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Dead Disco @ Dublin Castle (London)

Dead Disco, Death Disco, some might make a connection. Let's get things straight, Death Disco, and Alan McGee's pathetic spin off "The Queen is Dead," are nothing to do with this pint sized trio, full of pent up energy.

Dead Disco @ Mixing Tin

Regardless of drawing the short straw and getting the booby prize of first slot in tonight's line up, Movement appear to not give a flying turd that the crowd is thin and they are on before your granny's bed time.

Cansei de Ser Sexy @ Cockpit

At the end of opening act Shut Your Eyes And You'll Burst Into Flames' set the sweaty and furious drummer stormed off stage parting a hitherto static crowd.

Jim's Super Stereo World @ Joseph's Well

Much pop history has come and gone since Jimbob and Fruitbat decided, in the mid-nineties, that they just weren't having fun anymore and disbanded Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine.

Yellow Stripe Nine @ Faversham

Going into battle dressed in his dad's golfing outfit and some vintage aviators, Yellow Stripe Nine's ringleader Pete Bott has taken on the guardian of jerky pop/disco choruses and won hands down with catchy bastards like 'I Want More', 'Hotel X' and (the deceptively uncatchily titled) 'The Boy who Desperately Wanted to be Struck by Lightning'.

Sugarvalve @ Rocket

Exactly twenty people witnessed what, despite flu-ridden vocalist Nick saying it was merely a "rehearsal", I believed to be one of the strongest Sugarvalve's sets to date.

Scouting For Girls @ The Refectory

Scouting For Girls have had a good run of it lately, three top ten singles and a number one album, shed loads of air play and to cap it all off a sold out UK tour.

Los Campesinos! @ Cockpit

As those of you out there who are musical types will know, the wonderful world of MySpace allows you the excellent facility to advertise your wares via the listing of "upcoming gigs", marvellous!

Jim Bob @ Mixing Tin

Some misguided people out there might tell you that the post-Madchester pre-Britpop years weren't much fun to be growing up as an "indie kid".

The Machines Will Take Over @ The Railway (Featherstone)

First impressions of Featherstone's The Railway? Normal pub... ominous looking equipment lying around...

New Minds Eye @ The Vine

Coming to gigs by yourself is never a lot of fun, but thanks to the army of apathetic student types that I call friends all wimping out, I'm here on my own.

Red Go Green Stop @ Carpe Diem

Seizethedayer Festival, in which promoters of local bands get together and organise an all-dayer, featuring a carefully selected mixture of said local talent at Carpe Diem, a basement venue with a good atmosphere a mere brick throw away from Millennium Square.

2manydjs @ Leeds Festival 2006

I think I'm getting old, or something, because it's taking me longer to recover from these festival things than it used to.

four day Hombre @ HiFi Club

The monthly TTS, or the Tea Time Shuffle, could soon become an institution. It's Friday, it's 6 o'clock, the Hi-Fi bar is well and truly open and 3 and a half of Leeds finest bands are playing before your increasingly Southern Comforted eyes and all for just a fiver.

Liars @ Cockpit

The Blood Brothers are skinny, polite and nervous. When they perform however, a fairytale nightmare is cast upon the room, melancholy, bitter, estranged from reality and reeling with sarcastic vitriol.