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| | | | | | Thu 1st | Windmill Brixton presents:
*John & Jehn
*Stained Glass Heroes
*Dark Room Notes
*tbc | JOHN & JEHN (London)
Gallic alt-electro hipsters whose uber-cool debut album comes out at the end on April on Faculty Music.
like late shoegaze punks Electrelane with a pinch of Godard’s postmodern sex appeal and a cheeky dash of cabaret thrown in for good measure. - Drownedinsound
Their haunting, shadow-tinged melodies draw on a bevy of ’60s cultural watersheds: Serge Gainsbourg, the Velvet Underground, as well as more recent influences like Gang of Four and Joy Division. _ Flavorpill London
www.myspace.com/johnjehn
STAINED GLASS HEROES (Brixton)
After being holed up in the studio for a while SGH come back home to combine edgy postpunk vibes with the brainfood vibes of such influences as Can, Love, Broadcast and Faust. No longer hiding behind bands of synths and keys, this is a band that have stripped away the fat and are ready to get you rocking - and dancing.
www.myspace.com/stainedglassheroes | £4 | | | | | | | | | | | | Fri 2nd | Backstreets V
*Black Daniel
*The Cubical
*Chalou Saint Jude
*Alphabet Backwards | Backstreets is a semi-regular night brought to you in association with webzine, Rockbeatstone.com and is now in its fifth edition. Previous headliners have included Prinzhorn Dance School, Official Secrets Act, the Mules… So you know to expect cutting edge music and a great Friday night vibe.
BLACK DANIEL (London/New York)
Formed by brothers Liam and Luke May (Medicine8) and New Yorker Craig Louis Higgins Jnr (pioneer of New York’s infamous Con-fu-sion nights), Black Daniel play dangerous electro-rock the likes of which LCD Soundsystem and Primal Scream can only dream of.
Their debut album was released last year to critical acclaim and they toured the arenas of Europe supporting Kasabian’s similar brand of dancy, bass heavy rock and roll. You can expect them to kick some serious arse as they mix their rock’n’beats on stage tonight. A perfect good time Friday night headliner.
www.myspace.com/blackdanielspace
THE CUBICAL (Liverpool)
Windmill debut for this band who have been causing quite a stir in recent times. This is psychedelic mutant garage blues which sounds as if Howlin’ Wolf had taken a particularly nasty acid tab, while the vocals would put Tom Waits to shame. They’ve recently headlined Alan McGhee’s Death Disco night, been featured in Spin magazine and described as 'raw genius' by the NME. Expect to be left gasping for air.
www.myspace.com/thecubicalthecubical
CHALOU SAINT JUDE (London)
Deep vocals, compelling guitar riffs and a sound which alludes to the Stones and the best of delta-blues, this is retro-rock with a compelling forward looking twist. Their songs have featured on MTV’s ‘King of the Roaring 20s’ and ‘She Said’ and they’ve recently been featured on compilation albums by Kool Tone Records and the Trash Society.
www.myspace.com/chalousaintjude
ALPHABET BACKWARDS (Oxford)
Backstreets favourites Alphabet Backwards are back playing a very special gig. James will be playing his intelligent folk-pop stripped down and bare in an acoustic setting. Expect uninterrupted smiles and laughs, only this time it's easier to dig the truly incredible lyrics that this man's head produces.
+ Rockbeatstone DJs ‘till late.
More info:
www.myspace.com/backstreets_london
www.rockbeatstone.com
ADVANCE TICKETS
www.wegottickets.com/event/27731 | £4 | | | | | | | | | | | | Sat 3rd | | PRIVATE PARTY - Thanks to THE WOMBATS for hosting a great aftershow session! | | | | | | | | | | | | | Sun 4th | SUNDAY BBQ | SCRAPPY HOOD
TWO DOLLAR HOOKER
ISTVAN & THE KOSMOS
THE NORTIES
HEATH | £5 (doors 5pm) | | | | | | | | | | | | Mon 5th | Bank Holiday Monday BBQ
*CASTANETS
*Crevecoeur
*Fireworks Night
*Planet Earth
*Laura Sings Liver
+ many more tbc | CASTANETS (San Diego, CA)
…. is an experimental one-man band composed of Raymond Raposa and any number of session musicians brought on for his albums and performances. Just one hour ago on that interweb thing he was probably labelled gothic country, avant-something and psych-something-or-other just before being analysed as constructing a musical clash between traditional stylings and modern intuition (avant-garde psychedelia).
After spending several years travelling round the USA on buses and playing gigs, Raposa and his maverick folk wares were signed up by the sterling Asthmatic Kitty label who have just released his third fine album ‘In the Vines’.
www.myspace.com/castanets
CREVECOEUR (France)
...could be the result of the encounter between Calexico and Pascal Comelade, or Henry Mancini and The Black Heart Procession.
Crevecoeur is an unusual French trio comprised of three young multi-instrumentalists playing guitars, percussions, harmonium, trumpets, violin and various toy-instruments. Their songs are mostly instrumental pieces, a tribute to the glorious days of soundtrack music, yet with a pop sensibility.
