DiScover Club @ 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.

Stars Of Aviation

Band Members and Roles

Jonny Anstead = guitar and singing
Andy Schofield = guitar
Nathan Oxley = keyboard and singing
Tim Jaggard = drums
Louise Anstead = vocals, recorder and keyboards
Chris Snead = trumpet

Biography

Stars of Aviation met in late 1998 in their first university Russian lesson. A year later, they started playing music together the following year, and recorded their first demo in 2000, which was played by John Peel on Radio One.

They released the Greatest Disappointment EP on their own label in 2001 and their next record, Snow on Snow EP in 2003, on the wonderful lo-fi label Kitchen Records. Recorded in an oak-panelled library, the record was praised by in publications in the UK, US and Europe, described by Tangents as "a sweeping success, conjuring up notions of Galaxie 500 sucking on The Pastels, or The Clientele riding Telstar Ponies into the sunset".

Since 2003, Stars of Aviation have grown in number to seven and settled in Brighton and London. They have spent their time listening to Serge Gainsbourg and Jacques Brel, and performing with some of their favourite bands – including Herman Dune, Blanket, The Clientele and Sodastream, as well two appearances at the Truck Festival.

At the start of 2006, Stars of Aviation finally got round to recording again - this time with Brian O'Shaughnessy (Primal Scream, Clientele, The Firm). One wet February weekend in North London, they recorded 'Marie et l'accordéon', a cheery, French, bossa nova softpop track with boy-girl harmonies, la-la-la-ing, trumpet and bassoon parts and an accordion solo.

The new single is released on Kitchen Records on 21st August 2006, available on limited 7" and as a digital download.

Influences

Jim Reeves, Low, Danielson Famile, Grandaddy, Morrissey

Life Changing Albums

Danielson Famile – "Fetch the Compass Kids"
Saïan Supa Crew – "KLR"
Sidney Thompson And His Orchestra – "Latin American Fiesta: the songs of the Beatles"
Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci – "The Blue Trees"

Contacts:

Official Site
MySpace
Email

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Emmy the Great

Emmy The Great used to be in a band. Then one day the band stopped showing up to rehearsals. And when she bumped into the band at college or at Sainsburys, her band would go 'Look! Frank Sinatra!' and scarper. So Emmy took the hint and started playing by herself.

Sometimes she plays with a mysterious man with a violin bow. Sometimes she also plays in groups.»

DiS DJs

Some people from DrownedinSound.com playing some records»

Bobby Cook

Myspace

Photograph by Tom Beard

Caz Mechanic

Caroline Banks of Seafood, gone solo. Half-asleep folk mixed with Velvet Underground spirit and Syd Barratt soul.

Debut album Wife of the Captain of the Ship in the Bottle on the Mantle Piece is forthcoming on Big Potato Records.

MySpace