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WELCOME Wolf Alice (London in Stereo Feb ‘13)

I've spent the best part of 24 hours trying to work out what to say here about the fact that this issue marks our second birthday as a physical publication, but I'm finding it harder than I thought I would. It simultaneously feels like it was a life time ago, and just yesterday. Wolf Alice (our first cover band) have gone from packing out The Old Blue Last to playing Shepherd’s Bush Empire, and we've grown from a humble following to what feels like, to us, an extraordinary amount of people paying attention to what we do.

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We'll be celebrating with a party on March 11th at Birthdays, having a good old knees-up to celebrate the ridiculous whirlwind that it's been, and you're most definitely invited.

And I know I say it a lot, but you can never really say it too much; thank you, to everyone who contributes to the magazine, reads it, supports it and, most importantly, enjoys it. You guys are the best.

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CONTENTS 06. ON THE STEREO

LONDON IN STEREO IS:

11. NEW SOUNDS

Editor: Jess Partridge jess@londoninstereo.co.uk

13. TALES FROM THE CITY

Deputy Editor: Dave Rowlinson dave@londoninstereo.co.uk

14. TENNIS

Sub-Editor/Sales: Loki Lillistone loki@londoninstereo.co.uk Staff Writers: Danny Wright Gemma Samways Jack Urwin

18. ALBUM REVIEWS 24. PANDA BEAR

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30. EVENTS 35. GIGS OF THE MONTH

Penny For Your Thoughts: Jack pOp of Alcopop! Records

41. LIVE LISTINGS

Contributors: Thomas Hannan, Lauren Down, George O’Brien, Oli Knowles.

Geoff Cowart, Tom Johnson, Nick Mee, Tim Hakki, Johan Alm.

59. LIVE REVIEWS 61. PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS Father John Misty: Album reviews pg18

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EAST INDIA YOUTH

EAST INDIA YOUTH CAROUSEL

When young William Doyle, aka East India Youth, took to the stage at Heaven in London on Thursday November 13th last year, it marked a turning point of sorts.

Not only was it one of the last times he would play a set entirely culled from material from his Mercury nominated album Total Strife Forever, but it was the first time he debuted material from his much anticipated second album for XL. And if the song he played that night, Carousel, is anything to go by, it will be a monumentally good album. John Doran

THE MOONLANDINGZ MAN IN ME LYFE

Who are these mysterious psych bastards and what is this oil stained masterpiece of buzzsaw guitars, raga-like chanting and groaning synths? The Moonlandingz sound like the sort of hot-breathed, greasy-haired no marks who want to finger you behind a bus stop, steal your fag money and then run off with a semi on. (And is it a coincidence that this sounds like a mischievous collaboration between the Fat White Family and Eccentronic Research Council?) John Doran

CLAUDE SPEEED TRAUMZEUGE

The opener of Sun Czar Temple, Stuart Turner’s new EP, is a none-finer distillation of the ambient producer’s work. The first half saturates slow-shifting piano chords with caustic distortion, gradually subsiding into the second, the bare bones of a gorgeous, Mogwai-esque song, lyrics of small-hours reflection lying on the edge of earshot. Laurie Tuffrey

CARTER TUTTI PLAY CHRIS & COSEY SIN

A contemporary reworking of a track taken from Chris & Cosey's 1991 album Pagan Tango, the seduction of the original spills out onto a canvas of new throbbing modulations. Cosey Fanni Tutti's cries of "lay me on a bed of sin" are a warm embrace laced with the tang of leather. Sophie Coletta

CLAUDE SPEEED

BILL WELLS & AIDAN MOFFAT THIS DARK DESIRE

The prolific Aidan Moffat returns with The Most Important Place In The World, a brilliant second album in collaboration with Bill Wells. This is the first track to be taken from it, a slow-moving ode to sex in the city, piano and soft trumpet rubbing up against Moffat's distorted vocal whisper like two new acquaintances, tongues tied in a drizzly alleyway.

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NEW SOUNDS

by Gemma Samways

FUTURE BROWN By their very definition, all supergroups ought to be amazing. So why aren’t they? Perhaps because they’re invariably the vanity projects of rock dinosaurs, who’ve long since sacrificed creative ambition in favour of feathering the nest egg. Perhaps because success breeds ego, and the sound of mutual back-slapping shrouds any pleas for quality control. Perhaps because it’s a damn sight easier to trade off your name than it is to tread new ground.

Depending on your levels of optimism, Future Brown are either rescuing the reputation of the supergroup, or they’re the exception that proves the rule.

Either way, they’re one of the most exciting production outfits you’ll encounter in 2015. Comprised of Hyperdub’s Fatima Al Qadiri, Lit City Trax label boss J-Cush, and Asma Maroof and Daniel Pineda of

Nguzunguzu, the quartet are all trailblazers in their own right.

Collectively, they’re arguably even greater than the sum of their parts.

Sucking in sounds from rap, R&B, reggaeton, Chicago bop and sino grime, they make sense of a melee of influences, spitting out sleek dancefloor cuts that reflect their distinctly global outlook. Combine this with a revolving cast of guest vocalists – including members of Ruff Skwad and associates of Roll Deep, plus rising stars Kelela, Maluca Mala and Tink – and the result is an eponymous debut that’s as mind-bending as the magic-mushroom trip that inspired their moniker.

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TALES FROM THE CITY by Shinies

The first time in my adult life that I visited London was to record on a tugboat on the Thames. Before that it was two brief visits, once when I was eight after visiting Legoland in Windsor and then again at twelve, when London was the only place you could sit on a fucking massive Ferris wheel. That time I bought a Clash T-shirt. I thought I was Joe Strummer.

The brevity, I guess was for no other reason than it was miles away from where I grew up, geographically, and the more I think about it (despite everyone’s best attempts to deny it) culturally as well.

This isn’t a north / south divide rant, you could live in Watford or Staines and feel the same way. If you came from where we came from, Manchester was exotic.

Our first time as a collective in the capital, we drove in a borrowed car, ignorant of the congestion charge, and cut a 7” single. It was the first time we’d been in a recording studio. I’ll never forget driving out of central London in the middle of the night and listening back to something the four of us had made for the very first time. Something we’d created in a damp basement in our house

and now it was real song you could listen to on a tinny car stereo. It was such a kick. I’d never felt so attached to a stretch of motorway before. Big shout out to the M25 for being a part of such a weird experience.

Since then we’ve come to love and loathe London in equal measures and visited it frequently. We’ve locked ourselves out of vans (my bad), had inter-band fights in fried chicken shops (my bad again), crashed cars (not my fault that time!) but also formed relationships with people who we would have never met otherwise. At the risk of sounding soppy, the best thing that has come out of driving eight-plus hours or sitting on a Megabus for even longer on regular occasions, is because a shitload of people live there, some of which we’ve become very close friends with.

London’s alright I guess. If it was good enough for Joe Strummer, it’s good enough for me. Adam Davison Shinies release Nothing Like Something Happens Anywhere via Dirty Bingo February 2nd.

They play The Shacklewell Arms February 13th.

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TENNIS Words: Gemma Samways

“It’s definitely been a long time coming,” admits Alaina Moore.

Speaking from a hotel room in Vancouver, the Tennis frontwoman is reflecting on the release of their latest album, Ritual In Repeat, which is arriving in the UK five months after its US release, and an entire eighteen months on from its completion. Turns out this deferred street date was probably the least problematic part of the process.

“Patrick [Riley] and I struggled with writer’s block for about a year, writing songs and then throwing them away,” Moore recalls. “We eventually realised that removing the mystery – and reducing writing to this unromantic, tedious, monotonous routine – was the key to producing again. And when you imbue any constricting routine with personal or spiritual significance, it becomes a sacred ritual.”

This painful process doesn’t just jar with Tennis’ whole sensibility – founded on the breezy indie-pop of 2011’s Cape Dory, an album inspired by a yachting sojourn – it’s at odds with the effortlesslymelodic end-product.

Variously produced by Spoon’s Jim Eno, The Shins’ Richard Swift and Patrick Carney of The Black Keys, Ritual In Repeat is by far the duo’s most sonically ambitious set yet, extending from the lush dream-pop of Viv Without The N to the acoustic balladry of Wounded Heart, via forays into funk on Night Vision and I’m Callin’. Moore credits their expanded range to a “more autonomous writing process”, in which she and Riley would work-up ideas separately, before exchanging demos for the other to finish. “I imagined I’m Callin’ as a piano ballad,” she laughs. “When I brought it to Patrick, he gave it a bassline and a disco beat.”

Describing Tennis’ sound as the overlap in the Venn diagram of their separate tastes, Moore admits her own songwriting is rooted in the “strong vocal melodies” of her childhood. “I had an incredible upbringing, but it was extraordinarily sheltered, conservative and religious. The music I listened to was mostly classical, or old American standards, or songs from musical theatre – singers like Judy Garland and Peggy Lee.” She credits her creativity on this record to discovering her “patron saints of songwriting” – Laura Nyro, Carole King and Judee Sill – and feeling “emboldened by these discoveries.”

Consequently, Ritual In Repeat is also the first Tennis record that foregrounds the female narrative, confronting the concept of maternal altruism (Needle And A Knife) and the religious guilt that can surround the female experience of sex (Bad

“...the feminine experience is not seen as universal; the masculine experience is.”

Girls). Why wait three albums to tackle those experiences?“ I think I felt timid about my voice being female,” Moore muses. “When I first started writing melodies, I would imagine a male voice singing them. Even though my perspective on the world is that of a woman, the feminine experience is not seen as universal; the masculine experience is. And it bothers me that work done by men appeals to everyone, whereas work done by women only appeals to women. So, for a long time, I worked really hard to make my writing androgynous.

“Even now, I don't want anything I write to feel polemic or sententious, but I do want those experiences to be

there for anyone who wants to find them.

And I like to use religious imagery, the way that Judee Sill would. She was an atheist, a heroin addict and a prostitute, but she wrote these beautiful, vivid, spiritual songs with biblical metaphors, because it’s the language that she inherited. I feel the same.”

The result is a Tennis record that, for the first time, is as rich in meaning as it is in melodic beauty; a development that was definitely worth the wait.

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ALBUMS

RECORD OF THE MONTH FATHER JOHN MISTY

I LOVE YOU, HONEYBEAR The thought of an ex-drummer from parent-approved beard-popularisers, Fleet Foxes, setting down sticks one last time, donning sunglasses and going out on the town drugging, drunking, screwing about and screwing up might sit a little incongruously with you. You may suspect you’re gonna be faced with, I dunno, Nick Cave on a Segway or a budget Bukowski. Goddamn, is I Love You, Honeybear ever gonna skew some expectations.

Ostensibly this is a concept album, revolving round a fight to be the kind of person that can deal with the commitment needed to experience real love completely, but, to hell with that.

All the highs here are found in our anti-hero’s belligerent misanthropy; in the fuck-ups and regrets, in the mind-blowing lyrical finesse with which he paints these situations, especially during Bored In The USA when, Bella Union faced with everything he ever wanted, he gazes into the February 9th stupefying abyss of normality - like Goodfellas’ Henry Hill in witness protection - and wants out. Sweat drips off every Stand Out Tracks: extraordinary moment, and it’s impossible not to be swept The Ideal Husband along by the rush of self-destruction, impossible to control I Love You, Honeybear your pulse amidst the hollering, clattering, repetition of Bored In The USA “I came by at seven in the morning!” in The Ideal Holy Shit Husband. Sure, there are questions about whether we should be thrilling to this or whether we should be condemning facebook.com/fatherjohnmisty the piece of shit for acting like he does, but - and here’s @fatherjohnmisty the suckerpunch - such is his borderline lameness, so innately human are his failings, that condemning him will Live: Village Underground February 26th only result in shifting the stare inward and, well, nobody wants to be doing that. Not without a bourbon or two.

