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This month we’ve got the hugely talented Nadine Shah on the cover. She releases her second album in April and it’s a perfect example of an ever-improving, ever-growing writer, her powerful vocals never overpowering the beautiful instrumentation. Make sure you give it a listen, you’d be a fool to miss out. There are just a few fantastic albums out this month (read: huge amounts) and for some reason the bulk of them come out on the 6th, so prepare yourself to be bombarded with some of the finest music this year very, very soon. HOP ALONG
We’re also super excited to announce we’ll be working with the fantastic Visions Festival again this year, with a bunch of our favourite promoters coming together to create the third annual edition. It features its strongest line-up yet, with no less than three previous London in Stereo cover acts playing. To say we’re a little excited already, would be a huge understatement.
STAFF ON REPEAT the tracks we can’t stop listening to this month JESS: COLLEAGUES - SOMEWHERE DAVE: HOP ALONG - WAITRESS LOKI: FORT LEAN - QUIET DAY DANNY: WAXAHATCHEE - LA LOOSE GEMMA: TAME IMPALA - LET IT HAPPEN LiS 03
CONTENTS 08. ON THE STEREO
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13. NEW SOUNDS
Editor: Jess Partridge jess@londoninstereo.co.uk
15. TALES FROM THE CITY
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20. THE MOUNTAIN GOATS
Sub-Editor/Sales: Loki Lillistone loki@londoninstereo.co.uk
24. NADINE SHAH
Staff Writers: Danny Wright Gemma Samways Jack Urwin
30. ALBUM REVIEWS 38. EVENTS
Photography: Nadine Shah cover story: Lucy Johnston
43. GIGS OF THE MONTH 46. LIVE LISTINGS 65. IN LONDON 66. LIVE REVIEWS 69. PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS
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I’ve always been a massive Ty Segall fan, and the addictive, ferocious psychedelia he makes with his band Fuzz is just as incredible. What’s In My Head is just a real fun track that makes me want to be a teenager again. Makes me want to go buy a car from an auction for £80 just so I can smash the shit out of it while listening to The Sonics.
JESSICA PRATT
GAME THAT I PLAY I love her self-titled debut album, though her new record, On Your Own Love Again, seems like a step up. She has moved away from that purer lo-fi sound and towards the 60s Greenwich Village blues folk of artists like Karen Dalton - this song in particular has the same torn emotion.
SAINT ETIENNE ONLY LOVE CAN BREAK YOUR HEART When I first heard this I was put off because I was such a huge Neil Young fan at that time and I thought they had butchered it. Now though when I hear it, it sounds timeless. Hearing them play Foxbase Alpha, on the Garden Stage, in full, is going to be pretty special.
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ULTIMATE PAINTING
TAKING CENTRAL PARK BLUES I got this album last year and it just gets better every time I put it on. The band is made up from members of Veronica Falls and Mazes and they wrote it in their down time while touring the U.S. together, I believe. This song sounds like the Velvet Underground but has a distinctly British feel too. words: EOTR co-founder and curator, Simon Taffe End Of The Road: September 4th-6th, Larmer Tree Gardens, Dorset. facebook.com/EOTRFestival // @EOTR endoftheroadfestival.com
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NEW SOUNDS by Gemma Samways
BLACK HONEY In a fiercely-competitive industry, where every young artist has to clamour to be heard, Black Honey’s reluctance to play the game is intriguing. At the time of writing, the Brighton band have shared scant biographical information, seem to be studiously avoiding interviews, and have initially limited their latest double A-side single (Madonna/Spinning Wheel) to just five CD copies, which were auctioned-off on eBay. The cynic in you might suspect that all this evasiveness is simply a ploy to make them appear more enigmatic, except they’ve also published a phone number online so fans can engage with them directly. This seeming predilection for the contradictory bleeds beautifully into their songwriting. Aptly summed-up on their SoundCloud page as a “Sweet.Taste.Of.Darkness,” the quartet’s compositions occupy a liminal space between light and dark, power and vulnerability. Soaring, indie-pop melodies
like Bloodlust arrive deliberately scuffed with squalling feedback. The love-struck euphoria of The Taste is lent grittiness with grunge-y guitar textures. Even at their most buoyant - on the psychedelic, 60s-inspired sugar-rush of Teenager - the sweetness is tempered by Izzy B Phillips’ mercurial vocal performance, which ricochets thrillingly between wide-eyed and sneering. For a band who reportedly only formed last summer, Black Honey display an impressive grasp of melody. In fact, it’s so remarkable that it justifies their somewhat lackadaisical approach to marketing: when you already possess material this strong, who needs an in-depth back-story to add further interest? LISTEN TO: Madonna ONLINE: @BLACKHONEYUK facebook.com/BlackHoneyUK LiS 13
TALES FROM THE CITY by Speedy Ortiz
For someone as restless as I can be, always halfway flaking from a travel itch, touring in a band is alternately sating and irksome. I get to hang out in all kinds of places that, in my not-so-far-away past life teaching college kiddos, I’d never otherwise have an excuse to kick around (North Dakota, por ejemplo). On the other hand, there are certain cities London included - that are so saturated with bloggers, radio stations, and print publications that have thankfully neglected to kick the bucket, we wind up inundated with press commitments and barely have a second to ourselves to do all the things we’d otherwise like to do shopping at Rough Trade, eating at Dishoom, or checking out the Tate Modern (all of which we’d like to do, like, on the reg). The Tate - it was so elusive, our first trip to London! We were playing two consecutive nights, with nary a moment to ourselves in the daytime, and had a video session booked at NME offices. Through the grace of some higher power, we managed to arrive about twenty minutes early. “The Tate’s just a few blocks from here,” our tour manager told us, “though you’re not gonna have time to see anything.” Nonetheless, we sprinted. I remember running through a surrealist wing with my bandmates, Godard-style,
trying to take in as much as possible in ten minutes, all the while maintaining a heart rate that might’ve been induced by a treadmill. It was cool, but we were pretty dissatisfied - in truth, we’d barely cracked the surface of their collection. A return trip to the Tate became my monomaniacal focus (perhaps to the annoyance of our incredibly patient tour manager, David). When we played London again a few months later, it didn’t work out; I’m sure I was petulant and grumpy about this. Finally, when we returned to London in August for a Jabberwocky festival that was - surprise! - cancelled last minute, we found ourselves with a few free hours. Victory! Mike and I abandoned our bandmates and van in traffic near London Bridge and hauled ass a few miles on foot to the museum, spending hours scribbling notes about pieces by Rachel Harrison, Aleksandra Mir, Cy Twombly… it was some kind of heaven, a welcome change from our usual trips to London. Later on we played the 100 Club and drank chocolate milk mixed with whiskey at Ben from Wichita Records’ house. Which was just as heavenly. Sadie Dupuis Speedy Ortiz release Foil Deer, April 20th via Carpark Records.
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Trying to explain the appeal of wrestling to an outsider isn’t the easiest task. For John Darnielle, who built the latest Mountain Goats album Beat The Champ around the sport, there are countless reasons to love it, not least its place as “a more democratic form of theatre”. In the 20th century, Darnielle explains, theatre lost “what makes art vital, which is that it can reach anybody. Art that can only reach some people is diminished.” Wrestling, by contrast, was accessible to all, and unlike other sports it provided the story arcs, choreography and drama of theatre, as well as a talented cast of performers. “The wrestlers were told loosely what the outline was and to run with it, but they’d be making stuff up off the top of their heads. They usually didn’t have cue cards, so it’s a form of improv, y’know? Improv is a very heady space artistically, it’s super interesting: the idea of making something up based on a couple of loose ideas and doing it with the camera rolling, doing it in front of people. You could feel that there was always a possibility that they could fall on their faces - that’s exciting.” ‘Improv’ isn’t a word you’d typically associate with the Mountain Goats, in musical terms at least (Darnielle acknowledges that for the first decade of his career he was just “playing D, G and A”) so it’s a neat parallel that one of the most exciting moments on the new album is the instrumental ending of Heel Turn 2, ad-libbed by Darnielle after recording his main piano part for the track. “I just kept playing until we were done, as far as we could go with it and then I reached
what sounded like an ending point and stopped playing. And we all went ‘Wow, that was crazy!’ It is probably the most improvised thing you’re gonna hear on an indie rock record.” Singling out praise for what’s essentially an accident might be a little insulting, I realise, and start making apologetic noises. “Oh, no no no! I’m actually very excited about that, ’cause that’s like what we were talking about in wrestling. Nothing can be more from your heart than the stuff you just make up off the top of your head.” Improvised or otherwise, Beat The Champ is hands down the most musically accomplished record the Mountain Goats have ever made. In the last few years Darnielle has taken time to develop his talent, and it shows, but even more clear is how much he has started to draw from and feed off those around him. “That collaborative feel that I think we’ve had on the last couple records, it makes for some special moments,” he says, praising bandmates Peter Hughes and Jon Wurster with whom he “developed a sort of musical language”. Elsewhere, enlisting Megafaun’s Brad and Phil Cook as backing singers proved an important move. “Being in the studio with somebody who hits a harmony vocal that sweet is so inspiring, you really try to reach for the unreachable. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, these guys are great musicians right, but you don’t normally think ‘well I’ll go and try doing something like that’, because you assume you can’t. But you hear Brad and Phil, you think ‘well why not? Why can’t we get these big rich chords, let’s try!’ and it’s inspiring.”
