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Each week, the DiScover Diary will outline some choice gigs up and down the country, highlighting some excellent up-and-coming acts across the nation’s varied stages, and focus on one act in particular who are both on tour and on the DiS stereo rather a lot of late. Here we sneak a brief peek at five Sheffield kids who’ve been carving their names into the walls of venues throughout these lands all year, Rolo Tomassi. With management in place and a re-issue of their excellent self-titled EP forthcoming, catch the inventive screamo quintet before they go the way of venue upgrades across the board…
Rolo Tomassi From: Sheffield Line-up: Edward (drums), Joe (guitar), Eva (vocals), James (keys, vocals), Joe (bass)
Anyone who’s been reading DiS regularly this year should know a fair amount about Rolo Tomassi already – we picked up on their decidedly acquired-taste talents back in October 2006 when they released their self-titled (or untitled, as it’s also known) EP via the London-based Holy Roar label. Then, in February, they travelled down to the capital to play one of our best-ever DiScover Club gigs, alongside the jerk-core of Down I Go and mammoth noise of Manatees. To say we were impressed is a silly understatement: they left us salivating for more. And more is what we got: earlier this year they toured with fellow DiS favourites Meet Me In St Louis, and they’re set to play a series of shows throughout September, including a free-entry event at London’s Notting Hill Arts Club with Cutting Pink With Knives and more. Said show’s a Holy Roar versus DiS affair, so expect punches to be exchanged. Well, punch to be purchased from the bar, at least…
Available now: Untitled (the self-titled) is re-released in October via Holy Roar
MySpace here
Dates follow:
September
7 Luton George 2nd
8 London Notting Hill Arts Club (details)
9 Reading Face Bar
Full tour dates for September can be found at the band’s MySpace – follow the link above. Other choice gigs - where new DiScoveries are sure to be made - around the country over the next seven days…
Monday September 3
Russian Circles at Brighton Engine Room (MySpace)
Black Lips at York Fibbers (MySpace)
The Kissaway Trail at Newcastle upon Tyne The Cluny (MySpace)
Plastic Passion at Hertford Marquee (MySpace)
Tuesday September 4
Paul Hawkins & Thee Awkward Silences at London Kilburn The Good Ship (MySpace)
A Hawk And A Hacksaw at London Kilburn The Luminaire (MySpace)
St Vincent at London 229 MySpace
Peter And The Wolf at London Spitz (MySpace)
Malajube at London 100 Club (MySpace)
Wednesday September 5
This Town Needs Guns at Oxford Wheatsheaf (MySpace)
Fireworks Night at London Clerkenwell Slaughtered Lamb (MySpace)
Emmy the Great at London Borderline (MySpace)
Thursday September 6
The Victorian English Gentlemens Club at Cardiff Clwb Ifor Bach (MySpace)
John Wiese, Lamborghini Crystal at London Barden's Boudoir (MySpace)
Bearsuit at Brighton Audio (MySpace)
Elks at London The Pool Bar (MySpace)
Dead Dog In Black Bag at London The Macbeth (MySpace)
Friday September 7
Eugene McGuinness at London New Cross Montague Arms (MySpace)
Cats And Cats And Cats at Bristol The Junction (MySpace)
Oh No Ono at Paris La flèche d'or (MySpace)
Saturday September 8
Viking Moses! at London Buffalo Bar (MySpace)
Pete and the Pirates at Reading Rising Sun Arts Centre (MySpace)
Fuck Buttons at London Notting Hill Arts Club (MySpace)
Sunday September 9
Lite at Belfast The Limelight (MySpace)
Le Shark at London 93 Feet East (MySpace)
