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Wassat? You want to know what we've in store for you, oh non-paying customer? And there was us figuring you�d learned all there was to know about this particular drill. Well, okay�

DrownedinSound is setting up shop at the Notting Hill Arts Club�s RoTa afternoon with the sole intention of rocking the socks off the frocked and not-ed that show up between the hours of four in the afternoon and eight in the pm. We�ve done this before, and it was good. What you get in exchange for crossing our palms with precisely no silver is four bands, some DJs, drinks offers and maybe the odd bit of jovial banter. Plus, you get to come and hang out with us cooler-than-cool DiS bods for a bit. Something to tell the kids, that.

Details for the short of patience:

What? DiS @ RoTa... IT�S FREE.
Where? Notting Hill Arts Club, Notting Hill Gate, London
(Nearest Tube: Notting Hill Gate � Circle, District, Central lines)
When? 16.00-20.00, Saturday June 3, 2006.
Who? We�re glad you asked�

�Y�see, we could fill your eyes with some obvious spiel about how the bands we�ve selected for this particular extravaganza of free-rockin� goodness are rad and the like � don�t think for one second that our fingers aren�t adept at pulling the literary wool over stray readers� puzzled brows � but we figured balls to that approach. Why not ask the bands to talk about the bands? So, that�s what we did�

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The Boss (MySpace)
Time on: 17.00
�There are three of us � Paul who sings Ben, who drums, and I�m Alex who plays guitar and sings sometimes. We formed two years ago in Margate, where we�d been in previous bands such as The Babies Three and Slingshot Around The Moon.
�We wanted to do something simple and different to what we�d done before � we�ve been told we sound like The Fall and Q And Not U � and with fewer band members it�s easier to travel.
�Our album has just been released on Engineer Records � you can go to our MySpace page to hear a couple of tracks from it. (At the gig expect) walls of pain as Paul tries to pull off some dance moves � he�s just done his back in � and plenty of energy and us playing as loud as we can.�
And what should any attendees buy you at the bar?
�I�m quite partial to a White Russian, but failing that Jack Daniels and Coke always goes down nicely. Paul will drink any alco-pop as long as it�s a luminous colour. Ben will have water as he�s the designated driver.�
Ghostbusters II � bit shit, isn�t it?
�All I remember is the crazy guy from Ally McBeal and some painting so it probably isn�t great. The first was almost too good.�

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Meet Me In St Louis (MySpace)
Time on: 17.45
�There�s Paul (drums), Benny (guitar), Toby (vocals), Oli (guitar), and Lewis (bass). I guess we�re all from Surrey.
�Paul and Benny were in bands together � Schumacher Levy and Escanna � and Toby was in bands with Paul, too. After previous projects didn�t work out, MMISL began in January 2005. We wrote and recorded a three-track demo with Toby on bass, and played one show as an instrumental band. By June we had met Lewis � he learned the set REAL quick and we HIT THE ROAD! Haven�t stopped since.
�We�re a kinda frenetic, mathy, sing-along progressive noise band. Our MySpace page has two tracks to listen to, and we gave out about 5,000 copies of our three-track demo, so there�s got to be some of those around. Our new EP is available at shows, and was released in shops on May 29.
�(Attendees should expect) shimmies and sweat. Oh, and some funny as fuck dancing from Lewis.�
And your tipples of choice?
�I think absolutely anything will do for us, except Benny � he will have a Special Brew, please. You can�t beat the golden can.�
Ghostbusters II�?
�It�s not nearly as jank as Fear Dot Com.�

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Applicants (MySpace)
Time on: 18.30
Note: Applicants replied with the longest, most entertaining answers, like, ever. But we can�t run them all here, so this is The Edit�
�Applicants are Fidel Villeneuve, Jeffrey James and Porl Blades, who also gets called Saucy Thompson by Jeffrey. We came together by means of MySpace.
�Applicants formed �cause our former band, Formula Bone, fell apart a month before the Brainlove Tour last year, and there was no way I wanted to miss that tour. We sound like �a greasy rock and roll elephant climbing the greasy pole of pop�.
�A friend said last time we gave 100 per cent. You know we�re playing Frog this night, too? We�ll have to give 300 per cent. It�s all in the amount of alcohol consumption, and the movement of the crowd � sitting down ISN�T really an option.�
Drinks?
�Cantilevered chop juice, drizzled onto an iced seabird over pockets of cactus fat, with an olive. If someone else is buying a round, then perhaps a Bombay Sapphire, or a �pider� if anywhere will sell it. �Pider� is pear cider, by the way. Wetherspoons is the only place to get �pider�, and I wouldn�t recommend that DrownedinSound change the venue to the Coronet on Holloway Road�. Jesus! Could you imagine that?�
And the Ghostbusters II, shite or alright dilemma�?
�What were you thinking when you got it from the video shop? I think horoscopes should warn you off this kind of thing. After a bit of research I�ve found out that the Ghostbusters in this film use an NES Advantage Joystick to control the Statue of Liberty. I can relate to that, �cause I used to think I could control my mum and dad with my Commodore 64 joystick. NEVER CROSS THE STREAMS! Especially not in the gents toilet in the Coronet, I learned that the hard way��

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Collapse (MySpace)
Time on: 19.15
�Collapse is Brett (ex-Manowar), Steve (ex-Teemboosepinsteen, Gwar), and Matt (ex-Teemboosepinsteen, LA Guns). We play loads of stupid noise.
�We have two self-released CDR EPs and a split three-inch CD with The Phil Collins 3 and Men of Unitas. Get �em at shows. A ten-inch is coming soon on Fake Product Records. Hear stuff at our MySpace page.
�Expect shouting, rhythm, volume, energy, sweat.�
Bar? I�m buying�
�Gin and tonics all round.�
And Ghostbusters II�? I don�t dig it�
No! I really like Ghostbusters II. Good film.�

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