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Misty's Big Adventure @ Purple Turtle, Camden
GIG DATE: Wednesday 28th September 2005
TICKETS: £6 on the door
DOORS: 7.30pm

During a time when every new band looks to show how hip, now and neccessary they are- while simultaneously showing their influences with every note they play and therefore how dated and disposable they are, Misty's Big Adventure are a welcome change.

A band that comes ready to entertain they leave their fans and passing strays with an audible and visual grin. Their rhetoric is not throw-away humour or a pastiche of their peers, instead it has content. Content that has seen their current single 'Hey Man!' banned by Radio 1 (admittedly after it had recieved airplay on 6music) due to the lyrical content of b-side 'E.V.I.L'. Misty's track 'E.V.I.L.' is Grandmaster Gareths attack on New Labour and was released for free download on the same day the lemmings took to the poll booths.

MBA are a band that entertain on more than a style level, a band i dare you to see and not leave grinning like a LSD spiked Granny at a Rod Stewart stadium show.

Come to experience, leave entertained.

Second Sun last played for Glasswerk on the final night of Outbreak back in February alongside The Arctic Monkeys. An incredibly accomplished band, already with an album out, this indie band from Medway will provide a fascinating main support set.

Hypo-Psycho will sit well with Misty's fans, for they are on of the most fun bands you could have on a bill. Embracing those pop-punk ethics that have served so many commercial acts so well in rcent years, this lot have real talent and charisma to boot. Bowling for Soup is an immediate influence, see which other ones you can pick up on.

The Composers have been together just over a year and have played in The Barfly, The Dublin Castle, The Pleasure Unit and numerous other London haunts. They have played live on Resonance FM and now have four songs on Pulse unsigned. They have influences from Pavement, Pulp, The Beach Boys, The Beta Band, Pixies, Beatles, Vincent Gallo.

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