DiSCover Club at RoTa

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.

These Monsters

"These monsters are a loud mix of the perverse and the intolerable."
leedsmusicscene.net

These Monsters - jazz-flecked post-rock 'n' rollin' fun - are:

Stuart
Greg
Tommy
Ian
Sam

MySpace

Says other people...

“…witnesses halt in their tracks, intoxicated by the heady miasma of jazz-post-rock resonance both comforting and devastating…”
The Fly

“…they will definitely become the UK’s answer to Explosions In The Sky...”
Decoy Music

“… you must, in fact have, to see this band live…”
Sandman Magazine

"Put simply, tonight These Monsters are stunning. During the middle of the set I take a casual glance around the packed room to notice that not one person is talking, all eyes on the band and all jaws on the floor."
Leedsmusicscene.net

“… stunning, unique post-rock… energy of 65daysofstatic and creativity of Mono…”
Dirty Zine

DiS DJs

Some people from DrownedinSound.com playing some records»

Shady Bard

Drawn from all over this green and pleasant land, Shady Bard settled in Birmingham amidst tall buildings and city woodlands. From here came scruffily atmospheric, string-laden alt.folk songs, bursting occasionally into catastrophic guitar scuzz.

They have released a sold-out EP on Static Caravan and played on BBC Radio 2, Radio 4 and 6music. The band played the Green Man Festival in August and current single 'Penguins came out in October.

Things people have said:

"Sublime in the way it literally destroys you this EP is quietly magnificent, sensitive, mellow, melodically perfecthurting and lost in a maddening world of quick firing three minute fumbles in the sack of pop"
Losing Today

"Unsurpassable beauty...Shady Bard simply radiate mellow warmth."
The Fly

"One of our Faces of 2006, ambition and beauty resonate from every note of an EP that's both beautifully tender while rocking like Lost's polar bears. Hard not to say how gorgeous this is without being pretentious."
Channel 4 Teletext - Planet Sound

Shady Bard Official Site
Shady Bard on Myspace »

Yndi Halda

Website

Jack Lambert plays guitars
Brendan Grieve plays bass
Daniel Neal plays violin
Oliver Newton plays drums and extra percussion
James Vella plays guitar, glockenspiel and lapsteel

Enjoy Eternal Bliss is released in November 2006, through Big Scary Monsters.

In their own words:
"We play in a barn on the top of a hill and open the double doors to see the sun set sun rise. We frolic with the farm dogs who live in the barn."

Yndi Halda is an Icelandic phrase that means 'enjoy eternal bliss'; it comes from Odin's Raven Magic, an ancient Icelandic poem.