The Whiskers: Dunce Cap

The Whiskers are compiling and slow-releasing an album of tracks they've dumped. Clearly not going to be as good as their albums - which are also free to download - but worth a mention. The 2nd track "Worms Don't Need No Sleep" is available here.

Gig Addition: 1st Oct - Yo Zushi @ The Betsey Trotwood

Songs in the Dark @ Betsey Trotwood
Live Music:
Lettie | Yo Zushi | The Woe Betides

Spoken Word:
Niall Spooner-Harvey | Sophie Cameron (I think...)

Exhibited Art:
Echao Jiang

Doors 8PM | £3.00

This weeks gigs: phil campbell, the duke spirit, kaki king, golden silvers

Monday 29/09

Phil Cambell | Telegrams | Ben Pike @ The Slaughtered Lamb
Doors 8pm | £7 advance / £8 door | tickets

Tuesday 30/09:

The Duke Spirit | Howling Bells | Lord Auch @ Astoria
£12.50 + booking fee | tickets

Wednesday 1/10:
Tom Brosseau | Adam Beattie @ Cafe OTO
Doors 7PM | £5 on door

Golden Silvers | exlovers @ Water Rats
Doors 7PM | £6.50 | Tickets

their hearts were full of spring | Electrophönvintage | The Garden City Project | Mega Moog @ Buffalo Bar
Doors 8PM | £5

Thursday 2/10:

Frightened Rabbit | O Death | Errors @ Hoxton Bar & Kitchen
Concrete & Glass Festival
2 day ticket: £35 | tickets | Full Schedule

Friday 3/10:

Kaki King @ ICA
8PM | £12.50 | Tickets

Artefacts for Space Travel | Let’s Wrestle | Screaming Tea Party |  Pete and the Pirates @ Macbeth
Concrete & Glass Festival

2 day ticket: £35 | tickets | Full Schedule

The Pack A.D.: London 16-17-18 October

catch The Pack A.D. in London next month at one of their 3 dates in London (maybe not the Towers of London gig...)

16 Oct 2008 21:00	ULU - opening for Towers of London	London, UK
17 Oct 2008 21:00	The Dirty Water Club!	London, UK
18 Oct 2008 21:00	Islington Academy	London, UK

To The Bones: tonight Madame JoJos

Guardian's band of the day No. 396, are playing tonight in Madame JoJos. Can't get better advertising than that.

I'm a bit over this genre of music, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate good, old-fashioned alt-rock when I hear it. Get it now while it's un-MTV2ed.

The Ergs: A few final breaths

So, as is sometimes the case, as soon as I discover a band and have started to follow them - they announce their impending demise.

The Ergs are the latest to join this list. But before they join, they've got a few last contributions to make:

1. "Hindsight is 20/20, My Friend" 2XLP Dirtnap Records: a delayed release of the LP, due to red tape...
2. "Jersey's Best Prancers" LP re-release Don Giovanni Records.
3. "That's it... bye!" 7" Don Giovanni Records - a set of the last original Ergs songs.
4. Ergs/Teenage Bottlerocket split 7" Suburban Home Records - a split single where each band covers a song from an influence.
5. Ergs/Measure [SA] split 7" No Idea Records - Where each band wrote a song for the other to play
6. "Thrash Compactor" one sided 7" Firestarter/Grave Mistake Records - An unfinished (the 2nd side isn't complete) but to-be-released-nonetheless album.

And then they call it a day! I really hate posting that a band is splitting up...

The Whiskers: "Gold Fury"

The Whiskers, one of my favourite bands to keep an eye on, have just posted a new track on their site.

Get it here

Puregroove: Shred Yr Face Special Instore

As part of the powerful combo tour of Los Campesinos, No Age and Times New Viking, one of the bands will play at Pure Groove records at 3PM on Sunday. Another band will play at Beyond Retro at 5PM and then the remaining band will play Rough Trade East at 7PM!

The tour dates (C&P from Pitchfork) below:

10-14 Brighton, England - Komedia
10-15 Liverpool, England - Academy 2
10-16 Leeds, England - Irish Centre
10-17 Dublin, Ireland - Whelans
10-18 Glasgow, Scotland - School of Arts
10-20 London, England - Electric Ballroom
10-21 Bristol, England - Fleece
10-22 Manchester, England - Academy 3

Ponytail: Officially Baltimore's Best Band

Ponytail are getting a lot of well deserved attention this year, especially in their home city of Baltimore where they've been named Best Band for the 2nd year running.

I'm not sure if I can, but if you can you should go along to see them at one of their london gigs this weekend:

20 Sep 2008 20:00	Amsersham Arms	London
22 Sep 2008 20:00	The End	London

The Information: on Vinyl

I never managed to get my hands on a copy of Becks "The Information" when it came out. I suppose I wasn't paying attention, and my flatmate had bought it anyway. But now that he's released a vinyl package...

Dead Confederate: Free MP3 online

Showing their openness, Brantley from Dead Confederate has posted a new song on their official blog hours after recording it.

I haven't listened yet (I have to leave for work shortly) but I guess he's giving it away because of the difference he outlines from their normal style.

Download - Mob Scene.mp3 (192 kbs)

Shearwater @ Rough Trade East today

Anyone free this today should try to get themselves down to Rough Trade East to catch Shearwater for free. FACT

Gigs this week -

Just got back from End of the Road festival, and realised that I need to build some blogging tempo. Still working on it, but in the meantime, here's a list of gigs for the week:

Tuesday    Sep 16         

The Dodos @ ULU
Rosie & The Goldbug @ Soho Revue
DECLAN BENNETT @ The Slaughtered Lamb
The Young Republic - 100 Club

Wednesday Sep 17         

Shearwater | The Constantines @ Bush Hall
Jim Jones Revue @ Undersolo
SMOKE FEATHERS + JACK CHESHIRE @ The Slaughtered Lamb

Thursday Sep 18         

Silhouette @ Proud Galleries
Bob Log III 100 Club

Friday    Sep 19         

ADAM MCBRIDE SMITH + THOMAS DENVER JONSSON @ The Slaughtered Lamb
Black Affair @ Fabric
Florence & The Machine @ Spitalfields
Silhouette @ The Victoria, Mile End
Sam Isaac @ Airwaves
Pete & The Pirates @ KoKo

Saturday Sep 20         

Environmental Photographer of the Year 2008 Exhibition - The Art Pavilion, Mile End Park
Marmaduke Dando @ The Black Gardenia
Trash Fashion @ Albany Theatre
Ponytail @ Astoria