FIRST BANDS ANNOUNCED FOR CITY SHOWCASE EVENT
First bands announced for City Showcase: Spotlight London 4-8 May 2011
City Showcase, the year-round music festival promoting the talent of the future, has today pre-announced the first five artists on the bill of its centre-piece event, Spotlight London, in the West End from 4 - 8 May 2011.The early-bird five were selected to perform at the five day new music event from the hundreds of applications that were made via the gig booking website
www.sonicbids.com.
The five pre-announced artists are:
The Critical from Surrey
Chloe Jones from Nova Scotia
Katalina Kicks from London
Moon Visionaries from London
Tigers That Talked from Leeds
City Showcase promoter Nanette Rigg says, 'These five artists are exceptionally talented and we can't wait to get them on the City Showcase: Spotlight London stages in the West End in May.'
'City Showcase has introduced many new artists who've gone on to become household names - Amy Winehouse, Keane, Razorlight, Scouting for Girls - and we're as excited with our first announcements for 2011 as we have been for some years.'
Applications to play City Showcase: Spotlight London 2011 are still being taken at
www.cityshowcase.co.uk or via
Sonicbids where one North American artist is set to win a US$1000 travel stipend to play the UK. Deadline for all applications is 31 January 2011.
Find out more about five days of the best new music in the West End from 4 - 8 May 2011 at
www.cityshowcase.co.uk. The full line-up will be announced in the early Spring.
CITY SHOWCASE: SPOTLIGHT LONDON
2011 PRE-ANNOUNCED ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
The Critical
The Critical say they deliver 'lyrically exposed stories of social politics, society's taboos and human nature, combined with powerful vocals, exuberant guitar lines and heart pounding, adrenaline fuelled drum beats'. They launched their career by winning a local radio talent competition in Surrey. They released their debut album, Where Do We Go From Here in mid-2010.
www.thecritical.co.uk
Chloe Jones
Chloe describes her music as emotional and powerful, combining her unique and expressive voice with sounds and instrumentation that result in 'something enchanting' and contemporary. Chloe, from Nova Scotia, has just finished recording her first Ep called 'Old Palace'.
www.myspace.com/chloexxxxx
Katalina Kicks
Hard hitting West London rock band Katalina Kicks cite the Clash, the Kinks and Nirvana as influences. Formed in late 2008, the band's first single 145 was released to critical acclaim. Their second single, Me, has just been released and a debut album is due in March 2011. They have a track featured in the forthcoming US film The Ledge and they hope to spend some time in 2011 touring in the States.
www.katalinakicks.com
Moon Visionaries
Steve Lamacq's Unsigned Band of the Week, a Track of the Day for Q Magazine and an NME Breakthrough Band of the Day, who described London-based Moon Visionaries' music as 'unashamed, feel-good, glossy groove-pop'.
www.moonvisionaries.com
Tigers That Talked
From across the UK and Europe, and currently Leeds based, Tigers That Talked have been described by NME as 'Masters of the slow brood, ebbing and flowing with filmic elegance, swaying between maudlin melodrama and frenzied, multi-layered crescendos'. Since releasing their debut single Tigers That Talked have received accolades from influential UK press & radio, including from BBC 6Music's Steve Lamacq who hailed them 'my new favourite band'.
www.tigersthattalked.co.uk
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