DiScover Club @ RoTa

My Sad Captains, DiS DJs, and Kyte

Lineup: Redjetson, My Sad Captains, DiS DJs, Kyte

Date: 12/07/2008

Price: FREE - over-18s only

Info: 4pm-8pm

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About the venue

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.

About the artists

Redjetson

Whilst twenty years ago guitar informed spine-chilling atmospherics and unearthly grandiosity may have once been the sole property of the North West of England, 2003 sees such musical notions of scope and gravitas stretched southwards to deepest Essex in the form of REDJETSON.

Idly compared by some to Slint, Mogwai, Do Make Say Think & Explosions in the Sky, the (admittedly very cool) associations would ignore the warm, beating heart which lies within the six piece band.

The band prove that vast, artistically inclined soundscapes are not intrinsically linked with interminable lengths of guitar meandering or fits of laptop-stroking social inadequacy.

Eschewing the notion of schlepping through the London toilet circuit and playing the Highbury Bull and Rat to disinterested crowds until even they themselves stopped believing, the band set up the 'Do or Die' nights in an attempt to pull together like-(right?)-minded musicians and music fans in salubriousness at The Arts Café in East London.

The band have just completed their latest three track single on their own Steinbeck Records. The CD was produced by John Hannon (Hundred Reasons, Kids Near Water etc) at Mushroom Studios.

REDJETSON are:
Dan Carney - Guitars.
Daniel Hills - Guitars.
Joel Hussey - Drums.
Ian Jarrold - Guitars.
Clive Kentish - Vocals.
Grant Taylor - Bass.
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My Sad Captains

Nick Goss - guitar, samples
Jack Swayne - bass
Ed Wallis - vocals, guitar
Jim Wallis - drums
Cathy Lucas - vocals, keyboards

Born at the start of 2004, My Sad Captains have been playing regularly in London since. Named through a poem by Thom Gunn, MSC have been making various home recordings and in the summer of 2005 recorded six songs at Kore studios in London with Chris Sheldon. Their influences range from Pavement, Grandaddy and The Flaming Lips to Four Tet, Wilco, Yo La Tengo and Sparklehorse.