High Society present, with a helping hand from Clique Clack, a splendid aural onslaught of an evening including uncompromising and relentless artists designed for you to shake and dance those New Year blues away....

1st February at The Rose of England (see map) Doors, 8.30pm. £3/£4 on the door

PAPIER TIGRE (Nantes, FR)
Papier Tigre are a dynamic three piece rock band from Nantes, France. No bass, just hard pounding drums and heart felt vocals lead the way as the two guitars create disjointed landscapes. The urgent but not lost feel reminds us of bands like Fugazi or Q and Not U, the loose tensions could recall June of 44, not to forget it’s powerful edge soundwise and lyricwise that somewhat resembles The Ex.

http://www.myspace.com/papiertigre

TIGERS! (Leeds: Chinchilla Records)
“TIGERS! aka Tigers! are 3000 funkadelic 4 fully grown men and 8 big hairy balls; 1 scientific academic wizard; 1 musician; 1 Dicko; 1 total dude; All adept robotic dancers; No bass player; No social skills” Need we say anymore! A “party band” too? Surely not. Tigers! haven't graced Nottingham for a long time and welcome back we say. As uncompromising as ever and with new material confirmed and an album (?) on the way, we're very excited it has to be said...

http://www.myspace.com/tigers3000
http://www.chinchillaweb.co.uk/tigers

And one more band TBC very soon...a very special one too at that

Mix-tape box (yes, that's right bring some mixtapes down please), records for sale, merchandise, and a raffle of sorts with prizes available...

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Feb 18th: (Venue TBC)
Vialka
From deepest France, via everywhere and nowehere, come Vialka, the devilishly high-spirited guitat/drums duo of Marylise Frecheville and Eric Boros. Their music skips joyfully across borders, channelling desert blues, Chinese folk songs, scatter rock and European gypsy song dynamics in a whirlwing of dervish energy. Their endless gypsy punk folk rock tales, hard hitting polyrhythms and yelps and howls make for a danceable and intoxicating brew. Like A Hawk and A Hacksaw or The Ex, their openness to new sounds and cultures makes you feel alive and shows that “world punk rock” need not be a dirty phrase.

Epideme (Jonson Family Records)

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March 7th: "The Ghostly Apples Tea Drinking Show" at Lee Rosy's Tea Shop
The Owl Service (TBC)
Phantom Dog Beneath the Moon
The Anvil (TBC)

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April 24th: (Venue TBC)
SKELETONS & THE KINGS OF ALL CITIES
Deviant Folk (New York/US/Ghosthly)
Brooklyn-based freakly folk (file under Tortoise, Thee More Shallow, Animal Collective or Xiu Xiu). As a co-founding member of Skinkoyo records, Ohio-bred/Brooklyn-based Matt Mehlan retains that label’s core ideals of collaboration, experimentation and unpredictability with his Skeletons project. Beginning in Oberlin, Ohio as a solo act with help from an eclectic cast of collaborators (classically-trained trombonists, punk rock drummers, a junkyard boy’s choir), Skeletons has now settled comfortably into its adult body, having established a full-time band (The Kings of All Cities), earning comparisons to acts as diverse as Can, Prince, Sonic Youth and Boys II Men.