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Live Review: Nerina Pallot at Borderline

Nerina Pallot chose to launch her new album, Year of the Wolf, at Borderline, an intimate venue she first played at the start of her career, over ten years ago. The choice of Borderline, however, ended up being more than just a nostalgic nod to …

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Music Review: XFM’s Best New Bands 2011 @ The Borderline

Last night, the Borderline hosted XFM’s Best New Bands of 2011. But who came out on top?

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Music Review: Chilly Gonzales @ The Borderline

Is Chilly Gonzales the Next Big Thing? This eccentric rapper-turned-pianist may well just be…

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Live Music Review: Gaggle @ The Borderline

The alt-girl choir headlined the Borderline on Saturday as part of the HMV Next Big Thing 2011 series of gigs.

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Preview: HMV’s Next Big Thing

Catch new bands for 2011, with three bands for £10 at venues across London from next week.

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Live Music Review: Grand Archives @ The Borderline

Friday night was one of those dark drizzly, depressing nights that has you wishing you had stayed inside watching crappy Friday night TV. But for those who did make it down to the Borderline to witness Grand Archives first ever UK show, were certainly not …

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Live Review: The Delays @ Borderline

Since their last album, Everything’s The Rush, went almost unnoticed when it was released in 2008, we’d all but forgotten about the Delays. With their incredible 2006 album, You See Colours, they became one of our favourite British bands, but their potential was never quite …

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Preview: Labelled With Love

The Week That Was Tonight’s your chance to catch the beginning of something exciting and the end of something beautiful. The Borderline is launching its new monthly club night, “Labelled with Love” with a little help from Memphis Industries. The inaugural mini label showcase will …

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Review: Peggy Sue @ Borderline

Photo by Anika Mottershaw Friday night at The Borderline saw three female-fronted folk bands,Blue Roses, Alessi’s Ark and Peggy Sue on the same bill, put on by Platforms:Live – who, according to their flyers, have also managed to book folk-luminaries Kimya Dawson and Diane Cluck …

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Live Review: Official Secrets Act @ Borderline

Official Secrets Act live at the Borderline Sometimes it’s good to catch a band with next to no prior knowledge or expectations. You can be blown away by their amazingness, or just enjoy them with no prior hype. That’s just what we did last night …

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HMV Goes Live

The Astoria and Metro are dead, but long live the HMV Apollo. HMV are buying 50% of the Hammersmith venue, and others, in a deal worth around £20m. The Apollo will experience yet another branding-based name change (previously Carling/Labatt’s) to “HMV”, as will the Forum …