Clash Revue 08: One Night, Six Bands

On Wednesday December 3rd, Clash will host our end-of-year party at Proud Galleries, London.

The cost: a tenner on the door, or £8 with an NUS card, which breaks down to you paying about £1.60 per band. You can get your tickets HERE. You're getting Simian Mobile Disco for the price of a bloody baguette (Half a baguette in London – online Ed). The mini-fest-sized bill has healthy doses of established talent, breakthrough starlets and ones to watch. Here are six reasons why we WANT you there:

Simian Mobile Disco

Like a possessed phoenix of the turntables, SMD have burst from the ashes of their former band, Simian. When not producing (Klaxons, Mystery Jets, Arctic Monkeys) or participating (Last Shadow Puppets) in the cream of modern music, Ford and Shaw like to craft dirty electro floor-fillers that leave the decks squealing and crowd screaming. Expect disgusting, distorted, re-work brilliance.



Baddies

This uniformed four-piece are relatively new, and consequently saturated with the attitude, vigour and pure testosterone that only the feisty rock 'n' roll youth can provide. They leave a trail of superlatives in their path, with our online stream labelled “Serious contender... for best 'Track of The Day' since conception” and our live reviewer left gasping, “Take note. Baddies RULED!”.



Beardyman

Beardyman beat-boxes like nobody’s business, and makes Rahzel look like Roy Walker. The quick-witted rhymer has stolen the UK Beat-boxing Championships twice, bettered only by on-stage collaborations with Fatboy Slim and David Guetta. An underestimated fan base and a penchant for small venues has made Beardyman a difficult act to catch live. Luckily for you we’ve put him in a gaffa-taped box until December 3. Scroobius Pip makes my belly tingle. Clash Revue will cause abdominal aching.



Buraka Som Sistema

If you haven't heard these guys yet, you don't read Clash enough – feel ashamed. Buraka produce kuduro sounds of Africa, in a hectic 'dance now, think later' manner. BSS will be performing a DJ/MC set at Clash Revue, the format in which they produced all of their material, “The Buraka Stuff... It comes more from DJing than any traditional sources”. We managed to interview the Portuguese trio. Oh, and we managed to stream the whole bloody album online. Sorry, but... There really are no excuses for this one.



XX Teens

Electro. Check. Upcoming indie outfit. Check. Beat-boxer. Check. Mental African dance music. Check. Over-eccentric, absurd political pop-rock five-piece... XX Teens! XX Teens are to add yet another dynamic to Clash Revue with their 'arty types with ADD' approach. Earlier in the year, their album 'Welcome To Goon Island' received critical acclaim, and their on-stage energy is a force to be reckoned with.



David Holmes

David Holmes is one of the most creative minds within the dance industry. Since DJing Belfast pubs at the tender age of 15, Holmes has mastered film scores, mix albums and most recently his fourth LP 'The Holy Pictures'. Even SMD will feel pressured when this mixing maestro lands his palms on the turntables.



Doors at 7.30pm. Tickets HERE. Nuff said.