HARLEM (US, Matador) @ Head Of Steam, June 14th

I can't think of any better way to spend a summer's evening than in front of Harlem live.

These fantastic new Matador signings play a kind of grungey garage rock with the warmth of a 10pm beachside sunset and the sweetness of a pair of ice cream cones.

And so infectious! tunes like "Gay Human Bones" and "South Of France", with sparse materials: a guitar, a drum kit, some singing, a bass, will incurably bury themselves in your mind like some jungle dwelling monkey Tick. So deep that no doctor in the western world could ever remove. I'm speaking as the chronically infected here.



Tickets are £6 advance.
at RPM
or HERE

for fans of:
the pixies, black lips, sic alps, wavves, jay reatard, surf rock, stooges with a load of echoes


Photographs:
Click Here for Hi Res Photographs of Harlem

MP3s:
Click here for Mp3s from their latest album 'Hippies'

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Nina Nastasia @ Cluny 2 May 26th

Honey throated songstress and (John) Peel darling Nina Nastasia comes to Newcastle for an intimate concert in Cluny 2.

She'll be touring Outlaster, her first record since 2007's You Follow Me, the collobaration with Jim White of Dirty Three.

Hollywood-born but now resident in New York City, Nina has carved out a career as a singer-songwriter there since the early '90s, making grand-sounding chamber folk bouyed with sumptous string orchestrations that lie somewhere between Bill Callahan, Will Oldham and Vashti Bunyan.
To date her six albums - 'Dogs' (2000), 'The Blackened Air' (2001), ‘The Blackened Air’ (2002), ‘Run To Ruin’ (2003), ‘On Leaving’ (2006) and ‘You Follow Me’ (2007) – have garnered widespread critical acclaim and a devoted fanbase. Dogs was a favourite of the late John Peel, and legendary producer Steve Albini had this to say about the record:

"In the process of making a record, you hear it so many times that the charms of even the best of them can wear off through over-exposure. On rare occasions, records I've worked on have withstood this scrutiny and ended up being personal favorites. Nina Nastasia's 'Dogs' is a record so simultaneously unassuming and grandiose that I can't really describe it, except in terms that would make it (and me) sound silly. Of the couple thousand records I've been involved with, this is one of my favourites, and one that I'm proud to be associated with."

TICKETS:
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Photographs:
CLICK HERE FOR HI RES PHOTOGRAPHS OF NINA NASTASIA

MP3:
or check out the new single here:
http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/release.php?id=315

Facebook:
Click here for the Nina Nastasia Facebook Event

Recommended Newcastle gigs April and May

Here's a list of gigs in Newcastle that you should see in April and May. Even if it's a recession that's affecting you so bad that you're eating you're own shoes. Back in my day shoes was all we ever had to eat and we didn't complain, we just went to gigs anyhow. Click for Facebook invites and more details.

APRIL:

15th: G.Involved Presents: Gold Panda


23rd: Pmnt Vibes presents: A Grave With No Name
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30th: Pmnt Vibes presents: Talk Normal

May:

1st: G.I. Presents Crystal Antlers

2nd: ex libris presents Darren Hayman

8th: P4foxes Presents THE SLITS

10th: G. I. Presents: Think About Life

11th: Cluny Presents Ted Leo and the Pharmacists

16th: The Sage Ghead Presents Randy Newman

19th: Pmnt Vibes presents: Ganglians

26th P4foxes presents NINA NASTASIA

30th/31st May: Jumpin Hot Club Presents:
Dawn Landes, The Unthanks, King Creosote, Donovan, Slow Club, Lissie @ Evolution Festival