http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk presents:

Gindrinker, Paul Hawkins & Thee Awkward Silences, Alex Dingley,
Superman Revenge Squad @ Clwb ifor bach, Cardiff - 27/02/08
http://www.clwb.net
Doors :7.30pm
Price: £4(£3 NUS)

Gindrinker are one of the most captivating acts to grace the local
scene in Cardiff. Influenced by the likes of The Fall, Suicide and The
Cramps they play dark and heavy alternative rock with amazing lyrics
about fruit, bugs and darts.

"The Fall-meets-Big Black; northern prose over harsh drum machine and
guitar backdrops." - drownedinsound.com

"Cardiff's best cult band" - nme

http://www.myspace.com/gindrinker

Paul Hawkins & Thee Awkward Silences formed in 2006. Originally a
casual backing band for Paul's solo material, the band developed into
the current permanent line-up in November 2007. The band released a
few singles and debut album We Are Not Other People during the course
of 2008 and will release a follow-up in 2009. During 2008 the band
played various festivals and received airplay on Radio 1, 6 Music and
various other stations and the odd bit of nice press here and there
and they hope to continue in this vain during 2009. Soul-bearing and
bleakly comedic in lyrics and charismatic, compelling and cathartic
live Paul and the band have been compared to various people like Iggy
Pop, Nick Cave, Elvis Costello, Edwyn Collins and the Fall but then
they've also been told they don't quite sound like anyone else at
all...

"Paul Hawkins sounds like no-one. Someone doing something truly on
their own and making the rules up as they go along. " ARTROCKER

"Probably the most dark and twisted pop record of all time." BEARDED

http://www.myspace.com/theeawkwardsilences

Alex Dingley found his first guitar amounst the sea weed, driftwood
and dead jelly fish on Llansteffan beach. Amazingly, after clearing
away the crustation and milldew it was still perfectly in tune, though
salty in tone.Alex de-tuned it and decided that he liked it much
better. "I Lost My Honey In The Grass" was recorded under the dying
sun of 2006 and the new moon of 2007. As we searched the hill tops of
North Wales for a feeling we did not know we'd lost we found a
forgotten land that the glaciers made, both below a mountain and atop
the world where the jagged hill tops spit and fondle the sky like
breaking waves in a frozen storm, threatening to meet and to block out
the light completely. The ship was cunningly hidden, its masts
inconspicuose amoungst the crosses of the tomb stones and in the hull
we made camp, lit a fire, ate buttered bread and sardines from the
tin, told far fetched stories and attempted to convey to one another
just how confused we actually are.

http://www.myspace.com/alexdingley

Superman Revenge Squad is one bloke from Croydon, called Ben, and an
acoustic guitar.
He started writing his stuff at the beginning of 2007. Since then he's
gone from playing a load of open mic nights to playing gigs supporting
people like Jeff Lewis, the Wave Pictures and Paul Hawkins & Thee
Awkward Silences.

"A very sharp lyricist indeed, Absolute genius!" Tom Robinson on Radio6 Music

"Stirring aggit-folk, with the fragility of Bright Eyes & some
hilarious lyrics" -subba-cultcha.com

"Like Brooklyn's Jeffrey Lewis, Superman Revenge Squad is taking folk
music in exciting new directions - accessible, inventive and painfully
funny, taking shots at pop culture but never straying too far from
endearing self-deprecation. An artist who deserves much more press" -
Indiefolkforever.

http://www.myspace.com/supermanrevengesquad

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