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Gigs always seem to quieten down in June, so combine the start of the festival season with the World Cup? Well, that leaves us with less than ever. It’s ok though, because it’s pretty clear this month is bringing with it quality over quantity. And with our own amazing festivals coming to London there’s not much to complain about. I'd get your tickets to Field Day, The Camden Crawl and Meltdown Festival as soon as you can, because they won't be hanging around. June also sees a plethora of incredible and important albums released, we've crammed as many as we could on to our tiny pages, and you’re in for a musical treat of a month. Not least because The Antlers are back. After what seems like forever (but really wasn't that long), new album Familiars is here to break your heart all over again. And we love it. Now let’s go catch some rays while they last, yeah? See you next time.
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Alice Boman came out of nowhere last year with her gorgeous low-key debut EP Skisser, released via Adrian Recordings, it was one of the year’s finest debut releases. Now she’s back with her second EP, simply titled EP II, released together with Skisser as her debut LP, and lead track What is one of the year’s finest songs. Armed with a piano, a mesmerizing voice, timeless songwriting and hazy lo-fi production, Boman is simply the most exciting new Swedish act around.
Forget about archipelagos and guitar driven pop, this is the sound of Sweden in 2014. No, really. Sum Comfort is a talented beat production duo from Stockholm, whose delayed debut album Flying Kites is shaping up to be one of our most anticipated releases of the year. Much thanks to their frequent collaborator Ji Nilsson, one of many new Swedish R&B-y pop sensations to look out for (start with Heartbreakfree), last heard on the immediate hit Watch Your Step.
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WHITNEY Having released an EP, a single and the brilliant Adele-sampling Won’t Go back in 2011 Stockholm’s Dante seemed to be on the verge of a major breakthrough when he all but disappeared. In late April he finally returned, after an over two-year-long wait, with new single Whitney and the promise of more music soon.
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MICHELLE Victor Holmberg, one half of nu-disco-duo-gone-pop producers, Montauk (who have work for Faye, Say Lou Lou and more under their belts), has relocated from Stockholm to London to focus on making heartfelt R&B - in Swedish - as 1987. Two tracks later, it’s safe to say it was a brilliant move on his part.
BEATRICE ELI GIRLS
Rising pop artist Beatrice Eli completely smashed us with her long-awaited follow-up to 2012's debut EP and since its release in March we’ve had Girls on our minds, all the time. While we’re waiting for her debut album, Eli has also teamed up with Dante for an upcoming remix to ensure we’ll be into Girls all summer.
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NEW SOUNDS ---------CASH+DAVID BY GEMMA SAMWAYS
Of all the marketing tools emerging artists have at their disposal, mystery is one of the most powerful. Think about it: by their very nature, music writers are both nosey and a bit competitive, making the merest whiff of securing a scoop enough to set them slavering. As Burial would confirm – if you could track him down to ask – not playing the game is hardly a new phenomenon, but recently it does feel like we’ve been inundated with enigmatic acts. For example, Jungle are one band who’ve benefited from the buzz that speculation brings, and they’ve been in the fortunate position of backing it up with talent. Cash+David look capable of repeating the trick. Operating out of a shed somewhere in suburbia, this male/female duo describe themselves as a “co-operative garage band”, and initially bonded over a shared
birthday and mutual love of Dylan Thomas, B Movies and Bacon (Francis we assume, rather than Richard). That scant biography aside, we know predictably little else. Happily, what’s less predictable is their musical output. Fantastic first single Funn featured a serpentine electronic groove and scuffed axe-work, while energetic follow-up Pulse was practically five songs in one, bringing together spidery guitar shapes, Bhangra rhythms, vaguely-Gallic organ sounds, and David’s treacly vocal, chopped up and looped. Lord knows what they’ll create next, but as long as it’s of a similar calibre, we won’t bear a grudge if they hold off on the big reveal. LISTEN TO: FUNN ONLINE: @CashandDavid facebook.com/CashandDavid 11
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TA L E S F R O M T H E C I T Y. . . On tour recently; Sarah and I were in London for a little bit and were staying with a friend in Lewisham because we had some days off. It was a beautiful sunny day outside and it’s not often that we get a full day off in London, so we decided to start our day off at a coffee place somewhere in town. We sat outside, drank our espresso and finally enjoyed a day of rest, one where we didn’t have to worry about tuning a guitar or plugging in our keyboard. We were probably talking about something amazing too, like how we were going to end world poverty or something. Anyway, as we’re talking, this weird drunk dude wearing a once white t-shirt, now seemingly bathed in blood came over. I’m not talking about dried blood either (not like that’s any better), but it looked like fresh blood – like he just killed a guy, and then said to himself, “all this killing has got me down, I could go for a coffee.” So he comes over and starts harassing us, trying to get cigarettes off of me, screaming obscenities, and causing a scene. And I didn’t want to touch the guy. I don’t like fighting but I definitely don’t like fighting crazy people. They don’t reason with things quite like you and I would – you just never know what they’ll do. So the first thing that ran through my head was how I was going to karate kick him to get him away from us while keeping distance between me and him. Luckily, right before I got up to karate kick him in the face (my karate kicks are very accurate), a cop came over and got him out of the way. We continued on, drinking our espresso, solving the world’s bigger problems one sip at a time. Josh Carter PHANTOGRAM RELEASE VOICES JUNE 30TH VIA ISLAND
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THROWING SNOW WORDS: LEE WAKEFIELD
“IT’S MEANT TO BE A SNAPSHOT IN TIME AND NOT SOMETHING THAT I WANT TO DEFINE MY SOUND...” Whether you have stumbled upon his treasure trove of elaborate remixes or unwittingly stood through a promising support slot, many of us have crossed Throwing Snow’s well-trodden path at one time or another. It’s almost an inevitability. Ross Tones, at least under his seasonal pseudonym, has been making music for a while. Mosaic, his debut album, has been quite a long time coming, a notion that he himself acknowledges, blossoming into vivid technicolour after a steady stream of strong EPs that flirted with an array of meticulous touchstones, stitched loosely together by a barrage of tour dates with the likes of Actress, Bonobo and Atoms For Peace, and the tentative unveiling of his own label and various side projects. “My first forays were with a band in my teenage years with my brother and best mates, playing UK metal, really,” he recalls. “After that, I just got more involved with studios before moving to Bristol and getting in to drum and bass. Throwing Snow started when my grandma saved up some money for me, which allowed me to invest in a small studio set up. I just wanted to combine the sounds I liked together.” It’s this forthright approach that prompted Tones to take the intriguing step to postpone the expected release of an LP for a number of years, instead exploring swathes of sonic texture and the dingiest crevices of countless genres through each slighter offering, at a time when most artists (and record labels, for
that matter) would have buckled under the pressure and churned out a half-baked effort. Despite pondering over every detail, Tones, somewhat encouragingly, still struggles to pinpoint a solitary influence. “There isn't one really, the whole point of the album was that it would be a mosaic of my influences. There are too many to name really, but it stretches from modern dance music to eastern music via prog.” While Mosaic remains awash with benchmarks for inspiration, too many for Tones to truly identify, he is rather more aware of the intricate narrative strands that meander their way from the LP’s core. “I've tried to use a feeling of tension and release a lot, alongside unexpected arrangements. It's dark in parts, but also has lighter areas. The same sound set goes in to many of the tracks, but I try and make each distinct. The vocals also seem to tie it together, despite there being a lot of guests.” He’s right, much of Throwing Snow’s appeal lies in its cohesion; his sporadic integration of guest vocalists amongst his clattering beats and off kilter, woozy rhythms feels seamless and never a clunky afterthought. Despite its frenetic pace, that trend is put to remarkable use throughout Mosaic. “I've been really lucky with the vocalists I've found and used, they are a talented bunch. There is a theme that sort of ties them together, but I'm not quite sure what that is. I've worked with some of them before, met some of them in RBMA and have wanted
Mosaic is released via Houndstooth June 2nd Throwing Snow plays Ace Hotel June 1st and Rough Trade East June 5th
to work with Jassy and Kid A for a while. The vocals give a non-specific narrative, which hopefully holds the tracks together and helps it ebb and flow.” With so much ingenuity frothing from each release, it was inevitable that Tones would seek further outlets away from Throwing Snow. A haunting collaboration between him and vocalist Augustus Snow, sporting the moniker of Snow Ghosts, snuck a rather tantalising album into our eardrums last year, while Alight, a mysterious solo endeavour, crept into view fairly recently, ensuring that, although Mosaic’s release date rumbles ever closer, Tones constantly has one eye firmly set on the future. “I've just come back from recording with Snow Ghosts in some amazing acoustic spaces in Dorset, using binaural microphones, so that material should hopefully be out this year. Other than that, it’s touring, and
maybe some Vellico and Alight tracks will rear their ugly heads.” Regardless of the forthcoming release date, Tones is already reflecting on the lengthy creative process that drove Mosaic and how upcoming undertakings may be approached differently. “It was a really interesting project and one that was a lot harder than expected. I've learnt from the experience and I think it's made me better producer. I definitely felt greater freedom to incorporate interesting ideas that came from a headphone listening space, as opposed to the dancefloor. It's meant to be a snapshot in time and not something that I want to define my sound, I always want to try and move forward. I just need to sit back and try and see it as a whole now.” Where Ross Tones heads from here is an alluring proposition; just don’t expect him to wait for you to catch up.
