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April 26th 2009 Pre Order SHANA TOVA EP NOW! Here at Ditto Music and Here at 7Digital

April 17th 2009 Sound Bar, Corporation Street. With Andre Aristotle and Black Market Empire.

March 13th 2009 Friday 13th KILLER THRILLER - Shana Tova, Sunset Cinema Club, Little Dipper, Big Bren Higgins, Bernadette Louise. The Victoria, John Bright Street, Birmingham. Entry £3 with HORROR Fancy Dress £4 without. Doors 8pm.

January 23rd 2009 An evening of Autumn Store DJs and live bands, featuring Shana Tova and Falling and Laughing. The Victoria on John Bright St, Birmingham. Cost TBC.

January 16th 2009 Art Exhibition Launch Party. Fazeley Street, Digbeth, Birmingham. Details tbc.

December 27th 2008 Sunset Cinema Club presents - Tropical Hotdog Christmas Vacation. With Johnny Foreigner, Calories, Little Dipper, Shana Tova, Miss Haliwell, Kindnapper Bell & Sunset Cinema Club. The Island Bar's NEW VENUE at the Victoria pub on John Bright St, Birmingham. Cost TBC.

October 18th 2008 You Are Invited Bar 1:22 Huddersfield. With Instruments, The Tupolev Ghost etc. Doors 4pm Free Entry.

October 17th 2008 The Varsity, Wolverhampton. Headline show. £4 entry Doors 8:30.

June 18th 2008 'This is Tomorrow' Tubelord, Shana Tova, Little Dipper & Dinosaur Pile Up.
The Yardbird, Paradise Forum, Birmingham.

May 2nd 2008 'Tropical Hotdog' with Sunset Cinema Club. Island Bar, Birmingham.

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April 26th 2009: Pre Order SHANA TOVA EP NOW! Here at Ditto Music and Here at 7Digital

April 15th 2009:
Sunday 12th April 2009 – Visions Of Excess Easter Sunday 2009 saw the climax of London’s ‘SPILL Festival of Performance’ at the notorious SHUNT art-space, for Ron Athey and Lee Adams’ ‘Visions Of Excess’, a harrowing 12-hour descent into the opaque soul of philosopher George Bataille. Viann&Violet was represented by performance artist Bernadette Louise and Shana Tova’s Geordie as they collaborated with two of New York City’s luminaries; emotive artist Nicole Blackman and renowned firebrand facilitator of the creative event, L. Gabrielle Penabaz. Blackman presented her legendary ‘Courtesan Tales’ and Penabaz brought new work ‘Til Death Do You Part’.

Bernadette Louise performed 9:30pm ‘til 12am as the crowds thronged to be lulled and unsettled in equal measure by Blackman’s one on one blindfolded narratives. After performances by Ron Athey, Julie Tolentino, Franko B, Dominic Johnson, Bruce LaBruce, Mouse and more, between 4 and 7am Geordie and L. Gabrielle Penabaz inducted the multitudes into the joys of self-matrimony; a marriage to oneself marking new beginnings, acknowledging an unselfish love of one’s own mind as bride and groom. Smiling recipients ate wedding cake and posed with bouquets for wedding photos. It was some much needed light at the end of a literal tunnel of emotionally demanding and staggeringly intense work from the true royalty of international performance art. Bernadette Louise and Geordie returned to their apartment to deal with their sleep depravation and revel in being a part of this unique experience. Go Viann&Violet: Represent represent!!!

Go to ViannAndViolet.com for hedonistic photo action.

March 14th 2009:
It had been waaaay too long since Halloween, so on Friday 13th March 2009 saw Viann&Violet take over The Victoria, Birmingham, for ‘Killer Thriller’; one dark night of scarily splendid art and music featuring all the artists on the V&V roster with special guests Sunset Cinema Club. As the party started it rapidly became clear the Horror Fancy Dress’ invitation had been a winner as hordes of bloodied punters descended upon the venue. Things kicked off in the centre of the room with performance artist Bernadette Louise emerging from what looked like a spiders egg and proceeding to free guts and offal from bags attached to her person; relentless white noise pouring from the speakers. The stunned audience raised a great cheer as she slinked off to clean away the gore, as masked nutters Sunset Cinema Club revved up, exclusively showcasing new material with their trademark unstoppable kinetic energy. Little Dipper were next, rousing the crowd to a fever with heartfelt anthems from their forthcoming Viann&Violet releases, vocalist Robot Alien dressed as a murderous surgeon and backed by a ghoulish rhythm section. Poet Big Bren blasted Killer Thriller with an expletive-laden volley of irreverent punk poetry before Shana Tova finished the job with a full set of their peerless tunesmithery, Geordie 110% in character as a howling wolfman. Insane fun had by all and can’t wait til the next Viann&Violet showcase.

Go to ViannAndViolet.com for the whole gory story!

February 13th 2009:
This evening Rob from Little Dipper spoke to Steve Lamacq live on his bbc 6music show. He made first mention of the Split EP with Shana Tova and Little Dipper scheduled for early this summer. NOW THE WORLD KNOWS!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/

January 30th 2009:
Right, our debut self-titled EP is off the presses very shortly and winging it's way into your loving grasp when it is officially released on 4th May 2009 through Viann&Violet. The EP will be available for Download through all yr favourite online stores (iTunes, HMV.com whatever...). Grab grab grab, darn it! We're seriously seeeeriously proud of the tuneage therein / innit. It's fully stacked with 'Morsels', 'Nausoleum', 'Sleech' and 'Ants' and produced by Dom James. The artwork is a totally original painting, heck - masterpiece, by Keven Robinson...and we're already discussing the split EP with Little Dipper to follow soon!

November 30th 2008:
Just so you know, Shana Tova obsessively collect and hoard, wallow in and slurp up tasty obscure indie bands such as:

November 26th 2008:
Shana Tova appeared in the November 2008 edition of the Edgbaston & Harborne Observer, where they wrote a goooorgeous 500 words on our tuneage, our psychotic lust for the scene, and the fact we're nerds...

"They have a raw energy and a fresh take...Shana Tova are like nothing else out there right now...the passion for music is clear"

aaaawwwww, innit lovely....

November 25th 2008:
Shana Tova appear in the November/December 2008 edition of The Fly Magazine, where they wrote a glowing report: "Spangly Lo-Fi innocence like it was made out of egg boxes and yoghurt pots and glued together with alt. rock PVA comes from Shana Tova. Harmonic splendour and pulses of drumming genius ensure many will be bowled over by the Tova"

...stick that in yr pipe and smoke it, eh!...

June 15th 2008:
Today we wrapped up a beefy recording sesh with the maestro Dom James from Sunset Cinema Club, recording four tracks which will defo be seeing the light of day ASAP! We worked solid through the day like maddened lumberjacks with but a short break to drop by a chippy to sample some of Redditch's finest haute-cuisine (MMM MMM)! Well chuffed with the tunes: Nice one Dom! We'll keep you posted on what we end up doing with these awesome slabs o' wax...