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This City **FREE TRACKS AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD**
Indie / Hardcore / Pop

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Brighton,
United Kingdom

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Member Since2/2/2006
Band MembersChris Purr - Vocals

Arran Day - Guitar

Grant Coleman - Guitar & Vocals

George Travis - Bass Guitar & Vocals

Nick Burdett - Drums

Management - James Grant Media Contact Nick here - NickW@jamesgrant.co.uk

Booking Agent - Phyllis Belezos @ phyllis@itb.co.uk

Press - James Grant Media Contact Simon Hargreaves @ Simon@jamesgrant.co.uk

Sounds Like

"You guys were a great opening act, thanks for 'not sucking!' Really it was nice to have a somewhat local band on the show and from checking your page it seems like it was a good fit!"

Taking Back Sunday, August 2008

"ThisCity’s boisterous, sharply executed, poppy post-hardcore is breathless and catchy".

Rival Schools support review, Kerrang! Magazine, July 2008.

"Raw, relentlessly energetic and with one of the most distinctive vocalists in the UK, This City splice indie, pop, hardcore and dance punk into an irresistible package".

Huw Stephens (The Lake Stage presents BBC Introducing), June 2008

"Never has mainstream indie in the UK sounded so utterly bleak and pretentious. Which is why a band like ThisCity are so vital to the lifeblood of our music scene. Their Myspace page describes them as "indie/hardcore/pop" and this is scarily accurate. Raw like early-days Biffy Clyro on former Club Fandango-released single 'Romantic', Bloc Party with a more aggro side on 'With Loaded Guns', not to mention the balls-to-the-wall angular rock of current single 'Kids With Fireworks'. Forget all the drab Pigeon Detective/The Enemy/One Night Only bollocks that our towns are spewing forth; ThisCity are one of the bands we need gracing the covers of our magazines and taking over the airwaves".

- www.new-noise.net April 2008

ThisCity ‘Kids With Fireworks’ : This record does what it says on the tin – the relentlessly energetic ThisCity sound exactly like kids with fireworks. And the Brighton quintet may be shouty but there’s an underlying anthemic quality to their music that makes them an indie/hardcore crossover act (At The Drive In meets The Automatic) to recommend".

Johnny K, The Fly Magazine, March 2008

"ThisCity are picking up where Test-Icicles and At The Drive In left off with a brand of screamo that has a melody. GOSH!"

- Loud And Quiet January 2008

"Suburban lives crammed into three and half minutes of sharp, disco-punk, this is a track that promises great things from the Brighton five-piece. A combination of At The Drive-In’s fire, Les Savvy Fav’s angular attack and The Automatic’s knack for an action-packed tune, 2008 could be their year".

Tom Bryant (Kerrang!), ThisCity: Kids With Fireworks single Review for Music Week, January 2008

"ThisCity sound a bit like Bloc Party if they lightened up... Scratch deeper and you'll find a battle for their soul between Talking Heads and At The Drive-In"

- Dan Martin , NME August 2007

"Imagine, if you can stretch the outer reaches of your mind to conjure up such inconceivable notions, that The Automatic were a decent band rather than a bunch of grating one-tune wonders. Imagine that their idea of taking the key elements of hardcore and lashing them to strong melodies and singalong choruses had actually worked rather than become more irritating than herpes. You are imagining This City. Like The Blood Brothers younger, er, brothers"

- Kelvin Goodson, frinkmusic.com August 2007

"This City can't fail"

- Paul Lester, The Guardian August 2007

"Their Indie guitars and disco-pop choruses swim along happily, only broken by stormy yelps or jagged riffs reminiscent of welsh rockers The Automatic".

- Rock Sound Magazine February 2007

"Bloc Party + At The Drive-In x Twofold = The jerky indie hardcore of Brighton's ThisCity".

- Gravity Dip Promoters, January 2007

"ThisCity play the most infectious songs around"

- RaveMagazine (Queensland, Australia), December 2006

"We like it very much indeed!/ a brilliant band"

- Huw Stephens, Radio 1, October 2006/February 2007

"ThisCity will blow you away!"

- Rock Sound Magazine August 2006

"tighter than their own skinny-fit jeans"

- powpowpow.com August 2006

"Like a phoenix from the ashes of Brighton's cream of hardcore come This City, punky-disco indie with oh-so hardcore leanings, like The Travelling Wilburys if it was made of members of Bloc Party and At The Drive In. Not To Be Missed!!!"

