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Kisses

FIXERS + THISAINTNODISCO

XOYO

Monday 18 October 2010

£5

Kisses is a Los-Angeles based disco project featuring Jesse Kivel and Zinzi Edmundson.

Though primarily inspired by long-format, instrumental disco (Cerrone, Gino Soccio) Kisses has developed a uniquely concise songwriting style that is equal parts FM radio pop and expansive four-to-the-floor.

The modern-day resurgence of Costandinos’ music, notably sampled on The Avalanches classic 2001 LP ‘Since I Left You,’ allowed for an easy synthesis between current dance music trends (Lidstrom, Air France) and the panoramic ambitions of disco’s commercial golden age. Nine songs were composed for the project, each exhibiting a refined pop sensibility evocative of Arthur Russell’s later-period romantic works. There is a subconscious embrace of simple emotions and sentimentality on this record. It is a minimalist approach to pop music that revels in the celebratory moments of life, those fragments of time that we only remember in postcards or faint recollections. ‘The Heart of the Nightlife’ takes these elusive moments and celebrates them openly, without fear of scorn.

thisaintnodisco plays a vast array of styles, from L.A Dream Pop and New York Garage to London Lo-Fi and Warpy Electronica, he prides himself on an ever changing set list. With notable recent appearances, alongside the likes of Memory Tapes, Gold Panda, How to Dress Well, Memory House and a main stage slot at this years Field Day, the future looks rosy. Check out his musically musings over at his blog http://thisaint-nodisco.tumblr.com

Soap&Skin

SPECIAL GUESTS

Union Chapel

Monday 18 October 2010

Compton Avenue London N1 2XD

£13.50

Eat Your Own Ears and Platforms:Live present Soap&Skin, who previously has performed only as a solo artist. She now brings her dramatic and beautiful songs to the stage with the accompaniment of a chamber music ensemble.

Kate Nash

BRIGITTE APHRODITE

O₂ Shepherds Bush Empire

Monday 18 October 2010

Shepherds Bush Green London W12 8TT

£16.50

As the multitude of quotes about her new album suggest, Kate Nash has burst back onto the UK music scene with her second album ‘My Best Friend Is You’ bigger and bolder than ever. Since its worldwide release at the end of April Kate has circumnavigated the world and along the way she has won over the hearts and minds of critics and fans across the US, through mainland Europe and later this summer she will be hitting Australia.

October 2010 will see Kate Nash take the album out onto the road for its first full tour of duty in the UK, culminating with a return to home turf in London at the O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire. It comes on the back an already sold-out European tour. Kate has also a full UK festival schedule this summer including performances at Glastonbury, iTunes, T in the Park, Oxegen and V Festivals. The third single from the album, a stand out track called ‘Later On’ will also be released to coincide with the tour.
“There’s something brilliant about Nash so completely confounding expectation” The Big Issue

“Colloquial lyricism’s and insights upon a bed of ‘60’s girl pop influence” Clash

“A major talent” Daily Express

“Orgasmic rocky squealing” Grazia 7/10

“Dreamy psychedelic vocals, fuzzy guitar and electronics. A very pleasant surprise” The Guardian 4/5

“Another smash hit on the way” Look 4/5

“Upbeat, short and sweet” Music Week

“Kate Nash is one of the most modern pop stars on the block” NOTW

“Nash sounds just like herself, and that’s exactly when she shines most brightly” NME 7/10

“The pre-eminent chronicler of pop verité… full of sweet love” Observer

“Steely clarity over a beautiful guitar-and-piano backing” Sunday Times Culture

“Nash is still playful and frequently cutesy, but she’s toughened up, and her music is all the better for it” Time Out

Plus support from Brigitte Aphrodite:
Whilst growing up in the grey suburbs of Bromley, through her early teenage years she always felt like a bit of an outsider, this inspired her to indulge in an obsession over androgynous music superstars like Jarvis Cocker and David Bowie, which fueled Brigitte’s passion for cocktail sipping in Soho, and wearing too much red lipstick.
Brigitte’s one woman show combining music, comedy and poetry, entitled ‘Brigitte Aphrodite in Suburban Hell’; a fantastical biographical view of her life so far, her utterly bizarre thoughts and experiences woven together to form a heart warming yet explosive firework of a show…

Metronomy

SBTRKT + GALLOPS

Barbican

Thursday 14 October 2010

Silk Street London EC2Y 8DS

Barbican and Eat Your Own Ears presents:

A very special show for the opening night of the Bicycle Film Festival’s 10th anniversary. The festival was founded by Brendt Barbur after he was hit by a bus while riding his bike in New York City. Determined to turn a negative experience into a positive one, in 2001 Barbur started the Bicycle Film Festival to celebrate the bicycle through music, art and, of course, film.

