Live music listings: June 2006

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Sun 25th

The Luminaire presents
JOHNNY BOY
+ Saint Jude's Infirmary
+ The Indelicates

Doors 8.00
£5 via WeGotTickets
£6 door

Our headliners, Johnny Boy, have written one of our favourite songs of the past five years.
Read this:
"Johnny Boy, a duo comprising Davo from Liverpool and Lolly from London, hook up Spector's echoing glockenspiels, acoustic guitars and fanfare brass to a gradually galloping rhythm and a melody of heartbreaking sadness and joy. Then Lolly's voice (part indie-girl fragility, part Shangri-La stridency) paints a picture of winter evening streets swimming with consumerist middle-youth 'heathens', complaining that things are getting worse, yet unable or unwilling to grasp their own cool-hunting complicity." [The Guardian, single of the month]
"Taking Phil Spector's "wall of sound" and projecting it against infinity, they make a sound that stretches all the way from the 1960s to 2010. Johnny Boy is Karl Marx produced by Trevor Horn, Xenomania with C4 strapped to their chests, a Molotov cocktail delivered to the beat." [Static Media]
"Unadulterated joy and tons of unabashed fun, without retraction or apology or deference, just fist-pumping, hip-swaggering, and bonkers tunes." [Stylus]
Main support, Saint Judes Infirmary prove the Velvet Underground would have sounded great with a Scottish accent. Dark and poetic, they may also be the first band to name a song after Jack Vettriano.
“Truly spine-tingling dream pop…star-crossed mix of Blondie and Leonard Cohen." [BBC]
"Fire and brimstone country…similarly unexpected meditations on the bombing of Dresden in 1945 and actress Jean Seberg offer a glimpse into a world of laudable strangeness. [Q Magazine]
And here's the dope on The Indelicates:
"Neo-Brecht/Weill theatricality? Check. Profane razor strop wit? Check. Irreverent misanthropy? Check. Scathing socio-cultural critiques? Check. Acid sweet indiepop songcraft? Check. Meet the first Great band of 2006, the fabulously unfashionable, unfashionably fabulous Indelicates. [Rolling Stone]
"One of the most exciting new bands in the country." [Gigwise]
"Stunning." [NME]


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