The Ballroom of Romance presents... Ballroom #24 Friday the 30th of January The Lower Deck, Portobello Doors: 9pm, €6 in with free CD-r to the first 100. Featuring: The Cold Spoon Conpiracy Giveamanakick Waiting Room Rest The Coldspoon Conspiracy: One of Dublin's finest alternative guitar bands, the Coldspoons play emotive lo-fi rock that draws comparisons to Sebadoh, The American Analogue Set amongst others. They recently released their debut album "Plays well with others" to great reviews http://thecoldspoonconspiracy.com Giveamanakick: Giveamanakick are a drum and guitar two piece from Limerick who play full on, down and dirt RAWK! Ballroom veterans, they return to give tunes from their "Is it okay to be loud, Jesus?" album a good pounding. They have been compared to The Jesus Lizard, Fugazi and Helmet: The White Stripes they ain't! http:/www.giveanamakick.com Waiting Room Hailing from Cork, Waiting Room deliver a unique sound that comfortably slides and cuts through genres with an infectiously catchy laid back air. Intricate guitar playing and soft affecting vocals are perfectly complimented by a tight, meandering rhythm section and sweet teasing cello lines http://www.waitingroomfun.com Rest Cork based outfit Rest dispense of the notion that music should abide by strict guidelines. Without a vocal what is there to grasp onto? Verse, Chorus, Verse, Chorus this is not! Atmosphere gives way to dynamics, which in turn swells to breaking point, via jarring white noise and heavy textures, before a final crashing crescendo and then its over. Similar to the foreboding tension of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, the ethereal density of Isis and the urgency of post-punk/mathrock, the resulting sound is an eclectic and continuously evolving undercurrent of melody and noise which looks to envelope the listener.