MANCHESTERMUSIC.CO.UK

Presents

 

The Electric Circus #15

www.theelectriccircus.net

 

   @ The Castle , Oldham

    The Castle, 38 Union Street, Oldham, OL1 1DJ

    01706 882 759 (Steve Jones)

    http://www.castlelive.com/ 

 

SATURDAY 28th AUGUST 2004

BRUNO, TVH-3, FAST LADY

 

Entry £2 (£3 after 10.30 pm and free entry to the Castle Rock Club)

 

ManchesterMusic.Co.Uk’s next generation of events follows up CHAIRSMISSING with its next instalments of firebrand rock, visiting bands and deliberate genre bending.

 

The Electric Circus features a mish mash of art, electronica, different cities and headshrinking sounds, but all with one common theme – cutting edge excitement…

 

Continuing our residency at The Castle in Oldham, we’ve thrown our unconditional support to one of the last of Greater Manchester’s permanent satellite live venues. Throw in a £200k refurb, a 10kw rig and one of Manchester’s best sound engineers and you have the regions newest, purpose designed 200 capacity venue.   

 

The venue has enjoyed 10 years as Oldhams premier LIVE MUSIC VENUE. The Castle of Old was the birthplace of the Inspiral Carpets, and witnessed early performances from Oasis, The Stone Roses & erm Northside !!

More recently the venue has seen shows from The Fall, The Chameleons, Puressence, Kasabian, Cash Money, JJ72 plus crazy Rockstar DJ sets from New Order, Clint Boon, Shaun Ryder, The Smiths, and Tim Burgess.

 

FAST LADY

Webpage:

http://www.swainlake.co.uk/ 

A sexed up Soft Cell, all cabaret pastiche and antagonistic, angsty vox mangled into 70's cock rock and fuzzy guitar riffs -  "Is this the real life? Or is this just fantasy?" harked words transcribed by the late great Freddie Mercury. His emotion drenched in reverb and operatic in it's execution. How could he have known then that aside from the hedonistic pleasure trove that was the seventies that in the next century we would remiss those words and regret that we were not his friend or crusted bed toy. Fast Lady have just released their debut album on V/VM Test Records.

Muzik Magazine : “Neo poodle perm rock from Fast Lady (who sound like they were cloned from the Def Leppard drummer’s missing arm!)”

Uncut Magazine  : “…The worlds, finest exponents of "machine rock": classic sounding metal songs performed with the aid of a laptop in place of a drummer, lending this debut a curdled, unsettling quality”

 

BRUNO

Webpage:

http://www.audiomonsterrecords.org

 

Former Bynatone / Robot Arm brains, Rachel (aka Dot Matrix) now steers Bruno.After their debut performace at punk fulled CABARET ESP in February, BRUNO have been in the studio working on their forth coming EP 'Chewing Diamonds', a 4 track electroglam cocktail to set Manchester's electro kids on fire (hopefully). Bruno have been likened to Sparks, New Order, Stereolab and .... HAWKWIND!!!.. A healthy combination and a lot to live up too, but Bruno are happy and say that progrock is the way forward! This summer Bruno feature as the supporting band for Kitty Yo's Sex in Dallas.

 

 

TVH-3

Contact:

Tvh_3@hotmail.com

 

Largely coming from Hull and having located in Manchester some years ago, we’ve tracked the lineage of The Virus House to this latest, bastard, fire breathing incarnation.. TVH-3 are an altogether mightier force. “Full of muscle bound sequencing and distorted production values…TVH-3 are a lively adrenalised mess of  classic Sheffield electronica and the pulsating post punk, embryonic goth of the first transistorised synths.  Definitely a source for your black suit outfitted dancefloor boot boy anthems….

 

 

DOORS:

9.00 until late

 

ENTRY

£2 -  Door (£3 After 10.30pm)

 

GENERAL EVENT INFO:

http://www.theelectriccircus.net/

www.manchestermusic.co.uk

07 971 97 67 47

 

PRESS / CONTACTS:

Jon Ashley

manchestermusic.co.uk / the electric circus / chairsmissing.com / sovietunion.co.uk

 

email:

sovrec@yahoo.co.uk

 

Venue:

The Castle, 38 Union Street, Oldham, OL1 1DJ

01706 882 759 (Steve Jones)

http://www.castlelive.com/

 

 

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