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Club for Heroes

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Music:

Member Since: 10/25/2007
Band Members: Well, we're not a band, we're a discotheque.
Influences: Our Heroes include:Prince & The Revolution... LCD Soundsystem... Carl Craig... Green Velvet...Hercules & Love Affair... Sylvester... Prins Thomas... Can... Spacemen 3... Suicide... Moodymann... Roxy Music... Supermayer... Betty Botox... Twitch and Brainstorm... Grandmaster Flash... Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards... Arthur Russell... Talking Heads... Armando... Joni Mitchell... The Black Dog... Lil' Louis... Tim Sweeney... Young MC... Arcade Fire... Lindstrom... David Bowie... Pixies... Patrick Cawley... Kate Bush... Joakim... Ame... Gavin and Delia... Bradian... Shut Up And Dance... Salsoul Orchestra... Sun Ra Arkestra... Josh Wink... Pepe Bradock... Greenskeepers... Derek Carter... Magic Juan Atkins... DJ T... M.A.N.D.Y.... Isolee... 13th Floor Elevators... John Coltrane... Joanna Newsom... Phillip Pulman... Alan Moore... Grant Morrison... Marjane Strapani... Kurt Vonnegut... Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve... Andrew Divine and many many others
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

A secret origin of Club For Heroes

This piece first appeared in Lock Up Your Daughters issue 3 (http://www.lockupyourdaughtersmagazine.co.uk/). Thanks Sophie and Lucy, you girls rock my world._________________My name is Simon and Im a...
Posted by on Mon, 25 May 2009 04:51:00 GMT

this is the anti-news

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Posted by on Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:00:00 GMT

indie not indie

This here's a wee mix of tunes I did while practicing for Fresh Air radio's Indie Club Together Night.It's a kind of warm-up pop mix - not particularly indie, and lots of old favourites to charm the k...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:29:00 GMT

Dark Energy and the Collective Unconscious

In physical cosmology & astronomy, dark energy is a hypothetical form of energy that permeates all of space and tends to increase the rate of expansion of the universe. Dark energy is the most popular...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:12:00 GMT

Ripped In Glasgow

http://rippedinglasgow.blogspot.com/Check out our new favourite MP3 blog! They've even gone and posted my "What Ho, Gods Of The Abyss (vol 2)" mix. Alongside classic stuff from Andy Weatherall, Spirit...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Feb 2009 02:56:00 GMT

The Shape Of Things To Come

Club For Heroes celebrates its first birthday on Friday 27 February! Edinburgh's friendliest and most delightful disco kicks out the jams and raises the rafters with host Dr Love and special guest sta...
Posted by on Sat, 07 Feb 2009 12:21:00 GMT

Multi-track suggestion

Januarys Club For Heroes was the BEST YET. Many beautiful, sweaty, smily faces. Tyler Parks played some gorgeous records and Tokyo Knife Attack was the bomb! Cheers to everyone who came along for the...
Posted by on Sat, 07 Feb 2009 13:01:00 GMT

November spawned a monster... a sexy monster with strobes for eyes and a glitterball heart!

November's Club For Heroes was a wild delight of friends (old and new) coming together for relentless horseplay and momentous tomfoolery. Check the new photos if you don't believe me. I reckon it was ...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:50:00 GMT

Now is the time for you and I to cuddle close together, dear

By now, everyone should either A) be wandering, alone, through the north pole; B) be snoozing in their coffins; or C) finally been laid to rest by having some implememnt shove...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:23:00 GMT

"these troubled times"

Blimey! Been a while since we updated this so here's what's been happening: 1. A few months ago we played a braw LOCK UP YOUR DAUGHTERS night in Glasgow. Kids were freaking out all over (including som...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:56:00 GMT