Again, it’s at The Victoria and all for the price of £4

There’s a facebook event here.

This is the full line up

THE SMITTENS
Last year we described them as “tip top pop brimming with sunshine and smiles”, and that’s still spot on. In previous visits to the UK they’ve become well known for their outstanding performances at Indietracks which has established them as a regular performer there. With upbeat songs that contain amazing three part vocals, it’s totally understandable why.

www.smittens.com
www.myspace.com/thesmittens

JAM ON BREAD
Jam on Bread is one chap with a Uke and we’re delighted to be giving him his first Birmigham show. He has songs about Labrador records (whos releases often make up chunks of the Autumn Store play lists) and has appeared on Brainlove records (again, along with releases which make up chunks of the Autumn Store playlist). Expect popsongs and smilealongs.

www.myspace.com/jamonbreadyay

LIME CHALKS
Birmingham’s Lime Chalks started life in 2003 as a one-piece, named after a wilfully misheard Pavement lyric. They later became a three-piece, then a five-piece, then a no-piece, and now a four-piece. They play indiefolklofipop or whatever you’d care to call it, and their philosophy is thus: cheerfulness, melodiousness, harmoniousness!

www.last.fm/music/Lime+Chalks

More about Indietracks Festival: www.indietracks.co.uk

(no, I’ve never seen a red steam train either, not outside of Ticket to Ride http://www.daysofwonder.com/tickettoride/en/ anyway)

The first one is on Friday 16th July, and it’s a joint collaboration between us and ATTA girl for a one off awesome-o gig! With….

THE LOVELY EGGS
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FEVER FEVER
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HOTPANTS ROMANCE

It’s at The Victoria, and all for a rather reasonable £4

Advance tickets: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/85478

There’s an ATTA Girl facebook event here!

THE LOVELY EGGS
Recently performed at SXSW in March 2010 and also toured in the UK with Eddie Argos new band Everybody Was In The French Resistance… Now. They were at Indietracks last year (we were there!) and The Autumn Store welcome them back as they played with them at The Victoria in 2009. With much radio play including a BBC 6 music session with Marc Riley and a BBC Radio 1 session with Huw Stephens we ask you… Have you ever heard The Lovely Eggs?
http://www.myspace.com/thelovelyeggs

FEVER FEVER
We right love Fever Fever. Their debut single came out in June 2009 and they’ve just had an EP release “Monster”. Another band played by Huw Stephens and Steve Lamacq!
http://feverfevertheband.blogspot.com/
http://www.myspace.com/feverfevertheband

HOTPANTS ROMANCE
First seen in Birmingham playing in a garage for their tour with The Lovely Eggs. Raffles and unruly behaviour! Awesome times and you can’t beat an Everett True seal of approval:
“Hotpants Romance are easily my perfect band this year or any other.” Everett True, Plan B Magazine
They also released a joint cassette with The Lovely Eggs from their tour in 2009 “Songs About People We Met On Tour” where winners of the raffle got a song made about them.
http://www.myspace.com/hotpantsromance

It’s going to be ace!

And after the band awesomeness there’s an ATTA girl vs The Autumn Store disco til 2am! DANCE MAGIC DANCE!

The facebook event is here. What’s this Songkick thing people keep tweeting about? Do I need a songkick?

The School

The School first played at The Autumn Store in November 2008 (I autoreviewed it on this blog and Ken did a nice review over here), since then they’ve signed to Elefant, and put out a pink 7” single and an EP with hidden moments of magic throughout. Here is a band that understands POP MUSIC and DANCING by mixing strains of modern indie with 60’s girl groups and bring violins and trumpets and melodicas and many many members to make sure that the whole thing goes, well, um, really nicely indeed.

http://www.myspace.com/theschoolband
http://theschoolband.blogspot.com/
http://www.elefant.com/

Pagan Wanderer Lu

Pagan Wanderer Lu is one man with many genres. Songs dribble their way around lofi, folk, pop and Zelda soundtracks like some kind of skillful winger. A skillfull winger who is also a one man band.

http://www.myspace.com/paganwandererlu
http://paganwandererlu.wordpress.com

Falling and Laughing

Falling & Laughing is me and a chap called Darryl on drums, and it’s always hard to write about yourself (other people have here). I’d like to claim we’re halfway between indiepop and post-rock but, um, I suppose it’s your call on whether we’ve achieved that.

http://www.myspace.com/duncsfallingandlaughing
http://www.prospectingdistantsystems.co.uk/

The venue is The Victoria once again - http://www.thevictoriabirmingham.co.uk/ - and there’s a map here.

