The legendary mini urban festival- Fistful Of Fandango is back for third
year!! The hipsters and the whipsters behind the infamous Club Fandango are
exceedingly pleased to announce the first wave of genre defying acts to
grace this September¹s highly anticipated: A Fistful Of Fandango 3. Taking
place once again at its favourite stomping ground, The 229 Venue on London¹s
Great Portland Street over four days between Wednesday September 9th and
Saturday September 12th.

This four night stand will once again see Team Fandango take over the whole
venue to deliver London¹s new music lovers six acts a night, with the three
bands on the main stage interacting skilfully with the three bands in Room
two ­ this year presented by Schuh and hosted by the ever eclectic boundary
pushing team this is Converse Music and Artrocker Magazine with their
collaborative music project- ŒNew Blood¹. Both have eternally have their
finger on the pulse of what¹s fresh and new, ensuring that this superb music
festival will present yet again THE best new music talent before the masses
have their hands on them.

A Fistful Of Fandango has indelibly stamped itself upon the festival map
over the last three years, snuggling in at the tail end of the festival
season just in between Reading and Leeds Festival and Bestival, charting a
whole new type of city music event for new music lovers. This year¹s
offering is no exception with a plethora or the freshest talent available
throughout all four nights.

Fronting the Fandango Stage on Wednesday 9th are Herman Dune who will be
giving us a fresh blast of his refreshing surf, folk, Garage sound followed
onwards with the sounds of 21 person spectacular alt girl choir ­ Gaggle who
will be infusing the night with their haunting, chanting, stomping,
choral-riot-grrrl sounds. Over at the New Blood Stage, Factory Floor will
bestowing on the crowd their dark textured sound and austere visual identity
followed up with a healthy serving of uber stylish Punk-Goth heavyweight
femme-rockers An Experiment On A Bird In The Air Pump.

Thursday 10th sees Future Of The Left take to the Fandango Stage to present
to the masses their very individual demanding musical pop slant whilst on
the New Blood Stage the hotly tipped Manchester mob, Kong add to the
Fandango mix a taste of their abrasive and ferociously powerful sound
alongside the shriek beat posse that is Kasms who will bringing their
deliciously dark flavour to the proceedings.

Friday 11th brings forth a special showing on the New Blood Stage from
Flashguns who are currently touring with Jamie T and with fellow co-horts on
the night- Video Nasties their thrashing explosive frenetic energy is set to
rip the roof off the 229. LR Rockets will be who gluing everything in place
with an injection of their relentless joyous racket and celebrating the
launch of their next single ŒRenee Loves Losers¹ out on the 7th September,
and with some very special Fandango guests to be announced for main stage
the night is looking hotter than hot.

Saturday 12th sees Art Brut provide some of their deliciously eccentric
upbeat poignant pop beats on the Fandango main stage with Hatcham Social who
will be playing their indie pop and post-punk shoe gaze sounds alongside the
heavy weight sounds of The Molotov¹s .New Blood presents offering from
Televised Crimewave with their songs like fine pieces of art in the making,
garagey, groovy and always fun and The Chapman Family with intensely dark
and noisy indie sound whose chaotic gigs can change from euphoric to the
apocalypse in an instant. New, backing up the rear are new darlings du jour
Lion Club who will be stepping up to challenge with their melancholy urgent
sound and haunting vocals.

Always delighted to blunder in blindly where other sensible types fear to
tread, Club Fandango set up A Fistful Of Fandango Festival on a wing and a
prayer in 2007 and past bands to have trodden the Fistful boards include the
likes of Maps, Shitdisco, Operator Please, Friendly Fires, British Sea
Power, Good Books and Pete & The Pirates, Fionn Regan, Shout Out Louds,
Camera Obscura, The Clientele, Red Light Company, The Ruling Class,
Frightened Rabbit, and Broken Records amongst others. This year¹s A Fistful
Of Fandango 3 line up is no exception and

with more many more exceptional acts to be announced shortly Fandango 3 is
truly hot on the heels of its predecessors.

Like a moderately disturbed distant cousin of the Camden Crawl A Fistful Of
Fandango merrily contrives to mix together the freshest of leftfield faces
with established alternative talents not to be missed.

A Fistful Of Fandango 3: 1 venue: 2 stages: 4 nights: 24 bands
Full band line up announcement to follow shortly.
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WHAT THE PRESS SAY:

“Five years ago they put their ears to the ground and heard a burbling
undercurrent of talent too small for the Goliath labels to notice. For the
most part corporate rock still sucks but down here
when no-ones looking, the futures being written. Sounds like its gonna be a
great year”-NME

“There’s no better place to start than at The Dublin Castle’s Club Fandango
night. You always know you’re going to see something good here…. Playing
this new-band Mecca is a rite of passage: the Kaiser Chiefs, The Killers and
Razorlight are just some of its graduates. So its no surprise that almost
everyone here looks like they either in a band, with a band or trying to
sign one…” -The Independent

“Club Fandango is the undisputed daddy of London’s indie showcase scene,
and, if you’re a Time Out regular, you’ll know there is plenty of
competition for that position…²- Time Out____________________________________________________________________________

LISTINGS INFORMATION:

A FISTFUL OF FANDANGO 3

DATES: 9th / 10th / 11t h / 12th September 09

VENUE: 229 Venue ­Great Portland Street ­London

PRICE: £12.50 per night in advance

TICKETS: www.ticketweb.co.uk < http://www.ticketweb.co.uk> /
www.seetickets.com < http://www.seetickets.com> / www.wegottickets.com
< http://www.wegottickets.com>

ROOM 1: Club Fandango
ROOM 2: SCHUH PRESENTS Converse Music and Artrocker: New Blood

Wednesday 9th:
FANDANGO STAGE:
Herman Dune // Gaggle

SCHUH NEW BLOOD STAGE:
An Experiment On A Bird In The Air Pump // Factory Floor

Thursday 10th:
FANDANGO STAGE:
Future Of The Left

SCHUH NEW BLOOD STAGE:
Kasms // Kong

Friday 11th:
FANDANGO STAGE:
Tbc

SCHUH NEW BLOOD STAGE:
Flashguns // Video Nasties // LR Rockets

Saturday 12th:
FANDANGO STAGE:
Art Brut // Hatcham Social // The Molotovs

SCHUH NEW BLOOD STAGE:
The Chapman Family // Televised Crimewave // Lion Club

With many more to be announced shortlyŠ

FURTHER INFO: www.clubfandango.co.uk / www.conversemusic.com