A Fistful Of Fandango 2
The movers and shakers behind Club Fandango are very much delighted to announce that A FISTFUL OF FANDANGO 2 will be taking place at the 229 venue on London’s Great Portland Street between September 2nd - 6th. This five-night stand will see Team Fandango once again take over the whole 229 venue and each evening will deliver three bands in the large Room 1 and three bands in the petite Room 2. That makes a total of six bands a night for five consecutive nights, which means a grand total of 30 acts in a week.
Never afraid to blindly jump in at the deep end where others sensibly fear to paddle, Club Fandango launched A FISTFUL OF FANDANGO on a wing and a prayer in September 2007 with 24 bands playing over four nights at a new unproven venue with a new unproven sound system. The Fandango label, famous for finding the best new bands of the moment signed up Maps, 
Shitdisco, Electric Soft Parade and British Sea Power amongst many others to provide electric and sensational performances across the week in room 1. Whilst room two saw the handsome likes of Friendly Fires, Pete & The Pirates, Malcolm Middleton, Fanfarlo, Operator Please and quite literally more.
And so A FISTFUL OF FANDANGO instantly branded itself onto the rump of the London live diary, snuggling in at the tail end of the festival season in between Reading / Leeds and Bestival. Like a perturbed relative of the Camden Crawl A FISTFUL OF FANDANGO was embraced as a supercool indiecity event for the going out generation and a mammoth stack of media previews and reviews bears testament to the wild optimism of Team Fandango in the pub all those months earlier.
This year’s A FISTFUL OF FANDANGO 2 promises to be the highlight of the new music lover’s calendar, featuring a bigger and better line up that highlights new talent across the board with the likes of Camera Obscura, Air Traffic, Yacht, The Clientele, St Vincent and Broken Records already on board and with many more to be announced the Fandango array is an unprecedented musical joy.
Aided by Club Fandango’s regular midweek events in the small room and some judiciously chosen sell out shows in the big room (Razorlight, Biffy Clyro, The Raveonettes, The Duke Spirit et al) the 229 has established itself on the ferociously competitive London venue scene .The usual Club Fandango friends and partners will all be involved, from BBC 6 Music and Rock Sound magazine to BMI and with a capacity of 800 across the two rooms the potential audience for the whole event is a massive 4000 guitar-crazed, synth-fazed punters.
So then. …2 stages: 5 nights: 30 bands: @ the 229. And all happening in 3 months time. Let’s go to work…Full Fandango line up & listings info to be announced shortly.
SEPTEMBER 2/3/4/5/6 2008
http://www.clubfandango.co.uk | http://www.229thevenue.org