“It’s weird, when you make as many records as I do, to make one where you go: ‘No, I think this is the one, this is it’.” LiS 19
Safe to say, Darnielle is happy with the result: “It’s my favourite one,” he declares. “It’s weird, when you make as many records as I do, to make one where you go: ‘No, I think this is the one, this is it’.” Lyrically, it’ll come as no surprise to fans that Beat The Champ explores themes far grander than sport. Like most Mountain Goats records, it’s painful but optimistic and very human, revealing more about the mind of its creator than you might expect from an album about pro-wrestling. Darnielle explains, for example, how he was drawn to the story of the late Luna Vachon while researching her grandfather André The Giant: “She was a person who could never quite shake free of her addiction, and I relate to people like that”. Even as a mere concept the record is remarkably personal, such is wrestling’s link with Darnielle’s childhood and his abusive stepfather, a chapter of his life documented on The Sunset Tree. It’s fitting that he returns to this period the same month The Sunset Tree turns ten, and highlights the legacy of the most popular Mountain Goats to date.
“It’s a funny way to put it, but that’s the record God put me on this Earth to write. It’s reached people for whom it is very valuable and that’s such an honour to have made something that’s useful, so yeah, it’s a super special record to me. I didn’t make the record on purpose, I just started writing songs after my stepfather died and that’s what came out.” It seems unbelievable now, but at the time the singer was making preparations to return to day work, fearing such a confessional record would end his career. As John Darnielle tells me the lesson The Sunset Tree taught him, I’m reminded of his earlier sentiments on the honesty of improv. “If you let the part that is actually you speak, often what it says will be human enough that other people will latch onto it.” A decade on, this is as true as it ever was. Beat the Champ is released April 13th via Merge. The full version of this interview can be found at londoninstereo.com
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“Is it a love album? “I’m not so sure. It’s more a collection of portraits of people that I love.” Much has changed since we last heard from Nadine Shah in 2013. Love Your Dum and Mad was a brutally candid album rooted in personal tragedy. It was a record weighed heavy with earnest emotion that introduced us to a voice praised by critics, and a talent that garnered widespread acclaim for the Whitburn native. The impression of her first release cast a long shadow, but 2015 sees Nadine armed with a new noise and a new outlook. Prepare for a colourful second act... “I said to him ‘Try to imagine the Italian horror films from the 70s. I want really vibrant, vivid colour’ and he got it spot on.” Nadine Shah is explaining to me the brief she gave for the striking artwork accompanying Fast Food. As we speak she is travelling through London on her way to meet the artist, David Stith, for some beers and a chat at an exclusive event in Soho. The vision behind the artwork is strong, and with some talented help the pieces have come to life. Blood drips, layers splice, colours burst; a statement of intent before we even hear a note. Soon these images will grace the sleeve of Fast Food on its release later this month. For anyone who knows the context in which Nadine’s first album, Love Your Dum and Mad, came to be, this injection of life is welcome. Much of her earlier material was written in dire times, a period of grief after the death of two close friends. For Nadine the album provided some much-needed catharsis. “Many of the songs were never intended to be heard. There were some shows where I would find it hard to manage my emotions, but it was an important thing for me to do. It was difficult sometimes but I’m glad I did it.”
The dark, dusky nature of Nadine’s music and the natural gravitas of her vocal performance inspired some enviable comparisons in her early career. Her sound has been likened to that of PJ Harvey and Nick Cave, a fact that Nadine calls “a huge compliment but a lot to live up to. Now that we have recognition I want to keep it. It’s kind of awful!” Her music is an interesting composite of influences. Her childhood soundscape was a melting pot of the farsi and urdu Ghazals of her father, “sad, sorrowful love songs”, and the 1950s era pop and rock of her mother. She was initiated into music early on, taking part in amateur productions at weekends with a local production company, before joining a gospel group and following her interest in jazz. “I decided to move to London when I was sixteen to become a professional jazz singer. Of course, I got bored with singing other people’s songs after a few years, and art had always been a hobby, so I decided to go to art school instead.” This was hardly a move away from music however. It was at Camberwell College of Art, where Nadine studied painting and photography, that she was first encouraged to experiment with the piano after one
“Now that we have recognition I want to keep it. It’s kind of awful!” LiS 25
of her tutors heard her sing. Much like the approach Nadine takes to her lyrics and subject matter, her aim when incorporating the piano was to extract its simple beauty. “Piano is one of the most daunting instruments ever with connotations of all these talented musicians. But it’s also a very visual instrument. It was an experiment for me to try and create something simple but also beautiful,” she says as we talk about the melodies that became such an integral part of her early sound. With new skills and a reinvigorated interest in her art in tow, next came the invaluable proving ground of the Pizza Express Jazz Club. Nadine quite rightly states “It doesn’t sound like a very cool place at all!” but it provided the ideal environment for a young jazz singer. Nadine became a regular at the club, learning from the other performers and taking her chances to hone her skills on the stage. She also had the chance to bend the ear of the greats. “I remember Georgie Fame and Mose Allison coming in from time to time. They gave me some fantastic advice. It was the best experience a young musician could have. It was wonderful.” So what should listeners expect from Fast Food? Before the release of her first album Nadine was an unknown quantity. Now there are expectations to surpass or subvert. “It’s a coming of age record of sorts, though I hate the phrase! At its core it’s really about a succession of short-lived, intense love affairs.” Nadine sounds slightly uncomfortable discussing the meaning behind her work which is to be expected. Her songs are often unflinching and introspective, and with the subject of past love there are bound to be some wounds still yet to fully heal. “I’m at an age now where I’m starting to care less about a lot of things. I’ve started to look at love differently the older I get and I’ve learned some important lessons. You come to realise that you’re never going to be someone’s first love ever again.” There won’t be any pulled punches, then, as latest single Fool demonstrates. More overtly postpunk than previous work, scathing and nihilistic,
Fool is the sound of relationship fallout, made all the more cutting by the restraint in the vocal performance. To get a clearer sense of the album as a whole it would be better to look to track one: Stealing Cars. Its composition and the musical choices made here give insight into the factor that really shaped the album: the live performance. “There were certain tracks when we played live on tour, like To Be A Young Man, where I really enjoyed being able to make the crowd move. I wanted to write more songs where my band would be able to let loose and get into the performance more.”
Fast Food is an album crafted to ‘raise the energy in the room.’ This means more guitars for those intense dynamic build- ups and less time spent at the piano, perhaps reflecting the thematic shift between Nadine’s first and second albums from the sombre tones of loss and mourning to the trepidation of love and lust. But it’s not all change. Behind the scenes there is stability as Nadine and Ben Hillier, who was also at the helm for Love Your Dum And Mad, reunite for the record. Written in a shorter space of time, “It’s a much better representation of where i’m at musically than the first record was”. With only days to go until Fast Food’s release, there are contrasting feelings in
Nadine’s camp; nerves, anticipation, but also pride in her creation. “It doesn’t get any easier. You get more anxious if anything! But there’s a glimmer of hope. The album has some more uplifting, universal themes this time and I am happy with what we’ve managed to do. I hope people enjoy listening to it.” Fast Food is released April 7th via Apollo. Nadine plays: Rough Trade East, April 7th. Oslo, April 16th. Union Chapel, October 1st. Many thanks to Farr's School of Dancing for the use of their premises for the photoshoot.