Ace cakes!

The Give It Ups

The Give It Ups are up from London. Their myspace says that they’re “two girls and three boys from South London, who play short, fuzzy pop songs” where as I’d say they play ACE short, fuzzy pop songs. Melodically they’re everything you’d want in a band, and songs like Four Day Week set out some kind of brilliant manifesto.

(the video’s a bit cameraphonebuzzy but I like it)

Standard Fare

There are many words or phrases which should never precede the word ‘band’, some examples are ‘underground’, ‘unsigned’, ‘up and coming’ and ‘hotly tipped’. That said, so many people have fallen in love with and raved on about Standard Fare this year, that the latter phrase might just fit. They seem to effortlessly craft together genius pop songs.

Horowitz

Horowitz are set to kick the night off with a well aimed burst of room-filling fuzzy pop - yet they manage to combine this sound with something that’s sweet and comforting that can be held on to. It’s a magical combo.

The annual tradition of the Autumn Store Christmas CD Swap will also return - if you bring a compilation CD, you’ll get to leave with someone elses!

The facebook event is here.

You can find more information about the venue at http://www.thevictoriabirmingham.co.uk/ and there’s a map here.

PS I realise that the phrase fuzzy pop has been used twice. It’s a good phrase

This is reposted from the facebook event:

“Sadly Darren Hayman and his drummer were attacked the other night. We’re all very sad about it and wish him a swift recovery and hope he can come back next year.

If you have any troubles with WeGotTickets refunding your ticket please email hello@attagrrl.co.uk I’ve taken the tickets offline and WeGotTickets should refund you automatically.”

We wish them a speedy recovery!

The Lovely Eggs are a husband & wife duo slash tag team who create really catchy tunes on guitar and drums, coupled with a really lo-fi garage freshness. Once you’ve heard “Have you ever heard a digital accordion”, you won’t forget it for a good while…

They’re supported by The July Days, a Birmingham band who sound like they take their musical hints from Los Campesinos! and Art Brut. Throw in occasional trumpets, violins and melodicas and you’ve got one of them Indiepop orchestras I keep hearing about.

David Leach, skilled in the twin arts of knitting and ukulele-ing opens the evening with a set of wonderfuly crafted and straight talking northern songs.

And there’s a facebook event here.

Its at The Victoria (map)

The ace poster was kindly made by Claire from ATTA Girl

Tickets for Darren Hayman on 15th November are selling nicely too, you can get them from We Got Tickets.

One big difference between this gig and the others I’ve put on is it’s tickets in advance. They’re £7 and you can get them from the We Got Tickets website. Doors will be at 8pm.

I’ve only ever seen Darren Hayman in huge cavernous venues or festivals before, so seeing him in a decent upstairs pub room is going to be a genuinely unique experience.

Supports come from Poppy and Friends and Lime Chalks.

1) What’s In Store – Architecture In Helsinki
2) The Story Of Love – Misty’s Big Adventure
3) Marathon Not A Sprint – Camera Obscura
4) You Vary With A Function Of Time – Lardpony
5) Ageless Beauty – Stars

6) Lewis – Yo La Tengo
7) Marie – Sambassadeur
8.) We Will Become Silhouettes – The Postal Service
9) The Man With The Golden Arm – Jeffrey Lewis
10) Cut Your Hair – Pavement

11) What Salinger Wrote – Airport Girl
12) I Think I Need A New Heart – Magnetic Fields
13) Spiderman On Hollywood
14) These Are The Dreams Of The Working Girl – Comet Gain
15) Harmony In My Head – Buzzcocks

16) Christian Girls – Hefner
17) Painted My Face – Je Suis Animal
18) Scooby Driver – Belle & Sebastian
19) Bored To Hear Your Heart Still Breaks – Tullycraft
20) 4AD3DCD – Half Man Half Biscuit

21) Raisins – Dinosaur Jr
22) Sunny Sundae Smile – My Bloody Valentine
23) Safety Net – The Shop Assistants
24) George Romero – Sprites
25) Just Too Bloody Stupid – Close Lobsters

26) Four Day Week – The Give It Ups
27) Velouria – Pixies
28) Wow – Cinerama
29) Invisible Rock – Kevin Blechdom
30) Dirty Dream #2 – Belle & Sebastian

31) Itsuko Got Married – Bearsuit
32) Get Up And Use Me – Fire Engines
33) If I Could Shine – The Sweetest Ache
34) Holsters and Spiders – My Old Sofa
35) It Started With A Mixx – Los Campensinos!

