So how many synonyms do you know for excited? Well today I'm going for inspired.

Children For Breakfast feel inspired by the sheer brilliance of Clues (bringing together ex members of Arcade Fire and The Unicorns as well as a host of Canada's hottest musicians) inspired enough to bring them over to the UK for you to feast your ears on!

It's part of a short tour which takes in only a few UK dates, Sheffield being the only one you should take note of.

Clues
http://www.cclluueess.com/

Clues was founded by Alden Penner and Brendan Reed, both active for years in the Montreal music scene. Alden was one-half of Unicorns, a band that burned bright and fast at the beginning of the century, and Brendan has been a member of a number of groups, including the endless, Endless Forever. They began building Clues quietly and in near-secrecy during the summer of 2007, playing a series of unadvertised shows in small Montreal venues. Their early performances elicited passionate responses and made it clear that Alden had an awesome batch of new tunes in the works, a glorious voice to deliver them with, and a brilliant foil in Brendan as his co-conspirator.

By 2008, friends Ben Borden, Lisa Gamble, and Nick Scribner had been recruited from the Montreal art and music scenes; a few more exuberant shows went down, the sound building and strengthening every time. With the band’s foundations fully cemented, Clues began work on a debut record towards the end of the year.

During live shows and on recordings, the band share and trade-off on an extensive array of instruments and create a twitchy, urgent, utterly original music that expands Montreal’s (already diverse) pop music lexicon. Clues incorporates multiple drummers, horns, a table of fried electronics (including a Commodore 64 and an OLPC), saw and pianette alongside their trusty electric guitars and basses.

Through their founding and early work as a band, Clues has remained close to home, dedicated to collaborating with and supporting fellow independent artists. In 2008, Reed started VillaVillaNola, a digital music store featuring recordings by predominantly local artists who have flourished underground but who otherwise receive sparse attention. Strong ties to the independent music community, together with shared ideals, led Clues to collaborate with Montreal’s Constellation, who released the band’s debut record in May of 2009.

What the critics say:

“In many ways the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgement. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But, the bitter truth we critics must face is that, in the grand scheme of things… the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. But there are times when a critic truly risks something… and that is in the discovery and defense of the new.

The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations. The new needs friends.
Last night I experienced something new, an extraordinary record from an singularly unexpected source. To say that both the record and its makers have challenged my preconceptions about music, is a gross understatement– they have rocked me to my core.

In the past I have made no secret of my disdain for Clues Collective’s famous motto: “Anyone Can Play Guitar”. But I realize only now do I truly understand what they meant. Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.

It is difficult to imagine more humble origins than those of the genius now recording at Constellation, who are, in this critic’s opinion, nothing less than the finest Clues in North America.” Pitchfork

"This is a truly unmissable record standing out among a season of great albums. Montreal’s Clues have created a magnificent, off-kilter, decimated orchestral epic or a record…Each track on Clues presents something new and different, ever-shifting slightly in tone and style: bespoke and hand-wrought with emphatic care, yet each bearing the unmistakable loops and whorls of their gifted craftsmen" SUBBA-CULTCHA

"The music is almost as good as the title, honest. It would be a suitable soundtrack to scene of a morbidly obese man plodding down the street to his untimely death, crushed by a stretch Hummer driven by a midget" Drowned In Sound (About 'Remember Severed Head' which you can get here http://www.cstrecords.com/releases/cst057/audio_files)

"good tunes (sounding like) stripped-down Sparks... chaotic blues-funk of Captain Beefheart..and PJ Harvey using her voice" NME

They're only going to bring Bristol's finest with them too
MUNCH MUNCH
http://www.myspace.com/munchmunchband

Wowed everyone at the very same venue during Tramlines, back to wow you again.

