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Coming to The Musician in August |
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Ictus
£6
plus The Mile, Nimmisto, Subuded
www.myspace.com/ictusband1
Green Day-esque, ska-punksters, Ictus, who having toured supporting the Specials Neville Staples are currently working on the follow up to their 2006 debut album Punk Rock For Girls. |
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The Boll Weeviles
£3
plus The 44’s
Hot new blues band with traditional values. |
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James Maddock & Friends
£7adv
www.myspace.com/jamesmaddockmusic
Born in Leicester, James Maddock refined his skills as a songwriter in London. A demo session at Abbey Road Studios came to the attention of Columbia Records in New York which enabled James to record his first album "Songs from Stamford Hill". James has toured with Train, Paula Cole, Meshell Ngegecello as well as headlined shows all over the states. He counts Bruce Springsteen ,Mike Scott.Paul Weller and Emmylou Harris amongst his fans. |
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Summer Sundae Fringe
£3
feat. The Chairmen, Ugly Pop Stars, The Legion,
Greg Gent and Herra Hiero
www.summersundaefringe.com
The second official Summer Sundae Fringe is a week of live gigs, comedy stuff, bands and videos celebrating Leicester's finest. Running across the city, the gigs will be in a variety of venues, with a wide range of bands, artists, comedians, acts and promoters taking part. Official listings and how to get your fringe festival armband will be posted on the new festival website. Our evening is a little taster of the diversity and excitement to be found on our Summer Sundae festival stage. |
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Bob Dylan Day
£3
A celebration of all things Bob. |
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Tony Alles Bluesville feat. Simon Faulks
£5
plus Tantrum www.myspace.com/tonyallesbluesvillebluesdemons
With his deep, rich voice and skilful electric and acoustic guitar talent, local blues man Tony Alles shows his deep love and appreciation for the blues, bringing a fresh and innovative sound to the genre As well as original material, he reworks classic blues standards into funky, high octane shuffles. Tonights show will feature the stinging lead guitar work of Dawson Smith & The Dissenters guitarist Simon Faulks. |
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Heavens Basement
£4adv £5door
plus support
www.heavensbasement.com
"Heaven’s Basement is dirty. It’s filthy. It’s sleazy. It’s gutter-rock by way of traditional heavy metal, and it’s straight-up awesome. Shirtless and coifed to the sky the band gets down and dirty and receives a boisterous reception for its troubles. Wearing its influences on bare arms (there’s a touch of Sabbath, a smidgen of the Crüe and more than a healthy portion of Axl Rose) it’s all snarling lyrics, melting solos and pure attitude. Terrific." - Alex Hambleton, DTA Music Review |
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The Platforms
£5
www.myspace.com/theplatformsuk
Glam rock: An English phenomenon between 1971 and 1973. Glam was distinguished by the glittery, sparkly costumes of the performers and its' bouncy rock ‘n’ roll songs which would often be oozing sexual energy. Lyrical emphasis was often on teenage revolution (T. Rex’s - Children of the Revolution, Sweet’s - Teenage Rampage) as well as a strong leaning towards sexuality, decadence and fame. Glam performers often dressed androgynously in make up and glittery, outrageous costumes. Perceived sexual ambiguity was briefly in vogue. – Wikipedia.com, the on-line encyclopedia . The Platforms: The U.K.’s ultimate glam rock party band! |
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Simon Honeyboy Hickling
£5
www.honeyboyhickling.com
A world-class musician Simon ‘Honey Boy’ Hicklin’ is a blues harmonica ace with a hard earned and well-deserved international reputation. His subtle and fabulously expressive playing is grounded firmly in the ‘50s and ‘60s heyday of the Chicago and Gulf Coast styles of playing. With a tremendously experienced band backing him, Simon never fails to deliver anything less than a first-rate evenings entertainment and never lets good taste and soulfulness stifle a rockin’ night out. |
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Gallery 47
£3
plus Joe Morrello
www.myspace.com/gallery47
"A wonderfully executed three dimensional acoustic EP. Think OK Computer meets Grace, but hastily scribbled down by a teenage boy in the throws of some tremendous break-up - only far less melodramatic than that sounds. This record makes me many flavours of happy. - 4/5" -Rockfood Fanzine |
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Chris Warner Band
£4
plus support
www.chriswarnermusic.co.uk
