Exciting news from Handbag HQ, we will be throwing the official after-show for MGMT at Strictly Handbag in SPY on the occasion of their frantically awaited Ambassador gig on the 3rd of November. The action kicks off at 11 sharp and will feature a very special live performance MGMT's New York based support act Amazing Baby, and special guest DJs along with our residents.

If you managed to force your way into the Pet Sounds tent at this years Oxegen Festival you will know the excitement that MGMT generate. Expect the roof to be taken of the place, this is not sort of gig you go home after. But don't worry Strictly Handbag will keep the psychedelic freak out rocking into the night. Get down early if you haven't got your hands on a ticket in advance.

Most "movements" gain attention because of one genuinely great band while the rest hang on their coattails. But that's not true of the current scene based around acts operating in the Brooklyn area who met earlier this decade at liberal arts college Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. MGMT may have been the first out of the traps, the first to gain global renown – and it was us who told you about them first, folks, up here at New Band of the Day – but they're by no means the only Wesleyan alumni worth getting into a tizz over. There's the effortlessly cool punk-disco of Boy Crisis and the ambient folktronica meets latterday power balladry of Chairlift. Last but by no means least are Amazing Baby, who are amazing, baby, but who hadn't even formed when we unleashed MGMT on an unsuspecting world way back in the mists of time, in November 2007. [The Guarduan]

We have strictly limited numbers.

Tickets : www.tickets.ie

Link : www.myspace.com/theamazingbaby