WHAT THEY SAY:
"XOX is one of my favourite reads...great taste in music"EROL ALKAN
All credit to Same Teens for what they're doing...you've got my support. We wish you well!" STEVE LAMACQ (RADIO 1)
"bastions of all things young and cool..they've opened the eyes of stagnant thinking Manchester venues and promoters" ARTROCKER
"the most resourceful people on the Manchester indie scene..with a brialliant, must read fanzine"MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS
"the start of a new success.. a grand job laying down the likes of The View, Maximo Park, LCD Soundsystem et al" -MARC ROWLANDS (GUARDIAN GUIDE)
"I feel very good the underage revolution. I wish I were 14 again!"-FARIS ROTTER (THE HORRORS)
"This Same Teens lark is probably the most important thing to happen in Manchester (music-wise) since the Sex Pistols came here in 1976."- CLINT BOON (INSPIRAL CARPETS / XFM MANCHESTER)
"Kid's are always the best...They have the best time and are more likely to dance around!" - THE HOLLOWAYS
"Tonight [will] see the start of a new success..."- GUARDIAN GUIDE
"[These Under 18 Nights]...are totally wicked...teenagers rule"- THE WHIP
"You guys are the future of the music industry!"- GO FASTER>>
"I wish there were more underage clubs to play as they're easily the best sort of crowd to play for."- THEORETICAL GIRL
"It's great theres just loads of underage kids" - Michael Jackson
"It's a great little revolution...I think it's about time!"- JAMES ENDEACOTT, 1965 RECORDS
"'We love indie disco especially ones called Same Teens"- THE ANSWERING MACHINE
"The best new DJs I've had the pleasure to watch in ages"TRICKY
"It's important to live life well as a teenager..." - THE HOLLOWAYS
"Keep up the good work [Same Teens], your country NEEDS you!"
-MIKE JOYCE (THE SMITHS)
"A step forward in the right direction...the foundations are good for Same Teens to stick around for a long time"
"...as far away from a stuffy old disco in a youth centre as possible..top name DJs playing cutting edge tunes"
-DAVID SUE (MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS)
I'd like to meet:
If you want to get involved - send a message to our Street Team myspace in out top friends.
We're looking for people to flier and put up posters, photographers, future writers, DJs, promoters and just about anyone who thinks they can help. Join the revolution!
Music:
WE PLAY STUFF LIKE: The Libertines, MGMT, Pop Levi, The Specials, David Bowie, Justice, Crystal Castles, Mystery Jets, The Rapture, Foals, Kate Nash, Larrikin Love, Long Blondes, Adam Green, Patrick Wolf, Blood Red Shoes, Kings of Leon, Maximo Park, Pigeon Detectives, The Smiths, Joy Division, The Horrors, Ipso Facto, Interpol, Hot Chip, The Whip, Friends of the Bride, Santogold, The Ting Tings, Good Shoes, Futureheads, Franz Ferdinand, X-Ray Spex, Friendly Fires, Esser, David E Sugar, The Cribs, The Clash, Blondie, John and Jehn, Cajun Dance Party, Buzzcocks, Black Kids, Adam and the Ants, Babyshambles, Art Brut, Los Campesinos! + any requests you've got !!!!
Television:
We watch stuff like this:
Here's Florence and The Machine, who we're DJing for - Don't miss the chance to catch them live:
We're also playing records at an upcoming Esser gig - He'll be huge, this time next year....
We've been asked to DJ for Those Dancing Days too, best thing to come out of Sweden since Abba...
These lot are in our top friends - they are Flamboyant Bella doing absolutely nothing to dispell the myth that kids spend their days getting leathered. It's something for The daily mail to get in a sweat about. It's Absolutely Wankered...
FLAMBOYANT BELLA - WANKERED'' [NEWCASTLE ACADEMY]
The next Issue of XOX will feature a Japanese tour diary by this lot - Watch this and you'll realise how strange it might be..
Books:
Erm, Kafka, Camus and Jean Paul Sartre but when we've not got time we read XOX - it might be our fanzine and in our blog but we still love it. Here's some of the people who we've interviewed in so far
We Are Scientists
Glasvegas
Mystery Jets
The Maccabees
Noah and The Whale
Oasis and Lowline producer Owen Morris
Bernard Butler
The Displacements
Faris Rotter
Pop Levi
There's always a few dead good prizes too, so get over to the blog and have a read and tell us what you think
We always need contributors, readers, bands to write
about and things to say - so get in touch....
Talking of books, we are the resident DJs at Lancaster Library - that may sound a bit rubbish but here's LOS CAMPESINOS WHO PLAYED THERE...
And this was the Black Kids gig - Check in our calendar for up coming stuff..
Heroes:
PLAYED FOR US SO FAR:
Foals
Daggers
Smile DJs
The Answering Machine
The Displacements
Lowline
City Royals
The Satin Peaches
Jakobinarina
Dead Disco
Up the Racket DJS
Keys Money Lipstick DJS
Barbed Wire Kisses DJS
Youth Gang
Wasted Little Djs
Reemer
Clint Boon
Load Click Shoot
Hatcham Social
Fatels
The Ending Of
The Witches
Dutch Uncles
The Youth Gang
Clarky Cat
Jeremy Warmsley
& we've DJ'ed for:
Iggy and the Stooges
Black Kids
Noah and the Whale
Tiny Masters of Today
Los Campesinos!
Slow Club
Cajun Dance Party
The Horrors
D:Percussion
In the City Manchester
Designer Magazine
Kendal Calling
The Death Set
