Rature – Truck Store, Witney

Rapture – Truck Store, Witney

Rise, Cheltenham

One man electro-hippity-hoppity-popitty-rock band, Charlie Baxter takes dance music and indie and fusing them into each other in a big neon new rave explosion!
Having enjoyed BBC Raido airtime and rapturous festival slots during the last few years, Charlie will be playing Rise Cheltenhams Sunday sessions bringing along a multitude of instruments. This is one you should NOT MISS!

For any further information please contact Ben Hughes on 01242 228515

Rise, Cheltenham

This young duo from Cirencester will be Rise Cheltenhams first Sunday Session of 2012 after winning BBC introducing’s competition to play here and open Gloucesters 2011 Underground festival.
They ended the year on a high supporting Mystery Jets star Kai Fish at the Guildhall in Gloucester, and are building a steady fanbase.

Avalanche  Edinburgh

Avalanche - Edinburgh

10th December 2011 – Rise, Cheltenham

Ahab, Acorn Records

15th November, Rise Cheltenham

The talented 5-piece Dry the River will be performing at our Cheltenham store in November, and sticking around to sign some records too.

“I think people are surprised when they come to see us live.” says Peter Liddle, heavily tattooed frontman of London’s Dry the River. “They expect us to be really calm and quiet but in some ways we’re the opposite.”

You can see why people get confused: this five-piece band has all the hallmarks of the latest folk sensation: elemental name, beards, acoustic guitars, even a violinist. But what sets Dry the River apart is a background in hardcore and post-punk bands, hence the tattoos, lyrics that read like a Steinbeck novel and a sonic palette that sweeps from gentle to giant like an incoming storm…

13th November 2011, Rough Trade east

NO WRISTBAND NEEDED, JUST COME DOWN ON THE DAY

Order ‘Ancient & Modern’ here

Mekons formed in Leeds, England 34 years ago in 1977 and Ancient & Modern is their 26th album. This current classic line-up has remained intact since the mid-1980′s. Throughout their history, they have worked collaboratively and collectively with everything credited to the band, never to individuals. Their mind-boggling output consistently blurs the lines between high art and low and has included exhibitions in the UK and US, a deranged musical recorded and staged with Kathy Acker, an art performance with Vito Acconci and several books including the unique art catalog/unfinished novel “Mekons United.”

On Ancient & Modern, the Mekons bring you an “album” just like albums used to be; cardboard things filled with cheeky, chunky 78rpm shellac. Just take a look at the cover of Ancient & Modern and you’ll know what we’re talking about! Let the band take you for a walk down memory lane, to the world as it was just before the First World War … to the Edwardian Era, to the Naughty Naughties a hundred years ago, a cozy nostalgic world: cricket on the village green, punting down the river in a striped blazer and boater, off with the hounds, picnic hampers, community singing, mistresses and wives, mysticism, secret societies, dangerous poetry, radical modern art, Freud, national strikes, revolution, anarchists, bombers, British concentration camps … oops, is that really a hundred years ago?!? The Mekons travel back/forward to a world unaware that it’s waiting for the pistol to CRACK CRACK CRACK in Sarajevo, plotting their singular course through the digital tsunami of contemporary sounds that blare tinnily from your mobile phone or spin at 78rpm in His Master’s Voice from the horn of your exquisite Gramophone.