Next Single - The Don?

I found this on The Views Tshirt designer, AK-80's MySpace.
Does this mean next single will be 'The Don'?

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Superstar Tradesman - NME Review

Pete and Bobby G's faves deliver second classic single
The new rave stormtroopers may be at the door, but out in the country the post-Monkeys rock boom is having side-effects more surreal than any party in a car park. In Glasgow, titfer-wearing disciples of Jon Fratelli compose burlesque love letters to 'Chelsea Dagger' dressed as bridegrooms. In Brighton, the mere sighting of a Kook causes impromptu communal singalongs of 'Jackie Big Tits'. And then there's Dundee scamps The View (named after their local pub, The Bayview Bar). Initially dismissed by industry sceptics as identi-kit post-Pete'n'Carl strummers, the follow-up to Top 15 smash 'Wasted Little DJs' is another cracking teenage symphony, this time about escaping age-old pressures to knuckle down and get a job. "I don't want money/I want happiness/I don't want cash and no/I quite like memories!", hollers Kieren, before gasping: "What would you do/If I asked you to sail away/And see some sights?"

Hearing it - and seeing the reckless carpe diem genius displayed by the band in the 'Wasted Little DJs' video - reminds you The View have tapped into rock'n'roll's core ethic: form a band with your mates and battle small-mindedness wherever you find it. No wonder their teenage fanclub grows nightly to the chorus of, "The View are on fire!" Best thing out of Dundee since the 12.05 to King's Cross.

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Guardian Arts Section

.........Still, there is at least some hope of salvation. Three people in north London will doubtless tut at my tardiness, but I recently received some "product" by the much-admired teenage Scots quartet called the View. The crapness of their name - taken, apparently, from a pub in their native Dundee - and their apparently excessive debt to the Libertines matter not: their music bulges with the right stuff.

Their latest single is a barnstorming tale of pub-related torpor called Superstar Tradesman, though it's much more instructive to focus on its predecessor, a shabby stroke of wonderment called Wasted Little DJs, which landed in the top 20 last month. It charges along with the kind of manic glee that most British music seems to have sacrificed in favour of a grim careerism. As with some of the best rock songs, you cannot decipher at least half the words ("Is it me, is it me, agency/ And the cleverest blonde weekend," the chorus seems to go), and the fact that its intro is slightly out of time is all part of the point. To cap it all, as evidenced by its title, it has the whiff not of idiot classicism, but cider, broken glass and a good night down that archetypal British institution known as the indie disco..............

Read full article here

John Harris
Friday September 29, 2006
The Guardian

Yuppies this Sunday night Oct 1st

The View are going to play Yuppies this Sunday night Oct 1st...

It's been secretly organised as a fundraiser to help the Law & Luva Anna complete the rest of their UK tour...

There's loads of people in Dundee wanting to see them anyway so big thanks to the boys in the band for doing this... I'm sure it would be easy for them to take a break and have a few nights off instead, but they're gonna do it, and it'll be mental...

The Line up is

The View
The Law
Luva Anna
the Getdowns

Doors open 7.45 - midnight
Ticket price £7
the gig is over 18's (not 21's as is sometimes the case in yuppies)
and long haired people with trainers on are welcome too

New range of View T shirts will be on sale...

rock on and thanks for supporting your Dundee scene !!

Skag Trendy - Glasgow Barfly

Performance of 'Skag Trendy' at Glasgow Barfly from earlier in the Year.
Thanks to rrrichyrich

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Superstar Tradesman - Great Photos From Shoot

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Coming Down Glasgow 22nd September 2006

I recorded this peformance of 'Coming Down' at Glasgow Student Union on Friday 22nd September 2006

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More videos from the gig will be up as soon as I get a chance.

Superstar Tradesman - NME's Single Of The Week

The NME have chosen 'Superstar Tradesman' as their single of the week.

Interview in This Weeks NME

Available from all good newsagents and some rubbish ones as well.

Thanks to Dek & Gang Of Ginq for info.

