SHRAG + JOANNE JOANNE

Event information

Guided Missile presents ...

SHRAG
www.shrag.co.uk
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Shrag/19167559456
Shrag are as a wise man writes: "I know you all have good taste and like a cute band as much as the rest of us. So it's time to let you in on a secret that just won't stay quiet for any longer. There's a beat combo from Brighton who number five that I've been watching for a while now and are set to storm the world faster than global warming. They go by the name of Shrag and have left hip underground publications like Artrocker and the New Musical Express chasing shadows and sniffing in vain after their scented backsides. Featuring the most enigmatic chanteuse in pop since Nico, Cambridge-dodger Helen turned her back on toffs and academia to sings songs about teenage pregnancy and unsuitable cunnilinguists. With Russell 'the' Warrior on bass, Leigh Anne 'sticks' Walter on drums, Bob 'badder than Mr Whitney Houston' Brown on guitar, their musical line-up was completed when they snatched Steph 'too Good for the Pipettes' Goodman away from the legendary Blue Minkies to play one-note keyboard. Each are masters of their craft and fear no-one in their ability to out drink any other musician who ever dared set foot on a stage – even Mark E Smith who they baited in a surreal dream sequence on their first single. Having fought off a major label bidding war, pop mogul giant John Jervis has been keeping them real on his highly esteemed Where Its At Is Where You Are label and releasing real 7 inch singles like the Shadows, Pavement and Prolapse used to make."


JOANNE JOANNE
https://www.facebook.com/groups/233613660091723/
All girl Duran Duran tribute band. We put them on in August and it was so bleedin good we asked them back again.

STRANGEDAYS
https://www.facebook.com/strangedaysofficial
Formed in 2011, Strangedays is an epic pop group with a metallic sheen, a thuggish stomp, and danceable tunes. Ross Liddle, Robert Hardy and Julia Justice, who initially met whilst running London clubnight The Vapour Trail, came together after their previous bands burned out and faded away. Bonded by a disdain for diffident, introverted bands and sounds, and a desire to create something more grand, loud and pop, they recorded debut single 'Oh You're So Observant/Temporary Is A Turgid Word' with John Linger, who was soon to join on the drums. The A-side nearly achieves Liddle's wet dream of Sonic Youth meeting Pulp in the middle, while applying a sugary melody reminiscent of The Cure and an anthemic hook that brings the Manics to mind. The B-side rides on a Madchester beat with a grungey bass crunch, whilst the psychedelic alt rock-styled guitar lines bring to mind Graham Coxon and Billy Corgan, amongst others. Their live shows are an energetic reaction to the studied self-consciousness employed by great swathes of bands of the moment. If pop really has eaten itself, as they sing in 'Pop Has Eaten Itself', then theirs is the soundtrack to its funeral.

TEMPLE SET
https://www.facebook.com/templesetmusic
London based psychedelic "dream-gaze" band, specialising in haunting melodies and shimmering guitars.

Admission £6


followed by THE GUIDED MISSILE CLUB til 4am

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