“I ALWAYS WANT TO TRY AND MOVE FORWARD”
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Kip Berman and his group have created a record that jangles in just the right places (Berman, wonderfully, almost called this album Welcome to the Jangle). There’s still that wistful melancholy that’s marked their previous work but the foggy scuzz has been lifted, the curtains have been opened, the light pouring through, illuminating the effortless, sun-kissed melodies and John Hughes film end-credits anthems. You can almost picture it as the protagonists twirl across the dancefloor of their prom. Just listen to Eurydice and Masokissed (and let’s just mention what great pun work that is) which THE PAINS OF BEING stomp and swirl and shine. The Sun Explodes sounds like the best song Dinosaur Jr never PURE AT HEART wrote and the sprightly spring of Beautiful You DAYS OF ABANDON swings like The Smiths’ This Charming Man Fierce Panda // June 2nd before building to a cacophony of dreamy guitars. We even get some horns on songs like The fuzzy rush of Days of soaring closer The Asp At My Chest which is Abandon – and the lightness it delightfully reminiscent of The New exudes - comes as a bit of a Pornographers. Yet for all the influences that shock. Pains of Being Pure at you can pick out there’s a freshness here – a Heart have always seemed feeling that Berman and the band (joined here nocturnal before. But here the by Jen Goma from A Sunny Day in Glasgow) had shadowy roars and hazy crunch a blast putting it together – that means any of last album Belong have comparisons feel curmudgeonly. It lasts just 37 been replaced with a lushness minutes, which only seems to build the idea of and airy joy (sonically if not this being an effortless journey. Indiepop that lyrically) that comes across like sounds this simple takes a lot of skill. The Cure at their most euphoric. Danny Wright
BORIS // NOISE
Sargent House // June 16th The riff-loving Japanese trio are back. But despite the promising album title, the band revert to their more accessible side – think 2011’s Attention Please – rather than the epic crankathon of Absolutego from the late 90s. Which is a shame, because their song-based work veers towards an awkward brand of melodic shoegaze pop – but lacks the creativity in the tunes or dynamics in the singing to sustain it. Yes, there is a tasty nerve-jangling guitar solo from Wata on Ghost of Romance. But the threesome leave it to the killer nine-minute Quicksilver to salvage their power metal credentials with its blitzkrieg of lockstep guitars, eerie screaming and pummelling drums. Geoff Cowart
CEREBRAL BALLZY JADED & FADED
Cult // June 16th With a disgusting mess of raucous guitar, obnoxious lyrics and a spit-in-your-face unapologetic attitude, Cerebral Ballzy have nailed the defiant and belligerent punk stereotype down to a tee. You have to hand it to the Brooklyn-based band; they’ve stuck to their guns in terms of messy production values and, by initiating a delirious jam of intense chaos, they’ve formulated something really fucking cool indeed. Better In Leather is the driving force of the album, with distorted guitar and Ramones-esque choral punches, whilst City’s Girl and Fast Food ensure the two-minute blasts of unruly noise will give your eardrums a good battering. Jaded & Faded isn’t for the feebly inclined, but if you’re after a band with serious ‘ballz’ then you’ve found your guys. Amy Gravelle
LUKE ABBOTT WYSING FOREST
Border Community // June 23rd As you know, it’s something of a thrill to witness an artist fulfilling their potential, and in Wysing Forest, Luke Abbott quietly has; building on the stunning promise of Holkham Drones, albeit with deft sonic strokes and remarkable, understated poise. After opting to withdraw and gently hone his craft with a handful of complex EPs and a gruelling succession of tour dates across the globe, his ability to refocus is most welcome. From the mind-boggling laser shoot-out of Free Migration, the blissful croak of Unfurling and the sweeping heartbreak that oozes from The Balance Of Power’s every orifice, Abbott appears ambitious throughout Wysing Forest. Impossible to define, yet all the more enthralling for it. Lee Wakefield
THE FOREST & THE TREES MISSIONS
Best Fit // June 6th Controversial view here, but the Swedes are alright at this indiepop music business, aren’t they? Among the country’s finer exports of late is this, the golden dazzler of a second album from The Forest & The Trees. It’s smart, it’s dense, it’s gleeful without edging into the cheesy, and mostly it’s just damn beautiful. It’ll leave you crushed or empowered, longing for a cinematic summer’s romance; while at its core, Missions reminds us of the power that pop music yields to delve into our deepest emotions, wrench at our tear ducts and, hell, even get us dancing. So much for the dreaded ‘sophomore slump’. Jack Urwin
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THE FRESH AND ONLYS HOUSE OF SPIRITS
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Best Fit // June 16th Although it may not be the most in vogue comparison, to some, Kylie Minogue's effervescent, floor-filling influence is peppered throughout this hyped debut EP proper from London's Lucy Taylor. And no more noticeably so than on Give You Love, the pick of these sparky pop paeans, where Pawws loosens up her shoulders from the get-go, delicately insisting "I'll be the girl that you want me to be" over womping beats and joyous earwormy bass. Outside remains every bit the stormy synth torch-song it was when we first heard it last year, while opener Sugar's charming glitter-streaked keys continue to nag long after they fade out. “Upsetting disco” never sounded so sweet. Dan Carson
Mexican Summer // June 10th The strength of House of Spirits is also its weakness. San Francisco four-piece Fresh & Onlys have always been a diverse group, flitting from jangly pop to country Americana, underpinned by garage roots, and they certainly cover a conglomeration of styles on this record. There are some stellar songs on here, though. Animal of One is an unlikely crowd pleaser, with its smouldering, soaring vocals, brassy riffs, and self-reflective lyrics, and the jangle of April Fools cleverly belies the sting of a pretend uttering-of-love in an almost Smiths-esque metallic scuffle. The sinister final track Madness is characteristic of the sandysounding fuzz from the local scene which surrounded the band during their formation in 2008. “Home is Where?” frontman Tim Cohen asks on the opening track and it feels like that is what was needed on House of Spirits – a still point, and a place for all these flitting spirits to group. It works as a collection of good songs, but as an album? Francesca Baker
HOW TO DRESS WELL WHAT IS THIS HEART?
