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What are you doing on March 11th? Oh you're not sure? Well that means you've probably got no excuse to not join us at Birthdays. We'll be there celebrating a whole host of brilliant things; from the release of the new EP, by the extraordinarily talented Stay Bless, on our In Stereo Records imprint, to the fact this little magazine has just turned two years old, to our esteemed deputy editor's birthday. How could you miss out on all that fun? This month there's an incredible amount of fantastic albums coming out;
our dreamy (and ridiculously lovely) cover stars Purity Ring return with their sparkling yet hazy new record, the almostsuffocatingly beautiful new Sufjan Stevens record is here, and the super-fun, super-loud new Lightning Bolt is amazing. You might even say there's a little bit of something for everyone. With any luck we'll be outside, in the sun, enjoying every last note, but it's okay, there's plenty to suit the rain too.
STAFF ON REPEAT the tracks we can’t stop listening to this month JESS: GIRLPOOL - CHINATOWN DAVE: STAY BLESS - DISTANCE LOKI: SURFER BLOOD - GRAND INQUISITOR DANNY: SUFJAN STEVENS - NO SHADE IN THE SHADOW... SUFJAN STEVENS
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CONTENTS 08. ON THE STEREO
LONDON IN STEREO IS:
13. NEW SOUNDS
Editor: Jess Partridge jess@londoninstereo.co.uk
15. TALES FROM THE CITY
Deputy Editor: Dave Rowlinson dave@londoninstereo.co.uk
17. LIGHTNING BOLT
Sub-Editor/Sales: Loki Lillistone loki@londoninstereo.co.uk
23. PURITY RING
Staff Writers: Danny Wright Gemma Samways Jack Urwin ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
31. ALBUM REVIEWS 38. EVENTS
Photography: Purity Ring cover story: Mike Massaro mikemassaro.co.uk
43. GIGS OF THE MONTH 46. LIVE LISTINGS 65. IN LONDON 66. LIVE REVIEWS 69. PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS
Contributors: Rob Leedham, Lucie Grace, Chris Duncan, George O’Brien, Thomas Hannan, Oli Knowles, Francesca Baker, Amy Gravelle, Geoff Cowart, Tim Hakki, Grant Bailey, Nick Mee, Henry Wilkinson, Dan Wilkinson.
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Ride are a band that I have loved for ages and I am so excited to have them at Field Day! To be able to bring such a seminal band back to a festival for the first time since Glastonbury ‘94 is the kind of thing you dream about, and something a lot of people have really been hoping for. Dreams Burn Down is a great track from Ride’s debut album Nowhere, that went on to influence so many. Also, it was the first track that I ever learned to play on the drums so many years ago - so it holds that memory for me too!
2012 Mercury Prize Nominees Django Django are back at Field Day this year. Their unforgettable performance in 2013 is one of my fondest Field Day memories and I can’t wait to have them on board again. Their brilliant new single First Light has got me really buzzing for the new album! The song is a real statement of intent on their return, great bass lines that then build up to those trademark harmonies that we’ve come to know and love Django Django for.
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CARIBOU ALL I EVER NEED Having worked with the brilliant Caribou since the very first edition of Field Day in 2007, I am very excited to welcome him back, this time as the well-deserved Saturday headliner. Dan Snaith released his sublime album Our Love last autumn, which saw him reach dizzying new heights. All I Ever Need, with its warm textures, is one of my favourite tracks on that album.
HAILU MERGIA TCHE BELEW I’m delighted to have the keyboardist and accordionist Hailu Mergia and his band with us. Tche Belew is a set of instrumental jazz and groove recordings from 1977, which was re-released by Awesome Tapes From Africa a few months ago. This is completely sublime music from one of the most seminal bands the funk-laced era of Ethiojazz and soul produced in post-revolution Ethiopia.
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GHOST CULTURE GLACIER Erol Alkan’s Phantasy Sound label has a knack for picking up true talents and the acquisition of Ghost Culture is no different. Beginning as a bedroom project using one synthesiser, a sequencer and a couple of effects, his sound has grown into a huge meld of genres, with Pitchfork, Mixmag and Dummy Magazine all heaping praise on the bedroom auteur. Glacier is an almost epic track, that keeps building up sonically before dropping and then rebuilding. I love it… Addicted. words by Tom Baker Field Day: June 6th and 7th, Victoria Park fielddayfestivals.com // @fielddaylondon
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LAURA GROVES If Laura Groves’ voice sounds familiar, that could be for one of a number of reasons. You may recognise it from her eponymous album as Blue Roses, which she recorded while still living in Yorkshire, and released through XL Recordings back in 2009. You could have heard it via Nautic, the DEEK Recordings collective she currently plays in alongside Nathan “Bullion” Jenkins and Young Turks’ Tic Zogson. You might even have been fortunate enough to catch her singing live, either at one of her own shows, or opening for Glass Animals, SOHN or Elbow. What’s certain is, if you have heard it, it’s remained with you. There’s an astonishing purity to Groves’ tones; an almost ethereal serenity that causes you to double-take. On her early work as Blue Roses, she cocooned her soft coos inside bucolic indie-folk. Now creating sumptuous-dream-pop under
her birth name, those warm vocals soar over pillowy synth textures, quietly propelled by supple grooves. What’s truly exciting about Groves is that you can hear her growing in confidence with each new release. Showcasing a melodic playfulness – characterised by complex arrangements and intricate vocal harmonies – last month’s Committed Language EP was even more sublime than 2013’s Thinking About Thinking. It’s been a joy to watch her songwriting evolve so far, and we’ll be continuing to follow her closely in the future, because hers is a talent, and a voice, to remember. LISTEN TO: Dream Story ONLINE: @Laura_Groves_ facebook.com/lauragrovesmusic LIVE: St John on Bethnal Green, March 10th LiS 13
TALES FROM THE CITY by Matthew E. White The first time I came to London was January 2013, and we were playing The Lexington. I played the pre-show music too loud, the band missed our last cut-off, but the show was great, and the audience were delightful. However successful the night was though, what stayed with me most was the emotionallycharged dressing down I received for not knowing who Pulp were, a fact I mistakenly let loose at a post-show party downstairs (thank god Blur wasn't playing). Friends, that is a mistake to never make in London. We came again in April, and played twice. The first time at Wilton Music Hall, a concert significant for the amount of gin I drank after the show with Mayor Carcetti aka Petyr Baelish aka Littlefinger aka wonderfully kind actor Aidan Gillen. Later we played a memorable show at Queen Elizabeth Hall which, at that point, was the largest show we had ever played. We were reunited with my percussionist who had spent the previous week in the care of the NHS, a wonderful London story all its own that is not my privilege to tell. In August I came again, potentially overstaying my 2013 welcome, ostensibly to play Shepherds Bush, but I like to remember it for my first Premier League match (Spurs vs.
Swansea), a match where I learned what a Hotspur was (Shakespearean‌ very quaint) and where a fan literally offered me the very nice jacket off his back if I were to commit to being a Tottenham supporter for life (I declined, I needed time to think more than I needed the, admittedly, very nice jacket). Remarkably, even more memorable than the football was later the same week getting lost and subsequently cornered by mounted police in a tremendously large crowd of people, gathered in an equally small space at the Notting Hill Carnival. Much like a public-facing ignorance of Pulp, blasting headlong into Notting Hill Carnival and completely losing your way is a mistake to never make in London. In 2014 I made a record, and in 2015 I’m back for more cockney-rhyming slang, un-air conditioned hotels (and cars), pasties, Sunday roasts, football matches, gin-fuelled dancing, britpop history, cricket lessons (not like baseball), and most importantly to play some music, meet some people, and do it all again, smarter, harder and better. Fresh Blood is released March 9th via Domino. Live: Village Underground April 20th
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LIGHTNING BOLT WOR D S : L U C IE G R AC E It’s high time Rhode Islands’ sonic titans Lightning Bolt returned with their phenomenal cacophony of noise rock. It’s been too long since our stereos quivered, walls shook and neighbours complained. Sorry, neighbours. Fantasy Empire, their sixth album, is a razor sharp outing; clear, loud and proud. Six years has not mellowed the two piece. Drummer Brian Chippendale was as energized and enthused as ever when I caught up with him ahead of their new release... Known, loved, revered for cluster fuzz riffs and metal dirges, the band’s new album is a turnt for the books. A much crisper, cleaner articulated sound has come about from their submission to digital technology for the very first time. “Change is good," explains Chippendale who, despite being incredibly fond of
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records were recorded to weird archaic devices like DAT machines, just weird stuff that we probably shouldn’t have been using. So this time we went in to a studio and used the studio to our best advantage.” Benefits of a studio might seem obvious but when it comes to this archivist of sound (Chippendale’s warehouse and studio space are something of a museum, with twenty years of equipment housed alongside recordings of live performances and rehearsals catalogued on cassette tapes) going digital seems somewhat out of character. “There were drawbacks to the way we were doing things before. We weren’t getting any separation of our instruments, and you’d make a little mistake and we couldn’t really do an overdub because there was so much bleed-through. So instead of playing one song twenty times because one little snare hit was out of whack, let’s just go in to a studio and do separation and try something different.” His bass-wielding partner in crime Brian Gibson has embraced this new way of working and reaped the rewards. Digital Lightning Bolt is here to stay: “Yeah we’re into it,” Chippendale laughs. “Especially Gibson. He’s always wrestled with how he wants his bass to sound. He’s a very detail orientated person so he’s really getting in to that stuff. It’s given him a doorway in to the process where it used to be a little more opaque, so it’s been rejuvenating. We’re excited.” You will still very much need those earplugs at their live shows, but expect to find the duo up on the stage these days. Their heyday of playing gigs on the floor, surrounded by a heaving, pulsing mass of bodies has passed. Why did the band start their famed guerilla tactics of playing anywhere but where was expected of them? “The biggest intention was an immediacy thing. Like how can you make an impact on a viewer or a listener? We did the obvious thing. You don’t set up and wait
for the audience to come to you; you go across the room and set up where they are and you just play. It was just getting rid of that gap. In the early days there were so few people and then for a long time a very comfortable amount of people at the shows, so you could really get in there.” We could blame health and safety laws, an increase in the popularity of the band or just audience members being jerks for this change up to a higher ground, either way, it was time. Do they miss those days? “Well it’s still something that we wrestle with, like how to proceed with a show. There’s something about playing on the floor when you’re playing a small place. It’s not necessarily an element of danger, it’s just like a real rush and it’s just so personal.” I ask Chippendale if he can recall any particularly intense shows. “Sure, there’s one that stands out. We played at the Knitting Factory in LA, ten years ago, and that show ended with all our drums gone except for a kick drum and a snare drum. There was a kid wrapped around the stand of the snare drum holding it and there was a bunch of kids piled over the bass drum. I’m usually out from the speakers a little way, but I’d been pushed back so that my back was schmooshed up against the speakers. In memory it was just a sea of writhing bodies. I was hitting the snare and I could just see the kids heads like they were just everywhere. And that one ended with Gibson playing bass, but somebody ripped out the cable going in to his bass and when they pulled that - all the wires from the inside came out with it. I feel like since we’ve switched it up and play on the stage there’s been a little less of the total destruction.” I suggest that destruction can’t go on forever. “It can, and it can’t” he laughs “I don’t know. It can go on for a long time.” Fantasy Empire is released March 23rd via Thrill Jockey.
