London in Stereo // August 2013

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So you might notice we're making some subtle (or not-so-subtle) changes around these parts. What do you reckon?We're pretty pleased with where it's going, for sure.

From this month on we'll be asking a different blog to take over our 'On The Stereo' section. This month we're excited to welcome one of our favourite sites - and its stellar recommendations - GoldFlakePaint. Read this online and you can click straight through to hear the tracks they're talking about.

As always, August has maybe a slight lull for gigs, but July really delivered the goods with a whole host of bands doing intimate festival warm-up shows (most noteably Yeah Yeah Yeahs playing Islington Academy). It really delivered the sun too, huh? Gin, BBQ and sunglasses have been the name of the game, and what a fun game that is.

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KEATON HENSONTHU 12TH SEPTEMBER | EMMANUEL CENTRESOLD OUT

THE REVIVAL HOURTUE 17TH SEPTEMBER | SEBRIGHT ARMS

TIM HECKERTHU 19TH SEPTEMBER | ST JOHN AT HACKNEY

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MAC DEMARCOMON 28TH OCTOBER | SCALA

NEKO CASETHU 12TH DECEMBER | THE FORUM

CHROME SPARKSWED 28TH AUGUST | BIRTHDAYS

WOODSMON 19TH AUGUST | HOXTON SQUARE BAR AND KITCHEN

VISIONS FESTIVALSAT 10TH AUGUST | OVAL SPACE, NETIL HOUSEAND LONDON FIELDS BREWHOUSE

PURE BATHING CULTURE

10. M O N E Y

06. ON THE STEREO

13. TALES FROM THE CITY

14. NO AGE

20. ALBUM REVIEWS

23. GIGS OF THE MONTH

28. THE GOOD GIG PUB GUIDE

29. LIVE LISTINGS

46. LIVE REVIEWS

49. PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS

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Is 'Oliver Caen' the UK's answer to How To Dress Well? Quite possibly. Marrying Tom Krell's dancefloor sensibilities with sublime vocal hooks, this track from the Manchester producer is a gorgeous RnB-tinged ballad that will win as many hearts as it breaks. Beautifully restrained beats provide the base for the smoothest vocals you'll hear all Summer.Can't wait to see where he goes next.

OCEAANNEED U

This Brighton duo are my favourite new band of the year. Their music is just so enchanting, housing folk-based melodies inside organic electronica.There is a beautiful subtle sway to every one of their songs, but also a spooky dark side that is always just out of reach.‘Keep You’ is their debut single and is another wonderfully crafted pop gem. It's out via Sexbeat this month.

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This is one of those debut singles that stops you in your tracks. The intro is Mogwai's Les Revenants soundtrack with added drum machine, before a growling wall of shoegaze guitar noise enters and never leaves, the brooding vocals soar and the whole thing comes together just beautifully.

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Where did Jungle come from? In the space of two songs they've forced themselves to the forefront of new British talent. Lead track Platoon was a great intro but Drops three- minutes of soft, aching soul is stupidly good. Best (only?) use of a door-creek sample you'll ever hear too.

JUNGLEDROPS

Apparently two sisters who live together in caravan in Cornwall, the duo mark their return with a jaw-dropping track. The first half almost creeps by, before the track bursts into life in a mesmerising swirl of weightless vocals, weird instrumentation and the kind of darkening tension that makes your skin crawl. Sublime.

HOCKEYSMITHNOW I WANT TO

“PEOPLE THESE DAYSSEEM TO WANT THESESTARS WHO BILLTHEMSELVES AS THESEUNTOUCHABLE ICONS”

“Humanity is the arsehole of the universe,” shrugs Jamie Lee. “We creates a god who’s immortal because we don’t want to die. We create a god who’s everywherebecause we don’t wantto be lonely.” He pauses, catching himself, then laughs. “Yeah, I suppose you could say I have a problem with religion.” The Mancunian, frontman to Bella Union newcomers M O N E Y, is explaining some of the existential hand-wringing that makes his band’s debut album, ‘The Shadow of Heaven’, one of the most compelling listens of the year so far. Pitting sounds mined from the swampy shallows of Manchester’s musical heritage –notably, the grit of Joy Division – against celestial vocals and churchly echoes, it’s a record adrift between sin andspirituality. “Good, bad,” he continues nonchalantly, “everyone ends up inthe same place.”M O N E Y’s stirring brand of choral indie falls into the former category, make no mistake about it. Newly signed to Bella Union, the quartet – also featuring Charlie Cocksedge, Scott Beaman

untouchable icons. Like Kanye West. That guy is on some super human mission to mythologise every single thing he does.” M O N E Y aren't here to make a spectacle of themselves, he says – even if their last release, 7” single 'Who's Gonna Love You Now?', featured a naked Lee on the cover. “I sometimes like to do things to see how people react. Now, if my girlfriend breaks up with me and her next boyfriend wants to know how big my dick is, he can justGoogle it.”After an acclaimed appearance at last month's Manchester International Festival, the group soon release 'The Shadow of Heaven' – but Lee is already looking ahead to writing its follow-up. “It's that insecurity, isn't it?” he blames. “Whether you're in a band or working in finance, no matter how well you're doing, you're always wondering what's next.” Whatever's next forM O N E Y, on this album and beyond, we'll be watching.-----------------------The Shadow of Heaven //August 26th //Bella Union

and Billy Byron – have amassed an impressive cult following in their two years together, among them Inception actor Cillian Murphy, who directed the video to their recent single, ‘Hold Me Forever’. Somehow, a group who till now have largely neglected traditional venues for art spaces and churches – whose songs, recorded in a disused porn soundtrack studio, wrestle violently with ideas of nihilism and whose online presence is limited to obscure quasi-religious symbology on a hard-to-find Tumblr page – are gaining a reputation as one of the most vital rising acts in Britain today.“In a way, it’s just pop,” says Lee. “The ethereal church sounds we use, people say remind them of hymns, which are like the great ancestor of the pop song. They’re powerfully catchy and heard in congregation – back then in church, nowadays on the radio.”M O N E Y, however, aren't chasing Radio 1 A-lister stardom, Lee insists. “That's not us. People these days seem to want these stars who bill themselves as these

Words: Al Horner

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It’s easy, living here, to pass through the streets of London, blasé as hell, barely noticing the people and places around us. The solution, it seems, is to start a band, come to London and spend some time in traffic, gazing out of car windows. Even if what you see is just a seemingly infinite variety of fried chicken. Lanterns On The Lake’s Hazel Wilde tells the tale...