Their second album, neatly entitled #2 was released in April via Denovali/DSA records.
www.myspace.com/wearecrevecoeur
FIREWORKS NIGHT (London/Cambridge)
Eerie ghostship shanties that'll make the Windmill's timbers creak. File under: Gothic Americana.
www.myspace.com/fireworksnight
PLANET EARTH (Manchester/London)
Quirky, countrified antifolk.
www.myspace.com/planetearthsongs
LAURA SINGS LIVER (London)
Equally at home on an indie or a folk bill, LSS is a new force on the capital scene, best summed up by a punter who compared her bittersweet songs like 'biting into a cream cake and finding a razor blade.
Some sort of Laura Marling-alike-but-not-really-as-limp -THE FLY
www.myspace.com/laurahocking
MILKWOOD (London)
Folk and indie influences from Dylan to Nina Nastasia to Yo La Tengo.
www.myspace.com/milkwoodband
ADVANCE TICKETS:
www.wegottickets.com/event/28208 | £5 adv (doors 5pm) | | | | | | | | | | | | Tue 6th | Staying South
*Shapes
*OK Pilot
*Cobra
*The Quarry
*tbc | STAYING SOUTH - fortnightly Punk Rock Shows. We're only going to put on stuff that we like. Don't call us we'll call you!
SHAPES (Birmingham)
Powerful and intense razor's edge progressive rock.
For fans of Sparta, Refused, ATDI etc.
www.myspace.com/weareshapes
OK PILOT (Exeter)
Post-punk party threepiece that play energetic and forceful 3 minute blasts! An explosion of Hot Snakes, The Bronx, Jr Ewing, Hot Water Music, Glass & Ashes and Small Brown Bike. new EP out now on Freakscene Records.
www.myspace.com/okpilot
COBRA (Oxford)
From the corner of Oxford responsible for the noise of Winnebago Deal, Gunnbunny and the like, this trio throw up an uber-intense grunged-up punk sound in the tradition on The Melvins, Zeke, Black Flag and a speeded-up Fu Manchu.
www.myspace.com/musiccobra
THE QUARRY (Brixton)
South London 3 piece,Bringing together a mix of Megadeth and Minor Threat to create an aural assault.
www.myspace.com/thequarrymusic
More info:
www.myspace.com/stayingsouth
www.myspace.com/householdname | £5/£4 flyer | | | | | | | | | | | | Wed 7th | THE SPOON OF MUSIC
*The Rank Deluxe
*Dave Cloud & The Gospel Of Power
*Crimes of The Future
*Jack Jack Daw | THE RANK DELUXE (South London)
Rowdy punk rock via a little reggae, Rank Deluxe have been tearing up South London for some time. Their shows regularly turn in to a spit and snarling affair involving sweat, vodka and tales of frustration and social commentary. The Sex Pistols meets Ian Dury.
'the rowdiest, angriest punk rock explosion in the capital' - NME
'thug-rock masterpiece' - Uncut
www.myspace.com/therankdeluxe
and VERY SPECIAL GUESTS:
DAVE CLOUD & THE GOSPEL OF POWER (Nashville, TN)
Mr David Cloud is a true original and veteran of the Nashville scene of some 25 plus years, confusing some, scaring others and exciting all along the way. Often invoking words like ‘shamanistic’, ‘beat’ and ‘maverick’, even the Sunday Times described his debut album in a glowing 4/5 review as the last genuine lost genius who achieves a 'transcendental psychedelic primitivism'. His totally unique warped vocals and freestyle lyrics also get him comparisons to Roky Erikson, Beefheart and Charles Bukowski.
Dave is also the current face and voice of the new Budweiser advertising campaign (a series of ads by Hollywood director Harmony Korine) wherein he is the mentor to a bunch of drunks playing covers. Thankfully his real-life band features members of Lambchop and Clem Snide!
He's previously toured Europe with The Silver Jews and was such a hit in Norway, they've even named a bar in Bergen after him!
A true legend. Do not miss!
if you like your mavericks far out (and I mean PHHAARRRR!) you'll love this crazy balloon - Artrocker
www.myspace.com/davecloudandthegospelofpower
www.davecloud.com
CRIMES OF THE FUTURE (London)
The new wave indie electro-pop stylings have grabbed the attention of the people of Zap Records (Die Die Die, Smatka) who will be putting out their next single ‘Screen Villains’. The male/female vocals make sweet melodies that you want to lick. And you will try it.
