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THURSDAY 1ST APRIL
**ORGAN RECOMMENDS** AIRBOURNE @ Hammersmith Apollo, 19.00, £17adv
'Aussie rockers, bastard sons of AC/DC and Rose Tattoo doing it as good as the originals ever did, who needs old men in school uniforms when you got these righteous fired up beer-spilling rockers to rip you a new...'

SATURDAY 3RD APRIL
**WEARS THE TROUSERS RECOMMENDS** LA LA VASQUEZ, VERONICA FALLS plus more @ Old Blue Last, 20.00
'All-girl trio La La Vasquez have announced a co-headlining tour across the UK and Ireland...Freya Baggins, Mama Sticks and Dur Dur Riff-Richards will be packing the tourbus with merry waves and big amps, ready to spread their twangy lo-fi magic across our shores. "La La Vasquez are 'An all-grrrl, post-punk assault, recalling the best bits of Odyshape-era Raincoats, Kleenex/Liliput and early Scritti Politti."(Dance Magic Dance)'
**ORGAN RECOMMENDS** ZA with MOMS HOUSE DADS HOUSE, AULOS @ Tommy Flynn’s Camden, 20.00, £4
'The rather different experimental ‘other’ rock band from Spain are in town with their rather different blend of rewarding jazz favoured (very) left-field experimental prog/art/post-rock'

SUNDAY 4TH APRIL
**ORGAN RECOMMENDS** BITCHES, APPLICANTS, FEVER FEVER @ Old Blue Last, 20.00, FREE
'Bitches are "Headpecking scrambled egg tunes, high energy screaming and shouting and jumping on your toes so you pay proper attention. Messy guitars, wired energy, fuzz, feedback, girl yelling, boy yelling...Raw, wired, messy, shouty, splattered - gloriously wired and splattered and uncompromising and this rules!" (Organ single review)'

MONDAY 5TH APRIL
**ORGAN RECOMMENDS** AEAEA, PINK NARCISSUS, SLAPPER plus more - This New Battlefield @ The Drop, Church St, Stoke Newington, 19.00, FREE
'Aeaea are people ex of Selfish Cunt, the band we’re recommending though is the bag load of artistic narcissistic energy from Brighton called Pink Narcissus. Think early Manics confidence, Buzzcocks strident knowing and a frontman born to be on stage with his big angel wings and who knos what?
“THIS NEW BATTLEFIELD is a new performance concept night devised to radically obscure the boundaries between performance art, spoken word, live music and the club experience. Each event is a uniquely curated project, challenging the artists involved to create new work in a range of jarring and exciting collaborations with individuals from very different (or opposing) places in the creative spectrum. THIS NEW BATTLEFIELD is not a place for the comfortable, safe, familiar – we expect conflict, outrage, provocation and revelation. THE DROP - be one of the first to enter our discreet entrance and sample this stunning subterranean haunt, boasting sublime contemporary décor and an intimate club space”'

WEDNESDAY 7TH APRIL
**ORGAN RECOMMENDS** CRANES, MOTHLITE @ Jazz Cafe, 19.00, £12.50adv
'The lush and beautiful layers of those glorious Cranes with all their glorious radioant colous and sub through stain-glass ethereal floaty goodness'
**NEMESIS TO GO RECOMMENDS** MARIA AND THE MIRRORS, GOODNIGHT AND I WISH @ The Stags Head, 19.00, FREE
'Thunderous tribal drums, strange electronic sweeps and glitches...it could only be Maria And The Mirrors. This will be quite an experience.'

THURSDAY 8TH APRIL
**ORGAN RECOMMENDS** HAG, OX SCAPULA, THE HILLS HAVE RIFFS @ The Others, Stoke Newington, 20.00, £4
'Wired up blues flavoured garage rock ‘n roll from London’s Hag, scathing noise band, with a launch party For new Ep'
**DELIA SPARROW RECOMMENDS** THE RAVEMEN, THE SILVER FACTORY, TOE HAMMER, SEVEN PERCENT SOLUTION @ Buffalo Bar, 20.00, £5
'This line up is pure garage-pop, beat-punk, blues-rocking!'

