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Formed at university in Bristol by Irishman Cillian Logue and Londoner Guy Stevenson, the band started out as an acoustic folk act. Following their true calling towards a punkier style, the two upped sticks to London, advertised for musicians in various lonely hearts columns, and stumbled across a couple of gems; Ozzie mod fanatic Tim Burton.
In the past year The Gin Riots wooed the crowd at Torontos NXNE 2008, springboarding them to be invited to showcase at SXSW in Austin Texas 2009. During SXSW KLBJfm radio station sponsor of the festival called the band "awesome" and their show on Fox TV Austin hailed them as "brilliant". The Gin Riots were selected by Warner Movies and Myspace to perform at Guy Ritichie's private London premiere of his last film Rocknrolla.
They have been praised by BBCs Tom Robinson and with their video in collaboration with George A. Romero for their debut single "The Polka" due for release early next year, it has been a great year.
They have just been in Great Eastern Studios (The Horrors, White Lies) recording their second single and the band are currently writing their first album to follow up their self released EP, Mother Ruin 2007.
Finally, after a long wait SUMMERSKISS RECORDS have released "A Tribute to The Afghan Whigs" and yours truly have contributed their cover "BE SWEET" to the album.
It's a much-anticipated release, especially for all you hard-core Whigs fans!
http://www.summerskissrecords.com/

We played at the preview screening for Guy Ritchie's new  film this evening and I'd like to thank everyone who made it down for getting involved.. Please accept out massive apologies for the shit sound in the venue...i know most bands are not adverse to blaming soundmen for their bad workmanship, but this was really taking the piss...Anyhoo, the night turned out to be a fun one...we hung out with Super Hans from Peep Show backstage and he was very funny indeed - got him to pose with our bassist Tim, who looks uncannily like David Mitchell...

The real fun, however, only began when we got back at the gin palace. On arriving home with no keys, Cillian decided to climb two floors to get in through the living room window, then got into a fight with our neighbour who turns out to be his girlfriend's ex boyfriend and who came out of his house bollock naked wielding a baseball bat and baying for Irish blood...having chased him back inside, Cillian then had to deal with four policemen who'd been sent round by said maniac to arrest his lady! Oh my giddy giddy gosh! 

We're a bit shell  shocked by all this drama...and the 6 straight shots of tequila we've just have haven't made it any more palatable..Cillians just on his way to pick her up from the cop shop...woah!

anyhoo, new tunes are in our midst, almost finished and ready to go so keep your keen lil eyes peeled on our myspace page for more gems from the logue/stevenson/burton/mcgruer warchest...

love to your mothers, guy de riot xx

 

 

