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Thomas Tantrum & Lucky Soul Live at Do You DIY? Pt2!
Tuesday, 08 June 2010
Last week saw the successful return of Do You DIY? Which not only boasted a strong Line up including the likes of, Thomas Tantrum, Matthew & The Atlas & Them+Youth, but also had involvement from some of the most respected labels, club nights and blogs around!
Thomas Tantrum showing their support for all things DIY swapping the familiar surroundings of their recent support tour with Band Of Skulls, for the intimate surroundings of The Victorian Living Room.
The band threw themselves into a set showcasing new material from their forthcoming album, with more confidence than ever.
Mixed into the set were also some favourites, including the hit ‘Shake it, Shake it’. As stunning vocalist Megan Thomas and guitarist David Miatt took turns sharing the lines ‘I wanna talk’, Jimmy Shivers owned the stage gripping his bass as an iconic grunge figure. Looking well at home, Dave Wade Brown looked lost in concentration as he pounded the drums.
All Thomas Tantrums photos taken by, Ali Marchant
Also to appear at Do You DIY? in the downstairs setting of The Fireplace were the wonderful and smartly dressed as ever, Lucky Soul.
Lucky Soul photos by, Justin NG
Bloody Awful Poetry / Loveless / Club.The.Mammoth / Scared To Dance / The Barbequties / For Folks Sake & No One Died – All at Do You DIY? Today!
Monday, 31 May 2010
Make sure you get down to Do You DIY today!
With live acts not to be missed and involvement from the most ethical labels and London club nights, this is a day not to be missed.
By infiltrating the confines of the UK’s finest venues, Bloody Awful Poetry armed with some of the greatest new music on the planet, they have set about adding to the benefits of baths, straight roads, villas and drainage systems that the people of sub-Roman Britain are already experiencing.
Blending acoustic tinkerings, melodic meanderings, convivial merrymaking and upbeat, doo-wop, retro pop-rocking all in the name of enchanting your aural spuds and stunning your optical orbs – Bloody Awful Poetry are in dire need of a stiff drink. Will you join them for a tipple?
COME! LET US PLY OURSELVES WITH ENOUGH ALCOHOL TO SINK A SMALL OLIVER REED.
One of the hottest newest underground club nights to hit the east end of London, LOVELESS will gives you a romanticised vision from the depths of the city at night, through the eyes of its subculture. LOVELESS will give you a soundtrack dating back from the alluring glamour of the 80’s, right through to this very modern day, picking out originality and style.
CLUB.THE.MAMMOTH. are ED and DAN, music promoters that put on bands, are in bands and love NEW music. Running regular nights (sometimes with friends) at the likes of The Stag’s Head, The Hobby Horse, The Macbeth and Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen, put simply, they choose the best cutting edge bands and Djs that they believe should be heard, to play their nights! They also Dj, blog and put together the odd podcast…
Scared To Dance is a monthly club night in London playing indie pop, post-punk, C86, jangle pop, Sarah, Postcard, new wave and protopunk. It currently takes place on every last Saturday of the month at King’s Cross Social Club. It is really one to check out!
The Barbequties have a residency at The Boogaloo and have also played at other venues across London, including: The Met Bar, The Light Bar, Proud Camden, 100 Club, The Monarch – Camden, The Fly – New Oxford Street, St. Moritz – Soho, The Social – Soho, The Bathhouse – nr Liverpool Street, Prince Of Wales – Camden, Tabernacle/McQueen – nr Old Street, Viva Viva – Hornsey, The Gaff – Holloway, The Regent – Kensal Green, Iguana Bar – Manchester, and of course The Boogaloo!
For Folk’s Sake is an 18-month-old music website based in London but covering the world. They started writing about the emerging new folk scene (Peggy Sue, Laura Marling, Johnny Flynn et al) but have gradually expanded to covering anything we think the discerning non-traditional folk/roots/acoustic fan might like.
No One Died is a night like no other, so unlike all others is it, in fact, that it would almost be illegal to call it a club at all, it’s more like a party for your toes; a thumb wrestle with your dreams, a dance on fruitcake statue of liberty, in marzipan ballet shoes.
Don’t forget to check out their blog!
