Club Fandango Joey Suave, Animal Kingdom, King Of Spain
View All ListingsTuesday 7th February
@8pm
£5, adv £4
Tbc + Joey Suave + Animal Kingdom + King Of Spain
Joey Suave came together in 2008 when three northern chaps wished to fill in the gaps between their shoddy degrees and inane party habits. The result was oodles of indie tunes and gigs galore throughout 2009/10 including a smashing slot at Kent County Fair with an abundance of giant rabbits amongst the festival audience. After a momentary pause the power trio are now back gigging for some 2012 fun and japes.
Animal Kingdom are a three piece comprising Richard Sauberlich (Vocals/Guitar/Piano), Hamish Crombie (Bass), Geoff Lea (Drums). Their debut album ‘Signs and Wonders’ was recorded by Phil Ek (Fleet Foxes/The Shins) in Seattle and released on Warner Brothers in 2009. The first single ‘Tin Man’ was Itunes ‘Single of the Week’ and Itunes named them ‘Best New Alternative Act’. Support tours with Vampire Weekend, Band of Horses, Snow Patrol and Silversun Pickups followed, as well as numerous festival appearances in the UK and Europe. Songs taken from the album were synched on various feature films and TV shows including ‘Never Let Me Go’ (staring Keira Knightly) and HBO’s ‘Big Love’. The NME has described them as: ‘Achingly beautiful celestial indie…Will have Sigur Ros quivering with envy.’
King Of Spain are a three-piece from Balham (famously dubbed ‘Gateway to the South’ by Peter Sellers), South London. After years of sending home-recorded demos of varying degrees of quality to anyone who’d listen, their debut album ‘Battleships & Aeroplanes’ was released in 2008 on Oxford’s pioneering Shifty Disco label. Recorded on a dairy farm near the Oxfordshire village of Steventon, the record was received by the media with a mixture of delight, consternation, confusion and downright anger. NME loved it, Artrocker did not. "This album stands as a homage to a great school of underground indie... awesome." - 8/10, NME
About Club Fandango:
A selection of indie-rock and alt-pop bands - check listings for details.
