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#4gigsin4days - url www.twitter.com/antipopuk - THE BIG 4 this week - Alternative music. Underground sounds from the city. Let it blow your mind!

As the big Summer for music approaches and festival like The Hub and Soundcity will be on the tip of every music lovers tongue, let's have a look at a normal week in Liverpool music as we decide that it doesn't take a whole lot of looking to find great music everywhere in Liverpool - at any time.

Wednesday 6th - #Day 1 - OCEANIS - SICK CIRCUS - ARKHAM KARVERS
Mish Mish @ Envi
The concert square nightspot hosts one of the loudest and heaviest bands in Liverpool OCEANIS. 80s thrash rock/metal Whitesnake, et al. SICK CIRCUS will blow you away! And ARKHAM KARVERS on tour from Sheffield open the night. FREE ENTRY and £2 a pint. The cheapest Wednesday night to get your fill of music. And the Envi soundsystem is awesome too!

Facebook event page for stage times: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=100755743343250



Thursday 7th - #Day 2 - SMILE AND BURN, THE WASTERS, CHIEF, THE LEES
YAM YAM Promotions presents @ Bumper. Regulars CHIEF, tourers SMILE AND BURN, the ever awesome THE LEES. A low cost gig in a vast venue with a good portable soundsystem. Awesome drinks and quality punk shizzle all night!

Facebook event for times: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=191928864161423

Friday 8th - Day 3 - THE VERMIN SUICIDES + BITEBACK
The most fun loving band of semi-hardened wannabe criminals in Liverpool. The Vermin Suicides host their range of dub to punk to classic rock to funk. With a sure to be buzzing performance in the newly reopened and lavish surroundings of Barcelona Bar, Renshaw Street. FREE ENTRY! Doors at 8pm Bands start around 9pm. Support = Biteback (feat: members of Instant Agony)

Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=207882279222986





Saturday 9th - Day 4 - ENTROPY, SCARE TACTICS, SPIRES, GODS OF WAR, SCLAVINIA
METAL ASSAULT @ ZANZIBAR Money left and still not a sore neck? Entropy hosts an awesome Saturday night Metal line up of the finest bands in the Liverpool sphere of underground metal music. Definitely worth visiting.

Facebook event for links: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=178738365503408

Liverpool in four days and we really missed out some quality gigs there too. So here's a mention for the Tsunami Relief gig on Friday at Leaf Tea, Bold Street. Hopefully close to all our hearts. We donated some prizes to the raffle/auction for the night. You can help by paying to get in and entering the raffle and catch post-rock sensationalists MinionTV on stage there too.

Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=203086319719063

And even if you don't see any of these shows you will surely see SOME good music because you are in Liverpool! And if you're not, you should be!

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Tommy Scott and The Red Scare

Never be surprised by what happens next! 

Hidden largely from the sights for the past two years, locked away in recording studios, swapping members and ditching new material before it became old material. This is a band many of the population probably haven't seen, heard or heard of. And now what have they done? They've only changed their name and announced one of the biggest gigs of their careers. Who said a little rebranding doesn't work? (Me!...every time a band changes it's name))

Since 2009, as The Drellas of Scott and co. sum total amounted to an eleven date UK tour on the back of a 7" double-A vinyl, an album that has been recorded and rerecorded endlessly and yet to see the light of day, and a handful of local cameo appearances, most recently supporting past-it punk rockers The Buzzcocks and Liverpool old-wave jewels Deaf School. The question on a lot of people's lips "is this band a stalling catalytic engine or a rumbling jet about to ignite?" The evidence and track record would suggest the former yet recent events suggest different. 

What is categorically undeniable from where I stand out front is there is no better band in Liverpool at present. A lack of  regular tours, new releases is tantamount to criminal behaviour and surely to be addressed beyond this relaunch. The fact still remains this band is locked up behind closed doors penning some of the most retrospective twisted modernistic songs of the current musical spectrum. Anyone who has been lucky enough to hear Boy in a Bodybag can bear witness.

Iggy Pop headlines Chester Rocks Day 2

So if you think £50 for a single day ticket at Chester Rocks to see a bunch of washed-up rockers (excluding Iggy Pop who couldn't be washed up if he went out like Robert Maxwell) is about as good value as a Liverpool Soundcity 2011 VIP wristband, you're not alone. Just don't be forgiven for slotting The Red Scare into the same category as Broudie, McCullough. These guy may be flogging dead horses but Scott is a devious little fucker with tricks up his sleeve so watch out Deva!

That said last month at Liverpool's largest gig-specific venue the psychobilly/jazz/punk/lounge quintet opened for Deaf School and stunned crowds with a rendition of Neighbourhood, the top ten hit for Scott in the 90's hayday of Space. It was a typically bopping version unique to The [then and final outing of] Drellas. It seems that although Tommy Scott and The Red Scare is likely to embrace its hit-pop roots wrangle them into a fusion of molten sax, psychobilly bass and rock drums this will drum up a fat PRS cheque for all concerned.

And then where it goes from there is anyone's guess!

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