The first half of the show will feature Bicycle Film Festival shorts, projected on to the Barbican Hall screen with live DJ accompaniment from Sbtrkt; the second half will feature the Barbican debut of electro-pop mavericks Metronomy, who will perform with their own bespoke film projection and light show.

Metronomy was founded by Joseph Mount, inspired in his home town of Totnes in Devon by the electronic adventures of groups like Autechre, LFO and Aphex Twin. The group released their debut album Pip Paine (Pay The £5000 You Owe) in June 2006, a recording that aimed to combine instrumental electro-pop with the enduring influence of Totnes. With the follow-up CD Nights Out, Mount started to add vocals to the mix; meanwhile the project became a genuine gigging band with the addition in 2009 of drummer in Anna Prior and bassist Gbenga Adelekan. The new Metronomy shifted to completely live performance, proving it is possible for electronic bands to put on show as authentic as any rock band. Mount also releases remixes under the name Metronomy, and has remixed many artists including Roots Manuva, Klaxons, Franz Ferdinand, Zero 7 and many others.

Gallops will follow with a set on the after-show Club Stage. Gallops are where live electronics and jagged guitars meet on the floor and thrash the s**t out of each other until neither one is left standing. Seamlessly blending organic and synthetic in a cohesive manner, while showcasing progressive song-writing without alienating the listener. This is as much for headphone listening in a dark room as it is for festival dance-offs.
Taking influence from such drastically varied artists (Aphex Twin, Fugazi, Vangelis, Sun-Ra, Steve Reich…) goes someway to explaining the provocatively unique shape of this, their 5 track debut EP, which firmly stakes a claim on behalf of the 4 piece as 1 of the UK’s brightest hopes.

Glasser

SAHIL TRANSPARENT
CAIUS PAWSON (YOUNG TURKS)

The Macbeth

Monday 11 October 2010

70 Hoxton Street London N1 6SH

Akin to Kate Bush using the rhythmic influence of Arthur Russell, GLASSER is the one-woman orchestra of Cameron Mesirow. Her 2009 debut ep, ‘Apply’, was lush and expansive despite being made by Cameron on her own, in airplanes and shoe stores, on GarageBand.

Garnering critical attention from fellow musicians, Cameron worked with the likes of Fever Ray and Blonde Redhead producers to add strings, woodwinds, bass and percussion to her simple, minimal melodies and rapturous vocals, reworking her arrangements into their current fulsome glory – her voice becomes a focal instrument, delivering abstract stories and sounds that drench the music in emotion without resorting to narrative cliches.

PLUS Sahil Transparent and Caius Pawson (Young Turks)

PLAID & SOUTHBANK GAMELAN PLAYERS

HOUNDS OF HATE

Village Underground

Friday 8 October 2010

54 Holywell Lane London EC2A 3PQ

£14.50

Electro-alchemists PLAID, blend their trademark sound with the mesmerising textures and rhythms of a Javanese gamelan orchestra.

Commissioned by the Southbank Centre for Ether Festival 2009

Errors

THE TWILIGHT SAD
SPECIAL GUESTS

XOYO

Thursday 7 October 2010

32-37 Cowper Street  London  EC2A 4AP

£10.50

Touted as the natural successors to the mantle currently held by the likes of Battles, Hot Chip and LCD Soundsystem, post-electro band ERRORS formed in Glasgow in 2004, a union between Simon Ward, Stephen Livingstone and Greg Paterson.

On the back of a 3 track demo recorded in Simon’s bedroom the band quickly set about making a name for themselves in their hometown with their unique take on Electro. Errors merged spiky new-wave guitars with deep bass-y Acid sounds with a knack for melody and pop hooks beyond their years. The band were soon taken under the wing of Mogwai who signed them to their Rock Action label alongside the likes of Part Chimp and James Orr Complex.

Errors manage to retain the elements of new-wave and acid-house that marked their early releases and build on it; a merge of angular guitars, spiraling, euphoric synths and informed dance sounds underpinned by truly mesmerising beats and rhythms in expansive, ambitious style.

