Anyone lucky enough to live in Leeds is up for a treat, Restart style. We have booked the excellent Faversham Venue and have some great bands lined up to rock socks! As ever, we are raising funds for the Stopped Clocks charity (yes, we’re a bona fide charity now) to help restore stopped public clocks in Leeds.

Leeds has some amazing Stopped Clocks, The Dyson Clocks at the Georgetown restaurant, the historic Griffin Hotel clock above the Comfort Inn for example. In a lot of cases those people responsible for keeping these clocks in working order simply don’t care enough to get the work done, and raising awareness of this is part of what we do too.

However! I’m here to tell you about the awesome night we have planned at the Faversham. The excellent independent ticket operator We Got Tickets is supporting our efforts, donating £0.50 of all ticket sales to the Stopped Clocks Charity.
Standard tickets are available here and concessions tickets available here Keep track of the event at our Upcoming.org page, and if you use Last.fm you can track the event there too. Please do invite friends and pass the knowledge far and wide!

Bands:

Dinosaur Pile Up

Matt writes songs all day and records them on his 8-track recorder. He drinks coffee, loves Star Wars type stuff and is late for everything. Tommy DM helps Matt out by playing bass guitar live, he’s a super nice guy, and he looks great in a head band. Ben ‘Shakey’ Waddleton is helping Matt out on the skins, kickin’ beats like it’s 1980.

DROWNED IN SOUND:

“An ex-Mother Vulpine by the name of Matt teams up with two mates, forming Dinosaur Pile-Up, to play indie-pop that bridges the gulf between The Cribs’ chirpy-chappie sing-alongs and the skewed intellectualism of Let’s Wrestle”

ARTROCKER:

“I like Dinosaur Pile Up. They have a poppy Husker-Di kind of atmosphere, with nice vocal harmonies. It was stripped back and it sounds quite exciting, and easy to listen to.”

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Kavsonic

“WE MARCH AS WARRIOR SAINTS!!”

CLASH MAGAZINE:

“Blaggers ‘N’ Liars” is a swaggering, bluesy beast.. Kav looks set to well and truly get the party started!”

THE GUARDIAN:

“…. On his forthcoming Blaggers & Liars EP….. Lizard King starts off slow and swaggering and features bluesy slide guitar before transforming into a Led Zep-ish riff monster, like The Stone Roses circa Second Coming. Easy is a blues-soaked missive about life’s
“chancers” And Satanic Circus Mask makes you think of The Stones’ Sympathy For The Devil hauled into the digital age by Death In Vegas”.

Check out the BLAGGERS & LIARS Video

DJ: Bad Sneakers‘ Joss Bibby

Slippy Sexy indie and electro

+ a special guest DJ to be announced.

Thank’s everyone who was able to make it down to the first Restart : The Night party at Old Street This Friday. Over 300 people came down to see some amazing bands (big thanks to all our bands, you rocked so hard!), and help raise money to repair St Leonards clocks on Shoreditch High Street.

 There are some pics from the night up in our photo gallery, and if you have any you’ve taken remember you can add them to the facebook group for all to see.

We will soon be planning the next party, so if you have a clock local to you deserving of Restarting, drop us a line and let us know, perhaps we will be partying in your borough next!

 *UPDATE*

The club management at 333 have just informed us, literally now, that the door at 333 is *always* £10. We have of course set the door at £7 so that more people can make it, and basically to keep entry at an affordable level. There’s nothing we can do about this unfortunately, however if you just contact us and let us know you’d like to be on a £7 concessions list that will be fine. Really sorry about this folks, but if it’s any consolation at all, it’s for Charidee!

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Restart : The Night is the party night we have created to raise funds to repair stopped clocks in the UK.

All over the country there are *thousands* of stopped clocks, it boggles the mind. They range from those cute little ones outside shops used as advertising hoardings, through to enormous and antique clocks at the top of Church turrets and Town Halls.

Restart : The Night is a child of http://www.stoppedclocks.com where we are documenting all the stopped clocks in the UK, and then raising funds to repair those most in need. The first Restart party is coming up on the 16th of November, and we’re hosting a night of Rock and Roll AND DJ’s at Club 333 in Old Street. It’s only £7 (£5 concessions) to get in, and there are some seriously ace bands in the line-up:

Blah Blah Blah

“strong stuff in the tradition of Dury, Skinner, Ray Davies”

Mama Shamone

“unadulterated filth” “fucking awesome” “sex on legs” “be-hooded axe demon” “destined for greatness”

The Far Cries

“The Kind of spiky pop song that dreams are made of. So wake up and
head down to your local indie store and buy, buy, buy.” - DROWNED IN
SOUND

Public Service Announcers

Pop, 80’s disco, punk - gearing up for their debut album

Bearknuckles

“Having recently provided big support for The Draytones, Foals and New Young
Pony Club and more, Bearknuckles are going to rock 333″

DJs:

Paloma Faith

“whatever “IT” is, she most certainly possesses it.” - vonpipmusicalexpres

Dirty Omar

Anton Allen

Bud Ramone

Join us for an awesome night, and help repair a beautiful local clock at the same time.