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PURITY RING WORDS: ROB LEEDHAM PHOTOGR A PHY: MIKE MASSARO “In hindsight, it was like starting a new band.” Megan James is reminiscing over Another Eternity. An album that Purity Ring recorded together in the same room. Amazing, right? For those of you not still reeling in shock, it’s time to get acquainted with the Canadian duo. Megan and her bandmate, Corin Roddick, joined forces in 2010 while living 750 miles apart. They were a bedroom project that blew up via Tumblr, created a whole record over email and now count Jon Hopkins and Danny Brown amongst their biggest fans. None of this was supposed to happen.
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“Even when we started Purity Ring we hardly knew each other,” explains Corin. The pair had played in the same band before, Gobble Gobble, but were more acquaintances than anything else. When it came to piecing together their debut album, Shrines, Corin provided the fizzing, hip-hop indebted electronica and Megan her esoteric coo. There was next-to-no collaboration between the two members with each of their parts being ring-fenced from the other’s interference. “If I knew I’d be building a career with Corin when we first met. I’d be like, ‘What the fuck?’” reflects James. “It would make zero sense.” And yet genre-hopping pop has brought the pair together. They now live down the street from each other in Los Angeles and have spent the past year learning how to function in unison. Although Purity Ring formed while living in Halifax and Montreal, both members grew up in Edmonton, Alberta - a mid-sized city with not much of an arts scene. It’s the kind of place where everyone in a band gravitates towards the same hubbub, and it was here that Megan and Corin returned to throughout last year when creating the bulk of their second LP. Instead of recording late at night while bathed in LCD screen light, the band went so far as to hire out a studio for themselves. Fear not, they haven’t completely changed. “There were piles of vintage gear and a giant mixing board that I’d just set my laptop on top of and we’d use one mic,” recalls Corin. In truth, Another Eternity doesn’t sound all that different from Shrines. The chopped vocals, cataclysmic synth lines and trigger finger percussion you’d associate with Purity Ring are all present and correct. What separates the two records is a sense of cohesion. You can hear it in the new single begin again,
where Megan’s esoteric lyrics are firmly handed centre stage amidst a thunderous swirl of bass and sampled piano. There’s no more fighting to be heard amidst the tumult, although this took took some time to perfect. “There was a lot more communicating and that’s always a process for everybody,” says Megan. “Especially when it’s about something that you feel is yours. But we both know that Purity Ring wouldn’t exist without each other.” When writing the album, Corin would mostly fly down from Montreal for a week to visit James at home in Edmonton. Neither of the pair wrote whole tracks for their sessions, instead they brought fragments that could be completed together. Their only real goal was to not make a Shrines II. “Some songs started with lyrics or vocal melodies,” says Roddick. “Some songs started with a loop that I would have or a melody, and a lot of songs went through a transformation along the way.” Album opener heartsigh is symbolic of this process. Written during Another Eternity’s very first sessions, its Carly Rae Jepsen-meets-Rustie convulsions only came together when the record was due to be submitted to 4AD - about twelve or so
“OBVIOUSLY YOU CAN TELL THAT I STRUGGLE TO BE HAPPY ALL THE TIME, BUT THAT’S A PART OF MY LIFE THAT I APPRECIATE,” – MEGAN JAMES months after work had started on the song. If you hadn’t guessed already, Roddick is a perfectionist. “We tried twenty different choruses, I changed the music around countless times and it only came together at the very last minute,” he says. As much as Purity Ring have changed, Megan’s lyrics remain an eternal fascination. Perennially uncluttered with their emphasis placed on lingering syllables, they flit unsettlingly between the earthly and metaphysical. “Watching me is like watching a fire take your eyes from you,” she sings on the slinking kiss
off repetition. As though true love and torture are one and the same thing. Megan would pluck her lyrics for Shrines from recent journal entries, lending them an air of confessional squalor. Body parts would collide and she’d unpick the wreckage. Since then the sometime designer, has grown in confidence and now publishes delectably twisted poetry to Purity Ring’s blog. “If I cut off the tips of my fingers / Maybe I’d see what ran through me,” she wrote in an entry last August. Press Megan on her often brutal outpourings and she’s hesitant to LiS 25
elaborate. Even her bandmate Roddick is still in the dark as to what their songs actually mean. The two never talk about lyrics, only atmosphere. “Obviously you can tell that I struggle to be happy all the time, but that’s a part of my life that I appreciate,” explains Megan. While Purity Ring revel in chaos and misfortune, the duo themselves have never been closer. They’re audibly excited about Another Eternity, an album that’s seen their relationship evolve well beyond coexistence. Corin is particularly enamoured with the band’s step up from Shrines. Not least on the dizzying bodyache, a booming, theatrical track that nails the timbre Ungirthed was aiming for four years ago. “At the time I was happy with what I did,” he explains. “But when we wrote bodyache there was a big moment where I was like, ‘Oh wow. This is what I’ve been trying to do all along.’” That moment had been a long time coming for Purity Ring, but listen to their story and you feel it was inevitable from the moment they first met. Months before this Corin had been blown away by his future bandmate when he stumbled upon her playing piano at a local bar. “I was like, ‘Woah! Who’s that person with the amazing voice? What’s going on?’” he recalls. “At that moment I thought she was someone I’d like to work with 100 percent.” When they finally came face-to-face, Megan had exactly the same reaction. “My boyfriend was looking for a drummer for his band in Edmonton,” she remembers. “Corin tried out and I was like, ‘Woah! He’s 15 this is amazing.’ I thought he was this phenomenal drummer, like a prodigy.” How Purity Ring took so long to become friends is beyond us. Listen to Another Eternity and you’ll be left with one thought: better late than never. Another Eternity is released March 2nd via 4AD. Purity Ring play Shepherd’s Bush Empire April 30th
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RECORD OF THE MONTH SUFJAN STEVENS
CARRIE & LOWELL I remember him emerging out of the darkness, adorned in giant swan wings. I recall a rare and immediate sting in my eyes at the overwhelming beauty of the moment. I remember everyone dancing to Chicago. I remember it all; the greatest show I ever saw. So I went back. Back to Chicago via Illinois, off to Michigan, through the Age Of Adz and ending up with Seven Swans; the greatest trip I ever took. If you’re like I was; aware you should love Sufjan, but just having never learnt why, then this breathtaking record might just be the one to capture your heart, forever. Carrie & Lowell is gloriously short on the ornate; free from any unnecessary embellishment, he makes every moment matter, and it just makes the searing honesty burn harder. It’s just you and Sufjan - the most tender heart-to-heart as he meditates on life and death, and all the mess, love, hope and despair in the midst of those unshiftable Asthmatic Kitty March 30th bookends. Don’t come looking for answers though; this is mostly questions, wonderment and beseeching bafflement. Stand Out Tracks: Sufjan doesn’t know what to do with life, but he will tell Should Have Known Better you to make the most of it. “We’re all gonna die” he Fourth Of July repeats over and over in Fourth Of July and like that other Drawn To The Blood great live-for-every-moment song, Do You Realize?, he Blue Bucket Of Gold implores “Make the most of your life, while it is rife, While it is light.” It’s a record to tread carefully with though, sufjan.com because if life’s hitting you hard right now, the fragility carrieandlowell.com here could feel like a sledgehammer to the soul. But there’s comfort too; comfort in Sufjan’s puzzled disquiet, in his Live: End Of The Road admission of faults “I am a man with a heart that offends, 4th/5th/6th September with its lonely and greedy demands.” There’s comfort in this tranquil environment he’s created; it feels like reading in a library, like you’re in exactly the right place to ponder life’s great imponderables. This album could scarcely be more affecting, sadder, or more uplifting, and if what you look for in music is the combination of the deeply personal, and the utterly universal, if you look for a place to fit in, then you’ll not find many more rewarding records than Carrie & Lowell. Just stunning. Dave Rowlinson
THE GO! TEAM
