Birmingham Promoters are super excited to be welcoming the mindblowing 65daysofstatic to Birmingham for an intimate show at the Hare & Hounds on Thurs 29th August 2013!

Since their last ‘usual’ record, 2010’s ‘We Were Exploding Anyway’,65daysofstatic have taken their sound to places bands don’t always get to go and are showing no signs of slowing down. A mixture of touring, soundtracking, more touring, remixing and collaborations with artists, scientists and dancers has opened up a world of possibilities for them, and 2012 saw them doing what they do best – writing a new studio record that they can take back out on the road.

65’s early years marked them as a band impossible to define. In a certain light, sure, they were a ‘post-rock’ band, sharing stages and a mastery of dynamics with stalwarts like Mogwai and Explosions in the Sky. 2007 brought a back- of-the-van tour of America with post-hardcore bands. A year later they returned as an ‘arena band’, opening up for The Cure for months, playing to hundreds of thousands of people. They carved themselves out an unclassifiable brand of noise that appealed on a fundamental level across the board, allowing them to conduct punk-rock stage-invasions at festivals like Dour, mould abrasive noise into unlikely anthems on a huge scale at mega- festivals like Summersonic, and create tents full of glitchy, angular dancing at Glade Festival with equal success.

65DAYSOFSTATOC PLAY HARE & HOUNDS BIRMINGHAM ON THURS 29TH AUGUST 2013, WITH SUPPORT FROM THE PHYSICS HOUSE BAND. TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE.

Check out this recent live session for BeatCast:

http://youtu.be/TInTWrwCCBo

After a SXSW that resulted in national coverage on NBC Rock Center, Fuse News, and Rolling Stone, a US tour with Alabama Shakes as well as three sold-out headline London shows earlier this year, Houndmouth released their much-anticipated debut album, From the Hills Below the City, via Rough Trade.

The albums twelve songs are packed with tales of down-on-their-luck drug runners, casinos, riverboats, recession-era scraping, and more. All members of Houndmouth sing, “leading with individual character and harmonizing in saloon-choir empathy,” writes Rolling Stone’s David Fricke, and their songs have a loose-limbed swing, anchored by a sturdy rhythm and a cagey melodic sensibility.

Now Houndmouth are set to embark on a string of UK dates in September 2013, including Birmingham’s Hare & Hounds on Sun 8th.

Houndmouth Links: Website | Facebook | Twitter

HOUNDMOUTH PLAY HARE & HOUNDS BIRMINGHAM ON SUN 8TH SEPTEMBER 2013. TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE.

Watch the video for ‘On the Road’ below:

http://youtu.be/fN8Y3lo-Tao

Following previous single ‘Dojo Rising’, Australian four-piece Cloud Control have revealed a new track entitled ‘Scar’. This will be the second single to be taken from their forthcoming record, sophomore album Dream Cave due out in the UK on 16 September via Infectious Music.

Originally hailing from Australia’s Blue Mountains, but now residing in the UK, Cloud Control are applying last minute magic to the follow up to 2010’s Bliss Release (released to critical acclaim, including 4* reviews in Q, The Times andThe Guardian). The album won the Australian Music Prize, the antipodean equivalent of the Mercury Prize, and the band spent countless hours in the backs of vans and tour buses notching up over four hundred gigs across the globe including support slots with Vampire Weekend, Weezer and Arcade Fire.

Whereas their debut was ostensibly a home recording, for Dream Cave Cloud Control decamped to the Kent countryside with producer and mix engineer Barny Barnicott (Arctic Monkeys, Plan B, Peace & Franz Ferdinand) to capture something utterly unique – an addictive swirl that uniquely blurs together the psychedelic guitar pop and soaring West Coast harmonies of their debut with warm electronics, programmed loops and reverb-soaked percussion.

Cloud Control Links: Website | Facebook | Twitter

CLOUD CONTROL PLAY HARE & HOUNDS BIRMINGHAM ON THURS 26TH SEPTEMBER 2013. TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE.

Stream their latest single ‘Scar’ below:
https://soundcloud.com/cloud-control/scar-2

After their hugely successful & well received début slot at this years Mostly Jazz Funk & Soul Festival we are pleased to announce that Young Pilgrims will be headlining H&H on 26th September as part of the THSH Jazzlines Series.

The modern day marching band combine a vibrant compositional style of rootsy jazz mixed with brass heavy instrumentation making them a thoroughly exhilarating act to watch. Band leader, Richard Foote, recently spoke to THSH about how the band came together, the choosing of their name & the eclectic mix of music that have influenced them . You can read the full interview here and check out their single ‘Anstey’s Zen Place’ below:

https://soundcloud.com/thshbirmingham/ansteys-zen-place-richard

In support are Horse House, Tom Ford’s realization of the inspirational pre-swing and bebop musics with Ford on guitar and banjo, Sam Watts on accordion and melodica and Mike Fletcher on alto sax and flute.

Advanced £8 tickets are now on sale, you can grab yours here.

We are delighted to announce that Jam Hott will be bringing DJ Maseo (De La Soul) to H&H Saturday 17th August

Producer / DJ / part-time MC, Vincent Mason a.k.a Maseo a.k.a Plug 3 from iconic Hip-Hop group De La Soul is one of the busiest and most respected party rocking DJs around. In recent years Maseo has been working on his “DJ-Conductor” concept album and can currently be seen in the award-winning “Beats Rhymes & Life” A Tribe Called Quest documentary keeping the peace between the stars of the movie.

