Filed under: Rachael Dadd, Stairs to Korea, This Is The Kit, WIlmington Arms, neednowater records
THIS IS THE RHYTHM OF THE NIGHT!
…Wednesday night, the 3rd of February.
With spurious references to mid-90s chart dance, it can only mean one thing… Kick the Plug is BACK!
As it’s the first KTP in three months you’d be well within your rights to expect a particularly spiffy event, as we’ve had plenty of time to prepare so without further ado, here is the illustrious line-up:
Rachael Dadd
http://www.myspace.com/rachaeldadd
This Is The Kit
http://www.myspace.com/thisisthekit
Stairs to Korea
http://www.myspace.com/stairstokorea
tickets available here:
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/69292
Filed under: Uncategorized
Hello all,
We’re going to take a little break, so no Kick The Plug in December or January. We’ll be back monthly from February 2010 though, so don’t worry too much.
See you all soon!
Filed under: Broadcast 2000, Soy Un Caballo, Stars of Sunday League, WIlmington Arms, neednowater records
Broadcast 2000 + Stars Of Sunday League + Soy Un Caballo with DJ sets from the Neednowater DJs
Price: £4 adv from wegottickets/£5 on the door
ticket link: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/61914
http://www.myspace.com/broadcast2000
http://www.myspace.com/soyuncaballo
http://www.myspace.com/starsofsundayleague
Filed under: Uncategorized
Back once again with the ill behaviour with the ill behaviour with the ill… oh who are we kidding? It’ll be sophisticated, sedate and pleasant and all the better for it.
This month we have a returning hero and two new titans of folk to present to you.
We finish this month with The Title Sequence.
http://www.myspace.com/thetitlesequence
Back with his ukulele and special jumpers is Tristram. He wowed the crowd earlier in the year and we fully expect him to do the same this month. No pressure then.
http://www.myspace.com/tristramsongs
On first will be Grand Salvo. Quite what they’re doing on first is anybody’s guess as they could probably headline but we don’t play by the rules.
http://www.myspace.com/grandsalvo
As usual, tickets are available here and are cheaper than paying on the door:
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/59661
Filed under: Uncategorized
A bit later notice than usual eh? For this I wholeheartedly blame booking agents and politicians in that order.
However, as excellent a line-up as you’ll have come to expect at Kick The Plug this month. We have the return of Catriona Irving, the incredible Fránçois (or you might know him as Fránçois & the Atlas Mountains) and the rather wonderful Stairs to Korea.
This Frontier Needs Heroes have had to pull out of the show.
No Ice Cream cakes this time, but who knows what treats will replace them. As usual Mark and Tom will be playing songs between sets, this month with the help of Dale Grundle of The Sleeping Years.
Catriona Irving
http://www.myspace.com/catrionairvingmusic
Fránçois
http://www.myspace.com/francoisinbristol
Stairs to Korea
http://www.myspace.com/stairstokorea
Filed under: 6 Day Riot, Mariners Childres, Rown Coupland, Sons of Noel and Adrian, WIlmington Arms, neednowater records
And so we’re back, from outer space… not really, just N16 but they’re both full of stars. Just the other day, I saw Tjinder Singh chatting with John Power on Church Street. Stellar.
Anyway, this month we have a headline set from Six Day Riot, which is incidentally what happened when we decided to take a month off. We have support from Mariners Children and Rowan Coupland.
