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Beirut Afterparty

BEIRUT DJ SET
MOLOTOV JUKEBOX LIVE
JAMM
Friday 16 September 2011

£10 IN ADVANCE
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Following their sold out gig at Brixton’s O2 Academy, Beirut members are ready to show their talents behind the DJ decks for a very special aftershow party at the Jamm.

Having enchanted the world with their mix of balcanic sounds, refined pop melodies and the charming voice of the lead singer Zach Condon, the band is about to release its long awaited third album “The Rip Tide”, following the enormous success of “Gulag Orkestar” and “The Flying Club Cup”.

This intimate Dj set will be a unique chance for Beirut fans to continue the party with the band’s favourite tunes, in a venue that has already hosted aftershows of bands like The Foals, The Charlatans, The Specials, Hot Chip and Florence and the Machine.

The show will be opened with a live performance by Molotov Jukebox, a six piece London based band nominated “the real stars of 2011” by the Evening Standard.

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Beirut

Clock Opera

ZULU WINTER
Colours
Wednesday 14 September 2011

£7.50 ADVANCE
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Clock Opera has been steadily building a reputation as purveyors of cerebral, original and utterly captivating music over the last year. Their first limited edition single ‘White Noise’ is now a rarity and the two released last year (‘A Piece Of String’ and ‘Once and For All’) were both lauded both across the blogosphere and in the heavyweight music press and broadsheets.

Thier new single ‘Belongings’ was released on 9th May. Produced by front man Guy Connelly and already a highlight of their live set, it’s an incredibly beautiful and emotive song. Calling to mind the likes of Steve Reich, pianos dapple Guy’s dulcet voice, building to a euphoric crescendo before opening out into a cinematic vista of big sound and glorious harmonies. The B side is the understated brooding and delicate ‘Let Go The Lifeboats’.

Supporting band:

ZULU WINTER

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08444 771000



Clock Opera

Outfit

ZULU WINTER
Shacklewell Arms
Monday 12 September 2011
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Double Denim are delighted to announce the release of Outfit’s first single ‘Two Islands’. The song is slow building, euphoric, and meditates on loneliness, absence and the constant flickering of real life.



Outfit

The History Of Apple Pie

TOY
Shacklewell Arms
Friday 9 September 2011

FREE

Following up on their remarkable presence at 1234 Shoreditch Festival, Field Day and headliner for the Vice Launch Party at Old Blue Last, The History Of Apple Pie will play Shacklewell Arms alongside Toy.

Brought up with Dinosaur Jr’s “Freak Scene” and the pre “Smell Like Teen Spirit” grunge boom, The History Of Apple Pie has already caught the attention of people like Tim Burgess, bands like Yuck and The Pains At Being Pure At Heart.

Single “You’re so cool” has already been danced to in the hipper establishments of East London and press like The Guardian and NME seem to be sure that they will not be “one of those forgotten indie bands”.

The mysterious psychedelic/shoegaze band Toy played as support for the Horrors dates and also enchanted the crowd at the Village Mentality stage of Field Day. The band’s cult status means that there’s no info about them anywhere.

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The History Of Apple Pie

KING CREOSOTE & JON HOPKINS

FRANCOIS AND THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Friday 9 September 2011
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£16.00
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Fence collective founder KING CREOSOTE and revered producer JON HOPKINS team up to perform their collaboration, Diamond Mine, a musical soundscape to accompany an imaginary Scottish coastal village. Their album is a genuine labour of love, recorded over a number of years without the pressure of deadlines, whenever Jon and KC could get together, and features instrumental moments as affecting as the lyrical, consisting of newly interpreted obscure delights picked out from 20 years of King Creosote’s treasure chest of a back catalogue. Intended to be heard as a single experience.



KURT VILE & THE VIOLATORS
WOODS

Austra

KOOL THING
Scala
Tuesday 6 September 2011

£10.50 IN ADVANCE
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After a phenominal sold out show at Cargo, we are pleased to announce a date at the Scala with Austra.