Pre Order Superstar Tradesman

Pre Order now at www.recordstore.co.uk

CD
1. Superstar tradesman
2. Up The Junction (Zane Lowe Session)
3. Wasted Little djs (Live At Abertay)
4. Superstar Tradesman(Video)

7"
A. Superstar Tradesman
B. Up The Junction (Zane Lowe Session)

Release Date : Oct 23 2006
Label : 1965 RECORDS

Wolverhampton Civic Hall Bar

Superstar Tradesman

Wasted Little Dj's
The View at Wolverhamptons Civic Hall Bar 11/9/06

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Straight in at 2 in NME chart

The View have went straight in at number 2 in this weeks NME chart

This week's NME Chart top 10 is:

1. Razorlight - 'America'
2. The View - 'Superstar Tradesman'
3. The Streets - 'Prangin' Out'
4. Hot Chip - 'Over And Over'
5. The Killers - 'When You Were Young'
6. Wolfmother - 'Wolfmother'
7. The Automatic- 'Recover'
8. Dirty Pretty Things - 'Wondering'
9. OK Go - 'Here It Goes Again'
10. Jet - 'Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is'

View from the top

BASSIST Pete Reilly has done the chance thing and drawn the short straw - he's doing the interview as The View look forward to their Friday night in Manchester.

The scariest place in the world?

Pete giggles: "After Dundee, though!"

This summer's T Break tent performance saw The View bringing a scarily-large number of Dundonians to near-riot levels.

"It was like a controlled riot, " said Pete. "When we play Dundee it's a lot worse than that, In Dundee it's absolutely crazy. Last night in Leeds Cockpit it was like that, it was fantastic. But it's kind of weird, every gig we've been doing has been sold out."

Pete has his own theory as to what the fuss is all about.

"You get good people to listen to you. And we've kind of got a good reputation for being energetic. How do I keep it up? Red Bull. Every day you go to sleep feeling knackered, you wake up and it's getting to the venue, doing the sound check, then the gig? it's just a natural high and it puts you in party mode."

A year and a half ago, another band that Pete and drummer Steve Morrison was in, broke up.

"We decided to try our own stuff and we really dedicated ourselves to it, quit our jobs and stuff and got free rehearsal space in Kyle's uncle's pub - the Bayview - we got chucked out of there, so we had to find another place. We would rehearse from the time the pub opened till it closed and we really, really went for it and that's how we got songs together and got really tight."

Being chucked out of the Bayview - The View of the band's title - wasn't just the incident of riding a scooter along the bar, Pete insists.

"It was more like the final nail in the coffin."

Pete's family weren't too chuffed about him giving up his day job. : "Me and my dad fell out, but I think he's eating his hat. Before he was? What are you playing at? You should finish your trade before you do anything! 'We all had trades."

But none of them are the Superstar Tradesman on what will be their next single, out on October 23.

"That song's written about Dundee. If you're not academic, you go and get an apprenticeship.

It's just about ?Do your trade and you'll go far' and all that. You work all week, Monday to Friday, knock your pan in. You work to stand in the pub at the weekend, wasting your life. You should live your dream - and we try to."

The dream really began for The View when they helped along their talent by getting their music to Libertine and Babyshambles frontman Pete Doherty.

Pete Reilly recalled: "We went to the tour-bus and gave him a CD and he played it and said? I really like that'. Keiren asked him? Any chance we could play tonight?'. We played for 10 minutes and it was great. It comes down to being in the right place at the right time. You need to be good, but you need to have luck as well."

Luck and coincidence sometimes come hand in hand. It did when it came to the band signing with their label, 1965, run by former Rough Trade A&R man James Endeacott.

"It was weird, we'd just been reading a book about The Libertines and James is in it and then, an hour later, he's on the phone to our manager saying? Could your boys come down and play Brixton at one of my nights?'. It was really freaky, everything clicking into place."

The album, when it comes next spring, has been produced by Owen Morris - producer of View heroes Oasis and The Verve.

Owen approached the band about producing them. But the sessions in an old cowshed near Scarborough, three weeks done and dusted, were crazy, because Owen - according to Pete - is "mental" in a good way.