We are on our way to a gig in the van and at a snail’s pace we crawl through the city traffic. As a child, I’d always imagined London to be a fast moving, buzzing city but today it feels sluggish and it takes forever to move a few yards forward. We’ve been here a handful of times before but we are still always childishly impressed when one of us spots a famous landmark that we’ve seen on TV. Silhouettes of imposing towers tickle the grey clouds above them. It’s impressive. We usually like to play a London game of counting fried chicken shops that we pass but we always lose count or lose interest; today it was the latter. Fascinatingly, everyone always seems to be travelling with purpose in London; I don’t see anyone just ‘out for a stroll’ and people anxiously beep their horns, hopeful that it will make the traffic suddenly kick into gear and move forward. People on foot pass us with their heads bowed down, talking on their phones; presumably they are making important calls about stock markets or some such alien concept. The lights ahead change to green but we’re still hardly moving, like the traffic is stuck in some invisible mud. We’ll probably be late for soundcheck and this always makes me restless. In the passenger seat, I wind my window down and hear a car nearby blasting the radio; the presenter is talking about being on holiday and his co-presenter laughs with intensity at everything he says. It isn’t helping my gig nerves one bit. I rest my head on my arm on the window frame and in the back of the van the fried chicken shop game has re-started “Euro Chicken, Sam’s Chicken, Perfect Chicken, Chicken Cottages”.

Until The Colours Run is released 9th September on Bella Union.The band play Islington Assembly Hall 22nd October.

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“Only the two of us could come up with these songs together”

NO AGE

How pleased are you with album?

I’m really psyched. It was a kind of difficult record to make but we kept hacking away getting down to the bones of what we wanted to say without going through the motions.

You’ve been away awhile since ‘Everything In Between’ – did you need that time to think what kind of album you wanted to make?

Touring took its toll a little bit towards the end – we were a little burnt out. We’d had something out every year up until Everything In Between so we took a second to have a deep breath and then jumped back in.

Do you have a song on the record that means the most to you?The one that really stands out for me is ‘An Impression’. I mean I don’t know if it’s the one I get the biggest thrill from but just from a creative standpoint it was a challenge just to get to that point where we had the song. We looked at it from a few different directions. I broke the chords up and created a different melody. I’m really pleased with how it came out.

When it’s just the two of you how easy is it to do that – to look at things in different ways?

It’s always been the two of us writing so either of us can comeup with an idea, but mine and Dean’s thoughts and creative influences meet in this very unique place called No Age. Only the twoof us could come up with these songs together.

Was the idea for ‘An Object’ there from the start or did that come as you were making the album?There was a germ of the idea coming from Dean to conceptualise the manufacturing from start to finish of the entire product, including the cover and down to the smallest detail. Before he could even write lyrics or think about music in any way he wanted tomake something from nothing, not in an abstract form, in a quite literal sense.

He wanted it to have a hands on feel. And once we had that idea for the album he was able to start working on the things that made up the album so when it came to

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A lot has changed since No Age released ‘Weirdo Rippers’ in 2007 but one constant has been the idea that they’re a band pushing themselves to uncomfortable places to create music that’s both visceral and challenging.With new album ‘An Object’ the duo have shown they’re perfecting their fuzzy cocktail of experimentation married with blistering guitars, pop sensibilities and a DIY mentality. And the two-piece drench their fans with this same enthusiasm.Danny Wright spoke to the band on everything from the new album, how they’ve changed as a band and an unlikely new Wings direction.

naming it that was the title which made sense.

And you and a few other people have been putting it together yourself?

Yeah. There are 5,000 LP packages and 5,000 CD packages and there was us and some friends and girlfriends and mums and brothers and everyone got involved. They’re all handstamped and we wrote notes on the inside of the covers. There are some really unique things in there. I wrote my phone number in one of the packages, I think, so we’ll see if anyone calls me. If I get any prank phone calls I’ll know why.

That seems something the band do – giving something tangible back to the fans.

It just feels honest. Putting yourself on the road every night 6 months in row can wear you out and you wanna know that it means something to somebody out there.

How have the new songs been coming out when you’ve been playing live?These last run of shows we’ve played half of the new album and the new songs don’t sound the way

they do on record. We’ve sort of re-imagined them, a kind of minimalist cover of these songs.

I like that we’re not being so precious with the songs. I thinkwith ‘Everything In Between’ we really attempted to play the songs live the way they were recorded. But for these shows we wanna find a way to fuck the songs up and re-imagine them. It’s more fun for the fans that way.

And finally, has getting married and moving house impacted on how you make music?

It’s not necessarily impacted on the music – I think if anything it makes me want to play more because I feel like I have more time now to make music now. I think hanging out late at bars and trying to get laid was more of a distraction than an inspiration. It took a lot of time and energy just to do that.Being married and having my own space makes me more comfortable and confident playing music. We have a piano in the house which I’ve never had before so I’m trying to learn the Star Wars theme and old Paul McCartney Wings songs on piano.

So that could be the next album?

Yeah, you never know.

