STARK is coming to Leeds next Thursday at Cardigan Arms
Date: 22 Mar 2008 at 05:48
Hope you'll come party with STARK our one night in Leeds...
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Whorehouse night at Cardigan Arms--UK
9pm
Leeds UK
364 Kirkstall Road
Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS4 2HQ
Cost: £4
Description:Moog Promotions presents Whorehouse Rock night! Phone number 0113 2742000 Train to Burley Park Upstairs in the Harmonic Room
With: The Psycho Strangers and The Gushers
Coffee Artists Press Release - March 14, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: LONDON AND LEEDS MARCH 2008
So what happens when a TV weathergirl, the guitarist from a porn band and the Cookie Monster record an album?
It comes out sounding like Stark, one of New York’s patented hardest-working-bands and the proud owners of the most versatile and unexpected punk rock album to come out of the Big Apple in years, and they’re also on their way here to tour the UK March 25th to March 31st.
Mild mannered Fox TV weathergirl (and radio DJ and bar-woman) by day, screaming punk rock banshee by night, Lani Ford fronts the band, writes the songs and lays out the basslines with "Sweet" Rob Endemann, one time Sesame Street Cookie Monster, on drums. Infamously lick laden guitarist Josette couldn’t make this trip, waylaid by a previous engagement at a porn convention, but engineer and occasional touring guitarist "Sonic" Joe Hogan is stepping up to make sure the live performance is going to be as fluid, loud and hard as ever.
Stark are here to launch their latest recording Put It To Your Head; an album alive with versatility and genre cross dressing tied together by plain and simple great songwriting and performance that’s about to be showcased for the first time to British audiences at some of our best known small venues, something Lani can’t wait for;.
"Growing up I was all about bands from the UK; all the ones everyone quotes like The Who, Zeppelin, the Beatles or the Pistols, but you know Fleetwood Mac and Genesis and the Smiths meant just as much to me out in the middle of nowhere in Texas. Now here I am all these years later and I’m treading the same stages and streets, getting changed in the same dressing rooms as some of them, feeling the same vibe that inspired all that amazing music.
"A few Brits have told me Americans always go on about Britain and all its history; but it’s true, the whole backstory and inspiration behind so much stuff I love is right here and we’re getting to play with all that incredible history in the air around us."
Stark are more than an American wannabe Britrock/punk outfit though, citing influences as varied as Judy Garland and Agnostic Front their music herds together great swathes of country, blues, rock, punk, metal and pop and somehow makes them into a throbbing, driving, cohesive whole, littered with hooks and songwriting.
It’s heady combination that has ticked every box on the NYC indie musician’s hit list; performances at South by Southwest, CMJ, CBGBs, Don Hills, Arlene’s Grocery, the ASCAP Songwriting award three years straight, solid East Coast College Radio support seeing them into the CMJ Top 30, independent film scores, heavy support from the indie press and plenty of sex, drugs and rock n roll has more than a few people expecting this second studio release to do some serious business.
Stark are here March 25th to 31st and are available for interviews and acoustic performances throughout. The album goes on release in the UK March 28th at the Dirty Water Club launch night.
The lead singles from the album are track 1 "18 Again" and track 4 "Oh No". All tracks from the album are radio safe except track 9 which features some parental advisory lyrics.
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