"It was in the middle of nowhere, but Owen kept taking us to this strip club. Once Keiren was saying he'd never had champagne and Owen dragged us out to a Chinese restaurant and told the waiter? Bring champagne!'."

No wonder Pete struggles to name his best moment of the year so far, there've been loads.

"Radio One's the Big Weekend in Dundee was very special because it was in Dundee. But T in the Park was amazing. Reading/Leeds was actually amazing as well.

"But we were scared because we were only announced three days before the festival.

"It was pretty strange to hear everybody doing the chant? The View, The View, The View are on fire!'.

"Normally in Scotland is sounds like fiy-er'.

Pete mimics a Cockney:

"But they were singing foyer' with an English accent."

Highlights to come include supporting Primal Scream, a band Pete calls The View's mentors. He thinks they'll survive the experience with the hard-partying Scream, just: I think it might be a bit messy, though!"

What if it all goes pear-shaped? Pete believes he might go back to joinering: "It's really hard and sometimes, mind-numbing. I couldn't see me sticking at it. Well, you never know?" But things look bright for the View and Pete is no pessimist.

"My glass is half full."

* The View play Loopallu on Saturday, the Raigmore, Inverness, on Tuesday and the BA Club, Fort William, next Wednesday.

By Margaret Chrystall, The Highland News, 21 September, 2006

Aldershot Gig Cancelled Due To Illness

Kyle has been taken ill and as much as the band HATE cancelling a gig, they will have to cancel tonights show in Aldershot but don't worry they will reschedule ASAP. Keep checking the site/myspace for more details.

Superstar Tradesman - Record Of The Week

The View's forthcoming single, 'Superstar Tradesman', has been selected as Record Of The Week by XFM DJ Lauren Laverne.

Superstar Tradesman, which has already been Edith Bowman's Record Of The Week on her Radio 1 show, will be released on 23rd October.

Vote For Superstar Tradesman Video on MTV2

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Superstar Tradesman Official Video

Pete Dosserty

The View Graffiti was featured recently in the Daily Star under the heading "Pete Dosserty". Just at the top left of the mantlepiece it says "You will have to walk away without a thought to a new time". Above that it says "The View 25/1/06" and below it also says "The View".

Thanks to Undertow for the Scan and info

The View @ Kentish Town Forum, London

For a bunch of scruffy Dundonian teenagers who’ve only been across the border for five minutes, The View aren’t half getting a lot af attention. Commendably touring as many backwater gigs as possible over the course of three months, tonight’s appearance at the comparatively upmarket Forum supporting a newly resurrected Vines sees them bring their riot-pop ramalama to try and win over the southern fairies of the capital. Yet before they even launch into their first tune, a chant is thrown up by fair proportion of the crowd at the front: “The View, The View, The View are on fire…” What? They have their own chant already? What ever happened to a band having to work the crowd first, before they chanted your name?

The truth is, The View already have a sizeable following, not just in their home country, but via the magic of myspace their reputation as Dougal-haired rapscallions who are bringing back a joyous mash-rock sound has been spreading rapidly, and the chant has followed them wherever they go. But it’s not just tonight’s crowd that are expecting big things from Kyle, Kieren, Pete and Steve. James Endeacott was sufficiently bowled over after only a handful of gigs to sign them to his new ’65 label, and Owen Morris, who once produced a little known album named ‘Definitely Maybe’ will be doing the honours on The View’s debut.

Bounding round the stage, swapping guitars and yelling pitch perfect Celtic harmonics through an enormous amount of hair, The View are a pretty rampant spectacle. But it’s currently on debut single ‘Wasted Little DJs’ that they are judged – an ebullient, incomprehensible, ramshackle, but ultimately fantastic slice of upstart indie-pop that positively shouts ‘we’re under twenty, and we’re having it’. ‘Skag Trendy’ and ‘Posh Boys’ launch more commentary on society’s folk from their viewpoint, but don’t quite have the same infectious drive as ‘DJs’.

