Vivian Girls @ Newcastle Cluny, January 21st

Portions is bringing NYC's Vivian Girls to Newcastle on January 21st.

Here's some critical acclaim for the band:

“The Vivian Girls drop sweet girl-group melodies into proto-shoegaze squalls the way the Jesus & Mary Chain used to and the way groups like the Aislers Set, C86s-ers the Shop Assistants, and the Manhattan Love Suicides have done with female vocalists. They keep the Shangri-Las’ melodrama to boot.” —Pitchfork

“They deflect the knee-jerk criticism the most effective way possible... with an armful of kick-ass songs.” —Pitchfork

“Vivian Girls is a guileless wash of bubblegum melodies, teen angel harmonies, slap-happy drumming, and thick reverb.” —SPIN

“Best Start queuing now….” Time Out

“Self effacingly cool rock” The Guardian

“With echoes of Vaselines and the Shop Assistants in their sound, too, Vivian Girls may just have released the best album of its type in 2008 – this eponymous debut drips with a confidence beyond the band’s years, and fits no particular fashion of today.” Clash Online

“It’s unlikely you’ll find a more tasteful slice of fun on any record this year!” NME


TICKETS:
tickets available at RPM, Beatdown and Alt. Vinyl

CLICK HERE FOR VIVIAN GIRLS TICKETS


www.myspace.com/viviangirlsnyc

PHOTOS:

Click here for Hi Res Photos of Vivian Girls


Support:

Lets Buy Happiness
http://www.myspace.com/letsbuyhappinessuk

+ more tbc

Posters recap

www.thismeanswaugh.blogspot.com

Posters

Hey Portions,

Who does those sweet looking Posters i've seen for your gigs with Daniel Johnston, Wavves, Vivian Girls and Wave Pictures?

Andrew Waugh does them!

Check out the feed for his posters here:

http://thismeanswaugh.blogspot.com/search/label/gig%20poster

cheers,

Portions

buy tickets for Isis in Newcastle

http://www.wegottickets.com/event/59707

Portions For Foxes Presents WAVVES @ Head Of Steam, November

Portions For Foxes Presents:

WAVVES
www.myspace.com/wavves

Ballsy move this.

why ballsy?

That depends on which hipster you ask.
Some consider Wavves, the project of 22 year old skateboarder Nathan Williams, to have recieved a stellar amount of hype in the past year that correlates disproportionately to his talents.

Others recognise his talents like a celebrity Chef recognizes the potential taste of a good recipe:
first create psychedelic pop punk tunes that bring to mind a blend of early Nirvana and Descendents. Give them a skin-graft of Doo Wop: a sprinkling of 50s girl group sounds...The Ronettes for instance.
Then pulverise the two togetherin that No-Wave, Noise-Bath meatgrinder popularised by No Age*
yum.

these are tunes that, upon first hearing, one of the two promoters of this gig was heard to say 'my goodness me, this is catchier than Blink 182'.

there's a Wavve of hype young Mr. Williams is surfing fer sure, but deservedly so. When the tide goes out 20 years from now, tunes like No Hope Kids (see below) and 'So Bored' will remain bouyant because Pop tunes this agreeable will float no matter the era.

same way that Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure still makes for great viewing to this very day.

Where?

Head Of Steam
Newcastle
November 23rd

Photographs:
Click Here for Photographs of Wavves

Tickets:
In shops and at
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/58868

ISIS @ The Cluny, October 26th

Portions For Foxes and Pineapple Folk presents:

ISIS

Los Angeles' undisputed kings of ambient, epic metal visit Newcastle, October 26th.

Isis tour this October in support of their new album Wavering Radiant, and we are pleased to be bringing their apocalyptic metal soundscapes to Newcastle as part of the tour.

Over the space of five albums, four Eps and twelve years, Isis have proved year on year favourites of the discerning rock press. Their musical template: beautiful, soaring melody secreted among slow burning, steamroller riffs and guttural howls have inspired a generation of similar artists worldwide, some to borrow and innovate, growing out of the sound like Isis grew from their early influences, Godflesh, Tool and Melvins, others formulaic clones.

With Wavering Radiant, Isis once more up the ante, weaving further subtleties and nuances between familiar monolithic riffing and sinister ambience. A 54 minute sonic measurement of the distance between Isis and their pretenders.

