Anti-Folk
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twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
He sold out the Scala in September. 750 capacity??
I find a lot of antifolk bands to be a bit marmite but here's one of the more interesting ones in the NY scene that I've come across
THE DEBUTANTE HOUR (Brooklyn, NY)
..are Susan Hwang and Maria Sonevytsky, a rather amazing female accordion duo from the NY antifolk scene playing roots-based originals with lots of quirky lyrics and genius
vocal harmonies. They sing about lost love, weird love, guitar heroes , the devil and other things that concern your untypical debutante (sometimes in Ukrainian).
We reckon they'll be your favourite new duo!
www.myspace.com/debutantehour
Wolveryeti
Detty Pig
The Jack Black comment would delight him. I think he looks more like a hairier version of Billy Corgan, though he gave me huge evils when I mentioned it.
The first support act sang a song with some lines about Billy Corgan in it.......
Anyway, I did some cyber stalking last night and it seems they do a monthly night at the Betsy Trotwood which sounds fun plus it seems they are anti-folk too, having been featured in an anti-folk festival and played at this 12Bar place.
Anyway, I did some cyber stalking last night and it seems they do a monthly night at the Betsy Trotwood which sounds fun plus it seems they are anti-folk too, having been featured in an anti-folk festival and played at this 12Bar place.
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hiraethified
Have you been to the 12 Bar? It's a fabulous venue. I reckon the Actionettes should do their club there although stage space is a little on the, err, extremely limited side.
I love it there.
http://www.urban75.org/music/12-bar-club-london.html
yep, the anti-folk nights at the 12 Bar are fun.
i'd also recommend Lantern Society at the Betsey Trotwood (1st and 3rd Thursdays) and Easycome Acoustic (every Wednesday at the Old Nuns Head).
More or less the same acts play both places really: Indigo Moss, Boycott Coca Cola Experience, Trent Miller & the Skeleton Jive, Benjamin Thomas, Andy Hankdog, Alan Tyler et al. A bit more folk than anti-folk, but still not proper folk exactly. Maybe there needs to be a new genre: anti-folk folk.
i'd also recommend Lantern Society at the Betsey Trotwood (1st and 3rd Thursdays) and Easycome Acoustic (every Wednesday at the Old Nuns Head).
More or less the same acts play both places really: Indigo Moss, Boycott Coca Cola Experience, Trent Miller & the Skeleton Jive, Benjamin Thomas, Andy Hankdog, Alan Tyler et al. A bit more folk than anti-folk, but still not proper folk exactly. Maybe there needs to be a new genre: anti-folk folk.
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hiraethified
The thing abut the 12 Bar is that it's a fun venue and you get a real mix of people in there (cheapo club membership lets people get in free on al nights so you get all sorts wandering in).That bar's bang in the middle of Soho
It's my #1 choice for a central London venue if I decide to do an Offline one off there. I love the fact that it's all a bit shambolic too.
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hiraethified
Well, you coped alright at the Albert and you could just dance on the floor there too!Stage sounds rubbish though and it's a touch integral to our actWill check it out.
The venue's got lots of little rooms and cubby holes so you could really decorate it up Actionettes-style.
The_Reverend_M
More bass, vicar?
we dance - if you can't see more than the tops of our heads it's a bit fucking pointless no?
I noticed recently that the Betsey Trotwood has started doing the occasional all-pub Americana gigs: with both upstairs and downstairs in use for the same club. Might be worth bearing in mind for an Offline...
I played a gig organized by a friend last night at the Gramaphone (in Liverpool Street, on Commercial St) last night. Nice venue, excellent-sounding PA, sympathetic in-house soundman. It was an electroacoustic free-improv/contemporary classical gig. So I suspect they probably don't charge very much for the use of the room...
I played a gig organized by a friend last night at the Gramaphone (in Liverpool Street, on Commercial St) last night. Nice venue, excellent-sounding PA, sympathetic in-house soundman. It was an electroacoustic free-improv/contemporary classical gig. So I suspect they probably don't charge very much for the use of the room...
If you mean the Gramaphone then yes there's a stage. i'm really bad at thinking in terms of space, but it looked like it'd host a 4 or 5 piece band OK. It's not very tall though.
If you mean the Betsey T, then it has a stage both downstairs and up if memory serves. The downstairs one is titchy though you can just about squeeze a band onto it (I played there once with a 5-piece with a lot of instruments and somehow we managed it).
Upstairs at the Betsey is nicer – it's an old-school cosy pub sitting room basically – but calling the platform in the corner a stage is pushing it a bit. Fine for duos and trios... Tends to host acoustic acts and poetry...
If you mean the Betsey T, then it has a stage both downstairs and up if memory serves. The downstairs one is titchy though you can just about squeeze a band onto it (I played there once with a 5-piece with a lot of instruments and somehow we managed it).
Upstairs at the Betsey is nicer – it's an old-school cosy pub sitting room basically – but calling the platform in the corner a stage is pushing it a bit. Fine for duos and trios... Tends to host acoustic acts and poetry...
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