Fortuna POP! presents

Allo Darlin' + Darren Hayman & The Secondary Modern + Tender Trap + The Ladybug Transistor
Guest DJ: Paul Richards (Scared To Dance)
Thursday 3rd November 2011
Doors 6.30pm

Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, King’s Cross, London N1 9NL
(Nearest tube/train : King’s Cross / St. Pancras)

Tickets £11.50 Advance
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/131297
http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=465934
Scala box office - Tel: 08444 771 000
between 10am and 6pm Mon-Fri

ALLO DARLIN’
Allo Darlin' are many things. They can turn a room in a famous punk venue into a joyous, jumping, sweaty, pop-mosh pit. Or bring a room of 500 to hushed silence with the few strums of a ukulele and a love song about cooking. Coming very much from a DIY approach, they inspire true dedication from their fans, many of whom will travel hundreds of miles to see them. In their brief lifetime they have toured the USA four times, sold out tours across the UK and embarked on an epic five-week European tour. The band have also been strongly supported by BBC 6music, recording several sessions including one at the BBC’s prestigious Maida Vale Studios. Their self-titled debut was released to universal acclaim in 2010 with plaudits including being named No. 2 record of the year by online retailer eMusic, and a glowing 1,200 word essay by legendary Go-Between Mr. Robert Forster in the Australian critical magazine, The Monthly. Despite all the activity, Allo Darlin’ have found time to write songs for their follow-up album which is being recorded now and is slated to come out early next year.
"Terrific, witty and heartfelt, like a less moody Belle & Sebastian” – The New York Times
http://www.allodarlin.com

DARREN HAYMAN & THE SECONDARY MODERN
Best known as the singer-songwriter of the phenomenally successful and much-loved Hefner, Darren Hayman is now six albums into an increasingly idiosyncratic career path; writing the theme tune and staring in a Spanish Sitcom, playing a 30 people capacity show in a 100 year old paper mache observatory and playing possibly Britiain’s most remote festival on the Isle of Eigg. Darren is also writing the best tunes of his career; increasingly complex and mature songs. In the latest incarnation of the constantly morphing Secondary Modern he has gathered together a set of musicians with the chops to do justice to his increasingly complex and mature songs; a tight, tough, but soulful folk-rock orchestra reminiscent of a more urban Incredible String Band or an Anglicized Lambchop. Following his January Songs project Darren continues one of his busiest years with a brand new solo album of subtle, drifting piano ballads called The Ship’s Piano out in October.
“London's laureate of sexual dysfunction, discomfort, and dog-eared under-achievement... the match of Ray Davies, or any of the quintessentially English masters.” (The Guardian)
http://www.hefnet.com

TENDER TRAP
Led by ex Talulah Gosh and Heavenly founder Amelia Fletcher, the now five strong Tender Trap sound brimful with energy, ideas and that unquenchable pop spirit, making the kind of classic indiepop that puts most current bands to shame. Their recent album Dansette, Dansette was filled with riot-grrrl-esque tales of sisterhood and revenge that wouldn’t be out of place among the punkest moments of Amelia's previous outfits Talulah Gosh and Heavenly. Tender Trap now have added vocal harmonies, oohs, ahs and sha-la-las of classic girl-pop with the stripped down beats and dirty guitars of the Shop Assistants and The Vaselines.
“In a nicer parallel universe, Tender Trap’s Amelia Fletcher is the most influential artist of her day” (NME)
http://www.myspace.com/tendertrap

THE LADYBUG TRANSISTOR
Formed in the mid-1990s around Brooklyn native Gary Olson's collaborations with friends, over the course of some sixteen years and six remarkable albums, The Ladybug Transistor have confirmed their standing as the preeminent exponents of lush, formalist pop music. With a superlative new record, Clutching Stems, their pursuit of a singular musical vision remains as true as ever, its lush collection of potent refrains and brought-to-one’s-knees ballads, anchored by Gary Olson’s restrained baritone, bringing to mind the classic understated pop sensibility of late-period Go-Betweens.
“Clutching Stems is the band’s finest record since The Albemarle Sound, and the kind of pop record that may break your heart, may even tear you apart, but it’s also generous and complex enough to put you back together in the end.”
http://www.theladybugtransistor.com/