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THE ALIENS

SUPER EXTRA BONUS PARTY + DJS
Crawdaddy
Saturday 20 October 2007
Old Harcourt Station Harcourt Street Dublin Ireland

€14 ADV

THE ALIENS have history – between them they have been behind some of the most enthralling british music of the last decade. John Maclean and Robin Jones were members of the Beta Band. Gordon Anderson was a founding Beta Band member who went on to record two albums under the Lone Pigeon moniker. You could make parallels between Anderson and Syd Barrett, both geniuses blighted by psychiatric problems. The difference, of course, is that Anderson has come back – albeit as an Alien.


THE ALIENS

VON SUDENFED

(FEATURING MARK E SMITH OF THE FALL AND MOUSE ON MARS)
XX TEENS
FOUR TET DJ SET + DJ SKREAM
GUESTS
Heaven
Thursday 18 October 2007
Under The Arches Villiers Street London WC2N 6NG

£17.50 ADV

Who are Von Sudenfed? For starters they’re a trio formed by Andi Toma, Mark E Smith and Jan St Werner. But depending who you ask and how, they’re a sound-system, a family, a band. They’re all these things and more, as Jan himself explains: ‘We wanted the album to have the energy we would imagine a hybrid band – a futuristic band playing grime or ska or soca like a pirate radio station – to have.’


VON SUDENFED

TUNNG

FANFARLO + GUESTS
229
Wednesday 17 October 2007
229 Great Portland St London W1W 5PN

£12.50 ADV

TUNNG play a mesmerising mix of folky acoustics and busy electronica, overlaying electronic crackles, gorgeous harmonies, pop melodies, bewitching mantras and synthetic beats.


TUNNG

PREFUSE 73

CHROME HOOF + GUESTS
Scala
Tuesday 16 October 2007
275 Pentonville Road London N1 9NL

£12.50 ADV

Imagine what would have happened if Jackson Pollock ever made a hip hop beat. That’s Prefuse 73…! A fusillade of dirty beats, soulful moans, skronking electronica and subtly bewitching, beat-boxing hip hop… this man is a genius.


PREFUSE 73

BATTLES

PARTS AND LABOUR
Koko
Thursday 11 October 2007
Sold Out
1a Camden High Street London NW1 7JE

£15.50 ADV

Having sold out the Scala in advance Brooklyn’s BATTLES play their biggest headline show to date at London’s KOKO on Thursday 11 October.


BATTLES

LAURA MARLING

NOAH AND THE WHALE + KING CHARLES
The Revue Bar
Monday 1 October 2007
Sold Out
11 Walkers Court Brewer Street London W1F 0ED

£6 ADV

An alt.folk star in the ascendant whose striking melodies and wise-beyond-her-years vocals could melt even the iciest of hearts, LAURA MARLING muddles the strength of Regina Spektor with the intelligence of Carole King and the acoustic lushness of Joni Mitchell. She began playing the guitar at the age of three, first being taught the blues by her father in front of the family fire, and has been in thrall to the songs and lyrics of the likes of Neil Young, Bob Dylan, James Taylor and John Mayall ever since.


LAURA MARLING

SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO

XX TEENS
Scala
Thursday 27 September 2007
275 Pentonville Road London N1 9NL

£12.50 ADV

Known for their ability to rock a crowd as DJ’s, SMD – James and Jas – have played everywhere from Club NME tours to superclubs like Fabric. Now with their debut tour beckoning and the guys stepping into artist mode as Simian Mobile Disco – the dancing is likely to get even more furious and bizarre on their UK tour.


JACK PENATE

MICE PARADE

THE TWILIGHT SAD + TOM BROSSEAU
Cargo
Thursday 13 September 2007
83 Rivington Street London EC2A 3AY

£10.50 ADV

Mice Parade was originally the solo project of New Yorker Adam Pierce, who has also drummed in Swirlies, The Dylan Group, HiM and múm, and runs the Bubble Core label and distribution company. From its outset, Mice Parade has shown a boldly inventive and highly individual take on post-rock / electronica.


MICE PARADE

KATE NASH

SPECIAL GUESTS
Bloomsbury Ballroom
Friday 7 September 2007
Sold Out
Victoria House Bloomsbury Square London WC1B 4DA

In the vein of friend and fan Lily Allen, KATE NASH sings about people weird and wonderful as she mixes her wistful London accent, an acoustic guitar and sparse minimal youth electro pop with a fair dose of humour.


KATE NASH

TILLY AND THE WALL

TEENAGERS + LIGHTSPEED CHAMPION
SLOW CLUB
Electric Ballroom
Thursday 6 September 2007
184 Camden High Street London NW1 8QP

£12.50 ADVANCE

Midwestern band TILLY AND THE WALL consists of two dressed-down boys, two glamorous girls and one frenzied hoofer, the tutu-wearing Jamie Williams with pockets full of melodies sprang out of Nowheresville, USA, with a penchant for classic 60s pop, boy/girl harmonies and American folk records. They create jagged, elegant songs, and rejoice in tales of friendship, broken hearts, and youthful dreams and frustrations. Their sound is distinctive and classic at the same time.


TILLY AND THE WALL

CARIBOU

SPECIAL GUESTS
Bardens Boudoir
Wednesday 5 September 2007
38-44 Stoke Newington Road London N16 7XJ

£8.50 ADV

Caribou, otherwise known as the composer of euphoric, dazzlingly beautiful electronic psychedelia, Dan Snaith, returns with a new single; the glowing perfect pop symphony ‘Melody Day’. Realising how trivial and derivative most mainstream pop songs are, Snaith became obsessed with writing a melody that was both distinctive, ecstatic yet cannily familiar. It sets the tone for his rousing forthcoming album, Andorra (due August 20th).


CARIBOU

ST VINCENT

NOAH AND THE WHALE
229
Tuesday 4 September 2007
229 Great Portland St London W1W 5PN

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St. Vincent is Annie Clark, born in Tulsa, OK, the middle child of nine brothers and sisters. While most little girls were still playing with dolls, Annie preferred crafting homespun guitars from cardboard and rubber bands. By the time she was twelve, she had moved on to the real thing and fallen quickly in love. Growing up in Bible-belted Texas, Clark found music by means of Coltrane records, found people by means of Tennessee Williams plays, and found philosophy by means of her Catholic, Jewish, Unitarian, and Meher Baba-loving family. All of this finds its way, with smirks and reverence, into her music.

St. Vincent makes cinematic pop epics that feel at times like Paris in the ’20s before all the fun ended. Or, conversely, an orchestra of pure modernity-a new American music, informed by jazz, gospel blues, Southern folk music, and classical composition but-in the end-an animal original unto itself.

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ST VINCENT

BILL CALLAHAN (Smog)

ALASDAIR ROBERTS
SPECIAL GUESTS
Dingwalls
Thursday 16 August 2007
Middle Yard London NW1 8AB

£15.50
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BILL CALLAHAN (Smog) radiates a peculiarly male energy: an unspecified kind of careworn rage, an acute sense of restlessness. As an autobiographer, Callahan is a rogue trader with an unreliable commodity, a conscientious objector to the confessors club that constitutes singer-songwriting. Boasting the propulsive, glittering and classically pretty arrangements of Neil Michael Hagerty, BILL CALLAHAN (Smog) manages to bypass the trends of the modern day while shunning retro entrapments. With a mix of gospel backing vocals by Deani Pugh-Flemmings of the Olivet Baptist Church, the incendiary guitar work of Pete Denton, and the honeyed violins of Elizabeth Warren,

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