Welcome to the first in a series of podcasts from the Thisistmrw team… First up is one of our favourite live bands, Casio Kids.

Lead singer Ketil has put together taste of what has been on their turntables recently, which features music from thisistmrw favourites such as Four Tet, Nôze, Teebs (from Brainfeeder) and even a sprinkling of Gambian music.

New album Aabenbaringen Over Aaskammen is out on 16th January on Moshi Moshi

Casio Kids land at the Hare & Hounds on Thursday 19th January ,
get your tickets whilst they’re hot! Or email Matt for £5 cheaplist…

Tracklisting

Sun Ra – The Beginning
Nôze, Ezechiel Pailhes – Drums
Teebs – While you doooo
Bjørn Torske – Langt fra Afrika
Motor city drum ensemble – Raw Cuts # 5 (Original mix)
Matthew Herbert – Around the House
Débruit – Nigeria What?
Four tet – Locked
Salung Kuiyate & Jali Kabele Jobate- Kullio, Part 1
Arthur Russell – You and Me Both

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This Saturday This is Tmrw will be seeing off 2011 in style in The Hare and Hounds small room….We’re excited for this for a number of reasons, firstly – the majority of our shows have been hosted their this year and secondly we’re joined by one of the hottest producer combos of 2011 - Futureboogie’s  Waifs and Strays!

The intimate small room at The Hare is one of our favourite spaces because of it’s unique intimacy and bang on soundsystem and this year has hosted some of our best shows included Neon Indian, Pete and The Pirates, Dutch Uncles & Gardens and Villa.

For those of you who’re after a taster of what to expect from Waifs and Strays, you can check out their latest mix on the Yes List site right here

Tickets for the night aren’t far off selling out so go grab one right here

Our first show of 2012 sees the return of one of the best bands to grace the ‘This is Tmrw stage’……Casio Kids.

They’ll be returning in promotion of their first proper debut record on Moshi Moshi and having listening to the record, we can safely say it’s packed with a full arsenal of pop gems taking in everything from twisted disco, twee pop, afrobeat and blissed out electronics.

Casio Kids have always tore the roof off at This is Tmrw and for this show, we’ll be introducing the band to The Hare and Hounds main room, which houses one of the cities best P.A’s for a venue of it’s size…..Needless to say….It’s gonna go off!

I don’t say this lightly when I say they are hands down the most enjoyable band to watch live.

Support comes from Swim Deep & New Carnival.

EARLY BIRD TICKETS – £5 – Available Here

ADVANCE – £7

Would you rather be a Panda or a Person? 

The first in our run of November dates, see’s Santa Barbara’s  Gardens and Villa grace the This is Tmrw stage in support of their debut self titled LP (already one of our favourite records of the year….File next to Beach House // Grizzly Bear)

If you’d like to come to the show for a measly fiver, fire an email over to matt@thisistmrw.co.uk..Here’s the full details……

This is Tmrw presents..

THE HARE AND HOUNDS V2
WEDS NOVEMBER 9TH

GARDENS AND VILLA – http://gardensandvilla.bandcamp.com/

Signed to the mighty Secretly Canadian records (Which is a seal of approval in itself…Anthony and The Johnsons, Jens Lekman, JJ, Yeasayer, Magnolia Electric Co..), Santa Barbara’s Gardens and Villa will be bringing big hooks and summer vibes to the UK for the first time in Nov. Take the pop sensibilities of early Blur, put it through a 80′s synth and then imagine them covering Talking Heads ‘Speaking In Tongues’ record and you come close to capturing the sound of G & V.

The Wild Honey Pie Presents: Gardens & Villa – Orange Blossom from The Wild Honey Pie on Vimeo.

ALBUM REVIEWS..

FLY MAG ’4 / 5′ – ‘A delicate, smoky slice of romance that marks the Santa Barbara Quintet out as next in line to Grizzly Bear…Utterly Stunning.

VICE MAG – 7 / 10 – Languid and Dreamy pop songs that sound like a spooky Shins.

