BEAU AND THE ARROWS

Event information

DA DOO RON RON It's ALIVE 7# Presents:-
BEAU AND THE ARROWS + HONG KONG IN THE 60s + THE CURSORS
Saturday 4th Sept 2010
@ The Hope, 11 Queens Road Brighton BN1 3WA Tel:- 01273 325 793
8.30pm - Midnight
£5 in advance!
£6 / £5 concs on the door

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BEAU AND THE ARROWS (headliners)

http://www.myspace.com/beauandthearrowsofficial
http://www.facebook.com/beauandthearrows?ref=ts
http://www.youtube.com/arrowtv
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VaWP5WSlIw

Amazingly, in a 'minor' case of Beatle-style chart dominance BEAU AND THE ARROWS currently hold 4 of the Top 5 places in the prestigious NME 'New Music' chart!

BEAU AND THE ARROWS are a 4-piece London-based band founded by singer / songwriter Beau Carter (a Sid Vicious lookalike) back in November 2007. Originally a solo project, it wasn't until Beau met Jasmine Keti-Buah Foley in a college Photography class that the band really took formation. Inspired by the likes of Joy Division, Sigur Ros, The Young Marble Giants and Jeff Buckley, BEAU AND THE ARROWS create expansive urban noir soundscapes. Propelled by drummer Jaimin Allen's autobahn beats, Jasmine's dubby, subterranean bass (and occasional ukulele!) and soulful-yet-nonchalant vocals are offset by Beau's brooding baritone, swirling, spectral guitar and Layla Dudley's shadowy synth. (& sometime guitar).

The band already boast a clutch of eye-rotatingly brilliant songs, '0.7.9.3', 'Future Kicks' and 'Fix', to name but three 'future' classics.

Influential 6 Music DJ Steve Lamacq is a fan, spinning 'Fix' and conducting a live on-air interview with Beau and with the current success of the likes of The XX, BATA are primed to go stratospheric. Catch 'em now, before they explode.

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HONG KONG IN THE 60s

http://hongkonginthe60s.com/
http://www.myspace.com/hongkonginthe60s
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hong-Kong-In-The-60s/19865235616?ref=ts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwXLt11Ad3Q&feature=player_embedded

The brilliantly named HONG KONG IN THE 60s are Mei Yau Kan (vocals, keyboards, guitar), Christopher Greenberg (keyboards, vocals, guitar) and Tim Scullion (guitar, keyboards, vocals), a multilingual three-piece who formed in London in 2007.

They are influenced by early electronic pop, 1960s Chinese music and Italian film soundtracks. Using their collection of old Casio keyboards, the group combine bittersweet pop melodies and atmospheric electronics to create what Sean O’Hagan of The High Llamas describes as a “lovely, understated and quite beautiful sound”.

Between them, the three band members have lived in Hong Kong, Japan, Africa, Brazil, Spain and the UK. Tim and Mei Yau met at school in Berkshire and the band came together, years later, after Christopher and Mei Yau chanced upon each other while working as librarians at Oxford University.
Their music has been played on BBC Radio 1 & 6music [UK], Resonance FM [UK], WFMU [USA], Triple R [Aus], RTE[Ireland] and other radio stations throughout the world.

Hong Kong In The 60s released their debut EP Willow Pattern Songs on the Proper Songs label in Autumn 2009, available as a digital download and limited CD. It was followed by a single edit and Last Skeptik remix of EP opener Footsteps.

Towards the end of 2009 the band put live performance on hold while they set about writing and recording My Fantoms, their forthcoming first album. With the album nearly complete, they have recently scheduled their first gigs in almost a year.

July 2010 saw the release of Seasons and Cycles, a collaborative 7″ single with The Advisory Circle on the Ghost Box label, which is No. 4 in the Mojo Top 10 chart in the current (sept) issue. Future releases in this series of collaborations will feature The Focus Group, Seeland, Mordant Music and James and Trish from Broadcast.

"Winsome, St Etienne-style and shimmery minor key pop."
Drowned In Sound

"HK in the 60s make fragile music, laced with spectral tape crackle and softly fizzing radio interference. The songs are lulling in their delicate hesitancy, like Broadcast at their most soothing or Saint Etienne relaxing under cherry blossoms."
Kitten Painting

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THE CURSORS

http://www.myspace.com/thecursorsmusic
http://www.facebook.com/pages/the-cursors/35558346005?ref=ts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRTrab-7Z-w

The deliciously discordant CURSORS were originally brought together in the Art Therapy room at Parkhurst where they conceived their first joint interior design work, the quaintly titled 'KAKPRO-TEST'. Ever since The Cursors have continued to put voice to the unspeakable.

Their prior history is murky; it is known that lead singer Bailey was sent back from Botany Bay judged to be way too unsavoury even for Cell Block H after her wedding celebrations led to police being chased across four states. Cooper has been institutionalized since infancy, knowing nothing but privation, humiliation and degredation, and as such is desperately lacking in people skills.

Though tagged and under the strict supervision of parole officers, The Cursors are currently operating from a halfway house in Willesden. They should be approached with caution and at the first sign of unpleasantness it is advisable to notify your nearest Armed Response Unit.

Like a koala on ketamine, The Cursors bring a nipple tightening excitement to proceedings. A visceral and splatter filled wall of sparkling post-punkness.

"Disturbingly Good..." Organ Magazine
"...a band that has some fine rackets in their pockets" - Uncle Nemesis
"Scuzzy" - Time Out

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DJs CRAIG WOOD & EMILY KAWASAKI (Another Sunny Day Indiepop Club)

DJs CRAIG WOOD & EMILY KAWASAKI (Another Sunny Day Indiepop Club) spin a femmetastic set of female-fronted discs before, in-between & after the bands.