Weird World // June 23rd The period since the last How To Dress Well album is addressed in elegiac opener 2 Years On (Shame Dream), but not a whole lot has changed since 2012 – the order of the day is still, for the most part, soaring falsetto vocals about love and loss over downbeat, expertly constructed RnB. Where Tom Krell does branch out, as on the startlingly bleak Face Again (imagine Burial producing TLC) or the sumptuous Precious Love, it’s a delight, but too often it’s easier to admire than to love. It’s a doggedly one-paced album that never really lifts off, but seems content in the prettiness of the surroundings in which it wallows. Thomas Hannan
KLAXONS // LOVE FREQUENCY
Akashic // June 2nd You know the feeling all too well, flicking through old photographs (or simply scrolling left on Facebook) and thinking "What the hell was I wearing?". With enough dust finally settling on new rave, it not only feels analogous to that, but quite literally that in most cases too. But like all bouts of nostalgia, there's still that sense of youthful exuberance attached when you think back to those blissfully naive times, which is exactly what makes Klaxons' new record such a colossal comedown. At once neither stuck in an idealised past nor indicative of an oft-promised future sound, Love Frequency instead just feels astonishingly safe. It's not the past we should feel regretful about, but rueful of the disposable trudge it's become. Luke Morgan Britton
FIRST AID KIT // STAY GOLD
Columbia // June 9th In 2012 the Söderberg sisters roared onto the scene with their acclaimed second long player. Picking up a sizeable and diverse fan-base, the duo transcended all walks of music lovers with their beautifully satisfying brand of folk and impossibly succinct harmonies. Although no major reinvention, Stay Gold sees a subtly impressive advancement in songwriting; where The Lion's Roar resonated with the sisters' bucolic surroundings, this new effort focuses on human emotions, with a sense of escapism shining through. The whimsical Waitress Song highlights this, as Klara and Johanna flirt with the idea of putting their music aside in favour of serving tables. Cedar Lane stands-out too; its Ryan Adams-esque vocal build, pedal steel and orchestral backing all colliding for the most powerful outing on the record. Piano-led ballad A Long Time Ago closes the album, offering stunning stringinfused poignancy. It’s another serene record from the wonderfully talented pair, who are undoubtedly set to Stay Gold for many years to come. George O’Brien
HOWLING BELLS // HEARTSTRINGS
Birthday // June 2nd Is a deadline good or bad for creativity? Howling Bells decided to find out: a self-imposed time limit saw them go through the intense schedule of recording a track a day in the studio. The result is ten songs full of that rough and ready feel which comes from such a process. It also means most of the album follows a familiar formula of gritty, dusty guitar rock and pummelling drums. But Euphoria is tender, beguiling and glorious, Reverie is My- Bloody-Valentine-big and as the swirling Big Love repeats its title in swirling, mesmerising, Spector-esque fashion there’s little you can do but give in to it all. Danny Wright
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â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wanted to feel differently about life, but also about what I was putting out into the world...â&#x20AC;? - peter silberman
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If you could travel back in time and impart wisdom on your younger self, would you? And if you did, what would your message be? It’s a quandary that’s preoccupied Antlers frontman Peter Silberman these past 18 months, inspiring Familiars, an album which examines the discourse between memory and identity. “I think I’ve always been a selfexamining person, maybe even to a fault,” he explains over Skype, from his Brooklyn apartment. “But after years of touring, and massive amounts of change in my life, I found myself really picking apart the past; trying to wrap my head around where I had been, where I was and where I might be going. Sometimes it feels like a younger version of you is actually a completely different person.” From the empathetic twinkle of piano-led album-opener Palace onwards, it’s obvious the band have undergone something of a sonic transformation too. Gone are the reverb-laden, electronic layers that pervaded 2011’s darkly-beautiful Burst Apart, and in its place is a soulful palette of lushlyarranged “organic” instrumentation, imbuing their recordings with newfound warmth. “I decided I was going to simplify my approach,” Silberman confirms. “I wanted to strip away the gauze and capture that ‘played’ quality, gravitating towards cleaner sounds instead of processing the hell out of everything with tonnes of reverb and delay.” Conversely, simplifying their approach actually proved pretty difficult. Written, recorded, engineered and produced by the band at their Brooklyn studio, it took a year before Familiars was ready to hand over to Chris Coady for mixing. Silberman tactfully alludes to the process as being “exploratory”, “very detail-oriented”, and requiring “painstaking effort”, but when I speak to multi-instrumentalist Darby
Cicci he’s a little more candid. “I think it was definitely more challenging [than previous records], but I like to push into new areas. If you’re too conscious of your past work – or pandering to what you think people want to hear – you’re putting yourself in a very uncreative corner. And if you’re not taking risks, what’s the point?” “It’s been an adventure, learning to accept patience and playing a lot of slower, more emotional songs,” he smiles, before adding with a laugh, “But I don’t think I’ll ever make a record like this again.” Though the songwriting process has been collaborative since Hospice, there’s a more obvious parity on Familiars, with the diverse timbres of Michael Lerner’s percussion and Cicci’s horn arrangements both integral to informing the mood of the record. Cicci credits his input to a diverse list of influences, ranging from the music of Nigeria, Ghana and Cuba, to American jazz of the 50s and 60s and “the bright fullness, and dark, soulful, sexy overtones” of the Memphis Sound. Silberman, meanwhile, reconnected with the records he first heard as a child. “Astral Weeks by Van Morrison was a big one, but also Bob Dylan, Nina Simone, Al Green, Marvin Gaye, George Harrison… I listened the hell out of them, just trying to imagine being alive when they came out.” “There was some kind of innocence in music 40 years ago, that’s harder to come
“I don’t think I’ll ever make a record like this again.” - darby cicci by now,” he muses. “Back then, it was a given that music is the playing of instruments as a human expression of what it is be to alive, transformed into something indescribable. I wanted to tap into that, without taking a retro approach to it.” Familiars also finds Silberman abandoning the aphoristic lyrical approach adopted for Burst Apart and 2012’s Undersea EP. I’m curious what prompted the change. “I don’t know exactly. I think the whole minimalist thing began partly because I was exhausted by the wordiness of Hospice. But this time the ideas were coming in bulk, and I couldn’t articulate them in that Haiku-like approach.” Though not as rigidly conceptual as Hospice, Familiars is underpinned by a strong lyrical thread. Fascinated by the
way “the past colours the present”, and the sense of disassociation he felt remembering his younger self, Silberman began singing as “two sides of the same person… trying to find each other in a shared mind.” This duality further manifests itself throughout the record in the recurring motif of doubles, twins and doppelgangers, and in Cicci’s trumpet parts, which act as an “emotional antagonist”, weaving around the vocals. However, what really differentiates Familiars from previous records is its acute sense of hope. Stunning, penultimate track Surrender feels particularly important in this respect, featuring Silberman’s couplet, “To find the peace within the calm at where we’re standing / We have to make our history less commanding.” Both he and Cicci concur with this interpretation, identifying the song as the album’s emotional core.
“It’s the climax: the final acceptance of the turmoil that’s been going on throughout the record,” says Cicci. Silberman elaborates further, “Without that song, I don’t know that I would feel this record is accomplishing what it set out to do. It begins in a place of feeling estranged from yourself and, in the course of travelling back through memory, there’s a return to an original, innocent state of mind. It was really important to me that it had that happy ending, arriving in a place of safety.” Does that sense of hope mirror where he’s at mentally? “I think it does. It’s also a reflection of what I’ve come to want out of life. I went through a phase of being fairly nihilistic for a couple of years, and a lot of that is reflected on Burst Apart. And before that,
with Hospice, I was going through some totally different shit...” “I wanted to feel differently about life, but also about what I was putting out into the world. In many ways, I think I was trying to find that sense of hope for myself. I started to feel a change in outlook on what it is to be alive – and what reason there is to be alive – and tried to capture that on this record.” “Life can be very short or very long and, really, the reality you bring shapes how you experience it,” he concludes. Perhaps if he were to appear to his former self, it’s this message he’d pass on. Familiars is released June 16th via Transgressive Records. The Antlers play Hackney Empire October 24th.
