BACKSTREET IV with Official Secrets Act + many more February 8, 2008

BACKSTREETS is a semi-regular gig night curated by the good people at Rockbeatstone. We put on some of London's best little-known indie/rock music and with Rockbeatstone contributors on the decks, you can be sure that the evening will end in silliness.

OFFICIAL SECRETS ACT
Sometimes you come across a band and are immediately taken by their freshness, their exuberance and most importantly their musical spunk. The Official Secrets Act do this, imagine British Sea Power hooked up on sugar and playing with Maximo Park, this isn’t what this trio sounds like it, but you’d be getting close.
Foot-stomping bass lines, enigmatic performances, and songs so catchy, frankly it’s sickening. And it’s EXACTLY what we love to hear. ‘The Art of Being Sure’ recently featured on an Artrocker compilation, and is nothing sort of brilliant. If there’s a musical war going on, then these are the snipers, short, sharp and deadly....
www.myspace.com/officialsecretsact

PHILADELPHIA MAIN LINE (Hackney/Australia)
Signed to the good folks at BANG! Records, this two-piece features the talented Christian Muncey (whose brother happens to be in a little known Aussie band called JET!) on guitar and Matt Veal on drums. Together they have built an arsenal of sonic onslaughts that sound like the Black Keys handing their souls to the devil. A band that mixes the raw energy of the White Stripes to the ballsiest, bluesiest and dirtiest ballads that Tom Waits might conjure up after a particularly violent drinking session. Alternative music bible, The Stool Pigeon is a big fan stating that the band employ the most rudimentary of guitar lines to weave their Holy Golighty-ish R&B menace with a 13th Elevators spin. Great vocals and twangy blues guitar. Definitely a set that will get people talking.
www.myspace.com/philadelphiamainline

THE KITS (Melbourne)
All the way from Australia, The Kits are a wild celebration of 60's garage rock'n'roll. Simply put, they blow the roof off. The Kits feed off the sounds of the Von Bondies, the Stooges, BRMC, the Veils, Kings of Leon and Television, spitting out tales of crime, sex, excess and indulgence. They've shared the stage with the likes of Wolfmother, The Saints, Howling Bells and Diamond Nights.
www.myspace.com/thekits

ALPHABET BACKWARDS (Oxford)
A return to the Windmill and Backstreets because we loved them so much last time! Flirting between pop and rock, they play intelligent and melodic music without ever veering on the side of cheese and cannot fail to bring a smile to your face.
www.myspace.com/alphabetbackwards

More information:
www.myspace.com/backstreets_london
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Official Website: http://www.windmillbrixton.co.uk