'The kind of cool melodies most bands would sell their dear old granny for' - Artrocker magazine
www.myspace.com/crimesofthefuture
JACK JACK DAW (London)
Formerly The Low Sky. Theres three of them, there’s rock, there’s melody and theres a tingling bit of sinisterness about them.
www.myspace.com/thelowsky
Spoon of Music returns after a winter break in Buenos Aires with anorther monthly blast of future sounds: Bands we have held to our bossom and put on in the past year include: The Pistolas, Chet, Sam Huxley, Docksud, Kalev, Blah Blah Blah, Bretton, The Mighty Roars, Fade To Sepia, Magna Saga, 586, Moocher, Sharing Sheaths, The Blue Light District, Royal Treatment Plant, 100 Bullets Back, Blue Bambinos, Nebraska, The Official Secrets Act, Cop On The Edge, The Priory, Baseball, LR RocKeTs, Ahead of Time Crew, Alexander G. Claire (Los Muertos), Tuesday Heartbreak, Dexy & The Hand Me Downs, Deathline, Load. Click. Shoot!, The Patty Winters Show, The Chapman Family, The Moon, Time. Space. Repeat., And What Will Be Left Of Them?, William, Elfred And The Uber Peas
www.myspace.com/spoonofmusic
ADVANCE TICKETS
www.wegottickets.com/event/28398 | £4 | | | | | | | | | | | | Thu 8th | Windie Miller's Music Club
*Circuits
*Popular Workshop
*Dead Wolf Club
*The Bellicose Butchers | CIRCUITS
Spiky guitar pop, instantly engaging and with an arrestingly vital delivery Circuits are the quintessential 21st Century band. Doing it for themselves with their own label Try Science! Circuits are unwittingly helping to rewrite the rulebook for a new age pop group.
Larynx tickling indie-pop. Memorable enough to find yourself regurgitating them in the shower and dance-able enough to be requested down the local indie disco. - ARTROCKER
An eardrum-throttling reminder of why The Police didn't need to reform. Three perfectly formed minutes...Young Enough Not to Care, but smart enough to knock out dance floor destroying pop. - MUSIC WEEK
www.myspace.com/circuitsband
DEAD WOLF CLUB
...specialise in loudness, quietness, popness, rockness, darkness and light. Having completed their lineup a short time ago DWC come armed with the huge swaithing melodies of Nine Black Alps coupled with the intensity of Die! Die! Die! and have the potential to explode!!!
www.myspace.com/deadwolfclub
THE BELLICOSE BUTCHERS
Mystery openers!
More info on Windie:
www.myspace.com/windiemiller | £4 | | | | | | | | | | | | Fri 9th | Twisted am Lounge's Friday Night
*The Epstein
*Prints of Whales
*Hillbilly & The Bonfire
*tbc | THE EPSTEIN (Oxford)
It's been a great twelve months for indie-country darlings The Epstein, with a single released on Truck records and a win in the Glastonbury Emerging Talent competition. They've also completed their debut album and sold out many shows in their hometown, and consistently pack them in in London too.
The Epstein (KKKKK) absolutely storm the Market Stage, the screams for their country stomp are by far the loudest heard all day. - KERRANG (Truck festival live review)
www.myspace.com/theepstein
THE PRINTS OF WHALES (London)
Alcohol-fuelled, bluegrass-flavoured indie party tunes from these south London live favourites.
www.myspace.com/printsofwhales
HILLBILLY & THE BONFIRE (London)
Harmony-driven country blues duo taking you on a railroad journey to the high plains.
www.myspace.com/hillbillyandthebonfire | £4 | | | | | | | | | | | | Sat 10th | TOPCATS NIGHT
*Topcats (live)
*Natty Bo (DJ) | TOPCATS (Brixton)
The long-awaited return to the Windmill for the ska, rocksteady and reggae legends.
Ninety minute live sey with Natty Bo on the decks after.
www.myspace.com/topcatsmusic
ADVANCE TICKETS
www.wegottickets.com/event/28399 | £5 | | | | | | | | | | | | Sun 11th | Sunday BBQ - Real Live Wires presents:
*Rum Shebeen
*GME
*Responsible Adults
*Scrappy Hood
*Siobhan Parr | RUM SHEBEEN (Peckham)
Psych-gypsy rockers with a single due out soon on 1965 Records (home of The View, The Metros etc)
www.myspace.com/rumshebeen
GME (London)
GME (or Green Monkey Experiments to their acquaintances) has one goal - to make grimey DIY industrial pop. The band members are whoever will play, and the gigs are whenever they can be. The songs are only available on analogue cassette.
www.myspace.com/thegreenmonkeyexperiments
RESPONSIBLE ADULTS (London)
Irresponsible indie fun. Produced by Fruitbat, Carter USM.
www.myspace.com/responsibleadults
SCRAPPY HOOD
Milk Kan singer is bawdy antifolk solo stylee.
www.myspace.com/scrappythehood
SIOBHAN PARR
Gifted country-folk vocalist.
www.myspace.com/siobhanparr
PLUS ....
SPECIAL GUESTS
SPECIAL DJS
BIRTHDAY PARTY
DRINKING
DANCING | £5 (doors 5pm) | | | | | | | | | | | | Mon 12th | Mondays We Salute You!
*Dave Graney & Clare Moore feat The Lurid Yellow Mist
*Batrider
*Murray M | DAVE GRANEY & CLARE MOORE feat THE LURID YELLOW MIST (Melbourne, Aus)
Dave Graney is one of Australia's three great, and of the worlds seven great songwriters. He is also one of the wildest performers. He qualifies as the weirdest and the most regular. And that's why Nick Cave has probably invited him to support him and the Bad Seeds on his current European tour.
