Bowlie Nite
1st Thursday of every month at Lounge Bar
DJ's
The Hatster
Kid Sinead and Friends
With regular guests including:
Billy Reeves (BBC London Live)
Playing Bowlie favourites such as: Free Design, Mamas & Papas, Beach Boys, Young Marble Giants, Stereolab, Belle & Sebastian, Black Box Recorder, Broadcast and a Bowlie shaking selection of 60s/French Pop, Northern Soul, 50's Jives and varied records of sweet and melodic sounds, old, new & rare!
The obverse of the flyer has a drawing from an old children's book of a little boy and girl running along a street, with a Belle & Sebastian lyric printed over it.
Does anyone know what the word "Bowlie" means in this context? I get the feeling it's a (new?) name for a twee-pop subculture, but why Bowlie?
There's a band called "Free Design"? What the hell is it with people taking off Stereolab song titles as band names? Someone hit me over the back of the head with a 4x2, please.
PS. I wore my Stereolab T to the You Am I gig (because I freakin' well could, OK?) and the one comment I got was from some bloke who looked like he'd be into all that other stuff.
I must stop being snooty.
Either that or move to an inner city where there are other snooty people.
"I dream of all the bowlie kids that hang around you, youre no different from the rest" (or something like that)
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uhhuh, there is some sort of tie with the whole twee B+S thing, but my guess is more of a sub-sub-culture.
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I could be wrong, but here is my take: The Bowlie was a club that kids in Scotland, the twee bunch, used to hang out there.. Belle and Sebastian made a few references to "Bowlie Kids" in their songs, and, well, give a kid a gun and what do you get?
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Belle and Sebastian have swapped record labels if anyone cares.. Moved from Jeepster to Rough Trade, despite pretty much their whole entire debut album being a paeon to "saying no to the record man"
but, isnt Rough Trade The Smiths old label? maybe they couldnt resist..
free design was an enoch light (persuasive percussion?) produced sugar rush of a band from the late 60's. nice reissues on cornelius' label out of japan. http://www.rcb.easynet.co.uk/light/freedesign/
Isn't Rough Trade part of Mute/EMI? And is it the same Rough Trade that signed The Smiths? I thought that one went out of business, and that's how Warner got the Smiths back-catalogue.
Hmm... I've got this theory that the next Stereolab studio album might come out in Australia (prolly early next year) via Spunk/Inertia, owing to their ex-UK contract with Elektra having expired, since other Duophonic releases already being put out here by Spunk. Could be wrong, of course...
Bowlie was the original name for what is now known as All Tomorrow's Parties - www.alltomorrowsparties.co.uk - the UK-based festival founded and curated by Belle & Sebastian. I think the name comes from a Glaswegian nickname for people with pudding-bowl haircuts, a popular style among indie types I suppose...
Bowlie also is an online community. For more info see: www.bowlie.com
randon comment - Free Design have a cool song called "I like kites", very Stereolab-esque , but i know nothing else about them at all.
it's all in the haircut