saunders
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Lewis Mokler
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Jane Thomason
www.facebook.com/JaneThomasonSongs

Lonerider
www.facebook.com/pages/Lonerider/282668118481122

TICKETS
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Sat 14th April | £7adv | 7:30pm | 16+

Emancipator
www.emancipatormusic.com

Emancipator is Douglas Appling, who is joined in the live setting by Violinist Ilya Goldberg.

To some, it must seem like this young electronic producer came out of nowhere this year, but those in the know have been following Emancipator since he self-released his first album, “Soon It Will Be Cold Enough,” at the age of 19 in 2006. His agile melodies layered over headnodic, immaculately-produced beats captivated fans across the internet and across the world.

With the release of his newest album, Dusk to Dawn, the music offers listeners a nostalgic return to the soulful integration of organic hip hop and symphonic layers that first captivated his steadily growing audience. Trusting his roots yet simultaneously evolving is what makes Emancipator and the album truly great.

Seasfire
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The Louisiana website:
www.thelouisiana.net

TICKETS:

£7adv | Ages 16+

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Sat 13th April | £4adv | 7:30pm | 16+

Last gig for a while as the exam period is fast approaching. We are aware that our friend Dominic Newton is having Birthday celebrations on this eve so we will be venturing out after. Support from our friends The Slumbertones.

Everybody invite everybody – Would love for everyone to be there. Gonna be a good night.

THE DEATH OF MR SMITH

Kaonashi
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THE SLUMBERTONES
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Holding tides
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BOB Geldof
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TICKETS £12 ADV / DOORS 7.30PM / 16+

Duke Special is an artist aptly named. Dynamic, musically ambitious & bracingly eccentric, with his inimitable style and lush musicality. Hailing from Belfast with a sound that is self-confessed “hobo-chic”, Duke Special – AKA the endlessly inventive Peter Wilson – is once heard, never forgotten. Blissfully at home in his own alluring genre of beautifully bruised romanticism, Duke Special inhabits a world unlike any other – a world filled with vaudeville-esque sensibility, sing-a-longs and addictive melodies .

“Its impossible to fault Duke Special” EVENING STANDARD

“Magically uplifting” EVENING STANDARD

“This is music of magic and soul” Telegraph

“ Ambitious, shamelessly romantic, highly melodic” WORD

“A stunning album, pure and simple, from a musician in complete control of his gift and with lots more to offer.”
Gigwise.com

“The Duke’s songs are as comforting as chestnuts roasting on an open fire” THE SUN

‘the Duke’s honeyed tones are perfect for these honest, passionate songs about love and loss.’ **** The Independent

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12/04/13 (Fri) – @ The Louisiana

• DUKE SPECIAL
• SUPPORT TBC

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TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM:

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24 hour ticketline – 0870 264 3333

Thursday 11th April | £5adv | 8:00pm | 16+

The Great Big Bargain
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Swift Manouver

https://crippledblackphoenix.co.uk

Wet Cheese
crippledblackphoenix.co.uk/

The Louisiana ( formerly the Bathurst Tavern – The Smugglers – Garrick‘s )

If you had taken a walk across the Prince Street bridge in the early nineteenth century you would have had the water on one side and an extensive view over the surrounding countryside ahead of you across the River Avon.

Then, in 1809, you could have been forgiven if you had thought you were in New Orleans as the lace ironwork balconies on the The Louisiana stood out on the horizon like a ship’s prow.

The Louisiana, now on the corner of Wapping Road, then stood proudly at the entrance to the Basin with a splendid view over the green fields of Bedminster. The Basin itself was constructed as part of the Floating Harbour scheme in 1804-9 by William Jessop, where the Malago Brook once entered the Avon, turning the wheels of the old Trimm Mill as it did so.

The Basin formed a locked link between the New Cut and the Floating Harbour and The Louisiana overlooked the southern lock. The Bathurst family had a long association with Bristol when Charles Bragge was its member of parliament at the end of the eighteenth century.

He changed his name to Bathurst in 1804 and so, when the new Basin was created it was named in his honour, Bathurst, rather than Bragge’s Basin.

The Tavern or Hotel as it was then called was originally purpose-built in 1809 to cater for the seafarers and travellers brought to this area once the Basin was created. It was this association with the sea which inspired the design for the new hotel; the first-floor tented balcony covering seven bays with the iron standards and railings so reminiscent of New Orleans, gave a sailor’s eye view over the countryside.

The ironwork was probably the work of a local craftsman who first designed it and then actually made it himself. It is aesthetically pleasing at this corner. A fan-light over the entrance door is of patent metal with the well-known ornamentation so often seen in Bristol.

A feature of many nineteenth century houses and inns is the ‘window-tax’ blocked-up casement. The Louisiana has many of these visible reminders of the iniquitous tax which was not repealed until 1851. Just opposite the Tavern in Commercial Road is the ruined gatehouse of the Old Gaol built by 1820 to replace the dreadful Newgate Prison.

The Corporation had begun excavating for the new prison in 1816 believing that ‘it would be the means of employing a considerable number of hands during the ensuing winter, who perhaps otherwise will be reduced to starvation and misery’.

