U.S. GIRLS at the Castle Hotel--------- Saturday 8th December 2012

U.S. GIRLS is the nomme de guerre of one Meghan Remy. She has releases on Siltbreeze, Kraak, Atelier Cisceaux, Medusa Editions, Sibling Sex, Electric Voice, Not Not Fun, Hardscrabble Amateurs, Fast Weapons, Cherry Burger, Palmist, Chocolate Monk, Clan Destine and her own Calico Corp label. Her most recent LP 'GEM' was released on Fat Cat records and is the first of her albums to be recorded with a full band, who'll be joining her on this tour. She also contributed collage and a song to our recent collaboration with MUSEUMS PRESS- MUSEUMS IV .

We've been trying to set up a show for U.S GIRLS for about 5 years now, a time that has seen the U.S.GIRLS sound change considerably and also a time that has seen the rest of the world try and fail to catch up with her music which is, at once, genuinely experimental and unabashedly 'pop'; the sound of the future and yet stacked in nostalgia; academic and emotional; packed with reminiscences and but  singular in it's vision, challenging and unshakeable.

WE ARE DELIGHTED TO INVITE YOU TO ATTEND THE DEBUT MANCHESTER PERFORMANCE OF U.S.GIRLS (WITH FULL LIVE BAND), WHICH TAKES PLACE ON SATURDAY 8th DECEMBER 2012 AT THE CASTLE HOTEL, OLDHAM STREET from 8pm. ADVANCE TICKETS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

 T I C K E T S                                    H E R E

UT poster by Cali Thornhill Dewitt

UT return to Manchester for the first time since touring with The Fall and Sonic Youth.
Click above for tickets or else go to Piccadilly Records or Soup Kitchen to buy an actual ticket made of paper.
 

Muchos Gracias to Cali for the poster, you should check up the excellent WITCH HAT site that he and his wife (star of the poster above) maintain and his record label, Teenage Teardrops. Two of our favourites.

LAS ROBERTAS & KELLIES June 15th DEAF INSTITUTE

to play in Manchester on Wednesday June 15th at the Deaf Institute.

We are delighted to invite you  to celebrate and witness the Manchester debuts of two of our favourite bands from the South American branch of the international pop underground!



It's almost impossible to convey our excitement. This is a once-in-a-lifetime type of opportunity to see two amazing bands from the other side of the world for less than the price of a cocktail.



 Las Robertas are from Costa Rica. Their album 'Cry Out Loud' was given away for free before being re-mixed  by Jon Greene (engineer for Dum Dum Girls, Crocodiles ) and re-mastered by Pete Lyman (engineer for No Age, Mika Miko, Moondog etc. etc.) ready for release on Art Fag (Dunes, Heavy Hawaii, Bleached, best coast). Since then they've shared stages with their heroes (Black Tambourine, Edwyn Collins) and their peers (the beets, german measles, davila 666, Dum Dum Girls, Japandroids, Aias) all over America and now finally in Europe where they played at Primaverasound. Thanks to Dance Magic Dance they extended their trip to include this, their first visit to the UK. Expect a 21st century take on Black Tambourine and the Runaways. Dee Dee Dum Dum's classification of her own band's sound as 'Blissed-Out Buzzsaw' could quite easily have been coined  specifically for Las Robertas.


Las Robertas

V For You - Las Robertas from Ignacio Hernández Murillo on Vimeo.

KELLIES are from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Their third album is about to be released in the UK by the legendary FIRE records and sees them expand on the feverish Rock & Roll of their earlier records with a kaleidoscopic and encyclopedic blend of garage, cumbia, dub and post-punk which, despite it's uniqueness (or maybe because of it) evokes  bands as various and diverse as the co-ordinated stage outfits they've made their trademark: ESG, the Raincoats, the Slits, Nisennenmondai, the Ramones, Devo, Weave, the Flatbackers and etc. Whether singing in Spanish, English, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Catalan or French, dressed as aerobics instructors or tubes of toothpaste KELLIES live show is guaranteed to be seriously fun and completely unforgettable.

Las KELLIES

perro rompebolas - KELLIES from Marcos Díaz Mathé on Vimeo.

Le BEAT UNHAPPENING  & DANCE MAGIC DANCE DJ's throughout the night!




 £6 TICKETS HERE