So with roughly a hundred more gigs to come this year, the chant will be slowly making its way round the country, like an aural epidemic. However, The View may be on fire, but they’re not quite at the Great Fire of London level yet – they’re probably something more akin to a creeping forest blaze, still set to spread throughout the dried up landscape.

by Brendon Hooper, gigwise.com, Tuesday 29/08/06

Superstar Tradesman Feature on Myspace

Myspace is featuring 'Superstar Tradesman' on their front page.

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Coming Down Manchester 15th September

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Thanks to rrrichyrich & orange pekoe

Superstar Tradesman Video Online

SUPERSTAR TRADESMAN VIDEO
In the videoplayer now

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Superstar Tradesman Photos

Some great photos from the 'Superstar Tradesman' video shoot can now be found on the official site.

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Superstar Tradesman on MTV2?

It's rumoured on a couple of fansites that the new video will be shown on MTV2 this Friday. I've had a sneaky peak and its pretty damn good. Watch out for Ryan McPhail's (The View's roadie and Grafffiti artist extraordinarre) acting debut. Is there anything that boy can't do?!

Levi's Ones To Watch

Tickets are now on sale for The View at QMU, Glasgow on Wed 25th Oct. Support will come from The Cinematics and Pull Tiger Tail.

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Xfm's Big Night Out

London's biggest ever indie club night happens at the Carling Academy Brixton on Saturday, 14th October.

From 9pm to 3am Xfm DJs take over 4 separate rooms and the line-up includes Richard Bacon, Ian Camfield, Sarah Darling, John Kennedy, Adam Longworth, Marsha, Nick Luscombe, Iain Baker, Jon Hillcock, First Friday resident DJ Jared plus a special DJ set from members of the Editors. The Fratellis, The View and Milburn will be performing live.

If that's not enough, pints of Carling are only £1.95 a pint all night.

Tickets are priced only £12 in advance go on sale 9am Thursday, 14th September. Make sure you get yours from the Xfm Xchange on 0871 222 1049 and from xfm.co.uk.

That's Xfm's Big Night Out at Carling Academy Brixton on Saturday, 14th October.

Superstar Tradesman Video Picts in NME

Exclusive pictures from Superstar Tradesman Video shoot in Kyles back garden are in todays NME 13/9/06.

The Wasted Little Dj's Playing Glasgow

The Wasted Little Dj's will be playing Carling Academy 2 this Satuarday along with Sergeant!

There will be a bus going through for anyone wanting to come and coz a little mahem all are welcome!!

Stardom will not spoil the View

Scotland's latest rock sensation are heading for success, but, bless, they have mixed feelings about a move away from their parents’ homes in Dundee to the bright lights of London, discovers Jeremy Austin

Keiren Webster is missing home. The 20-year-old bass player, all straggly hair and rock-star demeanour, is about a quarter of the way through a 80-date tour of Britain with his band, the View. Peterborough seems dark and empty outside the window of the restaurant in which he and the rest of the band are eating their pre-gig meal. And suddenly Dryburgh — a run-down housing estate on the northern edge of Dundee — seems the most homely place on the planet. “I didn’t really want to stay in Dundee,” Webster complains. “I wanted to move to London, but now I’m starting to miss Dundee.”
It is a serious concern. A year and a half ago, Webster was working as a joiner on a building site with the guitarist Peter Reilly, 20, and vocalist Kyle Falconer, 19. Drummer Steven Morrison had just started as a butcher. They played in a covers band around Dundee on Friday nights to supplement their income. Now all four are standing on the verge of rock stardom. A gaggle of groupies hangs around outside the restaurant, something of a novelty, according to the waitress. It is a mark of how far the band have come in a short space of time.

In 2005, after only a couple of gigs playing their own material instead of covers, they gave Pete Doherty, the Babyshambles singer, a copy of their demo CD while he was standing outside a venue in Dundee.

He offered them a chance to support Babyshambles and passed the CD onto James Endeacott — the owner of the indie label 1965 Records and the man who signed Doherty’s first band, the Libertines.

There was a bidding war, and the View were added to Endeacott’s roster. And then their lives exploded. A support slot on the ill-fated Babyshambles tour at the start of the year — it was temporarily halted while Doherty was a guest of Her Majesty — was followed by appearances at the Leeds, Reading and T in the Park festivals. Then came an invitation to join Scottish rock legends Primal Scream on tour, and repeated airplay on Radio 1 for their first single, Wasted Little DJs. The song eventually rose to No 15 in the charts.