THE SCENE BETWEEN Memphis Industries // March 23rd For all their pilfering of global pop, The Go! Team’s sensory onslaught often evokes a trip down their hometown landmark, Brighton Pier. The clattering breaks, tweeter-tearing guitar, contorted samples and brassy J-popisms summon the clamorous soundclash of the arcades, the butterfly-bellied thrills of the fairground, the queasy sugar-rush of cheap treats. Happily, on The Scene Between, Team captain Ian Parton’s gift for impactful vocal hooks (sung here by assorted female leads) and euphoric melodic swells is to the fore, binding the bedlam with moments of clarity – the fluorescent glam of Blowtorch; Waking The Jetstream’s gorgeous shimmy; the Fuzzy-Felt Family Stone of Her Last Wave – that are as exhilarating as a glimpse of that blue ocean, as revitalising as a lungful of sea breeze. Nick Mee
SHIT & SHINE 54 SYNTH-BRASS, 38 METAL GUITAR, 65 CATHEDRAL Rocket Recordings // March 16th Shit & Shine have had a billion albums and a zillion members in the decade they’ve spent knocking rock and roll off its course, saving it from a dull abyss of melody, lyrics and structure. I’ve found keeping up with them near impossible. But if, like me, you’d enjoyed giving them a few glimpses at festivals but were baffled as to where to start on record, let’s get this in writing for you, in big letters: THIS IS THE ONE. 54 Synth-Brass, 38 Metal Guitar, 65 Cathedral is a drone-dance album. It’s a krautrock disco party, or Sunn O)))’s Fabric Live compilation. Is it the best thing they’ve ever done? For all I know, yes. Is it the best thing I’ve heard in ages? Certainly. Thomas Hannan
THE STAVES IF I WAS
Atlantic // March 23rd Brushing off those winter cobwebs and watching bulbs bloom into flowers again, is what listening to The Staves’ new album, If I Was, feels like. Following up from their debut, Dead & Born & Grown, the British folk-rock trio of sisters’ latest record witnesses both an injection of muscle and much-heightened ambition compared to its forerunner. Blood I Bled exposes sublimely harmonised lyrical power, whilst wistful dives of tumbling guitar link together with orchestral violin to create a truly mesmerising opening track. Let Me Down highlights a softened exquisiteness, before leading into Black & White; a revved-up version of the rest of the album that sees the girls plug in their electric guitars for upbeat detonation. Sometimes, just sometimes, things fall together so faultlessly that you wouldn’t want to change a thing and, for The Staves, the triumphant If I Was fits that standpoint perfectly. Amy Gravelle LiS 31
PILE
YOU’RE BETTER THAN THIS Fierce Panda // March 2nd Fans of ramshackle Boston rockers Pile love them enough to cough up $17,613 for their new van. Judging by the strength of their fifth album the lads are quickly repaying their debt. Their no-frills dynamic is distilled and well captured in these ten tunes, displaying a profound new maturity. From the frustrated fury of The World Is Your Motel to the rather un-Compton solo acoustic dirge, Fuck the Police, it’s clear that, loud or quiet, pissed or pissed off, the band’s relentless and dissonant musical explorations are bearing fruit. It’s a deceptive, varied and clever listen, with the jaw-dropping Touched by Comfort providing the best two-and-a-half minutes of heart-tugging and foot-tapping music in a very long time. The clowns are dead. Let the party begin. Geoff Cowart
TOBIAS JESSO JR
I’M FROM BARCELONA
True Panther // March 17th
Warner // March 25th
The tendency to mention Tobias Jesso Jr’s personal misfortunes when assessing his music often obstructs the fact that it’s extremely derivative. Fortunately for Jesso, his deftness as a songwriter clears this critical hurdle by a country mile. Debut album Goon explores his monomania for human love via the McCartney-esque and the lovelorn balladeers of piano pop past. Danielle Haim sits behind the kit for the heart-stoppingly beautiful Without You. In lesser hands a sentiment like “I just don’t know who I would be without you” would be hackneyed, but Jesso sings with simple unmistakeable sincerity. If heartache can erect summits as towering as Just A Dream and How Could You Babe then Jesso has clearly glimpsed into the abyss. Tim Hakki
I’m From Barcelona are not only Swedish rather than Spanish, but also push the boundaries of what you might ordinarily consider a band to look like. The number of members varies between 16 and 28, and the repertoire of instruments includes saxophones, flutes, clarinets, trumpets, kazoos banjos, accordions, keyboards, guitars and drums – a combination that results in a vibrant and vivacious explosion of pop songs and dancing synth beats. The band were founded by Emanuel Lundgren a decade ago as a fun side project, but this new album is a testament to living in the moment, packed full of instant thrills and shimmering melodies, and sounding not unlike sunlight dappling through trees in a flood of summer optimism, and the sugary sweet joy of dancing until dawn. Francesca Baker
GOON
GROWING UP IS FOR TREES
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DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE KINTSUGI Atlantic Records // March 30h
"I don't know where to begin". Quite an opening line from the relentlessly eloquent Ben Gibbard. But this eighth studio album from the Washington indie stalwarts is understandably something of a new venture, as the first since last year’s departure of Chris Walla. But Kintsugi - the Japanese art of fixing pottery but purposefully highlighting its cracks as part of the item’s history - doesn’t feel like a debilitated Death Cab; in fact, at first it sounds like a pretty happy one. Seemingly gone are the days of Gibbard’s emo escapades into hospital wings and untenable long distance relationships; Good Help (Is So Hard To Find) is a treat of hooky riffs, hi-hat heavy beats and catchy melodies; The Ghosts Of Beverly Drive stands-out with a classically satisfying Death Cab chorus, while Ingenue grows beautifully. However, for those - this fan included - looking for some Transatlanticism-esque melancholy, never fear. You’ve Haunted Me All My Life does exactly what it says on the tin: “You are the mistress I can’t make a wife” Gibbard rhymes above careful layers of gorgeous guitar lines. It’s followed-up by the album's ballad Hold No Guns, an entirely acoustic, romantic outing. There’s something almost Coldplay-like about Everything’s A Ceiling and piano-based closer Binary Sea, and before you know it we’re listening to a Death Cab classic; an emotional roller coaster proudly bearing its cracks for all to see. George O’Brien
LONELADY HINTERLAND Warp // March 23rd
Though not strictly billed as a concept album, Julie Campbell’s second full-length release feels terrifically in sync with its title. As a lyrical device, “Hinterland” functions on a number of levels: as a literal representation of the derelict industrial landscapes on Manchester’s outskirts; as a metaphor for a sense of internal isolation; and as a figurative portrayal of the unknown domain after death. Campbell’s vision is so vividly rendered that to listen is to step straight inside a stark world constructed from “units of corrugated iron” and underground bunkers, senselessly scattered with “red scrap” and populated by disembodied voices and ghosts. Fittingly, she navigates these ruined spaces as if in a fever-dream, her nervy vocals ricocheting off the walls, with specific phrases subject to frenzied repetition. As with 2010’s Nerve Up, Hinterland plunders the jittery energy and clean lines of post-punk, but this time Campbell’s arrangements are more intricately layered, and there’s wider variety in styles. With its stabbing bassline, programmed beats and scratchy, funk riff, Groove It Out lives up to its billing. The title track takes a similar tack, but adds a reedy violin loop and abstract guitar shapes. At the other end of the spectrum is the spellbinding sprawl of Flee!, which sets Campbell’s plaintive tones over atonal string drones and flickering feedback. Being laden with so many metallic textures and treated sounds, Hinterland sounds every bit the labour of love it reportedly was. Again, the fact you can feel the spectre of industry looming is entirely in keeping with the concept. Gemma Samways LiS 34
VESSELS DILATE
Bias // March 2nd It was 2012 when we last heard from Leeds quintet Vessels. A lot has changed in this time, and one truth will have to be accepted; it’s time to say goodbye to the guitars. Dilate is an electronic album first and foremost. The sound that Vessels experimented with on 2012 EP Elliptic has been extrapolated, each track a swell of synthesised energy. The warmth of Vessels’ earlier guitar-heavy sound is gone, replaced by throbbing heartbeats and intricate keyboard weaving. Echo In is a hallucinogenic vision quest in the vein of mellowed-out Mogwai, while On Monos and Glass Lake occupy the bass-driven landscape of chillstep, avoiding distorted aggro in favour of smoothed out waves. A different vibe then. Still, Vessels remain as thoughtful and precise as ever, even with the riff decidedly dethroned. Grant Bailey
YOUNG GUV
RIPE 4 LUV Slumberland // March 9th Ripe 4 Luv is the work of Fucked Up’s Ben Cook - putting to use his experience ghost-writing for Clarkson, Swift and more and taking on the pop lark himself. It’s a record that wants to be a pure pop album on its own terms, but therein lies the problem, with tracks like Aquarian and Kelly I'm Not A Creep falling flat, and getting lost in muddled choruses. The seven minutes of Wrong Crowd, however, address this uneasy balance; not a moment is wasted, not a note or spoken French section could be cut. Ripe 4 Luv is worth sticking with to hear the sound of someone experimenting and learning about the pop perfection of the three minute single (with the special exception of four extra minutes of speaking in French). Dan Wilkinson
