Browsing Archive: January, 2012

Ajimal + Bridie Jackson & The Arbour + Winter Hill Transmission at The Head of Steam - 19.4.12

Posted by the-outsider on Wednesday, January 18, 2012, In : Past Gigs 
AJIMAL

Ajimal is the dynamic-in-ear-collaborative-experiment of Fran O'Hanlon, writing about the way that music and medicine and art and ideas and science and stories and hallucinations combine and interplay.

The name comes from a surreal experience, hearing a preacher 
in Haiti who used to be the personal voodoo priest to Papa Doc Duvalier during his dictatorshiphttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Duvalier
Ajimal was his voodoo name. 

The idea is to invite people we enjoy to come and perfo...

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Modern Faces + The Mexanines + Alistair Sheerin at The Cluny 2 - 14.4.12

Posted by the-outsider on Wednesday, January 18, 2012, In : Past Gigs 

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Spring Offensive + The Prison Library at The Head of Steam - 3.4.12

Posted by the-outsider on Wednesday, January 18, 2012, In : Past Gigs 
SPRING OFFENSIVE

Oxford 5-piece Spring Offensive are a relentlessly inventive guitar band complete with rich harmonies, pounding rhythms and dark lyrics. With a live show charged with energy, their influences include Death Cab for Cutie, The National and Wild Beasts. Hav
ing received support from BBC Introducing across Radio 1 and 6 Music, and recently headlining a show at O2 Academy Oxford, played at Truck and Underage Festival, they recently completed their first tour of Europe.

http://www.spr...

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Post War Glamour Girls + Rexine + Reckoner at The Head of Steam - 23.3.12

Posted by the-outsider on Wednesday, January 18, 2012, In : Past Gigs 
POST WAR GLAMOUR GIRLS

We'll let the music speak for itself

http://soundcloud.com/post-war-glamour-girls

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Post-War-Glamour-Girls/104775019554843


REXINE

Rexine formed after being stuck in a lift together at an upholstery factory. If you listen closely you can hear the onset of panic and claustrophobia.

"...Paper doll popsters, 3 girls and one sassy boy,...ooze with the energy of post-punk girl mayhem, and an underlying grungy aesthetic..."

http://soundcloud.com/rexine
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So Many Wizards + Brilliant Mind + The Union Choir (acoustic) at The Head of Steam - 8.3.12

Posted by the-outsider on Wednesday, January 18, 2012, In : Past Gigs 
SO MANY WIZARDS

http://www.somanywizards.com/

So Many Wizards earned airplay on BBC Radio 1 with the 2011 single 
“Inner City” 

The band is currently completing its debut LP, provisionally entitled 'Hot N' Ready' while rehearsing for shows around Britain, an appearance at SxSW and an April residency at the Echo in Los Angeles.


BRILLIANT MIND

http://brilliantmind.tumblr.com/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Brilliant-Mind/181344720706

"Anything but Noisy Popsters" Paul Brown of Tiny Lights (their lab...

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