But while all this amounts to an almost unimaginable level of excitement and possibilities in their lives, it also raises the inevitability of a move to London — the centre of the British music industry. And the trouble is, all the boys, bar Reilly, are still living at home with their parents in Dundee.

“I don’t want to move to London. I’m close to my family,” says Morrison. His girlfriend, Bobi, also lives locally. “She’s a good Dundee girl,” he says.

Falconer, whose girlfriend is in London, has no such doubts. “I love London. It’s great. Camden is brilliant,” he enthuses, his frighteningly young face beaming from beneath a mop of curls.

Leaving home, leaving girlfriends behind — these are the kind of difficulties faced by the young. Barely in their twenties, the band’s youthfulness is something they share with the Mercury Prize winners Arctic Monkeys, as well as a knack for catchy, poppy, punky tunes with wry real-life lyrics.

But don’t let their age cloud you to the maturity of their music: the construction of the songs; the layering of the instruments; the way Falconer’s screeching, growling rhythm-and-blues vocals thunder above it all as if he is Jim Morrison’s grandson — they cite the Doors, the Beatles, Squeeze and Crowded House as influences.

Lyrically they claim to “sort of celebrate the fact that we’re from Dryburgh”. They are also incredibly tight live. Once they had signed to 1965 Recordings they quit their jobs and began practising 12 hours a day in the backroom of the Bayview bar (hence the band’s name) 10 miles outside Dundee. Very diligent, but then, as they explain, that’s because their mums and dads told them to practise.

Reilly says: “If we were going to leave our jobs, we were pressured from our parents to start doing something. We were dedicated.”

But while the View’s parents are quite possibly now beginning to see the band as a legitimate career path, the band themselves, thankfully, are enjoying their new-found fame with all the youthful exuberance they can muster.

“I’m not really career-minded. Our managers are career-minded. We rehearse 12-hours a day to get good songs together, know what I mean?” says Webster.

“We don’t want money, we want happiness,” Reilly says. “We are not in it for the money. The money is nice, but we are in it to play gigs and make people happy.”

But having Doherty as some sort of crazy mentor does mean that the band has a walking, salutary lesson in how some of the more excessive aspects of the music industry can seriously stop a person’s ability to have fun.
Falconer recalls how Doherty’s erratic behaviour affected the tour. “We were supposed to be playing the Carling Academy in Newcastle and he never turned up,” he says.

“The night before that he was at a mad party in Aberdeen and he ended up getting caught by the police. Something happened and he didn’t come to the gig. We ended up playing the gig with the rest of Babyshambles. We went up on stage and played with them. We filled in for Pete.”

With the strong ties between the band, and their shared upbringing, there is a sense of belonging together that will, in the end, almost certainly see them move en masse to London.

But surely such a move wouldn’t bode well for the continuing development of the Scottish music scene, would it? After all, Scotland did throw up such ground-breaking acts as Franz Ferdinand.

“Franz Ferdinand, they’re not Scottish,” says Reilly.

“No, they’re not Scottish. They’ve not got a Scottish mentality,” adds Webster.

“We’re Scottish,” Reilly affirms.

So why not stay in Scotland? Move to Glasgow, perhaps? “If you’ve got a Dundonian accent, you try getting into a nightclub in Glasgow,” bemoans Falconer.

“Glaswegians don’t really like Dundonians,” Reilly agrees.

“Nobody likes Dundonians,” says Falconer.


The Sunday Times September 10, 2006

Kyle Does The Beatles

The View - Koko, Camden - 08/09/06

Some great photos from Koko, Camden

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LISTEN TO NEW SINGLE...

Superstar Tradesman has been added to http://www.theviewareonfire.com/ audio player and www.myspace.com/dryburgh

Documentary Trailer

It looks like there will be a documentary with The View, Wasted Little Dj's and James Endeacott. Where and when it will be shown I don't know.

Thanks to Michael Wallace on 2thumbs for uploading this.

