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Junior Boys

SHACKLETON + CIRCLSQUARE
KIERAN HEBDEN (DJ SET)
PANTHA DU PRINCE
CARIBOU (DJ SET)
GRECO-ROMAN SOUNDSYSTEM
The Arches
Friday 5 June 2009
53 Southwark St London SE1 1TE

£13
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The Arches and it’s magnificent sound system hosts a Junior Boys jamboree thrown by three of London’s best party promoters, bringing together WE FEAR SILENCE, the new venture of two of The End’s programming team, EAT YOUR OWN EARS, and the legendary GRECO-ROMAN SOUNDSYSTEM.


Junior Boys

THE HORRORS

FACTORY FLOOR + 1000 ROBOTA
Electric Ballroom
Friday 5 June 2009
184 Camden High Street London NW1 8QP

£12.50
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THE HORRORS play Camden’s Electric Ballroom on Friday 5th of June.

This is in support of their highly anticipated return with a new single, their first release on XL Recordings, on Tuesday the 17th of March 2009.

‘Sea Within A Sea’, their first release since 2007’s ‘She Is The New Thing’, was recorded last Summer with Portishead’s Geoff Barrow and will be exclusively available to download at thehorrors.co.uk and I Tunes.

Coming in at nearly seven minutes long and accompanied by a video, directed by filmmaker and The Jesus And The Mary Chain founder, Douglas Hart, the new single is the first taste of what to expect from the bands second album ‘Primary Colours’ which is set for release on XL in May.

Check out the brilliant new single video here
http://www.thehorrors.co.uk/

PLUS London three piece FACTORY FLOOR who make noise like pylon cables fizzing in the wet and 1000 ROBOTA, 3 Teutonic 17 and 18 year olds who’ve been playing mindless band battles in and around their hometown Hamburg’s St. Pauli district, with music featuring traces of early 80’s avant-garde German pop, Wire or The Fall.

“….darkly addictive birthday party floor-killers that don’t allow language barriers to get in the way.“, NME, UK

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THE HORRORS

SMOKE FAIRIES

DAN MICHAELSON AND THE COASTGUARDS
LEFT WITH PICTURES
The Luminaire
Thursday 4 June 2009
311 High Road London NW6 7JR

£7
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Katherine Blamire and Jessica Davies, aka SMOKE FAIRIES, only opted for their University History course in order to secure a year studying in New Orleans. It was there, during their stint playing the city’s bars and cafés, that the duo began to cross-pollinate the tenets of trad-folk and swamp blues that make up their cool, sultry sound.

Four years on, with Bryan Ferry and Richard Hawley’s seal of approval now intact, Smoke Fairies have released their first single Living With Ghosts – a song awash with the wistful melancholy that has seen them pull in fans from far and wide. Blamire: “We see people absorbed as we play and surely that’s what they connect to in a song – the things they don’t go around saying every day.” MOJO

“frankly the best thing i have heard in years” – Richard Hawley

“dark, lustful blues-folk” – Mojo

“beautifully harmonised, wistful songs … This is enchanting” – The Guardian

“Smoke Fairies are stronger, sexier and more sultry … yet still maintain a fragile vulnerability; ethereally enchanting” – The Times

“Spectral folk-blues… takes us from the spooky, medieval sounds of Sussex to finger-picking in a Catskills Shack and on into blues-soaked New Orleans” – Timeout

“These girls are Bob Dylan’s dream” – Channel4.com

“Hard to put into words how good these two ladies are.” – thebeatsurrender.co.uk

“Mean, moody, and magnificent… this is amazing stuff for a debut album, lets hope they have all the success they deserve.” – roomthirteen.com

“Fragile folk… these girls produce just about the loveliest two part harmonies you’re likely to hear” Music Mart

“this is music for the soul – music of the Gods – music from the Gods!” Peter Brown – rbfanzine.co.uk

“Haunting. Tuneful. Musically accomplished. If you want a four-word review for this duo, there it is.” Indie-Music.com