Musical touchstones? Think the fevered imagination of 70s Elton John sat at his piano, think steel-pedal country trad, think mariachi blast, think soulful choirs, think string sections touching the very heavens - all this, and yet somehow so contained and focused.

Lord only knows what he’ll do with them, but this breathtaking album will surely see Father John Misty walk away with all those end of year trophies. Dave Rowlinson

JOSÉ GONZÁLEZ

VESTIGES & CLAWS Peacefrog Records // February 16th The little touches, the flourishes, the flairs: it doesn't take long for José González's latest record to get under your skin. It's almost as though the music gets to know you as much as you get to know the music. The soft timbre of his voice, the crisp handclaps and guitar-side clatters, the gently rousing strums and the snapping solo strings reach out as if to start a dialogue with the listener about what it means to be alive. And that's the heart of this record. Vestiges & Claws is a fragile, exposed, reassuringly stark meditation on the human condition, with a warmth and life-affirming beauty that successfully “reminds our restless souls of the beauty of being here at all”. Lauren Down

DALTON

DALTON Fierce Panda // February 23rd If there’s one thing lazy music hacks love, it’s being able to pigeonhole artists; an invented portmanteau genre, a couple of bands to which they can claim homage is paid, and boom, job done. Nate Harar, the motherfucker behind Dalton, had other ideas for us. To his credit, the result is pretty astounding, his debut veering from delicate piano-led ballads to lo-fi slacker-pop to rough-edged punk to bleak, dreamy minimalism to anthemic college-rock to country-flecked folk and, Jesus Christ, the list goes on. Crucially, Dalton’s disparate collection of tracks avoids tripping over itself into a directionless heap, the album drawn together and contextualised by the presence of thoroughly brilliant songwriting throughout. Intriguing, smart and catchy, you’ve sort of got to ask: why can’t all music be this great? Jack Urwin

IBEYI

IBEYI XL Recodings // February 13th French-Cuban twin sisters, Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi Diaz, stand out from the crowd: striking, honest and creatively daring, they’ve already enjoyed notable stamps of approval, topping The Guardian's 2015 list and signing to relentless trend-setters XL. Their debut record is a triumph, thanks to a wonderfully intelligent blend of religious, traditional - indeed their late father was a cajón player with Buena Vista Social Club - and classy contemporary. From the other-worldly Oya to the melancholic Mama Says, the pair showcase undeniable raw talent and that innate vocal and rhythmic relationship that comes from a blood-tie. Broken-up by acapella interludes, Ibeyi is real, eye-opening, refreshing and there's no doubt the young twins are, as their songs’ often divine themes suggest, a force to be reckoned with. George O’Brien LiS 19

PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING THE RACE FOR SPACE Test Card // February 23rd Given their specific, perhaps limited, shtick of crafting songs around vintage audio clips, PSB faced a challenge in kicking things on from their hit 2013 debut. Their solution is this concept album about the Cold War clash for celestial supremacy, facilitated by access to rare BFI footage. Yet the band’s ambient electro-rock leans too heavily on the gravitas of the archive speech, and serves mainly as thematic backing despite instrumental and choral boosts to the guitar, drums and sequencer template. Tracks achieving lift-off include E.V.A, whose fusion funk bookends a vertiginous evocation of a space walk, and the rocketpropelled Go!, in which NASA chat is smartly synced into a motorik pulse. Otherwise, PSB make do with only staring at the stars. Nick Mee

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Morr Music // February 10th

“The guitar had a strange energy. I couldn’t put it down.” So recalls Bishop about the dusty acoustic sixstring he picked up last year in a Geneva shop. A few months later, the 19th century axe joined the Arizona journeyman on a summer trip to Africa. Holing up for a week in a rooftop apartment in Tangier, Bishop feverishly improvised by day; recorded by night. Part classical reverie, part ancient blues hoedown, Bishop delights in the guitar’s impressive tonality. He thrashes out a frantic flamenco dervish on Safe House while letting the meditative Bound in Morocco shimmer in its own warm, radiant majesty. This is urgent music from the Sun City Girl that requires a patient ear to unlock its narcotic allure.

Geoff Cowart

Meric Long and Logan Kroeber are two inventive, inquisitive Californian musicians who, for the past ten years, have been called The Dodos.

Being admirably restless in their quest to better their art has led to them expanding their sound beyond its initial template of drums, guitar and vocals, but there’s a feeling that, despite these developments, they’ve never bettered their excellent debut Visiter. For their sixth LP, Individ, they’ve returned to that minimal approach, and – whaddayaknow! – it’s the best record they’ve released since their first.

Tempting though often it is to applaud experimentation for its own sake, the songwriting here – especially on the Shins-like Bubble or John Fahey joins Animal Collective romp of Precipitation – makes a far stronger case for having gone back to basics. Thomas Hannan

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H. HAWKLINE

IN THE PINK OF CONDITION Heavenly Recordings // February 2nd Huw Evans’s third album as H. Hawkline effervesces with potential but its accessibility depends upon whether or not you appreciate its two main references: Television and Pavement.

Opener Sticky Slithers is an angular and cacophonous twinguitar assault that revels in chromatic riffs. It sets the tone for over half the album, though it’s in the record’s slower moments that he reveals a cunning sleight of hand. Cate Le Bon’s production and melodic sensibilities are all over Concrete Coloured Clothes and In Love V2 - both raised to glorious heights by their romantic Welsh melodies. It’s hard to love it all; nevertheless Huw Evans is a weird and beguiling minstrel. Tim Hakki

COLLEEN GREEN

I WANT TO GROW UP Hardly Art Records // February 23rd Having spent the past few years releasing home-recorded, fuzzed out indie pop Colleen Green is ready to step into her own with I Want to Grow Up. Green’s first studio recordings and her second album for Hardly Art, I Want to Grow Up finds the Los Angeles songwriter dealing with relationships and everyday life in her own unique way – direct, straight to the heart indie rock combined with pop smarts. While there is always a danger when moving from home-recording to a real studio, Green has managed to do so without fault; she has muscled up her sound and added a bit of studio sheen, while retaining the immediacy and charm of her previous work as well as delivering her finest set of songs so far. Johan Alm

TRUST FUND

NO ONE’S COMING FOR US Turnstile // February 9th December’s announcement that Trust Fund had signed to Turnstile for the release of this, their debut long-player, was both unanticipated and wonderfully heartening. That a label, which boasts Perfume Genius and Los Camp! among its ranks, was willing to throw its weight behind a trio making scrappy bedroom rock felt like something of a victory for the underdog, while also adding a weight of expectation to No One’s Coming For Us. Verifying that those expectations have been met is the easy part; from the outset the record is assuredly engaging, quietly unraveling like the late-night confessions that seemingly provide the records narrative.

Quite where the absorbing captivation comes from is more difficult to discern. However, from boisterous lead single Cut Me Out, through the apathetic numbness of Stomach and its more refined moments, this is a record that constantly, and beautifully, cuts deep – led by a hazy sense of magic that’s simply unyielding. Tom Johnson LiS 21

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Noah Lennox is talking to me from a freezing Lisbon – a city which has been his home for the last decade – about the track Tropic of Cancer, the centrepiece of his spellbinding new Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper record. It sees Noah meld a harp sample from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker to a vocal line about disease. ‘You can’t come back, you won’t come back,’ he sings in plaintive falsetto. It’s the type of stunningly and oddly beautiful song that only he could make. It’s also a microcosm of what the whole album is about.

“I was just playing with that little section from the Nutcracker and trying to make different loops – going over and over it again until the way it really starts to feel right comes into focus like a Polaroid.”

It’s a strikingly elegant and deft way to describe the process he goes through to create his music.

Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper sees him put his ideas through a dreamy, warped filter and submerge them under echo and reverb. The song also underscores the themes of change and death that lie at the heart of the album.

“It’s about disease and, as horrible and as sad a force it can be in our lives, I was trying to have sympathy for it in the context of it being just another element in the universe. It also highlights the process I went through with every song – it starts from a very personal place and then gradually expands to be about disease with a capital D, rather than this thing that happened to me.”

“For this album I was really motivated to write stuff that wasn’t just about talking about myself.

It was my M.O. in the past to use introspection as a tool that could hopefully be useful to somebody but I wanted to expand my perspective, so I wasn’t

naval-gazing. I just wanted to look bigger and get over myself.”

Looking bigger is most definitely what he’s done. The Grim Reaper... is Lennox’s most ambitious record to date. It’s an album of beauty and invention, taking dog barks, drum breaks, and samples to create something spellbinding and intimate – both accessible and layered.

“There was a lot of stuff that I threw against the wall in my brain, some of it stuck, some of it didn’t.

The usage of the drum breaks can be traced back to the very

“I’m like a golfer, competitive against MYSELF.” beginning. I also knew I wanted to do something that on the surface was very easy to digest while making secret all these sounds that take a little more time to wrap your LiS 25

head round – I think that sort of relationship was what I was thinking of from the beginning.”

It’s not a mix that’s easy to pull off.

“It’s really tricky to combine those ideas. We recorded for about a month and then Pete (Kember, his talented co-producer) went back to his studio and would send me mixes and we went back and forth with those and that took about seven months. Harmonising the two aspects of the songs was a really difficult process.”

“Come to Your Senses was one of the first things that we started recording and one of the last things we finished.

Every time we change something Pete will save it with a new number and we got up to a couple of hundred with that one. There’s a threshold and diminishing returns and we were inching close to that line but the fact I can hear stuff now and still get into it is proof that we didn’t burn the bridge.

In fact Come to Your Senses and Mr Noah are probably my favourite songs on the album. They’re the most fully realised of what I imagined the songs were going to be when I started.”

His vision has been achieved and then some – Grim Reaper... still marries his uncanny knack of using electronic elements to create something textured and with a human warmth. It’s an atmosphere and feeling he’s very mindful of creating. “Part of it is being conscious of that happening or not happening. Another thing is allowing imperfections in the production and the performance, which isn’t always easy. The impulse is, especially when you’re working on computer, to polish it as much you want. You can edit every little drum hit. And we did none of that. A lot of the vocal takes are

kind of crude I guess but the upside of that is you get something that feels more organic.”

And what about that wonderful album title? There has been speculation that this was a concept album about death but the answer is something a little more prosaic – the focus here is about mortality and change. It’s also a nod to the titles of old dub albums. “I’ve had the title for a while. The direct inspiration is from dub records – a bunch of records that came out of Jamaica in the 70s. And in DJ culture you have something versus another thing. I found all of those kind of ideas amusing and attractive.”

“Nothing on the album talks in a literal way about death. There’s a lot of stuff about going through changes and because of that change there’s this mental image of dying, but never literally so.”

“It’s something I’ve been thinking a lot about, even beyond the two years I’ve been making the record. I even noticed that a lot of my older songs address these sorts of subjects as well.

I don’t know, maybe I’m sort of obsessed with it.”

If it hasn’t come across already it should be noted that Noah is unassuming and a man for understatement and self-deprecation.

