Gigs This Week!

20th October

Los Campesinos! | No Age | Times New Viking @ Electric ballroom
7.30PM | £10 | Tickets

21st October    

Hatcham Social | Silhouette @ Madame JoJos
8PM | £5/6 | Tickets

Sky Larkin | Those Dancing Days @ Kings College
7.30PM | £8.50 | Tickets

22nd October

Sky Larkin @ Pure Groove
1.30PM | FREE

The Research | Threatmantics @ The Luminaire
7.30PM | £7.50 | Tickets

Bethia Beadman @ The Blag Club
7PM? | FREE (Before 9)

Stricken City | Exlovers | La Shark | Dallas @ Madame JoJos
8PM | £5/6 | Tickets

it hugs back | Rod Thomas @ Borderline
7:30PM | £6 | Tickets

23rd October 

   
Last.fm Presents:
ARE Weapons | Indian Jewelry | SJ Esau | ddd @ Shunt
6PM | £5 / free for members | Tickets on door
     
El Guincho @ Plastic People
FREE
 
Imperial Leisure @ Scala
7.30PM | £7 | Tickets

24th October         
 
THE RAVEONETTES | Liam Fray | The Displacements | Peggy Sue | The Bookhouse Boys | Story One @ 229
8PM | £12.50 | Tickets

Godfathers | The Jim Jones Revue | The Jooks of Kent @ Islington Academy
6.30PM | £7 | Tickets

Broadcast 2000 | Alaska in Winter | Tunng (DJ Set) @ 93 feet east
7PM | FREE

25th October         

Tilly & The wall @ ULU
7.30PM | £10 | Tickets

Cats and Cats and Cats | Vessels | Blakfish | Luke Leighfield | House of Brothers | The Siegfried Sassoon | A Genuine Freakshow | Our Own Devices | Papillions @ The Windmill
2PM | £5/7 | Tickets

Red Light Company | Amazing Baby | Micachu @ Barfly
7PM | £10 | Tickets

26th October     

Vampire Weekend | Ra Ra Riot @ The Forum
7PM | £15 | Tickets

MMJ Cancel European dates!

So, I just got a text message from Ticket Text saying that MMJ will not be supporting Black Keys at Brixton Academy later this year. This is baf new - I love Black Keys, but it was really the combination that drew me in...

Sha La Las: UK dates

Supporting Rosie & The Goldbug this Sunday in the Boogaloo are the poppy danes Sha La Las. But they're rolling up to that with a few extra dates the city too:

16th: The Enterprise
17th: Nambucca

Gigs This Week: Bromheads Jacket, Cut Off Your Hands, Chris Bathgate, Of Montreal, Jenny Lewis, Moshi Moshi, Rosie & The Goldbug

13th October:

Bromheads Jacket @ Kings College
7.30 | £10 | Tickets


VIKING MOSES | Golden Ghost | The End Springs @ Luminaire
7.30 | £7 | Tickets

14th October

Cut Off Your Hands | Division of Laura Lee | Sounds Like Violence | When Gravity Fails @ Water Rats
7.00 | £6 | Tickets

Bodies of Water @ Cargo
7PM | £8 | Tickets

MAPS AND ATLASES | This Town Needs Guns | Tropics @ Bardens Bar
8PM | £7

15th October

Kelli Ali | CHRIS BATHGATE | BETHIA BEADMAN @ Slaughtered Lamb
8PM | £5adv / £6 | Tickets

Anais Mitchell | Alex Lipinski @ 12 Bar Club
7.30PM | £8 | Tickets: 020 7240 2622

16th October

Of Montreal | Eugene McGuinness | Wave Machines @ KoKo
7PM | £14.50 | Tickets

17th October

Jenny Lewis | Benji Hughes @ KoKo
7PM | £14 | Tickets

Tilly & The Wall @ Pure Groove
6.30PM Instore | FREE

18th October

Moshi Moshi Birthday @ Matter
10PM - 7AM | £17.50 | Tickets

Roots Manuva @ Shepherds Bush Empire
7PM | £16 | Tickets

19th October

Cass McCombs @ The Luminaire
7.30PM | £7.50 | Tickets

Rosie & The Goldbug | Sha La Las | Maria Viskonti @ The Boogaloo

The whiskers play Wheel of Fortune

Whiskers give us a gameshow-esque preview of their next album title. I'm going for Three Currents. Any other guesses?

