Two Wounded Birds album launch – Friday 22nd June
Posted May 17, 2012
Rock and Roll has always been the music of the outsider, it’s always been a snub to the mediocrity of mainstream norms and aspirations. Yet, in a world where marketing rules, rock and roll has too often been co-opted as a method of selling records. (more…)
The Shacklewell Arms Stage at Field Day 2012 : Featured acts – When Saints Go Machine and Citizens!
Posted May 17, 2012
When Saints Go Machine are a hard band to pin down, four young men doing things with electro pop that no one has done before. (more…)
Savages – live on Tuesday 29th May
Posted May 17, 2012
SAVAGES are a London-based-four-piece who played their first show with British Sea Power in January ; vocalist Jehnny Beth (John & Jehn) guitarist Gemma Thompson, bassist Ayse Hassan, drummer Fay Milton, deliver an inspired, assertive performance, a mixture of guitars with a groovy no wave/punk rythmic session. (more…)
The Shacklewell Arms Stage at Field Day 2012 : Featured acts – Austra and Baxter Dury
Posted May 16, 2012
Austra’s debut album is a dark, danceable masterpiece suitable both ritual incantations and clubs; an album hearkening back to the sleazier side of New Wave but still deeply rooted in Stelmanis’s classical and operatic upbringing. Austra’s music has been compared to Kate Bush and The Knife but with a seedier side of early 80s british new wave. (more…)
Take Courage Gallery : Perfect Concussion (Watching You Dance), May 12th – June 3rd
Posted May 10, 2012
Take Courage presents the first London exhibition of work by collective project Not Abel. Utilising all available mediums ( painting, sculpture, sound / music, video, photography, performance, recontextualised detritus, etc… ) Not Abel re-evaluate and re-present particular cultural references. They are emphatically a collective project, maintaining an openness to the outside, their work both sucking in and leaking out into the external world, plugging into pre existing networks and spinning new webs of associations – practicing art as cartography of the collective unconscious, conjoining lines of force between ostensibly disparate sources and themes to generate fresh narratives and map occluded connections. (more…)
Rowdy Superstar – live on 30th May
Posted May 9, 2012
Rowdy Superstar is a London raised singer/rapper and producer, inspired by the likes of Prince, Bowie and M.I.A. and using light as his muse, Rowdy’s music embodies the ethos of early hip-hop, punk and 90′s pop to concoct arrestingly bold songs, wily structures and melodic top lines. (more…)
Recommended listening: The Luke & Rusty Rodeo Show with Raser Moss (YMC) & a mix from S.C.U.M
Posted May 8, 2012
05/05/12: Luke And Rusty’s Rodeo Show – Fraser Moss (YMC), S.C.U.M & Apple Cart Fest ticket comp by Strongroomalive on Mixcloud
Our good friends Luke & Rusty serve up another couple of hours worth of music and shenanigans, plus win a couple of tickets for Apple Cart festival!!! Welsh crate digger, You Must Create founder and designer, Fraser Moss drops by with a fistfull of his 7 inches and a bit of informal chittery-chattery, S.C.U.M keyboard botherer Sam 7 with a mix of motor-psychedlicacies, The Horrors Tom Furse with the weather, and thorough traffic analysis from their sonic advisor and rouge aficionado, Chris Rotter.
Club Motherfucker presents Hunx and His Punx and Step-Panther – live on Saturday 12th May
Posted May 8, 2012
Club Motherfucker are taking over dancefloor from from 5:30 – 10:00, they’ll be serving appropriate musical delights from the decks along with their buddies The Creeps, think vintage RnR, 60′s Girl Groups, 90′s 120 Minutes, Classic Power Pop and whatever else we think is a good idea after a few of those margaritas. Aussie garage-pop fittiez Step-Panther will be kicking off things live style and then it’s time to get sexy with your man Hunx. (more…)
Grasscut (Ninja Tune) Live Unearth Album Launch – Wednesday 20th June
Posted May 3, 2012
Following their acclaimed debut release ’1 Inch: ½ Mile’ in 2010 Grasscut return with their second album outing ‘Unearth’. Drawing heavily on vocals and featuring collaborations from legends such as Robert Wyatt and Gazelle Twin ‘Unearth’ sees Grasscut delve into new depths. (more…)
Bleached, Mazes and Boneyards – live on Wednesday 16th May
Posted May 1, 2012
Los Angeles based band BLEACHED will be crossing the Atlantic to play live at The Shacklwell Arms on May 16th. Sisters Jessica and Jennifer Clavin – formerly of MIKA MIKO – have a reputation for irrepressibly fun live shows and they will bring their blend of sun-drenched, punk influenced, pop to London in the spring. (more…)