"the band’s quirkily hyper indie is akin to Friendly Fires...Munch Munch are a brilliantly awkward lot to describe" Drowned In Sound

“creating something bolted together by a dyslexic Ikea enthusiast building a pop wardrobe. That or they’ve learned music from scribbled descriptions pushed under a cell door” Venue Magazine

"prog synth rocking jazzists" Artrocker

Miracle & The Soul Interpreter
http://www.myspace.com/miracleandthesoulinterpreter

Both Miracle and the Soul Interpreter love strange varieties of music, but they share a love of stripped back RnB. 'No Diggity', 'Try Agai'n, 'Bucky Done Gun', 'One Thing', 'Gold Digger', 'Crazy In Love' et al. The challenge is to make English these slick, romantic beats while touching as many kids as possible, the rascals. Still, boys will be boys.

Warren Myles
http://www.myspace.com/warrenjohnmyles

Warren John Myles has long been a stalwart of Sheffield’s anti-establishment subterranean music scene, though you would be forgiven for not instantly recognising his name, as he is perhaps more familiar for his work in art-punk anti-emo noise combo Heart/Yeah?, and more recently, violinear electro-folk pop trio Urgent Talk.

He once covered every new number 1 or highest new entry for a year on gameboy which you can download here:
http://www.allyourtop40arebelongtous.blogspot.com

Download his new free album No Drama here: http://www.warrenmyles.bandcamp.com


The Harley
20th October
Doors 7.30pm
Price £5
Tickets: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/59758

Followed by Shizzle night club.

Children For Breakfast are muscling in on Put Down That Science Pole to bring you a Thursday night live extravaganza.

We're all proud to be providing a stage for Themselves to work their magic upon.

THEMSELVES (ANTICON)
http://www.myspace.com/themselves

FREE ALBUM (w/Aesop Rock, Odd Nosdam and Yoni Wolf of Why? amongst others)
http://www.anticon.com/thefreehoudini/

"theFREEhoudini is a cause for celebration" Pitchfork

After a six-year hiatus, Themselves return on a rampage of heady rap wrung from hardworking hands. Of course, the duo of Jeffrey “Jel” Logan and Adam “Doseone” Drucker are never too far from the frontlines of good art and honest music. Last year, their Subtle sextet released its third album, the critically acclaimed and wildly adventurous ExitingARM, and a 2005 collaboration with Germany’s the Notwist yielded the cult gem 13 & God. There have been solo offerings, guest appearances, and ceaseless touring, but not peep from the name behind 2002’s left-field classic The No Music. That blessed interim has seen Doseone and Jel become the fearless musicians and exacting artists they’d always meant to be. Now, hungrier than ever, Themselves are here to scrawl a bold new chapter across rap’s too-stale tome. Furthermore, they set out to accomplish this feat unadorned, returning to hip-hop’s most cardinal and carnal form, the number two: the DJ and the MC—neck-snapping beats and precision prose—accompanied by a little righteous indignation, of course.

Such things do have roots, naturally, and Themselves’ are as colorful as one would expect. Drucker was born in Napa, Idaho, to a hippie pair whose relationship wouldn’t outlast its ideals. Logan was raised in Chicago by Pentecostal parents. While the former spent his preteen years bouncing between Philadelphia and New Jersey, surviving by his mile-a-minute wit and ceaseless imagination, Logan nursed an early love for the decidedly safe sounds of Chuck Berry into raging crush on the unhinged backbone of rap music: beats. He’d pump gas in order to save up for the hallowed SP-1200 drum machine (of which he’s now a renowned master); Drucker would hone his unmatched rap styles in street battles before moving to Cincinnati in his late teens. In that city’s annual “Scribble Jam” competition, as “Doseone,” he famously battled Eminem in a final-round showdown—as well as one of his idols, Freestyle Fellowship’s P.E.A.C.E.—and the experience left him hollow. Meanwhile, Jel had forged a sound unto himself, but couldn’t find a voice able to keep pace. In 1998, tapes were exchanged through the venerable DJ Mr. Dibbs, and history came to be made.

