MLC-Academy LIVE at the Central - November line up released!

Building on the success on "Live at Shaw's", MLC-Academy now bring you a second monthly night of live music! "Live at The Central" will feature MLC-Academy students and renowned professionals on stage. The music will be fresh and raw!

8:30 pm, Wednesday 25th November 2009
The Central
Huntingdon Street
Nottingham


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*** NEW CASSETTES ***

"One of the country's most exciting new bands" – Channel 4
“Cleverly constructed, carefree indie, which delights as well as inspires.” – Digital Encore

2005 brought us many things: Live 8, the birth of YouTube, Lance’s Armstrong’s record 7th straight Tour De France victory, but more importantly, the birth of the energetic, melody filled indie pop by the Northampton natives, New Cassettes.

New Cassettes you say? Aren’t they MiniDiscs? Not in this case! They are a 5 piece collective consisting of Tom Stubbs on vocals, Nik Gray on guitar/vocals, Owen Reed on guitar/vocals, Tommy Francis on drums, and Dan Battison on bass. One could argue that they have already reached their initial goal of forming the band with the purpose of “having a good time”, judging by their plethora of high profile gigs, such as playing Glastonbury 2007, BBC’s Electric Proms, Lattitude, Witness, Summer Sundae, and also supporting the likes of The Strokes and Adam Green.

Their first single, Young Won’t Stop, was released on Fantastic Plastic Records, home to The Guillemots and iLikeTrains. It instantly became a favourite of Radio 1 DJs and tastemakers Huw Stephens and Steve Lamacq, and was also featured on Channel 4’s popular comedy The Inbetweeners. The follow-up single, Recover/Retreat, was released at the end of 2007 on Last Space Recording, the label of Mercury Music Prize nominees and fellow Northampton band Maps. That’s not all - they also reached the final few in Channel 4’s Road to V competition, whose past winners include The Young Knives and Bombay Bicycle Club.

After spending the last year crafting their sound, they are now ready to unleash their debut album The Art Of… to the general public. The album is packed full of ten of the most upbeat, cheery and contagiously catchy anthems that you will hear all year. In addition to featuring their previous singles and last years download-only single, Hearts Don’t Beat Right, other stand-outs include the gang-vocal led Lighthouse, and the dancing shoes requiring, driving rhythms of Carnivals, which is possibly a nod to Northampton’s shoemaking ‘Cobbler’ roots! Plus there are also odes to their heroes (if their myspace page is to go by!) on the rifftastic Huey Lewis and the frenetic Lucille. Some would say the perfect mixtape.

With the album ready and a Japan release date planned, it’s all hands on deck for the band! So press play, as New Cassettes are all wound up and ready to go!

*** THE MONEY ***

The Money are a four piece pop rock band Based in Nottingham.
They formed a year and half ago and within 8 months had written, recorded and produced there debut album ‘A Secret Shared’. There next step was to create a fan base and they have done this in a very Unique manor.

They have been gigging out in Rhodes 5 nights a week for the past 3 months and in there time there have sold over 700 of there albums, bring our total to well over 1000 sales.

Not only this but they have added over 1500 friends to there social networking sites, people that they have met face to face. There mailing list has over 600 new contacts, waiting to see them live around the country and Europe



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