Upcoming Gigs Listing

With Dirty Water DJs. FREE entry. The Stag's Head is at 55 Orsman Road, just off Kingsland Road, near the canal.

• Carpet Sellers | See The Carpet Sellers on Myspace
  

  This group from the suburbs of Paris are inspired by the wyld sixties garage band sounds of the Sonics, Seeds, Count Five, Music Machine, and Them, as well as the eighties garage scene legends like DMZ, the Mummies, Miracle Workers, Gruesomes, Stomachmouths, Gravedigger V, etc. From listening to the tunes on their Myspace we're sure they will put on a totally amazing live show that you will remember for years to come.

   

• Mean Things | See The Mean Things on Myspace
  

  Their album, "Out Come the Freaks" (Lost In Tyme Records). has been selling well on the merch table at the Dirty Water Club during the last month or so, and now this group from Rochelle, France, are finally paying us a visit. Inspired by the wyld sixties garage band sounds of the Sonics, Seeds, Count Five, Music Machine, and Them, as well as the eighties garage scene legends like DMZ, the Mummies, Miracle Workers, Gruesomes, Stomachmouths, Gravedigger V, etc, they're sure to put on a totally amazing live show that you will remember for years to come.

• King Salami & the Cumberland 3 | See King Salami on Myspace
  

  The King howls like Screaming Jay Hawkins with Bo Diddley chasing his coat-tail and with Andre Williams trying to offer up some of his bacon fat. This man never stops shakin' and twistin' and groovin' while the Cumberland 3 (former members of the Ulcers, Chinese Lungs and Parkinsons) play their own branded mix of vintage rockabilly desperate rock'n'roll and a bit of soul with fire, energy, gusto and fun!

• Minnesota Voodoo Men | See Minnesota Voodoo Men on Myspace
  
  Whilst the Minnesota Voodoo Men can't speak English and have absolutely no idea where Minnesota is, they are in fact rock'n'roll at its absolute best. Reports of their live shows talk of them playing a great Yardbirds cover (in Japlish, or possibly Engrish) and stage acrobatics to leave you breathless. The band's music is based on the classic rhythm'n'blues influenced groups of the mid-1960s, like the formerly mentioned Yardbirds, Petty Things, Rolling Stones, etc. But from all we've heard they use their influences as a starting point to do nothing less than entertain, making the audience hold their breath and wonder whatever could happen next.
• Atomic Suplex | See Atomic Suplex on Myspace
  
  Maximum Rock'n'Roll says: "Screaming, overdriven rock'n'roll compression at it’s best. Atomic Suplex are the British Guitar Wolf, the English Lightning Bolt or maybe the London New York Dolls." Time Out, meanwhile, says: “This is probably what Bill Haley sounds like if you have the worst tinnitus in the world. Not so much a sonic cathedral as a sonic corrugated iron shed.”

With Dirty Water DJs. FREE entry.

The Stag's Head is at 55 Orsman Road, just off Kingsland Road, near the canal.

Bands:

• Curlee Wurlee! | See Curlee Wurlee! on Myspace
  
  Playing a mix of 1960s oriented organ-driven beat, surf and fuzzed-out garage-punk consisting they describe themselves as a “sexy Frenglish beat fuzz sensation”, seeing as their songs are kind of a bit French and a bit English, but totally rock and roll. This is the most original garage bands of the last decade both for their music and due to their positioning themselves in the left wing with their lyrics and political positioning. Their new LP features 17 smashing hits, average length around two minutes, with a powerful blend of garage, soul, pop and mature though juvenile self-written compositions.
• Band to be announced | See
  

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