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Scissors for Lefty tear up the UK
crablin by Colin Roberts April 26th, 2006

New Rough Trade signings head to the UK for debut shows and some good time lovin'. Probably.

Star date: 26-04-2006, on a trajectory bound from San Francisco, California, USA. Four danceable indie types head to the UK for a host of dates.

Scissors for Lefty are freshly-signed to Rough Trade over here and are popping over for their first UK jaunt, in support of debut single 'Ghetto Ways', released on May 28th.

The band are a hotch-potch of electronic lumpiness, semi-frenetic danceable rock and Rough Trade-trademarked indie attitude. They are, in this humble scribe's opinion, pretty darned good.

Check 'em out at one of these (rather numerate) sound explosions, or 'gigs'.

May
2 London Soho White Heat @ Madame JoJos
4 Manchester Night & Day (*)
5 Glasgow ABC 2 (*)
6 London Kings College (*)
8 Leeds Cockpit (*)
10 Brighton Concorde 2 (*)
12 London Old Street 333 Club
13 London Camden Barfly
15 Cardiff Barfly
16 Dublin Hub
18 Nottingham Stealth (&)
19 Brighton The Great Escape
20 Stoke The Underground (&)
22 Sheffield Plug (&)
23 London Mean Fiddler
24 Leeds Faversham (&)
25 Middlesbrough Empire (&)
26 London Camden KOKO (&)

June
2 London Kings Cross Water Rats

(*) - with Fiery Furnaces
(&) - Club NME



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