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NYC POPFEST

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The Orchids / Mahogany / My Teenage Stride / The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

Sat 6/14
Tickets

18+

Doors 7pm / Show 8pm

$16 advance / $18 day of show

NYC Popfest

  • http://www.myspace.com/nycpopfest
  • http://www.nycpopfest.org/
  • NYC has one of the most vibrant indiepop scenes in the world... but most New Yorkers never stop to notice.

    NYC Popfest brings together the very best local indiepop bands, to showcase alongside special guests who've been knocking our socks off from too far away.

    So come to the gathering! Stop for a weekend & soak in this wonderful oasis of lovely pop music that doesn't get the recognition it deserves.

The Orchids

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  • theorchids.net
  • A fair amount has been written about Sarah records in the past, most of it amounts to further mythologizing of a 'scene' that has really been counter-productive. I mean, myths and legends are central to the joys of Pop, but they do tend to cloud issues and often obscure great music. So it has been with Sarah, with a predilection amongst media and fans alike for painting the whole label as a home for quintessentially sad and sensitive indiekids in anoraks, crying at sunsets and cringing behind their fringes. Such a reading has certainly been detrimental to many of the bands who actually recorded records for the label, not least of whom would be The Orchids.


    The Orchids came into existence in 1985, the worst year for so many things, but particularly Pop, ever. After flirting as a six piece with keyboards and sax, they quickly became a quintet named Gentle Tuesday after the great Primal Scream song (remember this was pre-Creation Scream). The band decided to change their name, however, after Alan McGee looked at the demo tape handed to him one night at a Go-Betweens show at Rooftops and told them that 'Gentle Tuesday' was going to be the Scream's next Creation single. Of course it wasn't, and in fact the song didn't appear until after Bobby and his troupe had gone to the Warners-sponsored disaster that was Elevation, but nevertheless, not wanting to look like Scream hangers-on, the band became The Bridge. The Bridge played one show under that name as support to the Godlike McCarthy, again at Rooftops, before changing once more to become The Orchids.

My Teenage Stride

The Paints of Being Pure at Heart

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  • http://thepainsofbeingpureatheart.com
  • Despite only having been together for the best part of a year, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart are fast becoming the most name-dropped band in underground circles on both sides of the Atlantic, and only seconds into jaunty opener 'Hey Paul' (think The Pastels, The Razorcuts or indeed any pre-Madchester bands before indie became part of the mainstream first time around) it's blatantly obvious to see why. While they make no bones about where their hearts and inspirations lie, it would be churlish to call them mere revivalists, particularly with the way singing/guitarist and humble storyteller Kip engages in almost constant interplay throughout their 25-minute set with perma-smiling keyboard player and co-vocalist Peggy. Hell, their new single is even called 'Kurt Cobain's Cardigan' yet it sounds like Lazy-era My Bloody Valentine exchanging sweat glands with a pre-major label Soup Dragons in a sixth form common room. What's more, it's utterly ace like the rest of their set and turns the whole of the Red Room into spring-loaded coils of unbridled excitement.

Mahogany

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