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Happy New Year!

January is officially the most depressing month of the year. Don't worry though, your trusty Cabaret Voltaire has some stellar gigs and clubs over the coming cold dark nights to keep you entertained. For full listings visit www.thecabaretvoltaire.com.

Jyrojets, Stereoglo
12 January, £5
"a spiralling guitar riff The Edge or Johnny Marr would kill for, a sublime anthem" ....... The Guardian

"WHOAH, boy did I get a kicking when I listened..these songs are fantastic! Noel Gallagher would love to be writing tunes like this. The music is unashamedly Britpop, but it's the swagger that make Jyrojets so exciting. This band have the fun and the attitude to go all the way." Daily Record

"popfuckingtastic Jyrojets. If ever a band were ready to be signed, it's the Jyrojets. They had the lot - the looks, the melodies, the charm and the energy and a fanbase .....grab them while they're hot." Music Week
www.myspace.com/jyrojets
www.myspace.com/stereoglo

Slaves to Gravity, Degrassi, Vitamin Flintheart
14 January, £5.50
Hailing from London, Slaves to Gravity have arrived to send a wave of angry, dirty, passionate rock music across the world. Armed with monstrous riffs, huge grooving rhythms and battle-cry melodies, they cut through today’s tired rock scene like razor-wire through an artery.

Sick of the watery-eyed nostalgia of the classic rock revival and the macho-misogyny of so much modern metal, Tommy, J and Toshi - formerly of The Ga Ga's - joined forces with Mark V, former guitar supremo with Ariel-X, to drag real rock music kicking and screaming into the 21st Century. Drawing from a huge range of influences they combine melody and muscle to devastating effect, creating music that demands to be heard.

"After years of getting ripped-off, fucked over and burnt, we're painfully aware of how naïve a band can sound when they talk about conquering the world..." Says Tommy "... but instead of all this negativity killing us off, it's become our cause. We realize that we're all at the mercy of the forces around us. We're all Slaves To Gravity. It's the admission of our own mortality, if you will, that gives us a unique strength. A realism and honesty you don't often see in bands. It's the ultimate weapon."

A band from the below screaming at the world above, giving voice to the millions who feel cheated by the system they were suckled on. The soundtrack to your revolution.
www.slavestogravity.com

Duty Free: The Acute, The Vivians, Royal Treatment Plant
19 February, Free Entry show
Free entry gig with Edinburgh’s most glam new wave punksters.

The Acute are “highly individual blend of heavy, pounding, yet atmospheric rock that lands somewhere in between the metallic leanings of Muse and the glam/goth side of Placebo” according to Skinny Mag.

The Vivians: “Spurred on by Damon DeVille's flamboyant showmanship, the group surge through vitriolic stomps as if possessed by the spirit of 1977. And with the crowd hurling itself wholeheartedly into the night's boisterous atmospherics this really could be that bygone era of safety pins and social disobedience” Is This Music

Also on the bill are London based The Royal Treatment Plant who recently recorded with Edinburgh’s Human Condition Records.

You’d be a complete loser if you weren’t at this free entry show. Fact.

www.myspace.com/acute
www.myspace.com/theviviansdivided
www.myspace.com/royaltreatmentplant

One self, Underling
21 January, £10
One Self is a collaboration of like minds. Born within the culturally rich and ethnically diverse music scene of London and now living in Brooklyn NYC, One Self is the collaboration of DJ Vadim, Yarah Bravo and Blu Rum 13, engaging each other to create a world of possibilities and mixing together a global melting pot of musical ideas.
Vadim's prominent releases on Ninja Tune gave him a platform to develop a touring unit of scratch DJ's, rappers, musicians and beat boxers. This fluid group was known as the Russian Percussion and over a three-year period, a total of more than 600 shows were rocked worldwide. For Vadim, One Self was a natural progression as the 'Children of Possibility' Album took shape and the unit formed.

The One Self band was premiered at London's famous Jazz Cafe to sell-out crowds, and has gone on to sell out venues including Cargo (London), The Red Club (St Petersburg) and have played at festivals to crowds of up to 14,000, most notably at Hip Hop Kemp (Czech Republic), The Big Chill (UK) and Sonar Festival (Spain).

Vadim's progressive production and adept song crafting is complimented by the vocal gymnastics of your friendly neighbourhood MC, Blurum13, and the sultry spoken word of the Mistress of Poetic Invention, Miss Yarah Bravo. The debut album, 'Children of Possibility' has received worldwide acclaim and is still just a glimpse of what is to come from this group. Sharing their passion for life, music and performance with their audience, One Self aim to leave you with a newly discovered skip in your step, a smile on your face, and an elevation of soul.
"Based on the rabid response at Emo’s, where the crowd refused to let the group leave, there’s a segment of America, burned out on recycled radio jams, that’s hungry for both this energy and the sound. One Self is one of the more distinct voices out there, steadily building underground buzz." - Austin360.com
www.myspace.com/0neself

The Enemy, Figure 5, Beaker
26 January, £7
If you happen to be young, intelligent and restless, Coventry is a surprisingly inspiring place to be today- if only for all the wrong reasons. What was a once proud, vibrant town that was known around the world for its motoring exports has succumbed to economic progress and is fast becoming an identikit British city of chain stores, franchised nightlife and abundant apathy. After spending the first 18 years of life watching the soul get ripped out of their hometown, the three members of The Enemy are determined to connect their own frustrations up with that of an entire country.

