| HDIF Presents
The Ballet/Help Stamp Out Loneliness/Pocketbooks
Friday January 9th
The Luminaire, Kilburn, 7.30pm-2am, £6
The Ballet
We've been fans of NYC's The Ballet ever
since we picked up their Mattachine! album in 2006 so we're very very
pleased to be putting on the group's debut UK show. A
self-proclaimed "sissy pop band", the foursome marry the unbridled
euphoria of the Hidden Cameras with the wry poeticism of Magnetic Fields
to create literate, infectious pop gems. Members of the Aislers Set
and Voxtrot appeared on Mattachine!'s stand out track, I Hate The War,
and The Ballet have played with everyone from Casiotone For The Painfully
Alone to Final Fantasy.
Time Out New York: "Recalling Holiday-era Magnetic Fields, these
songs bop with heady buoyancy, yet are underpinned by complicated but
universal themes: self-deception, infidelity without shame, war fatigue
and finding love in a world of online hookups."
This is The Ballet's only London show.
www.myspace.com/sissypopband
Help Stamp Out Loneliness
Featuring Colm and Bentley from indie popsters Language Of Flowers,
Help Stamp Out Loneliness - named after a Nancy Sinatra song, of course
- are, in their own words, "a lounge-gaze-krautpop band".
We hear Yo La Tengo, Stereolab, and St Etienne in their swoonsome songs.
www.myspace.com/helpstampoutloneliness
Pocketbooks
Pocketbooks are a pop band from London, combining melodic boy/girl harmonies,
spiralling guitars and delicate piano lines. Expect a sprinkling of
dazzling 60s soul alongside some sparkling indiepop charm!
www.myspace.com/pocketbooks
DJs between the bands and afterwards until 2am:
Music Is My Boyfriend
Neil (m.d.g.) & Jonny. Two music loving, beer drinking, table top
dancing DJs playing electro -- dance -- indie -- old school -- trash
pop -- alternative.
http://www.myspace.com/musicismyboy
Tickets available from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/39418
You can plan your journey (including night buses, if
necessary) to Jamm using the TFL journey planner. Just click below:
Photos of previous
HDIF Presents nights are here
HDIF Presents I - Sambassadeur/Vermont/Wintergreen
HDIF Presents II - Language
Of Flowers/Aujourd'hui Madame/The Postcards
HDIF Presents III - Saturday Looks Good To
Me/Spencer DeVere/The Gresham Flyers
HDIF Presents IV - Labrador/The
Red Stars/Lucky Soul
HDIF Presents V - Suburban
Kids With Biblical Names/Michaelmas/The Bleeding Hearts/Fanfarlo
HDIF Presents VI - Darren Hayman/The Tamborines/Silver
Springs
HDIF Presents VII - Tilly And The Wall/Money
Can't Buy Music/The Albemarle House
HDIF Presents VIII - Telley/Two
Men In A Boat/Molloy/Amida
HDIF Presents IX - Tender
Trap/Fosca/Strange Idols
HDIF Presents X
- Irene/Mon Fio/Stars Of Aviation/Shimura
Curves
HDIF
Presents XI - Sportique/Salty Pirates/The
Ghosts/The Cut-Outs
HDIF Presents XII
- Scarlet's Well/Helene/Pocketbooks/H Bird
HDIF Presents XIII - Lucky
Soul/Irene/Language Of Flowers/Gresham Flyers
HDIF Presents XIV - I'm
From Barcelona/Suburban Kids With Biblical Names/Strange Idols
HDIF Presents XV - Francois/Amida/The
Steadies/The Darlings
HDIF Presents XVI - Butcher
Boy/Stars Of Aviation/Pocketbooks
HDIF Presents XVII - Butcher
Boy/Cats On Fire/Shimura Curves
HDIF Presents XVIII - Saturday
Looks Good To Me/Lucky Soul Lounge Show/The School/Chris Bathgate
HDIF Presents XIX - Band
Of Holy Joy/Rosie Taylor Project/The Crisps/Roadside Poppies
HDIF Presents XX - Cats On Fire/The Sunny
Street/The Brights/Brontosaurus Chorus
HDIF Presents XXI - The Lodger/My Sad Captains/Arctic
Circle/The Bikinis
HDIF Presents XXII - Butcher Boy/Brontosaurus
Chorus/AWWBLOT?/Plans And Apologies
HDIF Presents XXIII - The
Brunettes/The School/Wake The President/The Deirdres
HDIF Presents XXIV - Darren Hayman and Jack
Hayter/Saturday Looks Good To Me/The Voluntary Butler Scheme
HDIF Presents XXV - Darren Hayman and
Jack Hayter/Saturday Looks Good To Me/Rotifer
HDIF Presents XXVI - Stars Of Aviation/Brontosaurus
Chorus/The Rocky Nest/Honey Pine Dresser
HDIF Presents XXVII - Even As We Speak/Mexican
Kids At Home/Hong Kong In The 60s/The Give It Ups
HDIF Presents XXVIII - Darren Hanlon/The Understudies/Honey
Pine Dresser
HDIF Presents XXIX - The Bank Holidays/Help
Stamp Out Loneliness/The Mai 68s/Hissing At Swans
HDIF Presents XXX - Shrag/The Gresham Flyers/Bonne
Idee/The Empty Set
HDIF Presents XXX! - Pelle Carlberg/The School/Arctic
Circle/The Noughts And Crosses Band
HDIF Presents XXXII - The Madrigals/Electrophonvintage/The
Puncture Repair Kit/Lost Left
If you'd like to
play, let us know either by emailing gigs@howdoesitfeel.co.uk or going
to the messageboard, which is here:
http://s4.invisionfree.com/howdoesitfeel/index.php?
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