“I don’t think it’s possible for me to write in a major key,” says Katie Stelmanis, co-founder and lead singer of Toronto trio AUSTRA. “I don’t know why. It doesn’t seem to factor in my brain”.

On ‘Feel It Break’, Austra’s new album, out May 16th, Stelmanis, drummer Maya Postepski and bassist Dorian Wolf have crafted a dark, danceable masterpiece suitable for both ritual incantations and clubs; an album hearkening back to the sleazier side of New Wave but still deeply rooted in Stelmanis’s classical and operatic upbringing.



Austra

Blonde Redhead

Union Chapel
Tuesday 6 September 2011

£17.50 IN ADVANCE
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Feted New York trio BLONDE REDHEAD return this September to the UK.

After finising their world tour which coincided with the worldwide release of their latest album Penny Sparkle, they are back in the UK for two exciting dates in Manchester and London. Penny Sparkle, their first album in over three years and eighth in an already illustrious career, marked 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 earned many plaudits from critics following its release in September 2010. They now bring tracks from that album, along with a vast array of their 8 album spanning career of music to the stage in what is sure to be a stunning show.

 

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Blonde Redhead

Blonde Redhead

DIGNAN PORCH
Manchester Academy 3
Monday 5 September 2011

£13.50 IN ADVANCE
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Feted New York trio BLONDE REDHEAD return this September to the UK.

After finising their world tour which coincided with the worldwide release of their latest album Penny Sparkle, they are back in the UK for two exciting dates in Manchester and London. Penny Sparkle, their first album in over three years and eighth in an already illustrious career, marked 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 earned many plaudits from critics following its release in September 2010. They now bring tracks from that album, along with a vast array of their 8 album spanning career of music to the stage in what is sure to be a stunning show.

SUPPORTING ACT:

DIGNAN PORCH

Critically acclaimed after the release of their first LP “Tendrils”, the Tooting band Dignan Porch are ready to bring their ethereal bedroom pop back  to the stage.
Though the world is awash with lo fi/dream pop, Dignan Porch stand out in this new world of shoegazers, with their intertwining of lovely whispers and ethereal guitars, captivating harmonics and pastoral folk moments.

 

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Cat’s Eyes

THE SUNDOWNERS
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Monday 5 September 2011

£15.50
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The urge to create wonder with sound is rarely indulged in today’s utilitarian pop landscape. In an age when a piece of music can be erased with the click of a mouse, there are few artists pouring their heart and soul into what Brian Wilson called “teenage symphonies” – lovingly sculpted three-minute slices of aural heaven, which grip the listener’s ears and emotions in equal measure. In that mundane world, CAT’s EYES really are a godsend.

They are a duo, formed by Rachel Zeffira, a renowned Canadian opera soprano and classical multi-instrumentalist based in London, and Faris Badwan, the statuesque singer from noisy British psychedelic-rockers The Horrors. In the collision of their two very separate worlds, something magical has come into being, which brings together all kinds of dualities – pop/classical, traditional/avant-garde, acoustic/electronic, virtuoso/novice, male/female, happy/sad and, why not, good/evil – into a unique and mindblowing whole.

Their debut album, called simply ‘Cat’s Eyes’, is a romantic pop masterpiece fit to dine at the same table as mid-’60s productions by Phil Spector, Joe Meek or Shadow Morton, but with a fiercely modern, experimental premise, which constantly leaves you wondering just what you’re listening to, and how on earth it was created.



Cat’s Eyes

ELECTRELANE

FRANCOIS & THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS
XOYO
Tuesday 16 August 2011

£14.50 ADVANCE
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Due to high demand, cult act ELECTRELANE announce a second show at the more intimate XOYO, after selling out The Scala.

