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| | | | | | Sat 1st | 'The Windmill Of Your Mind'
*Kitty, Daisy & Lewis
*Micah
*Our Name Is legion | The new early-start saturday club that so far has already brought the delights of Baxter Dury, Brakes and Dr Dog to these parts.
KITTY, DAISY & LEWIS
The Windmill Of Your Mind has taken an unexpected turn and Sebastian Tellier will no longer be performing this Saturday the 1st October.
Filling his not inconsiderable boots will be the UKs finest new rock n roll band, the family that plays together, Kitty, Daisy and Lewis.
After wowing crowds at Bestival and at countless shows all over London, Kitty, Daisy and Lewis bring their unique brand of rebel rousing rock n roll to the Windmill Of Your Mind this Saturday. They have a single 'Honolulu Rockarola' currently out on OOF! records and have recently recorded sessions for Mark Radcliffe and Rob da Bank.
MICAH
...sometime Anti-Pop and Mike Ladd collaborator and new signing to Matthew Herberts Accidental Records whose album 'Everything' has been produced by NY no
wave legend Arto Lindsay. His first single 'Revelation' is released in November.
www.magicandaccident.com
OUR NAME IS LEGION (London)
Pop punk and pure adrenalin.....drawing from classic English bands as The Kinks and The Smiths, they have the kind of energy and stuttering urgency of Bis or Shonen Knife. This is perfect pop music made with
guitars by people who went to college with the sole purpose of forming a band and dropping out
Doors open at 5pm and there'll be a BBQ and chill session before the band start around 8pm. | £5 (doors 5pm) | | | | | | | | | | | | Sun 2nd | Windmill Brixton presents:
*Paddy Milner
*Clearfield | PADDY MILNER
Something a little different and just a little special for a Sunday night iwith paddy and his full 7-piece band! Twenty-five year-old Paddy is a virtuosic pianist, singer and songwriter. His original and ear-catching style shows influences such as blues, jazz, boogie-woogie and rock n roll. His live performances are always varied and full of energy, featuring the finest musicians around.
His debut album '21st Century Boogie' with its original musical styling and accomplished boogie-woogie piano action earned him plaudits from Dave Brubeck, Paul Jones, Phil Manzanera and the guy that hosts the Later With show on BBC2. His second album on 'Walking On Eggshells' was deemed so good, the esteemed Bronze Records label was brought out of dormancy to release it.
But it's live where you can really appreciate Paddy's phenomenal playing and along with seven of the hottest young players around, it's going to be one special night.
www.paddymilner.com
CLEARFIELD
www.clearfieldmusic.com
ADVANCE TICKETS:
www.wegottickets.com/event/6544 | £3.50adv/£4 door | | | | | | | | | | | | Mon 3rd | Windmill Brixton presents:
*Five Mile Drive
*Jet Packs For Hire
*tbc | FIVE MILE DRIVE
www.fivemiledrive.com
JET PACKS FOR HIRE
www.jetpacksforhire.co.uk | £- | | | | | | | | | | | | Tue 4th | Windmill Brixton presents: | Acoustic Night | free | | | | | | | | | | | | Wed 5th | Windmill Brixton presents:
*Blue Sky Research
*The Waking Eyes | BLUE SKY RESEARCH (Portsmouth)
One of the best kept secrets (so far) on the south coast, BSR already coount Ian Brown as a fan and supporter and their widescreen sound propelled by clever harmonies and informed by a little rustic sideline is something you'll be hearing on the qairwaves soon.
THE WAKING EYES (Winnipeg)
On a first visit to the UK and currently drumming up lots of attention, The Waking Eyes are a four piece rock band from the prairies of Canada.
Their influences range from the Beatles and Radiohead to Ween and Nirvana, yet the music they create has an inexplicably original sound and vibe. Always willing to experiment creatively the Waking Eyes often rotate their instrumental duties, but maintain a core set-up with Rusty and Matt playing guitar and singing, Steve on the drums, and Joey playing bass. Piano, organ, and other keyboards are often used to provide the songs with the band's signature sound. The Waking Eyes consider their ability to pen catchy pop-rock songs as their most important asset and with all four members cited as contributing writers they have a seemingly endless supply of new material from which to draw.
Onstage 8.45pm.
www.thewakingeyes.com
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THE TREMULA (Salt Lake City, UT) - CANCELLED
Sorry but the band got refused entyry through Heathrow today. | £3 | | | | | | | | | | | | Thu 6th | Windmill Brixton presents:
*OCS
*Cairo Gang
*Elephant Micah | OCS (San Francisco, CA)
OCS is a duo consisting of John Dwyer and Patrick Mullins, and they return this year with a double album
entitled 3 & 4: Songs About Death and Dying and Get Stoved, two albums filled with tales of the most romantic sensations of any person's life: love and death.