An Object is released onSubPop August 20thcatch No Age at KOKO October 2nd

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Portland has a funny way of churning out bands that go somewhat quietly about their business and yet produce music that deserves attention. Daniel Hindman and Sarah Versprille, who make-up Pure Bathing Culture, are

Clearly harshed out by critics that knocked his languid debut 'Within And Without' for floating in one ear and out the other rather too readily, Ernest Greene has hit back with an album of start to finish club bangers, influenced mostly by chart-topping dance trio Swedish

House Mafia. Alright, you got us. 'Paracosm' is more of the same: an immaculately-produced set of elevator-ready chillwave snoozers for those who prefer their haircuts asymmetrical and their Starbucks to come with extra foam. But don't feel bad, Washed Out is so slick that criticism slides right off him without leaving any hard feelings. Tom Edwards

certainly another.‘Moon Tides’, their full-length debut, is a floating, dream of synth-pop journey that echoes Fleetwood Mac but diluted with wonderfully watery layers. Helixes of vibrato-heavy guitar lines are their most potent weapon; indeed they welcome us in, as the stand-out ‘Pendulum’ dips a toe in the cool water that is this record.There is something gently inspiring about the sound they have honed, like a hopeful prophecy tracks like ‘Seven 2 One’ and the blissful highlight ‘Evergreener’ signal a happiness to come. Hindman’s cool, sugared tones

soar effortlessly above proceedings, harking to a more tie-died era that surely inspires the duo.‘Scotty’ is a late-night, smooth operator of a track that slows the pace, turns down the lights and soundtracks a romantic evening in. They don’t tend to stray far from the formula they have settled with, by why should they? PBC have produced a record that feels like meeting up with an old friend and nothing has changed – it’s as accessible as it is enjoyable; you’ll go back to it and feel immediately at ease with the world.George O’Brien

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PURE BATHINGCULTUREMOON TIDESMemphis Industries //August 19th

WASHED OUTPARACOSMWeird World // August 12th

Montreal and Portland have dominated North American indie for God knows how long, but Toronto is gradually creeping up on the rails with epic pop-rock four-piece, DIANA, the city’s latest exported gem. From the roller rink funk of ‘That Feeling’, all swaggering synths and

flitting arpeggios, to ‘Foreign Installations’s maelstrom of gaudy cymbals, clacking snare and Carmen Elle's sweeping pitch-altered caws; ‘Perpetual Surrender’, screams 80s chic throughout. Peppered with gently tousled sax and obtuse guitar solos, each of these eight earwormy odes to love and loss could find a home on Chairlift’s nostalgia-bending opus, ‘Something’. Splendidly silky stuff. Dan Carson

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DIANAPERPETUAL SURRENDERJagjaguwar // August 19th

‘Carrier' is an album which reveals itself slowly and powerfully. What distinguishes it from previous efforts is their more considered and engaging rhythms, further evolution in dynamic use of acoustic and electric instruments and a stronger presence of their unique

ewe-influenced percussive style which becomes more prominent as the album unfolds. ‘Substance’ is a favourite track with its unexpected but thoroughly welcome trumpet bridge and powerful syncopations, as well as lead single ‘Confidence’ for its subtle, though powerfully effective wonky guitar line. It’s a step forward and The Dodos’ best release yet as they continue to refine and redefine their distinctive style. Sam Hurst

DODOSCARRIERPolyvinyl Records // August 27th

Producer trio Moderat make music for musicians.Their second record, ‘Moderat II’, is peppered withsome classic deep house beats in tracks like 'Versions' and 'Milk' that are easy to fall in love with - they're beats that will carry you from the warehouse to your

bedroom at a difficult 4am. The tracks with more vocal melody like 'Damage Done' and single 'Bad Kingdom' are fine, but it gets really interesting in the more intricate flourishes of the second half. This record has an abundance of ideas that rarely reach revelation. It’s food for thought. Bronya Francis

MODERATMODERAT IIMonkey Town // August 5th

‘Crimes of Passion’ is a garish, glammy, shimmering, confetti cannon. Brash and loud, Crocodiles create instantly loveable guitar music with a depth of cultural nods and nostalgic musical touchstones to keep things rich and engaging. There’s the allusion on ’Marquis De

Sade’ to the saucy French aristocrat of the same name; another track in honour of Jean Genet’s censored 1950′s film ‘A Song Of Love’. This album, as it goes, is quite a seductive listen too. Who can resist endless, indulgent layers of melody upon tumbling melody, and bittersweet vocals, when they’re dished up so effortlessly? El Hunt

Using an array of found sounds, Zach Saginaw’s third Shigeto LP feels like a window into his life.Without words to communicate, he turns to the world around him, and this personal level dominates, with it deep rooted in, or mirroring emotion.

But as the album continues, that emotion declines, like someone trailing off when making a point. Beat laden, twinkling 'Detroit Part 1' is so full of tension and perfectly paced, but the record fails to develop, and even the realm of ridiculous lounge jazz stylings on ‘Miss U’ can’t help this be the album it initially promised. Nate Rockwell

Braids create the kind of music that doesn’t demand but, rather, requires your attention: Delicate and layered with the most intricate of details whilst immersed in Raphaelle Standell-Preston’s captivating vocal. Possibly boasting greater resemblance to

Preston’s side project, Blue-Hawaii, than any previous Braids material, its influences are worldwide (though with definite Nordic leanings) and produce a beautifully and painstakingly crafted album. Full of atmosphere, they’re at their best when delving into the richer and heavier side of the electronic edge with which the majority of tracks here are laced. First single, ‘Amends’, flaunts this to especially great effect. Jess Partridge

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CROCODILESCRIMES OF PASSIONZoo Music // August 19th

BRAIDSFLOURISHFull Time Hoby // August 19th

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Throwing Snow and Augustus Ghost pool their individual inspirations, ideas and styles on ‘A Small Murmuration’, the first full-length album under their collaborative Snow Ghosts moniker. The music is brooding and

at times imposing, yet sweepingly majestic throughout − Augustus Ghost’s rich vocals balance perfectly on Throwing Snow’s sombre sonic creations, as hints of industry and mechanism are married with the organic, natural world.

