London’s Live Music: Alive And Thriving?
With venues closing aplenty, is London’s live music scene in dire straits?
Dublin Castle
Music Choice: Monday 14th January – Friday 18th January
The only music star to be his only Cockney rhyming slang, James Blunt is playing Hammersmith Apollo on Monday night and also Tuesday night, though unsurprisingly tickets are all gone for now. Meanwhile, if you like something a bit more country-fied and American, then Texan …
Koko Smoke, Oh No
BBC 6music news reported this evening that KOKO, Camden Town’s premiere indie-club-gig place and home of Club NME, is planning to introduce smoking rations for those undisciplined weaklings who’ve been unwilling or unable to kick the filthy habit by 1 July. Under a new scheme, …
Music Choice: Monday 16th July – Friday 20th July
Monday night sees Tom “Squarepusher” Jenkinson bring his experimental drum’n’bass with a heavy jazz fusion influence to Queen Elizabeth Hall in the Southbank Centre. Evan Parker supports, and this is sold out unfortunately, though be sure to check back for last minute availability or other …
Music Choice: Monday 11th June – Friday 15th
As the festival season kicks off into full swing, the range of “normal” bands playing the capital starts to dwindle as they recover from their Download and Isle of Wight sized hangovers and prepare for a Wireless one this weekend. First up, on Monday night, …
Dead Disco – Automatic
A couple of weeks record label Fierce Panda, who in recent years have brought us great London bands like Boy Kill Boy and Apartment, announced that they will no longer be releasing singles but instead concentrating on albums. Their last single will be out on …
Booking Ahead
Tonight: Kaibosh are back to deliver some meaty crunching riffs at G Lounge, 18 Kentish Town Road. Doors open 7pm and £4 in. Or else make your way down to The Social for a second dose of Sonic Cathedral where prime Norwegian MBV-ers Serena Mareesh …
On Our Knees. Londonist Does The Camden Crawl
At about 4pm on Thursday a Hercules must have flown over Camden and deposited its cargo of 70s and 80s thrift store, retro chic on to the assembled throng below. It was followed by the resounding rumble of the legacies of the Clash; the Specials …
Nights Out Next Week
Time for us to bang a few heads together and see whether we can recommend any weird and wonderful gigs for next week. And yes we can… Friday: Still time to get yourself down to Cargo this evening to catch Brixton’s finest dance-indie mash-ups, Clor, …
Mid Week Music News
As Michael once said: It doesn’t matter if you’re black or white. He forgot to add as long as you’re rich but then again he never recorded a cover of I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles, no matter how much we pleaded. Although he has been under …
The Marshall Plan
After the muddy excess of Glasto (have you noticed how it’s cool to shorten the word Glastonbury this year? It’s like our version of Gitmo – without the cramped horrible conditions and torture by terrible music of course) and a couple of wanky stadium style …