What started out as an exercise in keeping themselves occupied soon developed into something more serious as the band realized that a) what they were doing was really, really good and b) they preferred it more to their day jobs by a distance of several light years. Just eight months (eight months!) later, The Enemy are releasing their sinister yet pulverizing first single ‘40 Days, 40 Nights’ on the newly rejuvenated punk label Stiff records that once brought the world of the seminal early work of The Damned and Elvis Costello. Proof that they are already making a racket loud enough and impressive enough to awaken a sleeping giant.
www.theenemyband.com

Sugarbeat Club with D Ramirez
26 January from 10.30pm
This month, SUGARBEAT welcomes special guest D RAMIREZ. He’ll be playing alongside the usual suspects, namely TIM & JEZ (Utah Saints), SMOKEY & THE BANDIT and THE BOY B.

Despite chart success with a number 5, two top twenty singles and a Top Of The Pops appearance Dean went on to become the UK's most bankable remixer in the 90s and then currently one of the most credible producers around. In fact its fair to say that if you haven’t heard of at least one of Dean's production aliases, then you haven’t really been listening to house music. Here’s a small list - Finger Fest Inc, Dean Marriott, Dino 'Fingers' Ramirez, Freeze Frame.

The biggest development in Deans career came when he felt he had done all he could with the funky house sound he’d been tagged with and became enthused with the New York tribal sound that was re-emerging in the late nineties. The D.Ramirez moniker was born, and his early releases have led to frenzy of signings and he is about to appear or has just been seen on labels such as Yoshitoshi, Junior, Underwater, Choo Choo, Phonetic, Thrust, Whoop!, Lot 49, Four:Twenty and Toolroom.

Aside to this Dean runs his own label Slave Recordings. Now up to the tenth release and with countless radio plays and DJ support, Slave has established itself as one of the most respected underground labels, and Dean also finds time to DJ all over the world in the finest clubs the clubbing world has to offer.

2006 was a massive year for D.Ramirez, with underground and chart success with his remix of Bodyrox 'Yeah Yeah', quality remixes for Roger Sanchez, Ferry Corsten & The Plump DJs and his own release 'La Discotek'. It all helped to make him the producer everybody is talking about with IDJ magazine recently naming him the number 4 most influential figure in dance music.

10.30pm – 3am
Admission £7

The Bluetones plus guests
30 January, £12.50
The Bluetones filled the gap that the Stone Roses left behind, providing graceful but muscular guitar pop with slightly psychedelic overtones. The band appeared during the waning days of Brit-pop, which guaranteed them a considerable amount of press coverage that helped their debut album rocket to the top of the charts upon its release in early 1996.

Originally called the Bottlegarden, the Bluetones formed in Hounslow, England in 1994. The group consisted of guitarist Adam Devlin, drummer Ed Chester, vocalist Mark Morris, and his brother Scott, who played bass. All of the members had previously played in local bands before forming the Bluetones. During 1995, the group released two singles, "Are You Blue or Are You Blind?" and "Bluetonic," on their Superior Quality Recordings label, which received positive reviews in the British music weeklies. By the fall of 1995, they were being touted as the next big thing in Brit-pop, since their sound fell halfway between the Stone Roses and Oasis. Early in 1996, the group released "Slight Return" which shot to number two a month before their debut album, Expecting to Fly, was released. Expecting to Fly was greeted with mixed reviews, but it debuted at number one on the British charts and became a sizable hit. Despite their British success, the group had trouble breaking America. Furthermore, they were the subject of a quick backlash, as many critics believed the group embodied the conservatism of Brit-pop -- the non-LP single "Marblehead Johnson" was welcomed cooly upon its fall release, and it only dented the charts. However, unphased by the post brit pop media fallout, the band continued to write record and tour with new single Head on a Spike to be released on 4th December.
www.theblutones.info

On sale now:
Duke Special, Stephanie Dosen, Jay Brown - 8 February
Grace, Clocks - 12 February
Shiny Toy Guns, The Aphrodisiacs - 16 February
Brakes, Le Reno Amps, The KBC - 16 February
Howling Bells + guests - 15 March
I Was a Cub Scout, Damn Shames - 18 March

Doors open at 7pm (unless otherwise stated above).
Tickets for all the above shows (unless otherwise stated) are available from: www.thecabaretvoltaire.com, www.ticketweb.co.uk, Ripping Records (South Bridge) and Tickets Scotland (Rose Street)

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