DAN MICHAELSON AND THE COASTGUARDS
The absentee frontman with the Johnny Cash vocals and an ear for sardonic prose goes it alone on this venture… Well, almost alone. Those present on perfectly heartbreaking album Saltwater include; Henry Spenner (Fields), Laurie Earle (Absentee) Arnulf Lindner (Ed Harcourt), Romeo Stodart (Magic Numbers), Tom Gorbut And Henry Clarke (Rumblestrips), And Steven Adams (Broken Family Band). On Memphis Industri

“your ears naturally tune into Michaelson’s skill at putting words to the parts of relationships that usually stay silent. The cruel asymmetry of romance is addressed exquisitely, recalling the resigned grandeur of the Go-Betweens’ Robert Forster ” **** The Times “impressive – comes on like Smog fronting the songs of Ed Harcourt” Uncut “an intensely felt and sparsely drawn study of the beginnings and ends of relationships” **** Time Out Spellbinding, genuinely heartbreaking songs.. The Quietus

LEFT WITH PICTURES are from London, and formed in 2005. They started with three hard-up, classically trained musicians – Stuart Barter, Rob Wicks and Toby Knowles – who forsook the orchestra pit for the sanctuary of Toby’s parents’ loft. Armed with melodicas, guitars, violins, kazoos, ‘found sounds’ and a shoestring budget, they began with two self released EPs – 2005’s ‘EP’ and ‘Making Chalk’ from 2006.

In 2008 LWP signed to Organ Grinder Records – and released an EP entitled “Secretly” which gained them rave reviews from The Guardian, Drowned in Sound, Time Out and other publications – as well as a slew of radio play.
 
All the while, LWP have performed regularly, from the Bush Hall to bedrooms, with the likes of Kate Nash, Johnny Flynn, Slow Club and The Wave Pictures. They often perform entirely without amplification – using the natural acoustics of the room, their instruments and voices to create the performance.

Left With Pictures are currently recording their debut album – set for summer release on Organ Grinder Records.

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SMOKE FAIRIES

KING CREOSOTE

PICTISH TRAIL + PLAYER PIANO
100 Club
Tuesday 2 June 2009
Monday 1 June 2009
100 Oxford Street London W1D 1LL

£13.50
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In 1995 Kenny Anderson, then lead singer/songwriter for the Scottish bands Skuobhie Dubh Orchestra and Khartoum Heroes, launched his own label fence with his own solo project King Creosote. Demoralised and with a healthy cynicism of all things music related, KC set out to make home recorded music in as stress-free an environment as possible. in short, the heels were dug in, and N.E. Fife would become home to Fence.

King Creosote’s unique voice has graced 4 albums so far, returning to Domino for his 5th.

A popular misconception is that this is the name of the band featuring him and not just his stage name. However, at live shows, he will usually introduce his band members by their similar pseudonyms – some fellow Fence Collective artistes such as “The Pictish Trail” (aka Johnny Lynch), On The Fly and Uncle Beesly, to name but the usual line-up.

Plus guests

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KING CREOSOTE

FANFARLO

{STRICKEN CITY}
AGASKODO TELEVERICK
ICA
Tuesday 2 June 2009
The Mall London SW1Y 5AH

£8.50
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Following hearty SXSW success FANFARLO play an early summer set, filling the ICA with lovely, lilting tones and shivering, hypnotic melody.

Fanfarlo were conceived by Simon (vocals, guitar, keys, mandolin, sax, glock) while he was taking shelter in a forest from a particularly heavy snowstorm in Sweden. Inspired to move to London to form the band, he quickly found allies in Justin (bass) and Leon (trumpet/keyboards) when playing small gigs around the city. Mark (electric guitar, keys, vocals, accordian, fanfarlophone) then joined, and Fanfarlo’s electronic backing track was ceremoniously destroyed when Amos (drums & percussion, vocals) was enlisted to complete the rhythm section.

PLUS {STRICKEN CITY} and AGASKODO TELEVERICK

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FANFARLO

Gang Gang Dance

ABOUT GROUP
Dingwalls
Monday 1 June 2009
Middle Yard London NW1 8AB

£11.50
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Emerging from the same experimental scene as Animal Collective and Black Dice,
Gang Gang Dance blend African rhythms, Middle Eastern dance music, industrial, noise, grime and more. Today’s skewed pop and eerie vocals are less chaotic than their earlier work, glistening with Arabian synth lines and delayed out shimmer guitar.