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@ShacklewellArms 11/06/14 £6adv
DALSTON KINGSLAND/JUNCTION GIRL BAND
34
BRIXTON WINDMILL POINO // THE WHARVES // @WindmillBrixton SJ ESAU // 27/06/14 £5adv LAMO BRIXTON
THE GOOD SHIP
LAW
HANNAH ALDRIDGE // EMMA BALLANTINE // JAMSHARP // ANNA O'MALLY @thegoodshipNW6 18/06/14 £5 KILBURN
THE MILLER FAMILIAR CREATURES
@themillerpub 05/06/14 £5adv LONDON BRIDGE
SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS LAW
TOM VEK
@ServantJazz 09/06/14 £6 DALSTON KINGSLAND/JUNCTION
O2 ISLINGTON ACADEMY MISTY'S BIG ADVENTURE
@O2Islington 05/06/14 £10adv ANGEL
ROUGH TRADE EAST TOM VEK
@RoughTrade 10/06/14 FREE LIVERPOOL STREET
QUEEN OF HOXTON
HOLY ESQUE // KIRK SPENCER // JOYA @_QueenOfHoxton_ 28/06/14 £7 LIVERPOOL STREET 35
BIRTHDAYS
GOODBYE CHANEL // TROPIC OF YOUTH // @_Birthdays AOU
14/06/14 FREE
DALSTON KINGSLAND/JUNCTION GOODBYE CHANEL
FABRIC
MATTHEW HERBERT // LUKE VIBERT // PEARSON SOUND // NEIL LANDSTRUMM // @fabriclondon ITAL TEK 20/06/14 £19adv FARRINGDON
STRONGROOM
WOLF PEOPLE // ME & MY KITES // FUCHSIA // STICK IN THE WHEEL @StrongroomBar 22/06/14 (1pm) FREE LIVERPOOL STREET
OSLO
THE WAITING ROOM
SEEKAE @OsloHackney 19/06/14 £7.50adv
MONUMENT VALLEY @WaitingRoomN16 10/06/14 £6adv DALSTON KINGSLAND/JUNCTION
HACKNEY CENTRAL MONUMENT VALLEY
THE LOCK TAVERN HABITATS // SWIM
@thelocktavern 22/06/14 FREE
CHALK FARM // CAMDEN TOWN 36
TOM HICKOX MON 2 JUNE ROUNDHOUSE STUDIO
DEERS MON 9 JUNE SEBRIGHT ARMS
THE HICS TUES 24 JUNE XOYO
WILD SMILES MON 2 JUNE SEBRIGHT ARMS
LAW MON 9 JUNE SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS
PARQUET COURTS WED 25 JUNE ULU
SIVU WED 4 JUNE ROUNDHOUSE STUDIO
GIRL BAND WED 11 JUNE SHACKLEWELL ARMS
LAURA GROVES WED 30 JULY ST PANCRAS OLD CHURCH
HOCKEYSMITH TUES 17 JUNE CORSICA STUDIOS
DANIEL ROSSEN (GRIZZLY BEAR) TUES 26 AUG UNION CHAPEL
JUANA MOLINA THURS 5 JUNE ROUNDHOUSE STUDIO ARCADE FIRE T OU FRI 6 & SAT LD 7 JUNE SO EARLS COURT
CLOUD BOAT MON 23 JUNE ST PANCRAS OLD CHURCH
CATE LE BON THURS 11 SEPT KOKO
THE FAT WHITE FAMILY THURS 18 SEPT ELECTRIC BALLROOM THE ANTLERS FRI 24 OCT HACKNEY EMPIRE ST VINCENT SAT 25 OCT ROUNDHOUSE JUNGLE THURS 30 OCT O2 SHEPHERD’S BUSH EMPIRE
PARALLELLINESPROMOTIONS.COM
SUNDAY 1ST JUNE SUNDAY MIRROR FEEDBACK MUSIC
LINDA PERHACS + GUY BLAKESLEE £15ADV / 8.00PM / UNION CHAPEL
FREE / 1.00PM / ACE HOTEL
MONDAY 2ND 2ND JUNE
ALIEN WHALE + TIM HOLEHOUSE + SLUSHY
AMY LAVERE + JARROD DICKENSON
GUTS + MAD'ZELLE
£9ADV / 8.00PM / THE BORDERLINE
£5ADV / 7.00PM / BRIXTON WINDMILL MATMOS + JEFF CAREY £10ADV / 8.00PM / CAFE OTO THROWING SNOW HOTEL TBC / 7.00PM / ACE CONCRETE
M!R!M + SPACE F!GHT + ANDREW O NEILL £7ADV / 8.00PM / THE LEXINGTON RICHARD SKELTON £20ADV / 7.00PM / LSO ST LUKES
THE ACID £13ADV / 7.30PM / CARGO NEW DESERT BLUES £7ADV / 7.30PM / THE LEXINGTON KIERAN LEONARD FREE / 8.00PM / THE OLD BLUE LAST SIVERT HOYEM + LILY OAKES £14ADV / 8.00PM / OSLO VISION FORTUNE + MOON GANGS +
FUTUREPROOF + CONNOR HARRIS + CANARY
ASHKELON
SWING + REWIND
£5 / 8.00PM / POWER LUNCHES
£12.50ADV / 12.00PM / O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON GARY CLARK JR £15ADV / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE ELECTRIC THERAPY FREE / 4.00PM / POWER LUNCHES PHARMAKON + FOLLAKZOID + THE LUCID DREAM + NOVELLA + PUSHER + SATELITI £14ADV / 4.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS
TELEMAN FREE / 7.00PM / ROUGH TRADE EAST HOWLING BELLS FREE / 1.00PM / ROUGH TRADE EAST TOM HICKOX £10ADV / 7.30PM / ROUNDHOUSE WILD SMILES £5ADV / 7.30PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS RVNES + FOUNDLING £5 / 7.30PM / SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS
SMOKE FAIRIES
VIV ALBERTINE + BRYONY KIMMINGS + ANAT
£13ADV / 7.30PM / XOYO
BEN-DAVID
TUESDAY 3RD JUNE
ONLY REAL + MY SAD CAPTAINS
£8ADV / 7.00PM / THE LEXINGTON FELT TIP + COASTAL CITIES £6ADV / 8.00PM / MADAME JOJO'S
FREE / 8.00PM / ACE HOTEL BABY STRANGE £7ADV / 7.30PM / BARFLY THE KNIEVEL DEAD + DIRTY WHITE FEVER + THE PINK DIAMOND REVUE
LONDON GRAMMAR + NICK MULVEY + RHODES SOLD OUT / 8.00PM / O2 ACADEMY BRIXTON SPOON SOLD OUT / 8.00PM / OSLO
£3ADV / 8.00PM / BRIXTON WINDMILL HOLY CASPER! + ANIMAL HOUSE
JAMES FREE / 7.00PM / ROUGH TRADE EAST
£6ADV / 8.00PM / BUFFALO BAR LUKE HAINES
PAOLO NUTINI SOLD OUT / 7.30PM / ROUNDHOUSE
£15ADV / 7.30PM / BUSH HALL NOMAD COLLECTIVE
JENNY HVAL + ALICE BOMAN £8ADV / 8.00PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS
TBC / 8.00PM / CARGO THE BEAUBOWBELLES
JULIE KJÆR 4-TET £5 / 7.30PM / SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS
£4 / 8.00PM / THE DUBLIN CASTLE WOODEN SHJIPS + FOLLAKZOID + AMEN DUNES £13.50ADV / 8.00PM / ELECTRIC BALLROOM EMA
DRACULA LEGS + SPECIAL GUESTS £5ADV / 8.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS WILD SWIM + LOTTERY WINNERS + BULLIES FREE / 7.00PM / THE SOCIAL
£12ADV / 7.30PM / THE GARAGE
JONATHAN WILSON
THE RAILS
UNDERGROUND
£12.50ADV / 7.30PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN
SOLD OUT / 7.30PM / VILLAGE
PHÈDRE
MOVIE + FANS
£5ADV / 7.30PM / THE WAITING ROOM
FREE / 8.00PM / THE OLD BLUE LAST
KIESZA + JETTA
LOLA COLT + BLEACH
£10ADV / 7.30PM / XOYO
£8.50ADV / 7.30PM / OSLO
WEDNESDAY 4TH JUNE
BITTER RUIN £7ADV / 8.00PM / 100 CLUB BLACK LIPS
SHARON VAN ETTEN FREE / 7.00PM / ROUGH TRADE EAST SIVU + RAFFERTIE £8.50ADV / 8.00PM / ROUNDHOUSE
SOLD OUT / 8.00PM / BETHNAL GREEN
AGATHE MAX + TOMAGA + SAAAD
WORKING MEN'S CLUB
£6 / 7.30PM / SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS
CYMBALS
GLASSER + SUMMER GHOST + OFF LOVE
£7ADV / 8.00PM / CORSICA STUDIOS SCREAMING MALDINI + BOHEMIAN EMBASSY
£13.50ADV / 8.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS
+ THE LIMITED + THE ART OF AMPUTATION
TOO MUCH LOVE + VIBRATIONS OF SOUND
£5 / 8.00PM / THE GARAGE
FREE / 8.00PM / STRONGROOM
LOOP + GODFLESH
PAWS
