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The Muslims was a great name for a band. Inflammatory, Incendiary, worthy of acres of column in the mainstream music press, it gave its Los Angeles-based bearers an instant air of notoriety as surely as if Glenn Miller had named his orchestra The Nazis back in the forties.
So why change it to The Soft Pack? [...]

Former Test Icicle Dev Hynes brings his inimitable neo-country-folk back to The Cluny on May 7 as part of a full UK tour. Here are all the dates and venues:
May
1 Leeds Live at Leeds at Stylus
3 Nottingham Bodega
5 Glasgow King Tuts
6 Manchester Deaf Institute
7 Newcastle Cluny
9 Birmingham O2 Academy 3
10 London Heaven
11 Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
13 [...]

Check out this video of The Soft Pack performing ‘Answer To Yourself’ live on Letterman. The band play The Cluny next Monday (February 22).

Newcastle-based promoters Get Involved have just unveiled their brand new website. Have a look at it here:
http://www.get-involved.net/
The guys have got a few great gigs lined up over the next couple of months. Here are the details:
13/03/10
Errors
Worriedaboutsatan
Razmataz Lorry Excitement
The Other Rooms, Times Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne
19/03/10
Wild Beasts
Erland & The Carnival
Lone Wolf
The Cluny, Lime Street, Newcastle Upon [...]

Dot To Dots play The Cluny tonight as support for the rather impressive Jon Allen. Well worth checking out.
Read my interview with the band here:
Q&A: Dot To Dots

Check out the video for Leeds-based indie-rockers Wild Beasts‘ forthcoming single, the brilliantly titled ‘We Still Got The Taste Dancin’ On Our Tongues.’ The band play The Cluny on March 19.

Check out the video for Danish five-piece The Kissaway Trail’s brand new single ‘SDP’, taken from their forthcoming third LP Sleep Mountain. The band play The Cluny on March 8.

The rather splendid Mammal Club have been added to the bill for this Friday’s Haiti Fundraiser at The Cluny. The line-up is now as follows:
FIELD MUSIC
BETH JEANS HOUGHTON & THE HOOVES OF DESTINY
MAMMAL CLUB
MEANDTHETWINS
DJ Sets from:
FRANKIE & THE HEARTSTRINGS
OUR BEAT IS CORRECT

The Cluny presents the second of two fundraisers for victims of the Haiti earthquake on February 5 featuring Field Music, Beth Jeans Houghton and more TBA.

Named after outsider artist Henry Darger’s posthumous fantasy manuscript The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion, this Brooklyn-based trio unleashes incendiary bubblegum-punk cranked to breaking point with little more than guitar, bass, drums and a [...]