A fan of any of his other projects will know that Dwyer's gonna mindfuck our heads good and proper. Just because Dwyer chose to put down his electric guitar and strum an acoustic, this cannot be an ‘ordinary’ singer songwriter, folk acoustic thing. In fact, OCS is as intense and soul grabbing as any band Dwyer's played in. The sonic layering, texture of sound and perfectly captured moods creates a completely original record.
John Dwyer has played in half a dozen bands that showcase an entertaining, absurd, bombastic flurry of noise, sweat and manic motion mayhem.
Though Dwyer's unmatched energy is a much appreciated and needed force in music as evidenced with the huge buzz surrounding Coachwhips, a secret for Dwyer's success is his ability to take a part of who he is
and fearlessly strip it down to some refined basic human truth while coddled in that busted state of consciousness.
Soothingly strumming a pink acoustic guitar with a buzzed out smirk and delivering words as if he were serenading the last girl on earth, OCS punches your
face with an hour and ten minutes of some honest to God folk rock n roll.
www.narnackrecords.com
THE CAIRO GANG (Chicago, IL)
....is a group signed to Narnack Records and has been formed and deformed over the years Throughout all of the different ideas and projects The Cairo Gang has always been around. Begun in Los Angeles, spun around the globe, landing in Chicago, The Cairo Gang builds bridges between the fragmented worlds of musicians and listeners, rekindling the desire to be honest and to communicate. to strive for clarity, but to be aware of
the fog. The personnel has changed over the years save for its core, Emmett Kelly, who with an increasing palette of musicians and instruments, has been able to construct these bizarre records that chronicle the strange elliptical lives that begin and continue and by the force of nature collide at these wild opportune moments, and then
begin again.
www.narnackrecords.com
ELEPHANT MICAH (Indianapolis, IN)
After supporting The Broken Family Band earlier in the year we're pleased to wlcome back this jaw-dropping performer. Here's an extract from a piece by David Kennan in the Wire which gives a flavour:
At certain points on this latest limited edition cd-r, Indiana's Elephant Micah sound a lot like the kind of basement wave psychadelia that made up the bulk of the Boston Twisted Village label throughout the 90s, punk primitive groups like Crystallized Movements, Luxurious Bags and Bongloads of Righteous Boo. At others they sound a little closer to twig pickers like Alasdair Roberts, Gene Clark and Richard Buckner. It's a nice mix and the whole thing is executed with such primitive èlan and lack of concern for fidelity that it makes for a real endearing listen. There's some nice fuzz guitar, the kind only a cheap amp and an inappropriate condenser mic can normally fully capture, and vocalist Joe O'Connell sounds like he's been forced to sing quietly with a bucket over his head to avoid waking his parents. 'The Environmentalist' is a beautiful slice of narcoleptic folk that captures the lugubrious nothing-to-do feel of late summer days as well as the slow motion dance of dust in a ray of sunlight. It all comes in a nice hand numbered edition with a full colour wraparound card sleeve.
www.elephantmicah.com | £4 | | | | | | | | | | | | Fri 7th | 'If You Don't Mind...in associtaion with Pure Groove Records, presents:
*Comanechi
*The Alps
*The Bete Noires
*The Sequins | COMANECHI (London)
From the reknowed London club night White
Heat's label comes a double header of noise. Commenechi are loud,
irrisistable and a band to an eye (and ear) out for.
www.comanechi.com
THE BETE NOIRES (Belfast)
The all-in-one package of high spirited power grunge pop-rock - The Fly
Their QOTSA / Sugar / Pixies-influenced rock has a bunch of labels foaming at various orificies... - NME
THE ALPS (Greenwich)
Cracking
debut single 'World at War' was an XFM fave. This south London band
play knife sharp guitars and bang out huge choruses.
www.planetofthealps.com
THE SEQUINS (Coventry)
Stumblingly Sincere indie-boy jangle - Drowned in Sound
You want to bottle up their music and spray it on your hair - Download.com
www.thesequins.co.uk | £4 | | | | | | | | | | | | Sat 8th | 'Lloyd's Birthday 2005'
*Pylon
*Jets vs Sharks
*The (S)Word | PYLON
JETS vs SHARKS
The (S)WORD
+ Juvenile Hall DJs | £4 | | | | | | | | | | | | Sun 9th | Windmill Brixton presents:
*Nick Kelly
*T Griffin Coraline
*Catherine Paver | NICK KELLY (Dublin)
Widely regarded as one of Ireland's finest songwriters, Nick first came to prominence as the lead singer and songwriter for the band The Fat Lady Sings.
In September he released 'Running Dog', the long-awaited follow-up to his acclaimed debut solo album 'Between Trapezes' which Hot Press magazine described as 'album of the decade' and NME hailed as 'precious in every sense of the word'.
Like 'Between Trapezes' the new record was partly funded by fans who paid for their copies in advance. Their loyalty has ben rewarded with an album that continues a rich trajectory of stately emotional pop that sits somewhere between The Blue Nile and vintage REM.
