Essential Gigs

By Patric Baird

Fusing a new wave/punk sensibility with blistering guitar and bass, the band’s lsat single Tupenny Nudger was picked up by local radio and given considerable airplay on Radio Ulster’s Accross The Line. Joining them on the hallowed Limers stage will be Dublin’s Fight Like Apes, a perfectly formed indie band featuring the sometimes sublime/sometimes shouty vocals of frontwoman May Kay. Their debut single How Am I Supposed To Kill You If You Have All The Guns?, is filled with tales of love, loss greed and goblins and came out last month on FIFA Records to rave reviews across the country. The band’s roots lie in the quirky world of alternative music and the underground rock scene, influenced, as they are, by the likes of Yo La Tengo, My Bloody Valentine and Pavement. On their recent tour, which took in London, Dublin, Cork and Galway and which ends with next Thursday’s Limelight gig, they picked up fans by the score – catch them live and you’ll see why. Completing the bill are Belfast’s Hellfire Club, who fuse gothic punk with a touch of the Southern Delta blues to serve up the sound of Sixties rock/blues in a thoroughly modern package.There’ll be a bit of diary juggling on Thursday as there’s also a live-music showcase taking place in the middle bar of the Pavilion, Belfast, featuring This Year’s Black, A Day Called Desire, Escape Fails and 70percentvolume.Blistering guitar licks, urgent, attention-grabbing vocals and strong melodies have earned Belfast’s Coda flattering comparisons with the likes of Pretty Girls Make Graves and At The Drive In. You can judge for yourself by getting hold of a copy of the female-fronted foursome’s new three-track EP, Burn The Wire, which they launched with a gig in Auntie Annie’s last Tuesday – the EP is available through the Paypal link on their MySpace site www.myspace.com/codaonline.Belfast-based rockers Redeye recently recorded their latest EP, the appropriately- titled Bloodshot, and are set to unleash it on an unsuspecting public, via a digital release, on June 25. You can hear their new single, Bloodshot 2am, on the band’s MySpace site or check them out live when they play Lavery’s this Sunday.

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