Disco

We dropped by the Custom House records launch party the other night with just enough time to catch the first band, which, luckily for us was Rebecca Closure. When we saw her a few years ago, her stage antics and imaginative approach to performance and songwriting kept a bemused smile on our face for weeks.

When they first started out, LA band Music Go Music were said to be so ashamed of their somewhat Eurovision sounds that they were shrouded in mystery, not wanted to lose the ‘serious rock artist’ credibility they’d built up in main project ‘Bodies of Water’. …

The Pigalle Club on Piccadilly is not often a venue we have cause to frequent but when we do we’re quickly swept away in the old school glamour of the place. Tonight disco diva Shena takes to the stage with a special guest starring from …

Once, twice, three times a giveaway. We have three more pairs of tickets up for grabs, courtesy the goodly Word Fest folk. Enter below for the chance to attend Thursday night’s spoken word performance and “intellectual art-rock-disco” of the Wave Machines and Nathan Jones along …

After the demise of The End and nights like Nag Nag Nag, there’s a party shaped hole in the West End at the moment. But never fear, promoter Alex Sheridan has spotted the gap and created a City Lights shaped object to fill it. We …

Chaps, take note: Madame Zingara’s travelling theatre cum supper club is camped on these shores until the middle of February. Its unlikely location, a windblown industrial site in Battersea with the sombre spectre of the power station looming large in the background, makes it an …

You can’t escape Strictly Come Dancing right now. Even if you’ve never sat through it and can’t tell your Flavia from your Foxtrot, then someone you know is obsessed and gibbering on about taking up ballroom dancing as a New Year’s Resolution. Kids in Croydon …

Norway’s Hans-Peter Lindstrom takes to the stage (if you can call it that) in Rough Trade East looking unassumingly geeky in a checked shirt and a hat that covers most of his face. He is playing as part of the shop’s heavily Converse-branded first birthday …

There aren’t many concept albums about the lives of rad 80s car designers. And there are even less that are the brainchild of a Welsh psychedelic bard and an American avant-garde hip-hop twiddler, and feature a podgy sex-obsessive on guest vocals. Which is one way …

If you’ve happily bounced around to Super Furry Animals hits over the last 15 years, you were probably a bit wowed by the sleek production of Neon Neon, a joint project between Gruff Rhys and eclectic bleepster Boom Bip. They’ll be popping up at Wireless …