The praise for ‘Waging War On The Obvious’ is flowing thick and fast, several glowing reviews have found their way to press but this one by Sargie at Scootering is our favourite. 

"A mere six months into Connett's career and their debut mini album, Waging War On The Obvious is not just causing a few ripples, its more like tsunami size tidal waves crashing over the bland, banal and boring 'music' imposed on us in recent times.
 
Son, opens proceedings, revisiting late 60's psychadelia tinged pop, bringing ethics of that era bang up to date. Next is the powerful power pop anthem in the making Running Miles, followed by a shimmering, summer pop gem.
 
Perfect Melody looks back to the vaudeville, old time music hall style and blends that, ala Kinks, Small Faces, Blur, among others, with British guitar pop nous... a reprise of Perfect Melody is the closing track, complete with Kazoo!
 
Before which chronologically comes Song For Swingers, which sounds how Marc Bolan fronting The Byrds would have, should it have happened.
 
Cascading chords combine with THAT classic 60's drum roll on the introduction of Can't You Hear Me, which builds into a classic- in -the- making guitar pop nugget that Elvis Costello would have been proud of.
 
Waging War On The Obvious is an alternative pop goldmine,( meaning pop in the real sense of the word), overflowing with contemporary killer songs.

Simply a timeless, yet right now, package of alt-pop perfection

visit www.myspace.com/darronjconnett to grab yourself a copy.

Sarge

“IAN MOORE AT THE ALTERNATIVE COMEDY FESTIVAL”

As we all know there is a transatlantic divide when it comes to humour, however our very own MOD ambassador of comedy Ian Moore has taken it upon himself to bridge that self deprecating and often morose space.

This May Ian will be travelling to Boston USA for the Alternative Comdey Festival.

The 2009 festival, takes place May 7th-10th this year’s line-up of unique comedians includes: Janeane Garofalo, Michael Showalter and Michael Ian Black, Upright Citizens Brigade Touring Company, Rob Riggle from “The Daily Show”, Eugene Mirman, Leo Allen, The Onion Live, Myq Kaplan, Jamie Kilstein, The Steamy Bohemians, Brian Longwell, Ken Reid, Ian Moore and many more!

Friday night, the laughs roll along with the Upright Citizens Brigade Touring Company. The sketch group that produced “Saturday Night Live” stars Amy Poehler and Horatio Sanz will be joined on stage by Rob Riggle, one of the most popular correspondents from Comedy Central’s “Daily Show”; Eugene Mirman, the Lexington native who plays Eugene the Landlord on HBO’s “Flight of the Conchords”; and Great Britain’s favourite Mod comedian, Ian Moore.

Showtime is 10PM at the Somerville Theatre. Tickets $29, available through Ticketmaster.com.

www.altcomfestival.com

Ikon is proud to be supporting the Mod’s May Day Birmingham weekender over May Day bank holiday to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Mod revival and features many bands from the revival era and the intervening years.

TICKETS CAN BE PURCHASED FOR THIS EVENT BY CONTACTING THE VENUE:-

THE SOUND BAR, 205 - 213 CORPORATION STREET, BIRMINGHAM, B4 6SE

Tel:07834039992

Email: jlmod@yahoo.co.uk

All the proceeds will go to the Charity 'ARMS' for research into Multiple Sclerosis. The line up is as follows. . .

Finally the release of 'Waging War On The Obvious', their third release on the Original Ikon label.   Set for 22nd February, this latest offering from Connett has everything you already love about their music its lively, fresh and very eclectic; they’ve done great work on this CD and its getting noticed. 

 

Francis Morrison from Clash Magazine had the following to say...

‘I think it’s safe to say that the nation of indiepopers are ready to embrac
e them & take them out their cult status’.

Here’s where you can catch them...Keep checking their MySpace fro mew gigs.

For more information and details on performance dates please contact Mono Media by email on mono_media@hotmail.com or check the MySpace Page: www.myspace.com/darronjconnett