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The Lamb, 54 Holloway Rd, N7 8JLwww.thelambn7.co.uk // @thelambpub

Boasting ‘beer and liquor’ on your signage is a pretty sure way to get us interested in visiting any pub and, yep, The Lamb provides both these in abundance and with high taste-levels - the produce of several of our favourite London brewers is served here. Once enticed, and immediately comfortable in the laid-back atmosphere, there’s plenty here to keep you coming back. The place is soundtracked by the staff’s own pretty sweet taste in music, and if you’re hungry, the pizza place over the road delivers straight to your table.At just 5 minutes from The Garage and The Buffalo Bar, this is, easily, the first choice pre-gig pub in the area.

The lesser known Lewis Carroll novel this is not, but an elegant cocktail bar, that's a different story. From the far-too-drinkable house Fizz, to the wonderful vintage inspired Tea Cup Cocktails, this is a place of cardamom sugar cubes, pear cognac and homemade sherbet. Our favourites find themselves rooted in Gin Mare, Hendricks and their own Rosemary blend. This ornate space is hiding some talented mixologists behind its bar, and through a giant looking glass, it's hiding so much more.

THE LAMB

Looking Glass Cocktail Club // 49 Hackney Rd // @LookingGlassE2

THE GOOD GIG PUB GUIDE TO...

HIGHBURY & ISLINGTON

LOOKING GLASS COCKTAIL CLUBGIN CUP by Lauren Down

Key gigs in the area this month:The Garage: The Thermals // Beach FossilsBuffalo Bar: Something + Ides + King Of Cats

“Does anyone know a good pub to meet in around..?”It’s the question you see time and time again, but we’re here answer it;We've done the research, we care, we’re here to help with a new area every month:

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MELIC + ALASKA CAMPUS + LUNAR PUPIL +

LOKI

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JOY RIDES & FRIENDS

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CRASH ISLAND + HELLA BETTER DANCER +

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£4 / 7.00PM / THE DALSTON VICTORIA

WYLDECK + CUT RIBBONS + NIA + THE

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METASIC + YELLOWIRE

£8ADV / 8.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR &

KITCHEN

FREDDIE MCGREGOR

£20ADV / 8.00PM / JAZZ CAFE

THE 1975

£8ADV / 9.30PM / KINGSTON HIPPODROME

THE BALLET + MAKING MARKS

£8.50ADV / 8.00PM / THE LEXINGTON

CLAY + PLENTY WILD + IAN DUNN

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ZOËTRØPE + TAMAN SHUD

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NEILS CHILDREN + CHARLES HOWL + NIQAB

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LOIS & THE LOVE + THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL

£5ADV / 9.30PM / KOKO

ANIMAL KINGDOM + SHAKE SHAKE GO +

HAUS


HENNESSY


SCOTT & CHARLENE’S WEDDING


STAY UGLY PRESENTS: VODUM + LITTLE

DEATH MACHINE + DOG CHOCOLATE

£5 / 8.00PM / POWER LUNCHES

SCOTT AND CHARLENE'S WEDDING

FREE / 6.30PM / ROUGH TRADE EAST

JOEL BAKER

FREE / 7.00PM / ROUNDHOUSE

BOY NAMES + NATIVE TONGUE + FINAL FORM

+ ROWAN JOHN

£6 / 8.00PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS

DARK HORSES + NEILS CHILDREN +

TELEGRAM

£8ADV / 8.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS

IFE TOLENTINO + JULIAN SIEGEL + LIAM

NOBLE

£12ADV / 8.00PM / VORTEX

EAT LIGHTS BECOME LIGHTS + BALTIC FLEET

+ TWELVE + ÖKÖ

£7 / 7.30PM / BRIXTON WINDMILL

OH RUIN!


BAD FOR LAZARUS




/ KNEBWORTH PARK

THE FACEMELTER PRESENTS: EYE OF

SOLITUDE + SUBSERVIENCE + DARKEYE +

YGODEH

£4ADV / 8.00PM / THE MILLER

PITBULL

£32.50ADV / 7.30PM / O2 BRIXTON ACADEMY

SECRET SPECIAL GUESTS + CROWS + BETE

NOIRE

£5 / 8.00PM / QUEEN OF HOXTON

SATURDAY 3RD AUGUSTSATURDAY 3RD AUGUST

DOLLFACE + KALEIDA

£6ADV / 7.00PM / RATTLESNAKE

BARBAROSSA

FREE / 5.00PM / ROUGH TRADE WEST

SERIOUS DRUGS FILM SCREENING: LENZIE

MOSS + NICK GARRIE

FREE / 7.00PM / THE SOCIAL

THEME PARK + MT + LEGOLAND

£12.50ADV / 8.00PM / VILLAGE

UNDERGROUND

THE BANG BANG

£8 / 8.00PM / THE WAITING ROOM

FUTUREPROOF

SOLD OUT / 8.00PM / BARFLY

CARS CAN BE BLUES + FEVER DREAM +

YOUNG ROMANCE + FROZY

£5ADV / 8.00PM / BUFFALO BAR



/ KNEBWORTH PARK

PALE SEAS


KILLSWITCH ENGAGE + HATEBREED +

COMEBACK KID + SYLOSIS + EVERGREEN

TERRACE + HEIGHTS + EMPRESS

TBC / 2.00PM / O2 BRIXTON ACADEMY

CB6 + DEATH OF AN ARTIST + WEATHERED

HANDS


TAILOR BIRDS + NOVAS BASEMENT + POLLY

JONES.

