Fresher's Week

Next week is Fresher's week and to coincide with this we've organised an extra special Shake it! with the best two indie nights in Manchester - Underachievers Please Try Harder and Pull Yourself Together. It will only cost you £2 all night, with or without a flyer!

Check out the Fresher's playlist
Shake it mix sept 10 by Shake It!
1. Tokyo Police Club - Bambi
2. Fang Island - Daisy
3. Pulled Apart By Horses - High Five, Swan Dive, Nose Dive
4. Tame Impala - Lucidity
5. LCD Soundsystem - I Can Change
6. Summer Camp - Was It Worth It?
7. Wild Nothing - Golden Haze
8. of Montreal - Sex Karma
9. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Beverly Kills
10. Surfer Blood - Floating Vibes
11. Tweak Bird - Light In Lines
12. Everything Everything - Suffragette Suffragette
13. Warpaint - Ashes To Ashes (David Bowie)

Collaborations and Compilations

Friday the 11th of June is a very special Shake It! as we are teaming up with Underachievers Please Try Harder for an end of term blowout. (Check out the lovely poster below)

To Celebrate we've made a mix. There will be a few in CD form for those who get down early but for those who miss out, don't worry for here it is. Presented in a streaming form.

Shake it! June '10 by Shake It!

Shake it jun 10 by Shake It!

1. Fabio Acapella / Dutch Uncles 2:54

2. Jonathon Low / Vampire Weekend 3:33

3. Repeater Beater / Mew 2:34

4. Lovesick Teenagers / Bear In Heaven 3:16

5. Internet Warrior / Oh No Ono 4:06

6. Beachy Head / Veronica Falls 2:32

7. Let's Write A Book / Field Music 3:43

8. The Last Kiss / Thomas Tantrum 3:25

9. Brian Eno / MGMT 4:32

10. Sleigh Bells / Tell 'Em 2:56

11. Gold Gun Girls / Metric 4:06

12. Ghost Train / Summer Camp 3:03

13. Intuition / Lonelady 3:30

14. Marrow / St. Vincent 3:24

15. O.N.E. / Yeasayer 5:24

16. The Difference Between Us / The Dead W… 3:37

17. Scarecrows On A Killer Slant / Liars 4:15

New Posters/Flyers

You can find the new season's posters and printable flyers at our Photobucket page.

Life Is Sweet!

February's Shake It! will be opening with an early-doors playback of the new album from the fantastic Lightspeed Champion - "Life is sweet! Nice to meet you".

Playback will start at 9pm and you can expect giveaways and all the usual! See you there! x

January's Playlist

A short playlist from last month's Shake It!, mainly stuff that was played early on... after that we forget what was played ;)

Apple Pie Bed - Lawrence Arabia
Feet To The Sky - Lulu & The Lampshades
Listen and Repeat - Televised Crimewave
Not A Problem - Black Lips
May B 1 Day - Ikara Colt
Crocodile - Hatcham Social
Marlene - Lightspeed Champion
You Said - Chikinki
Blueberry - Late of the Pier
I Can Talk - Two Door Cinema Club
We Want War - These New Puritans
Taste The Last Girl - Sons & Daughters
Higher Than The Stars - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
There Are Listed Buildings - Los Campesinos!
“Further Complications." - Jarvis Cocker
Mistakes & Regrets - ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
11th Dimension - Julian Casablancas
Light Of Love - Music Go Music
Bubbles - Biffy Clyro
Reptiles - Them Crooked Vultures
Ambling Alp - Yeasayer
Gold Guns Girls - Metric
Man In My Mind - Race Horses
Stay Away From Me - The Star Spangles
Suffragette Suffragette - Everything Everything
Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground - The White Stripes
Stand By Your Manatee - Future Of The Left
I Want You To - Weezer
No Wow - The Kills
Lips - Micachu

Shake It! On the 12th February!

Kick off your weekend artpop style, and get down to The Star & Garter, Friday 12th February, where we'll be playing our usual mish-mash of new and old artpop/indie/new wave/noisy stuff and our favourite new bands for 2010!

We will most likely be playing stuff like:

Vampire Weekend / The White Stripes / Animal Collective / Grammatics / Yeah Yeah Yeahs / The Drums / Wild Beasts / Pavement / The Kills / Franz Ferdinand / St. Vincent / The Xx / Late Of The Pier / Everything Everything / Battles / Pixies / Les Savy Fav / Girls / The Strokes / Interpol / Radiohead / Future Of The Left / Weezer / Blur / Bombay Bicycle Club / Los Campesinos! / TV On The Radio / Micachu...

Plus your requests if you get them in early!

See you there!
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£4 WITH FLYER (£5 without)
9.00-2.30
The Star & Garter, Fairfield Street (nr. Piccadilly train station)

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