JOIN US FOR A SPECIAL XMAS PARTY GIG & WIN ATTICA RAGE XMAS HAMPERS!!
GiG Magazine Xmas Party @ CAPITOL, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow
Thursday 14th December – 8pm
Live Music from Das Contras – Attica Rage – The Pedestrians – Organised Khaos
Join us at the GiG Magazine Christmas Party gig night at Capitol (formerly The Library, up from The Garage) with a variety of live music including Attica Rage (hard n heavy rock ‘n roll!), Das Contras (a cool mix of folk, jazz, rock, Latino and a bit of reggae!), The Pedestrians (indie rock) and Organised Khaos (punk rock).....truly something for everyone! This will be a chance to hear some brand new songs we’ve been writing and recording for the album and if you haven’t yet seen our new guitarist Shaun – now’s your chance!
PLUS – as a special promotion, if you buy tickets from us in advance you’ll be entered into a prize draw held on the night to win our own special Attica Rage Christmas Hampers filled with t-shirts, CDs, badges, signed photos, signed posters and a 2007 calendar!!! Some mince pies and a bottle of booze may well just find their way into the hampers too!
Tickets are only £5 and as well as the prize draw entry, you’ll also get a free compilation CD with tracks from each band AND a free shot of Jagermeister on arrival!
To order tickets, send a cheque for the total amount (made payable to ‘Attica Rage’) along with your name, postal address and number of tickets required to: Parr, Vanduara, 1 Greenock Road, Largs, KA30 8PQ. Or send concealed cash (at your own risk!). Alternatively, if you’re in the Glasgow/Ayrshire areas, email
info@atticarage.com to arrange personal ticket collection/delivery.
So come along and help us celebrate an exciting year for Attica Rage with an even better one around the corner!
JUKEBOX JURY at the BRITISH ACADEMY OF COMPOSERS & SONGWRITERS SEMINAR
Attending a recent seminar hosted by The British Academy of Composers & Songwriters, one of our EP tracks - ‘Contradictions’ - was given a Jukebox Jury-style review by a panel of professional songwriters including Steven Severin - founding member of Siouxsie & The Banshees, Ken McCluskey - former singer of The Bluebells, you’ll know their pop-ditty “Young At Heart” and Rico - electro-punk artist & producer, once heralded as Glasgow’s Trent Reznor.
Amongst the playlist of typical Scottish indie blandness, schmaltzy ballads and bizarre comedy-pop offerings, Attica Rage blasted from the speakers and proved to be the liveliest and, not surprisingly, the heaviest track of the day. Without expecting much praise from a panel not known for their heavy metal credentials, they were quite positive in some ways (or maybe just polite
. Steven Severin liked the melodic vocal style (as opposed to growls & screams!) and commented on the strong riff being repeated throughout the song. He got the old-school vibe too. He also offered some views on production about the importance of balance between guitars and vocals. Overall, thumbs up from Mr. Siouxsie Sioux! Ken ‘Bluebells’ McCluskey didn’t have much to say – you could just tell it wasn’t his cup of Chai - but probably felt he needed to offer some constructive advice so went on about the lack of a chorus. Eh, there is one there, but never mind… Rico spoke from a production point of view and said he would prefer it to be heavier – sounds good to us!
So, nothing new really but it was good to hear a key member of punk/goth/rock history comment on our song. At the end of the day, as long as our fans like it and we like it…..that’s all that matters!
TUNE IN TO ‘HHH METAL SHOW’
Phil Hull from Damnation Festival and
http://www.up-load.co.ukhas recently started broadcasting his own metal radio show which streams all weekend on
http://www.webcastDJ.comand played ‘In Concert With The Mirror’ recently. Log on every weekend and support his show. He’s got good taste
WHEN JONNY MET LEMMY!
OK, this isn’t strictly band news but when one of us meets a living legend of rock ‘n roll, you just wanna shout about it!
On Thursday 9th November, Jonny met one of his all-time influential personal heroes –the God of Rock n’ Roll - Mr Motorhead himself – Lemmy Kilmister! As well as meeting the rest of Motorhead - guitarist Phil Campbell and drummer Mikkey Dee. Having won guest list places for the band’s Birmingham Academy tour date through a Metal Hammer competition, things got even sweeter when the magazine rep arranged for Motorhead’s tour manager to provide passes to the Aftershow party. About 40 minutes after the gig had ended, Mikkey and Phil turned up and were happy to chat to everyone, asking about how the sound had been in the venue and about the Thin Lizzy cover they’d put in the set (‘Rosalie/Cowboy Song’). Photos were taken, hands were shaken (literally!) but it seemed that the main man wasn’t going to be appearing. However, about 12.30am he sneaked into the bar – instant rock star charisma flooding the room and drawing everyone’s stares. Like the true professional, he went around the groups of fans and backstage liggers making sure to speak to everyone, signing and getting photos taken. Jonny eventually got up the courage and ended up having a 10 min face-to-face conversation with Lemmy – from Glasgow crowds and his favourite Glasgow venues (Barrowlands, the Apollo and pre-Apollo, Greens!) to Robbie Coltrane (who had attended the Glasgow tour date) to his favourite song from the new album (‘Kingdom of the Worm’) to the rare Motorhead ballads! Posing for a photo with Jonny, Lemmy then requested it be taken again in case the first one didn’t turn out right (it did!), then they shook hands and he headed on to the next group of fans hovering in the corner. And then Jonny fainted (well, almost!). Leaving the venue just after 1am, a quick final drink to run over the night’s events in Eddies No. 8 club (blagging free entry with the claim of “we’re with the Motorhead crew”) then he remembered….. “I forgot to get Attica Rage the support slot on next year’s UK Motorhead tour”! Maybe…..just maybe…….
Check out the photos on
http://www.myspace.com/jayrage (and check the massive cheeser on J’s face!)
So, hope you can make it along to the GiG Magazine Xmas Party - remember to order tickets in advance from us to be included in the prize draw before they sell out.
Cheers!
ATTICA RAGE http://www.atticarage.com http://www.myspace.com/atticarage 