36) Teenage Caveman – Beat Happening
37) Outer Space – The 3Ds
38) I’ve Got Pictures Of You In Your Underwear – ballboy
39) Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayit’sworldwouldfallapart – The Manic Street Preachers
40) Hey Paul – The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

41) Sapphire – The Smittens
42) Postcard to Nina - Jens Lekman
43) Do You Remember The First Time – Pulp
44) Spinetrack – The Fall
45) Kissing The Lipless – The Shins

46) Fairytale in the Supermarket - The Raincoats
47) Deceptacon – Le Tigre
48) Let It Slip – The School
49) Oddity – The Clean
50) 7/4 Shoreline – Broken Social Scene

51) Here Comes Your Man – Pixies
52) Corduroy (Single Version) – The Wedding Present
53) Yeah! Oh Yeah! – The Magnetic Fields
54) Kung Fu Dancing – KateGoes
55) Stutter – Elastica

56) Punka – Kenickie
57) Sleep The Clock Around – Belle & Sebastian
58) Shady Lane – Pavement
59) No Good Time – Graham Coxon
60) Teenage Riot – Sonic Youth

61) The Day That Thatcher Dies – Hefner
62) Milk Is Politics – The Deirdres
63) Mothball – One Happy Island
64) You! Me! Dancing! – Los Campensinos!
65) Friday Night At The Drive In Bingo – Jens Lekman

66) Living It For The Moment – Daniel Johnson
67) Today Is The Day – You La Tengo
68) Young Adult Friction – The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
69) Gold Soundz – Pavement
70) Mr November – The National

71) Returning To The Fold – The Thermals
72) Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues – Mclusky
73) I Was A Kaleidoscope – Death Cab For Cutie
74) French Disko – Stereolab
75) 100,000 Fireflies - Superchunk

76) Speedway Star – The Pastels
77) Michael A Grammar – Broadcast
78) Everything’s For Sale – Liechtenstein
79) Brand New Love – Sebadoh
80) Holland 1945 – Neutral Milk Hotel

81) Soft Revolution – Stars
82) Ban Marriage – Hidden Cameras
83) Defy The Law – The Orchids
84) Sylvie – St Etienne
85) What Goes On – The Velvet Underground

86) Son Of A Gun – The Vaselines
87) Memorise The City – The Organ
88) Debris Slide – Pavement
89) You Can Hide Your Love Forever – Comet Gain
90) She Fills The Spaces – Misty’s Big Adventure

91) Do The Indie Kid – MJ Hibbett and the Validators
92) Ring-a-Ding-Ding – Brakes
93) Nothing To Hide – Yo La Tengo
94) The Classical – The Fall
95) C Is The Heavenly Option – Heavenly

96) Punk Is Dead – Jeffrey Lewis
97) Man’s Man – I, Ludicrous
98) I’ve Got It And It’s Not Worth Having – Boyracer
99) Dashboard – Modest Mouse
100) It’s Oh So Quiet - Bjork

The disco nights have only been occasional since then - and the last one was in 2007 - which is why I’m excited about this one:

Ta da!

It’s at Island Bar on Friday 25th September. Free in, doors are at 8.30 and it’ll go on till about 1ish.

And there’s a Facebook Event.

Pop any requests in the comments.

There’s the Facebook Event here and the Last.fm event here.

There’s links to the bands sites too

The Smittens
One Happy Island
Pete Green

It takes place at The Victoria (map)

You can read interviews with Pete Green and Colin Clarey of The Smittens on the Indietracks blog.

There’s also a special indietracks download from Pete Green too, called Hey Dr Beeching. It’s free, but you can also make a donation to Lincolnshire Wolds Railway while you’re on Pete’s site.

Incidentally, remember when this blog used to have content other than gig posters on it. I’ll try and make more of an effort in future. Sorry.