Summer's Almost Here, Things are Heating Up!

Summer's nearly here and a lot's happening for Houdini Dax! The past few months have been filled with exciting excursions from North to South. From BBC broadcasts to West Walian Comedy Festivals, thank you every to who's been out to watch us in the past few months.

Still to come is our gig in the Moon Club with Gringo Starr, a name so good we planned on hating them. Then we heard them and realised that it's impossible to do! Looking forward to this one, nothing like going up against another high-energy band to make the Moon Club a sweaty affair*.

After that is our exclusive acoustic gig in Pretty Green, the smartest looking venue/store in Cardiff (we feel so at home). This will be a great chance to hear some songs you've not yet heard, and maybe even a cover. Any suggestions on what the Dax should play is welcome, as long as it's not "Man I Feel Like a Woman". We're legally banned from playing that after the last scooter rally....

Then comes the Summer! What will be in store? Keep an eye on the website for all the latest news and gigs so you'll be the first to know! Rumours are floating around that some new material's in the pipeline, but we couldn't possibly comment....

*"The Dax are quite pungent, nose plugs may be required" - MOJO MAGAZINE

A New Year and New News!

It's been a busy new year for the Houdini Dax boys! First off a very big thank you for all of those who came to The Globe new years eve! It was a great way to see off the new year, although we're now considering Harry Hill masks and Pole Dancers for every gig. We'll have to check our budget for that mind, it may have to be just a bald bloke on a pole...

From there it was into the studio to start getting ready for new singles, and where better to do that than the most legendary studio in Wales: ROCKFIELD STUDIOS. From playing Coldplay's piano to touching Freddie Mercury's tapes, the latest single's now down and is ready to have some finishing touches. Keep an eye out here for all the latest news on that!

But for now, what's ahead? Well there will be a video going up later this week of an previously unreleased track from Houdini Dax. Recorded during their first BBC Live Session, which later became the BBC Sessions EP, it gives you a sneak peak of what happened when the boys first entered Carl Bevan's (60ft Dolls) lair! Also, Houdini Dax come to Gwdihw in Cardiff on the 9th March for a special headline hometown show! Book your tickets early because this WILL sell out! More info to come!

Finally later this year Houdini Dax are very happy to announce they will be part of Focus Wales' 2012 showcase, where the most promising bands in Wales are put on display for industry and fans alike! They'll be on stage on the 20th April in South Central, Wrexham. For more details head to http://www.focuswales.com/tickets/index.php

Until then, keep an eye out! So much is happening now, you never know what's around the corner.....we certainly don't!

Houdini Dax Top of The Blog Sound of 2012 – The Long List

The Blog Sound of the year was set up as an alternative poll of emerging musical talent to look forward to in 2012, it was completely compiled through the recommendations of online bloggers alone(full list of which below). This exercise was in no way intended as a platform to criticise or disrespect the Beebs official Sound of , it was more an experiment to see if blogs can come up with some interesting alternatives.

As you can imagine the suggestions for this poll were very wide and varied reflecting the tremendous musical mix UK music blogs cover. Long may they all continue ! Here are the fifteen acts that make up our longlist, and as is traditional these will subsequently be narrowed down, and then later a winner will be crowned! 

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On-Par & MMPTV present Houdini Dax live at SWN 2011

Houdini Dax performing at the Full Moon, Womanby Street during SWN festival 2011.

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MMP TV Presents: Houdini Dax (acoustic) @ Oxjam

Houdini Dax playing acoustically and being filmed as part of On-Par's Oxjam Street Sessions down Cardiff's very own Womanby Street, October 2nd 2011.

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