Superstar Tradesman Video Shoot

This is the video 'Superstar Tradesman' shoot recorded on a mobile phone from Kyles back garden. Thanks to stereophonie on 2thumbs

The View @ Ibiza Rocks

Blurring the boundary between fantasy and reality is the Manumission mode of operation, but it backfired spectacularly last Friday at Bar M when a staged fight got out of hand and a brawl erupted, spilling out into the street. Oh dear, Manumission hits the front pages again.

But the publicity didn't stop a decent crowd turning out last night for to enjoy another night of communal new band appreciation. The unknown, unsigned and Underground Heroes were first up, followed by the View from Scotland who got to number 15 in the UK single charts with 'Wasted Little Djs', and the Welsh Automatic, who've been gigging solidly and cracked the top five a couple of months back.

We're relieved to report that apart from a bit of beer throwing there were no violent incidents, tho Alex Pennie from the headlining Automatic thrashed his keyboard pitilessly.

Earlier the shaggy and innocuous-looking lead singer of the View, Kyle Falconer (above right), startled all unfamiliar with his knock-you-down howl that rivals Zep legend Robert Plant's for sheer power.

Interview on Edith Bowman's Show

Pete, Keiren and Kyle chatted to Edith Bowman live on Radio 1 this afternoon.

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The View at Yo-Yo

The visit to Hull by recent chart-breakers The View had been talked up for weeks and 600+ music fans came to see one of the hottest new bands to emerge from north of the border.

The View hail from Dryburgh in Dundee and are currently on a mammoth UK tour.

The chorus on Wasted Little DJs is exceedingly catchy and the song is quickly reaching anthem status among the fans. This song alone could propel them into the serious contender position.

But they have more. Posh Boys Can't Play is a sure thing and goes down well with the fired up crowd tonight. The class divide theme supports the backlash against the middle class/public school floppy fringe blazer boys.

You get the feeling that The View are very proud of their roots - never more so than when they played the laidback reggae number halfway through the set. This one paints a picture about the schemes (housing schemes) and surrounding area where they grew up in Dundee. The rich Scottish twang comes across clearly as the vocalists switch places; that tone coupled with the sweet reggae vibe fare well together.

I relished in the homage to the Rastafarian tradition on the Jimmy Cliff opening line and given more room to dance would have happily king-stepped my way through the standout number.

The crowd were going nuts all the time the must-see four piece were on stage. Every song was accompanied by at least one crazy crowd surfer. I watched them being tossed this way and that as they rose and fell, riding their way to the stage. The View seem to have that special ingredient, that certain something, that sparks an ordinary gig into a high octane event.

The energy and excitement amongst the shiny faced revellers was matched only by the rock n roll driving power of the band. All credit must go to Andrew Coe and DJ Priya, the hardworking Yo-Yo couple that once again found themselves with the hottest ticket in the town.

The queues stretching far down Beverley road proved this and then some. Andrew, ever seeking to bring the best bands to Hull booked The View over six months ago, long before their full page spreads in the popular music press. Another amazingly good night brought to you by Yo-Yo at The Welly Club in Hull.

Sadly I didn't get to the chance to meet The View in person and put a few questions to them due to the fact they had an early flight in the morning. But now they've played their best gig to date in our city - the word from the band last night was that the Hull gig topped their knockout performance at Reading Festival - so they'll be back for sure.

By Michelle Dee
Saturday 2nd September 06 - The View at Yo-Yo

MTV2 GONZO TOUR

The View have been confirmed to play on this years MTV2 Gonzo Tour along with a whole host of other acts - check out the dates below.

Friday 13th October
Birmingham Barfly
JET
The View

Saturday 14th October
Cardiff Barfly
PEACHES
The View

Sunday 15th October
London Barfly
RAZORLIGHT
Good Shoes
The View

Friday 20th October
Liverpool Barfly
THE KOOKS
Mumm-Ra
The View

Saturday 21st October
York Fibbers
KLAXONS
The Long Blondes
The View

Sunday 22nd October
Glasgow Barfly
THE YOUNG KNIVES
The Grates
The View