THE TWILIGHT SAD are an indie band from Kilsyth, Scotland, and they combine folk influences with a more experimental live sound to create exciting indie music. Drawing on musicians such as Daniel Johnston, Arab Strap and Leonard Cohen, they write songs about their own experiences in the town they grew up in. Their recordings are richly layered, but live they create a more intense experience with a visceral wall of sound.

OF MONTREAL

CATS IN PARIS

Koko

Wednesday 6 October 2010

1a Camden High Street London NW1 7JE

£14

OF MONTREAL play London’s Koko this autumn. Their songs soar and weave with energy and goodwill, daring anyone who hears them to walk away without a smile on their face. Listening to Of Montreal, you might think that singer Kevin Barnes is missing the angst gene. But the longer you listen, the more you start to realize that maybe missing the angst gene is a blessing. It allows Kevin to explore more fully his crazily creative ideas and to make wondrous music, drawing on influences from the Byrds or even the Mamas And The Papas; the group’s songs are all sweet pop ditties, as suitable for campfire-singing as stage performance.

Of their legendary live show: Make no mistake: a Kevin Barnes-led Of Montreal concert is a well-choreographed affair. It leaves not a second to the between songs audience-band banter and request-shouts for which many rock concerts are known and loved. But that cost is more than returned in entertaining spectacle.

Indeed, OM concerts risk being seen as theater whose soundtracks threaten to take over the performance. But the reverse is actually the case. They are tight live versions of impressively creative yet patently poppy studio productions– Blog Critics

Plus Cats In Paris

Junip

WOODPIGEON (SOLO)

XOYO

Monday 4 October 2010

32-37 Cowper Street  London  EC2A 4AP

£10.50

After a 5-year hiatus, JUNIP have returned to work on a new album and play a live European tour. Junip is most well known as the band of José González, known for his solo covers of Joy Division, the Knife and Massive Attack, but with influences ranging from Neu! to John Martyn, Junip sound mostly like Junip. They take González’s softly plucked guitar and unhurried vocals and pair them with a louder sound and underlying current of hypnotic rhythms. They craft their indie folk into dark, moody and sometimes haunting songs, while still keeping the beauty that made González’s solo work famous in the first place.

PRAISE FROM THE PRESS:

“Their sound is a mix of nylon stringed guitar, his distinctive voice, organs, analogue synths and drums. The songs are often dynamic, melodic and shadowy.” – Rough Trade

“José González is a sight to behold live, with his soothingly lucid vocals leading you along a wonderful journey of transient bliss; it’s nothing short of magical.” – Subba-culture

Download a free copy of the EP by signing up here: www.junip.net

WOODPIGEON’s chamber-folk concoctions of banjo, glockenspiel, choir and Mark Hamilton’s diffident vocals make for thoughtful melodious moments and joyous rock-outs. Combining the mystical comic-book fantasies of Mark’s lyrics with the sparkling music of the band, comparisons to Sufjan Stevens and his delightful ilk aren’t far wrong, setting Woodpigeon up to be the next great Canadian breakout band. Fronted by Mark Hamilton, Woodpigeon’s music moves and contorts like a film soundtrack. Lush, grand moments complement Mark’s signature cinematic “pretty-pretty-pop” sound.

PRAISE FOR ‘TREASURY LIBRARY CANADA’

“4**** Bloody marvelous” – Sunday Times

“4**** Seductive” – MOJO

“4**** an inspiring meditation on exile and return” – Guardian

“4**** Melodic and affecting.” – Q

“Delightful … poetic and effortlessly gorgeous.” -THE WORD

“Lovely … relevant, modern and orchestral … these are songs for a range of emotion.” -THE NATIONAL POST

“Extravagant shows of brasses or strings spiral out … Hamilton’s light, resilient voice is tailor-made for mulling on the deceits and realities of what we see and do.” -THE GLOBE AND MAIL

“Strings soar … and voices blend like a cool breeze hitting the ocean mist … Woodpigeon take flight with an ease that their name wouldn’t make you believe.” -EXCLAIM!