Worth the wait Hot Press 8.5/10
Blessed with a rare intelligence and serious lack of artifice Irish Times
www.nickkelly.ie
T. GRIFFIN CORALINE (New York)
...is a collaboration between songwriter T Griffin and vilonist Catherine McRae.
'a hushed collision of Vic Chesnutt, Low and Jim O'Rourke...its wounded ambience both delicate and desne' (UNCUT)
'this urban toroubadour crafts tunes with an acute lyricism that is both optimistic and cynically world weary....(TIME OUT, NY)
www.shinylittlerecords.com
CATHERINE PAVER (London)
Catherine who was one of the highlights of our recent Acoustic Festival, writes folk-and-country influenced songs that tell stories, taking the listener from the Wild Coast of Africa to the goldmines of the American West. She picks up stories from her travels and from English folk tales. You could find yourself riding a river through Namibia, seeing a ghost as the sun goes down in the desert, and listening to a tired and lonely dragon slayer by the fire. She accompanies herself in inimitable finger-picking style on acoustic guitar and has supported great storytelling songwriters such as Bob Cheevers, James Keelaghan and Clive Gregson.
ADVANCE TICKETS:
www.wegottickets.com/event/7167 | £4 adv/£5 door | | | | | | | | | | | | Mon 10th | Windmill Brixton presents: | - | £3 | | | | | | | | | | | | Tue 11th | Windmill Brixton presents:
*Oh My God!
*The Treliks
*Mudfunk
*Breaking Laces
*Gloryscene | OH MY GOD! (Chicago, IL)
Sounds like a Christian-rock band? It's not. But oh my god doesn't have a notarized contract on file at the devil's office, either. THIS CHICAGO ROCK BAND IS NOT AFFILIATED WITH GOD OR SATAN (though the band admires both their work).
No, oh my god is an Earthbound rock band--a killer one. Billy O'Neill (vocals/bass), Ig (organ/vocals) and Bish (drums/vocals) can out-punk, out-pop and out-rock 'em all, and they're doing that one show and one album at a time.
Formed in late '99, this utterly unique organ-bass-drums trio unleashes captivating tones and razor-sharp hooks in song after striking song...from the piano-driven pop of 'February 14' and 'There Goes the World' to the raucous rock of 'The Uptown Lumber'. Even in ripping rock tunes like 'Get Steady' and 'Volatile,' it's Billy's infectious vocal melodies that step to the fore, backed by the overdriven organ of Ig (who has played with Junior Wells, Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, Van Morrison, Jeff Healey and more) and the titanic drums of Bish.
Oh my god has earned a constant stream of praise from press all over the U.S. as they've toured hundreds of shows each of the last few years.
not your parents' art rock...soulful vocals set against an experimental backdrop of organ and drums (Alternative Press)
Oh my god hails from Chicago, but their keyboard-drenched hard rock seems more appropriate for Los Angeles. The Doors spring to mind, as does commercial alternative radio...The guitarless trio is arty without forgetting the rock. (Time Out - New York)
www.sonicbids.com/ohmygod
www.ohmygod.com
THE TRELIKS (London)
Retro garage types with a spaghetti sideline as evidenced on their mighty fine 'Mexican Road Movie' single.
GLORYSCENE
www.gloryscene.co.uk
PLUS.....just added TWO more acts from the CME tour:
BREAKING LACES (Brooklyn, NY)
'blends the best of indie wityh classic singer=songwriting' (Rolling Stone)
www.breakinglaces.com
MUDFUNK (Albany, NY)
Boundary-pushing funk and soul duo.
www.mudfunk.com | £3/£4 | | | | | | | | | | | | Wed 12th | Windmill Brixton presents:
*Make Good Your Escape
*Stained Glass Heroes
*Sonic State Relay | MAKE GOOD YOUR ESCAPE (Brighton)
We've been wanting to get this band up from the seaside for a while now and iit just happpens that they're playing just before they hit it big style. A big hit last month at CMJ festival in New York City, they bring their euphoric rock to Brixton for the first time. Check these sounds out!
www.makegoodyourescape.com
STAINED GLASS HEROES (Brixton)
Cool wave quartet making a fullscreen sound via guitars and synths.
www.stainedglassheroes.co.uk
SONIC STATE RELAY (London)
www.sonicstaterelay.co.uk | £3 | | | | | | | | | | | | Thu 13th | 'John Peel Day' with HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE LOVED? presenting HDIF IV:
*Labrador
*The Red Stars
*Lucky Soul | JOHN PEEL DAY
Tonight the BBC is commemmorating the life and work of Mr Peel whose support of the independent music scene has been an inspiration to many of us. Tonight's bands continue that spirit and all records played will be culled from the 1987 Festive Fifty as part of our tribute.
www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/alt/johnpeel/johnpeelday/
LABRADOR (Denmark)
Super suave indie popsters from Denmark,
Labrador pick up where St Stienne left off at the end of 'So Tough', with dreamy, trumpet-bolstered bursts of pop perfection. If you’re a fan of early Trembling Blue Stars, My Favorite or St Etienne (of course), then you’ll love these.
www.labrador.dk/
THE RED STARS (North London)
A brand new band from Islington and Lambeth, The Red Stars inhabit a quietly stylish dreamworld where Roddy Frame fronts the Tindersticks, and indiepop is equal parts poetry, sophistication and a perfectly strummed guitar. Formerly members of the 1940s-tinged (and
Actionettes-associated) Heist.