KING KHAN & THE BBQ SHOW BAD NEWS BOYS
In The Red // March 2nd King Khan pitches up in psycheville with his freaky BBQ show in tow, gargling out grubby earworms and demonstrating his best Screaming Jay Hawkins impersonation with new album Bad News Boys. It’s a record of half-baked garage ditties, lo-fi instrumentation and dynamic yet spluttered vocals. In amongst the saliva there are infectious doo-wop and barbershop influences, giving Khan the style of a toothless and bloodshot Frankie Valli. Alone Again and Kiss My Sister First are glorious but elsewhere the album sounds like a King Khan sideshow; a vehicle for ideas that would otherwise never see the light of day. The puerile D.F.O and, presumably ironically titled, Zen Machines are patience testing while Snackin’ After Midnight is just plain bonkers. With lyrics about diarrhoea, cannibalism and cradle snatching, you certainly wouldn’t want these guys anywhere near your children. Crunch, crunch. Henry Wilkinson LiS 35
EVENTS
a selection of new stuff we’re excited about:
PUB ON THE PARK SPRING REAL ALE FESTIVAL Whether hunkering down in the upstairs snug, basking in the sun on the London-Fieldsoverlooking patio, or settling down in front of the football, Pub On The Park has long been a mainstay of London In Stereo life. So what better place to hold an ale festival? Three days enjoying some early Spring sunshine (probably), and savouring beers from some of our favourites like 5 Points and Redemption - plus a whole host of others - sounds pretty idyllic. Obviously there’s a bbq, because you should never have an ale festival without a bbq. Even more exciting, there’s a homebrew competition; so it’s time to bring out that Homerton Hammer, or whatever you’ve got fermenting indoors, and prove your worth - you have until March 15th to enter. It’s free to get into the festival, so, see you there. March 20th-22nd // Pub On The Park, E8 3PE @pubonthepark // pubonthepark.com/
LABEL MATES FESTIVAL III For the third year running Bad Vibrations bring their fantastic run of Label Mates shows to the ever-wonderful stage of The Shacklewell Arms, in order to showcase a bunch of the best new music from the most exciting independent labels in the UK, and beyond. Bigger and better than ever this year, it sees a ten-day run of shows all being kicked-off with a Californian punk hit from the mighty Burger Records (will we be be getting a Burger Records T-shirt? That is definitely the plan) and continues on to see the likes of Fierce Panda, Odd Box, Trashmouth, Heavenly and Fortuna Pop! - we’re especially excited to see the legendary Comet Gain again - show their wares at the venue. This is just absolutely guaranteed to be the most fun. March 6-15th, The Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, E8 2EB @BadVibesUK // @ShacklewellArms // badvibrations.co.uk/ LiS 38
WOMEN OF THE WORLD FESTIVAL This year marks the fifth time the Woman Of The World Festival has taken over the Southbank Centre. Designed to bring together both women and men to celebrate the achievements and talk about the challenges faced by women and girls from across the globe. There’s a week of diverse events planned, from talks, debates, music, parties and even a marketplace to be found. It’s a brilliant opportunity to meet some like-minded people. And to make it even better, the week will feature a huge live show from London in Stereo cover star Tune-Yards. March 1st-8th // Southbank Centre, SE1 8XX @WOWtweetUK // southbankcentre.co.uk/wow
BLOC WEEKEND Bloc Weekend returns to it’s original home of Butlins, Minehead this year, after a somewhat abortive attempt at bringing the weekender to London a couple of years ago. We’re thrilled to see one of the best electronic music festivals around back to life and with a stellar line-up. Headlined by Jon Hopkins, the acts range from the accessible to the abrasive, from returning veterans to rising stars, it’s a genre spanning treat. There’s still some chalets left, so gather your most fun friends and head to Minehead for an adventure you won’t forget. March 13th-15th // Butlins, Minehead @BLOCWKND // Blocweekend.com
photo: Charles Turner
PIXAR PYJAMA PARTY The Prince Charles is one of London’s very finest cinemas, and always has a vivid array of imaginative scheduling, but not much would capture our imagination more than this; the Pixar pyjama party. Yep; Ratatouille, Brave, Toy Story, Monsters Inc, The Incredibles and Up combine to create a fourteen hour movie marathon guaranteed to run the full gamut of emotions. Oh god, Buzz has realised he can’t fly. Oh god, is Sulley ever going to see Boo again? Oh god, just all of those incredible first ten minutes of Up. Of course there will be plenty of laughs, too, and plenty of coffee. March 28th // Prince Charles Cinema, WC2H 7BY @ThePCCLondon // princecharlescinema.com/
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ALEX G TUES 3 MARCH CHATS PALACE
CURTIS HARDING WED 11 MARCH BETHNAL GREEN WORKING MEN’S CLUB
PALACE OUT THURSSO9LD & FRI 10 APRIL RED GALLERY
R. SEILIOG WED 11 MARCH SEBRIGHT ARMS
BLACK YAYA THURS 9 APRIL THE LEXINGTON
COVES THURS 12 MARCH CORSICA STUDIOS
LONELADY FRI 10 APRIL OSLO HACKNEY
CLOUD CASTLE LAKE THURS 19 MARCH ELECTROWERKZ
SLUG MON 13 APR THE LEXINGTON
DKNL THURS 5 MARCH THE LEXINGTON
THE GARDEN THURS 19 MARCH 100 CLUB
K-X-P WED 22 APRIL THE LEXINGTON
GLASS ANIMALS TUES OUTMARCH LD10 O2SOSBE
HOOKWORMS SAT 21 MARCH OVAL SPACE
WILL BUTLER WED 22 APRIL SCALA
JOSE GONZALEZ THURS 28 MAY O2 SHEPHERD’S BUSH EMPIRE
BC CAMPLIGHT TUES 10 MARCH THE LEXINGTON
CROOX MON 23 MARCH SEBRIGHT ARMS
DEMOB HAPPY THURS 23 APRIL THE LEXINGTON
JUNGLE WED 3 JUNE O2 ACADEMY BRIXTON
LAURA GROVES TUES 10 MARCH ST JOHNS ON BETHNAL GREEN
SIVU TUES 24 MARCH ST JOHNS ON BETHNAL GREEN
SHARON VAN ETTEN WED 29 APRIL O2 SHEPHERD’S BUSH EMPIRE
STREETS OF LAREDO TUES 3 MARCH SEBRIGHT ARMS THIS IS THE KIT WED 4 MARCH 100 CLUB DRALMS WED 4 MARCH ST PANCRAS OLD CHURCH
FOXYGEN TUES 12 MAY ELECTRIC BALLROOM STEVE GUNN MON 18 MAY THE LEXINGTON LA FEMME THURS 21 MAY KOKO ASTRONAUTALIS WED 27 MAY 100 CLUB STRAND OF OAKS WED 27 MAY THE GARAGE
PARALLELLINESPROMOTIONS.COM
GIGS OF THE MONTH
OUR PICK OF THE BEST SHOWS HAPPENING IN MARCH
SHACKLEWELL ARMS KIRAN LEONARD
Mercurially talented Kiran Leonard with tracks from his brand new EP ‘Terreiro Do Paço’.
BRIXTON WINDMILL
KID WAVE // THE PEARL HARTS // KING TV Hailing from all over the world, this Heavenly Records band make fuzzy brilliance. 05/03/15 £6adv @windmillbrixton
BRIXTON
18/03/15 £7adv @Shacklewell Arms DALSTON KINGSLAND/JUNCTION
CORSICA STUDIOS
ONEIDA // PEOPLE OF THE NORTH The enigmatic Oneida bring their wide range of influences to Corsica Studios. 18/03/15 £12.50adv @Corsica_Studios
ELEPHANT AND CASTLE
03 SHEPHERDS BUSH EMPIRE CHARLI XCX
Poised to take over the world with her huge pop sounds, Charli XCX returns to London this month. 25/03/15 £15adv @o2sbe
SHEPHERDS BUSH
THE LEXINGTON
POSTILJONEN // MARLENE Two incredible Scandinavian acts share a stage for a special evening hosted by The Line of Best Fit. POSTILJONEN
06/03/15 £11adv @thelexington
ANGEL
THE GARAGE
WE WERE PROMISED JETPACKS Fiercely energetic sounds from this Scottish fivesome.
10/03/15 £13adv @TheGarageHQ HIGHBURY AND ISLINGTON LiS 43
SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS MEADOWLARK
the Bristol-based duo bring their melancholic alt-pop to this beautifully intimate venue.
24/03/15 £6adv @ServantJazz DALSTON KINGSLAND/JUNCTION
HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN
OSLO
Brilliantly clever, ridiculously fun, math punk.
The last night of Romare's residency at Oslo in support of the release of his debut album 'Projections'.
AXES // CLEFT // ALPHA MALE TEA PARTY
08/03/15 £8adv @HoxtonHQ
OLD STREET
21/03/15 £5adv @OsloHackney
HACKNEY CENTRAL
THE GOOD SHIP
O2 ISLINGTON ACADEMY
ALRIGHT THE CAPTAIN // ELK // HE WAS EATEN BY OWLS
AMONG BRIGHT LIGHTS
Sprawling and genre hopping, Alright The Captain are guitar shredding genius.
High energy electronic fun. 13/03/15 £10adv @O2Islington
ROMARE & FRIENDS
ANGEL
COURTNEY BARNETT
21/03/15 £5adv @thegoodshipNW6
KILBURN
ROUGH TRADE EAST COURTNEY BARNETT
One of the most unique voices around at the moment, with an incredible story-telling gift. Promises to be quite the treat amongst the Rough Trade CD racks. 24/03/15 7pm FREE @RoughTrade
LIVERPOOL STREET
BORDERLINE
RAGLANS // STICKMAN CARTEL Hooks, guitars and a love of the indie greats make Dublin's Raglans a whole load of fun. 25/03/15 £8adv @theborderline LiS 44
TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD
FABRIC
LONE // SPACE DIMENSION CONTROLLER // ALEX SMOKE // ALSO (SECOND STOREY & APPLEBLIM) // CRAIG RICHARDS The mighty R&S records take over Room 2 for a night of amazing live performances and the best djs. 21/03/15 £21adv @fabriclondon
FARRINGDON
100 CLUB
THE GARDEN LA neo-punk duo The Garden come to the 100 Club. SPACE DIMENSION CONTROLLER
19/03/15 £7adv @100clubLondon
THE FINSBURY
SHIRLEY SAID // TWIN HIDDEN // VENICE TRIP Electro-pop duo Shirley Said launch their new single ‘Salvation’.
TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD
26/03/15 £3 @TheFinPub MANOR HOUSE
THE LOCK TAVERN
STRONGROOM
Cool for Cats throw an awesome all dayer with a bunch of our favourite new bands.
Big Joanie are basically The Ronettes filtered through 80s DIY and riot grrrl with a sprinkling of dashikis.
