Radio 1’s Rob Da Bank and Sunday Best Recordings give us a taste of some of the exciting projects they have lined up for your pleasure next year!

For this White Heat Special, Rob Da Bank will be presenting Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip, David E. Sugar, The Correspondents and Sound of Rum, all from his label Sunday Best, as well as giving us a DJ set before the White Heat boys take you through till 3am.

This showcase event is your chance to catch these acts live in an intimate setting and to preview the exciting future for Sunday Best Recordings in 2010!

Lineup:

Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip
AKA musician/producer Dan Stephens, and emcee/vocalist David Meads. Returning in February 2010 with a new single and their highly-anticipated second album ‘The Logic of Chance’, tonight they will be airing many of these new tracks for the first time – White Heat has heard many of their almost-finished demo versions and they sound incredible! This will be the first opportunity to hear many of these new tracks. Don’t miss!
www.myspace.com/lesacvspip

David E. Sugar
One of the finest new talents on the electronic music scene. A gifted guitarist, drummer and bassist, David’s live sets, either remixing live with his laptop show or with full band ensemble, have cemented his status as one of the most exciting new artists in his field. www.myspace.com/davidsugar

The Correspondents
MC Mr Bruce and DJ/producer Mr Chuckles, who collaborate to make Hip Hop for the 1930s, Big Band music for the 2010s. Splicing swing samples with squelchy synths over dusty drum loops, they’ve depicted a modern-day journey into a time of rogues, lust, affordable clowns and foot-tapping toe curling “get your brogues on” dance floor swing hop.
www.myspace.com/thecorrespondentsmusic

Sound of Rum
Sound of Rum are: rapper and spokenword poet Kate Tempest, drummer Ferry Lawrenson and guitarist/bassist/loop-pedalist Archie Marsh. Kate Tempest is already a seasoned and prolific lyricist and live performer, and Sound of Rum are undoubtedly one of the most exciting bands to emerge from the UK live hip-hop and spoken word scenes yet.
www.myspace.com/soundofrumband

With: Rob Da Bank (DJ set)

Please note! Tonight’s White Heat starts earlier than usual! Please arrive early as the bands will start soon after 7pm.

Now White Heat gives you the ultimate aural pleasure with Madame Jojo’s fantastic new PA system!

White Heat
Tuesday 1st December 2009
Time: Showcase 7pm-10.30pm, regular White Heat 10.30pm-3am.
Tickets: £5 advance, £6 on the door (advance from www.viewtickets.co.uk/club-tickets-16717.html). This ticket allows attendance from 7pm – 3am but you must arrive before 9pm to gain entry!
Madame Jojo’s
8–10 Brewer Street
London, W1F 0SE
Nearest Tube: Piccadilly Circus
020 7734 3040
Madame JoJo’s

Sunday Best Official Website

Debut Single released on Brainlove Records 28/09/09

Club NME & White Heat Shows Announced

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Stairs To Korea is Will Vaughan, a frighteningly talented half-Icelandic multi-instrumentalist who crafts skewed pop music using an array of effects, synthesisers and a dinky white guitar. Sugar-coated harmonies meet bended brass lines and intricate guitar motifs in his unique paens to growing up, going out and getting lost in the 21st century.

After spells ranging from being a teenage drummer in a touring hardcore band to turning up in countless London groups playing a trumpet, organ, drums or kronenberg can, to supporting the likes of The Magic Numbers and Noisettes and gracing the main stage of The Secret Garden Party, Will has spent 2009 gaining considerable acclaim in a short time for Stairs To Korea, bringing his one-man incarnation to the London circuit.

LIVE September 2009 dates:

18/09 BRAINLOVE CLUB @ The George Tavern w/ Internet Forever
25/09 CLUB NME @ Koko, BRNLV Room w/ Curly Hair
29/09 WHITE HEAT @ Madame JoJo’s w/ Curly Hair, Kid Carpet

PRESS:

“Over three glorious minutes Boy Bear It In Mind wrestles with more melodies and ideas than most bands do across a whole album. This is how pop should be.” – Sounds XP

“The chorus evolves into a million-part harmony that ascends like a helium balloon gone AWOL into the stratosphere… an enjoyable re-twisting of traditional ideas.” – Artrocker

“Equipped with a tender voice and pure talent in creating so many sounds with only one pair of hands, this man is the latest in our eternal hunt for shonky heartfelt interesting pop music.” – Muso’s Guide

“Stairs To Korea and their ‘Boy Bear It In Mind’ sound like they could’ve been signed to Postcard Records and would invariably make Stuart Maconie dribble man-goo down his slacks if he heard it.” – Electric Roulette

Video featured on Pinglewood
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Stairs To Korea MySpace

White Heat continues their tradition of presenting bands that have members that’ve been in other bands that have played for White Heat …

Ex-Test-Icicle Rory Brattwell’s doom-children Kasms make a noise like Sonic Youth and X-Ray Spex being squashed into a washing machine and thrown down a flight of stairs, their female-fronted shriekbeat likely to obliterate your eardrums and shatter your bones.