£7ADV / 7.30PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS

LET’S WRETLE + EVANS THE DEATH +

FLOWERS + THE SPOOK SCHOOL


GENERATIONALS + WINDINGS + HOLOGRAM


THE ADICTS + VICE SQUAD

£15ADV / 7.00PM / O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON

THOMAS DYBDAHL + BRUNO MAJOR

SOLD OUT / 7.30PM / ST PANCRAS OLD

CHURCH

THE FLATLINERS + GNARWOLVES + LEGEND

IN JAPAN + KIDS INSANE

£10ADV / 8.00PM / THE UNDERWORLD

MENSCH MENSCH MENSCH + MARK

WASTELL

£7ADV / 8.00PM / CAFE OTO

LOVELIFE


KITCHEN

SUNDAY 4TH AUGUST

MONDAY 5TH AUGUST

TUESDAY 6TH AUGUST

SUNDAY 4TH AUGUST

MONDAY 5TH AUGUST

TUESDAY 6TH AUGUST

XERXES + GRAPPLER + CASTELLAN


SWIM DEEP


THE POLYPHONIC SPREE

£15ADV / 8.00PM / VILLAGE UNDERGROUND

BARBAROSSA

FREE WITH RSVP / 8.00PM / THE WAITING

ROOM

NIGHT WORKS + THUMPERS + SIVU

£7ADV / 8.00PM / BARFLY

CHESTER WATSON

£7.50ADV / 8.00PM / BIRTHDAYS

BUTCH WALKER + LOTTE MULLAN

SOLD OUT / 8.00PM / THE BORDERLINE

TAMAN SHUD + THE BLACK SPARROWS +

SATURN SPIES + JOE INNMAN

FREE / 8.00PM / BRIXTON WINDMILL

PHILM


NEW YOUNG PONY CLUB

SOLD OUT / 8.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR

& KITCHEN

SHIT N SHINE + BLOOD MUSIC

£8ADV / 8.00PM / THE LEXINGTON

RICHARD JUDGE + TOR MILLER + NATALIE

LUNGLEY + KIMBERLEY ANNE


HATCHAM SOCIAL + FLOWERS


POLES APART + THE HANGNAILS

£5 / 8.00PM / PROUD

SEAMS

£5 / 7.30PM / SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS

JOSH RECORD + STEPH FRASER

£6ADV / 8.00PM / THE SLAUGHTERED LAMB

MIXED BAG OF NUTS PRESENTS: THE

ONIRONAUTS + SAMPLE ANSWER

FREE / 8.00PM / STRONGROOM

BIPOLAR SUNSHINE + BENIN CITY + TUESDAY

BORN

£5ADV / 8.00PM / BIRTHDAYS

SOMETHING + IDES + KING OF CATS


DUKE GARWOOD + AGATHE MAX & CYRIL M.

