| cLUBhORN | cLUBhORN - St Albans first indie clubnight. The Horn, Victoria Street, St Albans Every Thursday from August 2006 plus special weekend shows 8.00pm-Midnight £5.00/£4.00 NUS, plus drinks offers every week Confirmed so far Thursday 13 July
THE HEIGHTS + Sequoia + The Suspects + **cLUBhORN** djs Tuesday 18 July
MOHAIR + Post War Years + **cLUBhORN** djs Tuesday 25 July
THE OXFAM GLAMOUR MODELS + The Yell + **cLUBhORN** djs Thursday 10 August
LADYFUZZ + Striplight + **cLUBhORN** djs Saturday 28 October
LETHAL BIZZLE |
Launch Night: cLUBHORN
The Horn, St Albans
Wednesday 5 July 2006
Giant Drag
Pirate Radio in support. ‘The bird in Giant Drag is well fit’, was how the band was billed to me by my friend, Toby, a self confessed ‘semi professional music writer’. I must say, with this drum roll and straight from the mouth of someone who should be writing for Melody Maker*, I was just about ready to be blown away.  | | Wickedly dry Annie Hardie |
I think I did myself a serious mischief standing so close to the speaker when support band, Pirate Radio, were onstage. Loud noise does not good music make! I could just about make out the occasional tune, but not enough to make me want to jump up and down like the die hard Year 11s at the front. Fortunately my ear drums were still functioning by the time Giant Drag lolled on stage. Giant Drag are a two piece band hailing from Los Angeles. Lead singer and guitarist, Annie Hardy, is wickedly dry, verging on the ridiculous. Between songs like ‘You F*** like my Dad’ and stomping single ‘This Isn’t It’, Annie, in full LA drawl engages in a little audience/sound control interaction. Multi-talented, Micah Calabrese, drummer and keyboardist at the same time, leaves the speaking bit to Annie as he concentrates on the rhythms and beats. When ‘bands’ like ten strong Blazin’ Squad exist and still fail to fill the stage with presence, you have to wonder why they find it so hard when Giant Drag, two skinny unassuming individuals, make it look so natural. Any other Wednesday night at The Hor,n before new promoter Adam Foster took over, would have seen yet another below mediocre covers band playing aimlessly to the town's more mediocre residents.  | | The multi-talented Micah Calabrese |
Tonight though, St Albans was alive with those music loving, guitar strumming, long haired, curly haired cohorts that are more than ready to pay £8 to see good new music locally. There is life in the old dog yet. Death to the cover band! The Horn St Albans is back on track and ready to pull in the madding crowds once more. So get down there, catch more upcoming bands like The Heights and indulge in a little idle contemplation as the tunes swallow you whole. *Congratulations – you spotted the intentional dig - Melody Maker bowed down in 2000. | 
