Gig News – PETE & THE PIRATES return in September

After an over-capacity show in Room 2 at the Hare & Hounds earlier this summer, Reading-based anthem factory PETE & THE PIRATES are returning to the Hare this September as part of their second tour in support of their well-received second album, One Thousand Pictures.

With riffs almost reminiscent of Hefner’s awkward pop-punk and vocalist Tom Sanders belting them out like a young, much cooler Tim Booth (without the rainbow rhythms or crustiness you’d associate with that terrible terrible descriptive reference), P&TP knocked us sideways in May, and we look forward to having them – and indeed their impressive local fan base – again on September 28th.

Support comes from a reformed and revitalized THE BOMBERGS, – whose awesome post-new wave anthems may be placing them head to head with P&TP in the full-on-pop-chorus dept – and notoriously well-loved local noise monkeys (and now INDIETRACKS veterans) ACE BUSHY STRIPTEASE, who are like one half Bearsuit-esque madness VS one half female-fronted Dinosaur Jr… Needless to say this should be an awesome show!

Tickets available HERE

Say hello on the ol’ Facebook event page HERE

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The Home Stretch – Mohawk Down EP

This week sees another tasty free download release from local DIY label Giant Manilow Records – their second offering from solo-gazer The Home Stretch. Listening to these six joyfully dark and atmospheric tracks – coming in at under 15 minutes – brings to mind both the stranger side of The Shalfonts’ recent output and that fuzzy melodic hum you might associate with past collaborators and close friends of the label, Gentle Friendly. You can almost hear a Giant Manilow sound forming across their roster here, which is no bad thing. With The Shalfonts’ main man Bryn Bowen providing guest vox on two tracks and the EP’s opener using an unreleased Flamingo Flame riff as a backing track, it’s fun to see a solo artist openly collaborating rather than hogging the audio-space to themselves.

For fans of Slowdive, Brian Eno, Modest Mouse and early Magnetic Fields – Click here to go direct to the download