LUCKY SOUL (Greenwich)
female fronted five piece from Greenwich, Lucky Soul sound like The Pipettes flirting with Saint Etienne (them again!), all sleek sixties melodies and songs to make your heart melt.
www.luckysoul.co.uk
More info & membership details @
www.howdoesitfeel.co.uk
HDIF members £3; Doors £5; Advance £4
ADVANCE TICKETS:
www.wegottickets.com/event/6711 | £4adv | | | | | | | | | | | | Fri 14th | 'NORTHERN IRELAND: THE NEXT GENERATION' WEEKEND
*The Debonaires
*Yakuza
*Just A Word
*Contraband | Four of the best new bands from Belfast, Derry and around those parts.
THE DEBONAIRES (Bangor, C.Down)
...straddle the gulf between thrusting robotic rock and pure pop perfection with the ease of a 5000 ft tall cyborg programmed with Michael Jackson's least paedophilic dance moves. Prepare to be crushed under their mighty riffs and choruses, scarred by their razor sharp hooks and slayed by their unique line in 'witty' stage patter.
www.thedebonaires.co.uk
YAKUZA (DC - DUNGANNON / COALISLAND, Co. Tyrone)
Raised on an unsteady diet of The Birthday Party, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr and Truman's Water, these twisted mid-Ulster hallions have an amazing batch of new songs which take the electric white boy blues of debut album One Nation Under Awed to a seedy post-punk disco before locking them in and burning the bastard to the ground. They'll take your face off and enjoy themselves doing it.
JUST A WORD (Armagh City, Co. Armagh)
Hip-hop you don't stop, especially for this heavy hitting crew of white bread muthafuckas comin' straight outta Armagh City with balls the size of cathederal bells and even bigger tunes. They're five stone cold killers who'll fuck yo' shit up real good with their gritty tales of Northern Irish urbanity and fine head nodding grooves.
www.justaword.com
CONTRABAND (Banbridge, Co. Down)
Like a vagina with teeth, the screaming punk rock of Contraband is not to be f**ked with. If The Distillers' Brody Dalle spent less time on picking out her carefully pre-ripped outfits and getting up the duff by passing members of Queens of the Stone Age, her band might have a shot at sounding as raw, visceral and downright lethal as this Banbridge three piece. Incendiary.
www.contrabandrebelgold.com
ADVANCE TICKETS
www.wegottickets.com/event/7335 | £4 | | | | | | | | | | | | Sat 15th | 'NORTHERN IRELAND: THE NEXT GENERATION' WEEKEND
*The Answer
*Delaware
*Tracer AMC
*Tom McShane Band
*The Lingus
*Trip Fontaine | Six of the best new bands from Belfast, Derry and around those parts.
THE ANSWER (Downpatrick, Co. Down)
The finest classic rock band in Ireland, The Answer have the chops to make the sound of yesteryear their very own via a set of kick ass tunes including the recent single Keep Believin,' their debut release for the AC/DC affiliated Albert Productions label. They've supported The Darkness and Ash, made a mess at the Kerrang Awards and will be kicking seven (hell's) bells out of Brixton tonight before they head out on 'The New School Of Rock Tour' with Tokyo Dragons and others which winds its way through the UK until December.
And...NEWS just in...The Answer were named 'Best New Band' at the Classic Rock Awards held in london at the start of October.
www.theanswer.tv
DELAWARE (Belfast)
. offer classic westcoast American pop with a country twang, infused with harmony, melody, passion and charm. They're obviously having a blast everytime they take to the stage - and believe us, their enthusiasm
is infectious. One of the most promising bands in Northern Ireland, period, they get the good times rolling with ease...
TRACER AMC (Belfast)
Tracer AMC offer the finest in atmospheric instrumental post-rock. Like a sonic cathedral crumbling into the ocean down a cliff face at sunset, their music is by turns beautiful, haunting and powerfully moving. Their recently released album Islands is the assured follow up to 2004's acclaimed debut, Flux and Form. Their multitextured, pedal enhanced tunes are very, very good live.
www.traceramc.co.uk
TOM McSHANE BAND (Belfast)
Like a hot salty tear rolling down the cheek of the most beautiful face you can imagine, the music of Tom McShane is at once captivating and heartbreaking. His are tender tunes plucked straight from a broken and patched up heart, performed with rare poise and passion. With his band in tow, Tom can shift gears between wistful laments and sundappled guitar pop with ease. To know him is to love him.
www.tommcshane.co.uk
THE LINGUS (North Antrim)
....offer feel-good indie rock and roll the way it used to be made. Sugar's brightest moments collide with Teenage Fanclub's infectious energy and enthusiasm , with a hint of The Wonder Stuff's penchant for the absurd, in a collection of melody drenched songs you'll be humming for weeks.
www.thelingus.tk
TRIP FONTAINE (Derry)
From the maiden city and featuring talented songwriter Kevin Nash (ex-Fighting With Wire), this lot have the tunes, the grooves and the moves to bring the pain to any venue they choose. They're stone cold foxes and no mistake.