Of that initial meeting, much would be born: Doseone’s ambitious, self-released debut Hemispheres (1998); Themselves’ seminal unveiling, Them (1999); the landmark collaborative project, Deep Puddle Dynamics (also featuring Sole, Alias and Atmosphere’s Slug); and the Anticon label itself. Soon, Dose and Jel moved to Oakland in order to spark a movement with Anticon’s other co-founders, two of which (Odd Nosdam, and Yoni Wolf of WHY?) were in yet another celebrated group with Drucker, the eternally lauded cLOUDDEAD. Since, Doseone and Jel have continued to challenge rap—and our conception of music itself—every step of the way. Through their joint projects and an impressive body of solo work (see 2006’s Soft Money, by Jel, or Doseone’s self-released spoken-word album, Soft Skulls), these two have been nurturing the kind of legacy that only gets better with age. In 2009, Themselves return to a core that’s been warming, strengthening, and expanding all the while.

This is going to be rather amazing, and FREE.

With Put Down That Science Pole DJs and guests to be announced.

We like to play:

Los Campesinos/Memory Cassette/Slow Club/Passion Pit/Weird Tapes/Dizzie Rascal/Chairlift/British Sea Power/Dr.Dre/Ladyhawke/Metronomy/Futureheads/Radiohead/Polyphonic Spree/The Smiths/Head Automatica/Crystal Castles/Jay Z/Elvis Costello/Death From Above 1979/Interpol/Arcade Fire/Kanye West/AIR/Notorious B.I.G/Prodigy/Friendly Fires/The Shins/Animal Collective/Roxy Music/Franz Ferdinand/Red Light Company/Cut Copy/Hot Chip/White Stripes/Chemical Brothers/Talking Heads/Weezer/N.W.A/Ladytron/Alphabeat/Robyn/Beach Boys/The Avalanches/The Faint/M.I.A/MGMT/Fleetwood Mac/The Cure/Beastie Boys/Devo/Flamining Lips/many many more

MAX TUNDRA
http://www.myspace.com/maxtundra
http://www.maxtundra.com/

“A whole other world of pop music – an absolutely unique, enchanting, and irreplaceable vision of how the stuff can work” – Pitchfork (27th best album [and highest-rated Domino release] of 2008)

“Parallax Error Beheads You is an enormous achievement, one that expands the syntax of the medium” – Momus (best album of 2008)

“This year has bubbled and bleeped with the sound of bedroom electronica that harks back to the past, but the third album by Max Tundra is the most joyful of all. A pop tour de force, bursting with bright, bouncy hooks” – The Guardian

“Mannered English eccentricity never sounded so deliriously thrilling” – All Music Guide

“It hurts and twists your brain until you start to crave this Tundra terrorism” – NME

“His maniacal energy is infectious” – The Wire

“Mr and Mrs Tundra can be very proud of their boy” – The Independent

“There's something for anyone with a taste for things multicoloured and marvellously eclectic” – Mojo

“A modern landmark in sophisticated pop-song composition. Frank Zappa, Steely Dan, Scritti Politti, Cornelius, Prince, Daft Punk... it manages to consistently equal and even occasionally improve upon the best work by each of those artists and then some. 10/10” – Spencer Owen (mog.com)

“He has struck gold with his masterful third release – smart and relevant” - Treble

“A million-course meal stuffed into one disc from the singular mind of an itinerant musical chef” – XLR8R (Staff Pick)

FINDO GASK
http://www.myspace.com/findogaskuk

"[Va Va Va is] one of the year's strangest and most sublime singles." - The Sunday Times

"Check out the extraordinary gossamer falsetto of Glaswegian Gerard Black." - Observer Music Monthly

"Perfect celestial pop." - Guardian

"Music both sublime and bumping." - Sunday Herald

"Absolutely brilliant... that is staggeringly good!" - Radcliffe & Maconie (Radio 2)