Yet that’s coupled with a fierce determination to not rest on his laurels or repeat himself. “I don’t really go back and listen to stuff a whole lot but the times that I have heard stuff since mastering the record I’ve been pleasantly surprised.”

I ask about the weight of expectations for the album but it’s clear that, despite the success of Animal

Collective and recording with Daft Punk, the biggest expectations still come from within himself. “There’s enough coming from me that I don’t know that I need any extra juice. I’ve always been that way – I’m like a golfer, competitive against myself.”

This determination to keep evolving also means you won’t be hearing any Person Pitch material when he heads to the UK to play live. “The quality of a lot of the Person Pitch songs stands out not in a positive way when I hold them up against these new ones.

The way I recorded it was pretty bad.

It’s got an idiosyncratic quality to it that I like but it doesn’t feel like it meshes when I try to do it it’s really noticeable that there’s new thing there and it doesn’t feel like it’s part of the wave of what’s happening now.” Not to worry: listening to Grim Reaper... it’s clear that what’s happening now is pretty special.

Panda Bear meets The Grim Reaper is out now via Domino.

Panda Bear plays Electric Brixton March 4th.

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EVENTS

a selection of new stuff we’re excited about: CONVERGENCE MUSIC + ART + TECHNOLOGY

KIASMOS

After a successful launch in 2014, Convergence is back with renewed vigour this year, expanding beyond the four venues of last year and welcoming another stunning line-up. Launching the nine-day stint of events is a kaleidoscopic set from Warp’s Clark, with the days only bettering themselves as the likes of Kiasmos, Gary Numan, Portico and Snow Ghosts all appear throughout. As this is a festival of technology, music and art, this year sees the welcome introduction of a three-day series of discussions that focus on how these elements intersect, looking at innovative collaborations and investigating technological trends of the past and present. A celebration of the arts with a difference, Convergence is a most welcome addition to the London events calendar, get your tickets quick.

12th-21st March // various venues @ConvergenceLDN // convergencelondon.com

HAWKER HOUSE These street food (and booze) events have seen us sitting under Hungerford Bridge feasting on BBQ and hot-dogs, falling off bikes after Rumstock, eating all the very best ribs you can imagine in one day, huddling in yurts on winter rooftops sipping Vin Chaud, and even braving the glass city of Canary Wharf for river-side beers and chicken. At a lot of these things it rained. So, let’s get indoors.

Returning for 2015, it’s Hawker House; three floors of incredible food, the best drinks and Streetfeast’s patented vibes. It’s in a new location this year, but the line-up’s even stronger, including the legendary Bleecker St Burger and relative-newcomers Boom Burger, pizza from Born & Raised, BBQ from Smokestack and Busan, the ever-dreamy steamed buns of Yum Bun and absolutely tons more.

January 30th-April 4th (Fridays & Saturdays only).

Hawker House, 260-264 Kingsland Rd, E8 4DG @StreetFeastLDN // streetfeastlondon.com LiS 30

MONTY’S DELI AT THE OLD BENGAL BAR Anyone that’s been to New York, sampled the likes of Katz’s Deli, and come back needing that salt beef and pastrami fix, has long known that the only place to go is Monty’s, set up in an archway on Druid Street near London Bridge. Now, for one month only, they’re coming to the Old Bengal Bar (Liverpool Street area) to cure weekend hangovers with some exclusive brunch dishes: Monty’s French Toast, an incredible-sounding salt beef hash, plus a dish called The Fresser which is yiddish for ‘glutton’ so, yeah, you can guess how great that’s gonna be...

Feb 7th-March 8th // 16a New Street, EC2M 4TR @MontysDeli // montys-deli.com // @OldBengalBar

PASSPORT BACK TO THE BARS This February, War Child and O2 are teaming up to produce a series of intimate shows with a selection of incredible artists. Ride, Bastille, The Vaccines, Duran Duran and more will take to tiny stages across London, giving fans a chance to see a unique, one-off show from the acts and - to make it even better - the whole thing is for charity.

To pile on the excitement (and to make it more fair) entry is gained by entering a ticket lottery, so pick your show wisely and get texting in.

February 16th-24th // various venues // For lottery details on all shows check warchild.org.uk/passport Each entry costs £4.50 - Draw closes February 8th

Emiliana Torrini

RIDE

CRAFT BEER RISING Celebrating the dizzying rise of craft beer in the UK, Craft Beer Rising returns for its third year, and the first in conjunction with London Beer Week, where 70+ breweries will be showing off over 450 beers. As well as London favourites, like Bear Hug and Beavertown, a host of UK, US and New Zealand brewers will be descending on Brick Lane and treating us all to the very best craft beer around. Burger Bear, Prairie Fire BBQ and more are supplying the food, whilst Jazzie B and Don Letts will be on hand to deal with any sudden urges to dance. Cheers!

19th-22nd February // The Old Truman Brewery, EC1V 9DP // @CraftBeerRiseUK // craftbeerrising.co.uk LiS 31

DRALMS WED 4 FEB DRALMS ST PANCRAS WED 4 FEB OLD CHURCH ST PANCRAS OLD CHURCH FLOWERS SAT 7 FEB FLOWERS SEBRIGHT SAT 7 FEB ARMS SEBRIGHT CRUSHEDARMS BEAKS MON 9 FEB CRUSHED SEBRIGHT BEAKS ARMS MON 9 FEB SEBRIGHT ARMS IYES THURS 12 FEB IYES HOXTON SQUARE BAR & THURS 12 FEB KITCHEN HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN STEPHEN STEINBRINK SUN 22 FEB STEPHEN STEINBRINK THE WAITING ROOM SUN 22 FEB THE WAITING ROOM PLASTIC MERMAIDS TUES 24 FEB PLASTIC MERMAIDS THE LEXINGTON TUES 24 FEB THE LEXINGTON SUNS TUES 24 FEB SUNS SEBRIGHT ARMS TUES 24 FEB SEBRIGHT ARMS JAPE WED 25 FEB JAPE ELECTROWERKZ WED 25 FEB ELECTROWERKZ

BERNARD & EDITH THURS 26 & FEB BERNARD EDITH SHACKLEWELL THURS 26 FEB ARMS SHACKLEWELL ARMS ALEX G TUES G 3 MARCH ALEX CHATS PALACE TUES 3 MARCH CHATS PALACE STREETS OF LAREDO TUES 3 MARCH STREETS LAREDO SEBRIGHTOF ARMS TUES 3 MARCH SEBRIGHT ARMS THIS IS THE KIT WED 4 MARCH THIS IS THE KIT 100 CLUB WED 4 MARCH 100 CLUB WE ARE THE CITY WED 4 MARCH WE ARE THE CITY SEBRIGHT ARMS WED 4 MARCH SEBRIGHT ARMS GLASS ANIMALS TUES 10 MARCH GLASS ANIMALS BUSH O2 SHEPHERD’S TUES 10 MARCH EMPIRE O2 SHEPHERD’S BUSH EMPIRE BC CAMPLIGHT TUES 10 MARCH BC THECAMPLIGHT LEXINGTON TUES 10 MARCH THE LEXINGTON CURTIS HARDING WED 11 MARCH CURTIS BETHNALHARDING GREEN WED 11 WORKINGMARCH MEN’S CLUB BETHNAL GREEN WORKING MEN’S CLUB

R. SEILIOG FOXYGEN WED 11 MARCH TUES 12 MAY R. SEILIOG FOXYGEN SEBRIGHT ARMS ELECTRIC BALLROOM WED 11 MARCH TUES 12 MAY SEBRIGHT ARMS ELECTRIC BALLROOM COVES STEVE GUNN THURS MARCH MON 18GUNN MAY COVES 12STUDIOS STEVE CORSICA THE LEXINGTON THURS 12 MARCH MON 18 MAY CORSICACASTLE STUDIOS THEFEMME LEXINGTON CLOUD LAKE LA THURS 19 MARCH THURS 21 MAY CLOUD CASTLE LAKE LA FEMME ELECTROWERKZ KOKO THURS 19 MARCH THURS 21 MAY ELECTROWERKZ KOKO THE GARDEN ASTRONAUTALIS THURS 19 MARCH WED 27 MAY THE GARDEN ASTRONAUTALIS 100 CLUB 100 CLUB THURS 19 MARCH WED 27 MAY 100 CLUB 100 CLUB HOOKWORMS STRAND OF OAKS SAT 21 MARCH WED 27 MAY HOOKWORMS STRAND OF OAKS OVAL SPACE THE GARAGE SAT 21 MARCH WED 27 MAY OVAL SPACE THE GARAGE SIVU JOSE GONZALEZ TUES 24 MARCH THURS 28 MAY SIVU JOSE GONZALEZBUSH ST JOHNS ON BETHNAL O2 SHEPHERD’S TUES 24 MARCH THURS 28 MAY GREEN EMPIRE ST JOHNS ON BETHNAL O2 SHEPHERD’S BUSH GREEN EMPIRE PALACE THURS 9 APRIL PALACE RED GALLERY THURS 9 APRIL RED GALLERY SHARON VAN ETTEN WED 29 APRIL SHARON VAN ETTEN O2 SHEPHERD’S BUSH WED 29 APRIL EMPIRE O2 SHEPHERD’S BUSH PARALLELLINESPROMOTIONS.COM EMPIRE PARALLELLINESPROMOTIONS.COM

GIGS OF THE MONTH

O U R P IC K OF T HE BEST SH OW S HAPPENI NG I N FEBRUA RY

SHACKLEWELL ARMS SHINIES

Celebrating the release of their debut album, Shinies bring their energy-filled, super-fun sounds to London.

13/02/15 FREE @Shacklewell Arms DALSTON KINGSLAND/JUNCTION

CORSICA STUDIOS

BRIXTON WINDMILL

Our favourite experimental trio are back to provide a solid night of intense dancing fun in and amongst the corridors of Corsica Studios.

Frontier Ruckus are back, bringing their raucous Americana with them.

FACTORY FLOOR // RANDOMER // ANSOME // NIK VOID FF

28/02/15 £15adv @Corsica_Studios

ELEPHANT AND CASTLE

FRONTIER RUCKUS // WE ARE DUST // THE HOBOS 17/02/15 £9adv @windmillbrixton

BRIXTON

02 SHEPHERDS BUSH EMPIRE MACY GRAY

Enjoy the dazzling vocal talents of one of Americas biggest selling singer-songwriters.

14/02/15 £32.50adv @o2sbe

SHEPHERDS BUSH

THE LEXINGTON GIRLPOOL

Don't miss one of our favourite new bands, cutting lyrics, beautiful harmonies and just the most fun.

16/02/15 £8adv @thelexington

ANGEL

The intensity and talent of a huge star, Queen Kwong's rock will have you mesmerised.

20/02/15 FREE @TheGarageHQ HIGHBURY AND ISLINGTON

GIRLPOOL

THE GARAGE

QUEEN KWONG

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SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS

LOW LOW LOW LA LA LA LOVE LOVE LOVE // OWL & MOUSE Sonically ragged and gorgeously lo-fi, don't miss the launch of ‘Last’ in this intimate setting.

THE DOME

OSLO

DRENGE // THE BOHICAS // MENACE BEACH

HONEYBLOOD

Part of the NME award shows, Drenge and friends play a more intimate venue and it's going to be awesome.

12/02/15 £13.10adv @BostonMusicRoom

19/02/15 £4adv @ServantJazz DALSTON KINGSLAND/JUNCTION

TUFNELL PARK

Another of our favourite duos, Honeyblood bring their relaxed, witty pop to their biggest london show yet.

