2nd December - Montage Populaire

Day two of our December download feature and it would appear that we’ve already peaked.

Having only formed a handful of months ago, if that, Montage Populaire have already began to cause a flirtatious buzz that foresees innovation slowly peaking it’s novel features from the glorious bubble of indie-pop genius that this Southampton six-piece has only just began to compose.

Birthed from a number of local solo acts and various ex-band members of been-and-gone stage grazers, it’s Luke Donovan who fronts and soldiers this pioneering troupe head first into the scrappy battle of the fickle indie scene with a medley of twee-pop swoons, softly-spoken sincerity doused vocals and a richly woven musical back drop that forms the noteworthy tapestry in which Mon Pop are building the future of this band.

The layers within Mon Pop's songs are both dense and fulfilling. From the tweaky claps of a Los Camp-like grin ('Break Up The Band') to the swaying maturity and hesitant gloom of the Bunnymen bought up on The Strokes ('Last Among Equals'), their ambidextrous ability has only just began to shine so all we can do is get ready for the light.

Download 'Simon Says' Below...

Download Montage Populaire - Simon Says

Official Secrets Act & The Antlers @ Lennons

On the 28th of November, Long Live Rock And Roll are putting on a top-notch co-headline show at Lennons Nightclub. The Official Secrets Act will be playing alongside Brooklynite three-piece, The Antlers, a band who recently received a rave review from the notoriously hard to please music magazine, NME.

Review and facebook link below. For £2 entry just pop your name on the facebook group.


http://www.facebook.com/#/event.php?eid=185601832233&ref=ts

Long Live Rock And Roll Advent Calendar

If you believe what the papers have to say then I guess we're a nation plagued with underage pregnancy's, binge drinking and a high level of obesity. What a dross tale. However, we can assist in the alteration of one of our country's downfalls...

Rather than stock up of a chocolate filled advent calendar this year you should take a trip to this wonderful blog, why I hear you ask? Well, that's a very interesting question...

This year the Long Live Rock And Roll blog will be bringing you a musical download-aided advent calendar that offers one download a day of songs we love, bands we love, local bands and any other musical exploit that takes our fancy.

We will be going live with this project on December 1st, so get excited guys and girls!

Until December 1st though, why not check out the video below of The Crookes. A Sheffield swing-pop 60s-folk outfit who will be playing Hamptons on the 29th of November for a free entry show. Sweet.

Dan. x

Limbs Of Communication

At Long Live Rock And Roll experience has taught us one fundamental piece of advice. Like it or not, the Internet is taking over the entire world, so what better way to embrace this than to hop onto literally every available entity of online communication.

LONG LIVE ROCK AND ROLL FACEBOOK GROUP:

http://www.facebook.com/#/group.php?gid=6923515193&ref=ts

HAMPTONS FACEBOOK GROUP:

http://www.facebook.com/#/group.php?gid=239808995000&ref=ts

LONG LIVE ROCK AND ROLL MYSPACE:

http://www.myspace.com/longliverockandrollclubnights

HAMPTONS MYSPACE:

http://www.myspace.com/hamptonsbar

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So you can go ahead and add us on all of your networking facilities because not only will that make you look more popular but you will have all the up to date infromation on up coming shows etc. But enough of that. Below I have listed some of the albums that we are currently loving in the LLR&R office at the moment. Makes the days go a little smoother.

Black Lips


Julian Cassablancas


Miike Snow

Welcome to Long Live Rock And Roll

Welcome to the Long Live Rock And Roll blog. The intention of this new-age blessing and well hyped method of communication is to bring you various musical treats to help your Internet grazing days go that little bit faster.

We will be bringing you a tirade of line ups and shows we have booked in, previews of shows, photos from some of our shows and of the bands we love, reviews, information on the thriving Southampton scene and a very exciting Christmas Advent-eqse special in which you will be able to download a song a day throughout a predictably windy December, all the way up until that fat bloke in a red coat climbs down your chimney, which is in fact not as disturbing as it sounds.

So we would like to say welcome to our world, we hope you enjoy it as much as we do.

Dan, Ally, Owen and everyone at Long Live Rock And Roll.

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