Another weekly update of this weeks events at The Hare & Hounds including cheap offers! See if there’s anything for you!

MONDAY
Venue1:
Birmingham Promoters presents… Twin Atlantic / Failsafe / Templeton Pek
alternative/rock – http://www.myspace.com/twinatlantic
http://www.birminghampromoters.com – £6adv/(msg back for cheap list)
Back Bar:
Quiz

TUESDAY
Venue1:
Capsule presents… Fuck Buttons/Zun Zun Egui/Theo
Evoking, melodic mix of noise, drone & dance – http://www.myspace.com/fuckbuttons
http://capsule.org.uk/ – £7adv
Venue2:
Salsa

WEDNESDAY
Venue2:
Blitz Dames presents… Clothes ‘n’ Cake Sale! clothes/cakes/vintage/jewellery/accessories/crafts/merchandise
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=166530945976&ref=ts – £1
The Stable:
Darkroom presents…Dirty Dancing
In honour of the late Patrick Swayze
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=135840072627 – Free Entry
Back Bar:
Quiz

THURDAY
Venue1:
Miss Perry presents…Band Of Skulls –
Alternative/rock – http://www.myspace.com/bandofskulls
http://www.missperrypresents.com – £4adv
Venue2:
Rich Batsford presents…Rich Batsford Album Launch Event
Acoustic/ambient/classical – http://www.myspace.com/richbatsford- £5

FRIDAY
Venue1:
Industry Records presents…1 EYE
Latin, reggae, soul and Jazz – http://www.myspace.com/1eyemusicuk http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=153524408102&ref=mf – £5
Venue2:
The Goodie Bag presents…The Goodie Bag 1st Birthday Bash “The Madhatters Tea Party” – http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=133943857605 – £3

SATURDAY
Venue1:
vinspired Lake of Stars presents…The Pete box /Tempting Rosie/Fistful of Dynamite
Ska/funk/indie/jazz/afro-beat/beatbox
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=126956462013 – £5/4 cons

SUNDAY
Venue1:
Birmingham Promoter presents…The Boxer Rebellion / The Molotovs / This Love Affair – Indie/Rock/alternative – http://www.myspace.com/theboxerrebellion
£9adv – http://www.birminghampromoters.com
Venue1:
Samba workshop: 1pm-4pm

Also, tickets now on sale for:

Band of Skulls/The Boxer Rebellion/Wild Beasts/Doll & The Kicks/The Parlotones/Kill It Kid/ Die! Die! Die!/Sultans of Ping/Nine Black Alps/iLiKETRAiNS/MAPS/The Twilight Sad/Owen Tromans/Everett/Ugly Duckling/Kurran And The Wolfnotes/Exlovers/Jeremy Warmsley/The Drones/Detatchments/Jonquil/Good Shoes/The Bookhouse Boys/Chris Helme (SEAHORSES)

To buy cheaper tickets in advance visit:
http://www.seetickets.com/?p=6807

For more info and updates on listings visit:
http://www.hareandhoundskingsheath.co.uk/full-listings/

Come Say Hi!

x H & H x

One of the hottest DJs on the planet is coming back for another show on Oct 22nd.  Advance tickets will be available from tomorrow (see event listing for details)

For those who were too slow on the uptake last time, here’s a little taster.

HEY HEY ROCK’N’ROLL ! Don’t miss out this weekend! This Friday we have old-school rockabilly favourites Nate Pilgrim and The Magnificatz, stompin and a jumpin’, bringing you 1950’s style , blend of rock ‘n’ roll and hillbilly! expect quiffs and twists!

SUPPORT LOCAL BANDS! Come check out the talent this Saturday where Indie Rock quartet Rase Launch their new EP, suspport comes from local bands Lost Calm and Finding Calcutta, only £3 entry so make sure you spend those extra pennies purchasing a CD!!!

Topping off Saturday night is the Moseley Folk Festival After Party – 11pm onwards – Only £5 entry! Two rooms of psych folk and ceilidh fun! Featuring Blues / Folk Rock / Progressive band Wolf People and Psychedelic / Progressive / Hip Hop  artist  Andy Votel.

Be there or be square daddy-o!