11/02/15 £10.10adv @OsloHackney

HACKNEY CENTRAL

THE GOOD SHIP

O2 ISLINGTON ACADEMY

JEROME LDN // HADEZ // CAT WALK // ARUN

The dreamy songs of Orla Gartland's debut ep 'lonley people' will come to life in Islington this month.

12/02/15 £5adv @thegoodshipNW6

ORLA GARTLAND

20/02/15 £10adv @O2Islington

ANGEL

A new talent combining being a singer-songwriter and a rapper.

KILBURN

ROUGH TRADE EAST VIET CONG

Aleady having made one of the albums of the year, Viet Cong fly though different genres to create their bundles of brilliance.

04/02/15 1pm FREE @RoughTrade

LIVERPOOL STREET

BORDERLINE LONGFELLOW THE HOSTS

Love huge emotive pop in the vein of early Coldplay? Don't miss this show.

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26/02/15 £7adv @theborderline

TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD

FABRIC

DANIEL AVERY // KASSEM MOSSE // LEE GAMBLE // OBJEKT // JIMMY EDGAR // MACHINEDRUM // JUSTIN ROBERTSON Daniel Avery is back at Fabric to continue his residency, and what a line-up he brings with him.

06/02/15 £19adv @fabriclondon

FARRINGDON

THE LOCK TAVERN WYLDEST

Dreamy electro-pop in a similar vein to Beach House from this London duo DANIEL AVERY

25/02/15 FREE @thelocktavern

THE FINSBURY SIMIAN GHOST

Upbeat guitar-pop that'll make you want to dance.

CHALK FARM / CAMDEN TOWN

23/02/15 £3 @TheFinPub MANOR HOUSE

100 CLUB

STRONGROOM

Psych rock from America, hazy, brilliant and a force to reckon with live.

Unique singer-songwriter with a powerful voice.

17/02/15 £10.60adv @100clubLondon

11/02/15 £10 @StrongroomBar

TWIN PEAKS

ELLA MARTINI // RONY TRIO

TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD

LIVERPOOL STREET

THE FORUM

WAITING ROOM

Tru Thoughts take over The Forum for a night celebrating the array of sounds on their label.

A new band to fall in love with, they have a skip in their step and pop in their heart.

07/02/15 £17.50ADV @TheGarageHQ

26/02/15 £7adv @WaitingRoomN16

QUANTIC // HIDDEN ORCHESTRA

KENTISH TOWN

GENGAHR

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PRESENTS

VIET CONG SOOULTD

THE WAR ON DRUGS

WED 4 FEB — OSLO

MON 2 MAR — O2 ACADEMY BRIXTON

EX HEX

DM STITH

TUE 10 FEB — OSLO SOLD OUT

TUE 3 MAR — COURTYARD THEATRE

TR/ST (& FRIENDS)

SASHA SIEM

SAT 14 FEB — FIRE

WED 25 MAR — THE LEXINGTON

LYDIA AINSWORTH

JESSICA PRATT

TUE 17 FEB — SEBRIGHT ARMS

WED 8 APR — ST JOHN ON BETHNAL GREEN

ÓLAFUR ARNALDSSOLD SUN 22 FEB — BARBICAN CENTRE

OUT

BUSDRIVER

THU 7 MAY — HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN

THE WAR ON DRUGSSOLD SEA CHANGE

FRI 27 FEB — SEBRIGHT ARMS

SAT 18 APR — SEBRIGHT ARMS

DANIEL NORGREN

MON 23 FEB — BIRTHDAYS

TUE 24 FEB — O2 ACADEMY BRIXTON

RYLEY WALKER

OUT

SOLD

NILS FRAHMOUT

FRI 22 MAY — ROUNDHOUSE

YOUNG FATHERS THU 28 MAY — KOKO

MORE INFO & TICKETS AT BIRDONTHEWIRE.NET

SUNDAY 1ST 1ST FEBRUARY SUNDAY FEBRUARY

DEMONS OF RUBY MAE + ISLAND + V E N N FREE / 8.00PM / THE OLD BLUE LAST

MARC HOULE + JACOB HUSLEY + PETER PIXZEL + CORMAC £7ADV / 11.00PM / FABRIC

SONGHOY BLUES £10ADV / 7.30PM / OSLO

VARIOUS GUISES + IVOR GAME + STEVIE RAY LATHAM FREE / 8.00PM / THE FINSBURY BENOIT VIELLEFON AND HIS ORCHESTRA £7ADV / 6.00PM / THE LEXINGTON RACING GLACIERS + LIFE + GET INUIT + HENRY GREEN + SAMUEL FORD + GABRIEL KELLEY £8ADV / 6.00PM / NOTTING HILL ARTS CLUB ARRIVAL FT. NIPSEY HUSSLE + DJ SEMTEX £15ADV / 7.00PM / O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON HOZIER SOLD OUT / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE SIR SPYRO FREE / 8.00PM / THE OLD BLUE LAST MOLOCH + SNOB + SEMI £5ADV / 6.00PM / POWER LUNCHES NEW SECRET WEAPON £7ADV / 7.00PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS COPPER + BALLOON ASCENTS + OFFICE OF AURORA £5ADV / 7.00PM / THE SLAUGHTERED LAMB MONDAY 2ND FEBRUARY RYAN BINGHAM SOLD OUT / 7.30PM / THE BORDERLINE COUNTS + CYGNUS FLARE FREE / 7.30PM / THE FINSBURY

ESME PATTERSON FREE / 6.00PM / ROUGH TRADE WEST BETRAYING THE MARTYRS + TEXAS IN JULY £11ADV / 7.30PM / THE UNDERWORLD KING CREOSOTE + SORREN MACLEAN £16.50ADV / 7.00PM / UNION CHAPEL YUMIKO TANAKA AND FRIENDS £6ADV / 8.00PM / VORTEX JAZZ TUESDAY 3RD FEBRUARY THE DISTRICTS £12.60ADV / 7.30PM / 100 CLUB BLINDNESS + FUZZCULTURE + SHITWIFE £3ADV / 8.00PM / BRIXTON WINDMILL AMBER RUN + PIXEL FIX SOLD OUT / 7.30PM / DINGWALLS HONNE £9ADV / 7.30PM / ELECTROWERKZ RUTH THEODORE + THE GALLEONS FREE / 7.30PM / THE FINSBURY LA ROUX £20.50ADV / 7.00PM / KOKO DAN MICHAELSON & THE COASTGUARDS + DAN HAYWOOD £10ADV / 8.00PM / THE LEXINGTON SEYR + DOLCE + MOONBOW FREE / 8.00PM / THE OLD BLUE LAST

DREW HOLCOMB £11ADV / 7.30PM / OLD QUEENS HEAD

JO ROSE FREE / 8.00PM / THE OLD BLUE LAST

THE WATERBOYS £36ADV / 7.00PM / ROUNDHOUSE

VIET CONG SOLD OUT / 7.30PM / OSLO

MOTH TRAPS £6ADV / 7.30PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS

ALPHA CELESTE, HOLY THURSDAY, BONFIRE NIGHTS £7.50ADV / 7.00PM / POWER LUNCHES

BROOKE SHARKEY + ADAM BEATTIE £5ADV / 7.30PM / SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS NAOMI PUNK £6ADV / 7.30PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS LONGFELLOW + ETCHES FREE / 7.00PM / THE SOCIAL WEDNESDAY 4TH FEBRUARY HAPPYNESS + NAI HARVEST £8.60ADV / 8.00PM / BIRTHDAYS

VIET CONG FREE / 1.00PM / ROUGH TRADE EAST RÖKKURRÓ £7ADV / 7.00PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS ONE BIT + TWIN WILD + HIGH TYDE £3ADV / 7.30PM / SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS LIU BEI FREE / 8.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS

PROSTITUTES £8.80ADV / 7.30PM / CAFE OTO

DRALMS £7.50ADV / 7.30PM / ST PANCRAS OLD CHURCH

2:54 + GRUMBLING FUR + HERO FISHER £12ADV / 7.00PM / DINGWALLS

JACK SHARP + BUTCHER PETE + ANIARA FREE / 8.00PM / STRONGROOM

GOLDRAY + TIM ARNOLD FREE / 8.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN

LEO BLANCO WITH CHRISTINE TOBIN £10ADV / 8.00PM / VORTEX JAZZ

LUKE HAINES £15ADV / 7.30PM / ISLINGTON ASSEMBLY HALL

NEW DESERT BLUES £7ADV / 7.30PM / THE WAITING ROOM THURSDAY 5TH FEBRUARY

THE AFGHAN WHIGS £25ADV / 7.30PM / KOKO

BLAENAVON + MONICA HELDAL + KANZI £6.50ADV / 7.00PM / BARFLY

THE PHANTOM BAND TBC / 7.00PM / THE LEXINGTON

ONE NIGHT ONLY £10ADV / 7.30PM / THE BORDERLINE

SOCCER96 + LIONFACE + PELUCHÉ £3ADV / 8.00PM / THE MACBETH

DREAM ON, DREAMER £7.50ADV / 7.00PM / BOSTON ARMS

NIGHT ENGINE £3ADV / 8.00PM / BRIXTON WINDMILL

HACKMAN + KLAVES £6ADV / 10.00PM / XOYO

SAM WILLS + KOJEY RADICAL + THE BULLETPROOF BOMB £5 / 7.30PM / CARGO

CHILDHOOD £10.60ADV / 7.00PM / XOYO

CROWN THE EMPIRE + SET IT OFF £13ADV / 7.00PM / ELECTRIC BALLROOM NAT JOHNSON + AUTUMNMUSIC £7ADV / 7.30PM / THE FINSBURY JAMIE JOSEPH + DOOKS + CHARLIE STRAW £6ADV / 8.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN THE CAEZARS + THE TERROSAURS + BIG JOE LOUIS £8ADV / 7.30PM / THE LEXINGTON MIMI & THE MAD NOISE FACTORY + GALLOWS GHOST + CIRCUMNAVIGATE FREE / 8.00PM / THE LOCK TAVERN COURTS, CRASH ISLAND, TOM GRENNAN + RUBY MAZE FREE / 7.30PM / OLD QUEENS HEAD TAMAN SHUD £5ADV / 7.00PM / POWER LUNCHES CHASING GRACE £4ADV / 7.00PM / QUEEN OF HOXTON WIDE SKIES + KEEP BREATHING £5ADV / 7.30PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS HARAKET + SEMI PRECIOUS + LOVELACE £4ADV / 7.30PM / SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS ALPINES + ANY1'BRO £40ADV / 10.30PM / VILLAGE UNDERGROUND

FRIDAY 6TH FEBRUARY CONTROL £15ADV / 7.30PM / 100 CLUB BROTHERS + YOUTH CLUB £5 / 8.00PM / BIRTHDAYS SLIM CHANCE PLAY THE MUSIC OF RONNIE LANE £16.50ADV / 7.30PM / THE BORDERLINE SLEAZE + TRURF + BECKY FURY £3ADV / 8.00PM / BRIXTON WINDMILL ALEX ZHANG HUNGTAI (FORMERLY DIRTY BEACHES) + DAVID MARANHA £10ADV / 7.30PM / CAFE OTO NECK DEEP + KNUCKLE PUCK SOLD OUT / 7.00PM / ELECTRIC BALLROOM DANIEL AVERY + KASSEM MOSSE + LEE GAMBLE + OBJEKT + JIMMY EDGAR + MACHINEDRUM + JUSTIN ROBERTSON £19ADV / 11.00PM / FABRIC GECKO + THE FLEAS + HVMAN + ALADDIN HOUSE FREE / 7.30PM / THE FINSBURY WATCHMAKERS + ANIMAL LANGUAGE + LULL £4ADV / 8.00PM / THE GARAGE THE WANG DANG DOODLE + THE ARABELLA HATE CLUB + JANISSARY £5 / 7.30PM / THE GOOD SHIP

