17th July show with The Crookes

We're playing a show at the Bull and Gate in Kentish Town, London, for our lavley label Fierce Panda, here's what you need to know:

A BRAND NEW SHOW COMES TO THE BULL & GATE!

THE MOST RADICALIST BLACK SHEEP MUSIC & FIERCE PANDA JOIN FURCES!

TO LAUNCH MONTHLY NIGHT CALLED SHEAR ME NOW!

THE MOST RADICALIST BLACK SHEEP MUSIC & FIERCE PANDA PRESENT…

'SHEAR ME NOW!'

Starring…THE CROOKES + THE KABEEDIES + PANDA CUBS

TUESDAY JULY 17TH 2012

LONDON KENTISH TOWN BULL & GATE (389 Kentish Town Road, NW5 2TJ. 020 7485 5358)

DOORS 7.30PM

ADVANCE TICKETS £6.50 from www.wegottickets.com/bullandgate/event/172479

July 17th sees the launch of a brand new monthly co-promotion between fierce panda and The Most Radicalist Black Sheep Music, aka TMR Black Sheep, the in-house music arm of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH).

"Music's right at the heart of the culture at BBH. For us 'Shear Me Now!' is a way to extend what we do every day - we want to put ourselves out there to get even more involved with finding and working with new musicians and bands. We're really excited to be launching this brilliant new night with fierce panda."

Wise words all round, and here are the artists for that opening night…

THE CROOKES (onstage 9.45pm) are four handsomely dressed NewPop dudes from the Republic Of Yorkshire who are playing this fearsomely low key show to celebrate the launch of their new fierce panda single, 'Maybe In The Dark', out on July 23rd. This supremely svelte event follows the release of their sophomore album 'Hold Fast' on July 9th, and collapses most elegantly in the midst of festival appearances at Latitude, Benicassim and Tramlines back home in Sheffield. THE CROOKES' crisply-ruffled tunes have appeared on 'Lorraine', 'GMTV', 'Waterloo Road', 'The Big Bang Theory', 'Jamie's Great Britain' and, obviously, with ruthless regularity during the Monday evening goals round up on 'Look North'. www.thecrookes.co.uk

THE KABEEDIES (onstage 9.00pm) are from Norwich and have traditionally played fizzbombingly effervescent boy / girl / boy / boy leftfield pop which is bouncy like Tigger in a minefield and found global infamy via their 'Come On' track appearing on an Xbox advert. Latterly however they have added a mature sombreness to their sound, as evidenced by current album 'Soap' and supersad imminent single 'Bones' (released on fierce panda on July 23rd). http://thekabeedies.bandcamp.com/

PANDA CUBS (onstage 8.15pm) are from York and, amazingly, they don't have a release coming out on fierce panda in the next half hour. What they do have however is a broody, bruised outlook on musical life which manifests itself in gloriously dark pop outbursts which nod at the shadowy outlines of Editors and Interpol. Shadowy, we say… http://soundcloud.com/pandacubs

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