FRIDAY 9TH APRIL
**DELIA SPARROW RECOMMENDS** CHOCOLATE BARRY, MR WRIGHT @ Buffalo Bar, 21.00, £5flyer £6door
'Chocolate Barry are back for their first ever UK gig - indie-joy!'

SATURDAY 10TH APRIL
**ORGAN RECOMMENDS** THE LAZE, THRUSH METAL plus secret headliners @ Old BLue Last, 20.00, FREE
'The Laze are down from Merseyside and playing the Smoke for free, they're the real (Rael) prog as f deal and you should not miss them. Here's what a Laze said earlier today "Good Morning! Just thought I'd give you a heads up on our gig in London April 10th. Tis a Skill Wizard affair - Us, Thrush Metal (all girl thrash, hehe) & Special Secret Headliners (i'll let you know it is ** ****** but please don't mention them specifically - commitment complications). It is a free gig at Old Blue Last and it is going to be plump. Hope you are all good? All the beast, Daev"'
**DELIA SPARROW RECOMMENDS** JAMIE CLARKE'S PERFECT(ex-Pogues), ZOMBINA & THE SKELETONES, 18 CARAT LOVE AFFIAR, REBEKAH DELGADO @ Buffalo Bar, 20.30 £6
This is quirk-pop selection!'

TUESDAY 13TH APRIL
**DELIA SPARROW RECOMMENDS** RACE HORSES, DAPPLED CITIES @ The Lexington, 19.30, £7.50adv
'glorious harmonious, infectious pop songs and a creamy dollop of psych played by the tallest men in wales'
**ORGAN RECOMMENDS** TO ARMS ETC @ Catch, Shoreditch, 20.00
'Lush prog flavoured indie rock adventure from UK-based Australian multi-instrumentalist and sonic adventurer, Charles Campbell-Jones, To Arms Etc'


WEDNESDAY 14TH APRIL
**ORGAN RECOMMENDS** HAG, CASTROVALVA, GODZILLA BLACK @ The Gaff, Holloway Rd, 20.00
'Wired up blues flavoured garage rock ‘n roll from London’s Hag, scathing noise band with support from Leeds' Castrolvalva ‘Pulled apart by thug poetry and Leemun Smith’s addition as permanent vocal instrument works so well alongside those ferociously heavy drums and that filthy dirty bass…Massive sound, massive funk, massive experimental other rock...Playing it all their own way and by their own rules...’ (Organ)'

THURSDAY 15TH APRIL
**WEARS THE TROUSERS RECOMMENDS** ÓLÖF ARNALDS @ Cafe Oto, 19.30
'Ólöf Arnalds will make her UK live debut in April with a headline show at London’s Café OTO in advance of her eagerly anticipated second solo album, Innundir Sskinni. The album once again unites her with producer Kjartan Sveinsson of Sigur Ròs and is rumoured to feature a guest vocal turn from Björk, who once described Ólöf’s music as having “a really idiosyncratic sense of chord structure and a voice somewhere between a child and an old woman.” According to the press release, Innundir Sskinni (which bore the working title Ókídokí) features “more elaborate arrangements and instrumentation” than Ólöf’s 2007 solo debut Við og Við (released internationally in 2009 to huge acclaim), and songs sung both in English and Icelandic'
**DELIA SPARROW RECOMMENDS** THUNDERSTONE, SOLSTAFIR, VREID @ The Lexington, 19.00, £5adv £6door
'Ja Ja Ja metal themed night at The Lexington, curated by Metal Hammer editor Alexander Milas, these three bands are guaranteed to bring the roof down.'

FRIDAY 16TH APRIL
**ORGAN RECOMMENDS** RUDE MECHANICALS, COUNTRY DIRT, LONESOME COWBOYS FROM HELL, MESCALINE FOR MINISTERS plus more - NO:ID Festival Day 1 @ The Others, Stoke Newington, 19.00, £5
'This is a two day indoor festival featuring some of the most cutting edge novel + established acts in musical live performance London's underground has to offer. All artists have in common that we understand being on stage as being in character, and all projects are famous for combining amazing musicianship with great showmanship. With Rude Mechanicals and Miss Roberts doing their rather unique jazz flavoured other rock....'
**ORGAN RECOMMENDS** SUBHUMANS, DEFCON ZERO, THE EXTINGUISHERS, KADT @ Brixton Jamm, 19.30, £8
'All things important; life, death, Ford Cortinas household pets and classic point-making mid-provoking anarcho punk that comes with the musical/political depth you expect from the long standing and ever defiant Subhumans, one of the finest punk bands England has ever coughed up...'


