Lupen Crook - Wed 5th May
+ The Winchell Riots, Rob The Rich, Dog Is Dead
club-fandango
Just when you thought it was
safe to reach for the listings…re-enter RANGE LIFE, the brrrrrrand
new monthly gigging venture which sees those indie scamps Club Fandango
join forces with the promoting pros at Kilimanjaro to create something
a little less ordinary. Working on the excellent
Hitchhikers-Guide-To-The-Galaxy
basis that two heads are better that one they have teamed up to sprinkle
a little bit of new band magic on midweek London Town on the very first
Wednesday of every month. And the opening night certainly set its sights
in an upwardly direction as THE MOLOTOVS utterly and butterly sold out
our April 7th eggstravaganza with sterling support from
SKETCHES
and IDEALS. Ain’t no mountain high enough? You said it.
And here are the details for
the somewhat aggressive-sounding bill for Range Life 2…
LUPEN CROOK (onstage 10.30pm)
Raise your shattered glasses for the return of this Medway roustabout
with stories to tell and stolen hearts to sell, for tonight is Lupen
Crook’s first London show of 2010 and he is thirsting, nay bursting,
to spill the beans on forthcoming (third) album, which is funny and
frenzied and, doing exactly as it says on the myspace tin, evokes the
spirit of ‘fight folk’. www.myspace.com/lupencrook
THE WINCHELL RIOTS (onstage
9.45pm) are four bearded types from Oxfordland who play swooningly
widescreen
tunes which, in the case of ‘Kandahar Road’, start all glitchy and
innocent before gradually building to a hair-raisingly intense
denouement.
As you do. A new Winchell Riots EP is heading our way any week now. www.myspace.com/thewinchellriots
ROB THE RICH (onstage 9.00pm)
are five cheery young souls from Brighton who have names like Bambi
and Bear and who write songs called ‘Tiger’. As if this wasn’t
already enough to love them for Rob The Rich then deliver a sunny live
set where instruments are swapped around and melodies zip hither and
zither like crazed post-Foals puppies. Expect a debut single called
‘Better’ to see the light of day on Label Fandango on June 5th.
www.myspace.com/robtherichtheband
DOG IS DEAD (onstage 8.15pm)
are five more cheery young souls, this time from Nottingham, who have
tunes with titles like ‘The Zoo’ and ‘The Glockenspiel Song’
and who peddle a ramshackle noodlebox of psych-pop delights which has
drawn favourable comparisons with esteemed peeps such as The Mystery
Jets and Rumblestrips.
www.myspace.com/dogisdeadband
www.clubfandango.co.uk
