Gig of the week: Vagabond
Reporter: Dawn Eckersley
Date published: 10 February 2009
Beats
When? Tonight.
Where? Dry Bar, Oldham Street, Manchester.
If poppy, rocky blues is your bag, you’d be wise to check out newly signed Vagabond who are fast making waves on the UK music scene.
The quintet, fronted by the enigmatic Alex Vargas — who has been described as a cross between Michael Hutchence and Bryan Ferry — became a band almost by accident when they met by chance at a studio in Kent. The lads have crafted a modern day Motown style all of their own.
And with roots in Uruguay, Denmark, East London and Huddersfield the result is sure to be very continental. See www. myspace.com/vagabond for more information.
Elsewhere...
TONIGHT: The Newspaper Boy — Deaf Institute; Asobi Seksu — Roadhouse; Strike Your Idols Down — Music Box
TOMORROW: Basement Jaxx — Apollo; Alkaline Trio — Academy; Mongrel — Club Academy; Phoenix Nights — Music Box
THURSDAY: The Backhanded Compliments — Night and Day; The Coast — Roadhouse; Secret Machines — Ruby Lounge; Ida Maria — Club Academy; The House That Dub Built — Jabez Clegg; 20 Years of House Versus Cancer — Moho Live
FRIDAY: Defenders of the Faith — Academy; Jodeci — Apollo; Forever the Sickest Kids — Academy 2; Mamma Freedom — Academy 3; No Flash — Ruby Lounge; John Cooper Clarke — Dancehouse Theatre; Bugged Out — Sankeys; Whatever the Weather Meets Bass Camp — Moho Live; Division Launch Party with Delicious DJs — Area 51; The Thin Lizzy Experience — Rochdale Transport Club
SATURDAY: A Day To Remember — Roadhouse; Magazine — Academy; POD, Filter — Academy 3; Late of the Pier — Academy 2; I Am Kloot — Academy 3; 4 Poofs and a Piano — Heywood Civic Centre; John Cooper Clarke — Dancehouse Theatre; Guilty Pleasures — Deaf Institute; Bitch — Sankeys; Soul Out Valentines Ball — Fridays
SUNDAY: Luke Dzierek — Area 51; Brainiac Live — Opera House; Casiokid — Roadhouse; Reel Big Fish — Academy 2; A Day To Remember — Music Box; Ra Ra Riot — Night and Day; The Seal Club Clubbing Club — Moho Live; I Am Kloot — Club Academy; An Evening With Barbara Dickson — Bridgewater Hall
MONDAY: Children of Bodom — Academy 2; Valentines Extravaganza — Music Box; Women — Night and Day