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ALBUMS
RECORD OF THE MONTH WAXAHATCHEE IVY TRIPP
Channelling her inner indie Gandhi, Katie Crutchfield has said that she wants to be “the kind of musician I want to see in the world”. Ivy Tripp (a term she made up for the directionless-ness she sees in the world around her) is another step on her way to creating a legacy of literate, pure odes to life and trying to get some clarity. It’s an album of poise and poetry. And, while sonically it’s clearly the sound of someone at home with their art, lyrically it’s about being on ‘shaky ground’ – it’s almost as if most of these songs have been written to reassure her that she’s in control. It begins with opener Breathless a track which is all moody tension with its ominous fuzz, organ thuds and hiss as she sings “I’m not trying to have it all”. You think it might set the murky atmosphere for the record. But the joy of the album is how it slips between moods, held together by Crutchfield’s Wichita Recordings tender voice and graceful insight. She’s described the April 6th album as like a ‘gas’ compared to the ‘solid’ of previous Stand Out Tracks: album Cerulean Salt and that makes sense. There’s a La Loose directionless in the sense that the record shifts deftly Under A Rock between moods and tempos, as the album veers between < fragile piano ballads and stomping rockers. The upbeat alt Stale By Noon rock of Under A Rock could be twin sister Allison’s band @k_crutchfield Swearin’ while La Loose’s drum machine and ‘Ooh ooh ooh facebook.com/waxahatchee oohs’ are fantastic – reminiscent of The Blow and an album highlight. “I know that I feel more than you do / I selfishly Live: Electric Ballroom, want you here to stick to,” she sings and it sounds joyful. June 10th. The strum of Summer of Love (‘the summer of love is a photo of us’) is Neutral-Milk-Hotel-beautiful while the fluid, disintegrating ramshackle on the Pavement-esque Less Than (or ‘<’ as it’s cleverly marked as) seems to capture the feeling of the album. Yet it’s the jewellery box twinkle of Stale By Noon where her voice truly cuts through. Naked and vulnerable she sings “I get lost looking up” over a shaky piano. You can imagine her sitting next to the creek her Waxahatchee moniker is taken from, staring at the stars and singing this, a line which seems like both a universal truth and an epiphany. It’s not understanding your past exactly but knowing the future has a lot in store. With Ivy Tripp she’s found herself through the songs and by the end of the record you feel like you know her like a best friend too. Danny Wright LiS 30
BRAWLERS
ROMANTIC ERRORS OF OUR YOUTH Alcopop! Records // April 6th If a record could sell itself in two words, I'm pretty sure “PAY ATTENTION” would be Brawlers’ sales pitch. Their debut album is a wonderfully-charged explosion of two-minute song smashes, full of frustrations regarding the opposite sex. Tracks such as Drink & Dial lead you through an empathetic tale of how not to win the girl, but are delivered with heavy rhythm guitar and cymbal crashes to keep the punk-rock flair, rather than tailing off to something flatter. Amidst the constant oomph of energy you’ll find elements that are even more auspicious than you’d expect; including vocal stylings similar to The Smashing Pumpkins during High Again, and unexpected guitar head-banging spasms in No Rest. If you’re looking for your new favourite punk band, then you’ve probably found them. Amy Gravelle
YOUNG FATHERS WHITE MEN ARE BLACK MEN TOO Ninja Tunes // April 6th Gaining the biggest exposure of their careers from last year’s Mercury win, Young Fathers could be seen as displaying characteristic disdain for their new found spotlight – for one thing, albums with titles like this are rarely the sort that win a Best Album BRIT Award. However they now have a platform from which to thrust their most daring ideas yet on as many people as possible – a position they seem to revel in. The rappers have called this their “pop” record, but thankfully, that’s bollocks (there’s very little melody here, 27 aside, and even that talks of being “27 and not in heaven… I killed a man with my bare hands”). Instead, it’s another decent, weird, angry album from a weird, angry band. Thomas Hannan
MILKY WIMPSHAKE
ENCORE, UN EFFORT! Fortuna Pop! // April 6th Milky Wimpshake’s wry brand of acerbic, melodic indie-pop has a tendency to attract the kind of misinformed journalistic clichés every band residing under the indie-pop bracket has had to endure at some point, with the twee tag in particular being too often wrongly ascribed to any band with female vocal contributions, ever since the early days of Sarah Records. Yet as much as Pete Dale and Sophie Evans’ accented cadences are a little on the dewy side, Encore, Un Effort! is as aesthetically punk as it is sentimental: politics are at the fore on Le Revolution Politique and homophobia is wonderfully berated on Homosexuality Is A Construct. Still indebted to the unfailing euphony of C86, Encore, Un Effort! is smart, noisy and typically lyrically hilarious. Hayley Scott LiS 31
WAND
GOLEM In The Red // April 6th Wand’s first album for In The Red is both a bittersweet disappointment and an experiment in fusion gone terribly awry. Opener The Unexplored Map attempts to marry Pond-style psychedelia with the nu-metal guitar tones of Korn to limited appeal. This forms the basis for much of the rest of the album, though that’s not to say it’s completely charmless. But when faced with the memory of the band that Wand once were, on blistering songs like Flying Golem or Broken Candle from last year’s debut LP Ganglion Reef, the likes of Reaper Invert and Planet Golem fall tragically short. There’s energy and a playful tendency throughout, which means Wand ultimately haven’t lost it, they’ll just need to fish for influences elsewhere. Tim Hakki
THIS IS THE KIT
MEW
Brassland // April 6th
Play It Again Sam // April 27th
This Is The Kit is not so much a whole band as an alias for Kate Stables, a singer blessed with the sort of luxuriant voice that deserves its own dressing room. Her third album is produced by The National’s Aaron Dessner, who plays to her strengths, spotlighting Stables’ glimmering vocal up-close and intimate; an organic folksy performer that breathes sensuality into such unlikely lyrical hooks as “Probably the opposite, in fact” on All In Cahoots. The backing – all rootsy percussive acoustica, sustained guitar harmonics and music-box effects – submits in loving deference, although when more forceful, as on the beatific Magic Spell and Cold & Got Colder, it helps Stables blossom from silky Sandy Denny into sovereign of rapturous ambient pop. Nick Mee
Just what are you expecting from Mew? Melding a sound that teeters on the edge of (whisper it) prog with shimmering pop production? Here's album opener Satellites, at your service. Occasional flirtations with self indulgence? Why, hello there, Rows, aren't you quite the anthemic ten minutes? Fancy coming to a few festivals this summer? We'd like to wave lighters at you. And for a change in tempo, Russell from Bloc Party adds a welcome sense of urgency (in the form of an art-rocking guitar hook) on My Complications. Despite the six year wait, +- won't disappoint, but whilst existing fans will be happy to pump this beauty into their earholes, the chances of it winning them a bigger following seems slight. Which is a shame indeed. Simone Scott Warren
BASHED OUT
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PASSION PIT KINDRED Sony // April 20th
When Passion Pit emerged with Sleepyhead in 2008 something awoke. The song, with its beautifully hypnotic Mary O’Hara vocal sample, felt like something of a tipping point, helping barge open the floodgates for electronic pop. There was, and still is, something instantly alluring about the frantic, kinetic energy this Massachusetts group can conjure-up. The well-documented bipolar nature of the project’s main man Michael Angelakos sadly makes sense in line with that early work (written as a Valentines gift to his then-girlfriend. Top that…). Since then, Passion Pit has morphed through a number of set-ups, but one thing has remained: the sonic ecstasy that pours out from their music, and which initially drew us in. Kindred kicks-off with Angelakos crying out with that immediately distinctive tone: “1985 was a good year” he screams and we’re off, flying through their bouncing, magical hue. Until We Can’t (Let’s Go) is quintessential PP, brash and building into a blistering chorus that defies the listener not to move to its industrially electronic cacophony. Don’t be fooled though. There’s always a depth to his songwriting, as Kindred offers-up the thoughtful The Shins-esque Looks Like Rain and epic album closer Ten Feet Tall (II) serving as potent reminders of the underlying melancholy to this apparent merriment; there remains so much more than first meets the ear with Passion Pit. George O’Brien
LAPALUX LUSTMORE Brainfeeder // April 6th
If ‘sexy’ isn’t the go-to word to describe glitchy hip-hop-filtered-ambience (if it, indeed, ever had a go-to word) then perhaps Lustmore, the latest full-length from Lapalux, could help pump up its profile over the coming year. This is the second album from Essex-native Stuart Howard, to be released on Brainfeeder, the revered LA label helmed by beat-maker kingpin Flying Lotus. Clearly a pervert for portmanteaus (Lapalux shortens 'lap of luxury' whilst debut album Nolstalchic merged 'nostalgic and chic'), Lustmore follows in this tradition. In the press release, Howard describes, “a lovelessness, searching for something more lustful and fleeting” in the genesis of this record. So does Lustmore give us the horn? In short, yes. Nolstalchic was a mercurial pool of densely layered sonics whereas Lustmore finds Howard applying more focus to structure and arrangements, though woozy, deconstructed oeuvres are still his bread and butter. The mix of styles aides the record's hypnagogia narrative; a state of limbo of consciousness between being awake and asleep. Andreya Triana and Szjerdene both provide potent melodies on U Never Know and Closure respectively, that offer something more direct, lucid. Elsewhere, beat heads can still get lost in warped, unpredictable, dream-like soundscapes like Make Money, a contorted orgy of weighty bass and rat-a-tat snares whilst Midnight Peelers provides colourful, gleaming synths that stay just on the right side of gaudy. Lustmore makes for an absorbing, late-night affair, and sees Lapalux move closer still to stepping outside FlyLo's shadow. Woodrow Whyte LiS 34
