NEWS: The Red Stripe Awards 2008
- Posted on April 22, 2008 5:06 PM
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The Red Stripe Music Award Final
The Forum, Kentish Town
May 12th
Former Libertine, Carl Barat, and his band, Dirty Pretty Things, will headline the 2008 Red Stripe Music Awards. The Wallbirds and The Runners will also be performing.
The Red Stripe Music Awards is the UK’s widest search for the best unsigned music talent, reaches
After scouring the masses of bands trying to break into the industry, Red Stripe have chosen their top four who will fight it out under the watchful eye of The Forum.
Take a look at the chosen four and give them a listen on their Myspace.
Klaus Says Buy The Record:
This Brighton based songsman is already renowned for his elastic live show, the rousing poet combining the utterly pop with the fantastically theatrical. His Jamie T spliced with Paul Heaton manner is a jocular and whimsically lyrical feast of menacing adolescent excitement with well-nourished flashes of Get Cape Wear Cape Fly.
Kiddo:
This Edinburgh four-piece makes music so mischievously charming you’re as carried away on their songs as you would be Good Shoes or dare we say, The Cure. Uber-catchy pop songs, delightfully delivered with a refreshing sense of on-stage cohesion.
The Down and Outs:
Like Vampire Weekend, The Down and Outs know how to make a melody that wraps around your life, itching the sun-loving inner Beatles fan with a vocal jumble of lyrical whips so sharp they pierce the British weather with massive beams of musical sunlight.
O Fracas:
We’re still not a hundred per cent sure how to pronounce their name, but we do know that they make a different sound to most other bands in the UK. From the outlandish catchiness of their weirdo dark-pop to the undertone of vaudevillian vocals and pianos, they meet the oddball with the custom and make it sound belligerent.
Who’s on the panel?
Stuart Clark from Music Week, Oli Hodgson from Coda and Will Kinsman from The Fly, will be making the final decision on the night, which will see one band being given the opportunity to play at two of the UK’s best new festivals, The Great Escape festival in Brighton (15-17 May) and Lovebox Weekender (19-20 July), and they’ll get their very own tour bus.
You can register for tickets now by going to www.redstripe.net
Related Links
Klaus Says Buy The Record MySpace
Kiddo MySpace
The Down and Outs MySpace
O Fracus MySpace
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