- Touch Me I’m Sick (Brighton club), July 2006

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   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Nov 27 2008 8:00P
The After Dark Club ** CANCELLED by venue ** READING
Dec 2 2008 8:00P
Camden Barfly w/ Twin Atlantic LONDON
Dec 3 2008 8:00P
Little Civic w/ Twin Atlantic WOLVERHAMPTON
Dec 4 2008 8:00P
The Royal w/ Twin Atlantic DERBY
Dec 5 2008 8:00P
Rock City w/ Twin Atlantic NOTTINGHAM
Dec 6 2008 8:00P
Classic Grand w/ Twin Atlantic GLASGOW
Dec 20 2008 8:00P
Rock City w/ The Ghost Of A Thousand NOTTINGHAM
Dec 31 2010 8:00P
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ThisCity have been already been described in review as “like The Travelling Wilburys if it was made of members of Bloc Party and At The Drive In”. Maybe if you throw in the eyeball-popping nuances of Blood Brothers, the same turn-on-a-sixpence disco-jerk rhythms of the more danceable end of punk (think Les Savy Fav or !Forward Russia!), the impassioned cacophony of mid 80s Dischord Records-led emotional hardcore, the pop sensibility of tykes such as The Automatic and subtract the reference to Tom Petty and co, we might just be inclined to agree…

ThisCity formed and reside in Brighton in 2006 having met at a tattoo convention. Since stabilising their line-up with new drummer Nick Burdette (two of their previous drummers departed to join The Pipettes and Architects) they’ve quickly established themselves as one of the surest bets in the UK’s thriving underground scene.

ThisCity are five young men who look like they were born to share a stage with one another and who play with an almost telepathic ability. A blur of swinging fringes and speed-skinny legs, live ThisCity are an engaging and explosive force.

With their US counterparts having had a monopoly on the anthemic, life-affirming end of hardcore for some years now, ThisCity are part of a renaissance of UK bands who can’t fully relate to Stateside accents and songs about shopping malls (cf Gallows, Ghost Of A Thousand, Kids In Glass Houses etc) and instead are making the music that best represents their lives.

In their short career, they’ve already done numerous live radio sessions, including sessions for XFM and a Radio 1 session for Huw Stephens who was the first person to play next single ‘We Move’ and recently invited the band to perform on his Radio 1 Introducing Stage at this years Latitude Festival. They also recently supported Rival Schools on their comeback tour - which was a dream come true for the band - and a pretty heavy introduction to life in ThisCity for their brand new drummer. Previously, ThisCity have supported the likes of Biffy Clyro, Future Of The Left, Sparta, CapDown and The Ghost Frequency and been lauded by everyone from Fierce Panda’s Simon Williams to Steve Lamacq to NME to The Guardian. With a tongue somewhere in the vicinity of their cheek, the latter wryly described ThisCity as “a bunch of neo-post-quasi-sub-pseudo-new-wave kids who operate at the interface between nu rave and emo”, and noted that ThisCity have “been on the road so much they've colonised most of the nation's seedy dives”.

ThisCity's debut single ‘Romantic’/‘With Loaded Guns’ was released on Club Fandango/Fierce Panda on September 10 2007 and sold out immediately garnering much acclaim in the underground and a small legion of followers. Two slabs of uplifting dance floor punk built on incandescent guitars and choruses designed to punch holes in ceilings to, ThisCity occupy that space between punk and pop, between despair and celebration, the gutter and the stars, youth and adulthood. Second ltd edition single ‘Kids With Fireworks’ saw the band take things to the next level. With 5 remixes from the likes of Ghost Frequency, Data Select Party and Rival schools, KWF showcased the five piece at their most blistering and has now become the bands explosive sign off at live shows.

With a storming set at Latitude behind them and a headline slot at Redfest in their sights, ThisCity are readying themselves for the release of their 3rd and final limited edition single before heading into the studio to record their debut album. ‘We Move’ - released on September 8th – hit the airwaves a few weeks ago and is already being heralded by tastemakers across the UK as the bands biggest sounding track to date with it’s chanted gang vocal and hooky guitar driven melody.

Though ThisCity’s future remains unwritten, we can see it shining brightly from here.







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DOWNLOAD "WE MOVE" HERE...This City - We Move - Single




WE MOVE TOUR DIARY

VIDEO FOR "WE MOVE" (Single out 8th September 2008)... Directed by Dan Fernbach::

VIDEO FOR "KIDS WITH FIREWORKS"... Directed by Mike Prior @ Nothing To See::




Video for "ROMANTIC"... Directed by Mike Prior @ Nothing To See Here.



Latitude Festival 2008 BBC Introducing Lake Stage


28th August 2008

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27th August 2008

New song up.... Let us know what you think.

20th August 2008

Everyone in the ThisCity camp is on fire with excitement as we are supporting Taking Back Sunday at the Astoria tomorrow night.

So which of you guys are coming?

We need your help to get the rest of the Astoria jumping as we want to get everyone warmed up for TBS. So when we hit the stage we want to see you go off!

On another note, we hit the UK next month for a tour to support our next single We Move. Tickets are on sale now and everyone that buys one will get a FREE un-heard track form our upcoming album (See our Blog for details).

Anyways... Until Tomorrow

xx

15th August 2008

ThisCity support Taking Back Sunday at The London Astoria on 21st August. Pretty sweet yeah?

7th August 2008

Our Unofficial Street Team have set up a competition for one of their street team members the opportunity to win a super rare signed ThisCity CD plus other bits of awesome merch to celebrate the release of our next single "We Move". For a chance off entering please sign up by hitting the below link.

http://www.myspace.com/tcunofficialstreetteam

There will also be two runners up prizes so click the above to see what you are missing out on.

