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So it’s taken the most part of a year, and in the meantime the band has only gone and split up, but one of my favourite tracks of the year has finally been officially released! ‘Giriama Wedding’ by One More Grain is out on 7″ through Static Caravan records. It’s a double A side with their cover of ‘Scarborough Fair’ and is, by a country mile, the best cover version of a Kenyan Wedding song you will ever hear…..

Check out Fantastic post Grain projects Gyratory System (whose ‘Yowza Yowza Yowza’ will find it’s way into the world via Hansard Records in the new year) and Daniel Patrick Quinn (who is currently working on his new solo album ‘Acting The Rubber Pig’)…

Hello all,

This week at the club sees a performance from the inimitable Simon Bookish and a Dj set from Nadia Ksaiba. Bookish will be performing tracks from his excellent third album ‘Everything/Everything’, and showing why he’s won hearts the world over! To win free entry for yourself and a friend, simply answer the following question correctly:

What is the name of the theory that scientists have been chasing like a racetrack rabbit which hopes to unify the theories of General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics, thus integrating all explanations of natural phenomena and solving all problems for everyone, everywhere, forever (Hooray!) ?

a) The Theory Of Anything
b) The Theory Of Something
c) The Theory Of Everything
d) The Theory Of Nothing

Answers in an email to chandra@durrr.co.uk with ‘Life, The Universe and Everything’ in the subject line. The first five correct entries will win, good luck!

We’ve got Crystal Fighters playing live on the 15th and it just so happens that they were in session with Rob da Bank on Radio 1 last night! They play three live songs including an exclusive. Listen to it here!

There’s a new mixtape on their MySpace as well so check it out: www.myspace.com/crystalfighters

As FRANZ FERDINAND’S gig at DURRR this Monday December 1st has been announced we know the door is going to be pretty crazy so………If you wear your DURRR badge you can join a separate queue! We are also opening the doors half an hour early, at 10pm so you DURRR regulars have more chance of getting in. FAN DEATH are the support band and are really good so come early and see them too! XX

Hello!

This week at the club we’re very excited to bring you a show from a VERY special live guest band! Some of you will have heard who it is and are already chomping at the bit, if you haven’t heard then you’re in a for an excellent surprise….more news on who later in the week!

We’re also dead chuffed to be hosting a set from Fandeath, whose ‘Veronicas Veil’ single is one of the hottest around at the moment, so you won’t want to miss them, either….

To win free entry for yourself and a friend to the club just answer the following question correctly:

Wiggly mid-riffs, shaky rumps, bouncy boobs, navel jewels and a woman chucking sparkly hankies at you - five great reasons to go see a belly dancer! How many veils are used in the most famous westernised routine of this noble and enticing art - as made famous by biblical tease Salome?

a) one
b) three
c) seven
d) eleven
e) one hundred

Send your answers in an email to chandra@durrr.co.uk with ‘Wiggle it, Just a little bit’ in the subject line. The first five correct answers will win, good luck!

Oooh the competition is now closed, thanks for all your entries. See you Monday nice and early!

Hey Hey,

It’s that time of the week again where you get to win free entry to the club for yourself and a friend!
This week we welcome to the stage Video Nasties who will be launching their new EP, and Brooklyn’s These Are Powers. We also have Your Twenties launching their excellent new single ‘Caught Wheel’, with a DJ set in the lounge. To win a place on the guest list, just answer the following question correctly:

Which of the following powers does Superman not posses?

a) X-Ray Vision
b) Flight
c) Super Strength
d) Invisibility

Answers in an email to chandra@durrr.co.uk with ‘Is It A Bird? Is It A Plane? No! It’s A Band From New York!” in the subject line. The first five correct entries will win, good luck!

Thanks to all of you who entered, see you Monday! The competition is now closed. X

I have no idea why The Golden Filter make me think of “easy breezy cover girl” hahahahah the America’s next top model tag line… but anyway don’t let me put you off, these hot New Yorkers are doing some shows in London and are not to be missed! myspace I’m going to see them at the BUGGED OUT! @ HEAVEN on November 27th which has a great line up as always: LOTP, METRONOMY, THE GOLDEN FILTER and DISCO 300 (EROL ALKAN)! One of our favorite guest djs MATT WALSH is doing a remix for them too so keep your ears open for that.

I love this song and just hope they aren’t too massive to play for us at some point EMPIRE OF THE SUN- WALKING ON A DREAM

PNAU have done two of the best live shows at Durrr this year so I can only imagine how good this would be!

When we went to Paris in July it was hot and fun, I put my pictures up long ago but just came across METRONOMY’s blog about their day in Paris before they played at The Social Club with us, have a look here Oh how I wish I could be kitted out with free clothes by Karl Lagerfeld!

Good Morning / Evening / Night,

This week at the club we’ve got a live set from Heartbreak. If you’d like to win free entry for yourself and a pal (and I think you would) then just answer this loosely heatbreak themed doozie of a question correctly, and save yourself some money!

We all know and love classic rock group Queen. However, since the untimely death of Mr. Mercury, the bands legacy has been cruelly shafted by his former cohorts (and Thatcher loving ‘left wing funny man’ Ben Elton) via several cash-in spectaculars, palace top fret wankery, a collaboration with 5ive and a ‘musical’ in which some of the best music of the 20th century can be heard being pummeled into a bloody corporate mess that smells of poo and money. Plus they toured as Queen with a man who wasn’t Freddie Mercury, but was Paul Rogers from Free - a band whose main achievement was that they made that tune which makes people of a certain age think of Wrigleys Spearmint Gum.

HEART BREAKING!

Anyway I was going to ask which of the aforementioned travesties is the most heartbreaking, but then I realized that’s not a question and if it was the answer would be ‘Any / All Of Them’, so any answer would win and that isn’t a competition.

So instead - riddle me this:

Which classic rock act wrote the tune ‘Heartbreaker’?

a) Queen
b) The Rolling Stones
c) Led Zeppelin
d) Thin Lizzy

Answers in an email to chandra@durrr.co.uk with ‘Don’t break my heart, my achy, breaky heart’ in the subject line. The first five correct answers will win. Good Luck!