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profile ORROW THIS IS TOM s, DJs, bloggers. WHAT: Promoter gularly Hare & WHERE: Most re Victoria. Hounds and The e-catching HIGHLIGHTS: Ey ays quality lineposters and alw ds: “Our first ever ups. In their wor , at The Sunflower show with Foals at Yardbird and Hot Club De Paris show!” every Casio Kids .thisistmrw.co.uk DETAILS: www rw/Facebook. Twitter @thisistm So, what is tomorrow? Tomorrow is Tuesday. No, Tomorrow is the day/ place where all our favourite bands congregate to play. Did you realise the initials of your name spelt out ‘TIT’ when you came up with it? Ha, yeah we did...It reminded me of Only Fools and Horses and we’ve always been a little tongue in cheek so we carried on rocking with ‘tit’ as our name. How did This Is Tomorrow come about? More than anything, just a lack of bands we wanted to see playing Birmingham. We found after only a few shows that lots of national bands avoided Brum, which still seems ridiculous. We also wanted things to be a little more conceptual than just some bands playing and hence the artwork, DJs and lineups that try and allow for lots of audience crossover.
Exploring the people and places that make up Birmingham’s alternative underbelly. This month, THIS IS TOMORROW, the alt-indie purist promoters, determined to keep cutting it on the cutting edge.
It’s quite a roster of bands you’ve put on, what have been the highlights for you? There’s been lots. Casio Kids have absolutely smashed it everytime we’ve had them, having Jofo and Calories play two sold out shows together with us was amazing and also some of the lesser known shows have really stood out like when Liverpool’s Wave Machines played Island Bar. You seem to have a penchant for acts with strange names, where do you find them? Hmmm...I think its more they find us. I’ve never thought about the names actually and I’m now looking at the posters there certainly aren’t many ‘the blah blah’ bands. I guess we’re just attracted to odd bands. And what’s next for you? We’re dead excited about Toro Y Moi - he’s a total genius who’s part of the ‘chillwave’ movement, who’s full band live show is meant to be immense. To also have 35 Seconds supporting is pretty unreal. After that we’ve a free party at The Yardbird on July 23 with Scarlet Harlots and then we’ll see. Any big ambitions for the future? Just to keep putting on interesting bands really. We’d like to put something on a slightly bigger scale, but never want to lose the intimacy of our shows, although we’ve been discussing some big plans for October time...
What local talent do you think we should be looking out for? To anyone that will listen we will always big up how amazing Calories are and their second LP will drop this year on Tough Love Records. Other than that Tantrums have a great sound, Savant show a hell of a lot of potential, as do Green Gables who manage to combine 80’s goth, post punk and disco pretty well! What’s the landscape like for independent promoters these days? In a word, difficult. A lot of agents expect more money for bands now, due to no one making money from selling albums and people are more cautious about where they spend their money. Independent promoters need the support of local music lovers more than ever. What one thing would you like to see happening tomorrow? Sonic Youth playing a free festival in Canon Hill Park.
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To win two tickets to the next This Is Tomorrow show at the Hare & Hounds on July 12, featuring Toro Y Moi, 35 Seconds and more, PLUS a copy of the Toro Y debut Moi album Causers of This, tell us where Toro Y Moi is from. Email competitions@brumnotes.com by July 11