Virginia Wing

Tuesday, April 17th, 2012

Virginia Wing (It’s Grace Slick’s mom’s name), it is a psych rock ensemble featuring current members of Lets Wrestle and La La Vasquez.

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Minny Pops

Tuesday, April 17th, 2012

Dutch electro pioneers and Factory Records artists MINNY POPS took their name from the primitive Korg drum machine that propelled their stark post-punk rhythms. Led by conceptual artist and provocateur Wally van Middendorp, the band toured with Joy Division and New Order, worked with producer Martin Hannett, alarmed Amsterdam hippies with their menacing year-zero synths and suits, played New York with Suicide, and became the first Dutch group to record a Peel session, all in a touring lifespan of just three years.

Playing live for the first time in 30 years, for one year only, Minny Pops’ 2012 dance card features Manchester reunions and Lake District frolics; a critically acclaimed CD/DVD set Standstill to Motion: Live at the Melkweg, 19-03-1981; suite performances in Brussels and Amsterdam; mutating into an all-female band in Eindhoven; recording a 7” single for Tim Burgess’ label O-Genesis; supporting admirer/guitar god Slash in London; and at the end of it all, taking Shoreditch by surprise.

De reis naar het einde is begonnnen maar het einde is nog niet in zicht.

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