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[chilli]

interesting music promotions are delighted to announce another quality evening's
entertainment:-

Dr Drakes
Mon 6th Sept 04
Doors 8pm
Door Tax £5

Schwervon

There are two people in Schwervon!, Major Matt Mason and Nan Turner. Matt plays guitar and Nan plays drums (and sometimes keyboard) and they both sing. Matt plays drums on one song.

Schwervon! offer an alternative to the NYC style pack of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Strokes and Liars and roll with some of the town‚s other cool mongers and peddle their low-fi indie pop with a rather cheeky smile. Schwervon! have a definite propensity for rocking out ˆ neither Turner or Mason lack the skills to pay the bills when it comes to kicking into punkier jams.(Xfm.co.uk)

Schwervon!...Tongues in cheek, buzzing guitars, crashing drums, punky, poppy fun, brilliant cover of the Ramones cover of the Trashmen's Surfin‚ Bird...what more could the discerning, good time music fan want?

Matt is from Kansas and Nan is from Washington State. They both came to NYC in the 90‚s only to meet at the epicentre of Antifolk, The Sidewalk Café. Nan knew from the moment she saw Major Matt Mason that something special was going to happen. And Matt hoped that whatever happened Nan would share his strong love of food.

Musical influences?
Matt: Lou Reed, The Pixies, Sonny & Cher, Big Black, Jesus Lizard, Bob Dylan , and the NYC Antifolk Music Scene.
Nan: Liz Phair, Sleater-Kinney, PJ Harvey, Tanya Donnelly, & NYC Antifolk Music Scene.

Some US reaction to Schwervon!:

Right now, Schwervon are my prime example of what makes antifolk worth investigating beyond the Moldy Peaches sweet, sexy song. (The Village Voice)

„Quirky real life within music. (The Big Takeover)

Stripped down B-52‚s crossed with Matthew Sweet (All Music Guide)

Excited? You should be...



Vermont

Vermont are a six-piece band who currently consist of Adey (keys), Colin (guitar and vocals), Nige (drums), Richard (bass), Sabine (vocals) and Simon (guitar and vocals). If the title and the label aren't dead giveaways, the sound of Vermont is determinedly pan-European - here a pub piano, there an old accordion, shades of The Smiths, French chanson, Teutonic motorik.

The debut album Ins Kino is very much home-made, with a fast-picked acoustic and a buzzing, reedy organ giving songs like We Are Not Yet For Sale and Poppiloten a rickety, woody feel. Occasionally, this leaves the songs feeling undernourished - more of a hiking holiday around Europe than swanning around Monte in a Porsche - but the blend of Colin Murphy's urgent, staccato vocals and Sabine Zeissig's woozy gamine whisper (think Claudine Longet's cheeky niece) is never less than endearing. Sitting With The Ill is particularly affecting, a shoulder-shrugging, resigned counterpart to Van Morrison's TB Sheets. But overall the atmosphere is imbued with late spring evenings and - on melodic stand-outs, About The Man and Drive - makes for a highly recommended picnic soundtrack. - Bob Stanley

The Kitchen Cynics
Aberdeen's very own and the World's finest exponent of Great Auntie-Folk

[Jake Wifebeater]

Might pop along to this, not my cup of musical Tetley but Alan Cynic is a fine chap and it's also my birthday!

[chilli]

All I can say is this is going to be one hell of a gig.

A great supporting cast & the major's live gig's with Nan are hitting
level's that other two piece bands can only dream about........

health warning,
Schwervon's gigs can seriously damage mortal muscians for life

[french_disko]

Is it a 7.30 opening tonight then? What time is the first band on?

[chilli]

Originally Posted by french_disko

Is it a 7.30 opening tonight then? What time is the first band on?

its the old domino effect from when the bands arrive, soundcheck, feed. i would estimate doors 7.45pm Alan on 8.20pm.

both are clear as mud.

[mmd040]

I've been struggling to concentrate at work today because of my mounting excitement over tonight's gig.

[chilli]

Originally Posted by mmd040

I've been struggling to concentrate at work today because of my mounting excitement over tonight's gig.

i think you should shout it from the rooftops
better still did you volunteer to take the sandwich board up &
down belmont street??