Dave was also in The Sputniks, The Moodists, The Coral Snakes, The Royal Dave Graney Show and The Dave Graney show with drummer and another Aus legend Clare Moore and together they make an inspired cross of rock crossed with 60s Italian horror soundtracks dressed in a resplendent enigmatic wit.
www.myspace.com/davegraney
www.myspace.com/claremoore
BATRIDER (Wellington, NZ)
'As brutal as they are melodic, and as abhorrent as they are beautiful, Batrider presents wonderfully destructive images, backed by guitars that will slice at your heart, then turn around and pummel the f8ck out of it.' Drum Media (Sydney)
www.myspace.com/batrider
MURRAY M (London)
Greasy new wave hillbilly!
www.myspace.com/murraythread
Guest DJ; Dave Western
ADVANCE TICKETS:
www.wegottickets.com/event/29263 | £5 | | | | | | | | | | | | Tue 13th | - | - | £tba | | | | | | | | | | | | Wed 14th | LOUVANA
*Big Dave
*Masters of Disguise
*Vulva | Louvana is all about good quality music and meeting like-minded folks into rock – psychedelic – folk - experimental and pop music.
BIG DAVE (London)
Brand new pioneering sounds with an all-star line-up!
Ex-Babyshambles guitarist Patrick Walden is in fact an accomplished jazz player and tonight stretches out in his new 'power trio' with new Acoustic Ladyland bassist Ruth Goller and gigantically Afro'd drum lord, Seb Rochford. This is yet another band blurring genric boundaries by mixing jazz and indie rock. Who'd have thunk it could work so well?
www.myspace.com/bigdaveband
MASTERS OF DISGUISE (London)
Louvana's hosts, M.o.D, often gets described as psych-prog but whatever genre you want to put them in they are one of south London’s most exciting and unusual bands - and, they never play the same show twice!
www.myspace.com/mastersofdisguise
VULVA (London)
Brixteens with a nod to QOTSA.
Visuals by Blinkin Lab
Tunes by Louvana
More info on Louvana nights:
www.myspace.com/louvana
ADVANCE TICKETS:
www.wegottickets.com/event/29444 | £4adv/£5door | | | | | | | | | | | | Thu 15th | Windmill Brixton presents:
*Even
*The Hillfields
*tbc
| EVEN (Melbourne, Aus)
A trio that modestly describes themselves as 'Big Star and The Lemonheads washing each others back with a cake of Small Faces soap', Even make a rare trip to Europe to play All Tomorrows Parties and give their legion of ex-pat fans a rare chance to see them in London. Their fifth album, just called 'Even' is out soon on El Reno.
www.even.com.au
www.myspace.com/evengroupofsingers
THE HILLFIELDS (London)
...were born in the Royal Festival Hall last year when the three of them were overcome by Iggy Pop's Meltdown show, a beautiful evening and a choice selection of beverages.
In their short lifetime, they've already had a single released on prolific uberindie label Cloudberry and have a played a select handful of packed-out London shows.
They have been described as 'Pavement scoring a Hal Hartley film'.
www.myspace.com/thehillfields
NAZCA LINES (London)
...carry previous form and offer great powerpop psych-edged toons with sidebars of shoegaze and bluegrass.
www.myspace.com/thenazcalines
ADVANCE TICKETS:
www.wegottickets.com/event/29276 | £5 | | | | | | | | | | | | Fri 16th | Farmfest Warm-up
*Skallywags
*The RGBs
*Naked & The Boys
*Arms At Last
*Acroama | ...a night to raise funds for Farmfest in Somerset which is on
the 25th 26th July.
www.farmfestival.co.uk
SKALLYWAGS (London)
Displaying more swagger than seen at a swag-off between a Liam Gallagher convention and a cockney walk appreciation society, Skallywags are fast becoming one of the best live bands on the circuit. Playing bass driven ska/punk they rip through their sets covered in (more often than not) blood, sweat and tears. The way it should be done. Winners of 'The Peoples Choice' award at the first ever 'Indy Music Awards'. Miss this band at your peril!
they pride themselves on hard-hitting lyrics and stuttering ska basslines. (NME)
No glow sticks...just loads of blood and sweat. just like it used to be. Channel4.com/music
www.theskallywags.co.uk
THE RGBs
..are a day-glo riot of electro-pop and the subject of frenzied A&R interest at the moment.
The RGBs might just be the best live ticket in town this summer. See them now, before they become huge. NME
Mesmerising - like Kate Bush at an Ibizan rave – please can they support us?! Tom Findlay, Groove Armada
..a music that is undoubtedly unique. Through atmospheric music, quirky characters and witty lyricism they create a world that is far away from our own.– Wall of Sound
www.myspace.com/thergbs
NAKED & THE BOYS (London)
…are getting bigger and bigger everyday with their folk/pop perfect tunes and backing from the Young and Lost club crew. A three piece armed with will-be-chart-bothering hits aplenty. Be warned though not a band to see on a first date…they wooing factor is turned up to 11!
