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Birmingham Promoters presents:
The Like
+ This Beautiful Thief And The Like Minded Criminals + The Bluebeat ArkestraWednesday 08 September 2010 @ The Rainbow, Birmingham
The Like Biography
‘The LA girl-band return with a fuzz-pop beauty (Hottest Download)’ - Sunday Times Culture
‘Pick Of The Week’ – Guardian Guide
‘Trend-setting girl band’ – Daily Star
‘Part Sixties-style girl group, part Valley Of The Dolls madness’ - Music Week
‘UK fans will get a tasty teaser of The Like’s retro-neuvo sound (imagine The Shangri-Las meet Girls Aloud) on the Mark Ronson-produced single He’s Not A Boy’ – Daily Mirror
‘Wearing heavy eyeliner and tiny miniskirts, Californian quartet the Like are 1960s perfection: Wishing He Was Dead is wrapped in Motown- and Shadow Morton-inspired teen angst.’ Guardian
Los Angeles, California, United States (2001 – present)
The Like are an indie rock band which formed in 2001 in Los Angeles, California, United States. The band consists of Elizabeth “Z” Berg (vocals, guitar), Laena Geronimo (bass), Annie Monroe (organ) and Tennessee Thomas (drums). Bassist Charlotte Froom left the band in 2009 and was replaced by Geronimo. Reni Lane , who joined shortly after Froom left, departed the band sometime in latw 2009 or early 2010 and was replaced by Monroe. Berg is the daughter of Geffen A&R rep Tony Berg and Thomas is the daughter of Pete Thomas, the drummer for Elvis Costello & The Attractions.
The name of the band comes from the girls tendency to frequently use the word “like” in the style of the valley girls of LA.


