GIG SCENE: CSI Miami coup for rock band
POWERFUL art rock band I Like Trains, who blew the power at a Charm gig at the Blues Bar a few years back, are featured in a new season of hit TV show CSI Miami.
The Leeds-based post-rockers say they're gobsmacked their new single Sea of Regrets is to be highlighted in this way.
Said drummer Simon Folgal said: "The track is going to be used for the closing credits of an episode. To have our music soundtrack the most popular television show in the world counts as a big tick in our lifetime ambitions box!"
The single is available at www.iliketrains.bigcartel.com or visit the following shops in person:
Crash, Jumbo, Leeds. Rough Trade, London. Picadilly Records, Manchester.
The band play The Cockpit in Leeds on Friday, October 16 and are to record a live radio session for BBC Introducing shortly.
KNOWN as the 'Seventh Python', multi-talented music-comedy icon Neil Innes plays a show in Knaresborough at Frazer Theatre on November 6 - and he's kindly consented to chat to Gig Scene in advance of his appearance.
More of that shortly but, in the meantime, tickets costing 16 are going fast for Innes, a man who was in Monty Python, the Bonzo Dog Band and also the famous Beatles spoof, The Rutles
Tickets are available from.wegottickets.com/event/47441 or visit www.kula-productions.com for more details.
A COUNTRY music show this weekend in Wetherby will serve as a fitting tribute to a man who did so much for one of the town's live music venues. The emphasis will be on fun at the Engine Shed when it hosts live music from Dean McCall this Sunday - with line dance requests from Sue. All the proceeds will go to Saint Michael's Hospice in memory of the hard work of former owner Dave Armstrong who died suddenly at the beginning of the year after years of dedication at the Engine Shed, which was thoroughly refurbished under his stewardship.
The show starts at 7.30pm and runs to 11pm.
Entrance costs 7 on the door and only 2 for non-dancers.
THE weekend's show by Fleet Foxes band member J Tillman in Thirsk is a sellout but promoters In The Dock have plenty of other great gigs coming up in the classy Old Courthouse.
They've also just launched a new website at the following address: www.inthedock.net
Tickets are still available for the remainder of their autumn programme.
Friday, November 6 – Double bill of Chris Helme and The Lost Brothers.
Friday, December 11 – Danny Schmidt and Carrie Elkin.
Call 01845 595911 or in person from White Rose Books in Thirsk.
CLUB nights are still going strong at Harrogate's Rehab venue in its upstairs section called, appropriately, The Club.
Monday nights see the weekly FREEK night with "dirty beats and musical treats" from guest DJs and MCs.
It runs from 10pm-3am and entry is free.
Fridays at Rehab, meanwhile,saw a massive FUSION event with an amazing 12 DJs - including Digital Future from Leeds, formerly Czech Republic, playing dirty electro, nu rave, breaks and electro techno.
The night was split between house/techno in the bar and drum n bass in The Club.
Finally, on a related dance theme, though at a different venue, Ventriloweb is about to take place at Lure Bar on The Ginnel in Harrogate on Tuesday, October 13 at 9pm.
ONE of the most popular acts ever to appear in ten years of RipleyBlues gigs, Guy Tortora, is to play upstairs in the venue's Blues Room on October 24.
Tickets costing 8 members and 10 non-members are strictly limited to 60.
After that, RipleyBlues will be presenting the following:
Nov 7: The Hamsters. Nov 21: Kyla Brox Trio. Dec 5: Roxy Magic. Dec 19: Nine Below Zero.
www.ripleyblues.com
SINGER-songwriter Jason Feddy returns for a special ticket-only show at Harrogate's Blues Bar this weeknd.
The ever-popular musician plays this Sunday evening on October 11.
Other acts coming up at Harrogate's only seven-days-a-week live music venue include: Oct 9: The Bluekings. Sun lunch: Little Stevie & The Business. Sun evening: Jason Feddy. Oct 15: Scapegoat Kelly.
I KNOW it's to do with cricket but it does involve live music. . .
Local rock covers band Speedsta, who have a wide setlist but are particularly good at Foo Fighters, are the musical guests for Pateley Bridge Cricket Club's forthcoming annual dinner and awards presentation night.
The band will be playing from around 10pm at the event which takes place on Saturday, October 31 at the Memorial Hall in Pateley Bridge.
The bar runs until 12.30am and tickets costing 4 each in advance are available from Richard Light on 01423 711815 and Ellie Jackson on 01423 712067.
AFTER the success of last weekend's DMB presentation at the Golden Lion with indie band Hope & Social (see review on page 24), this Ripon promoter has another great-sounding gig coming up shortly.
Replacing Alex Cornish on Friday, November 13 (he's been called up by Alison Moyet to support her on her UK tour), will be up-and-coming indie band Ellen & The Escapades who are being pushed by the likes of Radio 1 DJ Steve Lamacq. Support comes from Ripon band The Weeknights.
For further details on DMB shows, email dmb@dmblivemusic.co.uk or call 0176 605987 or 07739 720732.www.dmblivemusic.co.uk
THE Malt Shovel in Boroughbridge has a treat for Beatles fans this weekend when singer Terry Gorman performs an evening of acoustic John Lennon tonight, Friday, October 9 at 9pm.
The pub also has live rock and blues from the Travis Riley Blues Band tomorrow, Saturday and there's York-based guitarist and singer Cushla at 3.30pm on Sunday.
POPULAR 1960s covers band The Diamonds (though they're not from that era, I hasten to add) are playing a special gig at The Manhattan Club in Harrogate on Saturday, November 28. Tickets costing 5 are available from the club or you can pay on the door.
