Tuesday 21st September - Artists Against Success - The Tour

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Jeffrey Lewis (from New York, USA), MJ Hibbett (solo), Frankie Machine, Adam Hector Collector and the glorious CrackTown £4.50 or £3.50 (conc) 5 CLASS ACTS ! Less than a quid each, this will be a night to remember. All are highly tipped - MJ Hibbett (www.mjhibbett.com) got record of the year in Rolling Stone in 2003 for his individual style of stories and life in England post 2000. Highly regarded by the local Sandman magazine too no less! This will be a solo set where wit , humour and a dose of sarcasm will be the order of the day.

Adam Hector Collector - Scottish off the wall singer , whole album featured on BBC John Peel show . Off the wall, songs like Gary Numan needs another hit! CrackTown, recently did a session on BBC North Raw Talent album, Songs in the key of Fuck off! - a classic in the making !

Jeffrey Lewis - Raised on New York's Lower East Side by loving beatnik parents. Having no television in the tenement apartment, he became a comic book fanatic before even learning how to read. A life-long love of writing and drawing comic books, both autobiographical and fantastical, found new vent when Lewis began making up songs in the winter of 97-98.

Initially inspired by the gentle psychedelic folk of Donovan, the DIY magic of Daniel Johnston, and the fearless early recordings of local folk-punk legends the Fugs, Lewis began recording homemade cassettes in 1998 and selling them, packaged in small comic books, at his soon semi-monthly shows at Sidewalk, home of New York's Antifolk scene. Lewis's younger brother Jack began playing electric bass and contributing to the shows and tapes. When other Sidewalk performers the Moldy Peaches signed to Rough Trade Records in late 2000, they recommended Jeffrey's cassette recordings to label head Geoff Travis, and Rough Trade has since released two full-length Jeffrey Lewis CDs in America, England and Europe, garnering glowing press and a small but devoted following for the idiosyncratic illustrator/songwriter. Like his Rough Trade releases, and a recent art/music/DVD box set project (released on England's Hallso label), Lewis's shows can range between lo-fi folk and sci-fi punk as well as occasionally incorporating "low budget videos" (large ragged comic books displayed to accompany songs).

It is only since 2002 that Jeffrey and Jack have become an official band, with various friends trading time in the drum seat. The Jeffrey Lewis Band (with an ever-changing Jeffrey Lewis & The title) have played from Wisconsin to the Polish border, sharing bills along the way with international acts big and small, including Cornershop, The Fall, Beth Orton, Frank Black, Daniel Johnston, Scout Niblett, the Mountain Goats, Radio4, Adam Green, Kimya Dawson, British Sea Power, the Fiery Furnaces, Thurston Moore, and most recently a string of shows with the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players.

Jeffrey Lewis: The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane - Best Indie Album of 2002; like his drawings, his music is witty, animated and true. New York Daily News Bizarre but brilliant. Jeffrey Lewis could well be [New York's] ace in the hole. Uncut

Record of the Year - MJ Hibbett and the Validators, This Is Not a Library (Artists Against Success) OutKast are all well and good, but we're not ashamed to admit that all the hippin' and a-hoppin' and the bippin' and a-boppin' says nothing to us about our lives. Whereas an insanely prolific, remarkably witty bespectacled thirtysomething comic book geek from the Midlands, working the classic C-86 idiom in genuine obscurity, hustling his music on the darkest outskirts of popular culture? You know it!

The criminally unknown Mark Hibbett speaks the words we feel inside, prolix and verbose songs of nationalism, privatization, nostalgia, social injustice, body fascism, media overload, illicit sex and pub life, adorned with twee girl backing vox, martial trumpets and bountiful ba-ba-bas. Fuck the fucking Libertines - this is the true face of post-millennial Albion!

The Hector Collectors are from Motherwell in Scotland - band members have also played for all sorts of Scottish Bands, including Camera Obscura - they have only ever played one gig outside Scotland, in Manchester last year - John Peel loves them, and has played several tracks from all their releases on his show - the lead track from their new EP Dollification was produced by Brendan O'Hare - they supported Half Man Half Biscuit in Edinburgh in August, and are called a cross between Moldy Peaches and BMX Bandits - Scotland's answer to Half Man Half Biscuit - they're ace!

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