Never happier than when he’s sitting back and strumming guitar, this Leicester-born singer-songwriter naturally breaks away from the well-worn path of downbeat acoustic music, bringing a refreshing summer sound positively charged with life, love, sunshine and sharing good times. With live shows renowned for drawing in the crowds and sending them home singing, he is already confirmed for The Big Session & Summer Sundae festivals playing alongside Supergrass, Jose Gonzalez, The Coral and Seth Lakeman |
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Eddie & The Hot Rods
£10adv £12door
plus The Kinnells
www.eddieandthehotrods.com
The original British proto-punks Eddie and The Hotrods energetic rock and roll and r'n'b was a big hit on the London pub rock scene in the early ‘70s. They had three UK top 40 hits and a top 10 smash with 'Do Anything You Wanna Do'. Their other hits included "Teenage Depression" and "Quit This Town", whilst live they did credit to a number of classic covers such as Van Morrisons' "Gloria", Bob Segars' "Get Out Of Denver" and Sam The Shams’ "Woolly Bully". |
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PROSTaid/SANE charity all-dayer
feat. Ictus, Tracy Lee Collins, The Kinells, Morph, Fall Of Jupiter, Actionforce, Razmataz, Paper Planes, Sugarsnatch, Fingertrap, Andy Griffiths, Jake Manning, Andy Whittle, Dave Letts and Gypsy Arthur
Donation
All day charity even from twelve noon 'til midnight. |
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Rory Ellis
£5
plus Daryl Kirkland, Robin Grey
http://www.roryellis.com
Rory Ellis is one of those quintessential Australian singer-songwriters with buckets of talent, heaps of stories to tell, and impossible to pigeonhole. He's got bluesman in him, some soul belter, red-dirt country and home-grown folkie. His songs tend to move at an amble, as if the man just won't be rushed. But songs such as Domestic Overload, Up Stumps and the splendid I'm Not Gone speak of a restless spirit. |
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Shapeshifter
£3
plus support
Space rock
please note - Joe O’Donnell’s Shkayla is cancelled.
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The Drugstore Cowboys
£6
plus Frank Gannon Trio
www.myspace.com/drugstorecowboysuk
www.myspace.com/frankgannontrio
After barnstorming the Leicester City Blues and Riverside festivals the Drugstore Cowboys are back on home turf to deliver another dose of powerhouse roots rockabilly. Performing songs from their new cd Chop Poker the Cowboys are sure to unleash an explosive set guaranted to flip ya wig! Featuring members of jump blues combo ‘The Blue Flames’ The Frank Gannon trio bring their hybrid sound of ‘60s garage, surf and rockabilly to Leicester for the first time.
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Twinn Lizzy
£6
www.twinlizzy.uk.com
The UKs leading Thin Lizzy tribute band. |
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Weekend Warriors Alldayer
Free
www.myspace.com/danbrittonmusic
2pm till 9pm |
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A word about our listings
A guide for Customers
These days artists and bands tend to book their tours months in advance. In order to give you the best notice of up and coming shows we list events once they have been confirmed by the band or their management. The downside of this is that dates can change due to unforeseen circumstances, sometimes at very short notice.
We do our best to ensure that this site is kept as up to date as is possible, with updates happening at least once a week. Therefore to avoid disappointment we recommend that you check these listing prior to setting out for your show especially if you are traveling any distance.
Not listed?
A guide for Artists and Promoters
The quickest way to get yourself included in our listings is to send an email to musician at mohawkvisuals.com once your gig is confirmed.
We also need you to do the following -
Put the name of the artist or band name along with the date of your show in the email subject line.
Attach a reasonable sized photograph. A 72dpi, jpeg, bigger than 200x200 pixels would be fine. Please don't email files over 1mb in size. If in doubt please drop us a line before sending.
Let us have your web address so we can link to your site or Myspace page.
Send us some text. Whilst we are happy to tidy up spelling or grammar, we don't have the time to write or edit copy for you. Ideally we need a nice concise 'blurb' of between 75-100 words. Please don't send a three page biography, or else we are likely to bounce it back to you. If you have a selection of press quotes send what you have as we can usually easily compile something from them. There are plenty of examples of the sort of thing we need here on the site to help you out.
Please note - If you have played at The Musician before and we have text on file, we will continue to use use it for any subsequent listings unless you supply new copy.
If you spot any errors please send an email to musician at mohawkvisuals.com.
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