These early philanthropic city fathers invited tenders for the excavation and ‘plans could be seen on application to Mr William Cleak at the then named Bathurst Hotel. ‘ It is difficult to imagine the excitement which this new prison must have caused with, as reported a newspaper of the time, ‘gardens laid out in esplanades and parterres filled with beautiful flowers, among which were thousands upon thousands of roses and lilies in full bloom, filling the air with the most delicious fragrance.’

Now, only the gatehouse remains as the gaol itself was the target of the 1831 Rioters who burned it to the ground. The Governor of that gaol, William Humphries, was actually taking refreshment at the Bathurst Hotel when the mob attacked his gaol and he was forced to stay there and watch the destruction.

The gateway of the gaol was the scene of the last public hanging of a woman in Bristol, when in 1849 Sarah Thomas was hanged for murder. In 1978, the Bathurst was renamed the Garrick’s, when the landlord of the demolished Garrick‘s Head on Bristol’s Centre took over the inn and hoped to keep most of his old clientele.

Then, in 1982, the name was again changed to the Smugglers and some new external decoration and internal decor added. Murals of disappointing artistic quality depicting smugglers in action have been painted below the superb iron balconies and the smugglers’ motif has also invaded the interior.

The Tavern stands at the junction of Wapping Road and Bathurst Parade and is part of an ambitious scheme which has brought life to a once threatened derelict area. The early nineteenth century merchants’ houses in the Parade have been superbly restored as Merchants Landing and though small craft have replaced the tallmasted ships, the Bathurst Basin is once more the home of seafarers.

The pub is now used as a live music venue for up and coming bands and renamed The Louisiana – the upstairs of this public house is now a venue for live music sees many different local and touring bands each week playing a variety of styles.

Information courtesy of Paul Townsend: Local historian for the City of Bristol England and webmaster of www.gertlushonline.co.uk

We host 2-3 bands/night, pretty much every night of the week. As well as National touring acts, we also put on shows by the best local bands.

We advise to regularly check the listings.

The Louie has seen some rather impressive acts grace it’s stage over the years… We have played host to the likes off:

(If we’ve missed anyone, let us know)

AIRBOURNE, AIRIEL, AMELIA TUCKER, ANDY SMITH (PORTISHEAD DJ), ARCHIE BRONSON OUTFIT, ART BRUT, BADLY DRAWN BOY, BAXTER DURY, BEACH HOUSE, BELL X1, BEN’S BROTHER, BIS, BLOC PARTY, THE BOOKHOUSE BOYS, BOY LEAST LIKELY TO, BOY KILL BOY, BRITISH SEA POWER, CHRIS T-T, CLEARLAKE, COLDPLAY, CORINNE BAILEY RAE, DAVID FORD, DELAYS, DIRTY PRETTY THINGS, DOT TO DOT FESTIVAL, DRAGONETTE, ELBOW, ELECTRIC SOFT PARADE, EMILY BREEZE, EMMY THE GREAT, EUGENE MCGUINNESS, EXIT CALM, FAN FARLO, FEEDER, FIELDS, FIGHT LIKE APES, FINDLAY BROWN, FLEET FOXES, FLORENCE & THE MACHINE, FORTUNE DRIVE, FOY VANCE, FRANCOIZ BREUT, FUTURE OF THE LEFT, GABBY YOUNG & OTHER ANIMALS, GAVIN THORPE, GEMMA HAYES, GHOST, GIANT DRAG, GOGOL BORDELLO, GOLDEN SILVERS, GOLDFRAPP, GOLDIE LOOKIN CHAIN, GOMEZ, GONGA, GRAMMATICS, GUILLEMOTS, HOT HOT HEAT, ILIKETRAINS, IMELDA MAY, INTERPOL, JACK SAVORETTI, JACOB GOLDEN, JAMES MORRISON, JAMES YORKSTON, JAMIE SCOTT AND THE TOWN, JAMIE T, JAY JAY PISTOLET, JENIFEREVER, JEREMY WARMSLEY, JET, JOHNNY FLYNN & THE SUSSEX WIT, JOHNNY FOREIGNER, JOSE GONZALEZ, KASABIAN, KATE NASH, KATE WALSH, KEANE, KID CARPET, KID HARPOON, KILL CASSIDY, KING CREASOTE, KINGS OF LEON, KUBICHECK, KYTE, LIAM FINN, LIONHEART BROTHERS, LONGCUT, LOS CAMPASINOS, LOW vs DIAMOND, LUKE HAINES, MALAKAI, MARK EITZEL, MARTINA TOPLEY BIRD, MERZ, METRONOMY, MISSISSIPPI WITCH, MISTY’S BIG ADVENTURE, MOGWAI, MR HUDSON AND THE LIBRARY, MULL HISTORICAL SOCIETY, MUMM-RA, MUMFORD & SONS, MUSE, MY MORNING JACKET, MYSTERY JETS, NINE BLACK ALPS, NOAH AND THE WHALE, OFFICIAL SECRETS ACT, OPERAHOUSE, PADDY MILNER, PALLADIUM, PATRICK DUFF, PAUL STEEL, PAULO NUTINI, PEGGY SUE AND THE PIRATES, PETE DOHERTY, PETE MOLINARI, PETER, BJORN & JOHN, PIVOT, PLACEBO, PRETTY GIRLS MAKE GRAVES, PULLED APART BY HORSES, RADIO 4, RAZORLIGHT, REDLIGHT COMPANY, REGINA SPEKTOR, REVEREND AND THE MAKERS, ROYWORLD, SANTA CRUZ, SARABETH TUCEK, SATURATION POINT, SCISSOR SISTERS, SEAFOOD, SEBADOH, SECRET MACHINES, SEMI FINALISTS, SERGEANT, SHE CREATURES, SIA, SKY LARKIN, SLOW CLUB, SNOW PATROL, SON OF DAVE, SONS AND DAUGHTERS, SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES, SPINTO BAND, STEREOPHONICS, SUNSET CINEMA CLUB, SUPER FURRY ANIMALS, TEITUR, THE AUTOMATIC, THE BLACK KEYS, THE BOY LEAST LIKELY TO, THE CAZALS, THE CORAL, THE DATSUNS, THE DEARS, THE DEATH SET, THE DIVINE COMEDY, THE DODOS, THE DRAYTONES, THE ENEMY, THE FRANCOS, THE FUTUREHEADS, THE HIGH LLAMAS, THE HOOSIERS, THE HOT PUPPIES, THE KOOKS, THE LIBERTINES, THE LITTLE FLAMES, THE LOCARNOS, THE METROS, THE MUSIC, THE NOVA SAINTS, THE ORGAN, THE PADDINGTONS, THE PIPETTES, THE RAPTURE, THE SCARE, THE SCRIPT, THE SLEEPY JACKSON, THE STROKES, THE SUBWAYS, THE TWANG, THE VIEW, THE VINES, THE WAVE MACHINES, THE WHIP, THE WHITESTRIPES, THE WOMBATS, THE YOUNG KNIVES, THE ZUTONS, TIMES NEW VIKING, TINY DANCERS, TRAVIS, TWISTED WHEEL, ULRICH SCHNAUSS, UNION OF KNIVES, VENN FESTIVAL, VIJAY KISHORE, WE SMOKE FAGS, WHITE ROSE MOVEMENT, WINCHELL RIOTS, YOU SAY PARTY WE SAY DIE, ZERO 7

