The City Showcase Festival cranks up the volume this year with a series of delectable rock/indie driven nights, bringing us the future stars of tomorrow, today. Renowned for discovering the best in new music, City Showcase has in the past introduced us to the likes of Hot Chip, Scouting For Girls, Razorlight, Keane, and Newton Faulkner. Back by popular demand for a sixth consecutive year, 2008 sees them once again serving up a hair raising feast of tasty music shenanigans.
For rock and indie fans, the highlight of the festival will be the series of hotly tipped City Showcase gig nights over at The Metro. If you missed the hi octane live shows of South Africa’s finest export, The Parlotones, fret not as the boys from Johannesburg will take the stage as they kick off the Billboard series of Global Pulse International nights. Kahn Morbee and his crew will indulge us with a rousing night of sing a long hits taken off their latest album, radiocontrolledrobot after support from Canadian indie trio, Land of Talk.
Also at The Metro will be the Xfm Rock and Indie Nights, hosted by Xfm including DJ presenter John Kennedy. These will feature heavy duty acts such as, When Gravity Fails, Twin Atlantic, We Are Ocean and introduce the new indie heroes of tomorrow. Names to watch out for are Franko, The Young Republic, The Law and Slashed Seat Affair.
Hotly tipped New Zealanders Ragamuffin Children, Over The Atlantic, Batrider and The O’Lovelys also take the stage of the Metro for a night celebrating the music of New Zealand presented by Billboard.
Legendary venue The Borderline will also play host to Global Pulse’s Billboard Swedish Rock Night featuring what’s new and fresh in the Scandinavian rock scene with bands like Hell & Diesel, Mustasch and Babylon Bombs. A mere bus ride away, the City Showcase/RSW alternative night will be taking place at indie dive, Lark in the Park with bands like The Recoil, De Shamonix, The Veez and many more!
If that’s not enough to whet your insatiable musical appetites, the City Showcase will team up once more with John Kennedy to present to you, Xposure Live at Barfly in Camden. Featuring Aussie electro-indie bad boys, Midnight Juggernaut the entire show will be Broadcast live on Xfm. Having played with the likes of Justice, Holy Fuck, Crystal Castles and Klaxons, Rolling Stone Magazine has described the Juggernauts as, “David Bowie if his Berlin Trilogy was a collaboration with Kraftwerk and Faust.” These guys certainly look set to sizzle!
And if you’re still up for a party, there’s the Fringe night in association with Dead or Alive Friday over at The Metro Club, which will see raw, soon to be signed bands like Rogue Satellites and The Perks take the stage.
Winding down from the blood, sweat and beers of the alt rock and indie nights, the friendly folk at City Showcase have also roped in a bunch of uber cool stores around Carnaby Street and Regent Street to play host to a series of unplugged events taking place in store during the day. Participating outlets include Miss Sixty/Energie, Henri Lloyd, Hugo Boss, Hilfiger Denim, Vans, The Apple Store, Lee Jeans, Animal, C’est Ici, Zebrano, Jaeger, Timberland, Nokia, Zavvi and G-Star.
City Showcase attracts people and artists from all over the world. For 5 days last June, music fans flocked to central London to witness 400 artists across all music genres perform at 35 different venues. From midday to midnight they mingled, browsed, shopped and listened to great live music. With venues ranging from Carnaby Street’s hippest fashion boutiques to St Giles-in-the-Fields Church and The Astoria the locations for the 5 day event promise to be as diverse as its many artists.
City Showcase returns to London on 2^nd June and everyone is invited!!
For more information or to book tickets please visit www.cityshowcase.co.uk
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Editors Note:
· A £5 wristband gets you access to all gigs at The Metro, The Borderline and Lark in the Park.
· For Xposure Live at The Barfly, special discount deals will be available at the door with the wrist band on first come first served basis. This will also apply to Friday night at The Metro with Dead or Alive where there will be discounted entry for those with wrist bands on the door. Other discount gigs at The Fly and Barfly are to be announced

• Other offers available with the wrist band include: The Apple Store: For those of you registering for the workshops at The Apple Store there is a special offer. The first five registered attendees of each City Showcase workshop held at the store who check in at the workshop registration desk with a City Showcase wrist band will receive TEN FREE downloads from the iTunes store.
• City Showcase gratefully acknowledges financial support from the PRS Foundation.

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