29th March

We Like To Party Presents....

Main Room

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Ugly Duckling - Live

Sip the Juice

John Stapleton

Ill Behaviour DJs

WLTP residents

Room 2

Cat Face Presents......

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The Correspondents Live

Asbo Disco

Catface DJs

Old Crown Courts // Silver Street, next to the Island.

Limited Tickets : £10 + Booking Fee

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UGLY DUCKLING

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Ugly Duckling (Young Einstein, Dizzy Dustin and Andy Cooper) began in Long Beach, California in 1993. After a few years of demos, small shows, and meetings with skeptical label representatives the band formed their own record company in 1997 and released a 12" record called Fresh Mode. The LP sold 3,000 copies around the world and put the boys on the map. In 1998 UD signed their first record deal with 1500 Records/Interscope. This partnership saw the release of the Fresh Mode EP in 1999 as well as the group's first full length album, Journey To Anywhere, which was released in 2001. In 1999, after the release of Fresh Mode, the boys started touring on the back of their modest success and have not stopped traveling or putting out albums since.

The band has released 6 albums, embarked on countless tours, and developed a worldwide fanbase. In 2003 they even squeaked into the UK and German charts with their song A Little Samba. Labels have come and gone but fan support has remained solid. Ugly Duckling's music has always been of the highest quality and their live show is a large part of their identity.

Ugly Duckling's musical sound is a combination of late 80's/early 90's hip hop, funk, soul, and jazz with plenty of humor and high-spirited skillfulness from both lyricists and DJ. Audiences and critics have agreed over the years that Ugly Duckling's brand of hip hop is unique and authentic while the stage show is always fun, exciting, and super tight. Comparable to groups like Jurassic 5, Pharcyde, and A Tribe Called Quest, the band knows how to make listeners feel good and has kept their musical authenticity throughout the years, avoiding the pitfalls and embarrassment of pop star ambition.

THE CORRESPONDENTS

The Correspondents consist of a singer by the name of Mr Bruce and a producer called Chucks. Both growing up in South London, they formed in 2007 and within two years had taken their hi-octane genre-blending dance music from house parties to festival main stages.

The show that quickly established the duo has one of the best live acts in the UK has Mr Bruce assuming the look of a monochrome matador, singing with force, scatting at speed and dancing like his life depends on it while Chucks takes the audience on a journey through a multitude of genres from jazz and blues to electro and drum'n'bass.

For the last six years they have toured relentlessly. They have travelled the world bringing their unique live show to crowds as large as 12,000 earning themselves Telegraph's'Top Ten Glastonbury Highlights' two years in a row. And yet, in this time they have only released one EP called'What's Happened to Soho? ', but an album is due in March 2014.

This lack of releasing is not for a lack of making music. Their live sets are constantly evolving with regular insertions of new tracks. However it was not until they took an unexpected break from touring (when Mr Bruce broke a bone in his foot) that they spent a considerable chunk of time in the studio making a body of work they were happy with. Self produced, recorded and released, their long-awaited album'Puppet Loosely Strung' features tracks that are synonymous with their trademark sound of unique, genre-mashing alternative pop proclaiming the highs and lows of love and lust. But this release will also reveal a more introspective side of the pair with delicately produced songs that investigate personal loss.

In the lead up to the album's release The Correspondents have become renowned for their music videos that are consistently unique in style and pioneering in technique. 'Well Measured Vice' was brought to life by Mr Bruce's own animation consisting of 2,304 individually hand-drawn frames. The video for'Fear and Delight' was made using a'composite camera' technique by visionary film-maker Naren Wilks, allowing numerous versions of Mr Bruce to dance kaleidoscopically in the same space. And the visuals for the heartwrenching ballad, 'Alarm Call', were produced once again by the frontman, using time lapse and stop motion techniques to chart the lives of two characters over a 21 year period through a series of layered oil portraits. The latter was made to raise awareness and funds for The Epilepsy Society.

The Correspondents are at an exciting point in their career where years worth of worldwide touring, musical experimentation and video production have come together with the release of their debut album

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