Hare and Hounds

The Other Woman’s Club teams up with We Love Brum for the second installment of Kings Heath’s sexiest new live music night THE BLIND TIGER CLUB.

This month we are proud to present 3 fine local acts for you…

BARRY’S ATTIC
myspace.com/barrysattic

Barry’s Attic are an Indie band with C86 pop sensibilities. Having played packed gigs recently, the band have proved to have a snowballing local following. Over the last six months they’ve honed an original sound that follows in the footsteps of Bloc Party, and takes it elsewhere, with a spring in its step rather than a heavy, angsty heart.

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Reviews altsounds.com

Barry’s Attic are a Birmingham based 4 piece who write music that is like… soooooo in right now. Yes this is 80′s indebted indie-electro with the keyboards (which at times sound to my ears like cast off’s from the old Sega Megadrive Sonic the Hedgehog games) turned up to eleven. The 3 songs on offer here all follow a similar pattern, mid-tempo, clipped disco beats and bass, with harsh keyboard riffs and barely audible vocals.

It’s a bit of a shame the band didn’t spend more time arranging these songs as melodically and lyrically they are actually pretty damn impressive recalling the organic flow of early Bloc Party before they became a bargain basement Nine Inch Nails.

‘The Past Is Just That’ in particular is a real gem with an infectious energy and inventive lyrics (probably the first song in history to rhyme ‘tobasco’ sauce with ‘menopause’). The 2 songs that precede it (‘Dislocation’ and ‘Synergy’) have less going for them and on first listen come across as a little bland. There are some effective vocal harmonies though and both tracks display a relentless energy, they both need work though.

So it’s promising stuff but a little under-thought, these songs could have really used a bit longer in gestation, maybe next time guys!

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NEIL WARD
myspac.com/neilward www.neilwardmusic.co.uk

Neil Ward balances punk, folk and pop with personal lyricism about life’s bric-a-brac, social politics and love.
Taken from his facebook profile:
“I was born and raised in Birmingham. I moved to Leeds to go to university. I first started playing music around 14 in a band that played everything over the years; punk, post-hardcore, indie, metal etc… It seems there was no one to start a band with in Leeds so I thought fuck it i’ll do it myself. I can’t blame anyone else if shit goes wrong, suppose thats a good thing!”

Influences include: Ocean Colour Scene, Frank Turner, The Cribs, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Sigur Ros, Ray Charles, Biffy Clyro, women, family and friends, punk, rave culture, England, drink, Aldous Huxley, Metallica.

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IS I CINEMA
myspace.com/isicinema

An electrically amplified focus group plucked from three separate postal districts: B13, B1 (both figurehead Dominic and accredited guitarist Helen rest here) and B38. Is I Cinema first convened last August when percussive consultant Olly was invited to witness Dom and Helen’s songsmithery at a Jewellery Quartered flat. The one stipulation: he must lie with his back to the players on a threadbare couch. Suffice to say, the arrangements were reasonably credible. The sofa not so. Carl (six-stringed aesthetics/tech) and Tan (bass-biased kick drum concierge) both interviewed well and have since turned much of the twee into colourful turbulence.

The name famously stems from an altercation Dom suffered aboard a London tube. Whilst perusing the map of locations, said figurehead was accosted by a suite of bloodthirsty rudes sitting opposite: ‘Oi, blud! What ya lookin at? Is I cinema!?’ Fairly solid witticism we thought.

Key achievement thus far: embarking on an ambitious national spa town tour comprising Royal Leamington, Royal Tunbridge, Droitwich, Epsom and Harrogate.

Myspace is largely obsolete as a social networking hub, so we shan’t put too much flesh on the bones here. That said, dates are recorded and visuals presented. Oh and last of all, music making, or psychophysical skill, requires microclimates conducive to performance, hence the love of zip garages and jaquard patterning. www.craft.se – digital retail at its breathtaking best!

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Tickets for this show are just £4 and will be available from the bands themselves or pay on the door.

Doors 9pm

Thurs March 4th
BLIND TIGER CLUB presents
BARRY’S ATTIC // NEIL WARD // IS I CINEMA
The Hare & Hounds, Kings Heath
9pm – 1am

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