With voodoo stomp, screeching guitars, surreal blues and vocalist Rachel Callaghan’s spooked, shuddering howling and wailing, expect a full complement of show stopping punk goth anthems.

“Kasms are thoroughly entertaining even on a bit of an off day” – Artrocker

Kasms MySpace

With Luke (ex-Twisted Charm) DJing early and White Heat DJs Matty & Olly playing electro and indie till late.

White Heat
Tuesday 20th January 2009
Time: 8pm-3am
£6 advance, £7 on the door. Tickets from venue or www.ticketweb.co.uk
Madame Jojo’s, 8-10 Brewer Street
Soho, London
W1F 0SE
Nearest Tube: Piccadilly Circus.
020 7734 3040
events@madamejojos.com

About White Heat
“London’s infamous Art Rock Disco” was launched in 2003. Its band list is a Who’s-Who of independently-minded music since the turn of the century, including: British Sea Power, Good Shoes, Test-Icicles (first London show), Foals (first show), Bloc Party, Blurt, Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong, The Horrors, The Klaxons, Chrome Hoof, Mystery Jets, The Kills, Liars, Lightspeed Champion and Alex Turner.

Guest DJs have included Jarvis Cocker, Steve Mackey (Cavemen, Pulp), CSS and Steve Aoki as well as hosting label nights by Rough Trade, Young Turks (XL), Young and Lost and Brille. Constantly introducing new bands and underground cult favourites, DJs Matty & Olly keep it innovative, inventive, ever-changing and above all a hell of a lot of fun. White Heat is living proof that independent music culture can still thrive outside the mainstream.

Madame Jojo’s Official Website

Photo: Screaming Tea Party

White Heat at Madame JoJo’s in Soho, London on Tuesday 6th January, 2009 includes acts Screaming Tea Party, Snowman, Ergo Proxy and the White Heat DJs.

More about the bands:

Screaming Tea Party

London based trio Screaming Tea Party create a genuinely eclectic mix of boy/girl Anglo-Japanese shout-pop, classic three-minute post-punk, new-wave groove, surf guitar and psychedelia, all performed with youthful exuberance and the falsetto backing vocals of singing drummer Nell. Guitarist Niiyan is an exceptional musician as well as visually arresting, wearing a gas-mask and often ending gigs only wearing his pants.
” … at times Screaming Tea Party are like a force of nature – exactly the kind of band you’d love to be stuck in a tiny little venue on a Saturday night with” – www.clickmusic.com.
“Our latest tip for world domination” – NME.
Screaming Tea Party MySpace

Snowman

Icelandic Olga, Indonesian Aditya, Italian Ross and British Joe created their band in Perth, Australia, and over three albums have established themselves as bent on carving their own path. Their 2008 move to London coincided with their remarkable third album, ‘The Horse, The Rat and the Swan’. Their music walks a fine line, with masterfully layered songs, countering shuddering guitar noise, amplifier feedback, and shouting with melodic backing vocals, occasional keyboard and violin, and an ocean of reverb. Influence can be detected here and there: from King Crimson to the Birthday Party and early Bad Seeds to the Atlantics to Bowie to the Pop Group, but it all adds up to a unique whole.
“A great album” – pitchforkmedia.com: review of ‘The Horse, The Rat and the Swan’.
Snowman MySpace

Ergo Proxy

Japanese psych-punk trio.
Ergo Proxy MySpace

Plus White Heat DJs Matty and Olly.

About White Heat

“London’s infamous Art Rock Disco” was launched in 2003. Its band list is a Who’s-Who of independently-minded music since the turn of the century, including: British Sea Power, Good Shoes, Test-Icicles (first London show), Foals (first show), Bloc Party, Blurt, Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong, The Horrors, The Klaxons, Chrome Hoof, Mystery Jets, The Kills, Liars, Lightspeed Champion and Alex Turner.

Guest DJs have included Jarvis Cocker, Steve Mackey (Cavemen, Pulp), CSS and Steve Aoki as well as hosting label nights by Rough Trade, Young Turks (XL), Young and Lost and Brille.

Constantly introducing new bands and underground cult favourites, DJs Matty & Olly keep it innovative, inventive, ever-changing and above all a hell of a lot of fun.

White Heat is living proof that independent music culture can still thrive outside the mainstream.

White Heat
Tuesday 6th January, 2009
Time: 8pm-3am
£6 advance, £7 on the door.
Madame Jojo’s, 8-10 Brewer Street, London, W1F 0SE. Nearest Tube: Piccadilly Circus.
020 7734 3040
events@madamejojos.com

Madame JoJo’s Official Website