VOO
http://www.myspace.com/voorock

"A brilliant underground rock record......" 9/10
DISORDER MAGAZINE

"Voo's album could and should be celebrated as a quiet victory for British rock - imaginitive, exciting and unafraid to go against the grain...4/5"
GIGWISE

"Capable of reaching out and touching all but the hard hearted, Voo's debut could bring a refreshing light to dark days..."
DROWNED IN SOUND

**Recommended**
"Voo execute a clever balance between lo-fi pop and jangley, ambitious indie rock...'Dates, Facts and Figures' is a remarkably understated, yet powerful album...4/5"
MANCHESTER MUSIC

"A tiny stroke of genius"
TOHELLWITH.CO.UK

HALLO..I LOVE YOU
http://www.myspace.com/halloiloveyou

Hallo..I Love You arrived in April 09, from the ashes of Elle S'apelle & 28 Costumes, with a large sack of pop sensibilties, a ruck of ideas and few keyboards to cover the world in honey-fresh, deliciously cloudless skypop and got straight to work!

PARTY HORSE
http://www.myspace.com/partyhorsemusic

Lead singer DK formed PH, from the ashes of Tiny Dancers, to play Moscow Fashion Week PARTY HORSE would rather have a piece of toast than see a ghost. Like a Anglo/Dutch Fleetwood Mac brought up on grilled cheese they play music that's energetically challenged.


JUST HANDSHAKES (WE'RE BRITISH)
http://www.myspace.com/justhandshakeswerebritish

"Just Handshakes (We’re British) are a four piece currently based in Leeds. Sitting incredibly pretty somewhere between the oscillating pop of Jenny Lewis in her Rilo Kiley days and a doo-wop Metric, their recordings are packed with just crisp choruses and sweetly decorated lyrics" THIS IS FAKE DIY (Editor's Pick)

'Officially one of the best UK indie pop bands around.' ROUGH TRADE

Introduced by Tom Robinson & lauded by Steve Lamacq


URGENT TALK
http://www.myspace.com/urgenttalk

"UT
take their cues more from M83's blissed-out take on shoegaze/electronica ('I Love Our Network)', or The Unicorns at their most bleepy and playful" DROWNED IN SOUND

"Urgent Talk are therefore a noisy, energetic, (arguable) pop band with everything going for them. They are, in short, incredible...Urgent Talk’s existence is definitely a massive win for the universe" LINE OF BEST FIT

With DJs


The Harley,
334 Glossop Road
Sheffield,
S10 2HW
0114 2752288
PRICE:£4 OTD (£7 for a Weekend Ticket from seetickets.com)

Children For Breakfast are aflame with excitement in finally having secured one of our favourite new bands of recent times. Let's Wrestle will be stopping off at Bungalows & Bears on the 12th of July, to play an exclusive FREE show. They will be touring their début album "In The Court Of The Wrestling Let's" expect to hear lots from and about them in the run up.

Let's Wrestle
http://www.myspace.com/letsfuckingwrestle

Let's Wrestle are a three piece indie outfit from London, with nods to Dinosaur Jnr and Pavement thrown into the mix.

Here's what the qualified apprecciaters have said;

“mark e smith, thurston moore and eddie argos all bundled inside an awkward kid in sunglasses,which is basically fucking amazing” NME

“something of the early Wedding Present to Let’s Wrestle. It’s not just in the way that the guitars go after each other and chatter magnificently in heady abandon, but it’s also in the way that the lyrics are so insanely self-possessed/obsessed' PLAN B

“kings of slack breeze into town with a tinpan piece of indie the jarmans would kill each other for.”
NME for ‘I Won’t Lie To You’ Track of the Week

“'I Won't Lie To You’ is so life affirming shambolic, it sounds like
they actually split up realise they can't live without each other and
decide to make another go of it somewhere in the middle.” UNCUT

“like The Buzzcocks running down the street with their pants round their ankles, ‘I Won’t Lie To You’ all but trips over itself to bowl the listener over in a frenzied rush of pop hooks. It ends on a fumbled guitar solo that sees our favorite reprobates get to third base before collapsing in a sweaty heap. Utterly perfect, in its own retarded way.” DROWNEDINSOUND

There will be special guests announced as timely as possible.

