Slurp from this unmissable spoon! The Joy Collective and ace promoters Loose are teaming up (though Loose have done most of the work) to bring you an evening of wonky devilment and massive enjoyment. Have a listen to the Bird Names MySpace and get some shambolic goodness in your ears. Their songs are homemade, playful, mad, broken and brilliant. You may have read that the fantastic Fringes were lined up to support; they’ve now unfortunately had to pull out (get well soon George). There’ll be equally good support added very soon. There will also be superlative DJing from Loose and PopTart, as well as more, uh, ramshackle disc-spinning from the Joy Collective team. We take some requests. Place yer cursor here for the rest of Buffalo’s month-long Hometown Heroes jamboree of talent (and put a gold star on the 20th).
BIRD NAMES
+ support TBC
& Joy Collective DJs
followed by LOOSE DJs vs PopTart
Wednesday 20th January 8pm
Buffalo Bar, Cardiff
Ages: 18+
£4 including entry to PopTart until 3am
Loose & The Joy Collective present…
This event is part of ‘Hometown Heroes’ – a series of events throughout January at Buffalo where local artists/djs/promoters/labels perform or curate an event when everyone’s home for Christmas. Loose will be running this event joint with The Joy Collective who will be DJing between the bands, then we’ll be doing a DJ set taking you seamlessly into the PopTart clubnight afterwards!
“BIRD NAMES are a perfectly off-centre pop band from Chicago. Their songs are often ragged and experimental whilst remaining inventive and catchy.
Characterised by a kaleidoscopic approach to songwriting, BIRD NAMES mix together a world of ideas, instruments and musical styles into a sound full of personality. Sing-along waltzes can walk hand-in-hand with ad hoc scrambled guitar lines yet some semblance of balance is always held on to.
The band are five in number, with the group comprising Nora Brank, Phelan Lavelle, Albert Schatz, Cohen J. and David Lineal. Writing and recording the songs is a collective effort, and in live performances the swapping of instruments between songs further demonstrates the freeform nature of the group.
Over the last four years, Bird Names have played wide and far across the USA and have recorded a number of records, the last being ‘Open Relationship’ released by Unsound and Wham City last year”.
