UBERALLES PRESENTS...

BORN RUFFIANS

When one of your tunes is hand-picked by one of the hugest mobile phone companies to feature on their advert, you know you're on to a winner. More than just the obvious benefits, it's also a sure-fire sign that your tune is, what Jerry Lee Lewis used to call, 'Kill-uh'.

Born Ruffians, just one single, a couple of EPs and an album into their career have received that lucrative stamp of approval with their single, Hummingbird, currently selling phones by the bucketload. And, chances are, they'll follow the other bands who've been dealt that same hand and will be selling out venues and notching up mega-sales any time soon. Oh, and an appearance in the recent Channel 4 teen drama, Skins, won't have done them any harm either.

From Midland, Ontario in Canada they come, numbering just three. And with a refreshing, schizophrenic take on indie rock they are armed. In fact, so refreshing is their outlook that they've been signed to the legendary electronic label, Warp Records. The NME love them, Time Out labelled them “a must see” and even The Guardian quite liked them. Drowned In Sound webzine summed them up best though, labelling their sound “equal parts zappy pop smarts and bracing complexity”.

Thursday 18th September 2008
Clwb Ifor Bach, Womanby Street, Cardiff
£6 in advance, 7:30pm

Tickets are available through Spillers Records (02920 224905/www.spillersrecords.co.uk), www.seetickets.com and Clwb Ifor Bach's box office (02920 232199) and are £6 in advance

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