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As well as today's Neon Waltz announcement we are in the process of confirming a number of other great new shows and expect to have further announcements over the next week or so.
We'll also be announcing our biggest Teesside show for some years very soon too.
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THE WINTER HILL TRANSMISSION |
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We are delighted to announce that TKASG faves, The Winter Hill Transmission have been confirmed as special guests for The Burning Hell show in June.
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Wed 18 Mar
RONiiA
TALK SYMMETRY
Westgarth SC
Sat 21 March
SIVU
JOE HAMMILL
(of CATTLE & CANE)
DRESSED LIKE WOLVES
The Central
Fri 3 April
FATHERSON
KEEP BREATHING
FOREIGNFOX
Cluny 2
Fri 17 April
NEON WALTZ
Westgarth SC
Fri 24 April
TBA
Westgarth SC
Sat 25 April
THE TWILIGHT SAD
Cluny
Mon 15 June
THE BURNING HELL
Westgarth SC
Fri 6 Nov
MY LIFE STORY
Cluny
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Stockton Calling returns on Saturday 4 April. We are delighted to be once again curating at The Storytellers.
Our line up is now complete and will be revealed a week tomorrow.
Tickets are available here. |
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Tickets are also available from the venues and venue outlets. In Middlesbrough tickets are also available in person from the Olde Young Teahouse and Sticky Fingers.
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Tickets are also available from the venues and venue outlets. In Middlesbrough tickets are also available in person from the Olde Young Teahouse and Sticky Fingers
Thank you for supporting the shows. |
Tickets for all shows can be obtained 24/7 from the following:
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Tickets are also available from the venues and venue outlets. In Middlesbrough tickets are also available in person from the Olde Young Teahouse.
Thank you for supporting the shows. |
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Wed 18 Mar
RONiiA
TALK SYMMETRY
Westgarth SC
Sat 21 March
SIVU
JOE HAMMILL
(of CATTLE & CANE)
DRESSED LIKE WOLVES
The Central
Fri 3 April
FATHERSON
KEEP BREATHING
FOREIGNFOX
Cluny 2
Fri 17 April
NEON WALTZ
Westgarth SC
Fri 24 April
TBA
Westgarth SC
Sat 25 April
THE TWILIGHT SAD
Cluny
Mon 15 June
THE BURNING HELL
Westgarth SC
Fri 6 Nov
MY LIFE STORY
Cluny
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JUST ANNOUNCED - GREAT NEW SHOW
NEON WALTZ + SPECIAL GUESTS
Fri 17th April 2015, 7.30pm, Ages 14+, £6 Adv
Westgarth 2, Middlesbrough |
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Neon Waltz are a powerful six piece psychedelic indie rock band who write and play their melodic, sun-drenched, sonic soundscapes in a remote croft, located in the wilderness of Caithness, Scotland. Championed by the likes of NME as 'ones to watch' in 2015 and famed for their excellent live shows. the band arrive in town with a burgeoning reputation
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NEXT SHOW
THE RETURN OF NONA MARIE INVIE - ONE OF ONLY 3 UK DATES
RONiiA + TALK SYMMETRY
Wed 18th March 2015, 8pm, Ages 14+, £8 Adv
Westgarth 2, Middlesbrough |
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RONiiA is the collaborative project of three quite different musicians, that comes together to just work. The line-up features Nona Marie Invie of Dark Dark Dark, Mark McGee of Father You See Queen and Marijuana Deathsquads, and Fletcher Barnhill of Join Custody.
United, they deliver songs of dejection and love, laced with dark melodies and crackling equipment. It is electronic music that is stripped of its gloss, as wildly innovative as it is original.
For years, Nona Marie Invie toured and recorded with her American folk band Dark Dark Dark, being praised for her "flexible, penetrating voice, shedding both light and shadow on the meaning of her lyrics" (NPR). In RONiiA, Nona explores a fantastic surrealism, resulting in an album that invokes isolation and devotion, to escape and to be found.