+TOMAGA


TERMINAL CHEESECAKE + BAD GUYS +

ACTION

£8ADV / 7.30PM / CORSICA STUDIOS

WEDNESDAY 7TH AUGUST

THURSDAY 8TH AUGUST


THURSDAY 8TH AUGUST

COLD CAVE

£10ADV / 7.30PM / ELECTROWERKZ

RINGO DEATHSTARR + GUM


LABYRINTH EAR


NMR PRESENTS: AGGI DOOM + SHOPPING +

GOOD THROB + GOLD BARS


TEENAGE MOTHERS + ALBERT ALBERT

FREE / 8.00PM / QUEEN OF HOXTON

ATLAS + DRDR

FREE / 8.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS

LAURA JANSEN

£8ADV / 8.00PM / ST PANCRAS OLD CHURCH

DARREN HAYMAN


JB NEWMAN & THE BLACK LETTER BAND

+DANNY H. VALENTINE + LAMPWICK


LULU JAMES

£8.50ADV / 7.00PM / XOYO

SWAIN + THE RILEYS + DAVE GILES + MILLEY

MANDERS


DARLING FARAH + JAMES FOX + RUMAH +

VIERS + APES & SEB WILDBLOOD

£4ADV / 10.00PM / CORSICA STUDIOS

ROOM 237 WITH LOST HARBOURS + THE

MARBLES JACKSON + GUESTS


SKREAM + SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO DJ + KODE

9 + IKONIKA + SCRATCHA DVA + COOLY G


BLONDIE

£39.50 / / KEW GARDENS

CATFISH AND THE BOTTLEMEN + KID

CHAMPION


LISTENER + JOHNNY FOREIGNER + KATIE

MALCO


T.WILLIAMS + SHENODA + SECOND CITY

£7 / 9.00PM / THE NEST

SEALINGS (‘TOO PURE’ SINGLE LAUNCH) +

BONEYARDS + THEO VERNEY + IS BLISS


JACKSON SCOTT

FREE / 6.00PM / ROUGH TRADE WEST

MAXIXE


FRIDAY 9TH AUGUSTFRIDAY 9TH AUGUST

HANNAH WHITE

£5ADV / 8.00PM / UNION CHAPEL

NEW JACKSON


HALVES + MOON + THE DYING SECONDS +

THE DREAMS OF RIDICULOUS MEN + THE

SHOREDITCH SURF CLUB

£6ADV / 7.30PM / THE WATER RATS

THE TUTS + PERKIE & THE PERKETTES


PUG PARTY


GEORGE FITZGERALD + JUJU & JORDASH +

KLARTRAUM + OF NORWAY


RHONDA + THE UNIVERSAL + THE BEAT

MOVEMENT + THE TRAVELLERS + MRS

ENGLAND + JOHN CADE & THE ANYDAYS


VISIONS FESTIVAL: !!! + FUCKED UP + CLOUD

NOTHINGS + ICEAGE + CHILDHOOD + THE

HAXAN CLOAK + JEFFREY LEWIS + ECHO

LAKE + STILL CORNERS + JACKSON SCOTT +

MOLLY NILSSON + THE WYTCHES +

KORELESS + EAST INDIA YOUTH + PAWS +

KIRIN J. CALLINAN + GAPS

£25ADV / 3.00PM / LONDON FIELDS

DONAVON FRANKENREITER


THE SUNDOWNERS + SELECTIVE SERVICE +

THE RISING + THE TRICKS

£5ADV / 8.00PM / QUEEN OF HOXTON

BASSMENT PROJECT

£12.50ADV / 7.30PM / SCALA

PLAYHOUSE

£4 / 11.00PM / THE WAITING ROOM

TINMEN + DRESSMAKER + LUXE


THE PRE NEW + ATOMIC SUPLEX + TERMINAL

GODS + JELLY + THE CONNECTORS + RASP

THORNE AND THE BRIARS + LOS PEPES +

BETTY'S RIFLE

£7ADV / 3.30PM / BRIXTON WINDMILL

UNDERGROUND ALLY + HOT CASANDRA +

HARAKET + EYESHADOWS


KITCHEN

AZURE BLUE + VICTORIA & JACOB + COSINES


TYTHE + CHANNEL SWIMMER + CHRIS COCO

+ JOEL HOOD + MARK RYAN + MOJO FILTER


SATURDAY 10TH AUGUST

SUNDAY 11TH AUGUST


SUNDAY 11TH AUGUST

LAST IN LINE


OWEN PALLETT + BUKE & GASE


QUIET AS A MOUSE + MOLLY WAGGER + THE

ROPE & THE COLT


ENDERBY'S ROOM

FREE / 2.30PM / THE LEXINGTON

BEASTS + YOUNG ROMANCE + DISRAELI

GEARS


JOSHUA BURKETT + ERIC ARN + JON COLLIN


DAN CROLL


BAT FOR LASHES

£22.50ADV / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH

EMPIRE

BARELY REGAL: PLAIDS + BLOOMER + MARS

TO STAY


BASIA BULAT


VELCRO HOOKS + YOU WALK THROUGH

WALLS


JOSEPHINE + TURIN BRAKES


THE NIGHT VI + ADA


NO OMEGA + GRIEVED + ROUGH HANDS +

SVALBARD


EAST END PROMISES + CREME DE CHEVRE +

LORI MCTEAR

£5 / 8.00PM / PROUD

ROSE ELINOR DOUGALL + JOSEPH COWARD


EQUINOX THE PEACEKEEPER


MAN LIKE ME + WE WERE EVERGREEN


TOM MILSOM & FRIENDS

FREE / 9.00PM / CATCH

LOMA PRIETA + UP RIVER + PARISO


MONDAY 12TH AUGUST

TUESDAY 13TH AUGUST


THURSDAY 15TH AUGUST

LOMA PRIETA + UP RIVER + PARISO

£10ADV / 8.00PM / THE OLD BLUE LAST

KING DINOSAUR


FURS


ANDY C + LOADSTAR + DELTA HEAVY +

CALYX + TEEBEE


RAIME + DEMDIKE STARE + BLACKEST EVER

BLACK


CASPA + MISTAJAM + NEWHAM GENERALS +

THE OTHERS + MYDAS + DIRTY DOG


STRANGERS + THE RAMONA FLOWERS


THE MILLER TEST +

ONEHUNDREDPERCENTBOYBAND + BROMIDE

+ NIGEL OF BERMONDSEY + SPINMASTER

PLANTPOT

£5 / 8.00PM / THE MILLER

SUMMER WARM UP


ELLEKAYE


BONEYARDS + FLAMINGODS


AZARI & III DJ + MYLO + GIGAMESH + BAG

RAIDERS

£12.50ADV / 9.00PM / XOYO

SHANNON WARDROP + JAKIL + ZWAH +

SHAK + THE BANNED


SHONEN KNIFE


SHINIES


DEEP SEA ARCADE


KITCHEN

THEE SPIVS + KING SALAMI & THE

CUMBERLAND 3 + THE LOVE TRIANGLE + THE

NEASDEN BEES


MELT YOURSELF DOWN

FREE / 8.00PM / NATIONAL THEATRE

PROPSTORE

SAVORY DAYS: PHEROMOANS + SEALING,

SEARCHIN' + R ELIZABETH


FRIDAY 16TH AUGUST


DIE! DIE! DIE! + HORSEFIGHT


