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Polar Bear

SHIVER
XOYO
Wednesday 2 April 2014
32-37 Cowper Street 
London 
EC2A 4AP

£14.50
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We’re delighted to have Polar Bear back in Spring next year – they play XOYO and have a long and eagerly-awaited new album out at the same time. If you haven’t seen them before you’re in for a real treat, have a look at the Guardian session here for a taste of what to expect.

Polar Bear are a perfect fit for a modern London, where influences constantly collide to create new and exciting hybrids. Their take on jazz is never limited by constricting notions of what a genre ‘ought’ to sound like. Led by drummer/bandleader Sebastian Rochford, with saxophonists Pete Wareham and Mark Lockheart, double bassist Tom Herbert and Leafcutter John on electronics and guitar, the group’s music actively embraces the different musical worlds that surround it. From the raw energy of punk and hip-hop to the delicacy of modern experimental and classical music, their music confounds expectations by being both shamelessly melodic and gloriously uplifting.

Support from Shiver.

Tickets available here


Polar Bear

Seun Kuti and Fela’s Egypt 80

SPECIAL GUESTS
Village Underground
Wednesday 2 April 2014
54 Holywell Lane London EC2A 3PQ

£17.50 EARLY BIRD
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TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE.

With the mighty new From Africa With Fury: Rise, Seun Anikulapo Kuti heads up Egypt 80, the extraordinary combo first fronted by his renowned father. The album follows Kuti’s critically praised debut, 2008’s Many Things, which was unanimously hailed for continuing Fela’s musical legacy. From Africa With Fury: Rise sees Kuti finding his own idiosyncratic voice as songwriter, singer, and band leader, its songs and sonic approach marked by provocative edge and mature self-assurance.

Produced by Brian Eno, John Reynolds, and Kuti, with additional production by Godwin Logie, and mixed by John Reynolds and Tim Oliver, the album captures Seun and Egypt 80’s extraordinary power, fraught with the scorching rhythms and kinetic funk energy that has earned the band – as ever, under the leadership of alto saxophonist Lekan Animashaun – worldwide acclaim as one of today’s most incendiary live acts. With Kuti’s booming vocal stylings at the forefront, songs like “African Soldiers” and “Mr. Big Thief” are fueled by call-and-response hooks, breakneck tempos, and combative, topical lyricism which firmly sets the classic Egypt 80 sound in the modern era.

Seun Kuti is determined to speak to the new generation of young Africans born after his father’s glory days. If he learned but one lesson from Fela, it is that that no one has greater impact on hearts and mind than the true artist. As such, the powerhouse protest music found on From Africa With Fury: Rise serves as a kind of musical antidote to the corporate pop that he feels is polluting Africa’s airwaves, distracting its citizens from the things that truly matter.

“Music has great impact on people’s feelings,” Kuti says. “That’s what music should be. Pop music today is all about me, me, me. Nobody is singing about we. But nothing can change if we don’t look out for our brothers and sisters.

TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE.


Wild Beasts

Darkside

HIGH WATER + VALENTIN STIP DJ
CHILDREN OF THE LIGHT
The Coronet
Saturday 29 March 2014
Sold Out
28 New Kent Road London SE1 6TJ

Darkside play a special late show at The Coronet.

After excellent reactions to their debut album Psychic, the collaborative duo of guitarist Dave Harrington and electronic producer Nicolas Jaar announce a hotly anticipated special late night show at The Coronet. Psychic has been described as “on one hand, (sounding) like a million things at once and then on the other, like nothing you’ve heard before. It’s minimal, it’s balearic, it’s krautrock, it’s atmospheric, it’s like Pink Floyd produced by Daniel Lanois recorded at Paisley Park. A stunning album from beginning to end and sure to feature in every end of year chart with ease.”


Big Deal

Metronomy

SPECIAL GUESTS
O2 Academy Brixton
Friday 28 March 2014
Sold Out
211 Stockwell Road London SW9

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We are thrilled to welcome Metronomy back to London in March 2014 to play the O2 Brixton Academy, in support of their new album “Love Letters”.

Metronomy’s new songs are bold and ambitious, but the sweet spirit they’ve always been known for still lingers. Melancholy still lurks in those hooks; loneliness still gleams along their edges. These are songs that carry you up and down in tides of feeling, in waves of pure sound. ‘I’m Aquarius’ was inspired by Diana Ross and The Supremes’ 1969 album, ‘Let The Sunshine In’, full of psychedelic atmospheres, and gorgeous backing vocal shoop-shoops. ‘Call Me’ is driven by glittering organ lines, and the exhilarating title track, with a four-to-the-floor beat, skipping between Motown and Northern Soul.