DOE // THE WHARVES + MORE
08/03/15 FREE @thelocktavern
CHALK FARM / CAMDEN TOWN
BIRTHDAYS
STAY BLESS // ALBERT GOLD It’s London In Stereo’s second birthday! Come party and help celebrate the release of Stay Bless’ new EP on In Stereo Records. 11/03/15 £5ADV @_Birthdays
DALSTON JUNCTION/ KINGSLAND
BIG JOANIE // MEDDICINE
08/03/15 FREE @StrongroomBar
LIVERPOOL STREET
WAITING ROOM YAK
full on and unconventional, Yak have a ridiculously exciting live show you don't want to miss. 02/03/15 £5adv @WaitingRoomN16
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SUNDAY 1ST MARCH SUNDAY 1ST MARCH DAN FARSERELLI + RHYS SAMSON + PETER PIXZEL £7ADV / 11.00PM / FABRIC TOM HYATT + JANE THOMASON FREE / 7.30PM / THE FINSBURY COLOUR HAZE + RADIO MOSCOW £15ADV / 7.00PM / THE GARAGE BENOIT VIELLEFON & HIS ORCHESTRA £9.00ADV / 6.00PM / THE LEXINGTON STRONG ASIAN MOTHERS + THE JACQUES + WALKING SHAPES + CIARAN LAVERY £8ADV / 6.00PM / NOTTING HILL ARTS CLUB MONDAY 2ND MARCH HELSINKI £8ADV / 7.45PM / THE 100 CLUB KIM CHURCHILL + CHÉ AIMEE DORVAL £9ADV / 7.00PM / THE BORDERLINE VENREZ + THE INFAMOUS + SONS OF MERRICK £5ADV / 8.00PM / BRIXTON WINDMILL NATALIE OLIVERI + PHOEBE KATIS FREE / 7.30PM / THE FINSBURY TINASHE £13.50ADV / 7.00PM / HEAVEN LEON BRIDGES SOLD OUT / 7.30PM / THE LEXINGTON THE WAR ON DRUGS £23ADV / 7.00PM / O2 ACADEMY BRIXTON
CHAMPS FREE / 7.00PM / ROUGH TRADE EAST BENJAMIN BOOKER SOLD OUT / 7.30PM / VILLAGE UNDERGROUND YAK £5ADV / 8.00PM / THE WAITING ROOM TUESDAY 3RD MARCH MEATBODIES + ARROWS OF LOVE £10ADV / 7.30PM / BIRTHDAYS CHUMPED + CAVES + HAPPY ACCIDENTS £6ADV / 8.00PM / BRIXTON WINDMILL ALEX G £8.50ADV / 7.30PM / CHATS PALACE DM STITH £7.50ADV / 7.00PM / COURTYARD THEATRE ARIEL PINK £16.50ADV / 7.30PM / ELECTRIC BALLROOM FAKEAR FREE / 7.00PM / ELECTROWERKZ ZOE KONEZ FREE / 7.30PM / THE FINSBURY KAMIJO £35ADV / 7.00PM / THE GARAGE ZELLA DAY + SAMM HENSHAW + DAN COOK £6ADV / 8.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN NATIVE DANCER + KINKAJOUS £5.50ADV / 7.30PM / THE LEXINGTON BEAR'S DEN SOLD OUT / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE
JOSEF SALVAT
JAWS + SPRING KING + HAPPYNESS + THE
SOLD OUT / 8.00PM / OSLO
VESTALS
JUNGLE SOLD OUT / 7.00PM / ROUNDHOUSE SUSANNE SUNDFØR SOLD OUT / 7.30PM / SCALA STREETS OF LAREDO £6ADV / 7.30PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS ORCHESTRA ELASTIQUE £6.00ADV / 7.30PM / SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS MICHAEL FEUERSTACK + DAVEY JAMES +
£12ADV / 7.00PM / HEAVEN STORMS + BEASTS + ASYLUMS + MOVIE £6ADV / 8.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN SPECTRES + OUR GIRL + GIANT SWAN £6.00ADV / 8.00PM / THE LEXINGTON GIORGOS TSALIKIS £20.00ADV / 7.00PM / O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON JACK SAVORETTI + REN HARVIEU £18.00ADV / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE
SOLOMON DENT + AVA LILY
HÆLOS
FREE / 8.00PM / STRONGROOM
£6.50ADV / 7.30PM / OSLO
ANTIMATTER PEOPLE + LUPO
MARKUS FEEHILY
£5ADV / 9.00PM / THE WAITING ROOM
£25.00ADV / 7.30PM / SCALA
WEDNESDAY 4TH MARCH THIS IS THE KIT £10ADV / 7.30PM / 100 CLUB MAN WITHOUT COUNTRY + FANTASTIC FANTASTIC £8ADV / 7.30PM / BIRTHDAYS CYANIDE PILLS + THE DYING SHAMES + SCRAPS £6ADV / 8.00PM / BRIXTON WINDMILL JONE TAKAMAKI £10ADV / 8.00PM / CAFE OTO PANDA BEAR + JIB KIDDER SOLD OUT / 7.00PM / ELECTRIC BRIXTON MY EXTRAORDINARY + SPEAKING IN SHADOWS + CHASING CADENCE + SYREN CITY £6ADV / 7.00PM / THE GARAGE
DRALMS + VENN + WE ARE THE CITY £7.50ADV / 7.30PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS SASHA ILYUKEVICH & THE HIGHLY SKILLED MIGRANTS + PISSINBOY £6.00ADV / 7.30PM / SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS BARRINGTONE FREE / 8.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS ROSE ELINOR DOUGAL £6ADV / 7.00PM / SHAPES LEGENDS OF COUNTRY + KATIE NICHOLAS £5ADV / 7.30PM / THE SLAUGHTERED LAMB YELLE £13.50ADV / 7.30PM / VILLAGE UNDERGROUND
THURSDAY 5TH MARCH SPOEK MATHAMBO PRESENTS: FANTASMA £15ADV / 7.30PM / THE 100 CLUB KING KING + LAURENCE JONES SOLD OUT / 7.00PM / THE BORDERLINE KID WAVE + THE PEARL HARTS + KING TV £6ADV / 8.00PM / BRIXTON WINDMILL MAX JURY + SAMUEL FORD £11ADV / 8.00PM / COURTYARD THEATRE FOLIE ORDINAIRE + FEBRUARY FREE / 7.30PM / THE FINSBURY BIG BOY BLOATER & THE LIMITS £8.50ADV / 7.00PM / THE GARAGE FLYING TAILOR + O-ARC + SUSANA SAMBADA + SOPHIE CORAN FREE / 7.00PM / THE GOOD SHIP DIAGRAMS £9.50ADV / 8.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN DNKL £6.00ADV / 8.00PM / THE LEXINGTON THE TREVOR HORN BAND FROM £27.50ADV / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE THE QEMISTS + THE ALGORITHM + ALLUSONDRUGS £10ADV / 7.30PM / OSLO MAX COOPER £15ADV / 8.00PM / OVAL SPACE
KERO KERO BONITO + GREAT GOOD FINE OK £6ADV / 8.00PM / RED GALLERY ROMARE FREE / 7.00PM / ROUGH TRADE EAST TUNE-YARDS £20ADV / 7.00PM / ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL TUNE YARDS FROM £17.50ADV / 6.30PM / ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL D.I.D £12.50ADV / 7.30PM / SCALA GOODBYE CHANEL £5ADV / 7.30PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS TOR MILLER SOLD OUT / 7.30PM / SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS LAUREL FREE / 8.00PM / THE WAITING ROOM FRIDAY 6TH MARCH RHINO’S REVENGE £18ADV / 7.30PM / THE 100 CLUB THE CASE £8ADV / 7.00PM / THE BORDERLINE PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS + LUMINOUS BODIES + BLOWN OUT + CASUAL NUN + FUCKJAR £5ADV / 8.00PM / BRIXTON WINDMILL JAM CITY + EVIAN CHRIST + BOK BOK + MANARA £12ADV / 10.00PM / CORSICA STUDIOS ATTILA + SILENT SCREAMS + FATHOMS £10ADV / 6.00PM / ELECTRIC BALLROOM
BEN UFO + PEARSON SOUND + PANGAEA + JACKMASTER + DBRIDGE + MARK SYSTEM £19ADV / 11.00PM / FABRIC LUST + SECRET FIX + BIG SISTER FREE / 7.30PM / THE FINSBURY VLADIMIR + ‘… AND THE HANGNAILS’ £4ADV / 8.00PM / THE GARAGE ASK + YOUNG JACK + PECCADILLO + EAGLE & WEEKS £5 / 7.00PM / THE GOOD SHIP YEARS & YEARS £12.30ADV / 6.00PM / HEAVEN HUTCHIO ,£5 / 10.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN GREAT GOOD FINE OK + REMI MILES £5ADV / 10.00PM / KOKO POSTILJONEN + MARLENE £11.00ADV / 7.30PM / THE LEXINGTON GIRLFRIEND FREE / 7.00PM / THE LOCK TAVERN GALA DROP FREE / 8.00PM / THE OLD BLUE LAST THE SLOW SHOW £12.50ADV / 7.30PM / OSLO THE STRANGLERS SOLD OUT / 7.00PM / ROUNDHOUSE SARAH TANDY TRIO FREE / 7.30PM / SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS FROTH + MOZES AND THE FIRSTBORN £9.00ADV / 8.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS
SATURDAY 7TH MARCH THE THIRST £7ADV / 7.30PM / THE 100 CLUB SUPACOW + THE AMBER HERD + RED SKY REUNION £8ADV / 7.00PM / THE BORDERLINE SLEAZE + DANNY ONIONS & THE UNDATEABLES + NOLITA VIEW + NIGHT GAMES £3ADV / 8.00PM / BRIXTON WINDMILL CHRISTOPHER RAU + APES & SEB WILDBLOOD FROM £6ADV / 10.00PM / CORSICA STUDIOS CRAIG RICHARDS + MAGDA + ANTHONY PARASOLE + ANSWER CODE REQUEST £21ADV / 11.00PM / FABRIC WOLF PARTY + THE SCRUFF FREE / 7.30PM / THE FINSBURY THREE KINGS HIGH + BRIXTON ALLEY £6ADV / 7.00PM / THE GARAGE THE MOSCOW TRIP + RHYN + THE MOON AND THE TIDE + ELECTRIC LITANY TBC / 8.00PM / THE GARAGE THE DIRTY BEGGARS £5 / 7.00PM / THE GOOD SHIP DUSKY SOLD OUT / 10.00PM / THE LAUNDRY THE FIRST BORN + LUCERN RAZE + THEE MVPS FREE / 5.00PM / THE LOCK TAVERN COVENANT + ANALOG ANGEL + NAKED LUNCH £18.00ADV / 6.00PM / O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON
