(If you wish to reply to this email or contact me about anything,
please use mrw44contact-members@... instead of hitting the
reply button).

Next mrw44 events are a Hawk and a Hacksaw gig next Thursday (30th)
and the Lost Film Fest + Infernal Noise Brigade on Monday 4th July, I
will send you more details about these in the next mail-out early
next week, usual discount applies, but they are also included in the
list of gigs we've booked at the Subway below (right at the bottom,
but I thought I'd put the whole list as there are a few Axis gigs for
which you can get a discount and other gigs you might also want to
check out).

And please remember to get in touch with me directly if you wish to
put a gig on at the Subway yourselves, all it costs is £50 for the
sound engineer, email mrw44contact-members@... or text / phone
me on 07901893052, I'll get back to you ASAP (usually within a few
hours) with more details and date availability - please do NOT
contact anyone else at the Subway for that unless you want me to stop
putting gigs on completely as the only way I'll be able to go on is
by referring other people.

Thanks,

Claire

All gigs are at the Subway, 69 the Cowgate, Edinburgh, EH1 1JW
All gigs start 7.30pm and finish around 10.30pm unless specified
otherwise.
Promoter's name (if any) is specified in-between brackets.
Discounts on Axis or mrw44 gigs apply to current mrw44 / Axis mailing-
list members.

* Thu 23rd June - HOOKERS GREEN NO.1 + FIVE DAY HEMINGWAY +
SWEETHEART + DANCING MICE (Axis, £4 / £3)
"Now this is just weird... Incorporating the standard guitar, bass
etc, we have organ, piano, glockenspiel, trombone, trumpet, cello,
flute and... oh I can't go on. The core of HG#1 is a 2-piece under
the monikers of J.Turgenev and N.H.G. If we're going to go for the
lazy comparisons again, then it's not a million miles from the
fragility of Mercury Rev, but if Mercury Rev recorded at home and had
just been listening to Miles Davis and the Warp Records back-
catalogue. And if they lived in Aberdeen. The amount of instruments
used makes it sound like it could be overly pretentious, but it's
anything but. It's got a lovely, warm, lo-fi sound, which doesn't
strangle the tunes. Bags of imagination here. "We sampled Frank
Sinatra, police cars, and a programme about mormons," just so you
know." Drowned in Sound
http://www.hookersgreen.com

* Sun 26th June - DIVE DIVE + SUCIOPERRO + CRY OVER BILLIONNAIRES
(Axis, £5 / £4, open to over 14's)
http://www.divedive.co.uk (fomerly Dustball)
Dive Dive come on like a twisted combination of The Undertones
(melody) and Fugazi (dynamics). They have already recorded three Peel
sessions and put out stuff on the Shifty Disco label.

* Tue 28th June - WEEK-END STATE + CARTER + DEAD SEA SOUL (£4)

* Wed 29th June - DAYS OF WORTH + TORO + one tbc (Axis, £5 / £4, open
to over 14's)
http://www.daysofworth.com
"What with the angst ridden lyrics, powerful guitar riffs, demon drum
beats, and immensely powerful vocals – this band will have you
hooked. From start to finish this album really is a masterpiece,
reminding me very much so of Hell Is For Heroes at their peak, with
the strong elements of bands such as Jane's Addiction and
Soundgarden." www.alt-uk.com
"Taking their cue from Angus and co along with influences ranging
from Tool to Cave-In, Days of Worth came up with their own sound and
penned their debut album, The Western Mechanism - a heavy mix of
punky aggression and driving guitars with enough nu-metal emotion to
make a grown man cry. Think the Lost Prophets in a particularly
melodic mood and you get the idea." BBC Hampshire events preview

* Thu 30th June - A HAWK AND A HACKSAW + WOUNDED KNEE + MY KAPPA
ROOTS + EAGLEOWL (mrw44 / Axis, £5 / £4)
From New Mexico, USA comes A HAWK AND A HACKSAW (on the LEAF label),
a hugely entertaining and bewitching act who manages to meld
traditional middle eastern with American folk and 21st Century
atmospherics. Non-traditional world music for the digital age.
See separate email for more information.

* Mon 4th July - THE LOST FILM FEST + THE INFERNAL NOISE BRIGADE + DJ
FILASTINE (£4 / £3, open to over 14's)
The INFERNAL NOISE BRIGADE is a 20-piece mutant marching band using
drums, horns, voice, flags, and loudspeakers for intervention across
the globe. The INB sound combines elements of drumline, taiko, Mughal
and North African rhythms, with elements of Balkan fanfares,
breakbeats, and just about anything else.
LOST FILM FEST is a laugh-a-riot event with equal emphasis on
both "laugh" and "r***." Focusing on pranks vs. corporations and
government institutions. Lost Film Fest from West Philadelphia is a
traveling multimedia spectacle incorporating live performance and
video. It's a truly independent, anti-authoritarian, anti-corporate
grassroots DIY media extravaganza.