Nona's dissonant, shadowy presence is enriched and fortified by McGee's eerie production,a style he has been perfecting for years in bands like To Kill A Petty Bourgeoisie and Marijuana Deathsquads. As a group, the three members of RONiiA create a world that is both gorgeous and intense, where your eyes are snails and the fish eat your skin.
THIS SHOW IS ONE OF ONLY 3 UK DATES - LONDON (Hoxton), BRIGHTON (Komedia), MIDDLESBROUGH (Westgarth SC)
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BRILLIANT INTIMATE SHOW FROM FAST-RISING SONGWRITER
THIS IS THE SMALLEST VENUE ON THE TOUR
SIVU + JOE HAMMILL (of CATTLE & CANE) + DRESSED LIKE WOLVES
Sat 21st March 2015, 7.30pm, Ages 18+, £8 Adv
The Central, Half Moon Lane, Gateshead (by Tyne Bridge) |
Born in the sleepy town of St.Ives, Cambridgeshire, but moving to London to pursue music, 24-year-old James Page struggled to adapt to the capital. He worked as an administrator for a bailiff company, played a crash-course of depressing open mic nights, and then took up a permanent fixture in a call centre in Waterloo – the latter of which strengthened his work ethic, and the songwriting process itself.
Sivu’s luck began to change when, whilst playing bass for a friend’s band, he struck up a relationship with Charlie Andrew, who had just finished producing Alt J’s then to be Mercury winning ‘An Awesome Wave’. Charlie encouraged him to keep pursuing his own material, as James began to build strange sounds and textures around these dark yet ultimately hopeful songs. The MRI-machine video for ‘Better Man Than He’ went viral, and even more people began to take notice. At the end of 2013, after delaying the process for as long as humanly possible, Sivu finally handed in his notice at the call centre, signed a record deal with Atlantic Records and finished up his debut album, Something On High which was release in October 2014.
“Heartswelling acoustic dexterity and glittering electronics...irresistible” NME Radar
“Heavenly...like one-man Wild Beasts” Guardian
“Insistent hooks and intricate soundscapes...a huge promise” Sunday Times Breaking Act
“One of the most prominent new artists of the last twelve months” Line of Best Fit
"Off kilter, introspective, yet beautiful" Noisey
"Ethereal, haunting pop...vulnerable and distinctive" Telegraph New Faces
"One of the country's finest new singer-songwriters" Time Out
"A precocious talent...the results are quite inspiring" Clash
"Yearning, off-kilter pop anthems" Dummy
"Brooding and anthemic...the dark imaginings of 24-year-old Sivu" The Fly
"Exemplary songwriting...dark and delicious" Notion
“Sivu reasserts his uncanny, genre-defying sound...a welcome surprise” The Sun
“An unusual blend of dreamy melodies...impressive” Wonderland
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INTIMATE FESTIVAL WARM UP DATE - LAST 10 TICKETS
FATHERSON + KEEP BREATHING + FOREIGNFOX
Fri 3rd April 2015, 8pm, Ages 18+, £7 Adv
Head of Steam, Newcastle upon Tyne |
The boys are back!
Fatherson, one of the bands of 2014 return to the north east for an intimate show. Fatherson were recognised as Scottish music's 'Rising Stars' with an award sponsored by XFM and Hard Rock Cafe at this month's Nordoff-Robbins Scottish Music Awards. We concur 100%.
Support comes from brilliant new Newcastle outfit, Keep Breathing, and a debut north east appearance from ace Scottish miserablists, Foreignfox.
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SELLING FAST - THIS IS ONE OF THE SHOWS OF THE YEAR
TOURING THE 'DROWNED IN SOUND' No 1 ALBUM OF THE YEAR
THE TWILIGHT SAD + SPECIAL GUESTS
Sat 25th April 2015, 8pm, Ages 18+, £12 Adv
Cluny, Newcastle upon Tyne |
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New album is sensational, garnering significant critical acclaim and gaining the band comparisons with The National amongst others. We are utterly thrilled to have secured an exclusive north east tour date.
