PINS will be playing an intimate, stripped back set downstairs on our stage / Friska cafe area before their show at the Louisiana the same evening.

From The Guardian New Band of the Day Blog:

The lineup:Faith Holgate (vocals, guitar), Lois McDonald (guitar), Anna Donigan (bass), and Lara Williams (drums).

The background:There has been a lot of web blather about Pins already, and a lot of drama about which blog was going to be given the exclusive with regard to the Manchester band's debut MP3. Basically, where 20 years ago Melody Maker, Sounds and NME would have duked it out to get the first Swervedriver or Ride front cover, now it'sDiSvAbeanovThis Is Fake DIYor whoever. Plus a change, and all that. The battle might be being fought on different soil, but the war remains the same, as does the soundtrack: Pins are exactly the sort of group the music papers would have been fighting over more than 20 years ago.

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