In support from Wakefield, of all places, we have;
The Spills
http://www.myspace.com/bumthespills

'..If Pavement liked metal they would sound like this' - Artrocker

'..'Going off ‘Ghost Of The Day’, The Spills have the potential to follow the Jarmans into indie’s big time as well' - Die Shellsuit Die

'..The Spills make a quite unholy, visceral noise straight from the depths of their bellies’ Dom Gourlay, Contactmusic.com

'..Yet another credit to the Mecca of Wakefield’ Sandman Magazine


In addition there will be Children For Breakfast DJ's and others too.

The other details are vague but Let's Wrestle are playing FREE, what else do you really need to know.

Sunday 12th July
Bungalows & Bears
20:00-00:00
FREE

Children For Breakfast are excited to unveil a very special one-off show at everybody's favourite hotel & venue.

Featuring:
Copy Haho
http://www.myspace.com/copyhaho

Hailing from the seaside town of Stonehaven in Scotland, birth place of the founder of the BBC. Their sound is drawn from an established vein of propulsive, slightly angular indie rock, and they earn comparisons to the likes of Pavement, Sonic Youth and Built to Spill with impressive proficiency. There’s a little bit of pre-fame Snow Patrol in there as well, so they strike a more commercial balance.

Here's what some more credible sources, than I, have to say about the Big Scary Monsters' rising stars.

"Scottish newcomers Copy Haho, currently staking their claim as a little band that can alongside the likes of fellow north-of-the-border types Dananananaykroyd and Frightened Rabbit" Clash Music

"Copy Haho hail from Stonehaven in Scotland and produce - to put it in simple terms - really fucking fantastic pop songs. The kind that Los Campesinos! might make if they for one second what quit the pretentiousness" The Line Of Best Fit

"Copy Haho are taking guitar music back to basics in the best possible way with some (very timely) sunny melodies and turbocharged guitars - if the latest Franz album left you cold, fear not for the 'Haho are here to make you smile" Drowned In Sound

In support we have promising local boys
Electric Tape Recorder
http://www.myspace.com/theelectrictaperecorder

Apparently formed from a shared love of David Lynch movies and drawing inspiration and influence from the likes of Bert Jansch, Johnny Cash, Velvet Underground, Captain Beefheart, Jeffrey Lewis, The La’s, and The Eels. They make "...Twangy, flutey, choral and shimmering blues-pop from Sheffield's excellent Electric Tape Recorder." Time Out

"From Sheffield, and they are genius: humorous, full of broken metaphors and salvaged instruments, mangled hearts and dead pixels. The blues, as practiced by the children of Bukowski, Captain Beefheart and Jeffrey Lewis. Whoa! We don't wan't to imagine that parentage again!" End Of The Road Festival

And from just over the Pennines
Sycamore
http://www.myspace.com/musicsycamore

Taking their cues from bands such as Black Mountain, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Deerhunter & Caribou. Sycamore make dark bluesy broken down rock and roll.

"SYCAMORE may just be trio, but don’t let this lull you into any sort of false sense of sonic security. Boom!. There’s just one guitar, but it’s whipped into the loudest, sweetest sounding scuzz of wah and scorched tube driven noise, maybe ever. Unmissable" ManchesterMusic.co.uk

With a post band disco officiated by Children For Breakfast DJs.

18th May
8PM
The Harley
Only £2

Tickets Available from WeGotTickets.com very shortly.

Children For Breakfast are getting back into the swing of things, and
this month are extremely proud to bring you CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY
ALONE all the way from California USA all the way to THE SHAKESPEARE.
The solo project of Owen Ashworth is touring a few dates in the UK in
support of two new albums. In keeping with this duality he will play a
solo electronic set & a full band set.