After the acclaimed ‘No Shouts, No Calls’ album in 2007 and success of the accompanying tour, the band took a three year sabbatical to catch up on some of the other important things in life. Now they’re back for a short, sharp run of dates this summer, with a set drawn from their four albums over the past decade.

Formed during 1998 in the British seaside town of Brighton, ELECTRELANE soon found they could make fantastic music without the aid of vocals and the massively ambitious debut Rock It To The Moon (2001) stands as a testament to that even now. Its majestic follow up ‘The Power Out’ (2004) managed to be more concise without losing their sense of adventure but it was with ‘Axes’ (2005) that the quartet’s experimentalism reached a natural and organic peak. Borne of improvisations, almost entirely instrumental and recorded all in one go, ‘Axes’ marked the end of Electrelane Mk 1 in an intricate body of music that most bands couldn’t emulate if they had detailed diagrams.

Whereas both the previous two albums were committed to tape at Steve Albini’s renowned Electrical Audio Studios in Chicago, the quartet decided to try something different by recording at The Key Club in Benton Harbor, Michigan this time out. From the first euphoric cymbal crashes in ‘The Greater Times’, there seems to be a new kind of light shining on Electrelane which remains strong throughout the album. Whether it’s because of the dainty guitar notes of ‘To The East’, the ebb-and-flow piano of ‘Saturday’ or the charmingly simplistic Ukulele strums on ‘Cut And Run’, there’s no doubt that this is an album inspired by warm emotions. Susman’s surprisingly honest and touchingly tender lyrics also attest to that time and time again but the willingness to push the envelope hasn’t left the band either. At times, ‘No Shouts, No Calls’ touches on the heaviest material they’ve written. For example, the furious, metallic riffing that Clarke slashes out of her guitar during ‘Between The Wolf And The Dog’ are unexpectedly violent but undeniably exciting whilst Gaze pounds the drums with a new found viciousness during ‘Five’ which frequently boils over with rhythmic intensity. But even these moments are executed with a playful heart rather than a perturbed one.

OK, so it might not be ‘pop’ music in the traditional, see-you-on-the-cover-of-Smash-Hits kinda way but this is how Susman, Clarke, Murray and Gaze envision it and as we all know, seeing/hearing the world through someone else eyes/ears is often the best way to broaden the mind. In that respect as well as many others, ‘No Shouts, No Calls’ is an album of enticingly irregular brilliance.

– Hardeep Phull (Brooklyn, New Year’s Day, 2007)

Dividing a vinyl record with Sea Side and River Side betrays an obvious feeling for all things liquid. On his last album, ‘Plaine inondable’, released in 2009, FRANCOIS & THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS sung ‘Be Water’, a delicious and watery song backed up by a secret Basque choir. As frank as the smile given by Jean-Pierre Léaud at the very end of ‘400 Hundred Blows’  when he arrives at the sea for the first time, Fránçois’ music confronts lightly with reality and the elements which surround it.

Being the first Domino French signature, FRANCOIS & THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS are ready to spread their wings over indie pop’s vast international landscape. Open and extremely sensitive, these twelve songs, as evidenced by ‘Les Plus Beaux’, a genuine and already precious love hymn, display graceful and surprising arrangements, with their watercolours like melodies. Like an Atlantic Narcissus or a broken wing Icarus, the sleeve express some sense of romantic journeys.

Tickets from

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0870 264 3333

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0844 477 1000

After the acclaimed ‘No Shouts, No Calls’ album in 2007 and success of the accompanying tour, the band took a three year sabbatical to catch up on some of the other important things in life. Now they’re back for a short, sharp run of dates this summer, with a set drawn from their four albums over the past decade.