HAWKWIND + FOCUS
AXES + CLEFT + ALPHA MALE TEA PARTY
£23.00ADV / 6.30PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE
£8ADV / 7.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN
THE UNTHANKS
DOE + THE WHARVES + CHORUSGIRL
£20ADV / 7.00PM / ROUNDHOUSE
FREE / 5.00PM / THE LOCK TAVERN
COMET GAIN + WITHERED HAND + TIGERCATS +
MISTER SUNDAY
SIMON LOVE & A LITTLE ORCHESTRA + EVANS THE
£10ADV / 3.30PM / OVAL SPACE
DEATH TBC / 8.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS THE SHERPAS £5.50ADV / 7.30PM / SURYA ACTIVIA BENZ + GUNGE + SLUGABED + TOBY GALE
ANTHROPROPHH + DEAD SEA APES + YOU'RE SMILING NOW BUT WE'LL ALL TURN INTO DEMONS £10.00ADV / 8.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS BIG JOANIE + MEDDICINE + SHAGRAT FREE / 8.00PM / STRONGROOM
£10ADV / 10.30PM / THE VAULTS ELROW £20.00ADV / 3.00PM / VILLAGE UNDERGROUND SKREAM + TANIA VULCANO £13.50ADV / 9.00PM / XOYO
MONDAY 9TH MONDAY 9THMARCH MARCH SAM HUNT SOLD OUT / 7.00PM / THE BORDERLINE MALORY TORR + ALISTAIR SHEERIN + SOJOE FREE / 7.30PM / THE FINSBURY
SUNDAY 8TH MARCH HENRI HERBERT FEAT. BIG JOHN CARTER £12ADV / 7.30PM / THE 100 CLUB THE DOUGH ROLLERS TBC / 8.00PM / BRIXTON WINDMILL ALEXKID + CORMAC + PETER PIXZEL + JACOB HUSLEY £7ADV / 11.00PM / FABRIC BROKEN BOAT + LEWISBURG + CAVES. + CLAY FREE / 7.30PM / THE FINSBURY OMARION + ROTIMO + MR PLAY + DARKOZY £20ADV / 7.00PM / THE GARAGE
TOR MILLER + APRIL TOWERS £6ADV / 8.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN YELLOWCARD & LESS THAN JAKE £20ADV / 7.00PM / KOKO THE LITTLE UNSAID + ALICE PHELPS £5.00ADV / 7.30PM / THE LEXINGTON FYFE FREE / 7.00PM / ROUGH TRADE EAST FRANCO BATTIATO £30.00ADV / 7.30PM / SCALA FICTIONIAN £7.50ADV / 7.00PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS
TYRANNOSAURUS DEAD + THE WOLFHOUNDS +
SUNDARA KARMA
THE ETHICAL DEBATING
£7ADV / 7.00PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS
£4.00ADV / 8.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS TUESDAY 10TH MARCH TUESDAY 10TH MARCH VISION FORTUNE + BOOTHROYD £7ADV / 8.00PM / ACE HOTEL DEDWARDIANS + SHARK DENTIST + HEARSE PILEUP ,£3 / 8.00PM / BRIXTON WINDMILL THE CADILLAC THREE £11ADV / 8.00PM / DINGWALLS DAN SHEARS + LOCKES + JEEPS FREE / 7.30PM / THE FINSBURY THE DOUGH ROLLERS £8ADV / 7.00PM / THE GARAGE WE WERE PROMISED JETPACKS
TOR MILLER £7.50ADV / 7.30PM / SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS DESPERATE JOURNALIST + WHITE GIANT £6.00ADV / 8.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS LAURA GROVES £7.50ADV / 7.00PM / ST JOHN ON BETHNAL GREEN RHODES £12.00ADV / 7.30PM / VILLAGE UNDERGROUND WEDNESDAY 11TH MARCH WEDNESDAY 11TH MARCH CURTIS HARDING £8.50ADV / 7.30PM / BETHNAL GREEN WORKING MENS CLUB LONDON IN STEREO 2ND BIRTHDAY: STAY BLESS + LONDON IN STEREO 2ND BIRTHDAY:
£13ADV / 7.00PM / THE GARAGE
ALBERT GOLDBLESS + ALBERT GOLD STAY £5ADV £5ADV / 7.30PM / /BIRTHDAYS 7.30PM / BIRTHDAYS
BASSISTRY
JACK BROADBENT + TARQ BOWEN + JOE CORBIN
£8ADV / 8.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN
TRIO
YELLOWCARD & LESS THAN JAKE £20ADV / 7.00PM / KOKO BC CAMPLIGHT £8.00ADV / 7.30PM / THE LEXINGTON COLLIE BUDDZ £16.50ADV / 7.00PM / O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON GLASS ANIMALS SOLD OUT / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE HALESTORM + NOTHING MORE + WILSON £17.50ADV / 7.00PM / ROUNDHOUSE
£8.50ADV / 7.00PM / THE BORDERLINE ALL WE ARE SOLD OUT / 8.00PM / CORSICA STUDIOS HARDCORE SUPERSTAR + BONAFIDE + NITRODIVE £15ADV / 7.00PM / THE GARAGE THE AFTERPARTY + BEYOND RECALL £6ADV / 7.00PM / THE GARAGE ELLA EYRE + SHIFT K3Y £17.50ADV / 7.00PM / ROUNDHOUSE
JOSE GONZALES
LAURA WELSH
SOLD OUT / 7.30PM / SCALA
£11ADV / 7.30PM / ELECTROWERKZ
R.SEILIOG
GOAN DOGS + ACTIONS + MARIO LOTTARI
£5ADV / 7.30PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS
FREE / 7.30PM / THE FINSBURY
TEDDY
THE STATUE THIEVES + THE LIBRARIANS + THE
£4.54ADV / 7.30PM / SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS
MONDAY PROJECT
TAMAN SHUD + MEATRAFFLE + PIT PONIES FREE / 8.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS VAULTS + GWILYM GOLD £12.50ADV / 7.30PM / VILLAGE UNDERGROUND VIOLET SKIES + ALEX PHILLIPS + ELLA FRANK £5ADV / 7.00PM / THE WAITING ROOM MODESTEP £15.00ADV / 7.00PM / XOYO
£5 / 7.00PM / THE GOOD SHIP ECHO LAKE £7ADV / 8.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN LITTLE COMETS + MODEL AEROPLANES + LISBON £14ADV / 7.30PM / KOKO SPECTOR SOLD OUT / 7.30PM / THE LEXINGTON DRESSMAKER FREE / 8.00PM / THE LOCK TAVERN
THURSDAY 12TH MARCH THURSDAY 12TH MARCH EXPERTISE ROCKS £20ADV / 7.30PM / THE 100 CLUB DREW X HILL £7ADV / 7.30PM / BIRTHDAYS THE HIGH KINGS £17.50ADV / 7.00PM / THE BORDERLINE
NIGHT RANGER £20.00ADV / 7.00PM / O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON SEAFRET £7ADV / 7.30PM / THE OLD QUEENS HEAD TOURIST SOLD OUT / 7.30PM / OSLO RUDOLF EB.ER + EVIL MOISTURE + MARK WAGNER
RED CITY RADIO + PEARS + BEAR TRADE +
+ CHARLIE WHEATLEY + JAMES SHEARMAN
BOTTLER
£5.00ADV / 8.00PM / POWER LUNCHES
£8ADV / 7.30PM / BRIXTON WINDMILL ZUN ZUN EGUI £9ADV / 8.00PM / CAFE OTO COVES + LUSTS + NETSUKE £8ADV / 7.30PM / CORSICA STUDIOS
PAPA ROACH + COLDRAIN + THE ONE HUNDRED SOLD OUT / 7.00PM / ROUNDHOUSE JOSE GONZALES SOLD OUT / 7.30PM / SCALA
CONVERGENCE: CLARK + VESSELS + RIVAL
BAD GUYS + SEX SWING + HENGE
CONSLOES
FREE / 7.30PM / THE LEXINGTON
£20.00ADV / 7.00PM / VILLAGE UNDERGROUND LEA PORCELAIN FREE / 7.30PM / THE WAITING ROOM FRIDAY 13TH MARCH FRIDAY 13TH MARCH CLEAN BANDIT + JESS GLYNNE + MNEK SOLD OUT / 7.00PM / ALEXANDRA PALACE FRESH CREAM TBC / 7.00PM / THE BORDERLINE ROBERT ELLIS + JOHNNY FRITZ £8.50ADV / 8.00PM / BRIXTON WINDMILL SESSION VICTIM + KRYSTAL KLEAR + DAN SHAKE FROM £10ADV / 10.00PM / CORSICA STUDIOS BEN PEARCE + SECONDCITY + HENRY KRINKLE + CRAZE + SCRATCH PERVERTS £19ADV / 11.00PM / FABRIC THE KUBRICKS + THE SNARE FREE / 7.30PM / THE FINSBURY THE ALTERED HOURS + TUSKS + THE VENUS LYX £4ADV / 7.00PM / THE GARAGE THE MIKE LENSON BAND + MADAMEG + LITTLE DONNA £5 / 7.00PM / THE GOOD SHIP TED ZED + CHIMES £5ADV / 10.00PM / KOKO SNAKEHIPS £15ADV / 9.00PM / THE LAUNDRY
ASTRAL PATTERN FREE / 8.00PM / THE LOCK TAVERN ROYAL BLOOD + MINI MANSIONS £19ADV / 6.30PM / O2 ACADEMY BRIXTON AMONG BRIGHT LIGHTS £10.00ADV / 6.00PM / O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON THE ORB £25ADV / 7.30PM / OSLO IDLEWILD £22.50ADV / 7.00PM / ROUNDHOUSE QUIET QUIET BAND £6ADV / 7.00PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS SINGAPORE SLING + RADAR MEN FROM THE MOON + THE WANDS £11.00ADV / 8.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS CONVERGENCE: KIASMOS + DORIAN CONCEPT + RIVAL CONSOLES £18ADV / 7.00PM / ST JOHN AT HACKNEY CHURCH CONVERGENCE: ANDY STOTT + UNTOLD £18.00ADV / 10.00PM / VILLAGE UNDERGROUND MARTYN + MAKAM + TREVINO £13.50ADV / 9.00PM / XOYO SATURDAY 14TH MARCH SATURDAY 14TH MARCH MICK RALPH’S BLUES BAND £15ADV / 7.30PM / THE 100 CLUB MOURN £7.50ADV / 7.00PM / BIRTHDAYS
THE MARTIN HARLEY BAND
ARCHITECTS + EVERY TIME I DIE...
