February 2011 February Tue 1 Megson - £8 Leicester Comedy Festival presents… plus Sam Walter. Greenbird Promotions presents… Tue 8 Wed 2 Markus Reeves - Free Andrew O’Neill plus Grace & The Magic Roots, Sally Hossack and Bob Spencer. Album launch. £8adv £10door I’m vegan, as you can tell by the fact that I have a lithe, sinewy Thu 3 Roddy Woomble - £12 door body. I’m a heterosexual transvestite, as you can tell by the fact plus support. Idlewild frontman. that I wear female clothes and fancy girls. I’m not a goth. This is an Fri 4 The Modfathers - £7 understandable error, but there is a difference between a metaller Jam, Paul Weller Tribute. who cross-dresses and a goth. And if need be I will fight you to Sat 5 Mentallica - £8 demonstrate that difference. I’ve got nothing against goths. Some Xander Promotions presents… of my best friends are goths. Their food is lovely and they have Sun 6 Ian D. Montfort - £7adv £9door natural rhythm. www.andrewoneill.co.uk Leicester Comedy Festival 2011. Doors 5pm. Ivan Brackenbury - £7adv £9door Leicester Comedy Festival presents… Leicester Comedy Festival 2011. Doors 7.30 Thu 17 Mon 7 Musician Open Stage - free Barry Cryer & Ronnie Golden Electric and acoustic open mic session. Bands welcome. £12adv Tue 8 Andrew O’Neill - £8adv £10door Barry is a household name (like Domestos and Cif) famed for his Leicester Comedy Festival 2011. legendary comedy writing alongside performing his classic standup. Wed 9 Luke Wright - £7adv £9door Ronnie, former lead singer/songwriter/guitarist with seminal late Leicester Comedy Festival 2011. 70s cult rock band Fabulous Poodles, also works as a standup. The live show features Barry’s formidable collection of one-liners Thu 10 The Acoustic Collection - £8adv £10door and tall stories alongside Ronnie’s versatile musicianship and plus Table Nine. Acoustic classics by Talon. awesome array of musical impressions. Fri 11 Quill - £10adv £12door www.ronniegolden.com plus support. Xander Promotions presents… Sat 12 Original Band Showcase - £4adv £5 door Heat 1. Line-up tbc. Leicester Comedy Festival presents… Sun 13 Valentines Comedy Burlesque - £8adv £10door Fri 18 feat. Bam Bam Blue, Hettie Heartache, Constance Peach, music from Mellow Baku. Tim Key Mon 14 Musician Open Stage - free £10.50 Electric and acoustic open mic session. Bands welcome. “He’s a genius plain and simple.” - TIME OUT. “The appeal of the show is in this off-kilter ambience, and in the beauty that peeps Tue 15 Stevie Jones presents… £4adv £5door through the silliness” - THE GUARDIAN. “An indefinably crackers Well Mad Ride fundraiser. Line-up tbc. hour”- THE INDEPENDENT. “In any other sphere apart from Wed 16 Sing-a-long Comedy Songs - £4adv £5door comedy, we’d probably class this way of looking at the world as plus Chris Conway’s Songs from Outer Space. Leicester Comedy Festival 2011. certifiable. Here it feels like genius” - THE TELEGRAPH. “Wielding Thu 17 Barry Cryer & Ronnie Golden - £12adv a crowbar, Key is foremost a brilliant showman” – THE STAGE. Leicester Comedy Festival 2011. Edinburgh Comedy Award Winner, 2009. www.timkey.co.uk Fri 18 Tim Key - £10.50 Leicester Comedy Festival 2011. Sun 20 Sat 19 The Hamsters - £10adv £12door Or, The Whale Jimi Hendrix 40th Anniversary Memorial Concert. £7adv £8door plus support Sun 20 Or, The Whale - £7adv £8door Voices everywhere, caught again in the devil’s snare,” belts lead plus support. New Americana. vocalist and guitarist Alex Robins of San Francisco-based Or, the Mon 21 Polly & The Billets Doux - £6adv £7door Whale on the second song of the band’s newest album. The song, plus support. Lay-Z Boi Music presents… “Datura,” is a rollicking ode to the hallucinogenic properties of Tue 22 Miles Kane - £7.50adv £9.50door jimson weed, but could just as easily be a description of the band plus support. Outsider Promotions presents… itself. Their soaring vocal harmonies and inspired guitar riffs yield Wed 23 Ian Parker - £7adv £9door a fiendishly potent listening experience, which may even provoke plus support. Acoustic blues. your own hallucinations. www.orthewhale.com Thu 24 Pete Morton - £6 plus Lisa Banks. “One of England’s finest songwriters.” Fri 25 The Christians - £16.50adv £17.50door Outsider Promotions presents… Xander Promotions presents… Tue 22 Sat 26 Original Band Showcase - £4adv £5 door Miles Kane Heat 3. Line-up tbc £7.50adv £9.50door plus support Sun 27 Sarah McClurg & Silver Creek - £7adv £8door Alex Turner’s best mate Miles Kane is set to embark on his first plus support. New US country singer. full UK tour since leaving The Rascals and taking a break form The Last Shadow Puppets. For the tour, Miles will be joined by his new Mon 28 Musician Open Stage - free Electric and acoustic open mic session. Bands welcome. band, featuring Jay Sharrock from The Sand Band on drums, singer- songwriter Eugene McGuinness on vocals/rhythm guitar and Ben Parsons and Phil Anderson from Cherry Ghost on keyboards and bass guitar respectively. www.mileskane.com COMING SOON March 04: ZZ Tops 08: Malcolm Holcombe 10: Seven Little Sisters 12: Dodgy 23: Amy Wadge 25: The Men They Couldn’t Hang Xander Promotions presents… Fri 25 The Christians April 01: SKAM + Hell’s Addiction 02: Phil Bates & Mik Kaminski £16.50adv £17.50door 16: seYes 21: Kris Drever 22: Twin Lizzy 29: Dr Feelgood The Christians first three singles all made the Top 40, and their eponymously-titled 1987 debut album entered the album chart at For more info on acts and web links visit - www.themusicianpub.co.uk. number 2. The highest placed single from this album was “Ideal World”, which reached number 14. Their second album, Colour To book tickets visit - www.wegottickets.com released in 1990, reached number one, and in 1992 the follow-up, Happy in Hell charted at number 18. www.thechristianslive.co.uk 8.00pm until midnight Sun to Thu, 8.00pm until 1.00am Fri and Sat. Live music starts around 9.00pm. Full disabled access and facilities..