Banquet Records

the all round good dude, friend of Banquet and DMC should be champion Jon 1st sent us the picture (the left one) from a flyer he was given for a club night in Leicester….  Look how similar it looks to our NYE flyer from a few years back (thats the one on the right)…. 

As a promoter etc, not really bothered.  But then i didnt design the flyer.  It was some mix of Sean and Dave.  not really sure who…

I like that the zebra is replaced by a hippo.  The irony being that The Works is now called The Hippodrome, affectionately known at The Hippo.

But yeah,  no-one has any claim to any of this stuff.  its just mildly amusing. 

another thing about Frank I love, which i forgot to say last time, is this…

remember when there was all that Proper Slang shit at the end of 2009.  Well Frank was the one artist who was like “thats wrong” and agreed to play a show at New Slang to give us a big gig to welcome us back to The Works / The Hippodrome.

Turns out Vampire Weekend was in the end a bigger deal, but the love we have for Frank is not only due to some incredible albums, but also from his punk ethic which runs throughout his music and his shows and his, i guess, business.

tickets for both shows on sale now via http://www.banquetrecords.com/showsclubs

Its been a mental week.  Even tho there’s been not too many shows on we’ve still been swamped here.  I dont really know what the next step is.  It feels like we’re operating at capacity a lot of the time, but then we just get busier.  Record Store Day, some mental big shows, plenty of ‘normal’ sized shows, and also the day to day of being a busy record shop is taking its toll.  We’re having “management” chats about what to do next.  It will probably involve more staff

Frankie And The Heartstrings was really good.  In truth they’re the first new headliner at New Slang this year really.  We’ve wanted them here for a while so im glad they could finally do it, and in what better week than the week of their albums release!?  stoked on that.  The lad who did the recent Tokyo Police Club video shot a lot of footage of the day.   Hope that comes out as well as i think it will.

We announced David Rodigan WITH King Blues (an album release show) on my birthday April 14th today.  stoked on that.  David Rodigans a super eccentric fella, but i reckon that part of the gig will be beyond rad!

late nate web updates is not what i wanted to be doing on a Friday night, but Gaslight fans just wouldnt wait till Monday morning.  Happy to get on it now.  Cos in truth, im excited about it too!

But right now, Im wasting a bit of time away waiting to RT a Frank Turner tweet about the Kingston shows (thats right, plural), but while i was searching for a picture of Fake Problems at New Slang i came across this picture.

This was the gig which spawned New Slang.  And its so great that 4 and a half years on he is still coming back to us, still playing for us, still being a good dude and still growing.  Im so excited for this Kingston gig.  Tickets go on sale at 9AM on Monday.  Our computer guy will be jetlagged / asleep so i hope it works without emergency phone calls.  The flyer’s below. Stoked on it. 

Frank’s really important to us.  I like how both Banquet and Frank (Franquet) have grown together in recent years.  Both being formed from the ashes of something else..  And both, whilst not belittling the past, have grown into something way bigger than we ever thought we’d be.

Long live the king.  King Frank.