KEITH TIPPETT + THE ELYSIAN QUARTET


DETROIT SWINDLE + EJECA + MARK HENNING

£12.50ADV / 9.00PM / XOYO

MERCHANDISE + MARK MCGUIRE (OF

EMERALDS) + JOE MCPHEE + SILVER FOX +

EX EASTER ISLAND HEAD + YONG YONG +

HALO HALO + SEX HANDS + PLEASE

£15ADV / 12.00PM / THE YARD FESTIVAL

DECLAN BENNETT


THUMPERMONKEY + FONDA 500 + SCIENCE

BASTARD + LOCAL GIRLS + SOUP +

MONTANA PETE + SLOW PINES + HALL OF

STRANGERS + MOHIT


PETER PIXZEL + CORMAC JACOB + HUSLEY


LAS KELLIES


LOWER + THE LOWEST FORM + CLAW

MARKS


LYDIA LUNCH: RETROVIRUS


ALEXANDER TURNQUIST + NICK JONAH

DAVIS


TORCHE + FAT GOTH + THE JERKS


WOODS


KITCHEN

MIKAL CRONIN


DRENGE


THE JUMP OFF PLAYOFFS

£8ADV / 8.00PM / SCALA

MONOGANON


BLAUE BLUME


ARBOURETUM + THREE BLIND WOLVES + RED

RIVER DIALECT + IDLE FRET DJ


VIC RUGGIERO


SUNDAY 18TH AUGUST

MONDAY 19TH AUGUST

TUESDAY 20TH AUGUST

MONDAY 19TH AUGUST

TUESDAY 20TH AUGUST

DINGUS KHAN + SHOCK HORROR! + BRINK

THEORY + CASSELS


JULIA HOLTER

£14.50ADV / 7.00PM / CECIL SHARP HOUSE

BAD RELIGION + ARCANE ROOTS

SOLD OUT / 7.00PM / KOKO

CEREBRAL BALLZY + LOWER + CHAIN OF

FLOWERS


SAN CISCO

SOLD OUT / 7.00PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS

COSMONAUTS + LOLA COLT


ARCELIA + MILLY UPTON + PASCO TOM &

FRIENDS + SKY MURPHY & THE GENERALS

FREE / 8.00PM / BEDROOM BAR

MONA


BRENDAN BENSON

£17.50ADV / 8.00PM / DINGWALLS

JOSEF SALVAT + WILLIAM ARCANE


KITCHEN

DAVID PEACE + JAMES WALSH + LUKE

HAINES


THE BONFIRES + TOR MILLER + IZZY BIZU


CEREBRAL BALLZY + SLAVES + DEATH

PEDALS


BWANI JUNCTION

£5 / 8.00PM / PROUD

FRENZ EXPERIMENT PRESENTS: WILD

COMBINATION + PELVIC FLOOR


RX BANDITS


TRIO ESCRIME + RAINBOW TIGER


THE PRETTY RECKLESS

£19.50ADV / 7.00PM / ELECTRIC BALLROOM

SAN CISCO

£4ADV / 9.30PM / KINGSTON HIPPODROME

GHOST OUTFIT


LITTLE GREEN CARS


WEDNESDAY 21ST AUGUST

THURSDAY 22ND AUGUST

WEDNESDAY 21ST AUGUST

THURSDAY 22ND AUGUST

DARK BELLS + TEENAGE MOTHERS +

TELEGRAM


PHOX

FREE / 7.30PM / THE SLAUGHTERED LAMB

JAGUAR SKILLS


ARROWS OF LOVE + SEER


NOT TING HILL: EAST CARNIVAL PARTY

TBA / 8.00PM / THE DALSTON VICTORIA

DEAF SCHOOL


KITCHEN

BALLET SCHOOL


RONE + THROWING SNOW +

ROCKETNUMBERNINE


SEBASTIAN [ED BANGER] + PLUMP DJS +

HERVÉ + MICKEY MOONLIGHT

£12.50ADV / 9.00PM / XOYO

POETICAT + ABI PALMER

TBC / 7.30PM / BRIXTON WINDMILL

JAZZIE B + CONGO NATTY + YAABA FUNK +

100% DYNAMITE + AJ KWAME + TOBY LYONS


CRAIG RICHARDS + TERRY FRANCIS +

NATHAN COLES + EDDIE RICHARDS


MFC CHICKEN + DOLLAR BILL

TBC / 8.00PM / THE LEXINGTON

THE FLATMATES + FLOWERS + DESIGN

£8 / 8.00PM / THE MILLER

HAWKWIND

£20ADV / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH

EMPIRE

BLONDES + NICK HOPPNER + WARM

RESIDENTS


SWAMP 81

£10ADV / 8.00PM / HEAVEN

BAD VIBRATIONS PSYCH ALL DAYER


MARTHA WAINWRIGHT + LUKE SITAL-SINGH


ILLY

£7.50ADV / 7.00PM / BARFLY

FRIDAY 23RD AUGUST


SUNDAY 25TH AUGUST

MONDAY 26TH AUGUST

FRIDAY 23RD AUGUST


SUNDAY 25TH AUGUST

MONDAY 26TH AUGUST

NMR PRESENTS: HALO HALO + MASSICOT +

OSO EL ROTO + SHOWSMANS WAGON


CHANCE THE RAPPER

£12ADV / 8.00PM / XOYO

GOLDHEART ASSEMBLY


AMBER STATES + THE MAY BIRDS


CALIFORNIA X + WHALES IN CUBICLES +

BLOODY KNEES


DAVID BYRNE AND ST VINCENT

£35-40 / 7.00PM / ROUNDHOUSE

JACK CHESHIRE 'LONG MIND HOTEL' ALBUM

LAUNCH


CHROME SPARKS + BOXED IN

£7ADV / 7.30ADV / BIRTHDAYS

THE BARR BROTHERS


BIG BLACK DELTA


KITCHEN

MARK MULCAHY


FILTER


CALIFORNIA X


MILK TEETH + DOMINIC SAUL

£5ADV/£7 / 8.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL

ARMS

KITTY RICHARDSON + JOE MCKEE + PADRAIG

WHELAN


ANNA MEREDITH

£12ADV / 7.30PM / TIPSY BAR

ANGEL OLSEN

£12ADV / 7.30PM / BUSH HALL

HOLY ESQUE + SILVER ARM


KITCHEN

THE BLIND HEARTS + SEAN TAYLOR


ALKALINE TRIO: O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON

10TH BIRTHDAY PARTY

SOLD OUT / 7.00PM / O2 ACADEMY

ISLINGTON

TUESDAY 27TH AUGUST



TUESDAY 27TH AUGUST



AMATEUR BEST


FOY VANCE


CROCODILES + VIRALS


JULIANNA BARWICK

£13.50ADV / 7.00PM / ST GILES CHURCH

ACTRESS + EDDIE PEAKE + NIC HAMILTON

£14ADV / 8.00PM / ST JOHN-AT-HACKNEY

CHURCH

SICK OF IT ALL

£15ADV / 8.00PM / THE UNDERWORLD

NATIVE TONGUE

TBC / 8.00PM / AMERSHAM ARMS

THE RUTLES

SOLD OUT / 8.00PM / THE BORDERLINE

NICK MARSH (FROM FLESH FOR LULU) + A

TERRIBLE SPLENDOUR

£5 / 9.00PM / BUFFALO BAR

ZEWDITOU YOHANNES + HOWARD WILLIAMS

(DJ)