HARROGATE band Rock Train bring a staggering breadth of rock history to life this weekend.
The group, who've been playing for three years and regularly gig in Leeds, York and beyond, are a covers band whose repertoire ranges from 1950s rock 'n roll (Eddie Cochran, Johnny Kidd & The Pirates), 1960s classics, glam rock, 80s rock, U2 and Springsteen - all the way up to Blink 182 and Kings of Leon.
Tomorrrow, Saturday, they play The Empress in Harrogate while on Friday, October 16 they appear at Harlow Inn on Otley Road.
To find out more, visit their website www.rocktrain.co.uk
JAZZ NEWS. . .
THE world-famous Pasadena Roof Orchestra bring its 40th anniversary tour to Wetherby High School on Thursday, October 29.
Inspired by the great bands of the 1920s and 30s, the orchestra is as much fun as the acts it loves so much.
The public seems to agree as the PRO has enjoyed healthy sales figures throughout its career which has spanned 40 albums, singles and DVDs since its first release in 1974.Their latest album is called Roots of Swing.
For ticket info, visit www.pasadena-roof-orchestra.com
IT'S a big weekend for Jazz in the Spa as they prepare for the Savannah Jazz Band's 30th Anniversary Concert. The event tomorrow, Saturday, October 10 at Boston Spa Village Hall also serves as a charity evening in aid of Harrogate's Samaritans.
Doors open at 7.30pm and entry costs 8.
YOU might have caught top sax player Snake Davis at Harrogate Jazz Club this week but, if you missed him, he's playing locally with Burden of Paradise next Thursday, October 15 at the club's sister venue Coopers of Guiseley.
Tickets on sale at 07812 842239 or visit www.info@jazzinyorkshire.co.uk
HARROGATE Brasserie has live jazz from Tina Featherstone tonight, Friday, October 9 and Sandra Pehrsson on Sunday.
LOCAL CD REVIEW
Tunji: MK Ultra (EP)
BARNSTORMING but brilliant, Tunji take the best elements of 70s prog rock on this EP and plunge them into a dystopian future - or is that the present?
It's easy to forget amid those old accusations of 'self-indulgence' that as well as things like time signature-hopping, elaborately-structured, show-off musicianship, the likes of Yes, ELP and even Genesis (check out their 1973 live album) also displayed National Grid levels of pure energy.
Ditto this impressive, no-holds barred, four-piece Harrogate-Leeds outfit who are due to play Harrogate's Dragongate Festival tomorrow (Saturday) around 4pm.
What is different and new about mssrs Tiff Miller (guitar/vocals), Chris Maysom (bass/vocals), Dave Dowson (keyboards) and Steve Campbell (drums), not to forget Dave Middleton on vocals, what they have in common with the new breed of prog rockers such as Mars Volta, is that their musical influences don't include such important old fogey 70s staples as r'nb, folk or jazz.
Tunji are children of the Rave and 'crusty' generation and, as such, their two dominant musical building blocks are ambient-dance and pure rock.
And, boy, does this EP rock. Not at the expense of hooks and melody, especially on the opening tracks Fires and De-Ja Vu, which have the punchy but slick vocal style of the Foo Fighters allied to a slight 1980s sheen.
They simply never get dull, not on the toughest, most snarling rock track Good Company. Not even on the 9min 30sec of the closing track, the epic instrumental Cos We Can (MK Ultra).
Awash in heavily-phased vocal narration about the treatment of prisoners, emergency sirens wailing in the psychedelic wind, it's hard to tell exactly what it's all about, though thoughts of Blade Runner or the CIA's secret drug-based, mind control programme from the 1950s (also called MK Ultra) rise and fall.
Perhaps, they're genuine US Government instructions for detainees at Guantanamo Bay? Perhaps Tunji are saying we're all trapped in a new Cold War?
Is that why their music sounds so urgent?
Graham Chalmers
www.myspace.com/tunjibuzzing
LIVE REVIEWS
Super Pop starring Pagan Wanderer Lu.
Pagan Wanderer Lu was playing at Milo as part of a new night called Super Pop which I'd never come across before.
Though it was hot in this small Leeds venue, it was also musically bold, visually stunning and a lot of fun - although it was certainly sweltering upstairs.
I've never been at a gig where the audience stood swaying most of the time in 3D glasses, the idea of organisers www.modernmusicreview.com and VJ Quadrod.
As this inventive, DIY one-man band played tracks from his new album, Fight My Battles For Me the VJ projected amazing, moving images which took on a whole new life of their own if you put on the spectacles given out on arrival.
Pagan Wanderer Lu's songs had no fixed point, moving from style to style rapidly, one second sounding like an early 60s girl group, the next a little bit of folktronica before settling for New Order.
Witty, clever and provocative, his songs were full of synths and bleeps from one of those old mini Casio MT-40 keyboards mixed with traditional electric guitar and juicy sampled beats.
Playing two short sets, the first was more experimental, the second showed Pagan Wanderer Lu was capable of writing more conventional songs.
Highlights included one called The Bridge of Sighs and a great guitar track called The Memorial Hall which closed the evening.
As members of the crowd swayed from side to side, still wearing those red and blue spectacles, Pagan Wanderer Lu took the song beyond its rock roots into Rave, the beats booming out for some time in a terrific mash-up with soundman Dave Procter.
I haven't seen an 'indie' act who could change from Badly Drawn Boy to MGMT so quickly and still have a decent tune.
He's definitely one to look out for and the organisers modernmusicreview.com deserve congratulations for putting on such an unusual and brilliant show.
Next time some electric fans though, please.
David Procter
www.myspace.com/paganwandererlu
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