SUNDAY 18TH APRIL
**DELIA SPARROW RECOMMENDS** DAVID TATTERSALL (album launch) plus THE PICTISH TRAIL, ROZI PLAIN @ The Lexington, 18.00, FREE
'Free acoustic gig from David Tattersall of The Wave Pictures, the Pictish Trail and Rozi Plain, plus Colm from Help Stamp Out Loneliness back on the decks keeping it low-slung and loose. Mellow indie and folk music in the day time and for FREE!'
**ORGAN RECOMMENDS** SEXTON MING, COLIN SHADDICK, BILL LEWIS, LILITH PAYNE, MISS ROBERTS AND HER PUTRID PEOPLE, DAVE RUSSELL @ Pangea Project, 72 Stamford Hill, Stoke Newington, N16, FREE (donations welcome)
'A night of poetry and music, expect strange performance, experimental theatre, Stuckism and who knows what. An evening to launch Sexton Ming’s (“the thinking man’s GG Allin”) and Colin Shaddick’s new chapbook. Lilith Payne from Boston USA, a “poet of domination” joins Sexton, Colin, Bill, Miss Roberts from those Rude Mechanicals and acoustic performer “the legendary” Dave Russell. More from the ever strange, ever stimulating Mr Ming over at www.sextonming.co.uk'
**ORGAN RECOMMENDS** SHRINEBUILDER, BLACK MATH HORSEMAN @ Scala, 19.30, £15
'Shrinebuilder, a new group made up of four legendary names in extreme music, will perform their debut UK show at the London Scala on the 18th April 2010. They are supported by Black Math Horseman, also on their first UK visit. Shrinebuilder are: Scott "Wino" Weinrich (Saint Vitus, The Obsessed, Spirit Caravan), Al Cisneros (Om, Sleep), Scott Kelly (Neurosis, Tribes of Neurot, Blood and Time), Dale Crover (Melvins, Porn)'


TUESDAY 20TH APRIL
**SUBBA-CULTCHA.COM RECOMMENDS** FUCK BUTTONS, FACTORY FLOOR @ Koko, 19.30, £13.50
'Eerie and spectacular, electro and dark, imagine a 96daysofstatic meets Aphex Twin, if that floats your boat then go see!!'
**SUBBA-CULTCHA.COM RECOMMENDS** GIL SCOTT-HERON, SPEECH DEBELLE @ Royal Festival Hall, Southbank, 19.30, £22.50+
'So rare is a gig by this genre defining artist, that more dates have been added. Part beat-poet, part rebel who set out the future of hip-hop in the early 70’s... This is a must see.'
**WEARS THE TROUSERS RECOMMENDS** THE PIPETTES @ Hoxton Bar & Kitchen, 20.00, £10adv
'Time has moved at an astonishing rate since the needle came flying off the record for disco darlings The Pipettes back in 2008. After almost two years of line-up changes and sporadic gigs, the former polka-dot princesses made a return last month, gracing our pages with new, sci-fi-tinged track ‘Our Love Was Saved By Spacemen’. Fronted by sole remaining original member Gwenno Saunders and her sister Ali, this reborn, duo-sized version of The Pipettes are to take to the road on a UK tour to preview their second album,Earth vs. The Pipettes.'

THURSDAY 22ND APRIL
**WEARS THE TROUSERS RECOMMENDS** ANGUS & JULIA STONE @ Shepherds Bush Empire, 19.00, £14.50
'In anticipation of their eagerly awaited second album Down The Way, Australian brother-sister duo Angus & Julia Stone have announced an eight-date UK tour in April...Recorded in diverse locations as a converted water tank in Coolangatta, Queensland, and an old sawmill on the river banks of Fowey, Cornwall, as well as more conventional studios in Brooklyn, Queens and London, Down The Way finds the siblings working with producer Brad Albetta (Martha Wainwright) and shifting through various moods and musical styles.'
**ORGAN RECOMMENDS** HEALTH, CHROME HOOF, ZUN ZUN EGUI, ANDREW WEATHERALL - Ether Festival @ Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank, 19.00, £14-£16
'Chrome Hoof and their space-prog-disco-rock and Magma flavours from a different planet where funk drives a different way'

