hey,
we're playing this show for Fortuna pop! on Friday and it's Shrag's first show of the year and first London show for ages, and there's Standard Fare playing too who are obviously the greatest AND Girls Names who absolutely ruled at Popfest SO we're really looking forward to it and it'd be lovely to see lots of you there.
helen <3
Fortuna POP! presents
SHRAG + STANDARD FARE + GIRLS NAMES
Plus White Light DJs until late
Friday 4th March, Doors 8pm
The Lexington 96-98 Pentonville Road, London N1 9JB
Nearest tubes : King's Cross / Angel
Tel : 020 7837 5387
Web:
www.thelexington.co.uk
Advance: £6.50 from We Got Tickets / £8 Door
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/109324
SHRAG
An exhilarating blend of dirty, distorted post-punk guitars, shouty riot grrl-style vox and fantastic pop songs, alongside nods to everyone from Le Tigre to Penetration. Their debut album garnered comparisons to Love is All, Gang of Four, B-52s, The Long Blondes and led to a UK tour supporting The Cribs, appearances at both London Popfest and Indietracks festivals, and a session for Marc Riley on BBC 6music. Their second album Life! Death! Prizes! was released on WIAWYIA Records in October and was named Album Of The Month by Artrocker.
"A spectacularly bitter indie girls-set-on-stun dual vocal attack, in what is one of the better bands to juxtapose schmindie twee and angered literary abstraction since 1990s unsung legends Prolapse." (The Guardian)
http://www.myspace.com/shrag
STANDARD FARE
Standard Fare is a three-piece indie pop/rock band from Sheffield in the U.K. Comprised of bassist/vocalist Emma Kupa, guitarist/vocalist Danny How, and drummer Andy Beswick, the group drew inspiration from both classic C-86 groups and U.K. guitar rock heroes like Orange Juice, as well as American indie rock bands of the '90s. The group released their first single, "Dancing," on Thee Sheffield Phonographic Corporation in 2009, then recorded the songs for “The Noyelle Beat” album in six days and released the album in 2010.
"A riot of hormones, cut-to-the-chase lyrics, bolshie girl-boy vocals and jingle-jangle propusion...The best and most loveable aspects of indie guitar music." (The Sunday Times)
http://www.standardfare.co.uk
GIRLS NAMES
Belfast's Girls Names formed to support Wavves, and have released records on Brooklyn's Captured Tracks and San Francisco's Slumberland records, which should tell you all you need to know about their brand of Felt worshipping, reverb drenched, primal drumming indie (in the 80's sense) POP!
“Mixes energetic buzzsaw pop with a more plaintive semi-acoustic stroll down Edwyn Collins and Robert Forster's backyard, Beat Happening's Black Candy playing merrily in the distance.” (Drowned In Sound)
http://www.myspace.com/girlsnames
http://gogogirlsnames.blogspot.com/
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