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Talk To Angels Announce Christmas Charity Show

• 29th Oct 2010

Talk to Angels have just announced their annual Christmas gig.

The show is at Milo on Call Lane in Leeds on 23rd December. Support band is the mighty and amazing Penguin.The gig is a fund raising event for the St Georges Homeless Charity in Leeds link

Craig from the band has issued the following statement on the gig…

“Every year we play a Christmas show in Leeds and it has always been very busy and a lot of fun. I read about St George's Crypt and how they had been helping homeless people in Leeds since 1930 and I felt we should try and help somehow. We'll give all money taken from tickets, merchandise sales and donations to the Crypt. Christmas is a time where so much money gets wasted on unnecessary things. It would be amazing if people wasted less and directed a bit of that towards those in need or without shelter.”

Full Gig info –
Date – 23rd Dec 2010
Venue – Milo, Call Lane, Leeds, LS1 6DN
Bands – Talk to Angels / Penguin
Doors – 7.30pm / Price – £4 / Tel – 0113 245 7101

The video to the bands new single has just been selected for Burtons TV and can be seen at : link

Talk To Angels are set to become one of the most talked-about bands in the current UK music scene.

The hotly-anticipated new single is here and ready to explode into your senses – via the Warp Speed Carousel label – with neon, fuzzy, synth-laden epic alt-pop, bursting with hooks, harmonies and hyperactive guitars.

Talk To Angels are the United Nations of the music industry, uniting the coolest of indie kids, the scruffiest of metal-heads and the sassiest of pop princesses as one. Bringing the world together is a beautiful thing, someone has to since Bono did his back in. Maybe you're aware of the band already? Maybe you visited their Myspace page once and spent the next few days humming the insanely-catchy hooks of Enemies Closer? Perhaps you've witnessed one of their mesmerizing gigs (partying in pyjamas or otherwise), or have just seen the band name-checked as a one to watch?

In fact, the music industry in the United States were the first to pick up on the band, inviting them to last year's South by Southwest festival and undertaking a debut tour of the US. The jaunt resulted in a dramatic conclusion after their last gig when one of the band met with a car running a red light, leaving him with serious injuries and a band stranded far from home. But a crushing alloy bumper would never be enough to keep these young troopers down for long…

Three quarters of Talk to Angels were born in Bradford 21 years ago. Craig Kaye (vocals/guitar) Chris Robbins (bass) and Jamie Lofthouse (drums) have known each other pretty much all their lives, forming the band at the tender age of 15. A couple of years ago, they cleverly negotiated some free studio time with Mickey Dale, the keyboard player from Embrace in return for clearing out his basement (you know the usual – lawnmower, Christmas decorations, car parts) so he could physically get a studio in there.

Mickey agreed to engineer new tracks from the three noiseniks. Mickey turned on the mixing desk, sat back and was promptly blown away by the sheer quality and velocity exploding from the speakers and announced right there he was joining the band!

Let's face it, Mickey knows a thing or two about bands augmenting an already joyous, often acerbic, dramatic sound with his own style to create a unique cacophony, resulting in one of the singles of 2010. Talk To Angels write vivid songs about guilt, pleasure and pain. Bittersweet laments about life, lost love and murderous intentions driven by incendiary passion. The lads deliver a sound that makes boys dance and girls weak at the knees.

Welcome to the new soundtrack of 2010. Sit back, crack open the space dust and lets go warp speed Captain.

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