PLUS........FREE BBQ!!! from 5pm til it runs out.
ADVANCE TICKETS
www.wegottickets.com/event/7336 | £5 | | | | | | | | | | | | Sun 16th | 'NORTHERN IRELAND: THE NEXT GENERATION' WEEKEND
*V//Formation
*The Evangelists
*Panda Kopanda
*Inch High
*Ego | Six of the best new bands from Belfast, Derry and around those parts.
V//FORMATION (Belfast)
Formerly known as The Ponies, this lot are barely out of the gate and are already being tipped for greatness. Big melodic tunes with wirey guitars and crashing backbeats make their brand of bottom heavy indie rock
something you'll want to buy into repeatedly.
www.poniesmusic.com
THE EVANGELISTS (Derry)
Presenting their delightfully skewed collisions of skronking guitars, jackhammer rhythms and provincial sexual repression via a live show that defines the word 'unpredictable,' The Evangelists will have you singing, laughing, moshing and scratching your head all at once. Part cabaret tragedy, part scattergun aural assault, all the way great.
www.theevangelists.tk
PANDA KOPANDA (Belfast)
This year's Letting Go EP on Belfast's HOWL Records marked a major turning point for this well regarded Belfast act, displaying a new-found confidence in the execution of their bittersweet indie tunes which call
to mind The Postal Service, Deathcab For Cutie and Pavement. They'll break yourt heart and make you like it.
www.pandakopanda.com
INCH HIGH (Newcastle, Co. Down)
With a KKKK review for debut album Look Kids, It's Big Ben already under their belts, Inch High's catchy pop rock sound should appeal to fans of Foo Fighters, and other such masters of stadium friendly catchy and
crunchy tunage.
www.inchhigh.co.uk
EGO (Bangor, C. Down
...are young, good looking and deliver their spiralling sugar rush of frantic rock riffage, metal style licks and melodic sing-along vocals with bags of energy to spare. Perfect MTV2 ready fodder without the posturing bullshit? We think so.
www.egorock.com
PLUS........FREE BBQ!!! from 5pm til it runs out.
ADVANCE TICKETS
www.wegottickets.com/event/7337 | £5 | | | | | | | | | | | | Mon 17th | TIGHT presents:
*Blackhorse
*Fupper
*Kondor | TIGHT presents their monthly electro night with....
BLACKHORSE
'f**ked up slo-mo Can vibe. Strange, hypnotic post-rock beavers gnaw at the foundations of yr log cabin'. (Norman Records)
www.jonsonfamily.com
FUPPER
Mysterious, melancholic and a bit messed up. Experimental electronic/post-rock/folky meanderings
www.tritonerecords.co.uk/artists/fupper.htm
KONDOR
Bent electro and off-key beats from ex-Sydney post-rocker. Laptop, synth, melodica, mic, prog rock, hip hop, ambient, psyche...
www.users.bigpond.com/comraderecords/
Dj support from Mola (Kraked) and Tight's SP
Live visuals from Bauerindustries
More info @ www.dontfakethefunk.com/tight | £3 | | | | | | | | | | | | Tue 18th | Windmill Brixton presents:
*The Loose Salute
*Mon Fio
*The William Fairley Project | THE LOOSE SALUTE
Firm Windmill favourites over the past year
or so this seven sometimes eight piece band marry Americana and West Coast pop rather perfectly with gorgeous female vocals. They also feature a couple of members of Mojave 3.
www.theloosesalute.com
MON FIO
...new old-fashioned pop music: ramshackle romanticism, lyrical pesimism and melodic optimism, featuring a full size vibraphone (aka an adult-size
xylophone) and the occasional sax solo. Great summery west coast pop with witty intros.
www.monfio.com
www.4thharmonic.com
THE WILLIAM FAIRLEY PROJECT
Acoustic project from David Line of Seafood.
ADVANCE TICKETS:
www.wegottickets.com/event/6613 | £3 | | | | | | | | | | | | Wed 19th | Create Or Die and Rubyworks present
* Koufax
*The Rank Deluxe
*The Bridge Gang
*White Man Kamikaze | KOUFAX (USA)
On the back of their successful release Hard Times Are in Fashion' (Doghouse Records); 'Koufax' bring sly lyrics, disco grooves and jaunty punk-pop hooks with a style reminisant of 'Franz' at the height of their cool.