£16ADV / 7.00PM / THE BORDERLINE
£16.50ADV / 7.00PM / ROUNDHOUSE
CRAIG RICHARDS + RARESH & PRASLEA +
WEIRD WEATHER
VOIGTMANN + TERRY FRANCIS + RROSE
FREE / 7.30PM / SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS
£19ADV / 11.00PM / FABRIC
SEX HANDS + PRIMITVE PARTS + SEALINGS +
LOVE BUZZARD + SUNLIGHT SERVICE GROUP +
TEARDROP FACTORY + ROYAL LIMP + LOWER
SEWER RATES
SLAUGHTER + THE WORMS
FREE / 7.30PM / THE FINSBURY
£6.00ADV / 8.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS
ROME
CONVERGENCE: TRICKY + GAZELLE TWIN + RIVAL
£13ADV / 7.00PM / THE GARAGE
CONSOLES
COOK AND THE CASE + DIAMOND EMPIRE + FIENDE
£20ADV / 7.00PM / ST JOHN AT HACKNEY CHURCH
FATALE
SKREAM + DERRICK CARTER + ARTWORK
£5 / 7.00PM / THE GOOD SHIP
£13.50ADV / 9.00PM / XOYO
ROBERT ELLIS + JOHNNY FRITZ £10ADV / 7.30PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN JAY ELECTRONICA £15.50ADV / 7.00PM / KOKO BIRDY HUNT + DAVID ZINKE £7.00ADV / 8.00PM / THE LEXINGTON SEAN JOHNSTON + RIOTOUS ROCKERS + ALVIN C FREE / 8.00PM / THE LOCK TAVERN CARIBOU + KORELESS SOLD OUT / 7.00PM / O2 ACADEMY BRIXTON KAMELOT + GUS G + SKARLETT RIOT £20.00ADV / 6.00PM / O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON THEM CHEMICALS + INDIGO SKY £10.00ADV / 6.00PM / O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON TO KILL A KING + WAYLAYERS + ANNIE EVE £13.50ADV / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE
SUNDAY 15TH MARCH SUNDAY 15TH MARCH DAN BEAUMONT + ASHWORTH + CORMAC + PETER PIXZEL £7ADV / 11.00PM / FABRIC AARON FYFE + NICK EDWARD HARRIS FREE / 7.30PM / THE FINSBURY SIX TIMES CHAMPION + TUSKENS + FEET FIRST £5 / 7.00PM / THE GOOD SHIP THANASIS PAPAKONSTANTINOU £23ADV / 7.00PM / KOKO THE CERAMIC HOBS + HYSTERIA WARD + JOWE HEAD £6.00ADV / 3.00PM / THE LEXINGTON HEAVENLY RECORDINGS £9.00ADV / 8.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS FREEZE THE ATLANTIC £7.70ADV / 7.30PM / SURYA
MONDAY 16TH MARCH MONDAY 16TH MARCH THE BLACK RYDER + THE VACANT LOTS £12.50ADV / 8.00PM / BIRTHDAYS JIB KIDDER + MELLAH + LERRYN & PERRY £4ADV / 8.00PM / BRIXTON WINDMILL JUDITH OWEN £15ADV / 7.00PM / BUSH HALL LUCAS & KING + NICOLA BROWN + GITTA DE RIDDER FREE / 7.30PM / THE FINSBURY ROSE GRAY + SUSIE LOPEZ £6ADV / 8.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN ALASDAIR ROBERTS + THE SOUND OF YELL 13.50ADV / 8.00PM / THE LEXINGTON KINGSLAND ROAD £11.00ADV / 7.00PM / O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON THE CHARLATANS + FACTORY FLOOR SOLD OUT / 7.00PM / ROUNDHOUSE MALPHINO + ICHI + POLLYANNA VALENTINE £5.00ADV / 7.30PM / SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS
ALPINES + FANTASTIC FANTASTIC £8ADV / 8.00PM / BIRTHDAYS ANDY TIMMONS + THE GODSTICKS £20ADV / 7.00PM / THE BORDERLINE KIM GORDON IN CONVERSATION WITH MIRANDA SAWYER SOLD OUT / 7.30PM / CECIL HOUSE FARRAGO + TORI TORI BIRD + CONNOR BANNISTER FREE / 7.30PM / THE FINSBURY RONIIA £8ADV / 8.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN AMARANTHE + ENGEL + SANTA CRUZ £22.50ADV / 7.00PM / O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON DAMIEN DEMPSEY £21.50ADV / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE HANNAH LOU CLARK + MADAM + I HAVE A TRIBE £10ADV / 7.00PM / PURCELL ROOM GLASS + BARNACLE + CECE & THE HOWLERS £5.00ADV / 7.30PM / SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS CONVERGENCE: HERBERT £17.00ADV / 7.30PM / VILLAGE UNDERGROUND
CAJSA SILK £6.00ADV / 8.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS
WEDNESDAY 18TH MARCH WEDNESDAY 18TH MARCH
CONVERGENCE: BOOM ROOM W/ ANDREW
SQUAREPUSHER
WETHERALL
£25.50ADV / 7.30PM / BARBICAN
£10.00ADV / 7.00PM / VILLAGE UNDERGROUND TUESDAY 17TH MARCH TUESDAY 17TH MARCH THE FABULOUS LAMPSHADES £12ADV / 7.30PM / THE 100 CLUB
ONEIDA + PEOPLE OF THE NORTH £12.50ADV / 8.00PM / CORSICA STUDIOS LUCY ROSE + THE HALF EARTH £16.50ADV / 7.00PM / DINGWALLS
HOBBIE STUART
ARENA
£10ADV / 7.00PM / THE GARAGE
£17.50ADV / 7.00PM / THE BORDERLINE
NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION + BLOODFLOWER
CLOUD CASTLE LAKE + SPIES
£10ADV / 8.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR &
£6ADV / 7.30PM / ELECTROWERKZ
KITCHEN JJ GREY & MOFRO + MARC BROUSSARD £20.00ADV / 7.00PM / O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON ALAN PARSONS LIVE PROJECT FROM £35.00ADV / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE DANKO JONES £15ADV / 7.30PM / OSLO ANDY JORDAN £12.00ADV / 7.30PM / SCALA ARIA + CECE + JOSEPH + RAPHAEL £3ADV / 7.30PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS KIRAN LEONARD £7.00ADV / 8.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS AARON FYFE + PETE HICKMAN + MARTIN LEE RENSHAW FREE / 8.00PM / STRONGROOM CONVERGENCE: PORTICO + SNOW GHOSTS £18.00ADV / 7.30PM / VILLAGE UNDERGROUND THURSDAY 19TH MARCH THURSDAY 19TH MARCH THE GARDEN £7ADV / 7.30PM / THE 100 CLUB PERC FEAT. DAN CHANDLER + BRONZE TEETH £10ADV / 7.00PM / BIRTHDAYS
STORMS + PHOBOPHOBES + WHITE GIANT FREE / 7.30PM / THE FINSBURY OTEP + THE AGONIST + FERIUM + SELFMACHINE £16ADV / 7.30PM / THE GARAGE JOHN OTWAY + THOMAS ASHBY £5 / 7.00PM / THE GOOD SHIP ATTAQUE £8ADV / 8.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN THE DØ £15.50ADV / 7.00PM / KOKO EMMA KUPA £7.50ADV / 7.30PM / THE LEXINGTON SHE MAKES WAR + FORGERY LIT £8.80ADV / 8.00PM / POWER LUNCHES REEF £25.00ADV / 7.30PM / SCALA GORGEOUS BULLY FREE / 8.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS CONVERGENCE: BATIDA + SKIP&DIE + ALO WALA £12.50ADV / 7.30PM / VILLAGE UNDERGROUND THE CULT OF DOM KELLER £7ADV / 8.00PM / THE WAITING ROOM FRIDAY 20TH MARCH FRIDAY 20TH MARCH BEING THERE FREE / 8.00PM / BIRTHDAYS
DAUWD + PATRICE BAUMEL + WEVAL
CHIC FEATURING NILE RODGERS
£12.50ADV / 10.00PM / CORSICA STUDIOS
FROM £49 / 7.00PM / ROUNDHOUSE
DJ EZ + ONEMAN + NEW YORK TRANSIT AUTHORITY
CONVERGENCE: GARY NUMAN
+ FLAVA D + BOK BOK
/ 7.30PM / ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL
£19ADV / 11.00PM / FABRIC BOYS + YOOFS + CHORUSGIRL + FVC FREE / 7.30PM / THE FINSBURY
SARAH TANDY TRIO FREE / 7.30PM / SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS CONVERGENCE: KRAFTWERK'S RADIO-ACTIVITY
ATARI TEENAGE RIOT + D/R/U/G/S
REVISITED
£14ADV / 10.00PM / THE GARAGE
£10.00ADV / 7.00PM / VILLAGE UNDERGROUND
STONEGHOST
CONVERGENCE: MOUSE ON MARS + SHACKLETON
£5ADV / 7.00PM / THE GARAGE
+ PAULA TEMPLE
TIGER MOTH + THE RAGGED FLAGS £5 / 7.00PM / THE GOOD SHIP SYRON + MEGATRONIC + ETERNAL DEATH £4ADV / 7.30PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN FLATBUSH ZOMBIES & THE UNDERACHIEVERS SOLD OUT / 8.00PM / KOKO AV AV AV £5ADV / 10.00PM / KOKO FOUR TET + NENEH CHERRY WITH ROCKETNUMBERNINE + GROOVE ARMADA £15ADV / 10.30PM / THE LAUNDRY MADALYN MERKEY + MEDDICINE + RATTLE £6.00ADV / 8.00PM / THE LEXINGTON SYD KEMP + HOLY THURSDAY FREE / 8.00PM / THE LOCK TAVERN DAFT AS PUNK
£16.50ADV / 10.30PM / VILLAGE UNDERGROUND THE CULT OF DOM KELLER £7ADV / 8.00PM / THE WAITING ROOM SATURDAY 21ST MARCH SATURDAY 21ST MARCH THE RAMOANAS £10ADV / 7.30PM / THE 100 CLUB THE DUSTAPHONICS £8ADV / 7.00PM / THE BORDERLINE EAT LIGHTS BECOME LIGHTS + ZOFFF + RADIO 9 + ROHAME £8ADV / 7.30PM / BRIXTON WINDMILL LUCY ROSE + THE HALF EARTH £16.50ADV / 7.00PM / DINGWALLS LONE + SPACE DIMENSION CONTROLLER + ALEX SMOKE + ALSO (SECOND STOREY & APPLEBLIM) + CRAIG RICHARDS
£10.00ADV / 7.00PM / O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON
£21ADV / 11.00PM / FABRIC
EUROPE / BLACK STAR RIDERS
THE DUALERS + SHANTY + HEAVYBALL
£28.50ADV / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE
£15ADV / 7.00PM / THE GARAGE
CHASE THE ACE + NIGHT SCREAMER + PANDORA
KAHLO
KNOX
£7ADV / 7.45PM / THE WAITING ROOM
£6ADV / 7.00PM / THE GARAGE ALRIGHT THE CAPTAIN + ELK + HE WAS EATEN BY
