[Events] 2005-02-02 19:30 // Live Bands @ Water Rats

[Paul Makepeace]

Bunch of new bands ranging across soul/jazz/slightly-harder-than-pop
vibes playing around Kings Cross on Thursday. Looks decent (to me, :-P)

I would offer to book tix but I'll only be there from 9p. Lemme know if
you go & I'll send out an email to those folks for the hook-up.

Date:    19:30, Thursday 2 February 2006
Time:    Doors 7pm (1st Band 8pm)
Where:   Water Rats, Kings Cross - 328 Grays Inn Road, WC1X 8BZ
Bands:   Ellie Holland, Amplifico, Touriste, Plastic Toys
Tickets: 5 adv + Concs + w/ Flyer. 7 on door. www.ticketweb.co.uk
Tube/Train: Kings Cross

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One Night At 'Water Rats'

The Soul/Pop of Ellie Holland (www.ellieholland.com) opens the night,
showcasing live urban soul with her band, an exciting blend of soul rock
and jazz and pop influenced by Betty Davies, Nikka Costa, Jill Scott,
Kelis, Nina Simone and Eryka Badu. A really exciting artist, Ellie
Holland is described by Juice Magazine as ??high energy pop songs with
spine tingling tracks?Ellie Holland?s beautiful soul drenched vocals
display and incredible emerging talent?.

Hotly-tipped Scots Amplifico (www.amplifico.net) are definitely ones to
watch as they bring their emotive piano/acoustic driven, jazz-tinged
alt-pop/folk/rock from Edinburgh. Straight from supporting the new
darlings of the pop world KT Tunstall and Nizlopi only great things await
this Scottish quartet. Insanely difficult to categorise and described
as, "Wonderful" (The Scotsman), ?Magni-fico? (The Sun) and ?One of the
best unsigned acts I've seen in 20 years of promoting? (TheMusicPress),
you should see the Radio 1 favorites whilst you can still get a ticket!

South London?s very own purveyors of anthemic indie pop rock Touriste
(www.touriste.co.uk) continue the night, right off the back of having
won numerous national songwriting competitions and XFM unsigned. Expect
lashings of melody and heartfelt emotive playing and vocals from the
highly rated youngsters.

Plastic Toys (www.plastictoys.co.uk), with a uniform of black clothes,
dyed hair and oodles of eyeliner and a dance infused dark pop with an
electro-clash edge to match, the self confessed "sleaziest band around"
really have to be seen to be believed. The Southampton based rockers
complete the line up and having risen to No. 1 in Radio 1?s One Music
chart, Plastic Toys? distinctly commercial gothic washed feel will have
fans everywhere reaching for the eyeliner.

-- 
Paul Makepeace .............................. http://paulm.com/inchoate/

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 locked up for crimes they didn`t commit."
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