Do You DIY? brings you – Chess Club / Sub Pop / God Don’t Like It / Oh Inverted World / Brainlove Records
Saturday, 29 May 2010
Do you DIY? is not only bringing you some of the most ethical artists within the DIY scene, it is also presenting to you the most exciting and respectable labels who have help shape this scene and make it possible for these talents to be seen by all.
Hit the facebook group for more info!
Chess Club Records are the very respectable West London based label. Chess Club really have their fingers on the pulse, having launched the careers of some of the hottest acts around of present times, to name a few, Mumford and Sons, White Lies, Peggy Sue, Lyrebirds, Peggy Sue, and so many more, with a roster like this, they have had gigs to match. This label really know what they’re doing.
Sub Pop was the grunge label, right?” That’s right-the original home to Nirvana, Soundgarden and Mudhoney, incredible bands. And 15 years after the rest of America draped itself in fashionable, grungy flannels (and then promptly took them to the thrift stores where they always belonged), Sub Pop is again one of the top music companies in the land, with artists racking up Saturday Night Live appearances and Grammy nominations.
In fact, while much of the music industry has been desperately trying to put the brakes on declining sales, Sup Pop has been giving away music by top-sellers and working with unorthodox business models.
God Don’t like it are London promoters, press agent, DJ & label for all things underground, experimental and interesting around London since 2008. Covering all genre’s from folk to psych to kraut to garage punk. Gcod Don’t like it really have their fingers on the pulse, tapping into to thde underground music scene, they re-main cutting edge.
With a rosta of some of the most respected DIY acts, you should really check out their website!
So what does, Oh Inverted World mean? Well, dear reader, it is a club night in London that likes their music a little bit alt, a little bit folk, a little bit rock, a little bit indie, a little bit psych and a little bit awesome.
Over the past years they’ve had the likes of Filthy Dukes, Luke Pritchard (The Kooks), Paloma Faith, Eugene McGuinness, Kyte, Stricken City, Goldheart Assembly, Josh Weller, exlovers, Derek Meins, My Tiger My Timing, Anna Calvi, My Sad Captains, La Shark, Little Death and many, many more. There’s been cakes, there’s been police, there’s been laughter, there’s been far too much wine, but mostly there’s been amazing amazing music.
Brainlove Records putting out music by exciting new bands and artists from the UK and beyond. The label also aims to be an umbrella organisation and community for the creators and listeners of genre-bending, left-of-centre music. We do regular gig nights iln London and all over England with a rolling cast of magnificent bands.
Record Drop / Track In The Box / Green House Group – All at Do You DIY?
Saturday, 29 May 2010
Do You DIY? is not only offering a huge line up of live acts to match the ethos of DIY culture, but it is also offering stalls and involvement from those who keep the scene alive and real.
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Record Drop is an online record shop where each physical sale comes with the free mp3s available for you to download, so you not only get music you can feel but music you can listen to right now. At the Record Drop stand you can buy any of our vinyls and plug your ipod/phone/mp3 player into a laptop to get the digital music immediately, and we’ll e-mail you a link to download them at home just in case.
Track In The Box is a free daily music newsletter that helps you cut through the multitude of music blogs and aggregators out there, to help you discover (and sometimes rediscover) great bands. Track In The Box will give you a track in your box every day (your inbox that is).
Green House Group is a collective of artists, designers, developers and marketers helping music grow. In addition to working with clients such as Chess Club Records, Idea Generation, The Secret Garden Party, The River Rat Pack and The Flowerpot, Green House develops in-house products such as daily music newsletter, Track In The Box and physical and digital music shop, Record Drop.
find out more on the facebook event for Do You DIY?
Voga Parochia and their very own Boy Mandeville welcomed to Do You DIY?
Thursday, 27 May 2010
Voga Parochia is the hot new label set up by the eARmusic boys and Kind Canyon records set up to release the snazziest twee/electro-folk they can get their carbon-fibre oven gloves on.
Having already had releases from Lulu and the Lampshade, Victoria and Jacob with a Boy Mandeville release set for June 7th, Voga Parochia is a real mixed bag consisting of folk, electro and indie.
One thing all the bands have in common is a home-made aesthetic and DIY attitude that ties them together irrespective of musical style.
Dont forget to check out the facebook event for Do You DIY?
