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ANDREW BIRD

JESCA HOOP (11TH)
MORIARTY (10TH)
Union Chapel
Wednesday 11 November 2009
Sold Out

Tuesday 10 November 2009
Sold Out
Compton Avenue London N1 2XD

SOLD OUT

Andrew Bird’s new album Noble Beast released to rapturous applause from all quarters, debuting at a remarkable Number 12 in the US Billboard charts, and in the UK, was Rough Trade Shop’s ‘Album of the Month’. Following a sellout show at London‘s Shepherd’s Bush Empire, Bird will perform in the atmospheric surrounds of Islington’s Union Chapel.


ANDREW BIRD

James Yorkston & Big Eyes Family Players

ALASDAIR ROBERTS + MARRY WATERSON
The Tabernacle
Saturday 7 November 2009
Powis Square London W11 2AY

£16.50 ADV

JAMES YORKSTON, resident of the East Neuk of Fife, returns for a special day of folk music at London’s historic Tabernacle venue in the company of The Big Eyes Family Players.

James plays in support of his new album Folk Songs – out on Domino on the 10th of August – which features traditional songs from the length and breadth of the Great Britain & Ireland and one tune from Galicia in Spain. After a decade which has seen folk music morph into nu-folk, mobile phone-ad folk, mortgage-folk, smoothie-folk and so on, Yorkston has reached back into the tradition of song and place and drawn a line in the sand.


James Yorkston & Big Eyes Family Players

JACK PENATE

THEOPHILUS LONDON
The Fridge Nightclub
Thursday 29 October 2009
Town Hall Parade Brixton Hill London SW2 1RJ

£14 ADV

Jack Penate’s head is full of incredible songs and plays some of the most effervescent guitar pop since the Housemartins. His new album takes in an amalgamation of influences ranging from gospel to reggaeton to Balearic, but still offers up the most golden of pop nuggets.


JACK PENATE

BLK JKS

SPECIAL GUESTS
Colours
Thursday 29 October 2009
2-4 Hoxton Square London N1 6NU

£5 ADV

BLK JKS defy description. With a wrecking crew rhythm section, debonair vocals, and guitar concoction of one part shred and two parts soul, BLK JKS shoot an African music sensibility through the tenets of rock. On one hand it is easy to politicize BLK JKS; as seen on the cover of Fader, here is a band that is instantly young, black and fly even as they reclaim styles that have been stolen, watered down, and regurgitated for generations. And yet to get caught up in anything but their sound is to sell this phenomenon short, because as musicians–as artists–BLK JKS simply cook.


BLK JKS

GOLD PANDA

QUESTIONMARC & THE BAD PRODUCER (CUT UP COLLECTIVE)
PATTEN
SAMPHA
Studio Theatre at The Roundhouse
Thursday 29 October 2009
Chalk Farm Rd London NW1 8EH

£5 ADV

The Roundhouse host the EMERGING PROMS for it’s fourth year this October, expanding on the successes of 2008 in a 3 day event featuring the best and brightest emerging UK bands and promoters. The proms creative concept extends beyond the shows themselves, with young members of the Roundhouse’s studio projects given opportunities to work with the featured bands on collaborative projects.


GOLD PANDA

The xx

TRAILER TRASH TRACYS
ESBEN AND THE WITCH
Village Underground
Wednesday 28 October 2009
Sold Out
54 Holywell Lane London EC2A 3PQ

THE XX follow up a string of critical successes with a show at London’s Village Underground.

These four nineteen and twenty year olds are childhood friends who formed while attending south west London’s Elliot School – the comp whose alumni also includes such acclaimed boundary-pushers as Burial, Four Tet and Hot Chip.


The xx

MAPS

BANJO OR FREAKOUT + IT HUGS BACK
Cargo
Monday 26 October 2009
83 Rivington Street London EC2A 3AY

£9.50 ADV

MAPS promote their new album ‘Turning the mind’ with a live set of euphoric space-rock to folksy, downtempo whisperings and clattering, thudding noise-pop. It recalls everything from the far away electronics of Basic Channel and Carl Craig, through the skewed songwriting of postal service, Flaming Lips and Grandaddy to the euphoric Soundscapes of Sigur Ros and My Bloody Valentine.