PETER BRODERICK COLOURS OF THE NIGHT Bella Union // April 27th
“Peter Broderick’s album is beautiful.” Dave said to me. Deferring to my deputy editor’s judgement, I decided to give it a go: Recorded over three weeks with local musicians in Lucerne, Switzerland, Colours Of The Night blurs Broderick’s passion for story-telling folk music, orchestral strings and intricacies, stratospheric film soundtracks, and pulsing hip-hop. Opening track Red Earth blurs analogue and digital, Colours of the Night is dappled with Afro beats, there’s a definite swing to The Reconnection, whilst Our Best bounces with its brass and horn section. Sparseness is at play, like on the a cappella If I Sinned - which consists of over 30 tracks of Broderick's voice - and the instrumental album closer Rotebode, played on piano with field recordings from the surrounding Swiss mountains. Oh, and it’s beautiful. Turns out Dave was right. Francesca Baker
GNOD INFINITY MACHINES Rocket Recordings // April 20th
Where is this going? Will it ever end? Three hours into the Salford band’s fifth album and these thoughts will inevitably cross your mind. Patience helps unlock the sprawling, intense music littered with disturbing spoken-word passages – but only if you can stomach their claustrophobic low-end grooves and trance-inducing drone rock. Crafted by a revolving quartet of Islington Mill psychedelic pranksters, the album’s seventeen minute opener Control Systems sees a circular jam expertly disrupted by the searing and positively shamanic saxophone playing of Dave McLean, who regularly sidetracks the band’s mind-melting apocalyptic trip with perfectly judged interventions. However when Gnod play it concise – such as on the five-minute power romp Breaking the Hex – they prove that resistance to their metronomic mission is indeed futile. Geoff Cowart
FEVER DREAM MOYAMOYA Club AC30 // April 27th
On their debut EP, Fever Dream demonstrated just how much noise three people can make when they set their mind to it (see the furious, shoegaze-end-of-the-world of Poyekhali! for proof). On their first full album, the basic elements remain – swathes of Sonic Youth-esque guitars and distant, otherworldly vocals underpinned by a remorseless rhythm section – but have a more nuanced, fully-formed feel. The results manifest themselves in a record at once varied and consistent, from the driving lead single Serotonin Hit to the skittering, yearning closer Vapours via the likes of Glue building to a crescendo of barely-contained fury. Taught and ambitious, Moyamoya is an album which instantly validates the buzz that has been building up around this band. Gareth Ware LiS 35
EVENTS
a selection of new stuff we’re excited about: LAND OF KINGS FESTIVAL 2015 When you think about it, Dalston’s a pretty spectacular place in terms of arts and culture venues, from the Arcola Theatre to Servant Jazz Quarters to Dalston Roof Park and many more. Land of Kings Festival returns this year to take advantage of this richness, bringing together a selection of big hitters like Tom Vek and Nathan Fake and a bunch of our favourite new acts, such as Koreless. It’s not all about music though; the programme’s full of all sorts of ways to fill your sixteen hours, with the Rio Cinema’s late show of shorts by local directors, and ‘Royal Thoughts’, a salon of talks, interviews and ideas. Clever futurists Let’s Be Brief also bring their creative forum to the mix. Street Feast’s traders will be on hand to ensure no one goes hungry, too. There’s basically no excuse not to get lost in this day which celebrates creativity, ideas and innovation in Dalston like no other. May 3rd // Various Venues, Dalston @LANDOFKINGSFEST // landofkings.co.uk ZEBRA KATZ
RED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY UK TOUR This month the London leg of the RBMA UK Tour takes place over four days, featuring a diverse range of events, from a tropical roller disco with JME, Skepta and more, to eye-opening events such as a workshop by Broadwalk Records head-honcho and bass alchemist Julio Bashmore. There’s a lecture with Harlem’s vanguard MC A$AP Rocky as he chats with Academy team member Benji B. And, just to emphasise the forward thinking nature of the festival, there’s a future sounds of hip-hop showcase with Little Simz alongside Semtex, Jay Prince and Pusha T. Elsewhere Chapter 10 deliver their take on a traditional tea dance, with live performances from Poisonous Relationship and Zebra Katz. The Red Bull Music Academy UK Tour is about celebrating the ever-evolving, ever-expanding, sky-rocketing breadth of talent that comes from these fair shores, so join in and celebrate with them. April 8th-12th // Various venues @RBMA // redbullmusicacademy.com
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CHICK’N’SOURS It feels like we’ve been chasing Carl Clarke’s pop-up adventures (lobster rolls, classy dining, incredible burgers, and more) over London for years now. So hearing he’s settling down in Dalston with a fried chicken restaurant (using some of the best poultry you can possibly find) is real exciting news. There will be his own classic fry, alongside revolving takes on fried chicken from around the world, plus, of course, hot wings. The sours part of the name? Well, that’s the booze; sours based on tequila, bourbon, pisco, and more? Well, yes please. Opens April 17th, with soft launch April 14-16th. 390 Kingsland Rd @ChicknSours // chicknsours.co.uk
HACKNEY FULL MOON SWIM Night swimming, opined REM, deserves a quiet night. We’re not sure if this event will provide all the tranquillity Mr Stipe craves, but you can’t always worry about keeping him happy. Instead this jaunt, from the Secret Adventures team, promises idyllic nocturnal splashing about in London Field’s floodlight lido, followed by a pub trip. You’ll need to book in advance, but if you can’t make this one, it happens each full moon in different locations. Actually, keep an eye on all their events, which include such kicks as canoe trips to Hackney Wick’s Crate Brewery. April 4th, 7pm // £10pp // London Fields Lido @scretadventures // secretadventures.org
SECRET CINEMA: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK Yes, it’s £75. Yes, we remember the palaver last year. But, but...c’mon, it’s The Empire Strikes Back, and you just know it’s gonna be so much Jar Jar Binks-free fun. Constructing incredible, immersive environments, encouraging participation and approaching everything with huge ambition, the Secret Cinema people are sure to make this an unforgettable experience. Dress as Han or dress as Leia. Fulfil your destiny. What’s that? You’ll try to go? No. Try not. Do...or do not. There is no try. (sorry). June 4th-September 27th // £75 pp // Venue TBA @secretcinema // secretcinema.org LiS 39
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OUR PICK OF THE BEST SHOWS HAPPENING IN APRIL
SHACKLEWELL ARMS THE MAGIC GANG
16/04/15 £6adv @Shacklewell Arms DALSTON KINGSLAND/JUNCTION
Brighton’s bringers of much guitar-pop party arrive at the natural home of guitar-pop party.
THE LEXINGTON
CORSICA STUDIOS
A shot of pure pop brilliance, Femme is here to bring her ridiculously catchy, self-written, self-produced tracks to the stage.
The revered psych-stoners, Tweak Bird, play their first UK show in three years.
FEMME
29/04/15 £6.50adv @thelexington
TWEAK BIRD // WORKIN' MAN NOISE UNIT 08/04/15 £8.50adv @Corsica_Studios
ELEPHANT AND CASTLE
ANGEL
TWERPS
O2 SHEPHERDS BUSH EMPIRE
PURITY RING // BORN GOLD Last month's cover stars come to London to celebrate the release of their stunning new album ‘Another Eternity’. 30/04/15 £15adv @o2sbe
SHEPHERDS BUSH
BRIXTON WINDMILL TWERPS
Hailing from Melbourne this quartet make the kind of confessional guitar pop you'd put on a mixtape. 19/04/15 £7.50adv @windmillbrixton
BRIXTON
THE GARAGE
THE EARLY NOVEMBER // YOU BLEW IT! The Early November embrace everything that was great about their early emo anthems at The Garage.
30/04/15 £13adv @TheGarageHQ HIGHBURY AND ISLINGTON LiS 43
SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS WILL JOSEPH COOK
An accomplished and touching songwriter at just 17, SJQ is the perfect venue for his intimate sound.
22/04/15 £7adv @ServantJazz DALSTON KINGSLAND/JUNCTION
HOXTON BAR AND KITCHEN
OSLO
Clarence Clarity brings his fantastically off-kilter pop to Hoxton to bring new album ‘No Now’ to life.
With the jittery energy, intricately layered beats and bass of Lonelady's latest album Hinterland, her live show promises to be spectacular.
CLARENCE CLARITY
09/04/15 £8adv @HoxtonHQ
OLD STREET
LONELADY
10/04/15 £9adv @OsloHackney
HACKNEY CENTRAL
O2 ISLINGTON ACADEMY
THE GOOD SHIP
Rescheduled from November, the New Jersey band finally bring their voracious pop-punk to London.
See this outstanding swing band for the incredible price of £5 in aid of Marie Curie Cancer Care.
24/04/15 £9adv @O2Islington
14/04/15 £5adv @thegoodshipNW6
MAN OVERBOARD // MOOSEBLOOD
ANGEL
NADINE SHAH
FORCE 7
KILBURN
ROUGH TRADE EAST NADINE SHAH
Our wonderful cover star takes to the Rough Trade stage for an intimate show to celebrate the release of her second album. 07/04/15 7pm FREE @RoughTrade
LIVERPOOL STREET
BORDERLINE
SECTION 25 // JEZ KERR Classic post-punk electronica from Manchester, playing a special show with A Certain Ratio's Jez Kerr supporting. 11/04/15 £15adv @theborderline LiS 44
TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD
FABRIC
ELIJAH & SKILLIAM // ROYAL T // D DOUBLE E // MUMDANCE & MORE Grime returns to Fabric this month, and in some style; highlighting the strength of the scene in 2015 with Butterz taking over Room One and Mumdance doing the honours with some more experimental themes in Room Two. 10/04/15 £19adv @fabriclondon
FARRINGDON
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JACCO GARDNER + VENN A first look at his new material from the award-winning Gardner. ELIJAH & SKILLIAM
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THE FINSBURY
THE GREASY SLICKS Lovers of blues and rock'n'roll bringing a unique edge to the sound.