“Understated beauty with an unshakable longing … meet your new indie folk heroes.” -SUBBA-CULTCHA

“Hamilton’s delightfully dour and lovelorn lyrics and sprightly, sweetly mellow music, makes the morse seem wholly palatable … accomplished, quietly intelligent, playful and really rather enchanting.” -BBC

“Rich acoustic chamber pop with quietly barbed lyrics.” -UNCUT

“A tapestry of plaintive guitar, shuffling snare drums, twinkling glockenspiel and handclaps … from swirling blizzard chamber-pop to hushed alt.country … adrift in sweeping landscapes.” -METRO

“A perfect balance of grandeur and intimacy, delight and melancholy. Treasury is a left-field gem … you can’t help but fall in love with.” -CHROMEWAVES

“The next great Canadian breakout band.” -NOW

Born In London Music Night

GHOST POET + RADIANT DRAGON
THERE'S MORE OF US THAN THERE ARE OF YOU
MORE TBC

Rich Mix

Friday 1 October 2010

35-47 Bethnal Green Road London E1 6LA

A night of live performances, VJs and photography celebrating the music scenes and artists that have flourished in London. Pioneering promoters Eat Your Own Ears will present some of the hottest emerging bands and DJs; whilst PYMCA (Photographic Youth Music Culture Archive) will focus on the rich musical heritage of the city through a series of startling images. Come along and witness how London’s musical past is influencing its future.

Programmed as part of Story of London festival.

GHOSTPOET recently migrated from the capital city of the West Midlands – Coventry – to the southerly climes of London, and looks set to make his mark on 2010. The softly spoken 24 year-old has already won over BBC Radio 1’s foremost taste maker Gilles Peterson and his Brownswood label with a handful of off-kilter, loopy electronic ditties blessed with his delightfully rambling musings on modern life. Born and raised somewhere between London, Coventry, Nigeria and Dominica, Obaro admits that his heritage is important to him, but that it hasn’t consciously affected his musical career: “My parents enjoyed listening to music around the house but never really encouraged it as a career. I kind of pursued listening to various sounds late into the night when the house was asleep.” Don’t sleep on this young, inventive, British artist – he’s destined for greatness.

RADIANT DRAGON is currently working on a series of ‘Utopian Fragments’, temporary intersections between our present reality and an ideal future. Each project combines sculpture, architecture, sound and image to hold a mirror up to today’s relentless landscape of urbanisation and technology. His ‘Subreal Space’ installation at the Rich Mix presents London as a transient architectural illusion. Projected surfaces show the city in a perpetual state of change, dreaming about what it wants to become.

THERE’S MORE OF US THAN THERE ARE OF YOU are a battle between the incredibly clever and the very stupid.

Formed out of a psychotropically enhanced conversation between Tom Goldsmith (Circulus) and Adam Richens (ex. High as Flames). An experiment aimed to blur the distinction between musician and non-musician, between performer and audience. In practical terms the experiment consisted of a large room containing everyone they could find willing to wield an instrument. The results were terrifying. But puke over the walls and some will inevitably stick. And the most enthusiastic participants kept jamming. The sound made by the remaining eight members is less of an experiment, perhaps, but now worth listening to. Pretension steps aside and makes way for a tune. So far, four gigs into their career, the sound the band generates is causing equal excitement among the band and their audience. The line-up currently consists of two guitars, bass, drums, synthesizers, violin, viola and glockenspiel as well as occasional vocals. The band use equal measures of improvisation and careful calculation to achieve an organic, lo-fi prog/kraut/afro/jazz-rock hybrid. They hope audiences will dance, and consider them in “jazz” terms to be the best non-jazz band in London right now.

The Kissaway Trail

THE DIAMOND SEA

Cargo

Thursday 30 September 2010

83 Rivington Street London EC2A 3AY

£10.00

Europhic and evocative, listening to THE KISSAWAY TRAIL is an intoxicating experience. Their music soars, filled with majestic guitar lines, dramatic melodies and epic arrangements. Listing the likes of Sonic Youth, Grandaddy, Daniel Johnston, Pixies and The Beach Boys as being their main influences, though in their native Denmark, where they have recently taken off massively due to their incendiary live shows, the band have also been compared to the likes of Arcade Fire and The Flaming Lips. While you may be able to detect elements of all these bands, The Kissaway Trail ultimately sound like no one but themselves, with two lead singers bringing even more colour to their already individual music.

Christened after the Sonic Youth track, The Diamond Sea, are a trio comprising Ben Eyes, Matthew Robson and Lee Hooper. Collectively they harbor a varied taste in mucic, with their influences lying with the alt country sounds of Red House Painters and Sun Kil Moon to contemporary composers such as Max Richter and the windsept rock of bands such as Wilco. Live, The Diamond Sea deliver a toucher sound, than the intimate tones found on the record. They have created a live show that is both dynamic and invoking and often includive of a free from jam in the spirit of, from whom they take their moniker, Sonic Youth.