myspace links:
http://www.myspace.com/6dayriot
http://www.myspace.com/benedictdaniel (Which is Mariners Children)
http://www.myspace.com/rowancoupland
6 Day Riot are aces:
“a great big, bouncy, cynic-defying barrel of fun” Word
“sunny harmonies, calypso beats, buoyant melodies and quirky lyrics. Unashamedly poppy and irrepressibly charming” NME
“Stealing beats and licks from all over the folk-pop globe, ukulele led acoustica bursting with a joyous Afro-Latin energy… recalling the post punk clatter of Bow Wow Wow with a side order of Vampire Weekend” Uncut
“Lush” Independent on Sunday
“Fin de siècle folk-pop.. splendid” The Times
“Woozy Folk-Pop, a glorious jamboree of sound and sentiment. Come join the parade.” Clash
“rich both lyrically and musically, an enchanting album” The Fly
“Think Los Campesinos crossed with Emmy the Great at an evangelical church meeting with a revolutionary political agenda” Artrocker
“Unashamedly poppy and unashamedly fun while touching on serious, almost cathartic issues makes for a fine, fine record.” 8/10, 405
“Fuzzy, expressive, eccentric earthy pop songs” The List
At
Wilmington Arms, 69 Roseberry Avenue, EC1R 4RL
020 7837 1384
nearest tube Angel/Farringdon
Price:
£5 on the door
£4 advance from wegottickets
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/53895
the neednowater label + kick the plug myspace
http://www.myspace.com/neednowater
The Wilmington Arms
http://www.myspace.com/thewilmingtonarms
Blue roses who was previously billed to play this event, is no longer able to perform as she is going on tour with Mika. Kick The Plug goes on regardless however with the following excellence:
Blue Roses
In all the decent press at the moment for all the right reasons. Her debut album came out in April and is undoubtedly going to be featuring near the business end of year end lists come December. Think haunting folk with a timeless voice but don’t take my word for it, this is what THE SUNDAY TIMES had to say:
“A haunting record, full of unexpected instrumental textures that course beneath Groves’s extraordinary voice and eerie, elusive lyrics” 4****
See?
Superman Revenge Squad
He’s back and this time he’s brought some help. Not that he needed it, I’m just trying to build on the superhero theme. He wowed the Kick The Plug crowd with a solo set last year so I’m struggling to contain myself at the thought of what he might do with a band behind him.
A-Line
Like the dresses, we’re hoping this lot are going to be big in Summer 2009 and we’re hoping to give them an extra push at June Kick The Plug. They don’t need it mind because they’re brilliant, which you’ll find out if you come along.
I’m spent. See you on June 3rd.
At
Wilmington Arms, 69 Roseberry Avenue, EC1R 4RL
020 7837 1384
nearest tube Angel/Farringdon
Price:
£5 on the door
£4 advance from wegottickets
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/48609
myspace links:
http://www.myspace.com/musicofblueroses
http://www.myspace.com/supermanrevengesquad
http://www.myspace.com/alinemusic
the neednowater label + kick the plug myspace
http://www.myspace.com/neednowater
The Wilmington Arms
http://www.myspace.com/thewilmingtonarms
Filed under: Rue Royale, Stornoway, This Is The Kit, WIlmington Arms, neednowater records
Advance Tickets available from here:
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/48334
Kick the Plug once again makes the monthly visit to Clerkenwell’s Wilmington Arms. This time around we present epic folk from Oxford-based Stornoway, with support from Rue Royale and a solo set from Sunday Best favourite This Is The Kit.
Expect musical brilliance, with culinary treats and badges aplenty, and musical interludes provided by Mark and Tom of Neednowater.
STORNOWAY
http://www.myspace.com/stornoway
The band consists of an Ornithologist, an occasional Russian translator, a South African Pirate Captain, a human radio and a kitchen sink. They were first united in a snow-encrusted garage in Oxford and have since attracted the attention of Dr & Mrs Killjoy the neighbours and their android children. None of the band have ever been to Stornoway. But Brian once got to within 37 miles of it.
‘Officially the brainiest group ever, Stornoway’s big music worked a treat.’
THE INDEPENDENT
‘Stornoway have such a masterful control of melody, texture and dynamics that their live show is fantastically, continuously entertaining’
NIGHTSHIFT
‘This is perfect…I think you’re gonna love this’
COLIN MURRAY playing Stornoway on BBC RADIO 1
‘Cerebral, jaunty and at the same time powerful and wistful…they have everything and they do it all superbly.’
BBC OXFORD
‘Stornoway conjour up the innocent coziness of early Belle and Sebastian…Indie pop fans will melt in the brains.’