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21/04/15 £3adv @TheFinPub MANOR HOUSE
THE LOCK TAVERN
STRONGROOM
An incredible array of bands come together for easily the best free festival of new music you'll find.
Souterrain bring three brand new acts to Strongroom for another night of musical discovery.
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KALINA // JAMES DA WAVE & MORE
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BIRTHDAYS
WAITING ROOM
The best I'm-dancing-and-I-don't-care-ifanyone's-watching pop we've heard in ages, Petite Mellor is one of a kind.
London-based electronic artist Bearcubs heads to The Waiting Room to debut some much anticipated new music.
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KRUSE
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CATFISH AND THE BOTTLEMEN
VIOLETIC
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KIMMIE RHODES
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£8.50ADV / 7.00PM / THE GARAGE THE SUNSHINE UNDERGROUND + ETCHES £12ADV / 8.00PM / THE GARAGE THE DIRTY BLONDS + LA TRAPPISTINE + EMILY CAPELL + DAVID SANDERS £5ADV / 7.30PM / THE GOOD SHIP ROBERT BEARSBY + BETHAN LEADLEY + LIANNE KAYE + MEADOWS EVER BLEEDING £7ADV / 7.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN AS ELEPHANTS ARE + HIGH TYDE £5ADV / 10.00PM / KOKO GABY MORENO £14ADV / 8.00PM / THE LEXINGTON
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CRHØMA + GEORGE PELHAM
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WOLF ALICE
SWEYN JUPITER + LAFAWNDAH + MOLESKIN +
£14ADV / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE
BOARDGAME JAMES
ARTFUL DODGER £5ADV / 8.00PM / OLD QUEENS HEAD LAPALUX £16.50ADV / 8.00PM / RICHMIX ALASDAIR WEST FREE / 5.00PM / ROUGH TRADE WEST SARAH TANDY TRIO FREE / 7.30PM / SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS RUSTIE £12.50ADV / 9.00PM / VILLAGE UNDERGROUND BRODINSKI + MYD + GUILLAUME BERG £13.50ADV / 9.00PM / XOYO SATURDAY 4TH APRIL SATURDAY 4TH APRIL KIN. + ISLAND OF SIRENS £6ADV / 6.00PM / THE BORDERLINE ENABLERS & SWEET WILLIAMS £9ADV / 7.00PM / ELECTROWERKZ CRAIG RICHARDS + SETH TROXLER + THE MARTINEZ BROTHERS + TERRY FRANCIS + ROBERT HOOD + KARENN £21ADV / 11.00PM / FABRIC
FREE / 11.00PM / THE LAUNDRY THE DARLING BUDS + THE POPINJAYS + COLOUR ME WEDNESDAY £15ADV / 7.00PM / THE LEXINGTON THE VOYEURS + PROM + SKINNY GIRL DIET + THE DRINK + FRANCOBOLLO + LUPO FREE / 3.00PM / THE LOCK TAVERN DENNEY + MAZE & MASTERS £5ADV / 10.00PM / THE NEST U.D.O + SISTER SIN + GARAGE DAYS £18ADV / 6.00PM / O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON THE MEN THEY COULDN'T HANG + MERRY HELL + THE LONDON SEWAGE COMPANY £18ADV / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE KRISTA PAPISTA + FABLE FREE / 8.00PM / THE OLD BLUE LAST TRASH KIT + THE DYKENESS + COMMISERATIONS + KINKY + AS ONDAS £6ADV / 7.00PM / POWER LUNCHES LUNACRE £6ADV / 7.30PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS HUNDREDS + TUSKS + NATHAN BALL + SHADOW CULTURE FREE / 3.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS
MICHAEL SEBASTIAN
SOLSINE
£6ADV / 8.00PM / THE WAITING ROOM
FREE / 7.00PM / THE SOCIAL
BENJI B + SKEPTA £13.50OTD / 9.00PM / XOYO
MONDAY 6TH APRIL DANIEL CARTER + JOHN COXON + ASHLEY WALES
SUNDAY 5TH APRIL SUNDAY 5TH APRIL
£10ADV / 7.30PM / CAFE OTO
ANTWON
HATTIE WHITEHEAD BAND
£10ADV / 7.30PM / BIRTHDAYS
FREE / 7.00PM / THE FINSBURY
JOE LYNN TURNER
IMPERIAL LEISURE
£18ADV / 7.30PM / THE BORDERLINE
£10ADV / 7.30PM / THE LEXINGTON
DAVID AUGUST + STIMMING + EJECA + JACOB
DUNE RATS
HUSLEY + PETER PIXZEL
£7ADV / 8.00PM / THE OLD BLUE LAST
£15ADV / 11.00PM / FABRIC HOTGOTHIC FREE / 7.00PM / THE FINSBURY THE DARLING BUDS + THE FLATMATES + THE LOST
SLUM OF LEGS + GRUBS £5OTD / 7.00PM / POWER LUNCHES NELSON CAN FREE / 5.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS
BOYS £15ADV / 7.00PM / THE LEXINGTON
TUESDAY 7TH APRIL
WYLES & SIMPSON + PINACT + LAZY DAY
RETOX + WARSAWWASRAW
FREE / 3.00PM / THE LOCK TAVERN
£10ADV / 8.00PM / BIRTHDAYS
OH SO QUIET + GULF + THE BEACH + LUKE
VENTENNER + MERRIN + YOU THE LIVING
CUSATO + ALIBIS + MISTY MILLER
£3ADV / 8.00PM / BRIXTON WINDMILL
£8ADV / 6.00PM / NOTTING HILL ARTS CLUB LORDI + DIRTY PASSION + HOLLYWOOD GROUPIES £19ADV / 6.30PM / O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON MULLTUTE + FAGGOT + WOOLF + HATE FUCK + HUMOUSEXUAL £6ADV / 4.00PM / POWER LUNCHES PART TIME + THE RHUBARB TRIANGLE + LEAVE THE PLANET + GANG £5ADV / 3.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS
DANIEL CARTER + THURSTON MOORE £10ADV / 7.30PM / CAFE OTO TOM PRICE-STEPHENS FREE / 7.00PM / THE FINSBURY FROGBELLY AND SYMPHONY £5ADV / 7.30PM / THE GOOD SHIP AMATORSKI + ANTENNA HAPPY + ELASTIC SLEEP £6ADV / 8.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN
MIGOS + FEKKY
THE KVB
£15ADV / 7.00PM / KOKO
£10ADV / 7.30PM / DALSTON VICTORIA
CYMBALS
PUSHA T + LITTLE SIMZ + JAY PRINCE
£12ADV / 7.30PM / THE LEXINGTON
£17.50ADV / 7.00PM / THE GARAGE
SUBURBAN LEGENDS
NEW MANHATTAN + TOMMYANDMARY + PLASTIC
£13.50ADV / 7.00PM / O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON
NOIR
SAMOANS + QUIET LIONS FREE / 8.00PM / THE OLD BLUE LAST NADINE SHAH FREE / 7.00PM / ROUGH TRADE EAST MORTON VALENCE + LIL LOST LOU £7ADV / 7.30PM / SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS JOYA + DIRTY WHITE FEVER FREE / 8.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS MOVIE + DAKOTA FREE / 7.00PM / THE SOCIAL NNEKA £18ADV / 7.30PM / VILLAGE UNDERGROUND
£5ADV / 7.30PM / THE GOOD SHIP SAY LOU LOU £10ADV / 7.00PM / HEAVEN PHANTOM RUNNERS + PINK FILM £6ADV / 8.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN CYPHER16 + A HIGHER DEMISE £8ADV / 7.00PM / O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON JAMES BAY SOLD OUT / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE TORO Y MOI £16.50ADV / 7.00PM / OVAL SPACE A GRAVE WITH NO NAME + CARRIAGES £5ADV / 8.00PM / POWER LUNCHES
WEDNESDAY 8TH APRIL TELESCOPES £6ADV / 7.30PM / 100 CLUB BLACK PEAKS + BROKER + CHARLIE BARNES £6ADV / 7.30PM / BARFLY
DRENGE FREE / 7.00PM / ROUGH TRADE EAST SATYRICON £17.50ADV / 7.30PM / SCALA NATHAN BALL + THE HALF EARTH + GEORGE
SHY FOR SHORES
COSBY
£4ADV / 8.00PM / BIRTHDAYS
£5ADV / 7.30PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS
BRIBRY
THE BOHICAS
£10ADV / 7.30PM / THE BORDERLINE
£5ADV / 7.00PM / THE SOCIAL
TWEAK BIRD + WORKIN' MAN NOISE UNIT
JESSICA PRATT
£8.50ADV / 7.30PM / CORSICA STUDIOS
SOLD OUT / 7.30PM / ST JOHN ON BETHNAL GREEN
KALINA + JAMES DA WAVE + KOTU
BLACK YAYA + LAIL ARAD
FREE / 8.00PM / STRONGROOM
£10ADV / 7.30PM / THE LEXINGTON
POLAR BEAR
SILVERSTEIN + POLAR + BLOOD YOUTH
£14.50ADV / 7.30PM / VILLAGE UNDERGROUND
£14ADV / 7.00PM / O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON
THURSDAY 9TH APRIL BILL LAURANCE & FRIENDS £10ADV / 7.30PM / 100 CLUB JAMES HOLDEN + KORELESS + LUKE ABBOTT FROM £15ADV / 7.30PM / BARBICAN CENTRE MARCHING CHURCH £8ADV / 8.00PM / BIRTHDAYS BROKEN RECORDS £9ADV / 7.00PM / THE BORDERLINE GHOSTPOET + CRUSHED BEAKS £15ADV / 7.30PM / ELECTRIC BRIXTON SKY BETWEEN LEAVES FREE / 7.00PM / THE FINSBURY LUNA DRIVE + VELUDO PLANES + KIERA LAWLOR + GAVIN CHAPPELL-BATES £5ADV / 7.30PM / THE GOOD SHIP SUPERFOOD + YAK + BLACK HONEY £12.50ADV / 7.00PM / HEAVEN CLARENCE CLARITY + SPECIAL GUESTS £8ADV / 8.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN ANALOGUE COPS + FANTASTIC MAN & DJ NOEMA + WE ARE SHINING + IMAN OMARI + BLACKFOOT PHOENIX £8ADV / 8.00PM / KOKO
JAMES BAY SOLD OUT / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE BRITAIN + THE MIDNIGHT BARBERS + ORANGE VISION FREE / 7.30PM / OLD QUEENS HEAD A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS £11.50ADV / 7.30PM / OSLO HAPPY MEALS £5ADV / 8.00PM / POWER LUNCHES PALACE SOLD OUT / 7.00PM / RED GALLERY DAMON & NAOMI FREE / 1.00PM / ROUGH TRADE EAST CHILLY GONZALES FREE / 7.00PM / ROUGH TRADE EAST WALKING ON CARS £10ADV / 7.30PM / SCALA SERGEANT BUZFUZ + TOMORROW'S BACON + HUNGRY DOG BAND FREE / 7.30PM / SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS LE VOLUME COURBE + BRITAIN FREE / 8.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS SAN CISCO + I AM HARLEQUIN £12.50ADV / 8.00PM / TUFNELL PARK DOME B TRAITS + MAK & PASTEMAN £6ADV / 9.00PM / XOYO
FRIDAY 10TH APRIL WHITE HILLS + BROKEN DC £12ADV / 8.00PM / BIRTHDAYS NIK TURNER’S NEW SPACE RITUAL £17.50ADV / 7.00PM / THE BORDERLINE ELIJAH & SKILLIAM + ROYAL T W. + D DOUBLE E + P MONEY + JOKER + BIG NARSTIE + DARQ E FREAKER FROM £19ADV / 11.00PM / FABRIC MOON FREE / 7.00PM / THE FINSBURY ÜBERKILL + SUPERFECTA £5ADV / 7.00PM / THE GARAGE JUDAS + THE BEAUTIFUL GAME + THE GOOD TENANTS + THE MILK CRISIS + CHRISTOPHER BARBICAN JAMES £5ADV / 7.30PM / THE GOOD SHIP GAVIN JAMES SOLD OUT / 7.30PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN DUTCH UNCLES + OSCAR & THE WOLF £13.50ADV / 6.00PM / KOKO COSMO SHELDRAKE SOLD OUT / 7.30PM / THE LEXINGTON WOLF & LAMB + SAN SODA £10ADV / 10.00PM / THE NEST AFNAN PRINCE £10ADV / 6.00PM / O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON ARCHIVE £22.50ADV / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE
THE CORRESPONDENTS £5ADV / 8.00PM / OLD QUEENS HEAD LONELADY £9ADV / 8.00PM / OSLO PALACE £8.50ADV / 7.30PM / RED GALLERY A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS FREE / 6.30PM / ROUGH TRADE EAST CLAWMARKS £5ADV / 8.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS JONAS RATHSMAN + ISAAC TICHAUER + DARIUS £13.50OTD / 9.00PM / XOYO SATURDAY 11TH APRIL CHILLY GONZALES & KAISER QUARTETT SOLD OUT / 7.00PM / BARBICAN CENTRE KALEIDA + APRIL TOWERS FREE / 8.00PM / BIRTHDAYS SECTION 25 + JEZ KERR £15ADV / 7.00PM / THE BORDERLINE SLEAZE + SHAME + NITCH + NIGHT GAMES £3ADV / 8.00PM / BRIXTON WINDMILL ZOMBIE ZOMBIE + HELLO SKINNY £7ADV / 10.00PM / BUSSEY BUILDING CRAIG RICHARDS + NINA KRAVIZ + MR G + EXOS + PREMIESKU £21ADV / 11.00PM / FABRIC SOL FLARE FREE / 7.00PM / THE FINSBURY
THIEVES + THE MAIDA VALES
CHILLY GONZALES & KAISER QUARTETT
£5ADV / 7.00PM / THE GARAGE
SOLD OUT / 7.00PM / BARBICAN CENTRE
HAPPYSAD
BSK LIVE + BRIXTON SOUP KITCHEN
£17ADV / 7.00PM / THE GARAGE
£10ADV / 7.00PM / THE BORDERLINE
CELLARS + BERNACCIA + BLUE MOTEL + THE
HASH HENDREX + PETER GLASSPOOL + PETER
SECOND ECHO + THE AZALEAS
PIXZEL + JACOB HUSLEY
£5ADV / 7.30PM / THE GOOD SHIP
£7ADV / 11.00PM / FABRIC
MANDEM ON THE WALL
LAZY HEART PARADE
£8ADV / 7.00PM / HACKNEY EMPIRE
FREE / 7.00PM / THE FINSBURY
GAVIN JAMES
BENOIT VIELLEFON & HIS ORCHESTRA
£9ADV / 7.30PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN
£12ADV / 5.00PM / THE LEXINGTON
SUPERETS + RIVIERA
DOG EAT DOG + THE RUFFES
TBC / TBC / THE LEXINGTON
£17.50ADV / 7.00PM / THE UNDERWORLD
SEVERINO + RIOTOUS ROCKERS + ALVIN C FREE / 8.00PM / THE LOCK TAVERN SHIFT K3Y + BILLON + JOE HERTZ £5ADV / 10.00PM / THE NEST BROTHER & BONES £13ADV / 6.00PM / O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON TIGERCUB + TAKE TURNS FREE / 8.00PM / THE OLD BLUE LAST CORNERS + MORNING SMOKE £7ADV / 7.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS BENJI B + FOUR TET + FLOATING POINTS £20OTD / 9.00PM / XOYO
MONDAY 13TH APRIL MONDAY 13TH APRIL STEVEN JAMES ADAMS £10ADV / 7.30PM / 100 CLUB SINÉAD O’CONNOR FROM £20ADV / 7.30PM / BARBICAN CENTRE CHILLY GONZALES & KAISER QUARTETT SOLD OUT / 7.00PM / BARBICAN CENTRE GECKO FREE / 7.00PM / THE FINSBURY SLUG £6.50ADV / 7.30PM / THE LEXINGTON MEGHAN TRAINOR
SUNDAY 12TH APRIL
SOLD OUT / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE
MIKE SANCHEZ & HIS BAND
STORNOWAY
£14ADV / 7.30PM / 100 CLUB
FREE / 7.00PM / ROUGH TRADE EAST
DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT PRESENTS 'THE
GEORGE THE POET
RETURN OF ZILTOID'
£12ADV / 7.30PM / SCALA
SOLD OUT / 6.45PM / ROYAL ALBERT HALL TRUST FUND
SINKANE £9.50ADV / 9.00PM / XOYO
£6.50ADV / 7.30PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS GEORGE THE POET SOLD OUT / 7.30PM / VILLAGE UNDERGROUND
WEDNESDAY 15TH APRIL WEDNESDAY 15TH APRIL DEVILSKIN £10ADV / 7.00PM / THE BORDERLINE
TUESDAY 14TH APRIL TUESDAY 14TH APRIL BUSINESS AS USUALLY £12ADV / 7.30PM / 100 CLUB ALEX WILEY £10ADV / 8.00PM / BIRTHDAYS
STAER + BRUTAL BLUES + MXLX £5ADV / 8.00PM / BRIXTON WINDMILL MT. WOLF £10ADV / 7.00PM / CECIL SHARP HOUSE GUNNING + WE BECAME SILHOUETTES + SUFFER
HONEY RYDER + DEXETER
NO FOOLS + DEAD MONEY
£9ADV / 7.00PM / THE BORDERLINE
£4ADV / 7.30PM / THE GOOD SHIP
NEON WALTZ
FLAGS + NATIVE PEOPLE + ALEX LANYON
£6ADV / 7.00PM / ELECTROWERKZ
£6ADV / 8.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN
SEASICK STEVE
THE LEISURE SOCIETY + BENEDICT BENJAMIN
£25ADV / 7.00PM / EVENTIM APOLLO
£18.50ADV / 7.30PM / ISLINGTON ASSEMBLY HALL
LEWIS FIELDHOUSE
GEORGE CLINTON & PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC
FREE / 7.00PM / THE FINSBURY
£22.50ADV / 7.00PM / KOKO
FORCE 7
KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD BAND
£5ADV / 7.30PM / THE GOOD SHIP
£25ADV / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE
DANIEL LANOIS + ROCCO DELUCA
JULY TALK + HIDDEN CHARMS
£19.50ADV / 7.30PM / ISLINGTON ASSEMBLY HALL
SOLD OUT / 8.00PM / THE OLD BLUE LAST
THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT
THE MISPERS
£17.50ADV / 7.00PM / KOKO
£10ADV / 7.00PM / OSLO
BALTHAZAR
CARL BARAT AND THE JACKALS
£7ADV / 7.30PM / OSLO
£17.50ADV / 7.30PM / SCALA
ALFIE CONNOR
BIPOLAR SUNSHINE
£6ADV / 7.30PM / SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS
£12.50ADV / 7.00PM / HEAVEN
MARKER STARLING
NADINE SHAH
£7ADV / 8.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS
SOLD OUT / 7.30PM / OSLO
THE BOHICAS
BEACH BABY + HONEY MOON
£5ADV / 7.00PM / THE SOCIAL
£5ADV / 7.30PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS
ROSIE LOWE
THE MAGIC GANG
SOLD OUT / 7.00PM / ST PANCRAS OLD CHURCH
£5ADV / 8.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS
THE HEALING + JACK POUT
DUKE GARWOOD
FREE / 8.00PM / STRONGROOM
SOLD OUT / 7.00PM / ST PANCRAS OLD CHURCH
BEARCUBS
THE NECKS
FREE / 8.00PM / THE WAITING ROOM
£16.50ADV / 8.00PM / VILLAGE UNDERGROUND
MOUNTIES
SONIC JESUS
£12.50ADV / 8.00PM / XOYO
£8.50ADV / 8.00PM / THE WAITING ROOM
THURSDAY 16TH APRIL THURSDAY 16TH APRIL
CITIZENS £10ADV / 7.00PM / XOYO
SPECTOR SOLD OUT / 7.30PM / 100 CLUB
FRIDAY 17TH APRIL FRIDAY 17TH APRIL
DUOLOGUE + FRETT + NIVEN.
THE COCKNEY REJECTS
£6ADV / 8.00PM / BIRTHDAYS
£18.50ADV / 7.30PM / 100 CLUB
I AM GIANT + THE INTERSPHERE
NAI HARVEST + BEST FRIENDS
£8ADV / 7.00PM / THE BORDERLINE
£7ADV / 7.00PM / BIRTHDAYS
HUNCK
BREACH + MARQUIS HAWKES + CINNAMAN + JON
FREE / 7.00PM / THE FINSBURY
RUST + HACKMAN + LORCA
FELDSPAR + BROKEN BOAT £5ADV / 7.00PM / THE GARAGE DARWIN + ANISEED TREATS + DESERT CLOUDS +
FROM £16ADV / 11.00PM / FABRIC SPIT SHAKE SISTERS FREE / 7.00PM / THE FINSBURY
OF EMBLA
PLANES + JOSH FLOWERS & THE WILD
£5ADV / 7.30PM / THE GOOD SHIP
£8ADV / 7.00PM / THE GARAGE
HALFPENNY PASS + L.E.A + JJ DRAPER + SOPHIE
DAMN DICE + A NEW TOMORROW
DEBATTISTA
£5ADV / 7.00PM / THE BORDERLINE
£5ADV / 7.30PM / THE GOOD SHIP BELLA FIGURA + SHRINES £7.50ADV / 7.30PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN SCRATCH PERVERTS + THROWING SNOW £10ADV / 10.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN COLIN STETSON & SARAH NEUFELD + EX-EASTER ISLAND HEAD £16ADV / 7.30PM / ISLINGTON ASSEMBLY HALL JULY TALK + GET INUIT £5ADV / 10.00PM / KOKO ECLAIR FIFI & NINA LAS VEGAS + JOSEPH MARINETTI £7ADV / 10.00PM / THE NEST STORMZY SOLD OUT / 7.00PM / O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON CIRCA WAVES + RAT BOY £12.50ADV / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE BETE NOIRE FREE / 8.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS BARLI £5ADV / 7.00PM / THE WAITING ROOM HENRIK SCHWARZ + MATHIAS KADEN + HARRI £13.50ADV / 9.00PM / XOYO SATURDAY 18TH APRIL SATURDAY 18TH APRIL JUSTIN ROBERTSON + D/R/U/G/S £4ADV / 9.00PM / BIRTHDAYS
BLAIR DUNLOP + EMMA STEVENS £14.50ADV / 7.30PM / BUSH HALL GNOD + HUM + RIVER SLAUGHTER + SAM WEAVER SOLD OUT / 7.30PM / CAFE OTO TERENCE FIXMER + REDSHAPE + WOO YORK £12.50ADV / 10.00PM / CORSICA STUDIOS DAN GHENACIA + SHONKY + DYED SOUNDOROM + AMIR JAVASOUL + TERRY FRANCIS + SLAM £19ADV / 11.00PM / FABRIC BONFIRE NIGHTS FREE / 7.00PM / THE FINSBURY HUE & CRY + MASSAD £23ADV / 7.00PM / THE GARAGE THE BUG + MALA + DUB PHIZIX + STRATEGY £17.50ADV / 9.00PM / KOKO LXURY + TAYO + K.R.D £5ADV / 10.00PM / THE NEST UB40 + THE BRAND NEW HEAVIES + INDICA CAMPBELL £32.50ADV / 7.30PM / O2 ACADEMY BRIXTON THE LIMERENCE + STALKIN HAWKIN + THESE CERTAIN PEOPLE £10ADV / 6.00PM / O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON ELECTRIC WIRE HUSTLE £14.50ADV / 6.30PM / OSLO YUMI ZOUMA £8ADV / 7.30PM / RED GALLERY
RYLEY WALKER
MALPAS
£7.50ADV / 8.00PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS
£5ADV / 7.30PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS
BENJI B + TODD EDWARDS + ZINC
OSCA
£13.50ADV / 9.00PM / XOYO
£6.50ADV / 7.30PM / SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS
SUNDAY 19TH APRIL SUNDAY 19TH APRIL
MATTHEW E WHITE SOLD OUT / 7.30PM / VILLAGE UNDERGROUND
TOYAH AND THE HUMANS £20ADV / 7.30PM / 100 CLUB
TUESDAY 21ST APRIL TUESDAY 21ST APRIL
ANDREA GIUDICE + MATTHIEU MIRANDE + PETER
XYLOURIS WHITE
PIXZEL + JACOB HUSLEY
£12ADV / 8.00PM / ACE HOTEL
£7ADV / 11.00PM / FABRIC CODAC FREE / 7.00PM / THE FINSBURY MONDAY 20TH APRIL MONDAY 20TH APRIL THE XCERTS £9.50ADV / 7.00PM / THE BORDERLINE DANIEL BACHMAN £6ADV / 8.00PM / BRIXTON WINDMILL GENERATE FREE / 7.00PM / THE FINSBURY MANY THINGS £6ADV / 8.00PM / THE LEXINGTON GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR £22.50ADV / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE LAURA MARLING £30ADV / 7.00PM / QUEEN ELIZABETH HALL THE TWILIGHT SAD £13.50ADV / 7.30PM / SCALA
JAKE ISAAC + EVA STONE £8.50ADV / 7.30PM / BARFLY LO FANG £11.50ADV / 7.30PM / BUSH HALL THE GREASY SLICKS £5ADV / 7.00PM / THE FINSBURY IMAGINARY WAR + LIONFACE + SOL FLARE £6ADV / 7.00PM / THE GARAGE EVERING + ANNA REST EASY + SONDER + JUST ZOE + ELLYS £5ADV / 7.30PM / THE GOOD SHIP FRANKO FRAIZE £6ADV / 8.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN MAIIANS £7ADV / 7.30PM / THE LEXINGTON THE SKINTS £12.50ADV / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE OWS £15ADV / 7.30PM / OSLO
LAURA MARLING
LINN ÖBERG + LUNA GREEN + HONEYMILK
£30ADV / 7.00PM / QUEEN ELIZABETH HALL
FREE / 8.00PM / THE LOCK TAVERN
COMPNY
BLUES PILLS
£7ADV / 7.30PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS
£15ADV / 7.00PM / O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON
NUTSHELL
MISTAJAM + ELLIE INGRAM + ZAK ABEL
£5ADV / 7.30PM / SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS
TBC / 7.00PM / OSLO
YOUTH MAN
WILL BUTLER
TBC / 8.00PM / THE STILLERY
£15ADV / 7.30PM / SCALA
MATTHEW E WHITE
CAPE CUB + ALBERT GOLD
£15ADV / 7.30PM / VILLAGE UNDERGROUND
£5ADV / 8.00PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS
DEVON LOCH
WILL JOSEPH COOK
FREE / 8.00PM / THE WAITING ROOM
£7ADV / 7.30PM / SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS
WEDNESDAY 22ND APRIL WEDNESDAY 22ND APRIL MIKEY GEORGESON & THE CIVILISED SCENE + SIMON LOVE £8ADV / 7.00PM / THE BORDERLINE GAZELLE TWIN + SOME TRUTHS £9ADV / 8.00PM / ELECTROWERKZ SPACE ELEVATOR + SHADY BLUE ORPHANS £5ADV / 7.00PM / THE GARAGE MARCO MESTICHELLA + MEMO + WATER KNOT + WISE KEBABS £5ADV / 7.30PM / THE GOOD SHIP TOVE STYRKE £8ADV / 7.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN OF MONTREAL + HOLY FAMILY £17ADV / 7.30PM / ISLINGTON ASSEMBLY HALL K-X-P £8ADV / 7.00PM / THE LEXINGTON
PET PORTRAIT FREE / 8.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS THE BOHICAS £5ADV / 7.00PM / THE SOCIAL MEILYR JONES FREE / 8.00PM / THE WAITING ROOM THURSDAY 23RD APRIL THURSDAY 23RD APRIL THE MIGHTY MOCAMBOS £12.50ADV / 7.30PM / 100 CLUB ME VS HERO £8ADV / 7.00PM / BARFLY MIKAEL SEIFU + DESERT SOUND COLONY FREE / 8.00PM / BIRTHDAYS MOSS & SLABDRAGGER £9ADV / 7.30PM / CORSICA STUDIOS MARTHA BEAN FREE / 7.00PM / THE FINSBURY
ANNEKE VAN GIERSBERGEN
THE FALL
£17ADV / 7.00PM / THE GARAGE
£23ADV / 7.30PM / ELECTRIC BRIXTON
HUNDREDS + MISSINCAT
DJ HYPE + HAZARD + PASCAL + BREAK +
£8ADV / 7.00PM / THE GARAGE
GROOVERIDER + LTJ BUKEM + MARCUS INTALEX