KELE £19ADV / 7.00PM / ISLINGTON ASSEMBLY HALL

LEIF + JOE ELLIS + COLLAPSING MARKET + ASHTON HOLLAND £6ADV / 10.00PM / THE WAITING ROOM

DISAPPEARS + THE OSCILLATION £9ADV / 8.00PM / THE LEXINGTON

TODDLA T + BOYS NOIZE £13.50ADV / 9.00PM / XOYO

THEE MVPS FREE / 8.00PM / THE LOCK TAVERN

SATURDAY 7TH FEBRUARY

RECONDITE + REFLEC £10ADV / 10.00PM / THE NEST SECRET COMPANY + MIRACLE BLOW FREE / 8.00PM / THE OLD BLUE LAST MS DYNAMITE £5ADV / 8.00PM / OLD QUEENS HEAD GAZ COOMBES FROM £15ADV / 7.30PM / QUEEN ELIZABETH HALL INTERPOL £25ADV / 7.00PM / ROUNDHOUSE ISKENDER + BEACH VIOLENCE £6ADV / 7.30PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS NIGHT FLOWERS + FEVER DREAM + THE UNDERSTUDIES + VIOLET WOODS £4ADV / 8.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS KILL IT KID £13ADV / 7.00PM / TOOTING TRAM AND SOCIAL JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE + ANDREW COMBS SOLD OUT / 9.00PM / UNION CHAPEL TEN WALLS SOLD OUT / 10.00PM / VILLAGE UNDERGROUND

TREVOR BURTON BAND £10ADV / 7.30PM / 100 CLUB RUDE MECHANICALS + ORLANDO MUSIC £5 / 7.00PM / APIARY STUDIOS DAKTYL + STAR.ONE £5ADV / 10.30ADV / BIRTHDAYS BADGER’S GIFTS + THE MONDAY PROJECT + HOT UNDER COLLAR + ATTACK & RELEASE £6ADV / 7.30PM / THE BORDERLINE ELK + MOONCREATURES + JOYA £4ADV / 8.00PM / BRIXTON WINDMILL THE SURVIVAL CODE £10ADV / 7.30PM / CARGO BICEP + POINT G + NICK HÖPPNER + KYLE HALL + FUNKINEVEN + BORROWED IDENTITY £20ADV / 11.00PM / FABRIC WITHOUT MY MEDICINE SINGLE LAUNCH + ELLEKAYE + SLY PERSUADERS + MODERN RUIN FREE / 7.30PM / THE FINSBURY QUANTIC + HIDDEN ORCHESTRA £17.50ADV / 8.00PM / THE FORUM MATT'S HOUSE + THE LAST BUGLES + SUPERNOTHING £5 / 7.30PM / THE GOOD SHIP

TELEGRAM £10.60ADV / 7.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN RUSTY SHACKLE £7ADV / 7.00PM / THE ISLINGTON HEY COLOSSUS + THE WHARVES + WORKIN' MAN NOISE UNIT £7.50ADV / 8.00PM / THE LEXINGTON PRIMORDIAL + PORTRAIT + MALTHUSIAN + WINTERFYLLETH £17.50ADV / 5.00PM / O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON STEVE AOKI £26ADV / 9.00PM / O2 BRIXTON ACADEMY SAXON + HELL + BEYOND THE BLACK £27.50ADV / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE C.A.R + SINAH + DREAM WIFE FREE / 8.00PM / THE OLD BLUE LAST THRIS TIAN £5ADV / 7.00PM / OSLO WEAK NERVES £5ADV / 8.00PM / POWER LUNCHES INTERPOL £25ADV / 7.00PM / ROUNDHOUSE FLOWERS £6ADV / 7.30PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS NOCTURNES £13.20ADV / 7.30PM / ST JOHN ON BETHNAL GREEN BRODINSKI + GENER8ION £15ADV / 11.00PM / VILLAGE UNDERGROUND

SKREAM + EATS EVERYTHING £13.50OTD / 9.00PM / XOYO SUNDAY 8TH FEBRUARY TERRY AND GERRY £12.50ADV / 7.30PM / 100 CLUB LITTLE MOUNTAIN + BRADLEY BURGESS + THE PRESIDENT LINCOLN £4ADV / 8.00PM / BRIXTON WINDMILL GLIMPSE + JACOB HUSLEY + PETER PIXZEL + CORMAC £7ADV / 11.00PM / FABRIC THE THIEVES + VOODOO RAYS + BLACK WATERS + THE HALLUCINATIONS FREE / 8.00PM / THE FINSBURY THE NARCICYST & OMAR OFFENDUM £9ADV / 7.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN HARRY MUNDY BAND + TOUT + MORE FREE / 8.00PM / THE LOCK TAVERN JAN ST. WERNER + KATHY ALBERICI + TAIGEN KAWABE £15ADV / 7.00PM / LSO ST LUKE'S MILKY CHANCE £15ADV / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE SWOON + YOURS FREE / 7.00PM / POWER LUNCHES MONDAY 9TH 9TH FEBRUARY FEBRUARY MONDAY DIRT + THE WILD LIES + VOODOO VEGAS + DEATH KOOLAID £5ADV / 7.00PM / BARFLY

SIMON FINN + GRIMM GRIMM £8ADV / 8.00PM / CAFE OTO H. HAWKLINE + MAGIC GANG £6ADV / 8.00PM / ELECTROWERKZ JENNY WREN AND HER BORROWED WINGS + TANIA PEREIRA ARMESTO + ANGELINE FREE / 7.30PM / THE FINSBURY PEACE SOLD OUT / 7.00PM / HEAVEN JEREMY LOOPS £10ADV / 8.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN FIRES £8ADV / 7.00PM / THE LEXINGTON MILKY CHANCE £15ADV / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE

JEREMY LOOPS SOLD OUT / 8.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN CHARLIE SIMPSON + EMMA BLACKERY £16.50ADV / 7.00PM / ISLINGTON ASSEMBLY HALL SAINT RAYMOND £12.50ADV / 7.00PM / KOKO LITTLE BIG TOWN + THE SHIRES £22.50ADV / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE MISTY MILLER + ST. TROPEZ FREE / 8.00PM / THE OLD BLUE LAST EX HEX SOLD OUT / 7.30PM / OSLO PEACE FREE / 7.00PM / ROUGH TRADE EAST

EX HEX FREE / 7.00PM / ROUGH TRADE EAST

FAIRCHILD + SHEIKH £5 / 7.30PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS

CRUSHED BEAKS £6ADV / 7.30PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS

AMELIA CURRAN £10ADV / 7.30PM / SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS

TROVES £5ADV / 7.30PM / THE WAITING ROOM

SHY NATURE FREE / 8.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS

TUESDAY 10TH TUESDAY 10TH FEBRUARY FEBRUARY

BLAKE MILLS £16.50ADV / 7.00PM / UNION CHAPEL

SUICIDEYEAR + JAMZ SUPERNOVA £5 / 10.30PM / BIRTHDAYS STEALING SHEEP £10ADV / 8.00PM / CHATS PALACE ELBOW + JOLIE HOLLAND £40ADV / 7.30PM / EVENTIM APOLLO LEVI WEAVER + GARY NOCK FREE / 7.30PM / THE FINSBURY

TENTERHOOK SOLD OUT / 7.00PM / THE WAITING ROOM WEDNESDAY 11TH WEDNESDAY 11TH FEBRUARY FEBRUARY AS LIONS + MONUMENT + STELLIFY + BRUTAI £5ADV / 7.30PM / BARFLY

ELBOW + LAURA GROVES SOLD OUT / 7.00PM / EVENTIM APOLLO SPOONBOY + THE TUTS + COLOUR ME WEDNESDAY £6ADV / 8.00PM / THE GARAGE THE ENTERS + VIOLETIC + THE LIFE AND DEATH £5 / 7.30PM / THE GOOD SHIP ORDINARY NOISE + FELDSPAR + TWEED & HYENAS £6ADV / 8.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN GRUFF RHYS £20ADV / 7.00PM / KOKO LAST HARBOUR FREE / 8.00PM / THE OLD BLUE LAST HONEYBLOOD £10.10ADV / 7.30PM / OSLO PHILIP SELWAY FROM £17.50ADV / 7.30PM / QUEEN ELIZABETH HALL BLAIR JOLLANDS £6ADV / 8.00PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS PETE ASTOR & THE SOULS + PICTUREBOX + BO CANDY AND HIS BROKEN HEARTS + ROBERT ROTIFER £8ADV / 7.30PM / SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS ELLA MARTINI + RONY TRIO FREE / 8.00PM / STRONGROOM THURSDAY 12TH THURSDAY 12TH FEBRUARY FEBRUARY JOSH FLOWERS & THE WILD £8ADV / 7.00PM / THE BORDERLINE

TOM O.C WILSON ENSEMBLE + PAUL MOSLEY + FRENCH FOR CARTRIDGE + SAME ACTOR + BOBBING FOR APPLES £5ADV / 7.45PM / BRIXTON WINDMILL HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER £14ADV / 7.30PM / BUSH HALL DRENGE + THE BOHICAS + MENACE BEACH £13.10ADV / 7.30PM / THE DOME THE CRIBS SOLD OUT / 7.00PM / ELECTRIC BALLROOM RAE MORRIS + FRYARS £13.50ADV / 7.00PM / ELECTRIC BRIXTON BOXED IN + NZCA LINES £6ADV / 7.30PM / ELECTROWERKZ ELBOW + BLACK RIVERS SOLD OUT / 7.00PM / EVENTIM APOLLO SYD KEMP + JOLTA + SLIM CUSTOMERS £5ADV / 7.30PM / THE FINSBURY JEROME LDN + HADEZ + CAT WALK + ARUN £5ADV / 7.30PM / THE GOOD SHIP THE STAVES £16.05ADV / 7.00PM / HACKNEY EMPIRE PRIDES £10ADV / 7.00PM / HEAVEN IYES £6ADV / 8.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN JAMES BAY SOLD OUT / 7.00PM / KOKO RICHARD DAWSON SOLD OUT / 8.00PM / THE LEXINGTON

HUDSON TAYLOR + THE MISPERS £13.50ADV / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE DEVLIN FREE / 8.00PM / THE OLD BLUE LAST TOKIMONSTA + SLOW MAGIC £12.50ADV / 8.00PM / OVAL SPACE GORGON CITY £16ADV / 7.00PM / ROUNDHOUSE FRANKIE DAVIS £6ADV / 7.30PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS SHRINES + HUGH + JAMES MASSIAM + SHANAZ DORSETT £3ADV / 7.30PM / SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS THE DRIVES £5ADV / 7.00PM / SURYA MINERAL + SOLEMN SUN SOLD OUT / 7.00PM / THE UNDERWORLD QUEST ENSEMBLE + FLUX £10ADV / 8.00PM / VORTEX JAZZ B. TRAITS + FRIEND WITHIN £6ADV / 10.00PM / XOYO