THE RANK DELUXE
THE BRIDGE GANG (London)
WHITE MAN KAMIKAZE (London) | £3 | | | | | | | | | | | | Thu 20th | THE YOUNG & LOST CLUB present
*Raising Kain
*Vinvent Vincent
*The Bishops
*The Dash | RAISING KAIN (Glasgow)
'Veering off the walls like a brilliant booze-addled car crash of The Rolling Stones, David Bowie and The New York Dolls, songs like 'Pink Grenade' and the jazzy garage of 'All My Heroes' have won over Glasgow - and the world's next.' (NME)
www.kainrock.com
VINCENT VINCENT (solo)
'Ace pomade-packing punkery from east London’s riotous doo-wop primitives.The look’s retro, the attitude right this very minute' (MOJO)
www.vincentvincentandthevillains.com
THE BISHOPS
A mixture of sweet sounding 60's pop and
rockabilly.
THE DASH
Garage rock with a difference from these young
muscians.
DJ's Pyrrha Girls and Mr Neill K
More info:
www.youngandlostclub.com | £3 | | | | | | | | | | | | Fri 21st | Windmill Brixton presents:
*The Spinto Band
*The Panda Band
*Sam & Me
*tbc | THE SPINTO BAND (Wilmington, DE)
Here we go. You might well not have heard of the Spinto band yet (unless of course you keep an eye on what Bar-None Records in the States do besides releasing records by Evan Dando and Architecture In Helsinki), but trust us you will do. This gig is HOT!
Once you've seen how much fun The Spinto Band have on stage, it's officially impossible not to love them....a band that's definitely going places (NME 1st Oct 2005)
' a seven-member group with a catchy pop sensibility but with the not-so-poppy ability to rock the F out.' (Metro NY)
'eccentric power pop that combines the wistful exuberance of Fountains of Wayne with the experimentalism of Brian Wilson.' (Nashville Scene)
'…unlikely beauties somewhere between Pavement, Yo La Tengo and the Flaming Lips.' (Philadelphia Weekly)
www.spintoband.com
THE PANDA BAND (Perth, Aus)
After their performances at SXSW and In The City plus consistent plays from John Kennedy at XFM, it's fair to say we've not one but two buzz bands on tonght's bill.
A wonderfully quirky quintet, they were also ranked as one of the top ten bands by the Australian edition of Rolling Stone...not bad for a band that's barely a year old!!!
www.thepandaband.com
www.myspace.com/thepandaband
SAM AND ME (Herne Hill)
twisted pop from Akoustik Anarky-signed duo.
www.samandme.com
ADVANCE TICKETS
www.wegottickets.com/event/7247 | £4 | | | | | | | | | | | | Sat 22nd | 'Sadder Days'
*Absentee
*The Tailors
*The Epstein
*Noah Kelly | ABSENTEE (London)
A truly unique band whose nose-bleed-inducing asscendence to rock stardom is sure to continue thanks to the sheer catchiness of their twisted glimpses of love and loss. In their own words, 'It's the sort of music that gets played when people finally start kissing in a movie and also the kind of music when one of them gets knocked down by a car in the final quarter.'
www.absenteemusic.co.uk
THE TAILORS (south London)
Captivating power pop laced with wistful harmonies, crescendos of pedal steel and one FUBAR Canuck.
www.thetailors.org
THE EPSTEIN (Oxford)
Oxford's finest country rockers with mandolins, banjos, organs, wooly hats and long hair.
NOAH KELLY (London)
A rare chance to catch this guy. He is really young and writes great songs.
DJs: Rob Fawkes (Trash Aesthetics) and Briana and Lucy (Sin City) | £4 | | | | | | | | | | | | Sun 23rd | Windmill Brixton presents:
*Errol Linton's Blues Vibe
*The Windy City Strugglers
DJ: Garth Cartwright | ERROL LINTON's BLUES VIBE (Brixton)
Brixton's native son Errol Linton returns to The Windmill with his unique brand of reggae-flavoured blues. Linton plays blues harmonica in the manner of Sonny Boy Williamson meets Augustus Pablo while Blues Vibe kick up an electric storm. Rated by Charlie Gillett and others as one of the UK's greatest live bands, Linton's Blues Vibe are a force to be reckoned with.
www.errollinton.co.uk
THE WINDY CITY STRUGGLERS (New Zealand)
The Windy City Strugglers are New Zealand¹s premier blues-soul-jug band (yep, that¹s right, blues-soul-jug). The band¹s vocalist, Rick Bryant, is a legendary character in the history of Kiwi rock¹n¹roll: scrapes with
the law, willingness to duke it out with obnoxious punters, man of letters and one of the great living soul men. Indeed, Dan Penn was heard to describe Bryant as 'just about the best white soul singer I¹ve ever heard' when The Strugglers opened for Penn and Spooner Oldham.
