The Victoria - 6th February: Kidnapper Bell, Black Heart Generator, Falling & Laughing, Cast & Crew
Falling & Laughing Present… a free gig! It’s a free gig! And we’ve lined up four ace bands for you
There’s a Facebook event here. Write up below…
Kidnapper Bell are an Anglo-American band in Birmingham, they touch upon musical stepping stones such as emo - when it was a genuinely good and not-at-all over-marketed genre. They bring other influences to the party too - such as room filling shoegaze guitars and interesting song structures and dynamics more typical of post-rock bands such as Mono (ooh, who have a song called Kidnapper Bell - coincidence?)
http://www.myspace.com/kidnapperbell
Black Heart Generator are one of the main proponents of the pre-post-new-Birmingham-rabble-core genre. Alright, so there’s no such genre, but imagine if there was and you’d be close to Black Heart Generator’s sound. Combining shouting with Dinosaur Jr influences and ace drumming and rhythms. They put on a cracking live show, you’ve never really experienced them until you’ve seen Greg stood on a stool strumming a guitar into someone.
http://www.myspace.com/blackheartgenerator
Falling & Laughing are us and it’s always hard to write about yourself (other people have here - http://is.gd/60zNI). I’d like to say we’re halfway between indiepop and post-rock but, um, I suppose it’s your call on whether we’ve achieved that.
http://www.myspace.com/duncsfallingandlaughing
Magnetic Four were a fantastic Birmingham band who sadly split up a few years ago, and we held on, hoping that they’d find a new drummer or carry on as a band somehow, but sadly it never happened (though there are free M4 downloads here - http://is.gd/60ApN). However, when bands split up the excitement of new bands and solo projects follow and Cast and Crew are one such solo project by singer and bassist Nick - who composes songs in a similar Hefner inspired, slash, good emo (there’s that phrase again) vein.
http://www.myspace.com/allweneediscastandcrew
It’s all free entry and is at The Victoria - http://www.thevictoriabirmingham.co.uk/
(some of the keys on my keyboard have given up the ghost while typing this. I blame overplaying Realm Of The Mad God)
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