We're very happy
to announce that we've been chosen to be in the final round of The Road to Standon Calling where
we'll be battling it out with four other bands for the chance to play on the main
stage at the 3 day STANDONCALLING festival in Hertfordshire with the likes of
SPIRITUALIZED, BATTLES, WASHED OUT, JOHN COOPER CLARKE, JOHN GRANT, TEETH OF
THE SEA, HOWARD MARKS, ZINC + loads more...
All we need you
to do is come to the final heat at the OLD QUEENS HEAD on
Essex Road in Islington on Thursday 14th July.
It's £3 entry,
we're on at 8pm and are playing a 20 min set to try and WOW the judges.
Event organiser
Tamsin McLarty will be interviewed about the gig by Tom Robinson on his BBC 6Music show on Wednesday 13th
July.
"Standon Calling's
made it's mark by keeping it's ear to the ground and spotting talent early on.
From Paloma Faith to Florence & The Machine, from The Maccabees, The
Mystery Jets & Everything Everything to Delphic, Mumford & Sons, The
Noisettes & Friendly Fires. The Road to Standon is the next stage, giving
fledgeling artists with no label and agent support a platform to showcase their
material in front of a panel of music industry judges.
The Road to
Standon is being judged by Jon Hillcock (New Noise podcast and Ex-NME, XFM and
6music DJ); Olly Hodgson (Coda Music Agency); Andy Malt (CMU editor) Ally Wolf
(booker for The Old Queen’s Head, The Nest, The River Rat Pack Tour); Ollie
Clueit (radio plugger/award-winning blogger); and Tamsin McLarty (Standon Calling/Twisted
Licks/Star of Kings booker).
The four winners
of the heats, plus two judge’s wild cards will compete at the festival on the
opening night of the festival, Thursday 11th August. The winner of the
competition goes on to play a main stage slot the following day on Friday 12th
August. Competing in the final round are:
TRIM THE
BARBER
....make
melancholy post-punk shoegazey stuff. We just found out about em and then we
just found out we like em. Would be good to hear how it layers live."
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