DJ: Garth Cartwright
ADVANCE TICKETS:
www.wegottickets.com/event/6612 | £4 | | | | | | | | | | | | Mon 24th | Windmill Brixton presents:
*Six Star Hotel
*I Am The Door
*Regis Low | SIX STAR HOTEL (Belfast)
Brash, passionate and with big guitars, SSH are an all-action quartet with an ear for an emotive tune.
www.sixstarhotel.co.uk
REVERIE
Alt-experimental emo.
www.reverieuk.com
www.myspace.com/reverietheband
REGIS LOW (London)
Promising newcomers mixing up post-pop-hardcore with a relaxing Pavement twist. | £3 | | | | | | | | | | | | Tue 25th | Windmill Brixton presents:
*Josh T. Pearson
*Junkyard Choir
*tbc | JOSH T. PEARSON (Denton, TX)
In 2001 Pearson's band LIFT TO EXPERIENCE brought out a classic album at the first attempt in the magnificent 'Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads' which pushed the concept opf southern gothic forward a mile or two drenched in spookiness in feedback.
Sadly no second album has arrived and in the meantime their tall, most enigmatic frontman is winning a following for his solo material, most notably on a recent co-headline tour with old Windmill faves Archie Bronson Outfit and Bikini Atoll. His electrifying performances surprised even diehard Lift To Experience fans and we're super pleased to have been able to offer him a headline show.
JUNKYARD CHOIR (Croydon)
Dirty bluesy rock rumble featuring Mark from Do Me Bad Things/Filthy Milk.
TBC
ADVANCE TICKETS:
www.wegottickets.com/event/7328 | £tba | | | | | | | | | | | | Wed 26th | Windmill Brixton presents:
*The Russian Futurists
*Au Revoir Simone
*We Are Soldiers We Have Guns | THE RUSSIAN FUTURISTS (Toronto)
A big hits when they played the Windmill a couple of years ago, The Russian Futurists are one man pop orchestra Matthew Hart and some friends who are equally handy on keyboards. This is their only London show to promote their excellent third album 'Our Thickness' and it's a show that should entice fans of Flaming Lips, Magnetic Fields and The Postal Service not to mention the many who own and cherish the RF's first two discs.
an exuberantly echoing starburst of lo-fi twee-pop gone grand, an opulent boudoir popera for the Taj Mahal. A crashfest of cheapo synths, poppity drums, and spun-sugar vocals. It's an IMAX epic shot on Super8 and projected onto a bed sheet, a sumptuous coronation parade in a snowglobe, a theme park made of Tinker Toys postage-stamp epics, majestic in miniature. Get the picture? (Pitchforkmedia.com)
www.geocities.com/russianfuturists
AU REVOIR SIMONE (Brooklyn, NY)
All-girl trio whom produce light-as-air pop via keyboards and synths. Signed to Moshi Moshi (the Rakes, Architecture In Helsinki, Roland Shanks etc), they offer a warm sweeping sound with little hints of the likes of Stereolab and Magnetic Fields.
www.aurevoirsdimone.com
WE ARE SOLDIERS WE HAVE GUNS (Gothenburg)
We are soldiers we have guns consists of Malin Dahlberg (Douglas Heart, Laurel Music), with help from a few friends.
Already established as one of Sweden's finest indie-pop vocalists, the forthcoming self-titled EP is a further testament to Malin's vocal and songwriting talents in a
collection of pure sounding songs that'll chill your spine, then melt your heart. Music rarely sounds this honest.
www.wearesoldiers.net
ADVANCE TICKETS
www.wegottickets.com/event/7322 | £4 | | | | | | | | | | | | Thu 27th | Windmill Brixton presents:
*The Dt's
*Role Models
*The Sharons | THE Dt's (Bellingham, WA)
Welcome to the HARD SOUL REVUE!
Made up of ex-Mono Men, Watts, Wizards of Oz, Madame X (not the 80’s hair-metal band) and Slick Watts members, the Dt’s are: Dave Crider (guitar), Diana Young-Blanchard (vocals), Phil Carter (drums) and Scott Greene (bass, keys, sax).
'A band over 10 years in the making', the Dt’s first formed as a threesome in November 0f 2001, approximately, when guitarist Dave Crider and vocalist Diana Young-Blanchard joined forces with ex-Watts’ Phil “fill in” Carter on skins. These veteran musicians achieved such an amazing, full-on sound as a three-piece, all thoughts of adding the traditional bass guitar were forgotten for the time being. Eventually the 3 were joined by ex-Roof Dogs’ organist Patti Bell on keys, adding yet another layer of soul-flavor to this burgeoning new band, and in April of 2004 the Dt’s released their first full length CD, 'HARD FIXED' to rave reviews (chec k their website). Recently the band made yet another exchange: the mutually agreed upon retirement of organist Patti Bell for the multi-talented (and equally good looking) Scott Greene (predominantly laying down some fat-bottomed bass, but from time-to-time providing same-said soul grooves on the keys and sax).
