We’ve got some of the city’s best DJs, and they’re coming down to Sneaky’s in force for our budget new year’s.
2300 – This Is Music & Sick Note DJs plus DJ Blk Mgk
0100 – Playdate DJs
0200 – Nu-Fire DJs
0300 – Coalition (Ameldrum) vs Volume! (Paranoise)
0400 – Wasabi Disco (Kris Wasabi) vs Dapper Dan’s (Gavin Fort)
Tickets are available from www.wegottickets.com.
With their intricate, math-rock styling Trapped in Kansas are speedily growing in momentum. After releasing a split EP with Yahweh in August and supporting the likes of MIMAS and Tubelord, Trapped in Kansas are topped to be the best thing from Ayr since Robbie Burns. They appeal to fans of the kinsella sound (american football, cap’n jazz) and scottish indie fans (frightened rabbit, your neighbour the liar,etc).
Pensioner: Relentless, raw math-rock quartet hailing from Dundee. Providing a suitable musical backdrop to the grimness of pretty much everything. After releasing a single and EP in 2010 has been an extremly productive year for the band.
Carson Wells: Aberdeen based post-hardcore three piece with vocal delivery just the right side of shouting. With intricate guitar work and rumblingly solid rhythm section they savagely rip through songs with punchy aggression.
Edinburgh based band Aviation for Kids are our locals for the evening. Taking inspiration from the local music scene AFK are a band worth keeping your eye on…
First band on at 7.20.
£ tickets from www.wegottickets.com. £6 entry on the door.
Absolutely massive in their hometown of Cork, where they recently sold out the enormous Opera House, Fred are a five piece who take the anguish, angst and pain out of Rock’n’roll, opting instead to just be really good. Some journalists interpret this as ‘quirky’, but Fred’s achievements both live and in their recorded output far exceed any ‘quirky’ flash in the pan.
“….There’s no resisting this stuff unless you’re a tone-deaf, stone-hearted, know nothing… Judging on tonight’s showing, here are the most underrated band on these shores, and the real hope for 2007. Blissed out, loved-up and goddamn down and out funky, Fred we love you…” NME
“…If Fred was an individual, he’d be the life and soul of the party, the kind of guy who’d put fun in a funeral. As it transpires, Fred is five such individuals, bringing all manner of subversive mirth to the show. Fred are as gallant and gifted a band of warriors as has ever defended the spirit of rock’n’roll-your-own” Hot Press
Touring to support excellent second album “Scatterbrain”, recorded with Mike Sapone (Taking Back Sunday, Brand New), this Aberdeen via Brighton indie rock group.
“There’s a lot of experimentation on this album,” says Macleod, who credits Sapone for encouraging and cultivating the creative process. “He came up with crazy ideas, and watching him come out with them, I didn’t feel worried about throwing an idea into the hat. It was almost like Mike was the fourth member of the band – there’s parts that would never happened, had we not worked with Mike.”
Lead single, ‘Slackerpop’ is a prime example. The original demo was a mere ninety seconds long until Sapone insisted The Xcerts “find the middle eight”. What they found was an intense and unforgiving middle eight that makes the song.
“We’ll be more suited for a slightly heavier bill now,” Murray says, unsure of where exactly ‘Scatterbrain’ fits in the current musical landscape. “It’s really 90s influenced, but Mike’s made it a really forward thinking album, which is something we definitely needed.”
Murray sums up the record as “the sweet sound of a young man losing his mind”. It’s a bit bewildering, overwhelming and even a little unsettling, becoming more clear and clearly troubled with every listen.
“This is an album lover’s album for the fans of the band. It’s not about a particular track or single and should be listened too as an entire body of work with an open mind. We hope everyone falls in love with it like we have.”
Like The Fall meeting a pressure cooked These New Puritans, The Neat are the first signings to Kaiser Chief’s brand new Chewing Gum records.
