10.24.08
Posted in G-Town, Gigs at 12:09 pm by Gavin Williams
Shred Your Face at Camden Electric Ballroom, London 20 October
It’s a rainy Monday night and the self styled “Shred Your Face” tour rolls into Camden town for what is surely the biggest gig of the jaunt.
First on to an already pretty packed venue is Times New Viking who impress those who made the effort to come early. The band seem to take a particular perverse joy in creating glorious pop songs almost of the Belle and Sebastian variety and then smothering them with walls of feedback, splashy cymbals and fuzzed out vocals so that the listener has to almost decipher those gorgeous melodies.
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10.23.08
Posted in Gigs, Lauren at 9:32 am by Lauren
Dananananaykroyd, Johnny Foreigner/ Madame JoJo’s/ 30.09.08
It’s not often one sees a line up so simply perfect as tonight’s. A band whose recent debut can be expected to flutter around top twenty lists across the internet come this December and another who are going to find it difficult not to take over the world in the next two years if certain sources are to be believed. Read the rest of this entry »
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10.22.08
Posted in G-Town, Gigs at 4:27 pm by Gavin Williams
Holy Fuck/Kelpe- Kings College London 18 October
The first time INFTC saw Holy Fuck, it was as a barely advertised add-on band in a sweaty, dirty nightclub to a few gurning clubbers who had lost their mates on the way to the bar. Now, a year on, it’s perhaps a little surprising that the band have sold out a headline show at the relatively large Kings College Union. They may not boast the hits or even accessibility of many of their contemporaries, but one thing is clear when seeing them live- they are certainly interesting and experimental enough to hold attention unwaveringly.
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10.02.08
Posted in Gigs, Lauren at 10:47 am by Lauren
Nail The Cross, 27.09.08
It’s that magical time of year again, when the students of the country are riding high on a new injection of what feels like free money, the sun is still shining and in East London there are the hippest of events to attend. Being added to the list this year is New Cross’ ‘Nail The Cross’ festival, a mix of art, music and barbeque filled beer gardens. Read the rest of this entry »
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09.29.08
Posted in G-Town, Gigs at 3:05 pm by Gavin Williams
Rolo Tomassi/Mirror! Mirror! @ The Old Blue Last, London, Monday 22 Sept
Tonight is the launch night for “Hysterics”, the debut album from Sheffield noise psychopaths Rolo Tomassi and promises to be a well deserved celebration gig for the band. It’s a Monday night but any wet blankets are left out of mind; it’s trendy London and it’s free so, along with the fact that Rolo Tomassi are starting to whip up a bit of a media storm around them right now, the venue is absolutely packed- from the front to back of the room, up and down the stairs and spilling out into the smoky streets- there’s a real buzz of genuine excitement rippling about the place.
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09.06.08
Posted in Flip, Gigs at 4:11 pm by Phil
Johnny Foreigner / Mae Shi @ DQ, Sheffield
Tonight sees the culmination of the tour between LA’s Mae Shi and an INFTC favourite, Birmingham trio, Johnny Foreigner. After releasing one of the best albums of the year “Hlllyh” the Mae Shi have been playing shows across the world for the last few months. This is the last show that they will play with Johnny Foreigner after a DrownedinSound sponsored tour of the UK. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted in G-Town, Gigs at 3:06 pm by Gavin Williams
Tubelord/Blakfish/Cuban Crimewave/My psychoanalysis @ The Bodega Social
Tubelord are a fiery ball of fury, having come, seemingly all of a sudden, out of Kingston (the one near London- let’s nip any confusion in the bud sharpish) creating jerky, unhinged- yet strangely wholesome- rock songs.
But first there’s the exciting and eclectic line up of bands on tonight’s bill to contend with before we go shooting our metaphorical load prematurely.
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08.30.08
Posted in G-Town, Gigs at 12:21 pm by Gavin Williams
Leeds Festival 2008
Every year on the August bank holiday, Leeds festival rears its ugly, but ultimately fun, head from the horizon. With a mixture of different musical tribes descending on Bramham Park, a collection of in vogue bands of the year and a general atmosphere of reckless abandon, you know what to expect each year, yet it rarely disappoints.
Here’s our picks of the festival…
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08.28.08
Posted in G-Town, Gigs at 1:23 pm by Gavin Williams
Rage Against the Machine @ Leeds Festival
The big one. Rage Against the Machine. It’s what we’re all here for, except those who thought seeing Babyshambles was a better idea…
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07.16.08
Posted in Gigs at 1:46 pm by Lauren
Interpol, Ladytron/Sheffield Carling Academy/9.07.2008
Ahead of their headline slots at T in The Park and Latitude Interpol played two so called ‘warm up’ gigs in Sheffield and Manchester. I say “so called” as these shows are often littered with dodgy houselights, questionable sound quality and the odd glitch; three things the New York band’s Sheffield show was definitely free of. Read the rest of this entry »
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