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28th January 2012:
The Luke Jermay showed has now been moved from this thursday to thursday the 16th of feb. All tickets purchased for this thursdays show are still valid for the 16th, or a full refund is available via box office
All apologies
The Basement Team
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25th January 2012:
"Unquestionably, they're the finest new guitar band we've seen in an age!" Artrocker and BBC 6 hipsters The Neat return, the band have promised new material in 2012 so get your ears ready; it’s been a year since their first impact singles ‘In youth is pleasure,’ and ‘Hips’ the former featuring on Rough Trade’s Counter Culture CD as well as winning a shared first place with the xx on Steve Lamacq’s Single review Roundtable-Of-The-Year. An extensive touring campaign that included high profile gigs with Warpaint and the Young Knives, Amsterdam’s Paradiso, Kirkstall Abbey and opening Leeds Festival ensured a great year for The Neat. Well now they are back and fresh from a Best New Band Nomination at the Artrocker Awards bringing their fizzing energy, crunching beats and guitar rages with purpose to 2012.
The Neat
"An adrenalin glands worth of urgency, obscenely brilliant." Artrocker
"Unquestionably, they're the finest new guitar band we've seen in an age!" The FlyTHE NEAT will be headlining the basement on feb 9th with support from
La Bete Blooms + special guestsAge Restrictions: 16+
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25th January 2012:
“Credible indie pop” was how Leeds and Reading festival described Club Smith. A band hunky enough to woo support tours with Kaiser Chiefs, Shed Seven, Pigeon Detectives and The Sunshine Underground. Also a band brandishing the pheromones pungent enough to swoon radio plays from Steve Lamacq (6music), Tom Robinson (6music), John Kennedy (XFM) and Huw Stephens (Radio 1). Expect, as Tom Robinson put it “Independent music new-minted with freshness and conviction."
"Club Smith came like an adrenaline jab in the arm of my flagging faith in indie guitar bands. This is independent music new-minted with freshness and conviction" Tom Robinson, BBC 6music (For Music Week)
"Leeds four-piece Club Smith make danceable pop with a nod to the past whilst staying relevant and original, definitely one for fans of Yeasayer or any credible electro pop." Leeds and Reading Festivals
“Rabble-rousing, blast of post-punk and an impassioned call to arms like it was written with bustling crowds in mind” Drowned in Sound
“Club Smith, the latest in a long string of ‘dead good’ (to use a Yorkshire phrase) bands busting out of the Leeds scene” Artrocker
Age Restrictions: 16+
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15th December 2011:
Nat Baldwin from Dirty Projectors will be headlining the basement on January 27th, tickets will go on sale shortly. Sign up to the mailing list to be the first to find out!
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17th November 2011:
MIGHTY UKE: The Amazing Comeback of a Musical Underdog is an award-winning documentary that travels the world to discover why so many people of different nations, cultures and ages are turning to the ukulele. From the redwoods of California to the gritty streets of New York, from swinging London to Tokyo’s high-rise canyons to Hawaii, MIGHTY UKE tells the story of the people's instrument.
Think of a 'ukulele' and grass skirts, slide guitar and kitchy lyrics come to mind, but far from being just a Hawaiian novelty instrument, the uke has a rich history and has profoundly affected music around the world.
Originally brought to Hawaii by Portuguese immigrants, the tiny instrument first captured musical imaginations in the Hawaiian royal court in the 1880s. With the dawn of the radio broadcasting age, ukulele music owned the airwaves. Broadway produced ukulele musicals. Hollywood produced ukulele movie stars. The little instrument was so inexpensive and easy to play that by the early 1920s it was the most popular instrument in the American home and the first musical voice for millions of children. Over the next 30 years the uke was number one, but then, with the rise of the rock 'n' roll guitar, it faded into nerdy obscurity... until now.
Following the screening, ukulele virtuoso James Hill, regularly cited as 'the best ukulele player in the world', will take to the stage. The performance will then turn into a giant ukulele strum- along, as he leads the audience in a mass ukulele performance.
Don't forget to bring your uke!
www.mightyukemovie.com.
http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/York_Picturehouse/film/The_Mighty_Uke_Plus_Q_A_Strum_Along/
