DrownedinSound and Death By Shoes proudly presents...

Rollerpalooza

A night of Rock 'n' Roll-er skates!

Featuring:

Black Lips
http://www.myspace.com/theblacklips

"Black Lips have a reputation for crazy live shows that have included vomiting, urination, nudity, band members kissing, Power Wheels races, fireworks, a chicken, and flaming guitars" - Wikipedia

"‘Mixing garage's crude guitars and scratchy throated delivery with skewiff country, blues and psychedelia, their fourth studio album ignites with the same rapturous energy as The Sonics and The 13th Floor Elevators" - The Guardian

"Is there any other band on the planet like Black Lips? In a world that plays it safe a little too often, their spluttery carnage-inducing garage-rock is a true, exhilarating alternative" - The Fly

"‘The most fun you can have with your clothes on" - Fused Magazine

"Jesus Christ - this really is brilliant... Snake-hipped, insidious and utterly f*cking magnificent" - NME

+ Mika Miko
http://www.myspace.com/mikamiko

"Mika Miko rock. It's like the girls from the library and the girls from the coffee shop got together and played a mix of Sleater Kinney and Chicks on Speed" - Duck And Cover

"Like At The Drive-In and Pretty Girls Make Graves... A fiercely independent modern punk band" - Prefix

+ Gringo Star
http://www.myspace.com/thegringostars

"'All Y'all' is an exuberant rush of early Kinks guitars, tambourines, handclaps, multi-part harmonies, and bits of tinkly piano, all catchy" - Pitchfork

"Gringo Star – should be literally showered with the same kind of exasperated stammering and fawning heaped onto the stars of the early days of rock and roll, as if these guys were new versions of the Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Buddy Holly, Beatles’ and all of the American standards in doo wop and R&B that were raging through Detroit and Memphis and Harlem" - Daytrotter

+ The Old Romantic Killer Band
http://www.myspace.com/theoldromantickillerband

"The Old Romantic Killer Band are what rock should be: loud, angry and over before you can take a breath" - NME

+ Brontide
http://www.myspace.com/brontidetheband

"Brontide are mathy and marvelous, danceable without being dumb. InstruMental in all the right ways. I say: yay!" - DrownedinSound

+ More TBC

+ DJs: Razor Stiletto, Death By Shoes, DrownedinSound, Tender Maulings, Pandapop

@ Skate Central, Queens Road, Sheffield, S2 4DF (ten minutes walk from the station) - http://www.skatecentral.co.uk

Where? Here: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=S...

Drinks? The venue is fully licenced. There will be drinks offers.

Skates? Of course! Hire them from the venue on the night.

TICKETS: £9adv - pre-sale at http://tickets.sandbag.uk.com

Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=54323808021
Last.fm event: http://www.last.fm/event/965211

(Rollerpalooza is a Harley Live promotion in association with Bench)

Update: The Old Romantic Killer Band have been replaced with The Manhattan Love Suicides, and we've confirmed the final two bands.

Say hello to The Hipshakes and Urgent Talk.

Tickets can now also be purchased through WeGotTickets.com (http://www.wegottickets.com/event/46620)

Excited!

Tickets for this are now on sale at Jacks Records (Division Street) and The Harley (Glossop Road). Get yours soon!

Some nice press on Pitchfork and Vice this week!

Not long to go now... we're excited.

excellant! let's hope the beggars dont cancel blaming poor sales this time

I don't think there's much danger of that - we've had a pretty great response so far!

But, as you say, they missed Sheffield on their last tour so this will be the first time they visit the city. I'm pretty sure they'll remember us after this...

To reiterate what's going to happen on May 16th at Skate Central...

Playing live, on the roller rink:

Black Lips / Mika Miko/ Gringo Star / The Manhattan Love Suicides / The Hipshakes / Brontide / Urgent Talk

Spinning records at the party afterwards:

Razor Stiletto / Death By Shoes / Seal Club / Tender Maulings / DrownedinSound / Pandapop

That's an awful lot of fun for £9!

Advance tickets available from Jacks Records, The Harley and WeGotTickets.com (http://www.wegottickets.com/event/46620).

Tickets now available via SeeTickets.com (http://www.seetickets.com/see/price.asp?code=393527&userid={01FE329D-5AE2-4033-9535-10C582869F8F}&filler1=see&filler2=art-srch&filler3=id1nme) as well!

Drinks offers just in: Red Stripe £2.50, Monster £1.85.

Pretty reasonable for an event like this methinks.

count me in!...it's sounds awesome!!

It's going be quite an evening!

Less than a week to go folks, so get your advance tickets from Jacks Records, The Harley or the venue soon - they'll be cheaper than on the night.

Advance tickets still available from Jacks and The Harley - remember to pick yours up if you're planning on heading down. By the looks of sales, a LOT of people are!

Tomorrow night folks. Tickets still in the above places until 5pm on Saturday - get involved!

I'm gonna be there, snapping some pics. Possibly while skating :)

Good luck with that one - skating on its own is hard enough! It's going to be a seriously amazing night, looking forward to lots of pics...

I came, I saw, I skated. And took photos while doing so. It was an amazing night - hope there's another one before too long.

Thanks Dan! It was awesome. I dare say we'll be repeating the feat at some point in the future...

I had an amazing night! Please do it again soon!!

We're really glad people enjoyed the event, it was great to see you all turning out to support what was a pretty big undertaking.

And watch this space, as they say...

Photos: http://www.drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4136862

Hahaha! I'm on there - number 40. Glad my repeated mugging for Gary paid off. I'll get my photos up in the next few days, and post a link here.

Rollerpalooza was awesome. The Sheffield Steel Rollergirls were there. If you want to join us or just find out more check us out on Myspace page (http://www.myspace.com/sheffield_roller_derby) or Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/group.php?gid=30690734263)