The two albums are
the highly anticipated and aptly titled studio album "Vs Children" out
on April 6th and the singles and rarities collection "Advance Base
Battery Life" out March 10th through TOMLAB.


***CFTPA***
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casiotone_for_the_Painfully_Alone
http://www.cftpa.org
http://www.myspace.com/cftpa

Casiotone
for the Painfully Alone is the beats-and-keys solo project of singer,
songwriter Owen Ashworth. Drawing heavy influence from traditional
Americana as well as 80's synth pop and commercial hip hop, the music
of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone is a curious mix of austere
character studies and playful electronic programming.

With his
4th album proper Etiquette, Ashworth changed the focus from a decidedly
utilitarlian aesthetic to a broader production spectrum that finally
gave his affecting song writing the space it deserves. In collaboration
with producers and musicians like Jherek Biscoff (of The Dead Science
and Degenerate Art Ensemble) and Jason Quever (The Papercuts and Pan
American Recording Studio), the sound of Casiotone for the Painfully
Alone has grown to include pianos, organs, strings, flutes, drums, and
pedal steel guitars in addition to Ashworth's signature electronics and
drum machines.

Live, Owen Ashworth recreates his recordings
using a makeshift dub soundsystem. Glitchy drum machine rhythms,
battery-operated synths, melodic loops, and hand-triggered samples are
routed through various echo boxes and filters to accompany his slow,
deliberate vocal style.

"If ever someone steals a Mr Whippy van
only to then career it round town singing morosely to the Tanoy ditties
playing out, I want Owen Ashworth to soundtrack it" DROWNED IN SOUND

"Wonderful
fragments of half-missed opportunities and forgotten moments of
happiness....The result is unbearable tragic beauty" PLAN B

"A kind of lo-fi Pet Shop Boy" THE GUARDIAN

"Casiotone
for the Painfully Alone deliver electro-pop that is as intimate and
earnest as it is sugary sweet. Much like Stephen Merritt (Magnetic
Fields), CFTPA’s Owen Ashworth is fluent in the craft of storytelling"
ARTROCKER

"kitsch electronic ditties made by a nerdy outsider
lamenting life’s cruel ball-kicks...No doubt this will be the album
that makes him bigger than air" NME

***CONCERN***
http://www.myspace.com/nostophilia

With
him CFTPA will be bringing his own support band CONCERN steeped in
mystery and intrigue it is the solo endeavor by Gordon Ashworth, who is
perhaps best known for issuing complex harsh noise missives as
Oscillating Innards, and being Owen's brother. That said, Concern is an
entirely different affair. Here, Ashworth's principal focus is on the
drone - shimmering, multi-layered and dynamic, he stretches loooong
tones into gorgeous sonic tendrils which dissolve or implode into
impossibly nostalgic field recordings and static.

"filled us with an overwhelming sense that something exciting was going to happen" THREE IMAGINARY GIRLS

CONCERN
also features on many of CFTPA most implausibly brilliant tracks from
Advance Base Battery Life including some awesome Bruce Springsteen
re-imaginings.

From Sheffield we have rising underground stars making a splash in and out of their hometown.

***URGENT TALK***
http://www.urgenttalk.net/
http://www.myspace.com/urgenttalk

This
city's finest experimental bleep and strings adventure poppers formed
from the ashes of HEARTYEAH are a completely different animal.

Having just released two excellent EPs & and && they are keen to bring these to life.

"UT
take their cues more from M83's blissed-out take on
shoegaze/electronica ('I Love Our Network)', or The Unicorns at their
most bleepy and playful" DROWNED IN SOUND

"Urgent Talk are
therefore a noisy, energetic, (arguable) pop band with everything going
for them. They are, in short, incredible...Urgent Talk’s existence is
definitely a massive win for the universe" LINE OF BEST FIT

With OFFBEAT DJs for inter-band entertainment!

