The Listeners are playing at The Plug in Sheffield on saturday 19th July anyone that wants tickets to this event please leave your name under the blog on
http://www.myspace.com/thelisteners or you can email me at
thelistenersband@hotmail.co.uk and leave your name there - and pick up your ticket at the door on the night. If your coming just to see The Listeners please buy a ticket through us as we will get a pound for every ticket we sell! Thers loads of bands playing on the day over 4 stages and theres also a BBQ and other stuff happening as well. Checkout the info below.
Cheers
Saturday, 19 July 2008
Plug Festival
Price: £5 adv
Door time: 7.30pm
Age: 14+
On the 19th July, Plug will be bringing the outdoors indoors with our very own festival. A host of local bands and our resident DJs will be gracing the stages and decks over 4 rooms, including an outdoor stage complete with BBQ, providing a festival where there really is something for everyone.
On the live stage, we have Little Ze, Viper Jungle, Area 15, Reform! and The Hanging Men.
The fusion of melodious flavours in Viper Jungle's sound is a welcome break from the indie-by-numbers that has invaded the charts in recent years. This maelstrom of funk-rock will get you moving and grooving from your head to your toes, check out their debut album for further proof.
Area 15's rise as Doncaster's premier punk pop-rock pioneers has not gone unnoticed, with appearances on Channel 4's Popworld and a gig at the Skins party in Liverpool. Youthful exuberance underpinned by an unswerving work ethic and healthy appetite for success, these boys should go far.
Derbyshire's Young Band of the Year 2007, Reform! exhibit a musical education rooted in 70's British punk and 90's Britpop, evident in their debut EP ‘Hope You Had Fun'. Compared by the Derbyshire Times to The Strokes and The Stone Roses, they may yet reach the heights set by these legends.
The Hanging Men only formed at the start of the year, but a riotous debut gig at The Cremorne suggests a future of promise. Their own brand of no-nonsense, straight-talking rock and roll highlights a lyrical honesty and fragility that belies their inexperience.
From the ashes of Eskimo Brit arises SammyJo, Chesterfield's finest exponent of powerpop. A beautiful marriage of pop and rock melodies underscores the powerful vocals of the lead singer, and it's no surprise that she's forcing many to take notice, such is the confidence evident in their style and material.
On the acoustic stage, we have The Listeners, Richard Kitson, Trouble Breathing, Stephen Barber and Judge Jury Executioner.
Experienced on the Northern circuit, The Listener's are something special indeed. Caressing the airwaves with a voice like velvet, singer Emma Thorpe's uncompromising emotive insight, coupled with the dark guitar and baritone stylings of Robert Cook, make this twosome a match made in heaven.
Richard Kitson, frontman of local blues band Also Jack, brings us his own brand of blues-infused folk. His inventive finger-picking and slide guitar work underlines a quality of musicianship others can only hope to aspire to, and his breed of blues folk must be seen to be truly appreciated.
Trouble Breathing, stalwarts of the local live scene over the last few years, have blended twisted melodies and haunting vocals to create a beautiful soundscape. Their emotions are very much on the surface, veering from euphoria to a darkness that seems to resonate with the mellow guitars and vocals.
Emerging from the ashes of his previous bands, Stephen Barber is a young man on a journey. His acoustic wanderings reveal sentimental confusions and dramatic allusions in a time when honesty and integrity may be in short supply, and we are all the better for it.
Judge Jury Executioner are set to debut themselves with an acoustic show, a departure from their regular workings as a rock band. Their chilled out jammings and frenetic hammerings offer a wondrous marriage of anger, sadness and desire, all wrapped up in a punk-rock bow.
As the sun goes down, join our resident DJs LJ Freeman, Funk Junkies, Dan Norris, Drew Scott and L.I.A.M for a journey of electrifying genre-destruction on the dancefloor across all rooms.
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