You can listen to their new single ‘I’m Aquarius’ here

Tickets are now sold out


Hauschka

FRANÇOIS AND THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS

BARBAROSSA
Colours
Wednesday 26 March 2014
Sold Out
2-4 Hoxton Square London N1 6NU

£11
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Meet François Marry – a multi-talented songwriter, musician, animator and artist, hailing from Saintes, a small town on the west coast of France who goes under the name of Fránçois and The Atlas Mountains. Frànçois moved to Bristol from France in September 2003. Over the past few years, François has recorded a couple of albums and EPs, released through Too Pure and Fence Records and has performed around the globe with Camera Obscura, Electrelane, Anna Calvi and King Creosote & Jon Hopkins. Originally an open collective, Fránçois and The Atlas Mountains has become over the years, a four-piece band and have recently signed to Domino Records. Matching French lyrics to African rhythms, the band’s distinctive songwriting is whimsically surreal with a real joyous side, sheer, un-repressed fun. ‘E Volo Love’ (released in 2012 on Domino) is a beautiful collection of Gallic chamber-pop and chanson with rich piano chords, shimmering electric guitars and an all-female polyphonic vocal group creating a colorful sound.

Plus support from BARBAROSSA

 


FRANÇOIS AND THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS

Summer Camp

THE ART CLUB
PAUL HAWKINS & THEE AWKWARD SILENCES
Islington Assembly Hall
Wednesday 26 March 2014
Upper Street London N1 2UD

£8 ADVANCE

Headlined in 2012 by Slow Club and by Wave Machines in 2013, Club Attitude is an annual event put on by Attitude is Everything, a charity set up to improve Deaf and disabled people’s access to live music. The charity use Club Attitude to raise awareness of accessibility issues for Deaf and disabled music fans and demonstrate to the music industry how to put on fully accessible gigs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Summer Camp

FOUR TET ALL-NIGHTER

SPECIAL GUESTS
O2 Academy Brixton
Saturday 22 March 2014
Sold Out
211 Stockwell Road London SW9

SOLD OUT

Eat Your Own Ears presents Four Tet’s second curated special all-nighter at the o2 Brixton Academy on Saturday 22nd March 2014.

The event will run from 10pm until 6am.

TICKETS SOLD OUT


FOUR TET ALL-NIGHTER

Temple Songs

HALF LOON + ABJECTS
Sebright Arms
Wednesday 19 March 2014
31-35 Coate Street London E2 9AG

£5.50 ADVANCE
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Eat Your Own Ears + The 405 present:

We’re pleased to welcome back Temple Songs to celebrate the release of their new single, ‘Point of Origin’.

2013 was an exciting introduction from Temple Songs. Having released two storming singles; ‘Passed Caring’ and ‘I Cant Look After You’, both through RIP Records. The band have gained some notable accolades from the likes of NME, This Is Fake DIY, The Line Of Best Fit and The Independent to name but a few.

Zane Lowe also regularly championed the group on his BBC Radio One show as well as numerous plays from BBC 6 Music shows such as Lauren Laverne and Radcliffe & Maconie.

Temple Songs is the brainchild of the prolific front man and writer Jolan Lewis (23), who released a confusing amount of music last year under several different guises. After being thrown out of London’s Toe-Rag Studios, the group headed back to Manchester so that Lewis could produce the track in his own studio, crafting his own unique vision of the track. “Point Of Origin” maintains Temple Songs’ penchant for instantly catchy pop melodies reminiscent of early Beatles material, however Lewis’ unique style of production takes them in a direction much more at home with the current lo-fi scene of home town Manchester.

Support comes from Half Loon, who have just released their brilliant new single ‘Reverie’. You can listen to it here.

Tickets available here


Temple Songs

Gentlemen

WHISTLEJACKET + MOLLY WAGGER
Sebright Arms
Tuesday 18 March 2014
31-35 Coate Street London E2 9AG

£5.50 ADV

Eat Your Own Ears + The 405 present:

Gentlemen return with the release of ‘Night Reels II’, released on 24th February.

“Following in the technicolour wake of Tame Impala and Temples, London’s Gentlemen take the glampop template and twist the kaleidoscope until it contorts into their own unique vision” – NME

Support comes from Whistlejacket and Molly Wagger.


My Sad Captains

Chvrches

SPECIAL GUESTS
The Forum
Saturday 15 March 2014
Sold Out

Friday 14 March 2014
Sold Out
9 - 17 Highgate Road London NW5 1JY

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We are pleased to announce that Chvrches have added a second London date to their tour due to demand. They will be playing the Forum on Saturday March 15th.

In little more than twelve months CHVRCHES have come out of nowhere to be everywhere. There’s a lot to catch up on since they posted their first song, LIES, online last spring – a place in the top five of the BBC Sound of 2013, sell out headline tours in the UK and US, a triumphant, award-winning appearance at SXSW and a string of stadium dates with Depeche Mode, to name but a few.

Praise for The Bones of What You Believe:
“Every track is a potential single” – 9/10, Clash
“Twelve equally matched moments of varied tone but consistent brilliance” – 9/10, DIY
“Proudly individualistic, heart-warmingly intelligent and beautifully intonated” – 4*, Q magazine
“Not a weak song among them” – 8/10, NME
“A rare and beautiful thing: astute, seductive and sly” – 4*, MOJO
“There’s so much to love” – 8/10, Drowned in Sound

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