Fri 27 Feb 19:30pm
Des Was a Bowie Fan is back at Paper Dress with a triumvirate of guests touching the live-wires of jangle-pop, garage punk, dreampop, shoegaze, surf and riot grrrl to help kick up the shit.
The Death of Pop have a swirling, atmospheric and summer-sweet sound with lyrical touches that play on your heartstrings. With dead-eyed accuracy the band themselves call it “Janglegaze”, an unrivalled superhero of a genre that flies with Trad Rock in a headlock, dancing in the spaces between My Bloody Valentine and Teenage Fanclub, soaring Pop songs and moments rising from the haze.
Majorettes have an EP called ‘Denim Jacket Girl in a Leather Jacket World’. With this in mind it should be enough of a description if we say that they’re as good as such a title suggests, playing a feral style of melodic riot-pop that’ll set the shop alight.
Joya meanwhile have a delicate, endearing sound that bubbles, roars, buzzes and twists like The Breeders and Weezer with the broad, playful pop sensibility of The Beatles.
Then at 10.30 Kerouac’s bandanna unfurls on the lampshade with the touch of a Crystals chorus, dimming the lights for the ghosts of swing jazz, jive, rock’n’roll, Motown, garage punk and Northern Soul to join the most shimmering, fuck-off indiepop, new wave, post-punk and klezmer till the milkman comes in the farmer’s wellies.
All flaming limbs at the front line x
Free before 10 £3 after
❤ Expect to hear: King Oliver and His Creole Jazz Band * Pulp * Buddy Holly
* Veronica Falls * Ruth Brown * Bridgett Bardot * The Ramones * Helen Love
* Blondie * The Supremes * Le Tigre * Flock of Seagulls * Bowie * Martha *
Martha and the Vandellas * Little Richard * The Smiths * The Pastels * The Cure
* Shrag * Sleater Kinney * Half Man Half Biscuit *Johnny Cash * Talking Heads
* Joy Division * The Sonics * The Fall * Django Rienhardt * Beirut * Belle
and Sebastian * Buster Bailey * Of Montreal * The Shangri-Las * Hefner * The
Beach Boys * The Ronettes * Tullycraft * Alpaca Sports * Art Brut * New York
Dolls * Chick Webb * Arcade Fire * Paul Simon * Patrick Wolf * The Spook
School * The Go-Betweens * Los Campesinos! * New Order * Jens Lekman
* Jonathan Richman * Depeche Mode * Siouxie and the Banshees * Ballboy
* Bratmobile * Felt * Comet Gain * Pixies * Camera Obscura * Springsteen *
The Just Joans * Rolling Stones * Pavement * Nick Cave * Kim Weston * The
Indelicates * Dexys Midnight Runners * Pet Shop Boys * Flowers * T.O.Y.S *
The Del-Vikings * Dion and the Belmonts * Monochrome Set * Sonic Youth
* Neutral Milk Hotel * Tigercats * Tcha Limberger ad His Budapest Gypsy
Orchestra * The Turbans * Tyrannosaurus Dead ❤
This is a queer-friendly night.
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“A dancing beatpop frenzy orchestrated by some beautiful cats full of the possibilities and poetry of Pop music. (…) Smartly distorted, dancing guitars and heartfelt lines that resemble The Cure, The Smiths and Teenage Fanclub rise from a My Bloody Valentine-esque dream haze” (Dai Goth)
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Majorettes are a 4-piece band from London, an American-French-Cockney- Mexican-Italian mix completely DIY grrl riot, neo-punk, neo-pop and neo-noise and completely fun. Think Le Tigre meets The Stooges, an exciting mixture of high energy and sweet pop catchy tunes, driven by sweet melodies and vocals.
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“Melodic and tight knuckles-down garage pop” (Burn the Jukebox)