THURSDAY 23RD APRIL
THE SHAKESPEARE
WHICH IS HERE: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=THE+SHAKESPEARE+SHEFFIELD&fb=1&split=1&gl=uk&view=text&latlng=11893249581381198550
DOORS 8PM
£6 ADVANCE [LINK COMING SOON]


+++++++OFFICIAL AFTERSHOW PARTY+++++++

After
the bands have finished, we advise you all to go along to the official
aftershow party at THE HARLEY hosted by up and coming Sheffield
favourites PANDAPOP a proper indie disco featuring a live performance,
with plenty of time to get from The Shakespeare to The Harley, by

4 or 5 Magicians
http://www.myspace.com/4or5magicians

Brighton's
This Is Fake DIY signed band will be performing around midnight so you
can enjoy their lo-fi bedroom fuzz and glorious art-pop fuzz.

"Think Supergrass meets Shellac, we're struggling to think of one solitary loser who won't like this band" NME

"the sort of lo-fi attack jam that Kurt Cobain would have creamed over" Rocksound

Party til 2am

Children For Breakfast are returning from a state of inactivity and metabolic depression, we are awakening to the noisy lo-fi melodies of THE THERMALS all the way from the USA. They are traveling as tourmates to THE CRIBS but are also playing three headline shows, one is for us!

The Thermals
http://www.thethermals.com/ , http://www.myspace.com/thethermals , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thermals

Hutch Harris, Kathy Foster, and Westin Glass are The Thermals, a three piece post-pop-punk band from Portland, Oregon, currently the main exporter of indie rock in the United States. Formed in early 2002, The Thermals signed to Sub Pop Records that fall, on the recommendation of Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie). They have since released three records on the label.

They have just completed their fourth album "Now We Can See" for release in April on Kill Rock Stars, and will be releasing their lead off single in March.

Apart from the obviously cracking albums and singles, they are notable for their refusal to sell their cult hit "Pillar Of Salt" to Hummer for an advert, Hutch has for his sins also spent time touring as part of MODEST MOUSE.

If you're still thinking "Well they would say that, wouldn't they?" then read these quotes from reputable sources:

"blistering, boisterously brilliant indie-rock pop-swinging sing-along slice of geee-neee-arse....this is evidence – like any was actually needed – that they’re a force to be reckoned with" Drowned In Sound

"The secret to their simple-but-superior musical chops may well lie in their feel for pace and rhythm. Although they reach breakneck pace sometimes, more often they pull the tempo back to a sweet spot that makes for a sensation of careering, propulsive joy without getting too giddy or frantic" The Guardian

"Luckily, their awesome third album provides ample reasons to get giddy about stuff they did do. The wonderful ‘Back To The Sea’ roars like a less introverted Sebadoh, while recent single ‘A Pillar Of Salt’ sees them come on like an American Cribs" NME

**JACK LEWIS & THE FISHERMAN THREE**
http://www.myspace.com/thefishermenthree, http://www.myspace.com/jacklewisband

It’s never easy to live under the shadow of a well-known sibling, but for Jack Lewis, younger brother of Crass-obsessed NYC crooner Jeffrey Lewis, any direct comparisons are left to the wind the first time he opens his mouth. More Jonathan Richman to his bro's John Darnielle, Jack’s songs feature fewer inside jokes but are just as charming and clever in their own right, full of fake laments (“The Day Neil Young Died”) and quirky come-ons (the indelible “you danced your ass off” refrain from “New Year's Day.”) Amazingly, things never get too tongue-in-cheek, staying sweet throughout.

**MEXICAN KIDS AT HOME**
http://www.myspace.com/mexicankidsathome

Rising stars of tweecore brought together on Clowne Skatepark, we're now a STABLE 5 piece, and hopefully a bit more serious about what they do??? Who knows.

