Blow Up night at HMV’s Next Big Thing 2011
We’re pleased to announce that Blow Up will be hosting a night at Upstairs @ The Garage as part of the second year of HMV’s Next Big Thing festival . Spread over 6 London venues (plus one in Birmingham and Edinburgh) and running between 4th – 13th February 2011, the festival’s aim is to showcase and celebrate the very best new and emerging talent drawn from all genres of music tipped to breakthrough in 2011. The Blow Up night is the first date of the festival on Friday 4th February , and Blow Up Records ‘ artists Baltic Fleet , Silvery and The Bongolian will be playing live, following by the Blow Up club at 11pm until 3am with DJs Paul Tunkin & Ian Jackson bringing you the classic Blow Up mix of Orgasmic Pop, Psych, 60s Mod Soul and New Wave Glam action. Expect to hear a selection ranging from The Beatles to Bowie to Blur mixed with 60s moves and grooves (Soul, Boogaloo, Garage, Ska, Beat and Swinging Soundtracks). Entry to all events for the festival will be for the bargain price of a flat £10 (incl. b/f), whoever the artist and whichever the venue. Tix here 14/1/2011 UPDATE – BIG BOSS MAN ADDED TO THE BILL – playing a late night show as part of the Blow Up clubnight that follows. Baltic FleetPhoto: Adam Banister BALTIC FLEET is the work of Warrington based artist Paul Fleming. Influenced by artists such as Eno, The Doves, NEU!, Sigur Ros and DJ Shadow, his 2008 eponymous debut (written and recorded whilst on a World Tour playing keyboards for Echo & the Bunnymen), was picked by Rough Trade Shop for their monthly Record Club, and went on to be placed in their Top 50 Albums of 2008 (and also in Piccadilly Records’ Albums of 2008). His first show since 2008 , Paul will showcasing material from his second album, due for release mid-2011. “BUNNYMAN HAS FUN ON THE AUTOBAHN – Sombre, Sigur Ros-like post-rock, fuzzy bass grooves [and] energising NEU!-style motorik” UNCUT “A faultless piece of instumental music that captures the spirit of Eno, NEU! all the way through to modern post rock and chamber music” ROUGH TRADE “A thirteen-track industrial drive along roads of ambient melodies . Skin pricklingly authentic” CLASH SILVERY are an eccentric London four-piece whose music has been described as anything from Artrock, to Glam to Britpop. Lead singer and songwriter James Orman immerses us in a unmistakeably English world of Victoriana and wit. This show follows a headline spot at Club NME @ Koko in January, and comes just before the release of their new single ‘Two Halves Of The Same Boy’. Playlisted on BBC 6Music (15/1/2011) the third from their critically acclaimed second album ‘RailwayArchitecture’: “Exhilarating art-pop from band bordering on greatness” ★ ★ ★ ★ UNCUT “Hunt down this album” ★ ★ ★ ★ Artrocker “Genius twisted pop. A truly original pop masterpiece” ★ ★ ★ ★ BIG CHEESE “Stylish, literate and witty but properly hook-aware” TIME OUT SILVERYTHEBAND.COM THE BONGOLIAN is the alter-ego of Big Boss Man’s main man Nasser Bouzida – a multi-instrumentalist who blends elements of Funk, Soul and Jazz with grinding percussion and heavy Bongo rhythms, resulting in dirty percussive bongo driven Funk and Spaced-out Latin Soul. His releases have become recordbox essentials for DJs, finding a wide appeal from Dance and Hip-Hop to rare groove and funky 45s fans, and to date The Bongolian and his band have toured USA, UK and Europe. Following his 2008′s ‘Outer Bongolia’, The Bongolian will release his 4th album ‘Bongos For Beatniks’ in early 2011. “Nasser Bouzida is a man with talent to spare. A Latin-flavoured jazz-funk odyssey” Q Magazine “Forget your preconceptions, this is the REAL incredible bongo band” CLASH “Mightily funky. Part mod, part Sergio Mendes, very swingin” TIME OUT THE BONGOLIAN: BIG BOSS MAN just added to the bill for tonight. They’ll be playing a late night show as part of the Blow Up club. “Excellent” Mark Lamarr, BBC Radio 2 “The Sgt Pepper of boogaloo – and you can’t go without breakfast, can you?” music 4/5, sonic 4/5 Hi-Fi Choice “Effortlessly hip” 4 stars – Echoes