TUESDAY 1ST JUNE
**ORGAN RECOMMENDS** FREEBASS @ 100 Club, Oxford St, 19.30
'Andy Rourke (The Smiths), Peter Hook (Joy Division/New Order) and Gary "Mani" Mounfield (The Stone Roses/Primal Scream) have joined basses to become Freebass Catch them at London 100 Club on 1st June! The free state on Man(i)cunnia hits London. Red style all the way, who knows what they’re going to do got to be good though? Seagulls following trawlers or something like that....'
THURSDAY 3RD JUNE
**ORGAN RECOMMENDS** CHIPS FOR THE POOR @ Stags Head, Hoxton, 20.00
'launch party for the new single, Tell Your Mum, Bolan’s Back (on Invisible Spies) – a headpecker of a single, hammering at your mind in a positively repetitive manner, he’s a warrior...Angular banging softening you up ready for ranting new wave no wave shouty man to come a yelping and yapping and barking. Scratchy angular things that fall off the back of Mark E Smith’s lorry, if he was to ever have a lorry, not that anyone would let either Mr Smith or the one they Chips For The Poor drive their lorry. This as awkward as Mark E.Smith driving a lorry and yelling at everyone else on the road, on the pavement, on the phone... I Am a warrior yells the man without a lorry. No idea what shouty singer man is on about, sounds like he has a more than valid point of view though, I’m with him, whatever it is he’s on about. Three pecking tracks, bang yelp, bang bang... something to do with one-armed bandits, home made margaritas, diesel leaks and vomit. Broken Britain in full effect – c*ck, c*nt, p*enis, T*ny Blair, T*na Turner and treading carefully on wafer thin ice. Who knows what he’s on about, never fall in love with a girl like who? Excellent, wired up, on the edge, everything we need on a Monday morning. Five years since his last release so it claims on this press release, don’t ask me, new band, new life, a coalition to mend our broken pop music, a new start'
FRIDAY 4TH JUNE
**ORGAN RECOMMENDS** CUTTHROAT CONVENTION, COSMETIC, LOW TRAMON, RAISING OBJECTIONS @ Fiddler's Elbow, 20.00, £3
'A Doubleedgescissors night with a wholesome stew of experimental other rock, new wave prog flavoured contradictions and things that just don’t fit anywhere. The shapes will make sense to you – more info from doubleedgescissor.co.cc'
**DELIA SPARROW RECOMMENDS** FUTURE OF THE LEFT, ICE SEA DEAD PEOPLE, HOLD YOUR HORSE IS @ The Lexington, 19.30, £8adv
'The witty, intense and noisy FOL headline with support from angular feisy punks Ice, Sea, Dead, People and newish band Hold Your Horse Is. White Heat's sister indie club and lounge over two floors. White Light/Heaters and friends play music for dancing upstairs and anything from before 1984 for lounging downstairs!'
SATURDAY 5TH JUNE
**WEARS THE TROUSERS RECOMMENDS** THEE OH SEES, BRILLIANT COLOURS, PLEASE @ The Luminaire, 20.00, £8.50adv
'San Franciscan noise-pop trio Brilliant Colors release their debut UK single on June 5 through Germs Of Youth Records. Recorded by excitable garage-punk upstart Ty Segall, the A-side ‘Walk Into The World’ finds Diane, Michelle and Jess getting into a ’60s girl group vibe with all the attendant lo-fi haziness fans of their previous Stateside releases on Slumberland Records have come to expect. On the flip, ‘Bad Vibes’ is described alliteratively as “a downer dose of delightful disorientation”.'
TUESDAY 8TH JUNE
**NEMESIS TO GO RECOMMENDS** THE ABSTRACTS, SCREAMING BANSHEE AIRCREW, THE LONGEST DAY, LUKE KANE @ Camden Rock, 19.00, £5flyer or £6door before 22.00, £7after
'I've never heard of three out of the four artists at this gig, but the Screaming Banshee Aircrew should provide a good slice of new-wave angularity, skewed glamour and general London post-punkiness. As for the rest...it'll be a voyage of discovery.'