£25ADV / 7.00PM / HEAVEN
£7ADV / 8.00PM / THE WAITING ROOM
THE PHANTOM BAND
THURSDAY THURSDAY 5TH JUNE
£10ADV / 8.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN SHANNON & THE CLAMS £9ADV / 8.00PM / THE LEXINGTON LONDON GRAMMAR + NICK MULVEY + ASTRONOMYY SOLD OUT / 8.00PM / O2 ACADEMY BRIXTON
PANES FREE / 8.00PM / ACE HOTEL WHALES IN CUBICLES + CUT + HANNAH LOU CLARK £7ADV / 7.30PM / BARFLY BLACK LIPS SOLD OUT / 8.00PM / BETHNAL GREEN WORKING MEN'S CLUB
TODDLA T + ALL ABOUT SHE + OXIDE &
SNOOP DOGG + WRETCH 32
NEUTRINO
£35ADV / 8.00PM / O2 ACADEMY BRIXTON
£7ADV / 7.00PM / BIRTHDAYS BELLA HARDY + THE MIDNIUGHT WATCH £12ADV / 7.00PM / CECIL SHARP HOUSE
MISTY'S BIG ADVENTURE £10ADV / 7.00PM / O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON LORDE
SKREAM + ROUTE 94
£24ADV / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH
£8 / 10.00PM / DANCE TUNNEL
EMPIRE
THE ORWELLS
NIGHT ENGINE + GLITCHES + GALLERY CIRCUS
SOLD OUT / 8.00PM / DINGWALLS
£10ADV / 8.00PM / OSLO
LOOP + GODFLESH
BRANDT BRAUER FRICK + SASCHIENNE +
£25ADV / 6.30PM / HEAVEN
JOHANNES BRECHT
THE IRREPRESSIBLES
£15ADV / 10.00PM / OVAL SPACE
£12.50ADV / 8.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR
MUG + TRL + SS88 + DEMON SMILES + ON A
& KITCHEN
HIDING TO NOTHING
JOHN FULLBRIGHT
£3OTD / 7.00PM / POWER LUNCHES
£16ADV / 8.00PM / ISLINGTON ASSEMBLY
ARTO LINDSAY
HALL
FREE / 1.00PM / ROUGH TRADE EAST
SHARON VAN ETTEN + LYLA FOY
THROWING SNOW
£15ADV / 8.00PM / KOKO
FREE / 7.00PM / ROUGH TRADE EAST
DANIEL BACHMAN + RYLEY WALKER
JUANA MOLINA
£7 / 8.00PM / THE LEXINGTON
£14ADV / 7.30PM / ROUNDHOUSE
JAMES MCLAREN + THE BONFIRED
DIZRAELI AND THE SMALL GODS + THE
FREE / 8.00PM / THE LOCK TAVERN
MOUSE OUTFIT
FAMILIAR CREATURES £5ADV / 8.00PM / THE MILLER
£12.50ADV / 7.30PM / SCALA 9BACH + TWELFTH DAY £10ADV / 7.30PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS
PETER BRODERICK & GREG HAINES
LORDE
£12.50ADV / 7.30PM / VILLAGE
SOLD OUT / 8.00PM / O2 ACADEMY BRIXTON
UNDERGROUND
RED DRAGON CARTEL + SYRON VANES +
DEAD FOREST INDEX + JEHNNY BETH
JUPITER FALLS
£5ADV / 8.00PM / THE WAITING ROOM
£25ADV / 6.00PM / O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON
FRIDAY 6TH JUNE
GRAHAM PARKER & THE RUMOUR + GLENN
CHANTEL MCGREGOR + THE RIOTOUS BROTHERS
TILBROOK £31ADV / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE
£13ADV / 8.00PM / 100 CLUB BRENT NEWMAN AND THE BROKEN ARROWS TBC / 8.00PM / BRIXTON WINDMILL THE POLYPHONIC SPREE
SWERVE + GRAFHAM WATER SAILING CLUB + NO MIDDLE NAME FREE / 8.00PM / THE OLD BLUE LAST OBLIVIONIZED + OLD SKIN + LET IT DIE + GREY
£22ADV / 7.00PM / CLAPHAM GRAND
WIDOW
ARCADE FIRE
5 / 8.00PM / POWER LUNCHES
SOLD OUT / 7.00PM / EARLS COURT
CHROMEO
FAITHLESS
SOLD OUT / 7.30PM / ROUNDHOUSE
£25ADV / 8.00PM / ELECTRIC BRIXTON
SILVER ARM + CHAINS + NOLITA VIEW
GOLDIE + DBRIDGE + BREAKAGE + LENZMAN +
£6ADV / 8.00PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS
ULTERIOR MOTIVE + DJ MARKY + FABIO £18ADV / 11.00PM / FABRIC EYES & NO EYES + SHIELD PATTERNS + LIMBO KIDS
JOE HERTZ + STUFFIX + RADIO ARKHAM £3ADV / 10.00PM / THE WAITING ROOM SATURDAY 7TH JUNE
£7.25ADV / 7.30PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR &
STEWART MAC + FREDDIE CALLS + THE
KITCHEN
RUNNER
PRIDES £5ADV / 10.00PM / KOKO
£6.50ADV / 8.00PM / THE BORDERLINE COLLEEN GREEN TBC / 8.00PM / BRIXTON WINDMILL
HEADLESS HORSEMAN + ABDULLA RASHIM £15ADV / 10.00PM / CORSICA STUDIOS ARCADE FIRE SOLD OUT / 7.00PM / EARLS COURT PUBLIC ENEMY £23.50ADV / 7.00PM / ELECTRIC BRIXTON CRAIG RICHARDS + MOVE D + ROY DAVIS JR £20ADV / 11.00PM / FABRIC
SUNDAY 8TH JUNE SUNDAY GROUPER + PAUL CLIPSON SOLD OUT / 7.30PM / BARBICAN PHONEYS & THE FREAKS + TOWNS £8ADV / 8.00PM / THE BORDERLINE ROTIMO + BOJ + D3 DANCERS £10ADV / 8.00PM / DINGWALLS PIG & DAN + CORMAC + PETER PIXZEL +
2 TONE RED + L.E.A. + DELTA UNIT + GWEN &
JACOB HUSLEY
THE GOOD THING
£7ADV / 11.00PM / FABRIC
£5 / 7.30PM / THE GOOD SHIP GRAHAM PARKER & THE RUMOUR + GLENN
FIELD DAY: PIXIES + THE HORRORS + TEMPLES + POND + DRENGE
TILBROOK
£77.50 (WEEKEND) / 12.00PM / VICTORIA
£31ADV / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH
PARK
EMPIRE GENTLE FRIENDLY + ECHO LAKE FREE / 8.00PM / THE OLD BLUE LAST AUTOHEART £6ADV / 7.30PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS FIELD DAY: METRONOMY + DANIEL AVERY +
MONDAY 9TH JUNE EAUX £6ADV / 8.00PM / BIRTHDAYS POW! £6 / 8.00PM / THE DALSTON VICTORIA
DANNY BROWN + JAMES HOLDEN + JON
COLLEEN GREEN
HOPKINS + SKY FERREIRA
£7.25ADV / 8.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR &
£77.50 (WEEKEND) / 12.00PM / VICTORIA
KITCHEN
PARK
MERCHANDISE
THE 2 BEARS + ANDREW WEATHERALL +
£12.50ADV / 8.00PM / ISLINGTON ASSEMBLY
EMPEROR MACHINE
HALL
£16ADV / 9.00PM / XOYO
THE FELICE BROTHERS + SEAN MCGOWAN
OLIVER SUMMERS
SOLD OUT / 7.00PM / THE LEXINGTON
TBC / TBC / BUFFALO BAR
GIRUGAMESH
VIOLET SION + GRAVITY TRIO + HARRIET
£25ADV / 7.00PM / O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON MARIO BIONDI
LANGLEY + ELLYS £5 / 7.30PM / THE GOOD SHIP
£27.50ADV / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH
GOD DAMN + LIMB + THE ST PIERRE SNAKE
EMPIRE
INVASION
BLAUE BLUME FREE / 8.00PM / THE OLD BLUE LAST THE DELINES FREE / 7.00PM / ROUGH TRADE EAST RIVAL SONS £16.60ADV / 7.30PM / SCALA DEERS £5ADV / 7.30PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS LAW £6 / 7.30PM / SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS BENIN CITY £7 / 7.00PM / THE SOCIAL
£6.25ADV / 8.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN WYE OAK + BACHELORETTE £13ADV / 8.00PM / ISLINGTON ASSEMBLY HALL POND £12.50ADV / 8.0PM / KOKO THE DELINES + THE LOST BROTHERS £12.50ADV / 7.30PM / THE LEXINGTON THE FAUNS + BLUEPRINT BLUE + CLUBS £6ADV / 8.00PM / MADAME JOJO'S DAN REED NETWORK £19.50ADV / 7.00PM / O2 ACADEMY
TUESDAY 10TH JUNE
ISLINGTON
LITTLE BARRIE + GIL DE RAY