We have received an email from Steve Lawler’s agent informing us that this gig will have to be postponed until December (Fri 4th has been pencilled for now but we’re awaiting confirmation).  Although this is a decision made by the artist and his agent (not the venue or promoter), we’d still like to apologise on their behalf for any inconvenience caused.  

Contact the ticketsellers for refunds or hold on to your tickets until we have confirmed the december date.

After a short break recovering from our annual festival Supersonic, Capsule are back at the Hare & Hounds, kicking back into full gear with ELECTRIC WIZARD, described by many as the heaviest band in the world!
Crushing doom, a sonic aural trip far, far away from this world, where only cyclopean walls of crackling vintage valve amplifiers set to the full overdrive and primal ritualistic beats can wash away all the filth and drudgery of everyday life.
Their sound is a crushing behemoth of funeral march psychedelia. Violent, bleak and ritualistic, we bow to the black altar of the RIFF.

Joined by Canadian flute-tinged witch rock band, BLOODY CEREMONY – think Jethro Tull meets Sabbath.
Tickets are sure to sell out for this show – so don’t miss out and book now
https://www.theticketsellers.co.uk/

Blood Ceremony

At least one of these treats must be tempting enough to entice you out:

Thursday 6th August

Tonight we’ve got the ‘progressive’ Mr Cricket, who’ll be supported with ‘introspective retrospection’ from Is I Cinema, Pitseleh and Anna Burge from Brummieland. These four inventive, unconventional local acts will no doubt make for a night that will open your eyes and ears.

Friday 7th August

Moseley Folk present The Lunar Society, who have teamed up with The Local to bring you an evening of 3 great live acts – the ‘Gypsy Freddie Mercury’ David Thomas Broughton, She Keeps Bees and Tom Peel.

Or you could join Whomanity who present Rhubarb In Session, ‘a night of real root vibrations’ whilst supporting the Birmingham community Rhubarb Radio Station.

Saturday 8th August

Get your groove on with the legendary Colin Curtis funking things up with northern soul, jazz-funk and house. Residents Frenchie, Bruce Q and Tony T will also be keeping the beat going.

Or if you fancy a feast for the eyes and ears try Cinephonic, where Skeleton and Dolhasz will be taking you on a road trip full of beats and breaks. Resident DJ Mark Reck will be hitching a lift.

Tiring week? Tough, because there’s no rest for the wicked. You’re going to have to save your sleep for later.

Thursday

Miss Perry Presents local talent Pulled Apart by Horses, a Leeds four-piece fronted by Brummie boy Tom Hudson as lead ‘shouter guitarer’. What Rocksound Magazine call their ‘manic art-punk convulsion’ will be supported by Kidnapper Bell and Brummie of the Year, Kerrang! Radio DJ Johnny Doom.

Friday

Say hello to the weekend and that with a Beast Rave An That! There’ll be live music from Old School Tie, Death Ohh Eff and Andre Aristotle. There’ll also be tunes and that from DJ’s Drive By Disco, Get Rimmed, 10 Guitars vs Andy&Jonny (Hench&Tonk) and Ryan Quinlan (Erotic Spirals) as well as pretty visuals and that from Jonathan Gordon, Sean O’Rourke, Andrew Watson & Ryan Quinlan & That. And if you’re still not tired at chucking out time, there’s an after party and that on at The Adam.

Saturday

It’s a party night of of funk, breaks, jazz and drum ‘n’ bass with the E-Z Roller 10 Year Anniversary Tour. E-Z Roller DJ’s will be supported with vocals from The Lady Roller and Messy MC. And yes, they’ll be performing that one from Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. You can also enjoy tunes from Roy Roast Beef b2b Richie Re-issue, Marc Reck and DJ Reaction. I defy anyone to get through this night without dancing their socks off.

If you fancy a slightly sexin’ Saturday night Sumo Presents the Sexual Allstars. ‘Lopan and Kaiser will chop, scratch,slice and dice their way through hip hop, hardcore, electro, breaks, theme tunes and accapellas’ whilst the baddest boy of them all Danny Damage lowers the tone to bass level with old school jungle and D’n’B. Sumo Grandmaster Dani c will join in the gang-bang and Blendstate will show you some utterly filthy visuals.

Tuesday

Hopefully your ears will be rested enough to appreciate the astounding singer-songwriting talent of Mary Gauthier telling, “Her rich, gothic country tales of broken homes and chemical abuse” (Interview). She’s been bought to you all the way from Louisianna by World Unlimited.