MAPS

JACK PENATE

MIIKE SNOW + MAPS + DJANGO DJANGO
JON HOPKINS + SPECIAL GUESTS DJS
The Warehouse Project

Friday 23 October 2009
Beneath Piccadilly Train Station 
Manchester 
M1 2GH

£17.50 ADV

Eat Your Own Ears have hosted at The Warehouse Party at every year and this year Jack Penate is welcomed to Manchester. Jack Penate’s second album is considered by many to be his music coming of age – “The idea behind making it was for me to do something that was driven by drums and bass with rhythms from music outside of my home. It was a complete adventure remembering and finding all the music that came to inspire the record.” And a recent Guardian review shows how Penate will fit perfectly into this years’ Warehouse Project. “Penate has suddenly found a sense of rhythm; recent single Today’s Tonight merges Afrobeat and house music” – With a major run of musical debuts at this years Warehouse Project, Eat Your Own Ears & Jack Penate will surely live up to all expectations.

Plus DJs: HOT CHIP (djs) Rob Da Bank (dj) Paul Epworth (dj) No Wave (dj) Casper C (dj) Eat Your Own Ears (dj)


JACK PENATE

THE BIG PINK

WE FELL TO EARTH
Electric Ballroom
Thursday 22 October 2009
184 Camden High Street London NW1 8QP

£12.50 ADV

THE BIG PINK are Londoners Robbie Furze and Milo Cordell, two lifelong friends whose home studio experiments have bore some of the most inspiring British music of 2008. Entirely characteristic of The Big Pink’s unique furrow, the hope-filled darkness of their music points to both the digital hardcore and art-rock undergrounds, while Robbie’s trademark soaring vocal melodies and densely encompassing reverberation complete their entrancing formula. The at times stately drone and overdriven trebly crescendo nods to such sonic reference points as the shoe-gaze of My Bloody Valentine and brooding minimalism of Earth, but the track’s chiming chorus and tender melodic nuance allow it a fragile beauty of its very own.


EYOE at SWN

Jamie T

O2 Academy Brixton
Thursday 15 October 2009
Postponed
211 Stockwell Road London SW9

After suffering from a bout of laryngitis on his recent Australian tour, which forced him to cancel the first 6 shows of his Kings And Queens UK tour, doctors are advising that Jamie needs more rest in order for his voice to fully recover.

So it is with reluctance he is to postpone the remainder of the UK tour as well as shows in Europe. We apologise for any inconvenience caused and hope to see everyone at the re-scheduled shows.

The cancelled shows will be rescheduled at the earliest opportunity and original tickets will be valid. Refunds will be available from the point of purchase.


Jamie T

Willy Mason

AND FRIENDS
St Giles Church
Wednesday 14 October 2009
60 St Giles High Street London WC2H 8LG

£12.50 ADV

WILLY MASON will be making a rare appearance playing a special set with friends and family members, in the diminutive chapel of St Giles church, London.


Willy Mason

Dark Horses
Race Horses

ISLINGTON BOYS CLUB
THERE'S MORE OF US THAN THERE ARE OF YOU
RORY PHILIPS (DURR) + EYOE DJS
THIS AINT NO DISCO DJS
Cargo
Friday 9 October 2009
83 Rivington Street London EC2A 3AY

FREE - ARRIVE EARLY TO ENSURE ENTRY

Comprising Meilyr Jones (vocals and bass), Dylan Hughes (keyboards, synths, guitar and vocal) Alun Gaffey (Guitar and vocals) and Gwion Llewelyn (drums and vocals), RACE HORSES met in the sleepy Welsh town of Aberystwyth – a perfect place for psychedelic pondering.

Like something from Warhol’s Factory DARK HORSES begins with the Swedish sonic siren Lisa Elle, who with her band of five makes mesmerising pschedelic soul. With stints snowed up in Chicago’s KeyClub studios, sharing beds with The Kills or in the control room at Sly Stone’s.