ILL FIT 16.3

Thursday 4 Mar 2010 by ILL FIT
Filed under: CLUB NIGHT

The Line Of Best Fit and London label Something In Construction are back for yet another (by now, legendary) ILL FIT. Oh yes.

A BRAND NEW 4-piece band, hailing from Bristol boasting a Canadian singer; FITNESS CLUB FIASCO are the newest signing to Something In Construction. Every one of their songs betrays a ferocious love of pop music and its twin sister, dancing.

Allow your mind to imagine the song you’d hear pounding out at midnight from a joint LCD Soundsystem / Pet Shop Boys New Years Eve party as you stand in the queue outside; their debut single ‘Forest City’ is that tune.

A glistening and energetic debut single, with classic pop songwriting and just a touch of insane Xenomania-eque production. It’s already gaining fantastic support from the likes of Rob DaBank, Huw Stephens and is all over XFM and 6 Music.

Recent club dates with Memory Tapes have got feet moving and their mailing list swelling. Currently in great demand for remixes expect to hear their takes on Phoenix, The Silent League and Delorean in the not too distant future.

Support comes from delicate electronic musings of SEAMS aka bedroom musician James Welch. Already causing quite a stir on the internets, his brand new 12″ “Nightcycles” will be released on 26th April via Tough Love Records. One to watch.

The bickering ILL FIT DJs will be supplying the tunes between acts plus free swag, free entry and good old fashioned good times.

Facebook Event Page | Songkick

Tuesday 16th March // 7pm – 12am // Free Entry
THE SOCIAL
5 Little Portland Street
London, W1W 7JD
020 7354 5809

This is ILL FIT XIII
Previous guests include White Denim, Leisure Society, Air France, Gay Blades, Loney Dear, Martin Carr, Memory Tapes, Forest & The Trees, Rayographs, Lisa Milberg…

PHOTOS // ILL FIT 16.2 // FITNESS CLUB FIASCO + ACRYLICS

Wednesday 17 Feb 2010 by ILL FIT
Filed under: CLUB NIGHT

The Social, W1. 16th February 2010
Photos by Paul Bridgewater.

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TLOBF / ILL FIT CURATE ROUGH TRADE SHOPS ROTA AFTERNOON

Tuesday 9 Feb 2010 by ILL FIT
Filed under: EVENTS

FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE | LAST.FM | SONGKICK

A dependable friend in these troubled and faddy times, Rough Trade Shops’ RoTa afternoons have been running like clockwork for 10 years now, every Saturday 4pm – 8pm and ALWAYS FREE ENTRY. The first TLOBF curated RoTa event of 2010 will take place on March 13th as an “unofficial warm-up” to the Grizzly Bear and Memory Tapes shows happening either side of town later in the evening. Tempted?

BLOODY NOSE
In the words of omnipotent Star Trek space douche Q, “If you can’t take a little Bloody Nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It’s not safe out here. It’s wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it’s not for the timid.” So gird your loins, and don’t forget your cameras. You won’t want to miss this.

THE LAST DINOSAUR
The Last Dinosaur release their epic debut album “Hooray! For Happiness” on April 19th. Featuring a breathtaking collection of songs that flawlessly tie together lo-fi late night bedroom recordings with flourishes of sweeping post-rock and gorgeous strings. Think of it as a soundtrack to the film playing in your head; the greatest film never made.
www.myspace.com/thelastdinosauruk

YUCK
Barely a few months old and Yuck have already been picked up by Pitchfork and The Guardian. Formed from the ruins of Cajun Dance Party and signed to Transparent, the band met in the desert; Danny was wearing a Daniel Johnston T-shirt; Jonny was wearing an Animal Collective one. They bonded over iced-tea and a mutual love of J Mascis and decided to create their own freak scene. Yuck was born.
www.myspace.com/yuckband

STAIRS TO KOREA
Stairs To Korea is Will Vaughan, a frighteningly talented half-Icelandic multi-instrumentalist who crafts skewed pop music using an array of effects, synthesisers and a dinky white guitar. Sugar-coated harmonies meet bended brass lines and intricate guitar motifs in his unique paens to growing up, going out and getting lost in the 21st century. “Your New Favourite Band Is Here” – Huw Stephens, BBC Introducing
www.myspace.com/stairstokorea

+ DJ SETS FROM TRANSPARENT & TLOBF
www.transparentblog.com / www.thelineofbestfit.com


ILL FIT 16.2

Thursday 4 Feb 2010 by ILL FIT
Filed under: CLUB NIGHT

ILL FIT February will feature MAPLE BEE aka Mel Garside (Tabitha Zu/Huski) doing her lush and pastoral big big songs. SiC signings FITNESS CLUB FIASCO who are getting lots of radio play from Huw Stephens, Steve Lamacq, RobDabank and John Kennedy in support of their debut single “Forest City”. ACRYLICS are from NYC and are about to release their debut single via SiC. Chris “Grizzly Bear” Taylor produced their EP and Pitchfork and Stereogum love ‘em. So will you.

