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DiS FREE Marquee Xmas bash! This Monday

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by Gareth Dobson
Artists: Host, C-Jags, TEAM
Merry Christmas readers. We’re having a celebratory gig/party thing this MONDAY and we really want you to come along and dance, chat and listen.

As stated some months ago, we wanna make access to new music as easy to all as possible. And after the success of our Free Entry 4th Birthday Party, the good folks at Plum Promotions are now having us back once a month, as part of their series of Free Monday Night Breakthrough gigs. What this means is that you can come see the same level of great new bands on their way to big things, ages before anyone else, and some of the most interesting creative gunslingers, some signed to great indie labels, some unsigned, all for absolutely nothing, once a month...

Our Christmas bash at the Barfly last year featured the likes of bloc party and Youth Movie Soundtrack Strategies, and we're confident of repeating trick in terms of quality at least...

Drowned in Sound presents…
…in association with Plum Promotions
…in aid of Oxfam' Make Trade Fair Campaign.

Monday 20th December 2004
@ The Marquee
1, Leicester Square, London
Nearest Tube: Leicester Square
Doors: 7.30pm – arrive early to avoid disappointment

Guest
To be announced Friday...

TEAM
Who are TEAM? TEAM f@cking ROCK. Signed to versatile and forward looking label heroes Captains of Industry, TEAM offer glimpses of post-rock, punk rock and prog-rock…but this is far too difficult, too complex and heart-felt to categorise with words alone. Reviews have compared them to the likes of Queens Of The Stoneage, Fugazi, Mogwai, Nirvana and Lift to Experience. We said: ‘the ‘Penalyn’ lp’ is special… and ‘Myopia’ is possibly the greatest rock song to have been detuned this year…’
Sample Track: ’Myopia’
www.teamtm.co.uk

HOST
Host get off at the stop between early Adam and the Ants and XTC. Sweet melodies undulate on waves of quirky riffs and infectious, rhythmic bass lines. Shouts and screams are tempered by strange synths, while the lead singing duties are divided between guitarist and Billy Corgan look-a-like bassist. Drums scatter machine-gun beats at the three-part harmonies. Their excellent ‘Minimum Listening Guarantee’’ LP was released earlier this year . We said: " This band belong in a very short list of completely original and inspiring English bands. The overall feel is one of frantic joy, like a hyperactive child with chronic ADD who forgot to take his Ritalin and has just eaten 50 red Skittles."
music: 'coming soon, check here'
Host online

C-JAGS
Unsigned for not much longer, C-Jags have been tearing up a storm through London in the past 12 months, mainly to run away from the A&R men chasing them like wild-eyed dogs following a t-bone. Excellent jerky power pop as declared by that there Time Out, and you know what? They’re right.
Sample Tracks: Tambourine Song
http://www.c-jags.com

Plus: really cheap drink promotions! DJs! Records of the year being played! CD Giveaways! Come meet your least favourite DiS members and spank them!

Entry: FREE to members (get free membership here) / £5
Or email any of those mentioned bands to be put on their guestlist, OR grab a flyer from one of the bands at one of their gigs.. It’s easy, and there’s no reason not to get in for gratis.

CLICK HERE for your free entry flyer. Requires Adobe, which is free from Adobe.com

DiScuss See you down the front? What do you think of these bands? Who do you suggest should play our next night?



DiS FREE Marquee Xmas bash! This Monday

Hurrah - told you doubters I wasn't makin it up!

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Is it me or does that link thing to get membership not work? Does my computer suck? Do I suck? Do you suck? What sucks here?

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IT sucks.... got to the c-jags website and print out a flyer...

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Consider me one flyer-printing young thing. See you all there!

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That's weird. I'm just changing it now.
We'll also have a flyer up on DiS in the next hour or so!

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You know you're gonna let me play.
You know you are.
Oh, you know alright...

