with
FISTS
+ SWIMMING
+ PILGRIM FATHERS
+ ESCAPOLOGISTS

+ Special guests to be announced - at after show in Red Room.

FISTS ‘Olympic Hits EP’ Launch Party! @ The Rescue Rooms 9th April 2010

Four of Nottingham’s brightest and best under one roof for one night only!

FISTS are a Nottingham based 5-piece whose sound is a sprawling, ever-shifting amalgam of DIY music genres spanning the past 50 years. From the skiffle punk of '6 5 Special' and the country twang goes indie-pop of 'Cockatoo' to the Stereolab/Velvets drone of ‘Skit’. Live, Fists are a woozy, kaleidoscopic and riotously fun affair.
www.myspace.com/fistsmusic

SWIMMInG// - A massive whoosh of saline soaked loveliness. SWIMMInG// have managed that rarest of things. An avant-garde left field approach to making music that sees them incorporate experimental field recordings, binaural art, electronica and post-rock elements to their sound with surprisingly accessible, uplifting and righteously poppy results.
www.myspace.com/swimmingband

Pilgrim Fathers have been described by someone else as: ‘a 50 million-year neo-psychedelic death trip through all the galactic touchstones: Orion’s Belt, Destiny’s Rainbow, Brocchi’s Cluster, Pegasus’ Great Square’ and by themselves as “The same sound as when you open a door and there is another dimension behind the door and there’s a band playing behind that door to the other dimension”, and finally by us as ‘awesome slabs of mind melting psychedelic post-rock’.
www.myspace.com/thepilgrimfathers

Escapologists have been on a weird secretive trip over the last two years. A trip that has seen the line up shrink and expand again whilst their sound has undergone a radical evolution, from epic stabs of prog-y, indie rock about the universe and science to a new, synth-heavy, drum machine backed, dark pop vehicle that segues oddly disparate touch stones like psychedelia, hip-hop and electro together in ways that absolutely work!!
www.myspace.com/escapologists

After party in the Red Room:

Frank’s Vintage Metal Disco playing: Budgie, early ZZ-Top, AC/DC, Thin Lizzy, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Edgar Broughton Band, Blue Cheer, that weird heavy metal Osmonds tune ‘Crazy Horses’, Judas Priest, Deep Purple, early Queen, etc.

Plus very special live guests!

Advanced tickets £5 available from the Rock City box office and at www.alt-tickets.co.uk. / more on the door. Advanced ticket holders will receive a FREE copy of the brand new ‘Olympic Hits EP’ by FISTS collectible from the merch stand on the night with the ticket stub.

www.hellothor.com