DRUNK IN HELL + SLY & THE FAMILY DRONE + THE LOWEST FORM + POSSESSOR £6ADV / 7.30PM / BRIXTON WINDMILL GROOVE ARMADA + KÖLSCH + T.WILLIAMS + TAYO & MORE £19ADV / 11.00PM / FABRIC VIRAL NIGHTS FREE / 8.00PM / THE FINSBURY SCRATCH PERVERTS + AL DOBSON JR £10ADV / 8.00PM / THE GARAGE LOVELESS + INDIAN ZEPHYR + CATS ON THE BEACH £5 / 7.30PM / THE GOOD SHIP OK GO £16.50ADV / 7.00PM / KOKO EATING OUT FREE / 8.00PM / THE LOCK TAVERN DALARO + TILAPIA FREE / 8.00PM / THE OLD BLUE LAST TILAPIA FREE / 8.00PM / THE OLD BLUE LAST

FRIDAY 13TH FRIDAY 13TH FEBRUARY FEBRUARY

THESE NEW PURITANS £15.60ADV / 7.30PM / OSLO

CHAMPION DOUG VEITCH £15ADV / 7.30PM / 100 CLUB

CARA STACEY + KRAKKKBOT + RKSS £5ADV / 8.00PM / POWER LUNCHES

HAWK EYES + GOD DAMN £8.50ADV / 7.00PM / BARFLY

BLACK LABEL SOCIETY + BLACK TUSK + CROBOT £22ADV / 7.00PM / ROUNDHOUSE

JOHN OTWAY BIG BAND £16.50ADV / 7.00PM / THE BORDERLINE MALEFICE £7.50ADV / 7.00PM / BOSTON ARMS

THE VULTURES + LONG TEETH FROM £4ADV / 7.30PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS THE SHINIES FREE / 8.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS

CHARLES HOWL + YOKAN SYSTEM FREE / 7.30PM / THE WAITING ROOM BREACH + SKUDGE £13.50ADV / 9.00PM / XOYO SATURDAY 14TH SATURDAY 14TH FEBRUARY FEBRUARY TOMAGA £8ADV / 7.30PM / 100 CLUB THE GODFATHER £15ADV / 7.00PM / THE BORDERLINE MARIACHI EL BRONX £15ADV / 7.00PM / BROOKLYN BOWL OM UNIT + WARSNARE + ALEX CRESCENT FROM £5ADV / 10.00PM / BUSSEY BUILDING SCULPTURE £10ADV / 7.00PM / CAFE OTO CRAIG RICHARDS + STEVE BUG + DETROIT SWINDLE + VAKULA + BEN SIMS + TERRY FRANCIS £20ADV / 11.00PM / FABRIC KICK + OH800 + THE SECOND ECHO FREE / 7.30PM / THE FINSBURY TR/ST & FRIENDS £12.50ADV / 9.30PM / FIRE THE LAYMANS + LAXMI £5 / 7.30PM / THE GOOD SHIP MJ COLE + MENNIE + MAZE & MASTERS £5ADV / 10.00PM / THE NEST YOU ME AT SIX + ALL TIME LOW £37.50ADV / 6.00PM / THE O2 JETTBLACK + THE HOWLING + LTNT £12ADV / 6.00PM / O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON

MACY GRAY £32.50ADV / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE LE VOLUME COURBE VS. GRIMM GRIMM £5ADV / 7.30PM / SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS JANE WEAVER £7.50ADV / 7.00PM / THE SOCIAL THE DOWNSMEN + LÆTITIA SADIER + PUZZLE MUTESON FREE / 12.00PM / UNION CHAPEL TOYBOY & ROBIN + ELI & FUR + KARTELL FROM £10ADV / 9.00PM / VILLAGE UNDERGROUND SKREAM + DIMITRI FROM PARIS + HORSE MEAT DISCO + MIDNIGHT MAGIC £13.50ADV / 9.00PM / XOYO SUNDAY 15TH 15TH FEBRUARY SUNDAY FEBRUARY DUTCH CLUB + THE SAFFRONS + ISLAND OF SIRENS + WILL ROBERT £6ADV / 7.30PM / BARFLY THE SOPRANISTAS + HOWL GRIFF FREE / 8.00PM / BRIXTON WINDMILL MICKEY MURPHY + JACOB SZULECKI + GARY DAY £3ADV / 3.00PM / BRIXTON WINDMILL MONSTER MAGNET + BOMBUS £22ADV / 7.30PM / ELECTRIC BALLROOM KATE TEMPEST + LOYLE CARNER SOLD OUT / 8.00PM / ELECTRIC BRIXTON CRAIG RICHARDS + STEVE BUG + DETROIT SWINDLE + VAKULA £7ADV / 11.00PM / FABRIC

SEA STACKS + TWO WAYS HOME FREE / 7.30PM / THE FINSBURY

THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART £16ADV / 7.30PM / VILLAGE UNDERGROUND

CHRIS & COSEY + NISENNENMONDAI £15ADV / 7.30PM / HEAVEN

TUESDAY 17TH TUESDAY 17TH FEBRUARY FEBRUARY

TRASH KIT + FURROW + PIG BEACH £5ADV / 8.00PM / POWER LUNCHES PIDZAMA PORNO £25ADV / 6.00PM / SCALA AMINI + TANIA PEREIRA + SOLBERG £4 / 7.00PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS Ø [PHASE] + INIGO KENNEDY + KR!Z + CTRLS £10ADV / 2.00PM / VILLAGE UNDERGROUND MONDAY 16TH 16TH FEBRUARY FEBRUARY MONDAY SHITWIFE + TEN + GLOTTALSTOP + MAX BONDI £4ADV / 8.00PM / BRIXTON WINDMILL DAN DEACON £15ADV / 7.30PM / ISLINGTON ASSEMBLY HALL GIRLPOOL £8ADV / 7.30PM / THE LEXINGTON 2CELLOS SOLD OUT / 6.30PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE FELIX CHAMPION + TOY MOUNTAINS + YOU BREAK, YOU BUY FREE / 8.00PM / THE OLD BLUE LAST FTSE £8ADV / 7.00PM / ROUNDHOUSE TOUNDRA £8ADV / 7.30PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS

TWIN PEAKS £10.60ADV / 7.30PM / 100 CLUB PANGEA £10.60ADV / 7.00PM / BIRTHDAYS FRONTIER RUCKUS + WE ARE DUST + THE HOBOS £9ADV / 8.00PM / BRIXTON WINDMILL JOLIE HOLLAND £14ADV / 7.00PM / BUSH HALL STUART O'CONNOR + HIS NEW ATLAS FREE / 7.30PM / THE FINSBURY INTERPOL £25.60ADV / 7.30PM / THE FORUM DARLIA £10.60ADV / 8.00PM / THE GARAGE HINDSIGHTS £5ADV / 8.00PM / THE GARAGE OCTOBER DRIFT + THE SAVAGE NOMADS + PUPPET REBELLION + ROSENTHAL £6ADV / 8.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN STU LARSEN + JED APPLETON £10ADV / 7.00PM / THE LEXINGTON DOPE BODY £6ADV / 7.00PM / THE MONTAGUE ARMS SCOTT BRADLEE & POSTMODERN JUKEBOX SOLD OUT / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE

QUEEN KWONG + THE VENUS LYX FREE / 8.00PM / THE OLD BLUE LAST FRYARS £8ADV / 7.00PM / RED GALLERY KODALINE £18.50ABV / 7.00PM / ROUNDHOUSE LYDIA AINSWORTH £7.50ADV / 8.00PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS WARM GRAVES + ANTIMATTER PEOPLE TBC / 8.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS MOHSEN NAMJOO £28ADV / 7.00PM / UNION CHAPEL WEDNESDAY 18TH WEDNESDAY 18TH FEBRUARY FEBRUARY THE AMORETTES + DIRTY THRILLS + FIRE RED EMPRESS £7.50ADV / 7.00PM / THE BORDERLINE

DOYLE BRAMHALL II + RICH ROBINSON £26ADV / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE THE DRINK FREE / 8.00PM / THE OLD BLUE LAST TIM EXILE £8ADV / 7.00PM / ROUNDHOUSE THE SUNDOWNERS £8ADV / 7.30PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS JOE WILKES + FLAME PROOF MOTH £4ADV / 7.30PM / SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS BOBBY TANK/AMBASSADEURS FREE / 8.00PM / THE WAITING ROOM ELLIPHANT £13ADV / 7.30PM / XOYO THURSDAY 19TH THURSDAY 19TH FEBRUARY FEBRUARY

MARIKA HACKMAN £22.19ADV / 8.00PM / COB GALLERY

RIDE TICKET LOTTERY / 7.30PM / 100 CLUB

KITTY DAISY & LEWIS £14ADV / 7.00PM / ELECTRIC BALLROOM

BRNS FREE / 8.00PM / BIRTHDAYS

ABANDOMAN £5 / 8.00PM / THE FINSBURY

MR CA/\\ACK + PYRMDPLAZA £13.50ADV / 10.30PM / BIRTHDAYS

ALYUSHA £6ADV / 8.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN

THE CURIOUS INCIDENT £5ADV / 7.00PM / THE BORDERLINE

ANDREYA TRIANA SOLD OUT / 7.30PM / THE LEXINGTON BEFORE YOU EXIT & CHRISTINA GRIMMIE + HANNAH TRIGWELL £17.50ADV / 7.00PM / O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON

STEELISM £5ADV / 8.00PM / BRIXTON WINDMILL IBEYI £12ADV / 7.30PM / BUSH HALL MARMOZETS + STEAK NUMBER 8 + THOUGHT FORMS £11ADV / 7.00PM / ELECTRIC BALLROOM

DARLA & THE BLONDE + METROPOLITAN PARC FREE / 7.30PM / THE FINSBURY ZAD + MISTER SUSAN + SECRET BLACK BOYFRIEND £5 / 7.30PM / THE GOOD SHIP FUTURE BROWN SOLD OUT / 8.00PM / ICA THE MILK + THUMPERS + METRIK £10ADV / 7.00PM / THE JAZZ CAFE THE USED + LANDSCAPES £19.50ADV / 7.00PM / KOKO HIDDEN CHARMS + SILVIA MWENZE FREE / 8.00PM / THE LOCK TAVERN KOJI & BOB NANNA FREE / 8.00PM / THE OLD BLUE LAST TEAM ME £9.50ADV / 7.30PM / OSLO VIRGIN KIDS + THE NEW TUSK + CYCLE SCHMEICHEL £3ADV / 8.00PM / POWER LUNCHES PRETTY VICIOUS + THE TONES £8ADV / 7.00PM / ROUNDHOUSE FKA TWIGS SOLD OUT / 7.00PM / ROUNDHOUSE LOW LOW LOW LA LA LA LOVE LOVE LOVE + OWL & MOUSE + SUPERMAN REVENGE SQUAD £4ADV / 7.30PM / SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS DROSS FREE / 8.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS TOM JAMES + POLLY MONEY £5ADV / 8.00PM / THE WAITING ROOM