Don’t miss your opportunity to catch one of Hip-Hops greats in the intimate surroundings of our 250 capacity venue. It’s set to be one hell of party. To get hold of your advanced tickets just click here. We’ll see you on the dance floor.

After their triumphant show at The Rainbow in May, Birmingham Promoters are very excited to be welcoming SKATERS back to Birmingham, this time to the Hare & Hounds.

SKATERS formed in late 2011 after singer Michael Cummings and Noah Rubin (The Dead Trees, Adam Green, Little Joy) spent a year trading demos back and forth from Los Angeles to London with guitarist Joshua Hubbard(The Paddingtons, Dirty Pretty Things).

The three met in the middle to record an EP in a Manhattan loft, and never left the city. The result is a smart, dynamic punk band drawing inspiration from obscure genres and cultures. And, a live band featuring a growing cast of young energetic musicians of the Boston and NYC music scenes.

“Skaters know just how to encapsulate that classic lo-fi garage pop sound that many can only hope to achieve.” – Indie Shuffle
“Bursts with sharp, well-defined riffs and smooth, charismatic vocals.” – Lost at E Minor

Links: Website | Facebook | Twitter

SKATERS PLAY HARE & HOUNDS BIRMINGHAM ON SUN 1ST SEPTEMBER 2013. TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE.

Check out the video for title track ‘Schemers’ below:

http://youtu.be/6tA3ddJSrNw

Sylvain Sylvain was one of the creative member’s of the truly trend setting inspirational band of the seventies, The New York Dolls. Their visual style influenced the sound and the look of many new wave and 1980s-era glam metal groups, and they were at pinnacle the local New York scene that later spawned The Ramones, Blondie, Television and Talking Heads.

The band was influenced by vintage rhythm and blues the early Rolling Stones, classic American girl group songs, and protopunk bands such as the MC5 and The Stooges, as well as glam rockers such as Marc Bolan. In synthesizing this wide variety of influences they created something which critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote “doesn’t really sound like anything that came before it. It’s hard rock with a self-conscious wit, a celebration of camp and kitsch that retains a menacing, malevolent edge.”

After splitting in 1975 Sylvain went onto record solo albums and write songs for David Johanson solo albums. Then in 2004 Morrissey asked them to play Meltdown Festival in London and the band reformed for more shows including the O2 Wireless Festival and Lounge on the Farm in the UK in 2008.
Now Sylvain Sylvain is going back out on the road with his version of the New York Dolls. He will be playing classic Dolls tunes as well as his own new material including the latest single ‘Leaving New York’.

Sylvain Sylvain Links: Website | Facebook

SYLVAIN SYLVAIN OF NEW YORK DOLLS PLAYS A SOLO ACOUSTIC SET AT THE HARE & HOUNDS BIRMINGHAM ON WED 24TH JULY 2013. TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE.

Watch the video for ‘Leaving New York’ below:

http://youtu.be/ypAvjbRs3uA

It was a century ago when I first saw Akron/Family perform, in the tiny back room of a bar in Brooklyn that held perhaps 20 people. Cables and extension cords laced through their legs, they proffered a sort of delicate, improvisational experimentalism, laced with occasional rock grooves, but most extraordinarily, often punctuated with beautiful 4 part harmonies…Absolutely thrilling, stunning, and great fun, too.

Much time has passed, and we find them rocking (still rocking) but now in a skittering kaleidoscope. The shards of music styles and influences flung through the speakers from all directions, congealing for a second, then just as quickly dissolving into something new and unexpected. They’re amphetamine crazed jugglers of sound and texture, but there’s always those vocals, rooting the thing in a deep and satisfying place. A conflation of orchestrated Jazz, Prog Psych, R&B and devotional mantras.

“Organic and jubilant, it successfully weaves psych, world, rock, and folk traditions into something new and endlessly compelling.” – Pichfork

Akron/Family Links: Website | Facebook | Twitter

AKRON FAMILY PLAY HARE & HOUNDS BIRMINGHAM ON MON 22ND JULY, WITH SUPPORT FROM JUNEAU BROTHERS & M. GEDDES GENGRAS. TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE.

Check out the video for ‘Until The Morning’ below:

http://youtu.be/Bs6HoaSu7I4

Balkanic Eruption return for their Summer Blowout with plans to make you feel like you are in the deepest, hottest part of the Balkans, chomping on a watermelon while your sexy little hips wiggle to and fro. Tonight see’s them going all Klezmer-tronic as they welcome these Leeds based maestros  Tantz to Hare and Hounds.

Their style is hypnotic and irresistible- a special kind of electro-Klezmer, they deliver a hard hitting blend of Eastern European folk and broken beats which I challenge you not to wiggle to, check them out on bandcamp here.

After the live act you can expect a selection of Balkan beats and Gypsy goodness resident DJs Uncle Zitty, Will Itsasecret until the early hours. It all kicks of at 9pm with advanced £5 tickets available here.

1EYE are back with their exciting new Reggae sound and playing live tomorrow night at Hare and Hounds.

Taking influence from the likes of John Holt, Ken Boothe and The Heptones, their eagerly awaited second album ‘Worries & Trouble’ is guaranteed to rock the dance-floor! The exciting new Reggae show with its sweet sounds and skanking licks will take you back to a classic Kingston vibe. Check out the video for their single ‘Mr Bailiff’ below:

http://youtu.be/Fm1Jv284DZQ

 You can still get hold of advanced tickets right here, with a limited amount of £5 early bird tickets still available. Support on the night comes from Tempting Rose and all kicks off at 9pm.