Their debut ‘If You Find Love’ is refreshingly understated and lush. Laid back and evocative, there’s a nice undercurrent of summery warmth to it - GigWise
www.myspace.com/nakedandtheboys
ARMS AT LAST (Liverpool)
…fans of Hot Club de Paris and elle S’appelle will love Arms at Last. Jangling, angular pop songs with more clever hooks than a clever hook shop. They encapsulate all the best components of the Liverpool scene and have been featured by Steve Lamacq on New Music We Trust.
Fucking brilliant - Drowned in Sound
www.myspace.com/armsatlast
ACROAMA (London)
A young, high energy four piece hailing from SW London that have been gigging around their borough all last year and steadily building up a loyal fan base.
www.myspace.com/acroamaband
DJ's Dick n Vag | £4 | | | | | | | | | | | | Sat 17th | Sarf London Club
*The Original Sinners
*The Shanners
*RED
*The Tenets
*tbc | THE ORIGINAL SINNERS (Streatham)
..make their sound from the grimey depths of southern rock and blues fused with sweet country melodies and classic organ breaks. Fronted by the charming Charlotte and propelled by the drums of Billy Pleasant who is one of 3,147 who have to date played drums for the Brian Jonestown Massacre.
www.myspace.com/theoriginalsinnersband
www.theoriginalsinners.com
www.myspace.com/theoriginalsinners
THE SHANNERS (Brixton)
Brixton's men in black don their suit jackets once again and make them sweaty with some powered-up punk n rawk.
www.myspace.com/theshanners
RED (London/Japan)
It's not very often we hand a new band their debut gig on a saturday night but we just know RED will blow you all away with their red-eyed blues rock and just a little madness.
www.myspace.com/youareredfamily
THE TENETS (Battersea)
Indiepunk rockabilly.
www.myspace.com/thetenet
Indiepunk rockabilly.
www.myspace.com/thetenets
On the decks:
Billy The Kid - rock, ska, dubstep
www.myspace.com/billythekidcpr | £4 | | | | | | | | | | | | Sun 18th | Sunday BBQ
*Grand Pocket Orchestra
*Forms Forms Forms
*Backslap Club
*Nurk
*tbc
*tbc | GRAND POCKET ORCHESTRA (Dublin)
Not many people know this, but once upon a time Liza Minelli had a love affair with Pavement. On holiday in Ireland. These are the offsrping.
www.myspace.com/grandpocketorchestra
THE PITY PARTY (Los Angeles)
Amazing experimental rockers who self-financed their tour to the UK and have already reaped rave reviews in NME, Time Out, Flavorpil and many more. They're going to rock!
www.myspace.com/thepityparty
BACKSLAP CLUB (Brixton)
assured quartet who bridge classic and indie rock. Listen here:
www.myspace.com/backslapclub
FORMS FORMS FORMS (New Cross)
Guitar pop trio from New Cross.
It's a rather refreshing sight to see a London band more interested in creating hooks and memorable tunes than fitting into a scene and inhabiting a corner of the NME. With this set of priorities and a cool indie ethos, they sound like a more memorable version of fellow Londoners The Rakes, all fast-paced rhythms and jerky riffs.- godisinthetvzine.co.uk:
www.myspace.com/formsformsforms
+ free BBQ at 6pm!!!! | £5 (doors 5pm) | | | | | | | | | | | | Mon 19th | Mondays We salute You!
*tbc
*tbc
*tbc | - | £5 | | | | | | | | | | | | Tue 20th | Staying South
*The Hotlines
*Kill Casino
*Beat The Red Light
*Wonk Unit | STAYING SOUTH - fortnightly Punk Rock Shows. We're only going to put on stuff that we like. Don't call us we'll call you!
THE HOTLINES (Brighton)
...if The Queers met The Beach Boys.....
www.myspace.com/thehotlines
KILL CASINO (London)
Punk not emo. Rpck not metal. KC have the songs to soar!
New London trio Kill Casino render such notions as gender and cup-size as irrelevant by getting down to the business in hand; Namely rocking... In singer/bassist Karen Luan they have a secret weapon, and much needed focal point, a star in the making... - KERRANG! (KKKK)
Don;t miss out! - Rocksound
www.myspace.com/killcasino
BEAT THE RED LIGHT (High Wycombe)
Sometimes they play heavy music. Sometimes they play fast music. Sometimes they even play ska. Sometimes they play music with brass in it. Sometimes they do all four at once!
www.myspace.com/beattheredlight
WONK UNIT (London)
Well, well, what a way to start the night with none other than Alex Brindle Johnson's (he of Flying Medallions) pop punk and poetry band. Yes!
www.myspace.com/wonkunitband
More info:
www.myspace.com/stayingsouth
www.myspace.com/householdname | £5/£4 flyer | | | | | | | | | | | | Wed 21st | Windmill Brixton presents:
*tbc
*Cashier No.9
*Danny Valentine & The Meditations | CASHIER No.9 (Belfast)
..was born from a compulsion to create music despite having little means. A cheap sequencing package, a broken acoustic guitar, some drums and a head full of Neil Diamond songs was the jump off point for these electronic folk pioneers.
www.myspace.com/cashierno9
DANNY VALENTINE & THE MEDITATIONS
www.myspace.com/dannyvalentineampthemeditations | £4 | | | | | | | | | | | | Thu 22nd | OXJAM FUNDRAISER
*The Amarylas
*Sanjura
*Urb Scrunting
*Quaintways | THE AMARYLAS
Quick-witted, psychedelic-bedsit-popstels.