Gigs This Week: Pete Molinari

A bit late with the guide this week, but if you didn't know that Tricky was playing Barbican, I'm not sure your life is worth living. The rest of the week looks like this:

9th October:
Pete Molinari Band @ Dingwalls
7.30PM | £10 /£12.50 | Tickets

Example | Plastic Little @ Hoxton Bar & Kitchen
8PM | £7 | Tickets

10th October
Chris Garneau | Banjo or Freakout | Sleaford Mods @ The Luminaire
7PM | £5 | Tickets

Amanda Palmer | The Danger Ensemble @ Koko
7PM | £13.50 | Tickets

11th October:
Sam Isaac @ Borderline
7PM | £7.50 | Tickets

Calexico | Bodies of Water @ Forum
7PM | £16 | Tickets

Diesel xXx: The Creative Experiment @ Matter

Diesel xXx: The Creative Experiment

The
London leg of Diesel’s global 30th birthday party will see 30 of
London’s best loved artists getting up on stage to collaborate together
on totally unique versions of 30 tracks for a one-off live performance.

Guests include - TheCocknBullKid, Disco Bloodbath, Friendly Fires,
Hannah Hanra, Lethal Bizzle, MARK RONSON, Mystery Jets, New Young Pony
Club, Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man, Rob da Bank, The Lovely Jonjo, These New
Puritans, The Souljazz Records Soundsystem, The Teenagers, The View and
many more


Tickets are available in UK Diesel stores or from websites below

www.diesel.com/xxx/london

Line up

• Cock’n’Bull Kid
• Disco Bloodbath
• Friendly Fires
• Hanna Hanra
• Lethal Bizzle
• Mark Ronson
• Mystery Jets
• New Young Pony Club
• OX.EAGLE.LION.MAN
• Rob da Bank
• The Lovely Jonjo
• These New Puritans
• The Teenagers
• The View

9pm - 3am
£5 (all proceeds to charity)

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Chris Bathgate: London 15-18th October

The number one song on my iPod recently, if I switch to that playlist, is the amazing "Yes I'm Cold" by Chris Bathgate. I don't really know mmuch else of his music, but I'll be very much trying to get to one of his upcoming London shows:

15 Oct 2008 20:00	The Slaughtered Lamb	London, London and South East
16 Oct 2008 20:00	The Betsy Trotwood	London, London and South East
17 Oct 2008 20:00	The Vortex	London, London and South East
18 Oct 2008 20:00	The Miller	london, London and South East

15 Oct 2008 20:00	The Slaughtered Lamb	London, London and South East
16 Oct 2008 20:00	The Betsy Trotwood	London, London and South East
17 Oct 2008 20:00	The Vortex	London, London and South East
18 Oct 2008 20:00	The Miller	london, London and South East

Tonight: Blitzen Trapper | Absentee @ 93 Feet East

TUESDAY OCTOBER 7th:
BLITZEN TRAPPER +
ABSENTEE
7:00PM - 11:00PM ~ £8 IN
ADVANCE / £10 ON THE DOOR
BLITZEN TRAPPER have self-released three albums since
2003, including their latest, Wild Mountain Nation. The struggle of DIY indie
bands can be over-romanticized, but in the case of Blitzen Trapper, the freedom
to work at their own pace is most likely what brought them to come up with the
cock-eyed stylistic blitzkrieg of Wild Mountain Nation. It's better for all of
us they've refused to focus. While I'm loathe to make a Pavement reference, Wild
Mountain Nation comes closer to catching the carefree fuck-off sprawl of Wowee
Zowee than any record in recent memory. Here the band sail through any number of
genres and styles without giving off a whiff of effort, their apparent West
coast breeziness covering for the judicious amount of detail crammed into nearly
every song.
ABSENTEE Born to the sounds of Barry Manillow and The
Carpenters, raised on romantic comedies, and schooled in failed love and
misfiring lust Absentee emerge well-versed in the rigours of romance with their
finest album to date, Victory Shorts. Marked with the influence of Johnny Cash,
Pavement and The Velvet Underground, produced/engineered/mixed by Nick Terry
(Klaxons, Libertines, Bernard Butler), and shot through with the originality and
humour we've come to expect from Absentee, Victory Shorts stands alone as the
band's strongest, most honest record yet.