This band have that rare knack of making a song sound genuinely dangerous and unstable: Mirror Mirror has the (melo)dramatic urgency of a car speeding through driving rain towards a cliff. The Violets mix tunes with energy, lace them with a ragged grandeur and spit them at the listener with a hungry desperation. They’re driven, compulsive and full of angry fatalism… and you should check them out. Because they’re exciting, because they’re different, because they might just thrill you. Or at least make you shiver.
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The Violets - Mirror Mirror
Re: The Violets - Mirror Mirror
The Violets - Mirror Mirror
AN ANGULAR DISCO ! : 15 - 04 - 05
...and single launch party for The Violets !
A night of PUNK ! : Old / New / Post / Art / Sex / Delicate with:
THE VIOLETS !
...and special guests-
sax fuelled art punks - TWISTED CHARM !
Deptford's favourite guitar slingers - THE PHOBICS !
+ DJs Throw Another T.V. In The Thames
Venue>Basement,
2 Clifton Rise,
New Cross.
15/04/05
£3 9-2ish
Re: The Violets - Mirror Mirror
The Violets - Mirror Mirror
DIRTY HEARTS CLUB featuring live music from...
THE VIOLETS
THESE NEW PURITANS
Entrance £4, with a pre-club upstairs bar (free entry) playing the Flaming Lips 'Zaireeka!' album.
With DJs RichardO, Chunk D and Anthony Vicious.
More details at www.dirtyhearts.co.uk or email us at info@dirtyhearts.co.uk
Dirty Hearts Club
The Royal Hotel
1 High Street
Southend-on-Sea
Essex