'Their daydreamy melodies draw liberally from The Madcap Laughs, Village Green Preservation Society and Sgt Peppers, but with a beady eye all of their own.' - Shot By Both Sides
www.myspace.com/theamarylasband
SANJURO
Gypsy-inspired experimental art folk mash up.
www.myspace.com/musicsanjuro
URB SCRUNTING
Local songwriter and his new band who've picked up some approving nods on the internet and in the local press for their 'Sainburys Brixton Local' tune.
www.myspace.com/urbscrunting
QUAINTWAYS
Summery, Sixties-flavoured pop.
www.myspace.com/quaintways
More info:
www.oxfam.org.uk/get_involved/fundraise/oxjam/aud_event.php?ref=2386
ADVANCE TICKETS:
www.wegottickets.com/event/31145 | £5/£4 flyer/adv | | | | | | | | | | | | Fri 23rd | It's Friday Night!
*Deathretro
*Lilly Rae & The Saturday Girls
*Junkyard Choir
+ more + Djs etc | DEATHRETRO (Leeds/Carlisle)
www.myspace.com/deathretro
LILY RAE & THE SATURDAY GIRLS (London)
www.myspace.com/ohnolilyrae
JUNKYARD CHOIR (Croydon)
www.myspace.com/junkyardchoir | £3 | | | | | | | | | | | | Sat 24th | BRAINLOVE ALL-DAYER #2
*Gay Against You
*Napoleon IIrd
*Pagan Wanderer Lu
*Tim Ten Yen
*Cats In Paris
*Applicants
*Keyboard Choir
*Team Brick
*The Bobby McGees
*Dead Singer
*Le Couteau Jaune
+ Special Guests | BRAINLOVE ALL-DAYER #2!
or
Everything You Could Possibly Need For a Fulll Colour Brain Riot
GAY AGAINST YOU
A prolonged love attack summoned up from this hyperhappy vegan duo's conjoined explosive drillcore cerebellum.
www.myspace.com/gayagainstyou
NAPOLEON IIIrd & HIS BAND
Napoleon IIIrd does a rare band show for this special all dayer, playing songs from his critically acclaimed debut album 'In Debt To:' and unveiling new material.
www.myspace.com/boney3
PAGAN WANDERER LU
Lennon, Morrissey, Cocker, Regan - the newest in a distinguished line of world-wise, witty English lyricists plies his unique indietronica - his new EP is on eMusic now.
www.myspace.com/paganwandererlu
TIM TEN YEN
The singing salaryman - an underground pop sensation and a Brainlove favourite.
www.myspace.com/timtenyen
CATS IN PARIS
Jaw-droppingly talented and full to the glittering brim of references and influences in precise and measured amounts... an amazing new band on Manchester's Akoustik Anarkhy.
www.myspace.com/catsinparis
APPLICANTS
Techinicolour splattercore as if played by dinosaurs with gnarly claws.
www.myspace.com/applicants
KEYBOARD CHOIR
Expansive, inspired and totally live electronica from Brainlove's newest signings, from their debut album 'Mizen Head To Gascanane Sound'.
www.myspace.com/thekeyboardchoir
TEAM BRICK
Who the fuck knows what to expect from this hirsute improvisational song-noise merchant from Bristol. As seen on Geoff Barrow's INVADA label.
www.myspace.com/teambrick
THE BOBBY McGEES
Über-twee musical cabaret from the cult Brighton duo.
www.myspace.com/thebobbymcgees
DEAD SINGER
Robed trombone-metal 4-piece.
www.myspace.com/deadsingerofficial
LE COUTEAU JAUNE
What better way is there to start off the day than with a three piece diy 8-bit noise Casiotone bootycore eurocrunk band on London's legendary Adaadat label? ONSTAGE: 2pm
www.myspace.com/lecouteaujaune
+ Akoustik Stage:
20.00-20.15 Niall Spooner Harvey
19.15-19.30 Jam On Bread
18.30-18.45 Winston Echo
17.45-18.00 Tom Farrer
17.00-17.15 Anna Log
16.15-16.30 Marcus Orbett
15.30-15.45 James Bell
14.45-15.00 Oliver Shaw
Dj Sets from Richard Artrocker, The Wonderful Brainlove DJs & Special Guests tbc
+ aas Audio Art
+ Free barbecue
+ BRNLV stall
+ John & Alice's Birthday Party!
Further info:
www.myspace.com/brainloverecords
ADVANCE TICKETS
www.wegottickets.com/event/26983 | £8 adv | | | | | | | | | | | | Sun 25th | Sunday BBQ
*Mouthwash
*The Ghost Notes
*Ex Models
*Heath
*tbc | MOUTHWASH (West Norwood)
Ska/Grime/Dubstep/Pop/Punk from the heart of South London....
www.myspace.com/mouthwash
THE GHOST NOTES (Tooting)
Poppy ska newcomers.
www.myspace.com/therealghostnotes
EX MODELS
New, new band on a tuneful pop-indie mission.
