TUESDAY 31ST JANUARY
THE BULLITTS @ XOYO, Cowper St, 19.30
CHRIS McCONVILLE BAND @ The Spice of Life, Moor Street, Soho, 19.30
EMIT BLOCH, UG feat. Kate Garner @ The Slaughtered Lamb, Clerkenwell, 19.30, £6adv
Lo-fi Dictaphone alt country rapid fire lyricism from London based Emit Broch and his guitar plus 'UG' the brand new project from Kate Garner & Emit Bloch
FEEDER @ Koko, Camden, 19.00
JONATHAN WILSON @ Scala, Kings Cross, 19.30, £12.50adv
“Wilson has a vinyl, analogue sensibility which oozes warmly through Gentle Spirit, right from the title track’s opening piano and acoustic guitar motifs. His hushed, breathy vocal embodies the gentle spirit itself, its incantatory warmth affirming a pure faith in music.” (The Independent)
LIANNA LE HAVAS @ The Social, Little Portland St, 19.00
LUCY ROSE @ Barfly Camden, 19.30
MAN OVERBOARD, THE STORY SO FAR plus special guests @ Old Blue Last, 20.00, £7
THE MEGAPHONIC THRIFT @ The Lexington, Angel, 20.00, £6adv
Experimental psych-rock from Bergen headline the Lexington "Face-meltingly intense" (NME)
MIAOW MIAOW!, SECRET RIVALS, ANOTHER COSTUME PARTY, THE ROVES @ 93 Feet East, Brick Lane, 19.30, FREE
NEW STREET ADVENTURE, PHANTOM LIMB @ Monto Water Rats, Kings Cross, 19.30
PORTICO QUARTET @ Rough Trade EAST in-store, Brick lane, 19.00, FREE
'Portico Quartet still sound like nothing you ever heard before. The Mercury nominated East London based outfit's unique music has expanded to embrace new sonic territories. Drawing on the inspiration of electronica, ambient, classical and dance music as they take their strange, beautiful, cinematic, future music to exciting new vistas' (Rough Trade)
RASP THORNE & THE BRIARS plus more @ Underbelly, Hoxton Sq, 19.30
THE VAN DOOS @ The Shacklewell Arms, Dalston, 20.00, £4adv
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