What's On February 2012
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Wed 1st Feb ACOUSTIC ALCHEMY
9-12 £5
Once again Acoustic Alchemy returns. With a break in Jan, another fantastic evening of Acoustic music kicks off with some familiar faces. Line up David Hoare + Dannie Hunt + Minnie Birch + Joe Ferris
Thu 2nd Feb JUICEBOX
9-12 £5 Buy Tickets
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Fri 3rd Feb DAVE SHARP (THE ALARM)
9-12 £5
Dave Sharp, co-founder and guitarist of 80’s British Rock band The Alarm who had worldwide album sales of over five million and 16 UK Top 50 singles comes to The Horn tonight for a solo show.
The Alarm toured with Bob Dylan, sold out arenas and theatres-indoors and out-played the talk shows, rose through the ranks with MTV. They in fact achieved what most British bands only ever dream of-the much sought-after status of ''a British Rock Band that entered the American popular conciousness.''
With support from My Little Empire + The Mighty Waves
Links: DAVE SHARP
Sat 4th Feb HOUSEBOUND
9-2 £5
HouseBound is back for another stonking night of Quality Underground House Music featuring DJ's Rubec + Hansi + Fitter + Tokin' Tone
Links: HOUSEBOUND
Sun 5th Feb THE BLUE ANGEL ACOUSTIC CAFE
8-11.30 Free Entry
Now in its 14th year, the Blue Angel has been a highlight of Sunday nights, showcasing a wide range of acoustic styles including singer/songwriter, folk/roots, rock + pop in an intimate setting with tables and candles & a superbstage and pa.
Floor spots welcome for the semi-acoustic weekend wind down. A free drink for performers
Tue 7th Feb BATTLE OF THE BANDS 20 HEAT 6
9-12 £4
Battle of The Bands 20 is Folding Stars vs Jakobi vs Ryker Sear
Links: BATTLE OF THE BANDS
Wed 8th Feb SHOWCASE
9-12 £5
Wednesday showcase presents Heretics Dream + Times Like These + Telstar + tbc
Thu 9th Feb PARAFFIN presents
9-12 £5
Kill the Weekend + Polly Poison + Paraffin + The Brink. Do not miss this class line up of some of the biggest local acts.
Fri 10th Feb MUSICBOX
9-12 £5
Music box continues with another line up to lick your lips at! Laura Jeanne + Eight Stone Exiles + Three Day Weekend
ABSOLUTE BOWIE - Pick Of The Month!
Sat 11th Feb ABSOLUTE BOWIE
9-2 £12 Door/£10 Adv Buy Tickets
Europe’s Premier Bowie Tribute Band - a 5 piece band faithfully interpreting the music of David Bowie with uncanny accuracy. Absolute Bowie celebrate the 40th anniversary of David’s greatest album ‘Hunky Dory’ & will take you on a musical journey through the ever changing phases of Bowie’s music in a fully costumed, energetic stage show that goes from A to Z (Absolute Beginners to Ziggy!) with ‘Stations to Station’ in between 'Space Oddity', 'Heroes', ‘Changes’, ‘Suffragette City’, 'Ashes to Ashes', 'Life on Mars' and many more
Links: ABSOLUTE BOWIE
Sun 12th Feb THE BLUE ANGEL ACOUSTIC CAFE
8-11.30 Free Entry
Now in its 14th year, the Blue Angel has been a highlight of Sunday nights, showcasing a wide range of acoustic styles including singer/songwriter, folk/roots, rock + pop in an intimate setting with tables and candles & a superbstage and pa.
Floor spots welcome for the semi-acoustic weekend wind down. A free drink for performers
Tue 14th Feb BATTLE OF THE BANDS 20 HEAT 7
9-12 £4
Battle of The Bands 20 is tbc vs tbc vs tbc vs tbc
Links: BATTLE OF THE BANDS
Wed 15th Feb 14+ SHOW
9-12 £5
14+ has been such a success we are putting on another! Scenario + Thirteent Hour + Change of Plan + All Against Nothing
Thu 16th Feb TONIGHT WE'RE ELECTRIC!
9-12 £5 adv/ £6 Door
14 + Show featuring Fly Frankie Fly + Tonight we're Electric + Day of the Sirens + Canvas + City Lights.
Fri 17th Feb MUSICBOX
9-12 £5
MusicBox presents Dorian Black + Crisis of the Third Century + Rusty G's
THE SMYTHS - Pick Of The Month!