Too new for myspace even but ones to watch we assure you. You'll be hearing more of ex Models soon!
HEATH (Echo Park, CA)
Pavement-ish folk-punk with witty banter.
they’ve carved out a seventeen-sided gem…acoustic Americana with a punk tinge…wonderful riffage…this album ambles along gently, the guitar is sparse and melodic. MAPS magazine
www.myspace.com/heathrockscom
Free BBQ @ 5pm!! | £5 (doors 5pm) | | | | | | | | | | | | Mon 26th | BANK HOLIDAY MONDAY BBQ
*And So I Watch You From Afar
*Secondsmile
*Maybeshewill
*Minnaars
*tbc
*tbc
*tbc | AND SO I WATCH YOU FROM AFAR (Belfast)
....are the 'The most talked about band in the country over the past 12 months' according to
BBC Northern Ireland Radio's authoritative Across The Line programme.
Their debut album 'This is Our Machine and Nothing Can Stop It' which has just had a full UK release via Forte Distribution, has won them fans throughout the UK.
Check these credits below:
Imagine Mogwai were from Belfast and had massive balls - VICE Magazine
The sound of someone crashing an oil tanker through Sigur Ros’ ice float - NME
really rather special....it is rare for a body of work to be so dreamy and elegiac yet conversely monstrously heavy....sounds like the end of the world!! - KERRANG!
www.myspace.com/andsoiwatchyoufromafar
SECONDSMILE (Bridport)
Big Scary Monsters signings who’ve just finished recording our new album with Andrew Schneider (Cave-In, Pelican, Daughters etc).
The Dorset boys hold anger and big jagged riffs way back, tricking listeners into a false sense of security before smacking them round the head like rock gremlins exposed to the sunlight - KERRANG!
www.myspace.com/secondsmile
MAYBESHEWILL (Leicester)
Post-metallurgists with an anticipated debut album out this month on Nottingham's noisy little Field Records.
Fantastic Band... We’re in awe, It sounds absolutely brilliant - Huw Stephens, Radio 1
Maybeshewill sound like Mogwai would if the latter had ever found love in an arthouse cinema. And then were beaten around the head with a keyboard. - Drowned in Sound
www.myspace.com/maybeshewont
MINNAARS (Leicester)
Spikey Indie-Pop from ex Tired Irie, Computerman and Traces boys. Think Youthmovies, This Town Needs Guns or Foals - only eight times as danceable. Currently recording their debut EP with Tom from iForward Russia!, This is their first outing to the big city
www.myspace.com/minnaars
Free BBQ @ 5pm!! | £5 (doors 5pm) | | | | | | | | | | | | Tue 27th | The Citizens
*The Citizens
*tbc
*tbc | THE CITIZENS
www.myspace.com/thecitizensuk
TBC
TBC | £tba | | | | | | | | | | | | Wed 28th | JLESH MUNCE
*Stig Noise Sound System
*Semi Squared
*Team B | 'JLESH MUNCE' -
the monthly musical circus run by crazed death clowns
www.myspace.com/jleshmunce
STIG NOISE SOUND SYSTEM
= wonk step.
'Their noise is remarkable as it is original: crazy melodies played at odd tempos with brass instruments held in the hands of what apeare to be lunatics.Stig are the kind of band that the word cult was invented for.Weird,wonderful and Hardcore'. - Metal Hammer
www.myspace.com/stignoise
SEMI SQUARED
= pollinated electronics
www.myspace.com/semi_squared
TEAM B
= improper pop
www.myspace.com/jointeamb
and DJs
DATASHAT
www.myspace.com/datashat
SMACK MIRANDA
www.myspace.com/liberationjumpsuit | £3 | | | | | | | | | | | | Thu 29th | It's Thirsday Night
*Dag For Dag
*Ex Lovers
*tbc | DAG FOR DAG (Sweden)
Fine, fine alt.rock.
www.myspace.com/dagfordag
EX LOVERS
Newcomers but already snapped up to tour with I was a Cub Scout.
No myspace but you can be assured of quality.
+ supports tbc | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fri 30th | SHOT BY BOTH SIDES CLUB
*Lupen Crook & The Murderbirds
*David Cronenberg's Wife
*Left With Pictures
*The Phantom Lovers | SHOT BY BOTH SIDES
A spektakular soireé of degeneracy and bloodlust!
Shot By Both Sides – London's premier purveyors of arcane, outlandish and fantastical musical delights - launch another sordid spektakular, on Friday 30th May. This is a gathering in the intimate surroundings of Brixton Windmill – their first soiree at the venue since Christmas 2006.
Disregarding the patronising idiocy of bargain-bin indie nights, SBBS offers a ramshackle assortment of music, poetry, performance, spoken-word and strange men leering. Influenced by everything from the Antifolk scene to C86, from beat-poetry through to Rick Wakeman's 'Journey to the Centre of the Earth', it is a heady, kaleidoscopic and keck-soiling experience. Doubtlessly topped-off with some silly haircuts.
