BLOG 14/10/08

Zombie Party

I might live in London nowadays, but I suppose I will always be a Northerner at heart (in fact, if you got any more northern than me, you would be Scottish…), and I would hate to have that age-old London-centric charge levelled at my blog-baby. So as part of my recent outreach campaign to also blog about events even if I can’t actually go to them myself, here is a little pointer to get your advance tickets to see the mighty Zombie Zombie when they stop by Manchester’s Ruby Lounge for a rescheduled gig for Wotgodforgot on January 26th (yes, next year). That may well seem like an awfully long way in advance to be planning your life, but apparently the Zombie men are also booked to play at White Heat @ Madame Jojo’s in London the day after (January 27th), and if the tickets for that particular outing had already been released, believe me I would be securing mine now…

Synthy-rockers Zombie Zombie’s A Land For Renegades album is quite a hit round these parts, and also made it into new boy Wesley Matsell‘s September AND October charts for online record shop par excellence Juno (handy reference tools for anyone who liked what they heard in Wesley’s recent Border Community DJ-debut and Allez-Allez guest mix). Zombie Zombie of course also have a guest mix lurking in the Allez-Allez archives, which Wes recently bigged up on his Myspace, and thus the circle of hyperlink-life is complete…