NEWSFLASH: Top Portsmouth Bands to play Eastney Cellars on Friday 17th April
April 14th, 2009 | Published in News
Fresh off the road from their debut UK tour, Jelly Maid record’s The Dawn Chorus return home to Portsmouth to wrap their heartfelt tunes around the intimate interior of The Cellars at Eastney. Having stockpiled praise from a number of sources in 2008, from the likes of Clash Magazine, who wrote about their “Beautifully Melancholic Songwriting” to Rock Sound lauding the band’s debut release as “A Country-Pop classic waiting to happen” these guys are certainly earning the praise. Indeed just a month ago they headlined their record label’s inaugural showcase event in a packed to the brims Wedgewood Rooms!Their debut release, The Big Adventure, is a disc designed to actually be listened to. Here is a band who crafted an album of songs that actually fit together and flow, rather than throwing eleven random songs onto a disc. In the live arena they have a fearsome reputation for providing heart rending music that envelops the audience and takes it on a journey. Coming on like the UK’s answer to The Shins there really is something unique about these guys.
Support comes from two of Portsmouth’s best loved bands The B of the Bang and Holdfast. The B Of The Bang too, have just returned from tour, supporting their lasbel mates up and down the country, providing audiences with the rare site of the same line up for consecutive gigs. No doubt now that they’re home front man Wit will have some surprises in store as his ever changing collective take to the stage! Holdfast, winners at the 2008 Guide Awards, take to the stage with a set of vice like tightness, centred around the surprisingly powerful vocals of petite vocalist Roberta and built on rock solid rhythms to present a set of post-punk/electro pop exquisiteness!
The Dawn Chorus are at The Cellars At Eastney on Friday 17th April 2009.