ARTROCKER
RUE ROYALE
http://www.myspace.com/rueroyale
Named after a highway running through the Chicago suburbs, Rue Royale’s musical journey has taken in a lot of sights in just two years.
In March 2008 Ruth and Brookln Dekker made the full-time touring band plunge, moving out of their house, in with some friends and selling all their belongings… save for a kick drum, shakers, guitar and a sat nav named Shelley. Straight in at the deep end, a 20-date European tour led to coverage on XFM (topping their weekly “Music Response” ballot) and BBC Six Music (“Introducing with Tom Robinson”) and boasted sold out concerts in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK.
Rue Royale developed from Ruth and Brookln’s over-the-pond relationship. Influenced by Fleetwood Mac, Sufjan Stevens, Zero 7 and the northern UK soul of Elbow and The Doves, they began writing together and gradually developed the candle-lit Rue Royale sound, honed through acoustic gigs and home-recorded demos.
Brookln grew up in St Louis, to church-music leading parents. He played the coffee-house circuit with God’s Green Earth before moving to Chicago in 1998. Ruth was raised in Midlands county Staffordshire in the UK, a stone’s throw from the historic city of Lichfield with it’s 1,300-year-old cathedral. Teenage years sound-tracked by 90’s Brit-pop and folk-rock, she met Brookln when touring Stateside. They wed in England five years ago and settled in Chicago soon after.
Brookln and Ruth started performing together in March 2006, and have since gigged extensively, clocked up hours of radio play across the US, had one of their tunes on MTV and amassed over 100,000 plays on myspace.
A lovingly illustrated EP, The Search For Where To Go (May 2006), was the first fruit with copies dispatched to intrigued music fans throughout the US, Canada, England, Germany and France.
Rue Royale unveiled their debut long-player at the start of 2008 – following a year that saw them firmly establish themselves on the musical map. The eponymous Rue Royale was recorded in December 2007 and independently released in February.
Not content with playing in all corners of Europe – ranging from the historic Sturmglocke squat site in Hanover to an intimate house show in rural Yorkshire – Rue Royale will leave their Chicago base to set up home in the UK this summer. Their plans for EU domination continue with another intensive tour of the European mainland this summer.
THIS IS THE KIT
http://www.myspace.com/thisisthekit
A not to be missed solo show from the spine tingling voice of Kate Stabels, “This is the Kit”, who first grabbed our attention with her “Two wooden spoons” 7″ on Sunday Best. On tour in the UK in April and May, here to promote both her album “krulle Bol” and spilt 7″ with Soy un Caballo, so catch her while you can!
‘This is the Kit is Kate Stables, a lady in possession of a voice as pure and shiver-inducing as the morning dew. Her album, Krulle Bol, features simple songs in which said voice takes centre stage, with just a few simple plucks of the guitar as accompaniment. Kate’s lyrics are mostly pretty down to earth, but with Birchwood Beaker she starts to sound more pagan and witch-like, singing about snow, migrating geese and Odin… Originally from Winchester, and now settled in Paris via Bristol, This is the Kit is a favourite of Rob Da Bank.’ – subba-cultcha
Filed under: Katie Malco, Six Toes, The Greenland Choir, Tristram, WIlmington Arms, neednowater records
Whatup.
A change of pace after last months barnstorming Sons of Noel & Adrian led stampathon.
April sees KTP presenting the excellently sinister Six Toes, the serene and elegant The Greenland Choir and sets from Tristram and Katie Malco (that’s two sets, not one collaboration).
Six Toes
‘Scruffy, sinister folk rock. Something like Anthony and the Johnsons singing the scariest words of Aleister Crowley. In hell’. – NME
After touring with the Mystery Jets, King Creosote and Jamie T in 2007, SixToes retreated to the deepest darkest fenland backwater town of Ely (Cambridgeshire, England), to build a little home studio sandwiched between the asylum and historic cathedral. As the cold closed in they hightailed it back to their squat in London where they put together the finishing touches to their album. The band consists two vocalists, who trade in wide, off kilter harmonies, cello, violin, double bass and percussion. Their remix of Maps’ ‘Elouise’ was recently released by Mute Records followed with their AA single ‘Four Leaved Clover / Reggae Song. The band have just released their debut album ‘Trick Of The Night’.
