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Clap Your Hands! @ Academy

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! (CLHSY!) return for another inevitably breathtaking performance at Manchester Academy. Expect high-energy, helium-voiced, hell-for-leather music.

Support from Cold War Kids and Elvis Perkins.

www.myspace.com/clapyourhandssayyeah

Tickets �12.50 adv

Electrelane @ Academy

All-female four-piece whose whole shtick seems to be to make their music buzz with energy throughout. They succeeds in the same way Stereolab do.

www.myspace.com/electrelane

Tickets �10 adv

Air @ Academy 1

The French duo return for more star-watching antics. I’ve never seen them live. Are they any good?

www.myspace.com/intairnet

Tickets �tbc

I’m From Barcelona @ Academy 3

… who are actually from Sweden. Expect plenty of twee, Ooberman-style songs from this clan.

Support from Lucy & the Caterpillar.

www.myspace.com/imfrombarcelona

Tickets �7.50 advance

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