DEATH PEDALS + THEM WOLVES + FRAUDS +
£12.50ADV / 8.00PM / 100 CLUB
BURNING ALMS
NIALL CONNOLLY + MICHAEL JOHN
FREE / 8.00PM / THE OLD BLUE LAST
MCCARTHY
TOM VEK
£5 / 8.00PM / BRIXTON WINDMILL
FREE / 7.00PM / ROUGH TRADE EAST
HOWLING BELLS + CLIMBING BOYS
THE PIERCES
£13ADV / 7.30PM / SCALA
£14ADV / 8.00PM / KOKO
SAINT AGNES + THE WITCH HUNT + THE
COLD SPECKS + MOON ZERO
FRANKLYS
£15ADV / 7.30PM / THE LEXINGTON
£3 / 7.30PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS TIJUANA PANTHERS + POLTERGHOST £6.50ADV / 8.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS CHAMPS + GENGAHR + TOR MILLER + EAVES FREE / 7.00PM / THE SOCIAL SASHA SIEM FEAT. VALGEIR SIGURÐSSON £12.50ADV / 7.30PM / VILLAGE UNDERGROUND MONUMENT VALLEY £6ADV / 7.00PM / THE WAITING ROOM
NEW POLITICS £8ADV / 7.00PM / THE OLD BLUE LAST SOLOMON GREY £7ADV / 7.30PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS SHIVER + TOM ROGERSON £5 / 7.30PM / SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS GIRL BAND £6ADV / 8.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS TOM VEK SOLD OUT / 7.30PM / XOYO
FUJIYA + MIYAGI
THURSDAY 12TH JUNE
£11.50ADV / 8.00PM / XOYO
ROO PANES
WEDNESDAY 11TH JUNE MIKEY GEORGESON + SIMON LOVE + EMILY CAPPEL + DIVER + CAPTAIN TBC / TBC / BUFFALO BAR COASTS + PIXEL FIX + SECRET COMPANY £8.50ADV / 8.00PM / DINGWALLS YOUTH MAN + AEROPLANE FLIES HIGH + THE
£6ADV / 7.00PM / ACE HOTEL KONGOS FREE / 8.00PM / BIRTHDAYS THE FAMILY RAIN £12ADV / 8.00PM / DINGWALLS QUICKSAND £15ADV / 8.00PM / ELECTRIC BALLROOM
ESKIMO CHAIN
ELLA EYRE
£6.25ADV / 8.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR &
£12.50A / 7.00PM / ELECTRIC BRIXTON
KITCHEN
YOUNG KATO + AS ELEPHANTS ARE +
ROSKA + ADDISON GROOVE + ARTWORK +
COASTAL CITIES + SECRET SON
PEDESTRIAN + APPLEBLIM
£6.25ADV / 8.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR &
£18ADV / 11.00PM / FABRIC
KITCHEN
FRANCOBOLLO + DUMB + JUICE
WOLF GANG
£6.25ADV / 8.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR &
SOLD OUT / 8.00PM / THE LEXINGTON
KITCHEN
PASTEL COLOURS + MISTOA POLSTA
HOW TO DRESS WELL
FREE / 8.00PM / THE LOCK TAVERN
£14.50ADV / 7.30PM / ICA
TESLA
YOUNG KATO + AS ELEPHANTS ARE
£22.50ADV / 7.00PM / O2 ACADEMY
£5ADV / 10.00PM / KOKO
ISLINGTON SOPHIE DELILA £12.50ADV / 8.00PM / ROUNDHOUSE THE ELEVATERS + BIG SISTER + HARLEE DEAMER £6 / 8.00PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS ELEPHANT STONE £8ADV / 8.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS FRIDAY 13TH JUNE THE DEATH OF POP + MOONES + KING TV £5 / 7.30PM / BARFLY MUNKI + DEMOB HAPPY + STRANGE CAGES
WOLF GANG £10.75 / 8.00PM / THE LEXINGTON EARL GREY FREE / 8.00PM / THE LOCK TAVERN RICHIE SAMBORA SOLD OUT / 7.00PM / O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON THE WILD EYES + GANG + MANDEVILLE + GULLS FREE / 8.00PM / THE OLD BLUE LAST GRANDMASTER FLASH + SCRATCH PERVERTS £17.50ADV / 7.30PM / QUEEN ELIZABETH
FREE / 7.00PM / BIRTHDAYS
HALL
THE SHAPES + MONKISH + ANARCHISTWOOD
GLASS ANIMALS
+ SLOW FRACTION £4ADV / 8.00PM / BRIXTON WINDMILL
FREE / 1.00PM / ROUGH TRADE EAST
UNKLE:REDUX + PHILIP SHEPPARD
THE 2 BEARS + GRECO-ROMAN
£30ADV / 7.30PM / SOUTHBANK CENTRE
SOUNDSYSTEM + WOOKIE + TCTS £13.50ADV / 9.00PM / XOYO
SATURDAY 14TH JUNE GOODBYE CHANEL + TROPIC OF YOUTH +
SUNDAY 15TH JUNE
AOU
MOVEMENT
FREE / 7.00PM / BIRTHDAYS
£5.50ADV / 7.00PM / ACE HOTEL
THE RED CORDS + KING TV + HUSBAND
ARCHIE HAMILTON + CORMAC + PETER
MATERIAL + THE CHEVRONS
PIXZEL + JACOB HUSLEY
£4OTD / 7.00PM / BRIXTON WINDMILL
£7ADV / 11.00PM / FABRIC
JORIS VOORN + TERRY FRANCIS + WOUTER
DANIELSON
DE MOOR
FREE / 5.00PM / OVAL SPACE
£20ADV / 11.00PM / FABRIC THE ELECTRIC BLUE WHALES + TANK TRAP + TOM MURRAY £6ADV / 7.30PM / THE GOOD SHIP MARK LANEGAN + TOR MILLER
ESKA AND CHASSOL £20ADV / 7.30PM / QUEEN ELIZABETH HALL MONDAY 16TH 16TH JUNE
MOVEMENT + BAIO
£17.50ADV / 7.30PM / QUEEN ELIZABETH
SOLD OUT / 7.00PM / ACE HOTEL
HALL
KEATON HENSON
CHRISSIE HYNDE £40ADV / 7.30PM / ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL BUSHSTOCK: CHLOE HOWL + PEGGY SUE +
£17.50ADV / 7.30PM / QUEEN ELIZABETH HALL HAPPYNESS
FARAO + SAINT RAYMOND + FAREWELL JR +
FREE / 6.00PM / ROUGH TRADE WEST
HONEYBLOOD
JOSHUA HOMME ACOUSTIC
£24.50ADV / 12.00PM / SHEPHERDS BUSH
SOLD OUT / 7.00PM / ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL
POLICE DOG HOGAN + CAVAN MORAN + THE
BENIN CITY
MAY BIRDS
£7 / 7.00PM / THE SOCIAL
FREE / 12.00PM / UNION CHAPEL
FAMILIAR/UNFAMILIAR
THE USED + ARCANE ROOTS
£15ADV / 7.30PM / VILLAGE UNDERGROUND
£18.50ADV / 7.30PM / SCALA
TUESDAY 17TH JUNE
JAKE ISAAC
JAY PRINCE + POLAR ZU + ABEL GRAY £4ADV / 7.30PM / BIRTHDAYS THE STRUTS £7ADV / 8.00PM / THE BORDERLINE THE STRUTS £7ADV / 8.00PM / THE BORDERLINE HOCKEYSMITH + BLACK GOLD BUFFALO
£7ADV / 7.30PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS HAPPYNESS £7 / 7.30PM / SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS RADKEY + AMAZING SNAKEHEADS £12.50ADV / 7.30PM / SOUTHBANK CENTRE BLANCA REGINA + STEVE BERESFORD & SHARON GAL + CASSIEL + DARKROOM FREE / 8.00PM / STRONGROOM
£5ADV / 7.30PM / CORSICA STUDIOS VELVETEEN
NO NIGHTS DARK ENOUGH £15ADV / 8.00PM / VILLAGE UNDERGROUND
£5 / 7.30PM / THE GOOD SHIP JULY TALK + CHARLES HOWL + EIGHTEEN
WEDNESDAY 18TH JUNE
NIGHTMARES AT THE LUX + THE FRANKLYS
WARREN XLNCE + THE TREE CLUB + ILLEGAL
£6.25ADV / 8.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR &
MUSIC + BAMBOO RAZAQ
KITCHEN
£5 / 8.00PM / BIRTHDAYS
JAMES HOLDEN
TV SMITH + CHRIS TT + ROBB JOHNSON
£12.50ADV / 7.30PM / PURCELL ROOM
£9ADV / 7.30PM / BUFFALO BAR
EDWYN COLLINS
PINK MOUNTAINS
£25ADV / 7.30PM / QUEEN ELIZABETH HALL
£9ADV / 7.30PM / CORSICA STUDIOS
BO NINGEN
GEORGE EZRA
FREE / 7.00PM / ROUGH TRADE EAST
SOLD OUT / 7.30PM / ELECTRIC BALLROOM
TRENTEMØLLER
HANNAH ALDRIDGE + EMMA BALLANTINE +