PANDAS AND PEOPLE – http://soundcloud.com/pandas-and-people

Since bursting onto the live scene about 12 months ago, Pandas have developed into one of Brum’s most exiting prospects. Now with the album recorded, the band have hit the live circuit developing their left of centre alt sound into a tidal wave of melodies and harmonies.

Stream PAP album here…

http://soundcloud.com/pandas-and-people/sets/grab-everything/

IS I CINEMA – http://www.myspace.com/isicinema

Is I Cinema’s epic live set made them one of our favourite live bands last year so it’s with excitement that they’ve been busy recording new material, of which they’ll be performing no doubt at This is Tmrw.

DJ SETS FROM..

THOSE MOUNTAINS
THIS IS TMRW

This coming Friday, perhaps Birmingham’s most famous export (or at least up there!) UB40 return to the place where it all began…The Hare and Hounds.

Most people I’d imagine have a love / hate relationship with the band and that is understandable. But the worrying thing is that most people are completely unaware of the fact that they released one of the finest debuts of all time, which was recorded right on This is Tmrw’s doorsteps.

“Signing Off” was written in the bands communal house in Moseley, where they would wake up, smoke, sign on, and head back to rehearse for 10 hours straight moulding and crafting their sound, whilst immersing themselves in dub from U -Roy, Lee Perry and beyond.

The songs the band were writing, could only of been written by politically charged, young Brummies with nothing to lose.

“Food For Thought” tackled the nations ignorant attitute to famine in Ethiopia (years before LiveAid), “Madam Medusa’ could only be about one person – Maggie Thatcher (Not surprisingly most members of the band’s families were involved with the unions) and “King” mused over people’s loss of direction following the death of MLK.

These were and still are complex songs, both lyrically and in terms of song structure (Brian Travers stated in a recent interview that the “Signing Off” music could only of been wrote by 20 somethings, because the bass- lines, melodies and rhythms chop and change so regularly).

To us, it seems madness that only the die- hards seem to get this album, in fact it is criminally ignored from most ‘best debuts ever’ lists, yet I personally consider it one of the best records to ever come out of Birmingham and a record that still speaks volumes even to this day.

For anyone from Birmingham, or more specifically Moseley / Kings Heath (where most of the band still reside) this album should feel close to home and I for one am massively excited about hearing the full 12 minutes of “Madam Medusa”, the breezey dub of “Signing Off” and hopefully some of the b-sides and 12″s from the same period “Dream A Lie / Earth Dies Screaming”.

Thisistmrw have put together a Spotify playlist with music from some of the bands contemporaries in the late 70′s / early 80′s, some of their influences and our own personal favourite off the album right here…

LINK: “Signing Off ” inspired playlist on Spotify

Riddims from Augustus Pablo, King Tubby and Burning Spear as well as a selection of bands from one of the most fertile period in Brum’s recent past in the shape of The Beat, Dexys and the excellent Au Pairs…

Saturday gone, Copter returned to the live scene with a free show to co inside with the launch of Soul Food Project – a concept kitchen based on food from America’s deep south, located in the Hare and Hounds, Kings Heath.

Needless to say the band smashed it, with the Rev. Steve Copter delivering his sermon to the adoring masses……Songs like I Can’t Help It, Do The Hospital and Time were treated like old friends and a couple of newies made it into the set also…Check out the photos below courtesy of UberBrum and also make sure you get down to the Soul Food Project because the food there is AMAZING!!!

Our very own Greg Bird has unleashed the beast (don’t worry – i just mean his first EP) Shruburbia on the rad Speech Fewapy label, what more it’s available for free download on the Speech Fewapy website.

The EP is a smorgasbord of the best 80′s genre’s – think electro funk, shoegaze, goth and just straight up pop. Our personal favourite is Wonderland which made it’s way onto my Sungazer mix over in the mixes section.

The EP is totally free so what are you waiting for!!! Click the album artwork below..

It’s at this point in the post where i conveniently point out that both Greg Bird and Speech Fewapy are involved in our next show….We are bloody stoked to be welcoming back Casio Kids to Bham on May 27th for our first ever show at the Hare and Hounds…A full post about the gig will follow.