aaamusic | On 17, Feb 2011

FRIDAY 4th MARCH:  SHRAG + STANDARD FARE + GIRLS NAMES Door: 8pm

SHRAG An exhilarating blend of dirty, distorted post-punk guitars, shouty riot grrl-style vox and fantastic pop songs, alongside nods to everyone from Le Tigre to Penetration. Their debut album garnered comparisons to Love is All, Gang of Four, B-52s, The Long Blondes and led to a UK tour supporting The Cribs, appearances at both London Popfest and Indietracks festivals, and a session for Marc Riley on BBC 6music. Their second album Life! Death! Prizes! was released on WIAWYIA Records in October and was named Album Of The Month by Artrocker. “A spectacularly bitter indie girls-set-on-stun dual vocal attack, in what is one of the better bands to juxtapose schmindie twee and angered literary abstraction since 1990s unsung legends Prolapse.” (The Guardian) http://www.myspace.com/shrag STANDARD FARE Standard Fare is a three-piece indie pop/rock band from Sheffield in the U.K. Comprised of bassist/vocalist Emma Kupa, guitarist/vocalist Danny How, and drummer Andy Beswick, the group drew inspiration from both classic C-86 groups and U.K. guitar rock heroes like Orange Juice, as well as American indie rock bands of the ’90s. The group released their first single, “Dancing,” on Thee Sheffield Phonographic Corporation in 2009, then recorded the songs for “The Noyelle Beat” album in six days and released the album in 2010. “A riot of hormones, cut-to-the-chase lyrics, bolshie girl-boy vocals and jingle-jangle propulsion…The best and most loveable aspects of indie guitar music.” (The Sunday Times) http://www.standardfare.co.uk/ GIRLS NAMES Belfast’s Girls Names formed to support Wavves, and have released records on Brooklyn’s Captured Tracks and San Francisco’s Slumberland records, which should tell you all you need to know about their brand of Felt worshipping, reverb drenched, primal drumming indie (in the 80’s sense) POP!