Expect a thrilling soundtrack of wonky psych, gritty '60s garage, gnarled folk, freakout jazz, rockabilly, C86 indie and Northern Soul, poetry, stories, free ‘zines, various handouts, literature/tape exchange, some peculiar visual treats, cakes, a few out-of-the-hat surprises and some sensational live sets from…
LUPEN CROOK & THE MURDERBIRDS
Gnarled, twisted folk and bleeding-heart candor from Britain’s most underrated songwriter. Fresh from delivering second LP ‘Iscariot The Ladder’, Crook’s edge-of-the-ledge, bloody-minded mini-masterpieces pack more high-drama than most can ever aspire to. Intense, bug-eyed and vehement; this will be a performance to savour.
Lupen Crook stands alone as one of the few artists around who seriously defies categorisation – The Fly
A bewitching talent – Uncut
Original and highly concentrated stuff - Mojo
…An air of insanity and a genuine edge-of-the-seat brilliance – The Sun
www.myspace.com/lupencrook
DAVID CRONENBERG’S WIFE
Achieving something-resembling-legendary status on the UK Antifolk circuit, DCW are a band that deserve to be treasured – and not just for their fabulous moniker. Raw, early-80s, Fall-fried sounds clash with Tom Mayne’s incisive lyrics – which come-on equal-parts sardonic, wide-eyed and bitter. The punk-edged carnival of mental breakdown that you can dance to.
Dark and twisted as the name suggests – London Metro
David Cronenberg’s Wife sound like a mid-Eighties independent band – sarcastic, sardonic and articulate, with gothic undertones, a little bit of shambling, some David Lunch surf guitar…the focus is on the songwriting – Everett True, Plan B magazine
www.myspace.com/davidcronenbergswife
LEFT WITH PICTURES
An experimental, emotionally-frazzled three-piece with pop at their core. In some mysterious hinterland between the Beach Boys, The Beta Band and Barett-era Floyd, their classical affectations are coupled with a range of instruments – from Gregorian plainchant to electronic tape loops – to create glorious technicolor ‘chamber-pop’. Or, as they’d have it, 'Claude Debussy on a shoestring budget'.
Left With Pictures, though relatively early on in their career, have legs enough for walking, swooning, harmonizing and lilting with the very best of their contemporaries – Drowned In Sound
www.myspace.com/leftwithpictures
THE PHANTOM LOVERS
The kind of band that leaves journalists scraping for adjectives to describe the sheer girth of sound on offer. Monstrous ‘soundscapes’ and downbeat torch-songs – ornamented by Elsie Martins’ brooding vocals – with an ‘80s shoegaze vibe. Grab the nearest sodden overcoat, for this is truly The Big Music.
Dark and subtly textured, moodily atmospheric soundscapes - Time Out
www.myspace.com/thephantomloversuk
More info:
www.myspace.com/shotbybothsidesclub
ADVANCE TICKETS
www.wegottickets.com/event/29535 | £4adv/£5door | | | | | | | | | | | | Sat 31st | 'GRACETONBURY'
*Keith TOTPs And His Minor Indie Celebrity All-Star Backing Band
*Abdoujaparov
*Jim Bob
*The Bridport Dagger
*Glam Chops (Eddie Argos' new band)
*Allergy
*Benni Beard | KEITH TOTPs AND HIS MINOR INDIE CELEBRITY ALL-STAR BACKING BAND
Keith TOTPs (who hates your band) has herded together 7 guitarists from different indie bands to play his sardonic, jaunty, indie-pop music.
www.myspace.com/itskeithtotp
ABDOUJAPAROV
Legendary guitarist from Carter USM plays his raucous, fast and sometimes pleasantly countrified punk rock. The lyrics are rude, tender, funny and frequently a little unwell.
www.abdou.co.uk
JIM BOB
Legendary front-man of Carter USM.
www.myspace.com/jimbobm
THE BRIDPORT DAGGER
Moody, atmospheric, evocative, but not in the least bit wimpy. Like Nick Cave mixed with Franz Ferdinand and Joy Division. The kind of rock n roll you'd expect to find in a Tarantino movie.
www.myspace.com/thebridportdagger
GLAM CHOPS
Eddie Argos teams up with David Devant to celebrate all things Glam Rock.
www.myspace.com/paranoiddogbark
ALLERGY
Smooth voiced post punk pop with a few killers covers up their sleeves.
www.myspace.com/allergy2
SUBLIMINAL GIRLS
Glam electro punkers signed to Weekender Records doing a one-off set with a guest singer!
www.myspace.com/subliminalgirls
BENNI BEARD
..writes observational songs about people and events around him with a northern twang. Think The Smiths, Hefner, Half Man Half Biscuit and you won't go far wrong.
www.myspace.com/bennibeard
with more to be confirmed!!
and FREE BBQ at 5pm!!!!!
ADVANCE TICKETS
www.wegottickets.com/event/31163 | £5adv (doors 5pm) | | | | | |
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