MANCHESTERMUSIC.CO.UK PRESENTS

The ELECTRIC CIRCUS #33

Sunday 28^th August 2005

FREE ENTRY

EVENT:

The Electric Circus :: Quiet / Unplugged Version

VENUE:

The Roadhouse - Sunday 28^th August 2005

8-10 Newton Street, Piccadilly Manchester, M1 Tel : (0161) 237 9789 , Fax : (0161) 236 9289

http://www.theroadhouselive.co.uk/

P-FOLK ? – FOLK IS THE NEW ROCK AND ROLL? – OR IS FOLK THE NEW REVOLUTION ? MANCUNIACANA ? – ELECTRONICS, LIVE INSTRUMENTATION, ACOUSTIC GUITARS AND GALLONS OF INVENTION BLAST AWAY THE GHOST OF DAVID GRAY AND CREATE A NEW WAVE OF FREE THINKING MUSIC. THE ONLY NIGHT TO FEATURE TWO LIVE STAGES AS WELL. MAYBE RETRO ROCK IS A THING OF THE PAST…FOLLOWING ON FROM LAST YEARS HUGELY SUCCESSFUL BANK-HOLIDAY-EVE EVENTS ( WHICH BROUGHT YOU NATHAN BURTON, SAM HAMMOND, QUIET LONER, THE LIBRARY TRUST, IAN BRIT ) WE PRESENT THE NEW WAVE OF NEW SINGER SONGWRITERS…..

PERFORMERS:

· Stickboy (full band)

· Jack Cooper (with Band)

· Danny Saul

· James Younger

· Then Thickens (Jon-Lee – Fi-Lo Radio / Kong)

· 20/20 Vision

· Ed Cottam

· Special surprise guest

· Politburo (remarkable acoustic renditions)

DOORS:

7.00pm until late

ENTRY

FREE

BAND INFORMATION

STICKBOY

http://www.stickboymusic.com/

"Stickboy's put together an album of demos, of odd little moments and delicate observations. Fever and The Sweetest Serenade stand out as genuine songs, but the jungle beats of Fate Becomes The Fateful and the harmonica driven lament of Hands Clean are just as beautfiul. Stickboy is is another Mancunian acoustic treasure in the making!" BBCONLINE

JACK COOPER

www.jackcooper.co.uk

www.mydadrecordings.com

Observer Music Monthly : "A Prodigiously Talented Singer Songwriter"
The Fly : "...charged with the brilliance of a night at Blackpool illuminations-minus the seagull shit"
Record Collector : "...there's an air of quality about him...the most pleasant record in the office this month"
City Life : "Blackpools answer to Brian Wilson...he's biting at the heels of Badly Drawn Boy"

TWENTY TWENTY VISION

www.twentytwentyvision.net
Lomas is a master at savant simplicity, dressing up his homespun lyrics in a lacework voice and skeletal folk-pop melodies best heard when listened to at an angle. It’s like catching your resident ghost out of the corner of your eye, you know something’s there, you just can’t pin it down. His music may catch you that way, but what’s here is obvious and it’s about to get the exposure it deserves.’ LOGO MAGAZINE

ED COTTAM

www.edcottam.co.uk

The genius of Cottam is how he creates alchemy from the most simple and rudimentary … (his) songs have a sharp, searing honesty that almost wants to cause the listener pain as much as they want to share his.. CITY LIFE

JAMES YOUNGER

Apprenticeship served in The Vox, Younger now blossoms as one of the city’s relatively unknown new stars

THEN THICKENS

..is KONG frontman Jon-Lee Martin he of extraordinarily brilliant Manc pioneers Fi-Lo Radio

DANNY SAUL

Already lauded a genius, his delicate, intricate and brilliant acoustica provides a breath of fresh air to the singer /songwriter scene

POLITBURO

Manchester’s most alternative-alternative act strip down to the cat gut sounds

See www.theelectriccircus.net for more details