FRIDAY 23RD APRIL
**WEARS THE TROUSERS RECOMMENDS** SOAP & SKIN @ Union Chapel, 20.00, £13.50adv
'Already an unmissable live performer, Soap&Skin looks set to multiply her wow factor with a one-off ensemble show at London’s Union Chapel on April 23. Having recruited a chamber music group led by cellist Christof Unterberger, the Austrian teenager will bring her astonishing, minimalist debut Lovetune For Vacuum into life with the help of three string players, a horn player, a bassist and a backing vocalist. It’ll be her most full-blooded show to date, though it might drain ours; things can get more than a little intense in the dramatic world of Anja Plaschg’s alter ego.'


SATURDAY 24TH APRIL
**NEMESIS TO GO RECOMMENDS** DRAGSTER @ 12 Bar Club, Soho, 19.30, £6
'High-octane punk 'n' roll from Coventry - although inside their heads I dare say Dragster are burning rubber on a Californian quarter-mile. Definitely more Ford Mustang than Ford Cortina, this band is low-slung and loud. You'll never dare to drive on the M1 again.'
**SUBBA-CULTCHA.COM RECOMMENDS** GIL SCOTT-HERON plus support @ Royal Festival Hall, Southbank, 19.30, £22.50+
'So rare is a gig by this genre defining artist, that more dates have been added. Part beat-poet, part rebel who set out the future of hip-hop in the early 70’s... This is a must see.'
**SUBBA-CULTCHA.COM RECOMMENDS** LCD SOUNDSYSTEM @ Brixton Academy, 19.00, £23.50adv
'Everyone’s favourite punk, dirty electro funk band hits the UK for a few cheeky Brixton dates'

TUESDAY 27TH APRIL
**ORGAN RECOMMENDS** STAR FUCKING HIPSTERS, DIRTY REVOLUTION, THROATS, DEFCON ZERO @ Purple Turtle, Camden, 19.30, £8.50adv
'These Star Fliping Hipsters have a new album, Never Rest in Peace, out on the ever dependable Alternative Tentacles on May 3rd. And they have a UK tour to go with it. Starts on April 27th in London at The Purple Turtle in Camden. Star F**king Hipsters are a smoking-hot super group featuring Sturg “Stza” Crack (Leftover Crack, Choking Victim), Frank Piegaro (Degenerics), and Nico de Gallo (Casa de Chihuahua), with members from Ensign, Big Attack!, Awkward Thought, and Aloke along for the ride. Full on crustcore punk rock confrontation from the squats of America. Here to raid your bins and eat your chips, you need to love those Hipsters!'

WEDNESDAY 28TH APRIL
**DELIA SPARROW RECOMMENDS** PUGWASH, DUNCAN MAITLAND, THE WUTARS @ The Lexington, 20.00, £10adv
'Pugwash: Thomas Walsh of Pugwash is best known for his recent collaboration with Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy as The Duckworth Lewis Method, a duo & album which celebrated the great game of cricket. Their pure brand of pop is reminisent of Beatles, Beach Boys, XTC & The Kinks. The Wutars are a 5-piece British rock'n'roll band writing well-crafted energetic guitar classics - a great night of pop'


FRIDAY 30TH APRIL
**ORGAN RECOMMENDS** TACOMA NARROWS BRIDGE DISASTER, FILES ARE SPIES FROM HELL @ The Unicorn, Camden, 20.00, FREE
'Free entry, a venue with a decent pint of IPA and tonight alive with various shades of post rock from Tacoma, same from those Flies, bit more of a Prog rock take on it all from Flies Are Spies though, part of a tour in support of their rather good 'Red Eyes Unravelling' album of which we said here at Organ "A monstrously beautiful breed of prog-influenced post-rock"'
**NEMESIS TO GO RECOMMENDS** PUNKFESTstarring GBH, BAD MANNERS, THE ADICTS, TEXAS TERRI BOMB, MAX SPLODGE, NEWTOWN NEUROTICS, REZILLOS & many more - PunkFest Weekender @ London International Amphitheatre, Boston Manor Park, Brentford. - PUNKFEST now CANCELLED due to licensing problems