Boy Mandeville
This north London quartet makes visceral up-beat guitar music that has been road tested on the gig circuit around London and Cambridge for the last 9 months. After originally meeting in Cambridge, the four settled in Haringey, North London to work as a band, self-releasing a free three-track demo, ‘Wintry Pea’ on Christmas Day. With an upcoming single release with London independent label, Kind Canyon Records, the band look to expand their idiosyncratic alt.pop sensibility in 2010.
Playing parties, warehouses, and their own kitchen for friends, the band advocates a DIY attitude towards music. Jack Gordon-Brown (vox.guitar), Mike Coxhead (vox.guitar), Brian Cantwell (bass.b/vox) and Jono Cary (drums.b/vox) may have disparate influences, but believe in live music as a key to developing song ideas and structure. Think Graceland-era Paul Simon, Talking Heads and the Kinks holding a fund raiser for Johnny Cash in a small and densely crowded house party.
Having worked closely with London promoters Ear Music, Voga Parochia and Madhouse, the Boy Mandeville look set to continue gigging and developing their recording craft with a future EP release in the next few months.
Peter Lyons & Tape Club Records for Do You DIY?
Wednesday, 26 May 2010
Peter Lyons is one of those mischievous, slightly shy, mix-everything-up-and-it’s-great kind of multi-instrumentalist / Ysongwriter / producer types who can pick up an etch-a-sketch, or a disposable camera, or a household appliance, and turn it into a song. Never failing to impress, make sure you catch Peter Lyons at Do You DIY? for what promises to be as ever an inspirational set.
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Check out this ace live performance from Peter Lyons!
Tape Club Records is a record label in the UK, not too far from that little place London. theyr elease music on cassette tapes. They also make records. And a few CDs. All of their artists are friends, they do this because they like it. The doodley bits that you see on all of the Tape Club teeshirts, records and posters are done in-house by the super-dooper art squad. Most things done are limited, a lot of the tapes have sold out, and the tee shirts go mega fast. But the more you buy, the more they’ll supply, simple as that.
Real Fur & Stummerville show their support for underground music at Do You DIY!
Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Don’t miss this show! check out the Facebook here!
Real Fur, Brand new, and already burning there way through the musical consciousness as the blaze their way out of London’s underground to the lofty heights at which they rightly deserve to perch.
Stunning musicianship in the veins and arteries of Maccabees and Larrikin Love with nods to hearts and souls of The Clash and Talking Heads as it passes through the body of the perfection.
Be one of the early ones to delight in their majesty before the rest of the UK finds them. Don’t miss their suitably summery set at Do You DIY? But if you can’t wait till then, check out their mysterious Myspace to listen to their sweet DIY sounds!
Strummerville is a registered charity that aims to create new opportunities for aspiring musicians.
Set up by the friends and family of Joe Strummer in the year after his death, the charity seeks to reflect Joe’s unique contribution to the music world by offering support, resources and performance opportunities to artists who would not normally have access to them.
Strummerville help people make music and have helped put over 40 bands into recording studios around the country so far this year. If you’re a musician, check out their website.. They may be able to help!
Strummerville will be touring the festivals this year with a campfire, providing warmth, music, conversation and good vibes.
Luke Leighfield to bring his collection of homemade Hits & Got Got Need Records to Do You DIY?
Tuesday, 25 May 2010
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Over the past three years Luke Leighfield has released three albums on his own label Got Got Need Records, played 550 gigs in twelve countries, entered the top five of the UK indie singles chart with his debut single If You Haven’t Got Anything to Say and won plaudits from BBC Radio 1, BBC 6 Music, Xfm and Prince Charles, amongst others.Testament to his DIY ethos, Luke avoided stale session musicians, instead choosing friends to play everything on the album.
MP3 DOWNLOADS//:
Luke Leighfield – 60,000 Miles
Luke Leighfield – Have You Got a Heart
Watch this brilliant video from the talented Luke Leighfield!
Got Got Need Records is a record label, and while always remaining ethical, they support artists who work hard, play hard, and write good songs, regardless of genre. This label is made up of the right people who believe in music, and work their hardest and not only do they have their own shop online with quirky merchandise they were Huw Stephens’ DIY label of the week on Radio 1 back in 28/02/08 and have even hosted a stage The Great Escape Festival.
Got Got Need Records are an important label for indie music!