SKREAM + ROY DAVIS JR + PATRICK TOPPING £13.50ADV / 9.00PM / XOYO
OWLS £5 / 7.00PM / THE GOOD SHIP
SUNDAY 22ND MARCH SUNDAY 22ND MARCH
LONDON CONTEMPORARY VOICES CHOIR
INDIGO HUSK + HEN JENNY + GROVES +
TBC / 8.00PM / THE LAUNDRY
COLDREDLIGHT + VELOCITY
BACK TO THE PLANET + ABDOUJAPAROV £10.00ADV / 7.00PM / THE LEXINGTON DROPKICK MURPHYS + THE MAHONES + BLOOD OR
£7ADV / 7.00PM / THE BORDERLINE DEWALTA + CORMAC + PETER PIXZEL £7ADV / 11.00PM / FABRIC
WHISKEY
THE FIX + JUST STAY NORTH + MANNI
£22.50ADV / 6.30PM / O2 ACADEMY BRIXTON
FREE / 7.30PM / THE FINSBURY
CIMORELLI
CIAN NUGENT + RED RIVER DIALECT
£20.00ADV / 7.00PM / O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON
£7.00ADV / 7.00PM / THE LEXINGTON
EUROPE / BLACK STAR RIDERS + THE AMORETTES
LOGIC
£28.50ADV / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE
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...IN LONDON with STAY BLESS Why do you live in London? Well, I cheated on London for a while and lived in New York as I’m half American but I missed home too much. I choose to live in London as, even if I stay in, (which some say I do too much) I know that at any time of the day I could go out and find something to do - the endless possibilities of London continue to inspire me. Favourite gig venue? Unfortunately many of my favourite venues (or just most central London venues) have closed their doors over the last few years. I love the 100 Club in Soho. It has so much history both musically and personally I played my first Stay Bless show, with Blood Orange, there. Where do you like to drink? I don’t drink that much really but when I do get dragged out I like The Passage on Dalston Lane. You’re in London, it’s sunny out, where do you go? I would say Hampstead Heath tucked in the tall grass on one of the hills is pretty transcendental when it’s sunny, or Haggerston Park if I’m feeling too lazy to walk far/transcend.
“Oftentimes London will seem like it’s trying to bury me, and other times it’s lifting me waaaay up.” Favourite outdoor space? Love it when they show a classic 80s film outdoors at Somerset House. Does London ever influence the music you write? London influences pretty much all of my music. I’ve been living and writing here for ten years now, and most of my friends or relationships are in London. The pressures or the sometimes claustrophobic vibe of the city will push me into writing music as a form of escape. But I also get so much energy and motivation from London on a good day. Oftentimes London will seem like it’s trying to bury me, and other times it’s lifting me waaaay up. Stay Bless’ In Paradise EP is released March 9th via In Stereo Records. An EP launch show takes place March 11th, at Birthdays. LiS 65
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INTERPOL // HEALTH Roundhouse // February 6th As Health walk on I’m wondering whether they’ll tone down their set for this larger audience. It’s less than a second before I realise I was an idiot for even thinking it. Immediately we’re overwhelmed with a torrent of abrasive digital noise, mechanical blast beats and John Famiglietti’s glorious locks, before focusing into Crimewave and floor filler, Die Slow. They flick seamlessly between slick grooves and calculated bedlam - from melody heavy, Seven Wonders sampled, Goth Star, to the sonic tidal wave of We Are Water. New material bears more resemblance to the former and it goes down well, but it’s clearly not for everyone here. The band leaves the stage and some fool mutters, ‘thank fuck that’s over’. But, ya know, each to their own or whatever…
There’s no such divisiveness for the impeccably dressed Interpol, who take the stage as if in slow motion and launch straight into Say Hello To The Angels, swiftly followed by Anywhere and My Blue Supreme from last year’s El Pintor album. Sam Fogarino’s hypnotic kick drum and the repetitive hook of Lights are entrancing and as the track opens up the audience erupt into a focused frenzy and sway to the extended outro. Couples all around the room are gazing into each others eyes as Paul Banks repeats ‘That’s why I hold you’. Touching, no? Each song is presented flawlessly; the bass is sounding deliciously dirty and butterysmooth all at once and the double encore that follows Slow Hands, and ends gloriously with Untitled, is absolutely warranted. If anything, tonight’s show suggests that they’ve only just begun to peak and their best record may be yet to come. Either way it’s undeniable that when it comes to the stage, they truly are masters of their craft. Oli Knowles
Tonight sees a bunch of older songs (which have lost none of their vigour or lustre The Lexington // February 16th through ridiculous amount of headphoned listens) and a bunch of newer tracks; some Girlpool have been in my life, what, six months? They already feel beyond crystalline, some kinda half-formed, some less than that, all of them thrilling. We see vital. They already feel like the recurring characters (Jane reappears, dancing antidote to the gutless drudgery the in the afterglow), we see Cleo and Harmony BBC and Brits have noted down as appear themselves, swapping driving seats on this year’s sound. They already feel like the antithesis of everyone who’s the freeway. They laugh at their mistakes, they seethe with disdain for anyone that’s ‘smashing’ this and ‘nailing’ that, ever screwed them over, they secure a place without giving a second thought to in the hearts, and - more importantly - minds, what they’re saying. It feels like I've been waiting my whole life for them. of everyone here. Dave Rowlinson
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LiS 67
With increasing regularity, commentators are predicting the demise of the flagship of modern recorded music – the album. Except the album is not dead, and I for one continue to have a serious affinity with it. My relationship with the album began in a land before streaming, like many London In Stereo readers, in a choppy time for the music industry. It was busy failing to react to Napster and other illegal services. They had let the genie out of the bottle, and it was never going to go back in. It was 2000 and embarrassingly, my first foray into this brave new Napster world involved downloading a single track, The Bad Touch by the Bloodhound Gang, onto my Dad’s work laptop (sorry Dad). It became my window into discovering new music and breaking the shackles of mainstream radio by opening my eyes to so many new and exciting niches. See, back then, the internet was SO bad that the idea of downloading an entire album required incredible commitment, knowing that it would take days of frustration before it bore fruit. This created an interesting paradigm. You could suddenly access pretty much all the music in the world, but only in drips and drabs. Consequently, I was downloading single tracks. And not albums. Despite growing up in this environment, I would go and buy my favourite artists’ albums on CD, because while I knew that while a track was a decent starter, I needed to enjoy the main course - even as a typically attention-deficient teenager. Fast-forward to 2015, and with fascinating symmetry, playlists have replaced the Napster discovery experience for me, while the album experience remains similar, buying LPs rather than CDs and streaming full albums. This is why bands like The War on Drugs and The National will continue to thrive. They consistently produce wonderful albums that are – to quote Sum 41 – “all killer, no filler”. Suffice to say, I never took the plunge to buy Hooray for Boobies. And in hindsight, it was probably the right choice. Chris Duncan LiS 69
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