The Greenland Choir
There’s hushed vocals over tinkly guitar lines and glockenspiel, piano etc. If that’s your thing, and lets face it, it darn well should be, The Greenland Choir will be right up your street. They’ve come all the way from Greenland too*, so attendance is the least you could do.
* this bit may not** be true.
** isn’t.
Katie Malco
A return to KTP for the wonderful Katie Malco. She played our second ever KTP and frankly, I’m appalled it’s taken us so long to get her back but back she is and I’ve punished the other KTP members suitably for the delay. She sings heartfelt folk songs with a beautiful voice. Think Joni Mitchell but better. Yes, I went there.
Tristram
Soon to be huge, if there’s any justice in the world (thanks Lemar), Tristram is a one man folk machine. I’ve no idea if it’s just one man but the songs are brilliant. Listen on his myspace (v down there v) if you don’t believe me.
http://www.myspace.com/sixtoes1
http://www.myspace.com/thegreenlandchoir
http://www.myspace.com/katiemalcomusic
http://www.myspace.com/tristramsongs
Filed under: Uncategorized
Kick the Plug returns once again to Clerkenwell’s Wilmington Arms. This time around we present the epic folk 12-piece Sons of Noel and Adrian, who are going to be making some big noise in 2009 and really have to be seen to be believed, with support from Stars of Sunday League and My First Tooth.
Expect musical brilliance, with culinary treats and badges aplenty, with musical interludes provided by Mark and Tom of Neednowater.
Sons of Noel and Adrian
Closely resembling a giant centipede in motion Sons of Noel and Adrian grew up in the midlands with many like-minded musical folk. A couple of years ago they moved to Brighton to gather more legs and are now a fully formed outfit with sometimes as many as eleven members or as few as five.
The music is acoustic and falls loosely into the progressive folk niche. At the core are Jacob and Toms tumbling guitars, joined by a colourful host of other instruments to create music that ranges from Shanty to Schoenburg, from deep underground to just above the surface and muses on whether excess can make you a better person and what’s to do when your credit’s all used up and there’s nowhere to go.
“It’s all in Jacob Richardson’s bowel rupturing baritone, the kind of low end that can level entire cities and bring grown men to tears.” (FACT Magazine, 10th December ‘08)
Stars of Sunday League
Stars of Sunday League is the constituent parts of Euan Robinson. Liberated by a lack of real musicianship he writes simple uncluttered songs about how the biggest things are wrapped up in the smallest.
He has been treading the musical boards around London since summer 07 and has found himself standing on stages at Bestival, End of the Road, New York’s Sidewalk cafe, sxsw and bandstands across London and beyond.
Live, Stars of Sunday League adds the various musical talents of Sarah Triggs to the mix while Emmy the Great adds a sometime vocal gloss to proceedings.
Thus far they have been fortunate enough to play alongside such luminaries as the Wave Pictures, Stornoway, Emmy the Great, Chris Wood and many others.
EP in the new year – look out!
My First Tooth
My First Tooth’s Ross writes in his bedroom, other people’s bedrooms and sometimes in the garden. Ross plays live with Sophie who sings, plays the violin and bouzouki. Ross records with Sophie, Joel and Rob.
“…recommendations…My First Tooth” – Huw Stephens, Radio 1
“Simultaneously rough and delicate, MFT
make music that’ll quietly ravage your
heart, then give it a gentle stroke better.
Killer pretty stuff” – Marsha Shandur, XFM
myspace links:
http://www.myspace.com/sonsofnoelandadrian
http://www.myspace.com/thestarsofsundayleague
http://www.myspace.com/myfirsttooth