Good luck to all that enter...

Plus due to popular demand we got some Skull shirts reprinted including a limited run of Black and Gold...... Only a few left so be quick if you want one. They are in our online shop now.

Go get yours from here

Oh and if you didn't know we have a Facebook page …. http://www.facebook.com/pages/This-City/6549922838 come say hi.

25th July 2008

Yo! The new "We Move" Video is up for a view here...

http://www.rocksound.tv/articles/1631/This-City---We-Move---EXCLUSIVE.html

Cut copy and let us know what you think.

News - 23rd July 2008

Hello,

TC are live from Latitude tonight on Radio one (Twice in fact) …

9pm-10pm: InNewMusicWeTrust - the best of BBC introducing

12am -2am: Huw Stephens Introducing in England

Keep an ear out or listen again all this week.

News - 22nd July 2008

ThisCity's next single "We Move" will be released on Alco Pop Records on 1st September 2008. Availible at on 7inch and download only. We have shot an awesome video for the track that will be aired around the middle of August (See our pics for a sneak peek).

In other news, we have just returned from latitude 2008 which was so much fun. Some tracks should be aired on Radio One this week. Now that's done our next gig is on Saturday in London. Hope to see some of you there.

BOOKING AGENT.

MANAGEMENT.

DOWNLOAD OUR SINGLE HERE.

AUSTRALIA, BUY OUR SINGLE HERE - KILL THE MUSIC.

THISCITY MERCH.

THANK YOU

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Nov 19 2008 6:17 PM

good good
oh cool, thanks for commenting back!
xxx
KT says ATTACK!





Nov 19 2008 4:23 PM

yay london on the 2nd!
cant wait!

KTxx
Tizzie Shameless [wpb]





Nov 19 2008 1:10 PM

did you find out about the 20th for me? :)
I'm definately coming to the 5th + the 20th.
I'm very excited.
xxx
Hannah.





Nov 19 2008 1:04 PM

back in glasgow, and so soon :D !
can't wait to see you again xx
Hello My name IsTay AKA The Eye Witness





Nov 19 2008 11:05 AM

See you on the 2nd!!
Hello My name IsTay AKA The Eye Witness





Nov 19 2008 10:57 AM

Ah didn't see that! I'm there :)
decembers tragic drive





Nov 18 2008 10:54 PM

play the manchester date with twin atlantic
go on you know you want to!
'laura; twinatlantic ♥





Nov 18 2008 9:18 PM

its utter lovely that you guys are supporting twin atlantic in glasgow :)

love it :D
x
Hello My name IsTay AKA The Eye Witness





Nov 18 2008 8:18 PM

No London :( don't make me have to travel to see you guys, even though I don't know anyone in those cities :(
Fran! [*Chess*] *check out The Afterwhiles*





Nov 18 2008 7:56 PM

hey,
how are things?
was wondering do you have any stuff i can get my hands on like itunes etc? cos you were ace with kigh!
xxxx
a me.





Nov 18 2008 7:55 PM

YAAASSSSSS!!!

xx
The Bardo





Nov 18 2008 7:51 PM

Hows it going, new friend.
???????????????
Cat.





Nov 18 2008 7:40 PM

miiint =D

little civic (Y)
super fun !
& twin atlantic, christmas come early then? =)

cant wait

x
Go:AMY! Bubbleamymad luving EM





Nov 18 2008 5:04 PM

Helloooo guys:D

Hows you??

omg your music is amazing, especially luving Kids with fireworks!

:) have a fab week!

You rule!!

xx Amy xx
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Nov 18 2008 3:47 PM

Nice Music dudes!
Hope we'll have the chance to play together next time we hit the Uk!
Take care and have fun!
Nicolas
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Nov 18 2008 1:50 PM

2 nottingham dates?! nom nom (L) love you boys! :'D Might try do Derby aswell. Eep.
xx
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Nov 18 2008 12:31 AM

Bonanza!
Tizzie Shameless [wpb]





Nov 17 2008 4:44 PM

nottinghammmm(L)
you made me sooo happy.
getting tickets this weekend ^__^
xxx
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Nov 17 2008 11:47 AM

Hey, cheers, hope the sounds will make you bedroom-mosh.
:)
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Nov 17 2008 12:13 AM

you guys are sick as fuck come up to the north east :) !!!!!
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Nov 15 2008 8:40 PM

Hey guys, how you doing?
x
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Nov 15 2008 9:15 AM

awesome gig in northampton with kids in glass houses

keep up the good work guys!!

xxx
Ella





Nov 15 2008 12:13 AM

Brilliant Gig at Proud. It was great to see you all again. And Ella didn't even faint ;). Even though she wasn't completely better there was no way she was going to miss the show. Will put videos up soon and next time please do Just Because :)
See you soon
Love Ella xx
Hello My name IsTay AKA The Eye Witness





Nov 14 2008 5:31 PM

Last night was awesome xx