£15ADV / 7.30PM / ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL
JAMSHARP + ANNA O'MALLY £5 / 7.30PM / THE GOOD SHIP
SPRING KING + BRAWLERS + YOUNG
LITTLE SIMZ
ROMANCE + FELT TIP
FREE / 8.00PM / THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS
£6.25ADV / 8.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN JAY BROWN FREE / 7.30PM / THE ISLINGTON FUCKED UP + CEREBRAL BALLZY + LOWER £17.50ADV / 7.00PM / KOKO PETER MATTHEW BAUER (THE WALKMEN) £10ADV / 7.30PM / THE LEXINGTON
ALLMAN BROWN + SOPHIE JAMIESON + ROBYN SHERWELL £5 / 7.00PM / THE SOCIAL VIOLENT FEMMES £35ADV / 7.00PM / TROXY THURSDAY THURSDAY 19TH JUNE JUNE
JON RUST FREE / 11.00PM / CORSICA STUDIOS
R5 £17.50ADV / 7.00PM / O2 ACADEMY
BIRD + IDLES + THE GRAFHAM WATER
ISLINGTON
SAILING CLUB + FRED
ELLEN AND THE ESCAPADES
KITCHEN
£6.25ADV / 8.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & £8ADV / 8.00PM / THE OLD BLUE LAST
CHERRY GHOST
NENEH CHERRY + ROCKETNUMBERNINE +
£15ADV / 8.00PM / ISLINGTON ASSEMBLY
CARNET DE VOYAGE
HALL
£17.50ADV / 7.30PM / QUEEN ELIZABETH HALL LONE + KONX-OM-PAX £8ADV / 8.00PM / RED GALLERY SAINT SAVIOUR + BILL RYDER JONES + MANCHESTER CAMERATA
THE PROPER ORNAMENTS £6.50ADV / 8.00PM / THE LEXINGTON PLAY IT FORWARD FREE / 8.00PM / THE LOCK TAVERN TOGETHER PANGEA
SOLD OUT / 8.00PM / ROUNDHOUSE
FREE / 8.00PM / THE OLD BLUE LAST
THE LAKE POETS + EYES & NO EYES
SEEKAE
£4 / 8.00PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS
£7.50ADV / 7.30PM / OSLO
DANCING YEARS
THE BRILLIANT CORNERS + THE TONY HEAD
£5ADV / 7.30PM / ROUNDHOUSE
EXPERIENCE
PETE MURRAY £17.50ADV / 7.30PM / SCALA LUCY CLAIRE £8 / 7.30PM / SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS
£8ADV / 7.30PM / THE LEXINGTON JURASSIC 5 £32.50ADV / 8.00PM / O2 ACADEMY BRIXTON FONSECA £25ADV / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH
FRIDAY 20TH JUNE
IN DREAMS: DAVID LYNCH REVISITED £20-£30ADV / 7.30PM / BARBICAN
EMPIRE BOK BOK + L-VIS 1990 + KINGDOM + GIRL UNIT + HEAD HIGH
SKY LARKIN
£17.50ADV / 10.00PM / OVAL SPACE
£5.50ADV / 7.30PM / BIRTHDAYS
COURTLY LOVE + VELVET MORNING +
PARIAH + OBJEKT + JOHN HECKLE
CLIMBING BOYS
£6ADV / 10.00PM / CORSICA STUDIOS
FREE / TBC / POWER LUNCHES
MATTHEW HERBERT + PEARSON SOUND +
TOM VEK + OLGA BELL
BEN UFO + PANGAEA + NEIL LANDSTRUMM +
£15ADV / 7.30PM / PURCELL ROOM
ITAL TEK
CAMDEN CRAWL: ABC + CYMBALS + GIRLS
£19ADV / 11.00PM / FABRIC MAVIS + MONTAGUE BLACK + THE
NAMES + LAUREL HALO + THE FIELD + SOCIETY
NEVERISTS + LAST OF THE BARSTOOLS +
£49.50 (WEEKEND) / 6.00PM / VARIOUS -
ADAM WHITE
CAMDEN
£5 / 7.30PM / THE GOOD SHIP
MIKE SKINNER + DISMANTLE + SHIFT K3Y +
DARK BELLS + TEMPLE SONGS + VLADIMIR
MS DYNAMITE
£6.25ADV / 8.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR &
£5ADV / 9.00PM / XOYO
KITCHEN COVES £5 / 10.00PM / KOKO
SATURDAY 21ST JUNE
MAYKEL BLANCO Y SU SALSA MAYOR £22ADV / 7.00PM / ELECTRIC BRIXTON
CRAIG RICHARDS + TINI + BILL PATRICK
MAXXI SOUNDSYSTEM + GILDAS + JERRY
£20ADV / 11.00PM / FABRIC
BOUTHIER + LXURY + CLANCY + YEARS &
VANESSA PARADIS £30ADV / 8.00PM / THE FORUM JESUS, JOHN & WHITNEY + BELTER + HEMAN SHEMAN + CRAIG ELLIOTT £5 / 7.30PM / THE GOOD SHIP JURASSIC 5 + DILATED PEOPLES £32.50ADV / 8.00PM / O2 ACADEMY BRIXTON WINGER + JETTBLACK + BLACKWOLF £20ADV / 6.00PM / O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON
YEARS £12.50ADV / 10.00PM / VILLAGE UNDERGROUND THE 2 BEARS + STEVE BUG + SINK THE PINK WITH JARVIS COCKER £13.50ADV / 9.00PM / XOYO SUNDAY SUNDAY 22ND 22ND JUNE JUNE
APP + CORMAC + PETER PIXZEL + JACOB HUSLEY £7ADV / 11.00PM / FABRIC
ESG + 23 SKIDOO £25ADV / 7.30PM / QUEEN ELIZABETH HALL
HABITATS + SWIM FREE / 3.00PM / THE LOCK TAVERN
THE SHERMANS + FELLA + FALSEHEADS 5 / 8.00PM / QUEEN OF HOXTON HAWK + AUDIOGOLD + O. CHAPMAN + ADAM CLEAVER £6ADV / 8.00PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS ADRIAN CROWLEY + WHISKEY MOON FACE + KATIE KIM FREE / 12.00PM / UNION CHAPEL AU REVOIR SIMONE + CRUSHED BEAKS + FEMME + HALLS + JEFFERY LEWIS + OF MONTREAL £49.50 (WEEKEND) / 6.00PM / VARIOUS CAMDEN
THE MERRYLEES £5 / 8.00PM / THE MACBETH VALES + SVALBARD FREE / 8.00PM / THE OLD BLUE LAST WOLF PEOPLE + ME & MY KITES + FUCHSIA + STICK IN THE WHEEL FREE / 1.00PM / STRONGROOM MONDAY 23RD 23RD JUNE
SAM AIREY FREE / 8.00PM / THE OLD BLUE LAST BENIN CITY £7 / 7.00PM / THE SOCIAL
CLOUD BOAT
THE CESARIANS + SNACK FAMILY
£7.50ADV / 7.00PM / ST PANCRAS OLD
TBC / TBC / BUFFALO BAR
CHURCH TUESDAY 24TH JUNE
PENNY ORCHIDS + PARENTHESISDOTDOTDOT TBC / 8.00PM / BUFFALO BAR STRANGEFRUIT + NIGHT FLOWERS + BARE PALE
MANOU £6ADV / 8.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN ROYAL SOUTHERN BROTHERHOOD + LAURENCE JONES £19ADV / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE
£6ADV / 8.00PM / MADAME JOJO'S VELVET MORNING + SAINT AGNES + BLOSSOMS
LUCY ROSE SOLD OUT / 8.00PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS
FREE / 8.00PM / THE OLD BLUE LAST
PARQUET COURTS + THE WYTCHES +
CHORUSGIRL + WOLF GIRL + ALEX
£16.50ADV / 7.30PM / ULU
CHILLTOWN + THE RUN UP
ULTIMATE PAINTING
4 / 7.00PM / POWER LUNCHES
THURSDAY THURSDAY 26TH JUNE JUNE
THE HICS
NAILS + INHERIT
£8ADV / 7.30PM / XOYO
£15ADV / 8.00PM / BIRTHDAYS
WEDNESDAY 25TH JUNE
DINGUS KHAN + TALL STORIES
GARDEN CITY MOVEMENT FREE / 8.00PM / BIRTHDAYS JEFF SCOTT SOTO + NEURONSPOILER + WORRY BLAST £20ADV / 7.30PM / THE BORDERLINE LA SECTE DU FUTUR + ATOMIC SUPLEX TBC / 8.00PM / BRIXTON WINDMILL
TBC / 8.00PM / BUFFALO BAR THE STEPKIDS £15ADV / 8.00PM / BUSH HALL LEON OF ATHENS + THE SHERMANS £8ADV / 8.00PM / HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN THE MOLES £8ADV / 7.30PM / THE LEXINGTON
BRONTIDE
GET READY FOR YETI + THE MONDAY
£5ADV / 7.30PM / OSLO
PROJECT + THE ECHOES + THE SLATES
LUKE ABBOTT + RIVAL CONSOLES £10ADV / 7.30PM / ST PANCRAS OLD CHURCH FRIDAY 27TH JUNE
