Support your local indie band
Last updated 11:40, Thursday, 26 June 2008
BANDS from Carlisle, west Cumbria and Leeds will be battling it out for the top place in the Dance to the Radio battle of the bands on Friday, July 4, at the Marchon Club, Whitehaven.
The bands – Test the Tone and Rubakai, from Carlisle, Shore, from St Bees, and Go, from Whitehaven, and Volcanoes, from Leeds – will play a set of their best songs in the hope impressing the audience enough to vote for them.
Test the Tone are a three-piece Carlisle band playing indie/alternative melodies and drawing on influences such as The Beatles, Arctic Monkeys, Blur, Oasis and The Smiths.
They’ve already supported bands such as Boy Kill Boy. Check out www.myspace.com/testthetone
Go are lead singer Adam Amor, rhythm guitaris and backing singer Gavin McKew, lead guitarist Lee Shackley, bassist Robert Lambert and drummer Steven Norman.
Having already supported The Displacements, Underground Heroes and Sergeant locally the band is currently working on recording their first album. Influences include Kings of Leon, Foo Fighters and The Who.
www.youvegotgo.co.uk
Rubakai play ‘loud and rocking’ sets all over the north, emulating their heroes Oasis, The Beatles, The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Ian Brown, John Lennon and The Sex Pistols – to name a few. Visit www.myspace.com/rubakai
Shore describe themselves as ‘energetic, positive and passionate about the music’ and have proved themselves playing with the likes of Popup, The Displacements and Out from Animals. They cite Bloc Party, Editors, The Pixies, The Cure and Arctic Monkeys as influences.
www.myspace.com/shorebanduk
Rock/blues/indie four-piece Volcanoes formed in 2005. With ‘swaggering frontman’ Samson Bedford, the band are said to be explosive on stage.
Their debut single Room with the Red Door was released in early 2006 to wide acclaim in the local music press of Sheffield and Leeds.
www.myspace.com/volcanoes
Doors 7pm. The event is open to those aged 18 and older only. Tickets £6 from The Rum Story, in Lowther Street or the Marchon Club.
A supporters bus departs from the layby near Tullie House, on Castle Way, at 6pm on the night, leaving Whitehaven at 12.30am for the return journey. Tickets cost £10, including entry to the gig. Visit www.myspace.com/dancetotheradiocumbria or call Stacey on 0793 555 5065 to book.
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