We're really pleased to have a band with such a world famous live show playing for us.

When:

Isis play The Cluny, Newcastle (Byker)
Monday October 26th

Tickets:

Tickets available Cluny, Hot Rats, Alt Vinyl, Beatdown Records

and here:
http://www.speakeasypr.com/clientbio.php?client=89

Photographs:
Click Here For Hi Res Photographs

Critics say:

4* guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/may/01/isis-wavering-radiant-review

9.1 pfork:
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/4135-oceanic/

8.5 pfork:
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/4136-panopticon/

8/10 rock sound:
http://www.rocksound.tv/reviews/article/isis-wavering-radiant

8/10 drowned in sound:
http://drownedinsound.com/releases/14404/reviews/4136824-isis-wavering-radiant

pff Presents: Daniel Johnston @ Sage Gateshead, Thursday 5th November

DANIEL JOHNSTON

@: The Sage Gateshead, Thursday 5th November @ 7.30pm. Tickets 18.50, see link below
‎

Daniel Johnston has spent the last 20 or so years exposing his heartrending tales of unrequited love, cosmic mishaps, and existential torment to an ever-growing international cult audience.

He began his prolific musical career in the early 1980s, recording albums including 'Songs of Pain' and 'Yip Jump Music' in his parent's basement and self-releasing them on tape.

His status as a cult icon has seen continual resurgence through the acclaim of the late Kurt Cobain, collaboration with Butthole Surfers, Sonic Youth and covers of his music by artists such as Tom Waits, Eels, Bright Eyes and Flaming Lips.

In recent years he was the feature of an acclaimed documentary called 'The Devil and Daniel Johnston.'

CLICK ON THESE WORDS FOR DANIEL JOHNSTON'S PHOTOGRAPHS

CLICK ON THESE WORDS HERE FOR DANIEL JOHNSTON TICKETS AND EVENT DETAILS

Wave Pictures + Stanley Brinks in Newcastle Friday 16th October

THE WAVE PICTURES

+ STANLEY BRINKS

@: Star And Shadow Cinema, Byker. 7.30pm Friday 16th October 2009, tickets 7 pound, see below
‎

The Wave Pictures: Stalwarts of the UK indie scene, The Wave Pictures have done the following in their ten years recording together:

*Toured with Jeffrey Lewis and Herman Dune as support and backing band

* Played Backing to Mountain Goats on records released via 4ad.

* and the same with Darren Hayman of Hefner

* Peel Session

* Singles on brilliant indie Moshi Moshi

* provoked comparison to the likes of Jonathan Richman, Modern Lovers, Morrissey, Jarvis Cocker and Suede, poked at them by knowledgeable critics.

CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS TO WAVE PICTURES AT STAR AND SHADOW

Photographs:

CLICK HERE FOR HI-RES PHOTOGRAPHS OF WAVE PICTURES

Support comes from:


STANLEY BRINKS (Ex Herman Dune, from France)
www.myspace.com/therealstanleybrinks


BLACK CAB CASINO
www.myspace.com/blackcabcasino

Also:

CLICK HERE FOR DIRECTIONS TO STAR AND SHADOW

Portions For Foxes is back!

It's coming through a hole in the air,
from those nights in Tiananmen Square.
It's coming from the feel
that this ain't exactly real,
or it's real, but it ain't exactly there.
From the wars against disorder,
from the sirens night and day,
from the fires of the homeless,
from the ashes of the gay:
Portions For Foxes Promotions is coming to Newcastle Upon Tyne.

It's coming through a crack in the wall;
on a visionary flood of alcohol;
from the staggering account
of the Sermon on the Mount
which I don't pretend to understand at all.
It's coming from the silence
on the dock of the bay,
from the brave, the bold, the battered
heart of Chevrolet:
Portions For Foxes Promotions is coming to Newcastle Upon Tyne.

It's coming from the sorrow in the street,
the holy places where the races meet;
from the homicidal bitchin'
that goes down in every kitchen
to determine who will serve and who will eat.
From the wells of disappointment
where the women kneel to pray
for the grace of God in the desert here
and the desert far away:
Portions For Foxes Promotions is coming to Newcastle Upon Tyne.