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Thu 8th The JD Set presents AIR TRAFFIC + FRIENDLY FIRES + LIGHTSPEED CHAMPION Presented by Peter Hook
Doors 7.30 The JD Set is a series of nationwide live music events featuring cutting-edge talent that’s storming the underground. Jack Daniel’s will be bringing together this staggering line up of artists by way of celebrating their well-respected musical heritage that spans over a century. Peter Hook, legendary low-slung bass player with seminal bands New Order and Joy Division, and hero to numerous musicians, will be presenting the JD Set this year. Peter says: “I’m really looking forward to meeting some of these young guns at the JD Set events. New up-and-coming talent is something I think it is really important to make time for. I might even get on stage to join them for a track or two!” Air Traffic are a piano-infused, indie band who’s brand of Bournemouth-baked rock has hit the nation’s airwaves of Radio 1, and XFM and our TV screens thanks to Jools Holland. Their career, like Keane and Coldplay started with a single released on Club Fandango’s label and they are now signed to the behemoth EMI. Lightspeed Champion will bring a semi-acoustic sound to proceedings at The Luminaire, with country-rock and folk-pop flourishes throughout. The genial creative force behind Lightspeed Champion, Dev Hynes, is perhaps best known as the guitarist in precocious trio Test Icicles. The split allowed him to focus on the sweetly melodic emotional fare that's closer to his soul though. Friendly Fires are inspired by My Bloody Valentine and are forging a reputation for pacey, rhythmic, full-sounding indie rock. Some put them into the Nu-Rave bracket but the band see themselves as making razor-sharp post punk. This event, alongside future JD Sets, will form part of a bespoke Channel 4 series to be broadcast in 2008. Peter Hook will be joined by Channel 4 TV Presenter Rick Edwards and a panel of music industry aficionados who will discuss whether these bands are fit to take on the heady mantle of musical icons of the future. Music fans should click on www.thejdset.co.uk for info on forthcoming shows together with: the chance to win free tickets and signed memorabilia, and view archive video footage and photo galleries
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