“Correct us if we’re wrong, but the album of 2008 has just arrived on our doormat. It’s called Saint Dymphna, and it’s by Gang Gang Dance. ‘One of the best albums we’ve heard all year… astonishing in it’s breadth and quality’.
Fact Magazine

“Their sound is natural yet manmade, gangsta yet gentle at varying turns throughout their seemingly improvised sound.”
I-D Magazine

“… St. Dymphna spins scattered global sounds into a dance both ethereal and ecstatic.”
Plan B Magazine

“St. Dymphna is a super- produced, dancefloor-ready rebooting of tribal psych… The eclecticism is exhilarating…”
Uncut Magazine

“Gang Gang Dance may now ascend to the bona fide league of geniuses.”
NME

“St. Dymphna further ups Gang Gang Dance’s ritualistic ante and might be their best yet.”
Time Out

“… a glorious celebration of sonic excess.”
The Observer

“It all sounds wonderful, sparkling and glistening.”
Wire Magazine

“Their album is enormous” – Dave Sitek, TV on the Radio

”Gang Gang are the sound of some soon to be found tribe lurking in the wigs of forever. Gang Gang Dance seamlessly blend the sound of something so otherworldy while seeming so familiar. The pied pipers of Never Never Land.” – Simon Taylor, Klaxons

PLUS ABOUT
Alexis Taylor of Hot Chip, Charles Hayward (This Heat, Camberwell Now), Pat Thomas and John Coxon (Springheel Jack, Spiritualized) known for their sublime improvisations offer up anarchic piano, guitar and electronics underpinned by relentless, turbulent drums reminiscent of Can, Neu! or Einstürzende Neubauten with the funk of Sly and the Family Stone meets Love.

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Gang Gang Dance

THE VIKING OF 6TH AVE THE MUSIC OF MOONDOG

SPECIAL GUEST PERFORMANCES
Barbican
Saturday 30 May 2009
Silk Street London EC2Y 8DS

£15 / 20 / 25
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ANDI THOMA (MOUSE ON MARS)
BRITTEN SINFONIA
LONDON SAXOPHONIC
CLINIC
GRUFF RHYS and BUNF (SUPER FURRY ANIMALS)
LIGHTSPEED CHAMPION
ADEM
PICTISH TRAIL
MAX DE WARDNER and TOM SKINNER
CARIBOU (DJ SET)
FOUR TET (DJ SET)

A glimpse into the world of iconic American composer Moondog (1916-1999), whose music has influenced generations of artists, from Philip Glass and Steve Reich to Charlie Parker, and later devotees like Mouse On Mars, Anthony Hegarty, Damon Albarn and Elvis Costello.

Moondog was the pseudonym of Louis Thomas Hardin (1916-1999), a blind American composer, musician, cosmologist and poet. He spent much of the 1950s and 1960s living on the streets of New York; the Viking costume that he adopted made him one of the most photographed and familiar urban figures of the period. Moondog’s prolific works have been sampled, cited and celebrated by generations of musicians, on both sides of the Atlantic.

This unique concert event features a number of guest artists who reflect the extraordinary range of the composer. Before the show, a Freestage set from composer MAX DE WARDNER and percussionist TOM SKINNER will explore the canonical music from the 1970 Moondog 2 album.

The first half will feature the specially–assembled Moondog Choir featuring the idiosyncratic vocals of LIGHTSPEED CHAMPION, PICTISH TRAIL and ADEM; they will perform with LONDON SAXOPHONIC, joined by pianist LIAM NOBLE, percussionist PAUL CLARVIS and others. Stalwarts CLINIC will also perform two Moondog compositions in the Hall before their own set on the post-show Clubstage. In the interval there will be a Clubstage DJ set from CARIBOU.