Four Tet (Live)

Secret London Oxfam Store

Thursday 30 September 2010

£25.00

Four Tet live at the Official Oxjam Launch Gigs 2010

Thursday 30th September

To celebrate the start of the month-long Oxjam music festival 2010, featuring hundreds of events happening around the UK throughout October, Oxfam are proud to present four very special nights of gigs taking place in a secret London Oxfam store September 27th – 30th. With big names from across the musical spectrum taking to the stage in this unique setting amongst the books, clothes & records, attendance will be limited to a handful of lucky fans. These shows are set to be hottest ticket in town. In the past the shows have had everyone from Hot Chip, Jarvis Cocker, Fatboy Slim, Editors and Basement Jaxx.

For those in the know we’re offering a limited number of fanbase only 24 hour pre-sale tickets, available Wednesday 1st September before the official announcement on Thursday 2nd September. Pre-sale tickets go on-sale from 9am available from:

Tickets are priced at £25 per night and the location of the exact Oxfam store will remain secret until 72 hours before the show with all profits going towards Oxfam’s vital work around the world.

The Oxjam music festival runs through the whole month of October with hundreds of diverse gigs happening up and down the country, from huge club nights at London’s Coronet to busking sessions at the top of Ben Nevis and everything in between. It’s all organised by people who know and love their local music scene with over 6,000 artists taking to the stage all in aid of Oxfam’s vital work at home & abroad. Watch out for Oxjam events in your area this October – go to www.oxfam.org.uk/oxjam to check out gigs in your town & for info on how to get involved.

BLONDE REDHEAD

PORCELAIN RAFT

O₂ Shepherds Bush Empire

Wednesday 29 September 2010

Shepherds Bush Green London W12 8TT

£17.50
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Feted New York trio BLONDE REDHEAD return this September with both a brand new album and a European tour

Taking in nine countries (with more still to be added), the tour coincides with the worldwide release of Penny Sparkle, their first album in over three years and eighth in an already illustrious career. The record marks another sonic twist for the band wth Van Rivers and The Subliminal Kid (Fever Ray, Glasser) enlisted to co-produce and Alan Moulder (Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Yeah Yeah Yeahs) recalled to mix it. The album is a stunning listen and is sure to be earning many plaudits from critics in the months to come.

Penny Sparkle was released on 4AD on September 13th. You can download the album opener, ‘Here Sometimes’, from the band’s website – www.blonde-redhead.com.

PORCELAIN RAFT is Londoner Mauro Remiddi, who makes hushed, dreamy bedroom pop with the help of some synths and effects pedals. Remiddi creates a world of looped rhythms and lustrous melodies with complicated layers of reverb and effects, transporting you to another world of hazy soundscapes.

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Amiina

SPECIAL GUESTS

XOYO

Tuesday 28 September 2010

32-37 Cowper Street  London  EC2A 4AP

£10.00
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AMIINA play a show in support of their new album, Puzzle, due for release on the 22nd of September. The Icelandic female four-piece have graced the albums and shows of Sigur Ros, augmenting Reykjavik’s most famous group with modern string quartet backing. They play a live set of graceful, ethereal compositions that are beautiful and engaging, on violin, viola and cello as well as many malleted instruments, a glassophone and various stringed instruments they picked up around the world.

The unfamiliarity of their sound may be puzzling for a moment, but it’s utterly distinctive, gently revealing vibrant colours, a playful imagination, and an unusual warmth and sensitivity. Using both the more traditional instruments like guitars, keyboards and mandolins KURR (the band’s debut album) featuree a saw, Celtic harp, metalophones, singing wine glasses, xylophones, glockenspiels, harmonium, bells, table harps, kalimbas, cuadro, celest, harpsichords, Rhodes piano, synthesisers, trumpets, trombones, bass clarinet, drums, cello, violas and violins.

Leaping from ‘instrument’ to ‘instrument’, from one side of the stage to the other, they smile frequently despite their immersion in songs whose otherworldly magic they themselves can’t quite seem to believe they have unearthed. It’s this music and these exquisite performances, both full of personality and charm – something Sólrún, María, Edda and Hildur also have in abundance – that have already won them a sizeable audience across the world.

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