The band is Jack, Robyn, David Bore, Warner and Austin. We look like hobo's sometimes, and like having bro downs, and getting RAD, and filming skating, and going off-roading in the Bore-by-Bore.

"Folky Slacker Pop on a Tatty Skateboard"

W/ OFFBEAT DJs
& CHILDREN FOR BREAKFAST DJs

£5 ADV
8pm-1am
The Raynor Lounge
Sheffield University
Student's Union
£5 ADV

Tickets: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/42005

Fantastic Damage is going on a brief sojourn to our respective bedrooms but we're making a big arsed comeback on the 2nd February with a special live show, featuring...


THE RUBY KID
Local rapper and all round good egg Daniel Randall a.k.a. THE RUBY KID is about ready to tear all sorts of shite up around the Sheffield scene, after recent shows and a burgeoning fan base.
Ruby has supported Wiley at Plug, though after Wiley pulled out of his first show there, old Dan and his band of funky musicians played a headline show all their own.
A big big fan of Aesop Rock, El-P and all things Def Jux, Dan is a hip hop man straight up, no pretensions, and isn't afraid to put accross his views in spoken script.

More stuff to be confirmed, plus DJ sets from LIAM BREAKFAST, PICKER JENKINS and others, p'raps, playing all sorts of current stuff mixed with some old school things.

8 until 1
The Bowery, Division Street (opposite Vodka Revolution)
Free entry

Children For Breakfast are not lulling themselves from their slumber lightly, not content with bringing you one of the finest lo-fi punk bands from the US...

The Thermals: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=47016892815&ref=nf

They are offering you one of the most exciting and freeest gigs this side of Christmas.

On the 30th January we have invited Finland's most exciting export ** Le Corps Mince De Françoise ** to take over Bungalows And Bears for a rare live show.

**LE CORPS MINCE DE FRANÇOISE**
http://www.myspace.com/lecorpsmincedefrancoise

Three "wacky" young ladies from Helsinki, two sisters and another one. The slight young things play highly stylised frenetic electro pop. They are set to light the europe when they join The NME AWARDS TOUR in February, They also knocked KANYE WEST from the top spot in the HYPE MACHINE search charts. You can catch them here first and for FREE.

Some quotes that people have written and said variously.

"At the beginning of 2008 in a dimly-lit indie club I play a demo I *ahem* downloaded - a rough, scratchy cut of Cool & Bored, all kicky pop, comedy gangster rap with buttery vowels falling into wet slurpy cackles of laughter at the chorus and heavy doses of girl power, plastic lips birthing a new-millenium -Chicks-on-Speed-via-the-Commodore-64- route-of-Funkstar-Deluxe vibe. I slap it .. a few CTA electro tracks and BLAM. Kills it."

- DAZED & CONFUSED

"Le Corps Mince de Françoise - One to watch. They may say they're Cool And Bored but Le Corps Mince de Françoise sound too infectious to submit to indie posturing."

- THE METRO

"it may be way too early to declare this, but Le Corps Mince de Françoise is my new favorite band even with only one song on their MySpace. “Cool and Bored” is just waiting to be the hipster anthem… "

- BIGSTEREO BLOG

In Support Mr Secret Diaries Presents..

** LETTIE **
http://www.myspace.com/lettiemusic

London based Lettie is a singer songwriter whose filmographic electro pop is as sweet as honey and is a minimal and hypnotic nostalgia trip.

"Age of Solo, the fantastic 2008 debut disc from super-talented British chanteuse LETTIE is my go-to present this season for music lovers in search of something new and under-the-radar"

- ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

She has been ushered into new music radio station shows everywhere, having played for Tom Robinson on BBC 6 and is set to play a BBC Introducing gig later this year.

Two great bands, A great guest DJ * Secret Diaries * and Children For Breakfast, all for nothing.

January 30th
Bungalows And Bears
Division Street
8pm - 1am
FREE