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Fri 19th

Eat Your Ears presents
TILLY & THE WALL
+ Semifinalists
+ Emmy The Great

Doors 7.30
£7.50 from
TicketWeb / 08700 600 100
 SeeTickets / 0870 060 3777
Rough Trade, Covent Gd: 020 7240 0105

Midwestern band Tilly And The Wall consists of two dressed-down boys, two glamorous girls and one frenzied hoofer, the tutu-wearing Julie Williams. With pockets full of melodies they sprang out of Nowheresville, USA, with a penchant for classic '60s pop, boy/girl harmonies and American folk records.
They create jagged, elegant songs, and rejoice in tales of friendship, broken hearts and youthful dreams and frustrations. Their sound is distinctive and classic at the same time. If you're looking for reference points, somewhere between Rilo Kiley, Belle And Sebastian and Bright Eyes would be a good place to start. And the songs are as catchy as anything. Perfectly humable after one listen. And likely to induce involuntary toe tapping.
Talking of which - percussion on most tracks is provided by Julie's nimble-toed tap-dances! She's also been known to bang old leather suitcases with drumsticks.

"An optimistic celebration of self-destruction, unspoken longing and adolescent rebellion, it combines the whimsical spirit of the Polyphonic Spree with the melancholy of Kirsty MacColl." [The Guardian]

East London's Semifinalists provide main support and play a live set of raw, melodic, punky pop post rock, mixing delicate tunes with driving drums and layers of guitar. Imagine all the '80s pop hit records melted into one huge blob, then re-cut and re-constructed by King Crimson and Sonic Youth. Of course references can be made to The Flaming Lips, The Unicorns, Cindy Lauper etc. but fuck that. Semifinalists may sound like psychedelic pop/folk weirdness schizophrenia, but they are punk.
First on is the "acoustic, honey-voiced angel of British anti-folk, the British Regina Spektor... Emmy The Great
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