EL POLICIA / THE MANDIGANS @ URBIS MANCHESTER - SATURDAY SEPT 6th

Doors: 8pm
Price: £5 in advance from bands / £6 on the door

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Note: Also playing are THe Magic Arm, The 99s and Darlings Of The Split Screen

EL POLICIA
Forming just over a year ago the Manchester teen band were:
* featured in NME Radar after just 4 gigs
* Received Radio 1 airplay from both Steve Lamacq and Huw Stephens
* Live sessions with The Thrills on Channel M
* 3 incendiary gigs at In The City which saw Clash Magazine name them as one of the bands of the weekend
* Support slots with the likes of Bombay Bicycle Club, Future Of The Left, Love Minus Zero (ex-Babyshambles), Poppy & The Jezebels, Dragons, The Sugars and many more.

2008 has seen a new EP recorded and earlier this year the band were selected by Andy Rourke and Danny McNamara to play the sold out Versus Cancer Aftershow with The Paddingtons, Dodgy and Example

MAPS Festival and Eclectica Festival marks that start of the summer festival season for the band

PRESS

"One of Manchester’s top teen bands....they have the back up to deliver on their burgeoning potential" Clash Magazine

"Like the Monkeys meets Nirvana" NME

"One of the most exciting new bands to come out of Manchester in ages, and i ought to know i’ve listened to hundreds of them since we started this thing." Danny McNamara - The Aftershow / Embrace

’’El Policia are the rock band that Manchester’s been waiting for, a band where the music matches the image and the haircuts and are prepared to make a riotous noise rather than a emo slitting Black Parade.’’ - Designer Magazine

’’And they’ve got some decent songs too - gritty, energetic power-pop tunes whose punk roots are very much in the British suburbia of the 1977 second wave.’’ - www.manchestermusic.co.uk

’’Manchester’s next big thing EL POLICIA, definitely ones for the future! ’’Roadhouse

’’THE AGGRESSIVE PUNK DRIVEN ’MISS MY YOUTH’ HIGHLIGHTS THEIR SAID POTENTIAL; TIGHT GUITARS WOVEN AROUND DIRTY BASS RIFFS TO BRING A CLASH MEETS STROKES SOUND’’ - PANIK! ATTACK!

MYSPACE
http://www.myspace.com/elpolicia

THE MANDIGANS

BAND
Tom Andrews - Lead Vocals
Ric Allen - Bassist
George Flint - Drums
Henry Flint - Guitar (Lead/Rhythm)
Matt Mcauliffe - Guitarist (Lead/Rhythm)
Mike Wilde - Keys

THE MANDIGANS BIO
Formed In Late 2007 by brothers Henry and George Flint. Over time the boys music progressed to the point of needing additional members, recruited not long after were Matthew McAuliffe , Richard Allen and Michael Wilde. After playing for quite a while and churning out such well knows songs as ' Girl Next Door ' and ' Stop, Start Epic. ' the recruitment of the final member Thomas Andrews completed the band you hear today.

After the debut gig and the production of songs such as ' In The Morning ' and ' Helicopter ' The Mandigans began gigging , from London to Manchester they had began making a name for themselves , and with the recent release of their debut Album self-titled ' The Mandigans ' everything is going great,

- Oh Yeah, and We record our songs Ourself

MYSPACE
http://www.myspace.com/themandigans