Plus the bickering ILL FIT DJs, free swag, free entry and good old fashioned good times.

Facebook Event Page

This is ILL FIT XII
Previous guests include White Denim, Leisure Society, Air France, Gay Blades, Loney Dear, Martin Carr, Memory Tapes, Forest & The Trees, Rayographs, LIsa Milberg…

THE SOCIAL
5 Little Portland Street
London, W1W 7JD
020 7354 5809

ACRYLICS // “MOLLY’S VERTIGO”

Wednesday 3 Feb 2010 by ILL FIT
Filed under: PR

Something In Construction present..
ACRYLICS “Molly’s Vertigo”
Debut single, out 22 February 2010.

“this song lies in its bedroom looking up at posters of The Bangles, Stevie Nicks and Cyndi Lauper… it’s teen heartache given pop form” NME

www.myspace.com/acrylicsnyc

Something In Construction has formed a little alliance with Chris Taylor from Grizzly Bear’s label, Terrible Records. Chris has produced amazing recent records for Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, Dirty Projectors and Grizzly Bear themselves and has done the same now for forthcoming SiC releases from ACRYLICS and CLASS ACTRESS.

ACRYLICS are a full band, centred around core duo Molly Shea and Jason Klauber. “Molly’s Vertigo” is a lush, spacey Balearic pop tune, but definitely way more Fleetwood Mac (circa “Everywhere”) than Frankie Knuckles. It’s “10cc meets Mazzy Star”, according to Pitchfork. Good old fashioned brilliant songwriting but slinky as hell, which is bringing lots of love from the US blogs (Stereogum having premiered the video this week) and solid early support from UK tastemaker Radio DJs like Rob Dabank and John Kennedy.

“classic pop songwriting” Brooklyn Vegan
“crystallized pop from the seventies” Gorilla vs. Bear

ACRYLICS will be in the UK for a small run of shows. For guest list, interview requests or any other enquiry please get in touch // rich@ill-fit.com

Mon Feb 15 // London – Borderline w/Freelance Whales
Tue Feb 16 // London – ILL FIT @ The Social w/Maple Bee
Thu Feb 18 // London – Old Blue Last w/ Erland & The Carnival ***SOLD OUT***

Copies of Acrylics debut EP “All Of The Fire” will be available exclusively from Rough Trade from the 8th February. The 10” vinyl is in extremely limited numbers, so act quick and order here.

Radio / Label Enquiries: David Laurie // misterlaurie@gmail.com
Press Enquiries: Rich Thane // rich@ill-fit.com

ILL FIT 19.1 // REVIEW IN THE NME

Wednesday 27 Jan 2010 by ILL FIT
Filed under: CLUB NIGHT

Click to enlarge and read the full article. Written by Tim Chester.

PHOTOS // ILL FIT 19.1 // MAT RIVIERE + MEMORY TAPES + LISA MILBERG

Wednesday 20 Jan 2010 by ILL FIT
Filed under: CLUB NIGHT

The Social, W1. 19th January 2010
Photos by Paul Bridgewater.

Thanks to all who came along, and of course to Mat, Memory Tapes and Lisa Milberg for making it such a special night.

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ILLFIT0002 // PIN BADGE

Monday 18 Jan 2010 by ILL FIT
Filed under: RELEASES

Available soon in limited quantities.

ILLFIT0001 // MEMORY TAPES LAMINATE

Monday 18 Jan 2010 by ILL FIT
Filed under: RELEASES

ILLFIT0001 FRONT

ILLFIT0001 BACK

A highly collectable credit card sized laminate to commemorate Memory Tapes debut London show (and second live show to date) at The Social on 19 January 2010.

The laminate is lovingly hand-made and printed on high quality board before being sealed in clear plastic for eternity (and beyond). Using the original ILL FIT poster design by Mark Gamble, there are only 50 laminates in circulation and given to select people at the ILL FIT 19.1 Club Night which hosted Memory Tapes, Mat Riviere and Lisa Milberg from The Concretes.

WE ARE COMMUNISTS

Monday 11 Jan 2010 by ILL FIT
Filed under: LABEL NEWS

We were recently asked to do an interview with Bristol University’s student paper Epigram. It just so happens to be home to some of the finest young journalists around so we jumped at the chance, naturally.

We share the full page spread with our BFF’s at Brainlove Records. Click here to read the full interview.

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