Saturday 29th March 2008 @ Dry Bar, Manchester
Dovestone
The Windfall
Sean Whittaker
Stop The Blackout
Johnny Foreigner
goFASTER>>
Where's Strutter
James Owen Fender Doors 8pm - Late
The Victorians were all about innovation and pushing things forward, with Manchester's boom in the Industrial age it seemed appropriate to call the night The Dickensian Disco, plus everyone likes a bit of alliteration.
The Dickensian Disco aims to be an alternative Indie night in the heart of Manchester. We may remember the Manchester classics but you will not hear them here. The Dickensian Disco aims to play cutting edge music by cutting edge bands from all genres. The myspace page says if it fits we'll play it and this is the case.
The Dickensian Disco's home at Dry Bar, Oldham street, may have the ghosts of Manchester's great musical past looming over it, but you'd hope that they'd be looking down and appreciate that there is an innovative group of individuals, coming out of Manchester, who are looking forward and trying to do something different, just as they did in their day!
goFASTER>> formed in the summer of 2006 in Liverpool to write pop songs about rubbish jobs, daytime television and STD’s. Since then they have released our debut single, toured the UK with The Wombats, been championed by Steve Lamacq (Radio1, Radio 6) and John Kennedy (XFM), and played a riverbound gig on the Mersey Ferry.
"The most exciting band to come out of Liverpool in the last year."
- Gigwise.com
"Brilliant new wave punk" - NME
"Enough musicianship and wit to excite even well-exercised lugholes. We predict goFASTER>> will goFAR>>" - The Fly
"Songs that need to be played to fans jumping around and losing shoes in a sweaty dive, because these are true party-starting anthems - Glasswerk.co.uk