Sat 18th Feb THE SMYTHS
9-2 £7 Door/ £6 Adv Buy Tickets
The Smyths return - the best trbute to one of the UKs most important bands - The Smiths. The Smiths band of Smiths fans for Smiths fans playing all the hits including There is a light, The Queen is Dead and many more. Links: THE SMYTHS
Sun 19th Feb THE BLUE ANGEL ACOUSTIC CAFE
8-11.30 Free Entry
Now in its 14th year, the Blue Angel has been a highlight of Sunday nights, showcasing a wide range of acoustic styles including singer/songwriter, folk/roots, rock + pop in an intimate setting with tables and candles & a superbstage and pa.
Floor spots welcome for the semi-acoustic weekend wind down. A free drink for performers
Tue 21st Feb BATTLE OF THE BANDS 20 HEAT 8
9-12 £4
Battle of The Bands 20 is Heretics Dream vs I forgot vs Nothing vs Out of Step
Links: BATTLE OF THE BANDS
Wed 22nd Feb SHOWCASE
9-12 £5
lineup tbc
Thu 23rd Feb THE STATIC JACKS
9-12 £5 Adv/ £7 Door Buy Tickets
THE STATIC JACKS - Since they formed in 2009, Westfield, New Jersey’s the Static Jacks (lead vocalist Ian Devaney, guitarists Henry Kaye and Michael Sue-Poi, and drummer Nick Brennan) have earnestly burned their own path through indie rock’s crowded field. Ignoring music’s fickle trends, the Jacks have forged a unique blend of punk, garage, and soul sounds for a sonic punch to the gut and heart. The band’s self-released Laces EP (2009), a riley glimpse at fleeting youth, saw the group hit its stride. This was bolstered by several tours with various indie notables including the Futureheads, Biffy Clyro, Young the Giant, and We Were Promised Jetpacks. Throughout, the Static Jacks held fast to a D.I.Y. and collective ethos, writing songs in full collaboration, designing their album and t-shirt art-and they became a band of brothers, well beyond friends making music.Now, the fruits of the last two years have ripened into a full-length, If You’re Young, due out August 30th on Fearless Records. Recorded and produced by Chris Shaw (Ted Leo, Bad Brains, Elvis Perkins in Dearland) at Stratosphere Sound in New York City, the album expands Laces’ look at youthful trials and tribulations, from the peerless bliss of love found to the barren hell of heartbreak to fear of the ever-looming future, of growing old, of stagnation-topics at once personal and also deeply universal. Yet as the Jacks explain the record, "Even if now you’re not young, you were once, so you’ll get where these songs are coming from." And If You’re Young is nothing if not wise, mature, and introspective, a hardwon product of experience rarely delivered by twenty-somethings. As well it marks the first time the band’s had a full-on studio at its disposal for nearly a month, with the tools and freedom to build its songs into rich, dynamic beasts.
+ THE ELECTRIC MODERN + DARK STARES
Links: THE STATIC JACKS
Fri 24th Feb JOEFEST
8-2am £5
Joefest - A night remembering and celebrating the eclectic musical tastes of Horn legend Joe Paul. Live band featuring a collection of St Albans most notorious musicians playing songs by Arcade Fire, Blur, Elbow, Radiohead, Foo Fighters and many more. Come down and enjoy what will be the most one of the most fun and uplifting nights of the year.
BOOT LED ZEPPELIN - Pick Of The Month!
Sat 25th Feb BOOT LED ZEPPELIN
9-2am £10 Adv/ £12 Door Buy Tickets
Led Zeppelin were voted best Rock'n'Roll band of all time! Boot-Led-Zeppelin appeared on the BBC2 TV programme "I'm in a Rock'n'Roll Band!" live on Saturday 5th June!!"Go on Boot Led! The nearest thing i have heard to the lords of rock.
They got me so close to my true fantasy of hearing Led Zep live. You seriously won't get any closer than this!"
Fearne Cotton, BBC Radio 1
Links: BOOT-LED-ZEPPELIN
Sun 26th Feb THE BLUE ANGEL ACOUSTIC CAFE
8-11.30 Free Entry
Now in its 14th year, the Blue Angel has been a highlight of Sunday nights, showcasing a wide range of acoustic styles including singer/songwriter, folk/roots, rock + pop in an intimate setting with tables and candles & a superbstage and pa.
Floor spots welcome for the semi-acoustic weekend wind down. A free drink for performers
Tue 28th Feb BATTLE OF THE BANDS 20 HEAT 9
9-12 £4
Battle of The Bands 20 is lyadrive vs Good Hookers vs tbc vs tbc
Links: BATTLE OF THE BANDS
Wed 29th Feb STRICTLY GOOD VIBES
8-12 £3
Vivify presents a good vibes Dub & Reggae night at The Horn!
Sweet riddims from dj's Tokin' Tone + Rasta Taxi + Space Brother on the wheels of steel.
Plus delicious Carribean Food available.
Links: VIVIFY