Monday 17th May
Chiddy Bang, Constellations
over 16s entry
7pm doors, £8
From The Guardian New Band Of The Day:
Chiddy Bang are fast becoming known as the indie-sampling hip-hoppers. Passion Pit, Sufjan Stevens and Radiohead have all been chopped and diced by the Philly pair whose close integration of their beat scientist and guitarist makes them as much of a four-piece band as they are a duo. They're not just indie magpies, though – there are samples, too, of Tom Waits here, they're big fans of Joe Strummer, and they say they'd love to get together in the studio artists as disparate as BB King and Justice, Duane Eddy and Sparks. One of their tracks, Never, is a pop-cultural treat, mentioning the Beatles' 1970 split and Lady Gaga. All Things Go is like Jay-Z circa Hard Knock Life with its kiddie chorus from Sufjan Stevens' Chicago, and of course there's their Mary Poppins-alluding name, chosen because one of them wanted to be an inventor as a kid as per Dick Van Dyke's character in the film. On The Opposite of Adults there's even a reference to one of their rapping peers: "Can I please get a little bit of knowledge? Somebody tell Roth that I don't love college."
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