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...IN LONDON with EAST INDIA YOUTH Your perfect day in London? Sunday is my favourite day to spend in London, so probably battling the frenzy of the flower market and breaking through to the other side to catch the bus to Homerton and get a fine roast at The Adam and Eve on Homerton High Street, followed by evening pints at The Birdcage on Columbia Road. Favourite gig venue? Sebright Arms. The best small room in the city with an excellent pub above it. Friendly staff, great sound and great beer selection. The holy trinity of music venues. You’re in London, it’s sunny out, where do you go? Haggerston Park has offered many a marvellous summer Saturday picnic. Does London ever influence the music you write? Absolutely. I'm generally influenced by environment anyway wherever that may be, but I've been describing Culture Of Volume as being my 'London album'. The intensity and the pace of it has played a large role in the sound of this album. The album wouldn't be as vibrant and colourful without it.
Where do you like to drink? Redchurch Brewery Tap Room, Poyser Street. Redchurch are one of the best breweries to come out of the recent microbrewery explosion in the East end. Theirs is one of class and style that doesn't reflect the misconception that the craft beer scene is full of ‘hipsters’. Their IPA is one of the finest you can find in the city, and one of the best produced in England. The tap room serves only their (fantastic) beers but it's a great place and there's usually a marvellous DJ on. How do you get the most out of London? It's too big a city to try to experience all of it in great detail. It was born out of expanding villages melding into each other, which means each area has its own very distinct feel. Find which area makes you tick the most and really delve into the community there. It's a very rewarding thing to do. Culture Of Volume is released April 6th via XL. Live: Village Underground, June 4th. LiS 65
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LEON BRIDGES The Lexington // March 2nd Hearing Leon Bridges’ debut Coming Home single for the first time is like stumbling across a rare old R&B record in a dusty attic in the Midwest. It smacks of an authenticity and simplicity unfettered by the trivialities of modern life. And like that rare old record, you’ll want to buy it (or steal it) from its present owners, run home and spin it to anyone that comes over for tea. It’s this same mentality that’s led journalists and Radio 1 DJs alike to have the song on constant rotation in the hope that all roads will lead Bridges here. They didn’t hope in vain. This evening, the handsome and
METZ The 100 Club // March 3rd METZ are one of those bands who still manage to catch you off-guard even if you’ve seen them a hundred times before, like some kind of glorious sucker punch. The room is thick with tension before they’ve started as punks in their numbers wait, restlessly, for the frantic disorder to be set upon them. Dirty Shirt opens the set and after about 0.1 seconds the room is upside down. The band ruthlessly plough through tracks of their selftitled debut, keeping the pace up with Get Off and laying the sludge on thick with Wasted before
impeccably dressed 27-year-old Texan can probably hardly believe his luck. Eighteen months ago he was a plongeur in a Tex-Mex restaurant and tonight he’s the dapper marquee star, playing his first UK show decked in a natty two-piece gray suit with a seven-piece band behind him. Shy to the point of timidity, he launches straight into Coming Home flipside Better Man with a nonchalance that almost belies the effortless grace of the song. But that’s the point. He has better songs. The jewel in this blistering set is the soul crawl Lisa Sawyer with its haunting doo wop strains and after-hours sax sounding almost Lynchian in its strange beauty. When the music finally recedes like some half-forgotten dream or a lost and flickering silver screen Hollywood romance, one thing is clear: Leon Bridges is in a league of his own. Tim Hakki
showcasing tracks from the upcoming METZ II. Spit It Out, and the excellently titled Kicking A Can Of Worms change the pace of the set but they are no less brilliant, and certainly no less vicious. The sweat is basically dripping off the ceiling by the time they come around to closing with the unforgiving wig-out of Wet Blanket and Alex Edkins continues to unleash howl after howl down the microphone, convulsing uncontrollably as he does so. When the lights come up, the crowd limp away slowly, breathing heavily, probably thinking to themselves ‘I really thought I was ready this time…’, or ‘where the fuck has my shoe gone?’. Everyone’s beat up, either physically, or mentally, but every face seems to share the same, satisfied grin. Oli Knowles
Leon Bridges photograph: Sebastian Barros
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What’s In A Name? by Jack Urwin Primarily a listings mag, every issue of London In Stereo requires one gruelling night of data entry; manually recording the hundreds of upcoming gigs. Doing this means I see a lot of band names, many of which are so poor that I went to the effort of creating the Twitter account Your Band Name Is Kinda Bad (@ybnikb) to raise awareness. From the baffling Ravioli Me Away, to the ungoogleable Hugh (FYI, mononyms only work if you’re Madonna or Cher), it’s clear this industry has a bigger problem with monikers than Hillary Clinton (that joke would’ve slayed in 1998). Food names are some of the worst offenders (admittedly, Tilapia supporting Brunch at Power Lunches was inspired), superseded only by genitalia (Milk Dick, My Cock Your Problem, The Front Bottoms, and the frankly stunning 100% Beefcock And The TitsBurster). Awful as they are, they’re also pretty fucking funny and, ultimately, harmless - unlike genuinely troubling acts such as Child Abuse, Prostitute Disfigurement, Rape Blossoms and more. Last month, a college promoter in Ohio cancelled a Viet Cong gig after consulting Vietnamese students and concluding that due to their name it would be unsuitable to proceed with the show. While the band almost certainly didn’t mean to offend, I applaud the promoter’s informed decision, if only for highlighting a wider problem in music. Take Slaves, for example, two unrepentant white men who had the nerve to brand someone else ignorant for calling out the historical, racial implications of their name. But what can we do? Any attempt at censorship would give them free publicity, and they won’t listen to reasoned argument. Put simply, bands like this aren’t going anywhere, but as people with a social conscience, we can future-proof ourselves. When the next edgy-named white dudes come along, as fans and as industry folk, we heed the warning of (the ironically badly named) Urwin’s Law: any band dumb enough to continue using a problematic name will never produce something worth listening to. Based on the Slaves songs I’ve heard so far, I’d say this holds up. (They’re shit, in case that wasn’t clear.) LiS 69
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