In the second half the BRITTEN SINFONIA will perform under the baton of ANDRE DE RIDDER of the Viva Orchestra, along with ANDI THOMA (of MOUSE ON MARS), who collaborated with Moondog on the music for Elpmas while the composer was living in Germany. The Britten Sinfonia will perform some gems from Moondog’s classic CBS repertoire as well as previously unheard works.

Alongside Clinic on the post-show Clubstage will be a DJ set from FOUR TET in which DJ Kieran Hebden mixes sounds from all kinds of genres and crosses any musical borders he can find.

In a companion event, Moondog Around Midnight takes place in the beautiful setting of the church of St Giles Cripplegate at 11.30pm on the same evening. US organist PAUL JORDAN, a veteran Moondog collaborator, will play a concert of the composer’s organ music; tickets are at a 50% discount for main concert ticket holders.

http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=8740

‘Moondog was as recognisable in the New York City landscape as the Empire State Building’ – New York Times

‘Wonderful music: strange, jaunty, sad, eerie, virtuosic, maddeningly catchy’ – The Independent

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THE VIKING OF 6TH AVE THE MUSIC OF MOONDOG

FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE

SPECIAL GUESTS
Bloomsbury Ballroom
Thursday 28 May 2009
Sold Out

Wednesday 27 May 2009
Sold Out
Victoria House Bloomsbury Square London WC1B 4DA

£14
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After selling out in 90 minutes, Florence and the Machine has added a second night at London’s Bloomsbury Ballroom.

The buzz surrounding 21-year-old Florence Welch and her mutable band mates (The Machine) has grown in the past few months, with the Critic’s Choice Brit Award tipping her for the top in 2009.

Observer ‘She’s blessed with an astonishingly expressive voice, which can quickly switch from haunting whisper to harridan shriek.’… ‘Her tales of passion and revenge owe more to American artists like Regina Spektor and Cat Power.’

The Times ‘A 20 year old musical descendant of Bessie Smith.’ … ‘Blessed with a jaw-dropping blues voice that seems impossible coming from one so young and so skinny.’

Dazed & Confused ‘With a voice so hauntingly captivating you can feel it in your stomach, the skinny south Londoner and her trusted musical machine make some seriously beautiful noise.’

AnOther ‘With a voice that can alternately lull the dawn chorus or turn blue skies black, Florence Welch has been waking London’s dreary scenes up to what one ambitious young woman can do.’

NME ‘There’ll be nothing as exciting this summer as watching this brilliant girl and her machine’

Independent ‘a soul blues voice that can rival Sixties Motown singers, never mind her peers.’

Florence is a twenty one year-old art college drop-out from Camberwell, South London, a long pretty pale girl who makes up songs and sings them. The Machine is whoever’s standing nearby playing an instrument at the time. It’s a bit harder to define, the machine part. It’s just not exactly a person. It’s a sort of a machine. She’s been singing since pretty much forever. She was in the school choir, a few dodgy bands, had vocal lessons and such. She has all the necessary paperwork if you want to see it.

If you see her sing live you’ll forget paperwork and forget your name and maybe forget to breathe for a little while. Florence has a voice hewn from the rock and stamped in the gravel and shot out of a cannon into the middle of your chest. It cuts right into you and thrums.

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FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE

THE ALIENS

LEMONADE
SPECIAL GUESTS
Bush Hall
Wednesday 27 May 2009
310 Uxbridge Road London W12 7LJ

£13.50
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THE ALIENS continue to explore the outer limits of sunshine pop, psychedelic rock and acid dipped electronics. These 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, along with founding member Gordon Anderson aka Lone Pigeon. Epic psychedelic pop.

