Underachievers Please Try Harder

UNDERACHIEVERS PLEASE TRY HARDER

http://www.underachieversclub.co.uk/

A CLUB AND GIG NIGHT AT THE ROADHOUSE, MANCHESTER

EVERY 2ND SATURDAY AND EVERY LAST FRIDAY OF THE MONTH

Underachievers was born from house-parties and indie discos. The idea that one should be abit more like the other. At the time we felt like everything interesting we heard, we rarely heard out. The night should be fun, fresh, and mean something to someone more than drink offers (although for the record, £3 doubles).

We don't like to clearly define what we play. To some we are an indiepop night- we've played Indietracks, we're named after a Camera Obscura album. All fairly logical. Yet The Guardian recently described us as the leading clubnight in Manchester's 'lo-fi DIY revolution.'

So what do we play? Well, it's alternative indie, but it's not designed to soundtrack chin-stroking. From new wave to no wave, noise rock to indiepop, with Underachievers there is always something instant in there. There's the basis of a pop song or a hook, however heavily it's disguised.

Somewhere along the way we invited a few bands to play live first. And through that things snowballed a little. From local bands we wanted to help break to wider crowds, we've now had people like Chad VanGaalen, Comet Gain, Allo Darlin', Those Dancing Days and Male Bonding play for us.

The door tax (this includes both bands and clubnight) - £3 before or anytime with flyer / £4 / £5 after midnight and without.
And those drink offers again - £3 doubles and mixers

For gig listings and everything else - http://underachieversclub.co.uk

Here's what the press have said -

2011 - MEN Best Indie Night

'There's a lo-fi DIY revolution going in Manchester, with bands including Milk Maid, Weird Era and Patterns, and club nights such as Underachievers Please Try Harder.' (The Guardian)

'The best Saturday night out in town for the discerning indie kid.' (Manchester Music)

'The best place to discover new bands in Manchester.' (MEN)

'Consistently being more challenging and relevant than anything the city’s indie venues have been pedalling.' (Pigeon Post)

'The wonderful Underachievers' (Drowned in Sound)

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Here's the kind of stuff we play at the clubnight...

Allo Darlin' Arcade Fire Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti Austra Beach Fossils Belle & Sebastian Best Coast Bjork Blondie British Sea Power Broken Social Scene Camera Obscura Caribou Casiotone for the Painfully Alone Chad VanGaalen Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Comet Gain Craft Spells Dan Deacon David Bowie Deerhoof Deerhunter Dinosaur Jr Django Django Dum Dum Girls Echo & the Bunnymen Eels Electrelane Felt Field Music Friends Frightened Rabbit Gang of Four Grandaddy Guided By Voices Help Stamp Out Loneliness I Break Horses Idlewild Iggy & the Stooges Interpol Japandroids Jens Lekman Jeffrey Lewis Kate Bush LCD Soundsystem Le Tigre Les Savy Fav Los Campesinos M83 Magnetic Fields Male Bonding Manics Mazes Metronomy Modest Mouse My Bloody Valentine Neutral Milk Hotel No Age Of Montreal Orange Juice Patti Smith Pavement Pixies PJ Harvey Prince Pulp (80's) R.E.M. Radiohead Sonic Youth Stars Stereolab Sufjan Stevens Super Furry Animals Talking Heads Television Tender Trap The Antlers The B-52's The Breeders The Cure The Fall The Field Mice The Flaming Lips The Go-Betweens The History of Apple Pie The Long Blones The Lovely Eggs The Modern Lovers The National The Pains of Being Pure at Heart The Pastels The Ramones The Replacements The School The Shins The Smiths The Strokes The Thermals The Vaselines The Velvet Underground The Walkmen The Wedding Present The White Stripes Those Dancing Days Titus Andronicus Tune-Yards TV on the Radio Twin Shadow Veronica Falls Violent Femmes Vivian Girls Weezer Why? Wilco Wild Beasts Wild Nothing Wire Wolf Parade Yeah Yeah Yeahs Yeasayer Yo La Tengo Youth Lagoon Yuck

Watch this group and the website for who the live bands and special guests will be!

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All these upcoming gigs take place at The Roadhouse, unless stated.

*NO UNDERACHIEVERS CLUBNIGHTS IN MAY*

SATURDAY JUNE 8th

The Roadhouse

Underachievers Clubnight Edition

FRIDAY JUNE 29th

The Roadhouse

Underachievers Clubnight

Milk Maid
Temple Songs

*SUMMER BREAK UNTIL SEPTEMBER*

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BANDS/ ARTISTS THAT HAVE APPEARED LIVE FOR US IN THE PAST-

Bands / Artists that have appeared live for us in the past include...

Chad VanGaalen, Allo Darlin' (x2), Those Dancing Days, Male Bonding, The Rural Alberta Advantage (x2), Comet Gain, Bishop Allen, The History of Apple Pie, Here We Go Magic, Windmill, Schwervon!, Mazes, Cats In Paris, The Longcut, Eagulls (x2), Young British Artists (x5), Bearsuit, Mammal Club (x4), Fear of Men (x2), Let's Buy Happiness, This Many Boyfriends (x4), Mozart Parties, Bear Driver, The ABC Club (x3), Help Stamp Out Loneliness (x3), Driver Drive Faster, Mitchell Museum (x2), Patterns (x3), Tender Trap, PINS, Brown Brogues (x3), The Lovely Eggs (x4), Bos Angeles, younghusband, G R E A T W A V E S, Evans the Death, World Atlas, The School, Napoleon IIIrd, Milk Maid (x2), Talons, Meursault, Milk White White Teeth, The Cavalcade (x4), Zoey Van Goey, Trailer Trash Tracys, Weird Era (x3), Islet, Shrag, Gintis, Over The Wall, Kid Canaveral, North Atlantic Oscillation, Standard Fare (x2), Golden Glow, Vera November, The Louche (x7), Ghost Outfit (x3), Beaty Heart, New Hips (x2), Peter Lyons, Victories at Sea (x2), Runaround Kids (x2), the brownorangeblue band, Cowtown, Tigercats, Just Handshakes (We're British) (x3), Deaf To Van Gogh's Ear (x6), Daniel Land & The Modern Painters, The Felt Tips, Fever Fever, Internet Forever, Letters To Fiesta, Boy or Bison (x2), Uranium Lake (x3), PLANK! (x2), NASDAQ, Insect Guide (x3), D/R/U/G/S, Post War Glamour Girls, Waiters (x2).

PEOPLE THAT WE HAVE DJ'D WITH/ HAVE DJ'D FOR US IN THE PAST-

Pat Nevin, Idlewild, Elizabeth Morris (Allo Darlin'), Now Wave, up the racket, Panda Panda, Shake It Shake It, Stop Making Sense, Pull Yourself Together.

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