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)

The night organised by Ace Bushy Striptease is having it’s 3rd (2nd) outing, and the line up’s looking pretty ace, so I’m thinking we’re pretty lucky to cadge a slot at the bottom of it. Here’s the poster and some information from the facebook event below.

The 3rd edition of Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff will include performances from:

INTERNET FOREVER

Gushing fuzz pop hits with shouting and drums all the way from London. They’ve recently recorded a session for Radio 1 and they’re about to put out real life singles and there is a video they have made.
Comparison: Beat Happening and Hundreds, Tens and Units.

KIDNAPPER BELL

Real awesome pop punk from Birmingham. They have guitar all over the place and then these other parts of their songs which are really catchy and brill.
Comparison: Jimmy Eat World and something poppier and with more girl backing vocals than JEW.

MINOR COLES

Harmony-tastic post-emotional pop about girls and stuff like that. They’re from Oxford and quite new but brilliant despite that (lolz). The kind of band Laura Wolf would like listening to I feel.
Comparison: Brand New and Dogs In 1930’s Clothing.

FALLING & LAUGHING

Chordgazing (the gazing is the best part of what they do) band from Birmingham who take pop music to thoughtful rolling-down-hills places it hasn’t been before and post-rock to thoughtful upbeat-and-brief-enough-for-it-to-actually-be-enjoyable places.
Comparisons: Field Mice and something a bit heavier but still lovely.