Originally written by Colin Roberts · 26 April 2006
New Rough Trade signings head to the UK for debut shows and some good time lovin'. Probably.
Star date: 26-04-2006, on a trajectory bound from San Francisco, California, USA. Four danceable indie types head to the UK for a host of dates.
Scissors for Lefty are freshly-signed to Rough Trade over here and are popping over for their first UK jaunt, in support of debut single 'Ghetto Ways', released on May 28th.
The band are a hotch-potch of electronic lumpiness, semi-frenetic danceable rock and Rough Trade-trademarked indie attitude. They are, in this humble scribe's opinion, pretty darned good.
Check 'em out at one of these (rather numerate) sound explosions, or 'gigs'.
May 2 London Soho White Heat @ Madame JoJos 4 Manchester Night & Day (*) 5 Glasgow ABC 2 (*) 6 London Kings College (*) 8 Leeds Cockpit (*) 10 Brighton Concorde 2 (*) 12 London Old Street 333 Club 13 London Camden Barfly 15 Cardiff Barfly 16 Dublin Hub 18 Nottingham Stealth (&) 19 Brighton The Great Escape 20 Stoke The Underground (&) 22 Sheffield Plug (&) 23 London Mean Fiddler 24 Leeds Faversham (&) 25 Middlesbrough Empire (&) 26 London Camden KOKO (&)
June 2 London Kings Cross Water Rats
(*) - with Fiery Furnaces (&) - Club NME