Suicide Party Presents: A Midsummers Nightmare Festival

DORCHESTER ARMS STAGE

8.00 DJS till 12
7.30 deathline
7.25 burlesque 2
6.45 meddicine
6pm black market karma
5.15 blue velvets
5.10 burlesque 1
4.30-5.10 Andy Fielder (Maths on The Moon)/Suicide Party DJ's
2-4.30 acoustic acts

LENNONS NIGHTCLUB

AFTER BANDS- DJ sets from Thee Exciters/grey matter/suicide party

Midnight- Suicide party
11.55 burlesque 4
11.15 thee piaticons
10.30 wolfe
10-10.30 stoichkov9 dj
9.20 one unique signal
9.10 burlesque 3
8.40 oresteia
8-8.40 suicide party dj

EVENT ORGANISERS NOTES

Welcome to the festival, which makes ya nightmares come true! We have a dream line up of DJ’s, Bands, and Burlesque acts. The event has been put on by the members of Suicide Party. As you may know we put together a night called ClubDasEnde and decided that this bank holiday we would like to show off our favourite acts and best friends.

This little scribe will hopefully tell you abit about the acts that are involved tonight, to give you an insight on what you have got yourselves in for. I have written a quick review for the nine full bands, so please read on and find out “who the fuck are Suicide Party?”

THE BLUE VELVETS
http://www.myspace.com/thebluevelvetsmusic
The Blue Velvets are the band that will kick off the main events of the night. They are playing this festival for two reasons A) They are best friends of Suicide Party and B) They are fucking great. The band was formed by lead vocalist Tom Hayes.Tom was going under the name Adventure Wonderland and was chalking some of the best shoegaze/psych tunes I have ever heard (my personal favourite being ‘In The Crave). It really would not be over the top in putting them tracks up there with Tom’s hero Anton Newcombe.

Since then, he added members, changed the name and the sound has escalated. No longer tarred with the shoegaze/psych brush, he is now releasing songs of a distinct and epic nature. Bringing influences such as Spiritualized and The Kills he was writing music to take drugs/party/hug/fuck/sleep

and marry to. Bringing the immense blues head Neil Atkinson will now mean this sound will just get bigger.

BLACK MARKET KARMA
http://www.myspace.com/blackmarketkarma
BMK played ClubDasEnde earlier in 2010. They have been asked back to play this festival for one reason…. They blew me away. On the same night that also boasted ‘Thee Piaticons (more on them later), my ears were bleeding in the best of ways. With their shoegaze sound this London based outfit get compared to Brian Jonestown Massacre (not to mention the use of a tambourine player) but they give so much more. Coming back from a France tour just to play this festival, we are honoured to have this lot play AMN Festival.

MEDDICINE
http://www.myspace.com/meddicine
Suicide Party were lucky enough to share a line up at a recent Brixton gig to witness the immensely loud, psychotic and amazing noise you will ever witness. The girl behind this epic explosion of sound is Monika. Meddicine is dark, loud and extremely intense. On one listen Suicide Party were hooked and we are delighted we have got Meddicine to play our festival especially as she will be playing Offset Festival a week later.

DEATHLINE
http://www.myspace.com/thedeathline
What can I say about these two? THE COOLEST CATS IN TOWN. They have become the one of our closest friends. We have a shared love for each others music and Suicide Party had to get these to play our festival. They are not just the coolest kids on the block, they are amazing musicians. Likened to Jesus and Mary Chain and The Raveonettes, their noir-punk sound is something you need to hear. With the loud fuzz guitar of Kaoru and the dark bass tones of Jennie and the heavy drum machine beats, this is something you CANNOT miss and the perfect headline band for the Dorchester stage.

ORESTEIA
http://www.myspace.com/oresteiaband
The heading of the myspace says Melodramatic Popular Song / Pop / Experimental but these are the MOST Melodramatic, Popular, Pop and experimental beings you will witness. Experi-mental is probably the best way I can describe these immensely talented group of musicians. To watch these live is like a journey on an open top bus to wonderland, only the mad hatter would be hid under his tea cups in fear of being too… blah. I can hear David Byrne in Darrell Swainstons vocals and Slash in Jed’s guitars…. Catch these kick off Lennons, you will not be disappointed.

ONE UNIQUE SIGNAL
http://www.myspace.com/oneuniquesignal
OUS are a band that Suicide Party managed to catch on tour with the legendary Telescopes. They are an experimental psyche band straight out of the noise guitar planet, of which Spacemen 3, Loop and The Telescopes came to earth from. You will hear wah-wah, tremolo, feedback smashed guitars that’ll smack you in the head like a Battering ram. They are the kings of their genre and I, for one cannot wait to be abused by their noise

WOLFE
http://www.myspace.com/wolfeband
Wolfe were formed from the local legends Installation. They combine beats, synths, and guitars to guide the elegant Laura Wolfe’s vocals mixed with the experimental vocals of Gavin Brook. They are very close friends of all of Suicide Party, and we are happy to have such a diverse twist on the festival. Stuart Rogers works tirelessly behind a table of dynamic beats while Paulus Fielder adds the edge on bass. Likened to Portishead, and The XX, they have found their feet and are ready to explode… You saw them here first!!!

THEE PIATICONS
http://www.myspace.com/theepiatcions
Thee Piaticons put on arguably the best show we have seen at ClubDasEnde earlier this year. They will be taking the long trip from Italy to play this show. Anyone who has a phobia of feedback, should put their earplugs in 5 minutes from the end of this set, as they melted the faces of Hamptons last time they played in Southampton. Starting as a raw garage band they have progressed their garage sound with the cool mood of Jesus and Mary Chain or even Singapore Sling. We cannot wait to see these boys. FORZA PIATICONS

SUICIDE PARTY
http://www.myspace.com/suicidepartyuk
Yeah, that’s us.

Thanks, Screamin’ Joey Outlaw (suicide party)

BURLESQUE PERFORMANCES FROM ROXY TWIRLS AND HER ROCKETS

DJ'S

DIRTYRATCHILD + FRIENDS TAKE OVER 8 -12 MIDNIGHT IN THE DORCH:
Johnjohnson'sson'sson playing bouncy electro, rave breaks, nu-skool,
DirtyRatChild with a funked up set inspired by festivals, free partys & f**ked up nights, DJ ESO playing hard & nasty tear out DnB set,

Playing everything from quelchy idm, dubstep dnb mash up, hip hop, jungle, breakcore, breaks and electro

STOICHKOV9
REDLEIF
PAUL BROCK

Sunday 29th August, 2010.
Lennons and Dorchester Arms,
both on Onslow Road Southampton, Hampshire SO14 0JD (map)
2pm - 2am.
£8 or £6 in advance from venues / with flyer

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