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Fopp Award for New Music showcase: Tonight!
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DiS is pleased to announce its involvement in this year's Fopp Award for New Music and the showcase taking place on February 9th
At the start of 2005, bands from Scotland and Northern Ireland were invited to send demos for consideration in the scheme and after much deliberation, four were chosen. The bands' award was a good few days in the studio, CD artwork and manufacture courtesy of Clear Sound & Vision, press by Press Counsel and being stocked in all of Fopp's UK stores. The scheme is overseen by the PRS Foundation, the charitable 'arm' of the Performing Rights Society, which is awfully nice of them.
From the hip-hop via electro-soul stylings of Monkeytribe to the waiting-for-mega-stardom indie rock of Thee Comrades (pictured; above) via the laid-back bluesy feel of Bouchereau and the quite frankly confusing fun times with the Abdominal Showmen.
As you may have realised, DiS has a penchant for things that are 'new' and 'musical' so we're helping with the following rather ace London showcase for the selected artists. Yummy!
Thursday, 9th February
THEE COMRADES
BOUCHEREAU
ABDOMINAL SHOWMEN
MONKEYTRIBE
DJs: CrabbyCrab, Jimbob + more
Compere: Colin Roberts
The Borderline, London, W1
Wanna come? Tough! No more tickets left...
From the archive
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got a promo for this night
all the bands are a bit 'meh'.
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i dont much like to be elitist but...
"thee" comrades said they want to sound like "new fresh sounding beat groups like bloc party, futureheads, maximo park, the rakes and new rhodes." they do actually sound like an amalgam of all these things, with possibly razorlight thrown into the mix, theyre very very dull.
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Yes but.........
are any of those bands from Northern Ireland?
Knowing a vast amount about the music scene there I can say that there are an incredible number of fantastic bands. One can only assume that few bands from NI sent demos in.
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I judged the event
and we had like, six entries from NI bands.
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w00t
thee comrades are excellent.
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I was at the Fopp Award shindig and....
.... those Comrades are indie heros in the making.
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Watch this space....
Well done to all 4 bands that made it to London, but thee comrades were definately the best. They rocked the entire place! With talent like this, it wont be long before they make it....
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Borderline guest
I had a great time at the showcase ... all 4 bands were fantastic.... hope to see more ov them in the future !!! 10/10 for Performance by them all .. Bring on the Tank Tops!! "Thee Comrades" Ab Fab & "Bouchereau" just Devine ;o)
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