Formed during 1998 in the British seaside town of Brighton, Electrelane soon found they could make fantastic music without the aid of vocals and the massively ambitious debut Rock It To The Moon (2001) stands as a testament to that even now. Its majestic follow up ‘The Power Out’ (2004) managed to be more concise without losing their sense of adventure but it was with ‘Axes’ (2005) that the quartet’s experimentalism reached a natural and organic peak. Borne of improvisations, almost entirely instrumental and recorded all in one go, ‘Axes’ marked the end of Electrelane Mk 1 in an intricate body of music that most bands couldn’t emulate if they had detailed diagrams.

Whereas both the previous two albums were committed to tape at Steve Albini’s renowned Electrical Audio Studios in Chicago, the quartet decided to try something different by recording at The Key Club in Benton Harbor, Michigan this time out. From the first euphoric cymbal crashes in ‘The Greater Times’, there seems to be a new kind of light shining on Electrelane which remains strong throughout the album. Whether it’s because of the dainty guitar notes of ‘To The East’, the ebb-and-flow piano of ‘Saturday’ or the charmingly simplistic Ukulele strums on ‘Cut And Run’, there’s no doubt that this is an album inspired by warm emotions. Susman’s surprisingly honest and touchingly tender lyrics also attest to that time and time again but the willingness to push the envelope hasn’t left the band either. At times, ‘No Shouts, No Calls’ touches on the heaviest material they’ve written. For example, the furious, metallic riffing that Clarke slashes out of her guitar during ‘Between The Wolf And The Dog’ are unexpectedly violent but undeniably exciting whilst Gaze pounds the drums with a new found viciousness during ‘Five’ which frequently boils over with rhythmic intensity. But even these moments are executed with a playful heart rather than a perturbed one.

OK, so it might not be ‘pop’ music in the traditional, see-you-on-the-cover-of-Smash-Hits kinda way but this is how Susman, Clarke, Murray and Gaze envision it and as we all know, seeing/hearing the world through someone else eyes/ears is often the best way to broaden the mind. In that respect as well as many others, ‘No Shouts, No Calls’ is an album of enticingly irregular brilliance.

–    Hardeep Phull  (Brooklyn, New Year’s Day, 2007)

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ELECTRELANE

Fixers

FAMILY
Shacklewell Arms
Tuesday 16 August 2011

£5
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Fixers are a new Oxford five-piece.
 
Sonorous melodies and creative musicianship blend together to make music that is thoughtful and uplifting.
 
An experimental surf dance quintet.
 
Whilst experimenting with the fundamentals of Japanese dance music, Fixers blend the sixties psychedelic childlike innocence of Brian Wilson and Bruce Haack with the spaced out eighties avant-garde dance of Arthur Russell, Kate Bush and Tom Tom Club.

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Psychologist

BECOMING REAL + GHOST EYES
Electrowerkz
Thursday 11 August 2011

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Following the release of his debut EP Part One (Waves of OK) earlier this year, PSYCHOLOGIST has announced the follow up, Part Two (Propeller) will be released on August 15th on Not Even / Moshi Moshi Records. For a special preview of Propeller, click here

Waves of OK and Propeller make up a two-part release by Psychologist casually known as The Epidural Collection.

Whereas Waves of OK was a collection of tender, future gospel songs which showcased Psychologist’s subdued mix of fractured beats alongside his emotionally-charged lyrics, Propeller is a colder, more electronic affair.

From the opening track ‘Out, Damned Spot!’, to the insistence of ‘Propeller’ – the lead track from the EP – and the sampling of Richard Linklater’s 2002 animated film ‘Waking Life’ on ‘Séance’, a feeling of foreboding surrounds the entire EP. With Propeller, The Epidural Collection and his Psychologist project as a whole, Iain Woods has announced himself as an curious and uncompromising talent.

‘a great song from a near perfect EP’ – rockfeedback.com

The video for ‘Out Damned Spot’ is now available to see online here

Psychologist performed his ‘Waves of OK’ EP earlier this year with a 12-piece choir at St Matthias Parish Church, Stoke Newington – where that EP was also recorded. He has now announced a headline show at Electrowerkz in August where he will present Propeller live.

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