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Last Blow Up at the Metro / Last Ever Night of The Metro Club - Sat. 17th Jan. 2009

Take part in history – this will be the LAST EVER NIGHT at The Metro due to the venue’s CPO for Crossrail. The Metro Club has been open as a club (under various names) since the 1950s – this will be your last chance ever to come to the venue. Tickets will not be on sale for tonight. Doors will open early – very early arrival recommended! Blow Up will continue the following week on Saturday 24th January at Bar Rumba.

Silvery - exclusive interview on Dave TVs weekly vodcast - bands to watch 2009

An exclusive interview with Silvery on Dave TVs weekly vodcast, in their Bands to Watch for 2009 .

BLOW UP club moves to new Saturday residency at BAR RUMBA - Sat 24th Jan 2009

Sat. 17th January 2009 – Blow Up – Last Ever Night of The Metro Club (details below) Sat. 24th January 2009 – Blow Up – Opening Night at Bar Rumba – (details below) A bona-fide legendary club night, and now in its 15th year, Blow Up was the centre of the early to mid Nineties Brit Pop explosion, influencing the style and sound of a generation, and voted No.4 in Time Out’s Top Ten Clubs of the 90s. From its original venue The Laurel Tree, Camden Town (1993-1996), to the Wag Club (1996-2001) and then to the Metro Club (2002-2009), Blow Up has continued its long run of sold out nights for over 15 years in an unbroken run. And now, after a seven year residency at the Metro Club, Blow Up will be held here for the very last time on Saturday 17th January 2009, which will also be the last ever night for the Metro Club itself, after which its doors will close forever as a live venue and club (for press release re. venue closure see: www.blowupmetro.com/closure.aspx). The following week, on Saturday 24th January 2009, Blow Up will start a new Saturday night residency at Bar Rumba, 36 Shaftesbury Avenue. This is an exciting move for the club, signalling another new era with a shift back to the Wag-era concept of Blow Up – a bigger capacity with 2 sound systems once again, lights, visuals – and essentially a return to the larger weekly ‘special event’ featuring weekly live showcases as part of the club itself. Blow Up DJs Paul Tunkin and Ian Jackson will be also be joined by weekly guests DJs including some familiar names from over the club’s history . Blow Up was founded by DJ and promoter Paul Tunkin in a Camden pub in Oct 1993. Records were played from the emerging ‘British pop’ scene (that came to be known as Brit Pop) together with Brit-centric 60s and 70s moves and grooves; swinging soundtracks to Mod Beat and Soul; classic pop from The Beatles to Bowie to Blur. The club still stays true to its early ideals – you will hear a selection of indie pop, new wave, pop electronique, underground 60s instrumentals, experimental grooves and easy listening – all sitting nicely alongside a selection of the current favs from artists such as MGMT and Vampire Weekend. Despite its love of buried treasures, Blow Up remains an accessible yet essential night that is always a great party, week after week, year after year.

Blow Up New Year's Eve Party - Last ever at The Metro Club

This will be the last ever New Year’s Eve at The Metro Club and as usual Blow Up will take the controls for the celebrations… Tix. £15 adv from the usual agents… http://www.myspace.com/blowupclub

Give A Little Love by SILVERY - download now!!

Silvery ‘You Give A Little Love’ Ladies and gentlemen we present you the perfect antidote to all the current doom and gloom… We give you… Silvery performing a brand new recording of You Give A Little Love, a cover version of the Paul Williams song as featured in the musical Bugsy Malone. The song has often featured in the Silvery live set and the band thought it was high time to put a studio version down. This track is not included on their fabulous debut album Thunderer & Excelsior, but will is downloadable from all reputable purveyors of digital phonograms and just in time for Christmas! ….Its time to party like its 1929!!!

Blow Up Metro Club venue to close - January 2009

***************************************** METRO CLUB TO CLOSE – January 2009 ***************************************** On Tues 20th Jan 2009 The Metro Club, 19-23 Oxford Street, London will close. This is due to the proposed Tottenham Court Road Station extension. We have been notified by Transport For London that the venue is to be acquired by a compulsory purchase order, under the Crossrail Act. Although the rumblings of Crossrail have been going on for many years it has come up far quicker than any of us could have expected. At present we are looking for new premises to relocate the venue to but have yet to find one suitable. Ultimately it is another nail in the coffin for Central London’s live music and club scene. And when you are about to be served 28 days notice just before Christmas you have to ask why not give people more time to relocate? Why destroy successful businesses when in a recession? Why the hurry? Where is the Westend heading? The final club night of The Metro Club will be Sat 17th January 2009, which will be the Blow Up Club night, currently in it’s 15th year. Blow Up took over the running of The Metro Club as a separate venture to our club night and record label on November 5th 2001, just as the new new wave of bands were about to really start making their moves, many of them at the venue. From debut UK appearances from The Killers, Kings of Leon, to early shows from Bloc Party, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kaiser Chiefs, to hundreds of other new and breaking acts as well as a few legendary characters making an appearances such as Dion’s first and only UK show in 18 years in 2007 and madcap krautrockers Faust. And to name a few from the pop world: MIKA (first ever show), Scissor Sisters and Robyn. A totally independent venue – not corporate – which is rare, and soon to be even more so in central London. Today we have launched a photo gallery on http://www.blowupmetro.com, featuring just some of the photos from our archives taken at the club over the last 7 years, with more to be added soon. If you would like to leave any comments on our closure, please leave them here on the official venue facebook page here: facebook.com/blowupmetro . Thank you to everyone who has supported the club. Please stay tuned and lets go out with a bang! Paul Tunkin Blow Up Metro read more… http://www.blowupmetro.com/closure.aspx

Baltic Fleet debut album no. 29 in Rough Trade's Top 50 Albums of 2008

Baltic Fleet ‘Baltic Fleet’ (Blow Up) Baltic Fleet’s eponymous debut has made it into Rough Trade’s Top Album’s of 2008 at No. 29. Rough Trade’s Top 50 here

Give A Little Love by SILVERY winner of this weeks BBC 6 Music Rebel Playlist!

Silvery’s next single ‘Give A Little Love’ won this weeks 6 Music Rebel Playlist, so thanks to everyone who voted! http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/steve_lamacq/

SILVERY on this weeks BBC 6 Music Rebel Playlist!

Following Monday’s debut play of Silvery’s next single ‘GIVE A LITTLE LOVE’ its now up for BBC 6 Music’s Rebel Playlist, the winner of which makes it onto the official playlist. You can listen to the new track on our myspace or on the BBC 6 Music site where you have until midnight this Sunday to register your vote! The track brand new recording of Give A Little Love, a cover version of the Paul Williams song as featured in the musical Bugsy Malone. The song has often featured in the Silvery live set and the band thought it was high time to put a studio version down. This track is not included on their debut album Thunderer & Excelsior, but will be downloadable from Monday 15th December from all reputable purveyors of digital phonograms and just in time for Christmas! Steve Lamacq on BBC 6 Music

Silvery 'ACTION FORCE'/'THE NOD' - BBC 6 Music Single Of The Week!

Action Force / The Nod is Steve Lamaqc’s *BBC 6 Music Single of The Week* (27/10/08) The single has just been chosen by Steve Lamacq as his Single Of The Week on BBC 6 Music, which means it’ll be spun every day

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