Video courtesy of Guardian.co.uk and 02 Wireless Festival

Roni Size, Nick Talbot & Gravenhurst, The Louisiana, Thekla, Malakai, Nova Saints amongst others, as part of O2 Wireless feature on Guardian.co.uk

Jools Holland is excitable by nature, but when he spots a new artist who has what he considers “it,” his enthusiasm goes off the scale. To go by his reaction to Imelda May, she has “it” in spades. “I’ve got to have you on the show,” he told her after seeing her play live – and so, a couple of months ago, she duly found herself on “Later With Jools Holland,” wowing an audience who included Jeff Beck, Elbow and Roots Manuva. Beck, in fact, made a point of telling Holland that he was only there to see Imelda.

www.imeldamay.com

The Louie caters for all manner of special occasions

SET MENUS

We cater for between 30-50 people in the day.

This includes a starter, Main Course, Sweet and Coffee

Prices start from £22.50 per head and menus can be tailored to your wishes.

(Subject to availability)

BUFFET

We cater for up to 150 people in the evening.

Menus can be discussed with management.

(Subject to availability)

To discuss party booking, please phone Mary or Gianni +44(0)1179 265 978

EVERY SUNDAY

12 noon – we run out

Every Sunday, Bristolians dash to the Louie for the infamous Sunday carvery, cooked up by Giovanni (Landlord) himself.

Choose from: Beef, Lamb, Pork, Broccoli, Carrots, Peas, Gravy, Cheesy Cauliflower, Crackling,

£9.00

Every dish is prepared and cooked in-house, using the best and freshest locally sourced ingredients. For our latest menus & offers, join our mailing list below.

It works on a first come first served basis, so be quick. Some advise: fast in the week leading to the day, due to Giovanni’s somewhat generous portions…

The Louie offers a select range of freshly made paninis every lunch time

You may wish to know who and what you might be listening to.
At 23 amelia is already a confident writer, producer, and performer of her own songs.
the songs come influenced by a motley mix of early listening including pink floyd, radiohead, kate bush and the beach boys. With a love of the processes and techniques involved in recording and production, amelia has been doing  this herself for years and most of the recordings you will hear were done entirely at home.
now privileged to be accompanied onstage and occasionally in recordings  by “the backing band to dream of”, including Dave Burbidge on drums, Sam ?Stockley on Keyboards, Joe Allen on bass and Calvin talbot on guitar, she can now accompany her vocal meanderings with more literal meanderings about the stage between piano and guitar.

http://www.ameliatucker.com

PLAYING THURS 11th MARCH 2010

Hailing from England’s rural South West, Thought Forms were brought together mid-2004 amongst the ley-lines and ancient vibrations by a shared love of guitar abuse and pedal worship.

http://lavathief.blogspot.com/