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The Chakras – 93 Feet East, London

• 21st Jun 2011

The Chakras
plus Filthy Whisky / The Din / The Hamptons

Wednesday 6th July
93 Feet East – 150 Brick Lane, London E1 6QL
Tickets £6 from link

This young Dublin born, London based five piece commenced their journey almost two years ago, with an early show supporting Ian Brown in Dublin. Brown immediately gave the wide-eyed but confident Irish chaps two enthusiastic thumbs up, and thus begins their story.

Led by brothers Rocky and Gordo Whittaker, but soul mates since their days at school, The Chakras were hell bent on writing music that evoked some sort of reaction. Raised on a diet of Soul In Heaven era Verve self-belief, and Jesus and Mary Chain’s wanton fuzz, the band took an early hazy blueprint of how they wanted to sound and immediately removed anything that might interfere with their creating of it. They killed off long-standing relationships, resigned from the day-jobs and cut local ties, moved to London and have here made a record that took those noisy, hissing 8-track bedroom demos and transformed the very same songs into swirling, guitar-heavy anthems.

The Chakras release their debut album, ‘Build Me A Swan’ through Planet Function Records on the 26th September 2011. link

Also playing are Filthy Whisky link The Din link and The Hamptons link