Continuing a London domination not seen since the Romans, Bloody Awful Poetry return to the Lock Tavern with a handful of utterly awesome acts to delight your aural spuds and stun your optical orbs.

Blending acoustic tinkerings, melodic meanderings, convivial merrymaking and upbeat, doo-wop, retro pop-rocking all of which will surely add to the benefits of baths, straight roads, villas and drainage systems that you are already experiencing.

Put simply, from the masters of musical musings tumble forth some of the finest tuneful compostitions presently stunning the ears off of gig goers around the UK.

Come! Let us ply ourselves with enough music and alcohol to sink a small Oliver Reed!

- Live Bands - Skinsuit, Gaoler's Daughter, Real Fur and The Boy I Used To Be
- BAP DJ's spinning the best in doo-wop, retro pop and no Slipknot
- Bloody Awful Poetry Art Gallery
- And The World Famous (seriously) Bloody Awful Poetry Competition
- Plus some possible secret delights!

DJs - Bloody Awful Poetry DJ's - That Perfect Fumble, This Handsome Devil and Micky Blue

Date: 13 May, 2010
Time: 7:30pm till 12:00pm
Price: FREE!!!
Location: 35 Chalk Farm Road, London, NW1 8AJ
Venue Phone Number: 0207 482 7163
Website: www.bloodyawfulpoetry.com

Biog of live acts:

Skinsuit

With vocals that flit and float along sublime folk blues choral hooks at a uniquely heavenly pace that somehow sits snuggly between whispy and bouncy, Skinsuit bear an uncanny resemblance with the great Conor Oberst in the voice of Michael Yianni.

This is utterly delightful, totally mesmerising and something that we at Bloody Awful Poetry very very much approve of.

Stunning!

Gaoler's Daughter

As you'd expect from a band made up of musicians that have helped forge the sound of London over the past 5 years, Gaoler's Daughter's sound is heavily rooted in the capital.

Despite the fact that this uber-collective features ex-members of Larrikin Love, Littl'ans, No Picasso and Letters From London, they sound unlike anything else you will have heard before. Their unique sound draws on a wide range of stylistic touchstones, whilst avoiding categorizations and comparisons.

Rowdy, stomping rhythms shift in an instant to beautiful, uplifting melodies, which are set against dark brooding harmonies. John Sterry's sensitive vocals stand in stark contrast to the often disturbing content of his lyrics. Alex Mahood's guitar, washed in reverb, cuts uplifting counter melodies into the driving, yet measured rhythms created by Alfie Ambrose and Ben Hutchinson.

We caught this live before and it blew our tight white briefs off. Wear boxers boys - you're in for a treat! Girls? Just sit back and enjoy the ride.

Real Fur

Brand new, and already burning there way through the musical consciousness as the blaze their way out of London's underground to the lofty heights at which theey rightly deserve to perch.

Stunning musicianship in the veins and arteries of Maccabees and Larrikin Love with nods to hearts and souls of The Clash and Talking Heads as it passes through the body of the perfection.

Be one of the early ones to delight in their majesty before the rest of the UK finds them.

The Boy I Used To Be

With an angelic aura of ironic despair, not to mention his distinctively melancholic voice, The Boy I Used To Be mixes the moroseness of Morrissey with the subtle hopes and ironic perspectives of Bright Eyes in the most delicate way imaginable. Even more special is that these thought and compositions could be contained inside such a tender age.

He is a young man who sings about what all young men sing about, love and love lost, because when all said and done, that's what all great music is about, right? The struggle endured during your teenage years and the encounters we face. Harmonic acoustic teen-indie at its best.

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