SLIDE, SIMPLE & TCT Music Present
At The Carling Academy Oxford
Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1UE
Thursday 31 January
9pm-2am
£10 advance



THE WHIP (LIVE)
TURZI

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Simian Mobile Disco return to Oxford after their sell-out triumph last May. Grab your tickets now!

Back in the late ‘90s, students James Ford and Jas Shaw formed the band ‘Simian’ alongside Simon Lord and bass player Alex MacNaughten. It was around the time when a lot of bands were starting to combine traditional songwriting with electronic sounds in the spirit of Broadcast and The Beta Band. Simian did OK. But not quite well enough to justify the major label deal they’d signed and they split in the middle of their US tour.

In order to sate their love of electronic party music, James and Jas booked themselves DJ dates while touring with Simian. They’d finish a gig and then run off to play electro records to small, sweaty rooms full of people who often seemed to be having lots more fun than the audiences at their gigs. As a pisstake, they called themselves Simian Mobile Disco.

At around the same time, French producers Justice remixed the Simian track ‘Never Be Alone’. The remix was picked up by DJs like Erol Alkan and became an anthem. You still hear it played regularly in clubs now, four years after its initial release. It gave James and Jas the boost to strike out on their own as DJs, remixers and producers of thumping electronic party tunes. Simian Mobile Disco became a going concern.

James produced albums for Mystery Jets, Klaxons and Arctic Monkeys. They kept making tunes as SMD, including the massive ‘Hustler’, a dancefloor destroyer that owned 2006, and they got booked to play everywhere from the Club NME Tour to superclubs like Fabric.

Up stepped Wichita, home to Bloc Party, to offer Simian Mobile Disco an album deal. The first album, due out in June, has been named ‘Attack Decay Sustain Release’ because it sounded like a good motto to live by. Former Simian singer Simon Lord, Barry Dobbin from sadly-missed jerk-popsters Clor and Go! Team frontwoman Ninja all guest on the album.

Simian Mobile Disco have an instinctive knowledge for what will work on any dancefloor, with any crowd, at any time. And now they’ve used that instinct to create the most invigorating dance album of 2007, a record that pummels you into submission with its relentless volleys of pure disco delight.

The Simian Mobile Disco is coming to Oxford: do not even attempt to sleep…

ah, going to see if i can make it down this time! :)

This Thursday! Get your tickets now, it's selling out...

Not long now people, see you all there tomorrow!!

Tickets still available. Make sure you get yours!

what time are they on stage?