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RARE FULL BAND SHOW - DO NOT MISS THIS
THE BURNING HELL + THE WINTER HILL TRANSMISSION
+ NICK FERRIO + SUPPORT
Mon 15th June 2015, 8pm, Ages 14+, £7 Adv
Westgarth 2, Middlesbrough |
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The Burning Hell is a Canadian band with an international cult following. The alter-ego of songwriter and ukulele-slinger Mathias Kom, the band is loosely based in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada,
The Burning Hell has toured back and forth across Canada and Europe since 2007, playing everywhere from festivals to bars to living rooms - and once even a mental asylum in rural France. They have garnered acclaim for their hyperactive live shows and their caustic yet sincere lyrics, believing as they do that songs about the inevitability of death can also be fun to dance to.
In 2012, The Burning Hell both made AND broke a record: the band recorded their newest album ‘People’ (released in spring 2013) in Berlin with producers Norman Nitzsche and Ramin Bijan; later in the summer, The Burning Hell set a new world record, playing ten shows in ten countries in less than 24 hours.
"Canada's The Burning Hell write the kind of literate, funny, catchy songs that makes you want to learn all the words and shout them passionately back in their faces." Drowned in Sound, June '14
"Not many albums open with the line 'You were a Nazi hunter...'. It's just one notable way in which The Burning Hell's sixth LP (but first the the UK) proclaims its lone wolf intentions. The band is mostly the product of songwriter Mathias Kom, a mischevious, caustic people's poet with a world view that lets you know the good guys occasionally win. Kom sings what he sees, from truculent kids and their smugly indulgent parents to corrupt corporate greed, to some things he doesn't: Norse gods and the futility of cults. His half-spoken baritone will appeal to fans of punk vet Jonathan Richman, the music to those of pioneering alt-rockers They Might Be Giants. If that sounds a little too college-rock clever, rest assured that Kom's music falls on the right side of the indie rails, knowing but always careful to let the listener in on the joke." Q Magazine, February '14
"Lyrics are the thing for Newfoundland-based songwriter Mathias Kom. His album houses some extraordinary stories...the austere 'Travel Writers' bears comparison with Bill Callahan, and the words of 'Grown Ups' are a lesson in wit and nuance." Uncut, March '14
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DUST DOWN THAT FEATHER BOA - MLS ARE BACK!!!
MY LIFE STORY + SPECIAL GUESTS
Fri 6th Nov 2015, 8pm, Ages 18+, £15 Adv
Cluny, Newcastle upon Tyne |
Britpop's My Life Story return to tour the UK with a striped down, tight rocking 5-piece version of their original line-up. Cited by Steve Lamaq as his favourite band, they will perform their greatest hits from their classic albums 'Mornington Crescent' and The Golden Mile' amongst others.
In 1993, MLS were spotted by Giles Martin, (the son of Beatles legend George) who offered them free time at his fathers studio. The debut single Girl A, Girl B, Boy C was born, a tale of a bizarre love triangle with a big band soundtrack. All foxy horns and horny foxes, it was released by indie label Mother Tongue and possessed a sassy swing which sounded gloriously out of place in the year of grunge. NME and Melody Maker made it their Single of the Week.
Their debut album Mornington Crescent was released to critical acclaim on the same label and MLS toured extensively in the UK and France, headlining over Oasis and supporting both Blur and Pulp. In 1996, MLS signed to Parlophone and released their second album, The Golden Mile. All five singles from the album became top forty hits including 12 Reasons Why I Love Her, Sparkle and Strumpet.
The My Life Story orchestra were in high demand during the Britpop era, with notable appearances on the Morrissey track Interlude, and collaborations with Marc Almond and PJ Probyon the 1996 album Legend.
1999 saw the release of If You Cant Live Without Me Then Why Aren’t You Dead Yet the first ever internet single.
The third and final album Joined Up Talking was released in 2000, and the band called it a day shortly after their sixth top forty hit Its a Girl Thing.
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