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*Jan 23 2007 - THE BULL AND GATE, London
*Feb 1 2007 - LARK IN THE PARK, London
*Feb 2 2007 - ARCHWAY TAVERN, London
*Feb 8 2007 - TOMMY FLYNN'S, London
*Feb 14 2007 - CLUB 333, London
*March 20 2007 - DUBLIN CASTLE, London
*March 31 2007 - THE ARCHWAY TAVERN, London
*April 1 2007 - THE WINDMILL, Brixton
*April 4 2007 - The Gin Riots GIN PALACE PARTY @ THE IVY HOUSE, London
*April 7 2007 - THE LOUISIANA, Bristol
*April 17 2007 - THE RHYTHM FACTORY, London
*May 5 2007 - THE BULL AND GATE, London
*May 19 2007 - Opening for ALABAMA 3 @ THE DIRTY SOUTH, London
*May 21 2007 - BLOOMSBURY BOWLING LANES, London
*June 10 2007 - The Gin Riots GIN PALACE PARTY @ ARCH 635, Clapham, London
*August 7 2007 - CATCH, Shoreditch, London
*August 10 2007 - JAMM with DJ set by BELLE and SEBESTIAN, Brixton, London
*Sept 29 2007 - BLOW UP @ METRO, London
*Nov 2 2007 - WAH WAH CLUB, Venice Italy
*Nov 8 2007 - THE POOL BAR, Shoreditch, London
*Nov 23 2007 - MONTO WATER RATS THEATRE, Kings Cross, London
*Nov 27 2007 - CARGO with TEAM WATERPOLO, Shoreditch, London
*Dec 7 2007 - THE HOPE AND ANCHOR, London
*Dec 13 2007 - THE GIN RIOTS XMAS PARTY @ THE WINDMILL, Brixton, London
*Jan 12 2008 - JAMM with BLOC PARTY DJ set, Brixton, London
*Jan 19 2008 - BARFLY, Camden, London
*Jan 22 2008 - THE ENTERPRISE, Chalk Farm, London
*Jan 29 2008 - OLD FIRE STATION supporting THE FUTUREHEADS and GRAMMATICS, Bournemouth
*Feb 1 2008 - WYLLYOTS THEATRE 14+, Potters Bar, Herts
*Feb 13 2008 - CATCH, Shoreditch, London
*Feb 16 2008 - PRIVATE PARTY, London
*Feb 22 2008 - MONTO WATER RATS THEATRE with YETI, Kings cross, London
*Mar 8 2008 - RAILWAY BAR AND KITCHEN, Tulse Hill, London
*Mar 13 2008 - PRIVATE MYSPACE GIG, Waterloo, London
*Mar 26 2008 - PUNK, Soho, London
*April 12 2008 - The Gin Riots GIN PALACE PARTY @ THE WINDMILL, Brixton, London
*April 25 2008 - THE CLAPHAM GRAND, Clapham Junction, London
*April 26 2008 - THE ENTERPRISE with SCANNERS, Chalk Farm, London
*May 8 2008 - JAMM, Brixton, London
*May 9 2008 - READING STUDENT UNION, Reading, UK
*June 12 2008 - NXNE, Toronto, Canada
*June 13 2008 - NXNE @ Rancho Relaxo, Toronto, Canada
*June 14 2008 - NXNE, Toronto, Canada
*June 15 2008 - NXNE, Toronto, Canada
*June 21 2008 - The Gin Riots GIN PALACE PARTY @ THE WINDMILL, Brixton, London
*July 19 2008 - METRO, London
*July 20 2008 - BARFLY, Camden, London
*August 7 2008 - VOLKS CLUB, Brighton, East Sussex
*August 15 2008 - YORKSHIRE HOUSE, Lancaster, Lancashire
*August 27 2008 - Private screening of Guy Ritchie's ROCKNROLLA film, SEone, London
*September 25 2008 - NAMBUCCA, London
*November 6 2008 - The Gin Riots DJ set for Cancer Research Charity @ THE RHYTHM FACTORY, London
*November 9 2008 - PROUD GALLERIES, London
*Jan 14 2009 - 93 FEET EAST with Scanners, London
*February 12 2009 - HOXTON BAR and GRILL with Julian Perretta, London
*March 16 2009 - MOMO'S, Austin Texas
*March 18 2009 - ACE'S, Austin Texas
*March 19 2009 - Whoopsey Magazine Party @ TROPHY'S, Austin Texas
*March 21 2009 - Official SXSW Showcase @ RIO'S, Austin Texas
*April 8 2009 - THE FLY, London
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While in Toronto for North By Northeast Music Festival 2008, Guy was asked to write a daily diary for The National Post Canada.
It was a musical, beery blur but great times were had. A limit to word count meant ALOT was left out, but here's a summary.
Oh, and the 'Guy De Riot' nom du plume? That's the Post's edit, but it sounds pretty suave when pronounced with a French Canadian accent!










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Back in November or December 2007. Cillian was on his deathbed...and no (not much) booze was involved!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=iJquxGxlNsg


To view The Gin Riots "Hail To The Soaks" "live in Subtv's" studio video click the link below


http://www.sub.tv?mVid=355


First time we ever played this song live...we're much improved, we thinks...

To view The Gin Riots "live in SubTv's" studios, click the link below

http://www.sub.tv?mVid=354

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