Date: Thursday March 11, 4:45 pm
Wild Beasts- Koko, Camden- 4/03/2010
Girls. Boys. Drinking. Love. Fighting. Crying over that lost love again. Shocking me like an electric eel. Turning me on with your electric feel. I’m not saying the current crop of bands aren’t up to much, but these are maybe some of the common themes which they like to sing about that ties them loosely together. It would be hard to put Wild Beasts, the best-and probably only- thing of note to come out of the Lake District, in that category though. With the charm of an eccentric intellectual uncle who checked his sanity out years ago, Wild Beasts casually sing of such things as extra-sensory perception, flaccid cocks and Freudian slips.
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Gigs,
London,
Wild Beasts
Date: Tuesday February 16, 5:00 pm
Owen Pallett, Lightspeed Champion/ Union Chapel/ 25.01.10
Tonight is a big night for Domino. As well as These New Puritans giving their new album it’s first live outing while backed by an orchestra somewhere in Shepherd’s Bush, two of their solo artists who are releasing sophomore and debut albums for the label this year are here at Union Chapel. Click to read more …
Date: Thursday November 26, 7:34 pm
Atlas Sound/Cargo/15.11.09
It used to be well known that the success of a show involving Bradford Cox depended entirely on the musician’s fragile mood. However from the word go tonight seems to almost pinpoint the moment he fully transitions from tortured artist to wholesome entertainer. Click to read more …
Date: Thursday November 19, 5:36 pm
Cymbals Eat Guitars @ The Lexington, London. 12/11/09
After much eager fawning from the likes of Pitchfork and Drowned in Sound, tonight’s showcase of Cymbals Eat Guitars sees the sold-out Lexington bristling with sticky anticipation from the relatively diverse crowd. Well, it’s not really diverse as such, but to witness a gig by a hyped new band in London where the punters are made up equally of “real” people- you know, with actual jobs and stuff- as it is by horrible, scrawny little fuckers who are there with a part of their brain reserved for cynicism just in case said band actually turn out to be ridiculed months later….where am I…? Yes…the Lexington has a variety of different sorts tonight and it’s a bit refreshing. But not massively.
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Cymbals Eat Guitars,
Spotify,
The Lexington
Date: Tuesday August 18, 4:13 pm
Maps, M83/London Koko/7.07.09
I was a late comer to the M83, beyond even the realms of fashionably late. In fact, I was only beginning to discover the brilliance of songs like ‘Moonchild’, due to it’s chance appearance on a mix cd gift, when the general music geek population of the internet was questioning the brilliance of their most recent offering ‘Saturdays=Youth’. A record inspired by the soundtracks of 80s teen dramas which featured highly in many top album lists at 2008s tail end. It is due to that fact and 6 months of wrong time, wrong place with regards to his scattered UK touring this year that tonight is my first witnessing of the M83 live experience. For a lesser known reason, it is also my first time in Koko as a venue and it might as well be my last as there are very few acts that go with its classic theatre meets disco chic decor as well as tonight’s. Click to read more …
Date: Sunday July 5, 7:44 pm
Kap Bambino Album Launch, Cargo, 16.06.09
Kap Bambino are an electronic French duo who’ve been releasing and touring independently since 2002 up until recently signing with Because records, sharing a rosta with the likes of Klaxons, Late Of The Pier and Justice. Its with this collaboration that the pair have released new album Blacklist which is seeing them finally making the waves they are capable of. Tonight’s UK album launch a Cargo is only proof of this. Click to read more …
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album launch,
Kap Bambino
Date: Monday May 18, 9:18 am
The Mae Shi/ Abe Vigoda/ Tubelord @ Barden’s Boudoir 12/5/2009
Although from the outside Barden’s Boudoir looks like a crack den that even crack heads find too disgusting, inside this is a cosy little venue and perfect for such a stellar line up.
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Abe Vigoda,
Barden's Boudoir,
The Mae Shi,
Tubelord
Date: Friday May 8, 7:20 pm
The Maccabees @ Camden Electric Ballroom, 05/05/2009
After the, perhaps slightly unexpected, brilliance of free download “No Kind Words” back in February and a handful of subsequent live dates dotted here and there, The Maccabees have finally released there second album, “Wall of Arms”, and return properly to the live setting a day later in their own glorious right.
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Camden Electric Ballroom,
The Maccabees
Date: Wednesday April 1, 11:11 pm
Micachu and The Shapes @ The Bodega Social, Nottingham 30/3/2009
The recently released debut album, “Jewellery”, by Micachu is a tumbling, busy piece of work bursting with great ideas and creativity and, tonight, it’s put to the test whether this gem will stand up in a live setting.
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Micachu and The Shapes,
Nottingham,
The Bodega Social
Date: Sunday February 22, 5:44 pm
Loverman, Canterbury and Tellison/KCLSU/12.02.09
Gigs at student’s unions are usually at one extreme end of the hit or miss spectrum whether or not you’re a fan of the band playing but tonight at KCLSU the drinks are cheap, the sold out venue is perfectly suited and the music isn’t half bad. Except music of first support band Loverman. Click to read more …
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Canterbury,
gig,
KCLSU,
Loverman,
Tellison