DiS does RoTa: the post-summer afternoon rave-a-thon with knobs on

Notting Hill Arts Club

Train: Westbourne Park (18 mins)
Paddington (18 mins)
Tube: Notting Hill Gate (4 mins)

Directions: take the tube to Notting Hill Gate, then take the LEFT exit. That's left, the left again. Walk down the road for a few minutes but the place is difficult to find as it's not marked outside... It's next to a hairdresser's and opposite a kebab shop. You will notice it by the big wooden doors and velvet rope outside and probably a bouncer too...

THIS is your MySpace link for information on all upcoming RoTa shows. RoTa is held every Saturday at the Arts Club, from 4 til 8, and is free entry. DiS runs its monthly DiScover Club shows there - check the site regularly for details of upcoming DiScover Club shows.

Optimist Club

This uncouth four piece make weird, unpredictable noise and seem to try as hard as they can to steer clear of those boring musical normalities. Witnessing their particular brand of alt/prog/punk live will leave you physically exhausted (in a good way of course) with really quite wonderful twists and turns at every possible opportunity.

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Silver Rocket DJs

Andy and Rachel: top indie DJs, FACTOID.

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Cutting Pink With Knives

Extreme grindcore band. Ish.

MySpace

Cutting Pink With Knives is:
Edi "fuck my ankle-warmers" Frankel.
Chris "taste my pie" Abitbol.
Alex "dipping between the cock and the arse" Gitzpatrick.

DiS DJs

Some people from DrownedinSound.com playing some records»

Adventure Playground

Fred Les Inc's side project thang... what it sounds like, we don't know... cos our ears fell off... and were eaten... by bears... Siberian Winged Bears... who flew off with our digested ears... and pooped them over Cairo.

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George Pringle

myspace.com/georgepringle

Oxford-based George Pringle began writing music when she was 16. She pinched her older brother’s guitar and taught herself bar chords. Her brother ditched the guitar to become a DJ. “I don’t see the point of making music when I’m not doing anything new and other people can do it so much better than me. I enjoy listening to them far more,” he said.

George began recording demos on a broken two-deck Karaoke machine at home during the school holidays. She also pinched French Oral examination tape recorders whilst at boarding school and recorded late at night in the school hall, using the assembly microphone. She played alone, and in bands, before abandoning guitar for Garage band music software, which she acquired at 21.

Her brother’s words stuck with her. When she was a teenager, he played her LCD Soundsystem “Losing My Edge”. It sounded fresh and knowing: “I hear that you and your band have sold your guitars and bought turntables. I hear that you and your band have sold your turntables and bought guitars.” Tony Wilson’s music cycles swirled through her head in the backseat of a Fiat Punto, somewhere in the middle of the Italian countryside. She decided that the wa-wa-waah whinging over guitar was not going to create anything new, but she was: A few years later she started talking.

Now 22, George has become a “Diseuse” (a female performer of monologues). She makes electronic music on her iBook G4 (which she calls Truman) and recites poetry over the tracks. Her demos have been described as "just plain charming!" by Music Week.

George gigs Karaoke-style, with a view to someday incorporating projections of her photo journals into her live shows. She can be seen at several festivals and warm-up shows in the lead-up to her debut single later this summer.

"Shoegaze-pop, poetry and electronica" The Guardian

"Takes a blog-esque approach to lyricism and pulls it through a Death Cab-meets-Patti Smith-o-scope" NME

"It's quite clear that she is right up our street. Glitchy, slightly-haunting, extract-from-a-diary pop songs." Tim Chipping Channel 4