Music Interview: Sarah Angliss of Spacedog
Lifelike robots, Derren Brown and strange instruments: we talk to the woman behind the spooky science band Spacedog.
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Win: Bestival A-Z CDs
With V last weekend, and Reading zooming up on the horizon, we’re feeling quite the festival goers at the moment and looking forward to the mighty Bestival in 3 weeks. Set up by Rob Da Bank in 2004 as a spin off from his Sunday …
Londonist Introduces: Dollyrocker
Buttoned Down Disco is fast becoming a London phenomenon. It’s practially free if you sign up for the secret venue invite. More importantly, for a club night in London it’s always really friendly. You could walk up to anyone and start talking to them if …
Competition: Lucky Soul Tickets and Album
Lucky Soul, a band we love so much we’re afraid we’ll be served with an injunction if we gush about them any more, play their biggest gig to date when they headline at Bush Hall on 16th May. Tickets are a bargainous £7 (available online …
Get Ready To, Ahem, Rockkkk
Crowds of angry young people clad in black will descend like bats from the musty corners of a tumbledown gothic cathedral on The Brewery in the East End tomorrow night. No, it’s not yet another Goth club night – make way for the Kerrang! Awards …
Juana Molina Picturehouse Tour
As you can imagine, we get a fair few e-mails to the Londonist Music mailbox asking us if we’ll plug something so it takes something pretty special to make us sit up and pay attention. “Just wondering if you might be able to mention the …
New Music Interview: Rod Thomas
A week or so ago, we were trundling down Tottenham Court Road underground station dreading the face-sweating levels of heat that were about to hit us when we heard something we thought was rather wonderful. While buskers have got much better since the Underground introduced …
Art Brut Needs You
It’s a funny old world. When Sleater-Kinney announced they were no more, we had a nostalgic look back at the unprecedented double review we put up for their album, The Woods. One of the albums it beat to that week’s coveted Londonist Album of the …
April Music Review
Once a month Londonist sits down with a pile of the months releases that have dropped through our letterbox. Since we’re almost at the end of April, we’d better get on with it. The Victorian English Gentlemen’s Club – Amateur Man (Single released 3rd April …
New Music Interview : Infantjoy
Formed out of members of Art of Noise & The Auteurs, we first came across Infantjoy while wallowing in ‘OMG SARAH NIXEY IS BACK!!!111!!’ induced glee a few months ago. Guest starring on their working of ‘Silent Night’, we were intrigued by this duo who …