THE MERRYLESS


CALIBRE + TENDAI + FUNKINEVEN + OM UNIT +

KIDKANEVIL + ARCHIE PELAGO


TEDZED


KARMA KID + MY NU LENG + CODEC

£7 / 9.00PM / THE NEST

THE IMPOSSIBLE GIRL + SHE MAKES WAR


LUKE HANDSFREE + JAMES TEC


TYPESUN

£5ADV / 8.00PM / BIRTHDAYS

ART IS HARD ALL DAYER: BEST FRIENDS +

JOANNA GRUESOME + BLACK TAMBOURINE +

BIRDSKULLS + NAI HARVEST


NINA KRAVIZ + JOSH WINK + TERRY FRANCIS

+ GREGOR TRESHER


BRIGHT LIGHT BRIGHT LIGHT + HELOISE & THE

SAVOIR FAIRE + THE SPECS + THE

SUPERPHONE


FRIDAY 30TH AUGUST

SATURDAY 31ST AUGUST

FRIDAY 30TH AUGUST

SATURDAY 31ST AUGUST

TEMPLES + SHOWMANS WAGON + THE

ROMLEYS


CAYUCAS

£8.50ADV / 8.00PM / 100 CLUB

BLACK YAYA (HERMAN DUNE) + TURNER

CODY

£8.50ADV / 8.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR &

KITCHEN

THE BE GOOD TANYAS + PHIL COOK


ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER

£12.50ADV / 8.00PM / BUSH HALL

BRAIDS

£9.50ADV / 8.00PM / ELECTROWERKZ

SKATERS


HOUNDMOUTH


KITCHEN

JONNY COLA & THE A-GRADES + TEMPLE OF

GOLD + LADYKILLERS


MARTIN WALKYIER'S VIKING FUNERAL

£17.50ADV / 6.30PM / O2 ACADEMY

ISLINGTON

MATTHEW E WHITE + LANTERNS ON THE

LAKE

£17.50ADV / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH

EMPIRE

PRESIDENT ROOTS


V.O.S


JOHN PARISH


BEACH FOSSILS

£9.50ADV / 8.00PM / THE GARAGE

THE WINERY DOGS

£22.50ADV / 7.00PM / O2 ACADEMY

ISLINGTON

JETPLANE LANDING


SUNDAY 1ST SEPTEMBER

MONDAY 2ND SEPTEMBER

TUESDAY 3RD SEPTEMBER

WEDNESDAY 4TH SEPTEMBER

THURSDAY 5TH SEPTEMBER

FRIDAY 6TH SEPTEMBER

MONDAY 2ND SEPTEMBER

TUESDAY 3RD SEPTEMBER

WEDNESDAY 4TH SEPTEMBER

SUNDAY 1ST SEPTEMBER

THURSDAY 5TH SEPTEMBER

FRIDAY 6TH SEPTEMBER

More likely to be writhing chaotically over, rather than blurring, the line between the sublime and the ridiculous, Ke$ha is a pop phenomenon with purpose. Unlike Katy Perry's coquettish girl-next-door routine, Ke$ha is so thunderously bawdy and preposterous she can come over as slightly intimidating at first contact. Ultimately, it's what makes her a cut above the rest, though: that unabashed pursuit of a good time for herself and her fans is so pure and goodhearted it's impossible not to be swept up by it. Throwing herself into a set unblighted by ballads, opener 'Warrior' is as fierce a battle cry for her message of inclusion via abandon as could be hoped.

Her best song, undervalued recent single 'C'mon', comes bursting with killer couplets (“We've been keeping it kosher/But I wanna get it on fo' sure”) and an irresistible chorus hook. Though the most disposable-sounding on record, it's the pure electro numbers that pack the biggest punch here, with 'Blow' testing the foundations with its crunching bassline.In between the hits, there's costume changes galore, angle-grinding, inflatables and more glitter than you can shake a stick at. But after the confetti settles, it's that elusive ability to be genuine without ever slipping into mawkishness and silly but always self-knowing that makes Ke$ha the most undervalued pop act of the moment. Tom Edwards

KE$HAO2 Academy Brixton //July 15th

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It’s hard not to be a little bit in love with Owen Ashworth; with his self depreciating humour and a back catalogue over-run with heartbreak, he definitely holds more hearts than most. This is the first time he's toured the UK as Advance Base rather than former project Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, and he arrives comfortable and confident on stage. The material is less rudimental and more refined than his previous moniker and it makes for a captivating show, with the audience hanging on to his every word - an oddly disproportionate amount of which are about Christmas.

Jess Partridge

ADVANCE BASEThe Lexington // July 12th

Had Pissed Jeans frontman Matt Kosloff no more than an iPod backing him, he'd have zero problem filling the stage.Perpetually torn between aggressive shirt-tearing and sneering self-flagellation, his boy next door gone berserk shtick is levied with singular deftness.Behind him, the band summon a perfect storm of cranium-pulverizing noise rock so loud it's tough to properly process. It matters little.This is such a persuasive lurch back to the Sub Pop's golden era of wanton harshness, it's darn near impossible to object

Tom Edwards

PISSED JEANSElectric Ballroom // July 7th

NO SLEEP TILL LONDON... BY LUCY DEARLOVE

I was in Berlin a couple of weeks ago and listened to an impeccably trainer-ed German guy bemoan the fact that, when he went to Dimensions last year (a Croatian festival with British organisers), there were no after-parties when the main acts finished at 6am. He was, he maintained, just getting started at that point. As a rule, Berliners stay out late.There's a plethora of Berlin bars dishing out beers and beats post 7am. Techno is still the name of the game in that fair city, and these two facts must be connected. When DJs in London play a set, they're often only having to sustain a party sort of mood for four or five hours before close.Unless you specifically seek out a minimal sort of night, you're likely to be met with a set of, well, bangers, whatever you happen to be into. Whereas in Berlin, the old cliché about a Berghain crowd cheering the hi hat as the first musical variation in an hour is pretty much bang on the money. But if you're out for twelve hours straight, and the DJs are having to entertain you for the duration, there's no point in either of you peaking too soon.Berlin's meant to be clubbing Mecca. But I'm a fan of peaking too soon, truth be told. One of my favourite nights in London is Soul Train, and I don't think I've ever made it past 3am, despite the Bussey Building's unusually lenient opening hours. But I'm a fan of drinking too much too quickly, and dancing too hard, and of taking each individual three minute song as a party all of its own, and letting that mood rise and sink with the intros and outros as rapidly as a heartbeat. I've a gnat-like attention span that extends to the dancefloor and I expect it to be held, DJ, or I'll be straight across to the McDonalds on Rye Lane before you can say 'late licensing'.

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0844 871 8803www.lanternsonthelake.com

New album ‘Until the Colours Run’released 9th September on Bella Union

A KiliLive.com presentation

TUESDAY 26 NOVEMBERO2 SHEPHERDS BUSH EMPIRE

KILILIVE.COM | SEETICKETS.COM | 0844 871 8803The New Album ‘Muchacho’ Out Now! phosphorescentmusic.com

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