FONDA 500
+ AUDIOPORN + SNIDEY
+ THE NEUTRINOS + DJ DIRTY SUE

Spitz@333
Downstairs at The 333 Club
Thursday 29 May 2008: The Spitz presents the eccentric Hull based indie-rockers Fonda 500 with support from Audioporn, Snidey, The Neutrinos and DJ Dirty Sue.

Fonda 500 are an exuberant, unpredictable and indefinable five piece who have been performing utterly original and endlessly enjoyable music since the year 2000. At their centre sits Simon Stone, a bear of a man whose main instrument is an implausibly toy-like Casio keyboard.

The party motif is heightened by Stone’s penchant for the glitzy panda decorated light box which his keyboard sits on. This multi-functioning device also serves as a plinth which Stone sometimes stands up on – shouting out a bit of banter and chorus’s to classic songs like s-s-s-s- ‘Super Chimpanzee’.

The effect on the listener is of a kitten-like reversion to childhood parties with Stone as the mad professor magician, entertaining the kids in the crowd, rapt and smiling, clutching mugs of beer instead of candy.

The sound of Fonda 500 is like all the best bands from the last forty years queuing up to dive into a pool full of jelly puppies, yet they surprise with beautifully tender moments of melancholy and pathos.

Fonda 500 are a fashion and a philosophy all their own with no time for musical trends. No one with a heart and a mind can fail to enjoy these great artists.

www.myspace.com/thebandcalledfonda500

London-based Audioporn are mavericks. Their songs are fables for a generation lost in magazines and product placement solitaire. Like a messianic gatecrasher at a punk-poet summit, Audioporn raise their glass to the manic energy of the punk explosion while stealing sips from the Beat generation’s peyote cocktails. Imagine Chic jamming with The Eels with Lee Perry producing. Audioporn’s sensational live melodrama is earning rave reviews and rabid audience devotion. In addition to their own websites www.audioporn.co.uk and www.myspace.com/audiopornmusic, their fans have created their very own and very comprehensive site www.audioporned.co.uk – pretty good going for a band who shun commercialism.

Snidey take the traditional elements of rock, roll, funk, country and hip-hop by the scruff of the neck and suck out their eyeballs. All five band members at once. They're that hard, and that good. Quality control is paramount to these men. They're sitting on five albums worth of material, squashing it down with the weight of their talent into one shining, shit hot gig. Emmett Elvin the singer, songwriter and guitarist of Snidey also lends his considerable talent to Ed Harcourt and Chrome Hoof. Tom Giles, the Snidey member who rides 1210's like they were high velocity superbike bitches, is signed to Wall Of Sound with his band Vinyl Dialect. His fingers are so explosive he has to teach his turntable skills behind the walls of a maximum security prison. Only murderers, armed robbers and career gangsters are considered hard enough to handle the skills he imparts. Snidey have dug them-selves out of their nuclear bunker recording studio and are ready to give the kids a taste of their 2008 Snide show.

www.myspace.com/snideshow

The Neutrinos twist funky pop melodies until it bursts, spilling guts everywhere. Trashy aggressive guitars, and sexy dominatrix punky style vocals from lead singer and angry girl Karen, who grew up on a pig farm in Norwich.

‘Drawing on obscure strands from the late 70's (Babes In Toyland, The Slits) and with a solid angular and jarring rhythm section this is an album of depth, attitude and tongue in cheek humour (witness the Beach Boys homage 'Donkey Work') whilst still managing to sound as if it were recorded in one take using valve amps.’ Strummerlive.net

www.neutrinos.co.uk www.myspace.com/theneutrinosinspace

DJ Dirty Sue gets her knickers in a twist holding the night together spinning a mix of punky new wave.

Downstairs at The 333 Club
333 Old St, London EC1
tube: Old St

Doors 7pm
Tickets £7/£6