POINO + THE WHARVES + SJ ESAU + LAMO £5ADV / 8.00PM / BRIXTON WINDMILL DJ HYPE + PASCAL + HAZARD + TAXMAN + SKEPTICAL + SUB ZERO
£6 / 7.00PM / BARFLY DEETRON + CRAIG RICHARDS + REDSHAPE + WILL SAUL £20ADV / 11.00PM / FABRIC THE SONS + EMOTIONAL RESCUE + JAZZ DE SOUL £5 / 7.30PM / THE GOOD SHIP ANDY BELL + ARVEENE FREE / 5.00PM / THE LOCK TAVERN
£18ADV / 11.00PM / FABRIC THE SPIN + NO ROOM FOR GIANTS + JIM JAGGER & LINDSEY JONES £5 / 7.30PM / THE GOOD SHIP ANDY JORDAN + ROOM 94
HOLY ESQUE + KIRK SPENCER + JOYA £7 / 8.00PM / QUEEN OF HOXTON WOLF PARTY + THE LAST OF THE TROUBADOURS £5 / 8.00PM / SEBRIGHT ARMS
£8ADV / 7.00PM / O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON SHARON JONES AND THE DAP-KINGS +
SUNDAY SUNDAY 29TH JUNE JUNE
CHARLES BRADLEY AND HIS
ARTHUR BARR & MIKE STOCKELL + CORMAC
EXTRAORDINAIRES
+ PETER PIXZEL + JACOB HUSLEY
£32.50ADV / 7.00PM / O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH
£7ADV / 11.00PM / FABRIC
EMPIRE MONDAY 30TH 30TH JUNE
PROJECTED IMAGES £5ADV / 10.00PM / THE WAITING ROOM
PINACT + HEALING POWERS + ALGERNON
SATURDAY 28TH JUNE
FREE / 8.00PM / THE OLD BLUE LAST
VICE SQUAD + TV SMITH + DRAGSTER +
MOLLY BEANLAND
FEATHERZ
£5ADV / 8.00PM / THE WAITING ROOM
£15ADV / 8.00PM / 100 CLUB
DOLL + HEY, JONI
PARALLEL LINES
2.6.2014
SEBRIGHT ARMS NEW SINGLE “FOOL FOR YOU” OUT NOW wildsmiles.co.uk @Wildsmilesband Tickets available now from parallellinespromotions.com
MUTUAL BENEFIT St John at Hackney // March 4th
MØ QUEUE
THE GREAT ESCAPE Brighton // May 8th-10th The train ride to Brighton never feels quite Quadrophenia enough; squeezed between commuters shooting disapproving looks at a train picnic of mini cheeses and tins of gin, rumbling past Hassocks and Three Bridges, the thrills and spills of The Great Escape seem an eternity away. But, then, you’re there and, yes, it feels good, it feels like the other years. It’s all “I see the sea,”and “there’s the pier!” and it’s all psyching yourself up because these three days and nights (sleep is a much-derided luxury) are hard work. The hills of North Street and gaudy West Street are unforgiving, but there are treasures dotted everywhere. The hills must be conquered. We see what we can, we catch 40-odd bands over the weekend. We leave broken’n’bruised, clutching coffee for dear life. On the train home we find time for small band talk, we discuss this:
Lizzo bringing riotous hip-hop kicks and slaying us with Batches 'n' Cookies. Swooning and “ahhhing” when Tennis play Mean Streets. The Hold Steady being the uncoolest and acest and most loved by their crowd (twice). MØ making a mockery of the impersonal Warren venue and destroying the crowd with a masterclass in pop-star performance. Slow Club having a blast with their giant new songs. Big Ups powering through tech fails with all-out pumped-up noise. Brawlers being better and radder every time you see them. Felt Tip getting the noble art of indiepop exactly right. The triple run of Pawws, Tove Lo and Woman’s Hour forcing all the dancing and all the “damn, these are goooood”. The hazy electronica of The Dumplings convincing us we can survive another day. Best, though, the scrawling wonderful mess of Girl Band, like Pavement with no regard for sonic conventions and everything to prove. The train stops. We say, rhetorical as hell, “Same time, next year, right?”
LIZZO
GIRL BAND
THE HOLD STEADY
Lanzarote Presents
Lust for Youth + support
Wednesday 2 July The Shacklewell Arms ÂŁ6.50 adv.
BY LUKE MORGAN BRITTON A recent article circulating the net opined that "Music Criticism Has Degenerated Into Lifestyle Reporting" which, as a music news editor myself, felt more than a little like some sort of character attack. Many among us are used to friends and family members not thinking ours is a worthwhile profession (my parents still name-drop that I've interviewed Gary Numan to every family friend we meet in the street, as some sort of legitimate currency that my life is marginally important), but coming under fire from those within your own industry seems a little strange. You wouldn't hear an accountant ridiculing a tax manager or an advertiser calling someone in marketing a yuppie now would you? Sure, many aspects of the original piece ring true: much of music news these days is on the same level as that of celebrity culture. Who is collaborating with who? Who has had Twitter beef with who? What indie power couple are breaking up and thus proving once and for all that true love doesn't exist? Whether we kid ourselves or not, this is the exact same rhetoric as TMZ and the like. But please don't blame us lowly news editors, trawling the internet at ungodly hours, we're simply representative of your own wants and needs. And you're just as bad as us. You see, it's hard to hide your footprints on the internet and we're at least in charge of the facts and figures, the traffic and stats, all those guilty pleasure clicks and hits you indulge in then delete from your internet history. You can insult Buzzfeed listicles as much as you like, but you still shared that article about Burial posting a selfie, didn't you? And we're glad you did, because you don't need to be ashamed or embarrassed. That was a simply beautiful sight.
PRESENTS
A Kilimanjaro & 2 for the Road Events presentation
Saturday 21 June 2014 The Forum, London
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SJM CONCERTS PRESENT
WITH SPECIAL GUESTS
WITH SPECIAL GUESTS
KOKO – 10 JUNE
SCALA – 01 OCT
PLUS THE RAILS ISLINGTON ASSEMBLY HALL - 19 JUNE
WITH SPECIAL GUESTS
TROXY – 04 OCT
WITH SPECIAL GUESTS
WITH SPECIAL GUESTS
UNION CHAPEL - 30 JUNE (01 JULY - SOLD OUT)
ROUNDHOUSE – 14 OCT
WITH SPECIAL GUESTS
WITH SPECIAL GUESTS
ELECTRIC BALLROOM - 24 SEPT
SCALA – 15 OCT
WITH SPECIAL GUESTS
WITH SPECIAL GUESTS
O2 SHEPHERDS BUSH EMPIRE – 25 SEPT
KOKO – 15 OCT
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