The Dt’s, fueled by equal parts inspiration and perspiration, combine their love of dirty R&B, raw soul and loud, hard rock, creating their own brand of down-home, high voltage, power-punching grooves, uniquely coining a fresh genre of “HARD SOUL” for a Post, Post Modern world!
www.estrus.com/bands/dts/index.html
ROLE MODELS (London)
First time out for these guys but they're no stangers to the Windmill stage as basicallly they are thre-quarters of The Urges, slimmed down into leaner more aggressive form.
www.theurges.co.uk
THE SHARONS (London)
Pretty boy punk'nroll.
www.thesharons.co.uk | £3/£4 | | | | | | | | | | | | Fri 28th | 'Artful presents
*Sailplanes
*Villette
*Gifthorse | THE SAILPLANES (London)
A fuzzily-literate lo-fi art-rock racket that out-Sonic Youths
Sonic Youth, the Sailplanes provide an impressive batch of songs that will knock the wind out the scenesters sails. Refreshingly new, they provide an innocent pure form to their art rock.
www.thesailplanes.com/press.php
GIFTHORSE (Brixton)
…are the most pleasant surprise; their thoughtful, tuneful indie rock evokes memories of the finest moments of the Auteurs. (Soundsxp.com)
www.gifthorsekb.com/home.htm
VILLETTE (London)
Villette's decadent style promotes a very sophisticated image and their sound is sure to be popular with favoured acoustic audiences the country over especially among those that appreciate bands willing to step outside the box and do something a little different for a change.
www.villettemusic.com/
Penny Broadhurst
On her debut spoken word/musical accompanied album, she ties dry working class satire to a collection of beats, biting witty statements and a fiercely independent set of rhymes. She almost justifies her claim to being ‘Victoria Wood meets The Streets.’ (GIITTV zine)
For more info and other events in the Artful Month please go to:
www.artful.ik.com and www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk
ADVANCE TICKETS
www.wegottickets.com/event/7323 | £4 | | | | | | | | | | | | Sat 29th | Duckiemusic presents:
*The Rocks
*White Man Kamikaze
*The Voxx
*Ezio Trot
*tbc | THE ROCKS
WHITE MAN KAMIKAZE (south London)
THE VOXX
EZIO TROT (Brighton) | £4 | | | | | | | | | | | | Sun 30th | Anchor Project Benefit
*The Dirty Feel
*Imperial Leisure
*Rumble Strips
*Milk Kan
*Citizens Of Pompeii | THE DIRTY FEEL (London)
…a heavyweight rock funk band, this dynamic trio spurt along like a combo of Cream, Zep and The Meters.The Dirty Feel's reputation for electric, energetic and performances have propelled them onto stages all over London and beyond. Their debut E.P. will be out in November on DirtE Records. Meanwhile catch them live ...and Feel the Dirt!
www.thedirtyfeel.com
IMPERIAL LEISURE
Catchy tunes and funky riffs are IL’s forte. Add the hard-hitting jazzy style drums, keyboards and the old-school hip-hop influences of scratch-master DJ Evil Bill plus a trumpet and you have a band capable
of captivating any audience in the country.
www.imperial-leisure.co.uk
RUMBLE STRIPS (London)
Presently amassing an industry buzz for their Dexy's / southern soul pop extremes and wailing vocal superiority, The Rumble's pen tunes and anthems as graceful and intimate as they can prove far-reaching. A tour in November/October beckons with hotly-tipped management-mates The Young Knives, as does a single with Transgressive Records. Hot! Hot! Hot!
www.rumblestrips.co.uk
MILK KAN (London)
Johnny Cash style guitar, a bit of rhyming with bumping breaks and samples of the groove machine, this trio are one of the most fun and entertaining propositions on the circuit.
www.milkkan.com
CITIZENS OF POMPEII (London)
… play stylish, eclectic rock, sounding both familiar and yet expansive, sprawling and diverse with echoes of early Talking Heads, Sparklehorse and Neil Young.
www.citizensofpompeii.co.uk
STARTS AT 5pm with FREE Buffet/BBQ!!!!!!
Dress scarily! Bottle of champagne for best outfit.
More info @
www.anchorproject.org | £5 | | | | | | | | | | | | Mon 31st | GHOULS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN Halloween Party
*The Priscillas
*The Headless Prom Queens
*Manic Cough | SCARY ALL-GIRL HALLOWEEN SPECIAL
THE PRISCILLAS
Big hair. Bigger tunes. The Priscillas are here to rock you in their unique garagesurfpunk way. Don't miss out - the best fun Halloween party in town!!!
www.thepriscillas.co.uk
MANIC COUGH
Delightful punky-garage grrls.
THE HEADLESS PROM QUEENS
Canadian-Aussie-Swedish girls doing a punked-up Cyndi Lauper thingy.
www.myspace.com/headlesspromqueens
prizes for best or worst dress!!!!
ADVANCE TICKETS
www.wegottickets.com/event/7338 | £4/£3adv/fancy dress | | | | | |
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