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Saturday night at Jamboree - £2 entry - drinks £2.50
3 great bands + DJs + THE INSTANT INTERACTIVE JESUS PROJECT 1.0
------8pm til very late indeed------

PAUL HAWKINS & THEE AWKWARD SILENCES
http://myspace.com/theeawkwardsilences

Paul Hawkins and Death in Vegas guitarist-turned underground producer Ian Button teamed up in 2006 and thee Awkward Silences has since expanded into an exhilarating, eccentric and ever-evolving eighteen-legged beast of a band. Coming from the same UK antifolk collective that spawned the likes of the Bobby McGees and David Cronenberg’s Wife, Hawkins has swiftly developed into one of the most intelligent, charismatic and confrontational frontmen in the UK today. Meanwhile the band have subtly shifted from their beginnings as a modern twist on the post-punk/garage rock of the Fall, the Stooges and the Birthday Party to a thrilling, inventive and continually surprising combination of sonic experimentation, darkly entertaining caustic cabaret and driving rock n’ roll, with Paul's unmistakable persona cutting through it all.

The band have been compared to the likes of Elvis Costello, Edwyn Collins and Nick Cave but "Hawkins sounds like no-one. Someone doing something truly on their own and making the rules up as they go along." (artrocker) In 2008 Paul Hawkins & Thee Awkward Silences recorded a session for Radio 1, played the Swn and Latitude Festivals and released critically acclaimed debut album “We Are Not Other People” on Jezus Factory Records. In 2009 they are recording a new album and have plenty of other tricks up their sleeve… "In a pop world desperately short of eccentrics right now, Paul Hawkins & his Awkward Silences are simply a revelation." God is in the TV.

RADIO DARLING
http://myspace.com/thisisradiodarling

A mathematical breakdown of Radio Darling:

u = recovering addicts
v = sisters
w = estranged spouses
x = scientists
y = ex-squatters
z = installation artists

2u + 2v + 2w + 2x + 3y + 2z = RD

Radio Darling was born and variously reincarnated out of noize-core, electro-cute, agit-prop, crushing boredom, poverty, performance art, wet sounds, damp rot, addiction, marriage, garage, rehab and mechanical engineering. RD make post-mashup theatrical weirrrdo popcore 4 realtime in meatspace. Minicab-kebabaret: scene and yet n3rd. Juicy-w00t, chewy.

BOB CONSTANT & THE GOODBYE HORSES
http://myspace.com/bobconstant

Bob Constant's sound owes to much to Pere Ubu and Captain Beefheart as it does to Nina Simone and your strange friend, Albert. "an affinity with the avant-garde music of yesteryear... seriously good stuff and well removed from the rest of the UK music scene" Timbre Obscura. A XFM session last year was followed with gigs aplenty, including the Bob Constant-curated live nights in boho local boozer the Bird's Nest in Deptford. This year expect their debut album to turn more than a few heads "freak folk with tribal rhythms" (wailing woo)

PLUS!
FEAT. The INSTANT INTERACTIVE JESUS PROJECT 1.0
http://www.bravenewwhat.org/jesus
Jesse Darling vs The Graffiti Research Lab

live music from 8pm