FRIDAY 20TH FRIDAY 20TH FEBRUARY FEBRUARY STEVE BROOKES (THE JAM) £10ADV / 7.30PM / 100 CLUB NICO MUHLY + ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER + JAMES MCVINNIE £20ADV / 7.00PM / BARBICAN TIM BARRY + CORY BRANAN & SAM RUSSO £8ADV / 7.00PM / THE BORDERLINE D'ANGELO SOLD OUT / 7.00PM / EVENTIM APOLLO FOREIGN BEGGARS + NEWHAM GENERALS + MY NU LENG + GOTSOME + AMY BECKER £19ADV / 11.00PM / FABRIC THE WHARVES + DAISEY VICTORIA + BEING THERE + HONEY FREE / 8.00PM / THE FINSBURY DON BROCO + WE ARE THE IN CROWD + BURY TOMORROW + BEARTOOTH £17.50ADV / 7.30PM / THE FORUM QUEEN KWONG FREE / 8.00PM / THE GARAGE MANGOSEED + LAZARVS + 1914S £5 / 7.30PM / THE GOOD SHIP EARTH + BLACK SPIRITUALS £16ADV / 7.00PM / ISLINGTON ASSEMBLY HALL COCO & THE BUTTERFIELDS + MARIO LOTTARI £10ADV / 7.00PM / THE JAZZ CAFE NIMMO £5ADV / 10.00PM / KOKO

HOLY THURSDAY + THE RHUBARB TRIANGLE FREE / 8.00PM / THE LOCK TAVERN MIGUEL CAMPBELL HOLY THURSDAY + THE RHUBARB £10ADV / 10.00PM / THE NEST TRIANGLE FREE / 8.00PMPEOPLE / THE LOCK TAVERN THE LONELY TOUR WITH ORLA GARTLAND MIGUEL CAMPBELL £10ADV / 7.00PM / O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON £10ADV / 10.00PM / THE NEST GEORGE EZRA THE LONELY PEOPLE TOUR WITH ORLA SOLD OUT / 7.30PM / O2 BRIXTON ACADEMY GARTLAND £10ADV / 7.00PM / O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON ADAM COHEN £18.50ADV / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH GEORGE EZRA EMPIRE SOLD OUT / 7.30PM / O2 BRIXTON ACADEMY RY X ADAM COHEN £15ADV / 7.00PM / OVAL SPACE £18.50ADV / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE THE CUBAN BROTHERS £5ADV / 8.00PM / QUEEN OF HOXTON RY X £15ADV / 7.00PM / OVAL SPACE JOE BOYD FREE / 6.00PM / ROUGH TRADE WEST THE CUBAN BROTHERS £5ADV / 8.00PM / QUEEN OF HOXTON FKA TWIGS SOLD OUT / 7.00PM / ROUNDHOUSE JOE BOYD FREE / 6.00PM ROUGH TRADE WEST GWILYM GOLD/ + CHARLIE CUNNINGHAM £8ADV / 7.00PM / ROUNDHOUSE FKA TWIGS SOLD OUT / 7.00PM / ROUNDHOUSE BE FOREST £7ADV / 8.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS GWILYM GOLD + CHARLIE CUNNINGHAM £8ADV / 7.00PM SHADOW CHILD/ +ROUNDHOUSE BODHI £20ADV / 9.00PM / VILLAGE UNDERGROUND BE FOREST £7ADV / THE +SHACKLEWELL ARMS+ DARIUS/ 8.00PM SYROSSIAN MARCO RESMANN KRYSKO SHADOW CHILD + BODHI £13.50ADV / 9.00PM / XOYO £20ADV / 9.00PM / VILLAGE UNDERGROUND DARIUS SYROSSIAN + MARCO RESMANN + KRYSKO £13.50ADV / 9.00PM / XOYO

SATURDAY 21ST 21ST FEBRUARY SATURDAY FEBRUARY RAY GELATO AND HIS GIANTS £15ADV / 7.30PM / 100 CLUB SATURDAY FEBRUARY FORT HOPE21ST + DEAD! £8.50ADV / 7.00PM / THE BORDERLINE RAY GELATO AND HIS GIANTS £15ADV / 7.30PM 100 CLUB SEVERED LIMB +/ ORCHESTRE DU MONTPLAISANT FORT HOPE + DEAD! £4ADV / 8.00PM / BRIXTON WINDMILL £8.50ADV / 7.00PM / THE BORDERLINE D'ANGELO SEVERED LIMB + ORCHESTRE DU MONT£40ADV / 7.00PM / EVENTIM APOLLO PLAISANT £4ADV / 8.00PM+/ CRAIG BRIXTON WINDMILL JORIS VOORN RICHARDS + STEVE RACHMAD + PHIL KIERAN + JAY D'ANGELO SHEPHEARD £40ADV / 7.00PM / EVENTIM APOLLO £21ADV / 11.00PM / FABRIC JORIS VOORN + CRAIG RICHARDS + STEVE THE PARADES + BLANK BIBLES + FLAGS + RACHMAD + PHIL KIERAN + JAY JUNGLE FLOWERS SHEPHEARD FREE / 7.30PM / THE FINSBURY £21ADV / 11.00PM / FABRIC THE TALKDOWN + YOUNG MINORITIES + THE PARADES + BLANK BIBLES + FLAGS + HEADLONG JUNGLE FLOWERS £5ADV / 7.30PM / THE GOOD SHIP FREE / 7.30PM / THE FINSBURY QUEEN KWONG + BAD GRAMMAR THE TALKDOWN + YOUNG MINORITIES + FREE / 7.30PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & HEADLONG KITCHEN £5ADV / 7.30PM / THE GOOD SHIP PAUS QUEEN KWONG + BAD GRAMMAR £7ADV / 7.30PM / THE LEXINGTON FREE / 7.30PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN MOHIT + MOTHER + THE SIRENS FREE / 8.00PM / THE LOCK TAVERN PAUS £7ADV 7.30PM / THE LEXINGTON TRUST /FUND + JELAS + KING OF CATS £4 / 7.30PM / THE MOTAGUE ARMS MOHIT + MOTHER + THE SIRENS FREE / 8.00PM / THE LOCK TAVERN GRADES £5ADV / 10.00PM / THE NEST TRUST FUND + JELAS + KING OF CATS £4 / 7.30PM / THE MOTAGUE ARMS THE DECEMBERISTS £21ADV / 7.30PM / O2 BRIXTON ACADEMY GRADES £5ADV / 10.00PM / THE NEST

GIRL BAND + THE MAGIC GANG + OBJECT OBJECT £8ADV / 7.00PM / ROUNDHOUSE

SONS OF BILL + FIREWOODISLAND £10ADV / 8.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN

TV ON THE RADIO £22.50ADV / 7.00PM / ROUNDHOUSE

NITE FIELDS FREE / 8.00PM / THE OLD BLUE LAST

SHLOMO £6ADV / 7.00PM / ROUNDHOUSE

GEORGE THE POET SOLD OUT / 7.30PM / OSLO

FRANK RHYTHM + SENSATIONALIST £5ADV / 11.00PM / THE WAITING ROOM

STEELISM + LUKE SAXTON £5ADV / 7.00PM / THE SOCIAL

SKREAM SOLD OUT / 9.00PM / XOYO

JAY BROWN £7ADV / 7.30PM / THE WAITING ROOM

SUNDAY 22ND 22ND FEBRUARY FEBRUARY SUNDAY

TUESDAY 24TH TUESDAY 24TH FEBRUARY FEBRUARY

ÓLAFUR ARNALDS SOLD OUT / 7.30PM / BARIBCAN

RUMER FROM £25ADV / 7.00PM / BARBICAN

YOU ME AT SIX TICKET LOTTERY / 8.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN

GAVIN JAMES £9ADV / 7.00PM / BARFLY

REEPS ONE £8ADV / 7.00PM / ROUNDHOUSE CULT OF YOUTH £7ADV / 8.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS STEPHEN STEINBRINK £6ADV / 7.30PM / THE WAITING ROOM MONDAY 23RD 23RD FEBRUARY FEBRUARY MONDAY YUNG LEAN & SAD BOYS £17.50ADV / 7.00PM / BARBICAN BUSDRIVER £6.50ADV / 7.30PM / BIRTHDAYS SIMIAN GHOST £3 / 8.00PM / THE FINSBURY

THE LUCID DREAM £8ADV / 8.00PM / BIRTHDAYS BLEACHERS £11.50ADV / 7.30PM / BUSH HALL LONELADY SOLD OUT / 7.30PM / ELECTROWERKZ SAMUEL IDWAL + JACK IN WATER + COLOURSHOP FREE / 7.30PM / THE FINSBURY DEAD WOLF CLUB + KRAK KRAK £5ADV / 8.00PM / THE GARAGE PLASTIC MERMAIDS £6.50ADV / 7.30PM / THE LEXINGTON THE WAR ON DRUGS SOLD OUT / 7.00PM / O2 ACADEMY BRIXTON

PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING FREE / 7.00PM / ROUGH TRADE EAST

WYLDEST FREE / 7.00PM / THE LOCK TAVERN

SUNS £5ADV / 7.30PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS

JUST BLAZE + MASSAPPEALS + JIKAY £10ADV / 9.00PM / THE NEST

MR BIGZ PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING £7ADV / 7.30PM / SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS FREE / 7.00PM / ROUGH TRADE EAST

DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979 WYLDEST £20ADV / 7.30PM / O2 BRIXTON ACADEMY FREE / 7.00PM / THE LOCK TAVERN

BAXTER DURY SUNS £11ADV / 7.30PM / VILLAGE UNDERGROUND £5ADV / 7.30PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS

KRILL + BRUNCH + CHALK JUST BLAZE + MASSAPPEALS + JIKAY £8ADV / 8.00PM / THE OLD BLUE LAST £10ADV / 9.00PM / THE NEST

NOTHING ELSE MATTERS FT DANNY MR BIGZ HOWARD + MAJESTIC £7ADV / 7.30PM / SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS £7ADV / 10.00PM / XOYO

BLOOMS DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979 £5ADV / 7.30PM / SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS £20ADV / 7.30PM / O2 BRIXTON ACADEMY

BAXTER DURY WEDNESDAY 25TH FEBRUARY WEDNESDAY 25TH FEBRUARY £11ADV / 7.30PM / VILLAGE UNDERGROUND NOTHING MATTERS FT DANNY THE WAVEELSE PICTURES HOWARD SOLD OUT+/ MAJESTIC 7.30PM / 100 CLUB £7ADV / 10.00PM / XOYO DARK MOON + LAZY TALK + BELLA FIGURA WEDNESDAY 25TH FEBRUARY £5ADV / 7.30PM / BARFLY THE WAVE PICTURES THE TREACHEROUS ORCHESTRA SOLD OUT / 7.30PM / 100 CLUB £16ADV / 7.00PM / THE BORDERLINE DARK MOON + LAZY TALK + BELLA POND FIGURA £15ADV / 7.00PM / ELECTRIC BALLROOM £5ADV / 7.30PM / BARFLY JAPE THE TREACHEROUS ORCHESTRA £6.50ADV / 8.00PM / ELECTROWERKZ £16ADV / 7.00PM / THE BORDERLINE FRONTIER RUCKUS + MAT SKINNER POND £10ADV / 8.00PM / THE GARAGE £15ADV / 7.00PM / ELECTRIC BALLROOM GALLOWS GHOST JAPE FREE / 8.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & £6.50ADV / 8.00PM / ELECTROWERKZ KITCHEN FRONTIER RUCKUS + MAT SKINNER TWO GALLANTS £10ADV / 8.00PM / THE GARAGE £17ADV / 7.00PM / ISLINGTON ASSEMBLY HALL GALLOWS GHOST FREE / 8.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN

TWO GALLANTS £17ADV / 7.00PM / ISLINGTON ASSEMBLY

SEVEN THAT SPELLS + ANTA KRILL + BRUNCH + CHALK £7ADV / 8.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS £8ADV / 8.00PM / THE OLD BLUE LAST RYAN HEMSWORTH BLOOMS £11.50ADV / 8.00PM / XOYO £5ADV / 7.30PM / SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS THURSDAY 26TH FEBRUARY SEVEN THAT SPELLS + ANTA £7ADV / 8.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS THE STYLE COUNCILLORS RYAN HEMSWORTH £12.50ADV / 7.30PM / 100 CLUB £11.50ADV / 8.00PM / XOYO BROLIN £8ADV / 8.00PM / ACE HOTEL THURSDAY 26TH THURSDAY 26TH FEBRUARY FEBRUARY LONGFELLOW + THE HOSTS THE STYLE COUNCILLORS £7ADV / 7.00PM / THE BORDERLINE £12.50ADV / 7.30PM / 100 CLUB GRANT NICHOLAS BROLIN £16ADV / 7.30PM / BUSH HALL £8ADV / 8.00PM / ACE HOTEL SCOTT MATTHEWS + GEMMA HAYES LONGFELLOW + THE HOSTS £20ADV / 7.30PM / CADOGAN HALL £7ADV / 7.00PM / THE BORDERLINE JO KELSEY + D90'S GRANT NICHOLAS FREE / 8.00PM / THE FINSBURY £16ADV / 7.30PM / BUSH HALL JO KELSEY SCOTT MATTHEWS + GEMMA HAYES FREE / 7.30PM / THE FINSBURY £20ADV / 7.30PM / CADOGAN HALL JO KELSEY + D90'S FREE / 8.00PM / THE FINSBURY JO KELSEY FREE / 7.30PM / THE FINSBURY

PASSION BEL CANON + OUR MAN IN THE FIELD £5 / 7.30PM / THE GOOD SHIP N-A-I-V-E-S + ANTIMATTER PEOPLE + BIRDY HUNT £6ADV / 8.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN GEORGE FRAKES FREE / 7.00PM / THE LOCK TAVERN HOOTON TENNIS CLUB + TANGERINES + NICHOLAS STEVENSON FREE / 8.00PM / THE MACBETH BLONDE £10ADV / 7.00PM / OSLO DEERHOOF £12ADV / 7.00PM / OVAL SPACE ENTER SHIKARI + FEED THE RHINO + ALLUSONDRUGS + FATHERSON £21ADV / 7.00PM / ROUNDHOUSE SYLVAN ESSO SOLD OUT / / SCALA PINS + THE BLACK TAMBOURINES £7ADV / 7.30PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS MIRIAM JONES + BEATRIX PLAYERS £6ADV / 7.30PM / SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS BERNARD & EDITH + THERESA WINTER FREE / 8.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS FATHER JOHN MISTY SOLD OUT / 7.30PM / VILLAGE UNDERGROUND GENGAHR £7ADV / 8.00PM / THE WAITING ROOM

DELS £12ADV / 7.30PM / XOYO FRIDAY 27TH FRIDAY 27TH FEBRUARY FEBRUARY SHAM 69 £25ADV / 7.30PM / 100 CLUB LINDSAY ELL £12ADV / 7.00PM / THE BORDERLINE VEYU + SHAME TBC / 8.00PM / BRIXTON WINDMILL DJ HYPE + HAZARD + PASCAL + DRUMSOUND & BASSLINE SMITH + SUB ZERO B2B TAXMAN + DOC SCOTT £19ADV / 11.00PM / FABRIC THE BABY FACTORY + STRAIGHT ON TILL MORNING + SKIES FREE / 7.30PM / THE FINSBURY MORE THAN CONQUERORS + THE MIRCRODANCE + LOPTHUS £4ADV / 8.00PM / THE GARAGE TIME FOR T + KONOBA £5 / 7.30PM / THE GOOD SHIP BENOIT & SERGIO + KIWI £10ADV / 10.00PM / THE NEST FIGHTSTAR £17.50ADV / 7.300PM / O2 BRIXTON ACADEMY ULRICH SCHNAUSS SOLD OUT / 7.00PM / OSLO ENTER SHIKARI + FEED THE RHINO + ALLUSONDRUGS + FATHERSON £21ADV / 7.00PM / ROUNDHOUSE SEA CHANGE £6.50ADV / 7.30PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS

HABITATS + HUSKIES + WHITE GIANT FREE / 8.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS EVAN DANDO SOLD OUT / 7.00PM / UNION CHAPEL KINK + ANDREW WEATHERALL B2B IVAN SMAGGHE + MATT WALSH + LEMMY ASHTON £12.50ADV / 9.00PM / XOYO

ANDREW MCMAHON IN THE WILDERNESS £17.50ADV / 7.00PM / ISLINGTON ASSEMBLY HALL JAMES LAVELLE PRESENTS: UNKLE SOUNDS £10ADV / 10.00PM / KOKO

SATURDAY 28TH SATURDAY 28TH FEBRUARY FEBRUARY

TODD TERJE + LEGOWELT + WAIFS & STRAYS + XXXY FROM £22ADV / 11.00PM / MINISTRY OF SOUND

THE SEX PISTOLS EXPERIENCE £12.50ADV / 7.30PM / 100 CLUB

HACKMAN + WAYWARD £5ADV / 10.00PM / THE NEST

VALVES + LIGHTHOUSE + FREDDIE CALLS + UNDER THE SUN £6ADV / 7.30PM / BARFLY

COLOSSEUM + THE MALCOLM BRUCE BAND FEAT. MALCOLM BRUCE & JOEL CLEMPSON £27.50ADV / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE

THIRD FLOOR £10ADV / 7.30PM / CARGO PERC & TRUSS + FACTORY FLOOR + RANDOMER + ANSOME + NIK VOID FF £15ADV / 10.00PM / CORSICA STUDIOS FRITZ KALKBRENNER £12.50ADV / 8.00PM / ELECTRIC BRIXTON CRAIG RICHARDS + MAYA JANE COLES + KIM ANN FOXMAN + TERRY FRANCIS + BILL PATRICK £21ADV / 11.00PM / FABRIC KNIGHTS + JACK HUTCHINSON + BATTLE OF THE ROSES FREE / 7.30PM / THE FINSBURY KING CHARLES £15ADV / 7.00PM / THE FORUM MOONES + OHBOY + CRYSTAL SEAGULLS £5ADV / 8.00PM / THE GARAGE

GANG OF FOUR £20ADV / 6.30PM / OSLO PENNY CRESS + VERTICAL SLUMP + HERBERT POWELL £5ADV / 8.00PM / POWER LUNCHES WAX WITCHES £8ADV / 8.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS GLAMOUR OF THE KILL + THE HYPE THEORY £10ADV / 7.30PM / THE UNDERWORLD FCL (RED D) + KIDNAP KID + ZOO LOOK FROM £10ADV / 10.00PM / VILLAGE UNDERGROUND SKREAM + SOUL CLAP £13.50ADV / 9.00PM / XOYO

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FAKE LAUGH // DOE Sebright Arms // January 14th First up this evening is Kamran Khan's latest outfit Fake Laugh, a fairly recent collective but from the outset the four-piece sound like they've been in this band all their lives.

Brilliantly tight they make the lo-fi recordings heard on their 'Freely' EP sound polished and perfected yet never losing their distinctive charm. Kahn’s equally shimmering vocals are the focal point though, stealing the show with his almost-falsetto that distinguishes this act as something unique. One after another these delicate indie-pop tunes lift our feet, make us dance, and only too soon it's over.

We needn't have worried though, because Doe storm the stage with the kind of forceful energy that'll make you forget anything else exists. Jake Popyura's drumming is instantly mesmerising, full of vigour and yet seemingly effortless in its precision. It’s the vocal harmonies and clashes between Popyura and lead singer Nicola Leel that add something special though, giving it just enough rough around the edges to make us want to learn all the words and scream them along.

Maybe by the next time we just might have.

Nate Rockwell

DIE ANTWOORD Brixton Academy // January 17th Walking into Brixton Academy to hardcore rave insanity classic, Now Is The Time, is as good a start to an evening as any. This was courtesy of Jackmaster, who got everyone excited with bangers that spanned the last 30 years.

Suitably hyped, the crowd is desperate to get nasty when DJ Hi-Tek, shirtless and donning a Mexican wrestling mask (maybe?) gets behind the decks and kicks off with a loop of DJ Hi-Tek is gonna fok you in da ass, before Yolandi and Ninja swagger onto the stage sporting bright orange jumpsuits, What followed is pretty much what you’d expect from Die Antwoord. Dancers in witch hoods, Pink Floyd pants, Ninja’s beloved 'sausage flick', a giant inflatable evil boy (boner and all), Yolandi’s piercing squeal, trap beats, gabba beats, rap, rave and and a fuckload of ZEF. There’s not much else to say, but I don’t think anyone’s here for anything else.

I'm certainly not anyway. Big night.

Oli Knowles LiS 59

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(MI XED FORTUNES / TR ASH / DURR) R I O T OU S R O C K E R S • A LV I N C • S aturd ay 14 Feb ru ar y T h e L o c k Ta v e r n 3 5 C h a l k Fa r m R d N W 1 • 8 p m —1 a m Fr e e En t r y

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THURSDAY 26 FEBRUARY

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IF STREAMING IS A CUTE KITTEN, THEN BUYING PHYSICAL IS A HILARIOUS HAT THAT IT JUST LOVES WEARING: by Jack pOp of Alcopop! Records It may be old news now that streaming is killing off digital downloads and ushering in a new era of music consumption – but I was keen to make it clear that, for the humble indie record label at least, I think it’s a wonderful time to be alive!

When we first kicked off this whole label thing back in 2006/7 we had an idealistic, if slightly naïve, outlook that we didn’t need digital sales anyway. Alcopop! has always been all about producing super-sexy physical releases, working niche ideas to create the odd eye-catching piece (see Fixie bike compilation or FrisbeEP) – so why should we ship the songs we represent on iTunes?

That view lasted for about six months.

But now, years on, I’m pretty sure that streaming and buying physical products are absolutely destined to go hand-in-hand – and with folk self-curating their own listening/ purchasing habits more and more, this can only benefit indies who genuinely are picking the cream of the crop… This whole system is going to support genuinely exceptional records.

Look at it like this… In the olden days a fat, rich record executive could chuck a tonne of cash at generating hype, get a band all over the press – and sell a load of records off the back of that before people realised the act was actually pretty crap. Nowadays, people pick their magazines and blogs of choice; which introduces them to incredible artists - then they go and have a listen themselves before choosing what they want to buy.

The death of physical, thus foretold for years, has always been bullshit. People love buying records (and some still dig CDs). Of course they do. It’s human nature to want awesome things, and I imagine I speak for at least a decent proportion of London in Stereo readers when I say we don’t all want to live in a solely metaphysical cloud full of digital media.

Records are awesome. Records with CD/T Shirt/Slipmat bundles are even better.

Whatever though – I’m pretty sure we’re in an idealistic place for music right now, and it’s suiting consumers more than ever. Sure, artists and labels are going to have to work harder than ever to write superb songs, find their listeners, and get them to buy the cool, creative stuff they make… But for those that do, the prevalence of streaming and physical going hand-in-hand means we’re in a good place right now!

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