I hope you’ve had a nice and quiet week, because it’s going to be a rather noisy weekend. One containing possibly the best live night of the year, no less. Here’s the lowdown:

Thursday

The Will To Rally are a group that don’t get out much because ‘we are very slack’. But they’re making an extra-special trip into the great outdoors because they heart Birmingham. Check their Myspace page to find out just how much. The Will To Rally are supported by Colnel Fabian, who are ‘inspired by insanity’, and The Manhattan Project.

Friday

Last year’s Roy Ayers gig at the Hare and Hounds was awarded ‘Best Live Night of 2008’ by the Night Times Awards. Will this year’s be treat enough to match? You betcha. It’s going to be that great we’re needing to have two shows over the evening (check the listings entry for details).

If you catch the early show you can carry on the fun afterwards and enjoy a bite from the Goodie Bag, which contains banging tunes Mikee Lazy and Dj Judge (performing as ClubbRock for the first time).

Saturday

You are required to attend an Eviction Notice served by Dubmatic, so you’d better do as you’re told or there’ll be trouble. Evictees include Nipsy, Somantix B2B Standfast, Roskow B2B Adam Noize, Malicous B2B Doctor, Professor D B2B Rtillery (Live P.A.).

Here’s a sneak preview of all the fun that’s to come:

Wednesday

Tonight Rogue States will be rocking the house from 7.30pm, with poetic songs about ‘love and loss, opportunity and frustration, certainty and faith.’ They’re supported by Berlin Blockade.

Thursday

It’s your monthly dose of laughing gas with ‘Off The Cuff’, a live version of Whose Line Is It, Anyway? with ‘silly games, made-up songs, rude jokes, a mountain of audience suggestions, and plenty of belly-laughs’ to keep you amused from 8.00pm.

Friday

Join Funkbox from 9.00pm to celebrate the launch of Crate Escape Records’ new release ‘Soundsci’ with Ollie Teeba (The Herbaliser). Ollie will be joined by Soundsci producer Jonny Cuba and Funkbox’s own DJ Cro for one seriously funky party.

Saturday

Atlanta’s Manchester Orchestra comes to Birmingham for a ‘raw, urgent, emotional, and 100 percent authentic’ performance to mark the release of their second album Mean Everything To Nothing. With the first six songs merging into one another without so much as a pause for breath, this promises to be an exhilarating and exhausting night.

Tuesday

Keep next Tuesday evening free in your diaries for Dear Reader, who are fresh from their appearance at the Grahamstown National Arts Festival in their home South Africa. They are supported with ‘clever, catchy pop’ from Birmingham-based quartet The Heathers.

And that’s your lot (until next week). We’ll leave you with the pretty impressive video for Manchester Orchestra’s ‘I Can Barely Breathe’. Enjoy then come on down and see them on Sat!

Hopefully you’re not feeling too washed out after all that rain to enjoy the great gigs we’ve got lined up for this weekend:

Thursday

• Tonight we’ve got the excellent Kevin Hewick, who recorded tracks with the surviving members of Joy Division after Ian Curtis’ death before they formed New Order. He’s also enjoyed support slots with Roy Harper, The Fall, Joy Division, PJ Harvey, Martin Carthy, Kevin Coyne, Fairport Convention and Dr.Robert. It’s an unticketed event, so get here early to avoid disappointment.

Friday

• On Friday night we have a great Platform Promotions gig, where Prospect Lane are set to rock the house down. They’ll be supported by RedRoots, Lazy J and Barnesy

Saturday

• Saturday night promises to be something incredibly special – Cog and Bunka bring you the legendary techno DJ Billy Nasty. He’s supported by Cog residents Hog and Lee Richez, and Bunka Residents Matt Tilley and Paolo Riozzi until the early hours. Pre-book your ticket to avoid disappointment, as this one’s likely to be a sell-out.

Monday

• After a well-earned Day of Rest on Sunday we’re going to be easing ourselves into Monday with contemporary reggae band Groundation on their Birmingham debut, for an evening of ‘awesome organic fusion of Roots Reggae, transcendental Dub and heavy Jazz fusion’. Sounds like a lovely start to the working week.