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you'll have to fight The $hit for it!
the link thing to join does work, it just doesn't tell you it works.
I got an email from a lady saying I joined twice etc

DiS FREE Marquee Xmas bash! This Monday

hi DiS

TEAM are very excited to be playing on monday, we havent played london in a while, so it'll be a perfect way to start the xmas festivities off....

hope to see you down the front

cheers


DiS FREE Marquee Xmas bash! This Monday

Damn. I want to play this gig. Can I? Can I please, Mr Drownedinsound?

DiS FREE Marquee Xmas bash! This Monday

Should be good methinks. See you all there!

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I reckon everyone who's going should put face on shots on their profiles (that includes you Brainlove with your arial shot) so I can recognise them. I've already mistakenly accosted a Bamos lookey likey while at a gig.. don't want to do that on Monday....

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I, apparently, look like some dude from Reuben.
*shivvvvvvver*
So, um, that's me.
Dumb long hair and a fat tubby belly.

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I still look the same except I'm clean shaven and skinny as a rake now.

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I reckon I could recognise you Raanraals, Mr Diver, I'm expecting a mikey Kowalski (or whatever he's called) lookalike - you've gotta be short round and green.

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wouldnae say so (reuben ting. your hair maybe long and you may well be fat)

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ok there's a picture of me watching simpsons there now.
is that enough to recognize me by?
but of course i'll be in a mask & top hat so you'll spot me no problem...

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And a ludicrous penchant for playing They Might Be Giants. Quite possibly...

I'll be there, so look out for ME.

BANG

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I will not be playing any TMBG, on the basis that I did not bring any.
Post any requests below...
...I'll ignore them, obviously.

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black eyes!
fugazi!
joy division!
minutemen!

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Girls Aloud!
Harry Connick Jr!
Steely Dan!
Hoddle & Waddle!

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LOVE SHACK - it's stuck in my head now and the only way to get rid of it is for you to play it tonight!

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I want an Alien for Xmas!
Some Sir Cliff!
The Faint!
And some songs with the word antichrist in the title!

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i played the first one of those at the alldayer.
i win.

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What about...
(looks through bag of records)
Q and not U
Mr Bungle
Blood Brothers
Non Prophets
Isis
DEP
Call Me Lighting
Hot Snakes
The Hunches
Vaux
dosh
DM & Jemini
65daysofstatic
Death from Above
Lightning Bolt
The Chalets
YYYs
90 Day Men
Old Man Gloom
YMSS
Mono
or 80s Matchbox?

There's more but I can't remember them all!

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So, no Hoddle & Waddle then?
Too much crap there Diver.
Not enough pop music.
Girls Aloud.
;)

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I played pop on Saturday.
You should have come then!
Pet Shop Boys and JT and all kinds of dance fun.

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and the coral you rogue...

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and man, what the hell is that
GO DOWN
TO THE WOODS TODAY
/
YOOOOOOOU SEEM SO PRECIOUS....
tune that you played?
its been bugging me. is it 80s matchbox w/ casey chaos? or some mike patton? or...?

also:
special guests?
who were they?
and was that the quietest album playback of all time?

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I asked 'em to turn it up!
Sonia played some records, too - think that might have been one of hers.
80s Matchbox, possibly.
Weren't TEAM ace!?

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No. They were bollocks. In a bad way.

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so why were you standing, like, five miles from the stage?
i dunno about TEAM. theyre a bit professional-seeming.
but theyve got the dynamics sorted. got quite stunningly loud, if just in quite predictable places.
i had a lot of love for host actually. fucking good bassplayin.

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You're right about the bass playing. Shit hot. Didn't think much of the songs, though.

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ha ha you ugly bastard

DiS FREE Marquee Xmas bash! This Monday

Who on earth is playing then?

paulie

DiS FREE Marquee Xmas bash! This Monday

alcxx that song you mentioned is by the eighties matchbox, it was a b-side on cd1 of the psychosis safari single and is called briefcases for girls,

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thanks
just reminded me how good it was. they should have done a whole album whith casey chaos. guy's vocals sound so much cooler when hes not putting on that elvis voice.