NME 4.5
“Incredible pschedelic stew, a joyride round the galaxy, The Aliens have landed”

The Times ****
“Gleeful psychedelic purists, timeless & optimistic” ,

Subba Culture
“A mesmeric, psych tinged folk-pop masterpiece”

Mojo ****
“A serene high”

Observer Music Monthly ****
“The Aliens have come up trumps, luna is a pschedelic delight”

The Word
“Startling moments, music for the 21st century”

The Sun 4/5
“Back & even Beta”

Artrocker
“Powerful antidote to angularity”

Plus LEMONADE
Lemonade played their first show with roughly 2 weeks of preparation in late 2005. The idea formed a month or so earlier when Alex Pasternak and Callan Clendenin were in Barcelona enjoying their time listening to Rai and Khaliji CDs they had bought at the Raval record shop “Nasifon”, laying on the beach drinking sodas, and going to squat raves until well after the sun came up. Collaborating with Ben Steidel upon their return, they mingled together crude technologies, battered percussion, live instruments, and limitless disparate influence, including: grime, early house and techno, samba, dancehall, island musics, and scary psychedelic noise. The show was mostly improvised, and ultimately a success with throngs of dancers mesmerized by their pulsing beats and clamorous crescendos.

Since that first show, Lemonade became a fixture in San Francisco’s underground, playing everything from basement shows to warehouses, dance clubs to DIY venues, art galleries and rooftops. Their eruptive and exhilarating live experience can be at times unnerving and chaotic, as well as transporting and blissful, but still manages to unify diverse crowds in rapturous euphoria.

In October of 2008, their self-titled debut album/ep, recorded by Chris Coady (TV on the Radio, Blonde Redhead, etc.) was released on True Panther Sounds. Days later they moved to Brooklyn.

Mary Anne Hobbs of BBC1 referred to them as “pure, agile, hedonistic pop music,” and Pitchfork rated their debut at an 8.3. Over the course of their career they have toured with such acts as Tussle, El Guincho, and Glasser, as well as provided local support to Modeselektor, Crystal Castles, Buraka Som Sistema, Andrew W.K., Gang Gang Dance, and many more

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S.C.U.M

ANDREW BIRD

CORTNEY TIDWELL
O2 Shepherds Bush Empire
Monday 11 May 2009
Shepherds Bush Green London W12 8TT

£16.50
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Following the release of the much-anticipated new album Noble Beast, Andrew Bird plays London’s Shepherds Bush Empire this May. Delivering mesmerizing live sets of utterly riveting songs that work their magic on their own believable terms, without a hint of cloying nostalgia or riff-fueled seduction, Bird plays strings, glockenspiel, wurlitzer and tape loops…

“Bird could be the only performer who’s lit up both Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo with a combination of vocals, violin, guitar, glockenspiel and whistling… he uses centuries-old instrumentation to give depth and soul to folk rock.”–ESQUIRE “The Masters Are Dead–Long Live The Masters,” November 2008

“Andrew Bird is a true musical one-off. You really ought to see him.” 5/5 The Guardian

“When musicologists of the future come to study singer-songwriters of the early 21st century, Andrew Bird will stand proudly apart… Just one more sensational record from one of the most important artists working today”
4/5 Independent On Sunday

“An album to take time with, but already sounding marvellous” 4/5 Sunday Times

“WithArmchair Apocrypha, Bird marks out his own airspace with polysyllabic style and musical blue-sky thinking that really takes wing”
4/5 Album of the Week, The Times

“Andrew Bird’s his own man, mind, and this should be the album to make people sit up and notice”
4/5 Independent Information

“Andrew Bird’s blend of loops, samples, violin, guitar, glockenspiel and various likeminded collaborators provide heart-soaring delights aplenty. Watch him fly!”
4/5 Daily Mirror

“Bird has the rare touch to make his sound as natural as breathing” 4/5 Q
“Armchair Apocrypha find Bird rushing ever upward… A record dotted with peaks” 4/5 Uncut

“Andrew Bird’s songs are shot through with a beauty of terrible consequence… Armchair Apocrypha proves Bird’s knack for the musical hat trick” 4/5 Mojo

“Armchair Apocrypha is smart, twitchy, odd, moving and funny. Nice bits of whistling too.” Word

“Don’t be too surprised if Bird streaks ahead of the alt-pop flock very soon” 4/6 Time Out

“A Unique talent” Music Week

“Just superb” Plan B

“Music needs more eccentric geniuses like this guy” 4/5 Daily Express

“Genius is a word bandied around far too often but in the case of Andrew Bird, you can’t help coming back to it” The Sun

plus CORTNEY TIDWELL
Free MP3 available here

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