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Mid Week Music News

With the music dungionistas breaking out their finest band t-shirts ahead of tomorrow’s party and arguments breaking out over whether to play Outkast’s version of Hey Ya or download a bootleg of The Twilight Singer’s, we’re going to use this week’s MWMN to mention a …

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MogwaICA Action

Morning space rockers, news on the street is that Scottish post rock titans Mogwai are taking over the ICA for a five night residency in January. Tickets went on sale yesterday for the dates between 10th and 14th January limited to 2 per person and …

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Gig Review: The Dandy Warhols

The Dandy Warhols – Hammersmith Palais Portland’s finest strolled rather than rolled back into town on Wednesday night. Playing a nigh on identical set to their

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Booking Ahead

So the somewhat legendary New Order are playing Brixton on the 10th November. Not really much more to say about that one. Tickets’ll be flying fast and are on sale now. There are a few more old timers floating around at the moment so we …

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Mid Week Music News

With Halloween traditionally a time for some serious gig going spectaculars, this year’s a little bit of a damp squib, what with Marilyn Manson retiring from creeping folks out and concentrating on his new make up range and his Alma Mater, Alice Cooper, not yet …

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Booking Ahead

A heavy duty start to this week’s new listings with Brazilian thrash titans Soulfly, getting some kind of cheesy Londonist thumbs up of the week, back over here on the 7th February at the Astoria to pummel some heads with their excellent new Dark Ages …

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Mid Week Music News

Time once again to cast an eye over this week’s gig going highlights. Wednesday: If you haven’t already been tempted by The Magic Numbers being nicer than is humanly possible at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire or Hard Fi being T4 favourites at the Camden Electric …

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Monday Music Review (On A Tuesday)

Looks like the e-gremlins got to the MMR yesterday afternoon and ate most of it. We’re taking a guess they don’t like Aled Jones or perhaps they started at the bottom and never quite made it to Rachel. So we’ve cobbled together what remained undigested …

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Mid Week Music News

Another week of gig going upon us and much to recommend so without further whatever here’s the Londonist Music team’s guide to what we think you should be doing for the next seven days. Wednesday: Well if you’ve not made plans for tonight yet you …

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John Peel Day Approaches

In 7 days time on the anniversary of his last radio broadcast, the BBC will be commemorating and celebrating the life of the man known on his birth certificate as John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, but to music lovers the world over as John Peel. On …