WEDNESDAY 9TH JUNE
**NEMESIS TO GO RECOMMENDS** THE DOGBONES, WIDOWS, CUNT CRUSHER @ The Luminaire, 19.30, £5adv
'Splendidly wayward glam-slam punkzoid two-drummers-one-drumkit noise from The Dogbones; Cunt Crusher are like a minimalist GobSauSage, with slightly less nakedness and definitely more swear words. Consider yourself warned'
**WEARS THE TROUSERS RECOMMENDS** LUCY ROSE, BRONZE MEDALISTS, HEART ON FIRE, ELIZA NEWMAN @ Tamesis Dock, Vauxhall, 20.00, £5
'Now that the weather is getting warmer the prospect of spending an evening on a 77 year old barge moored on the River Thames is beginning to look somewhat more appealing. Add in some music from a handpicked selection of highly talented songwriters and there’s precious little to argue against.'
THURSDAY 10TH JUNE
**ORGAN RECOMMENDS** THE LOST CAVALRY - Affordable Art Fair @ Patrick's Harvest, Kensal Rise, NW10, 20.00
'Acoustic set from the delightful alt.folk band from London. Armed with glokenspiel chimes and delicious songs, expecting them to play at somewhere around 8.15pm as part of the opening night of the four day Patrick’s Harvist Affordable Art Fair. More details on the fair from www.organart.com, check out the band here'
**ORGAN RECOMMENDS** EXTRA LIFE @ Corsica Studios, 20.00, £6adv
'Just about the best band in the world right now, intense avant-garde rock that proves everything hasn’t been done yet, think Tim Buckley playing with Godspeed You Black Emperor, think Morrissey toying with Gentle Giant, think precise classic interplay and the beguiling voice of Charlie Looker, memorable, multi-layered, disturbing even, a spectacular, irresistible entity – there’s a whole page of Organ reviews, photos and things at www.organart.com/aaaextralife.htm explore the band themselves via www.extralifeblood.com or www.myspace.com/extralifetheband'
**DELIA SPARROW RECOMMENDS** JAMAICA, TEN BEARS, SPARK @ The Lexington, 20.00, £5adv £6door
'The French duo formerly known as Poney Poney are Antoine Hilaire and Flo Lyonnet. With sleek melodies, rousing guitar riffs and crisp bass groves they're inspired by Michael Jackson, The Beatles, 60s girl groups & Nirvana. Flo is the electro head but holds a special place in his heart for the likes of Pantera and Rage Against The Machine. The wide spectrum of influences gives jamaica its distinct sound: sleek pop hooks and rock undertones alongside super tight electronic production. Their yacht rock sound - resplendent with guitar solos reminiscent of daft punk's 'discovery' - arrives just at the right time for summer.'
FRIDAY 11TH JUNE
**ORGAN RECOMMENDS** THE BOLLOCK BROTHERS, THE RIDERS OF THE NIGHT, THE FALSE DOTS @ Purple Turtle, 19.00, £10adv
'Bollocks Brothers and theIr very own slice of faith healing Anarchy in the UK, no cheap holidays in no sun...'
**DELIA SPARROW RECOMMENDS** HARLEM, A GRAVE WITH NO NAME, SISSY & THE BLISTERS @ The Lexington, 20.00, £5
'Austin's hardest working troublemakers, Harlem have a reputation of making club gigs seem like living room shows (and living room shows feel like club shows). Pure pop energy powers a new dimension of songwriting that is as tightly masterful as it is true to a joyfully frantic primitivism.'
SATURDAY 12TH JUNE
**NEMESIS TO GO RECOMMENDS** FESTIVAL OF SINS with GIT, BITTER RUIN plus a colourful cast of performance artists and fetish cabaret performers @ Purple Turtle, 20.00
'Quite where the angst-pop of Git and the folkie-cabaret drama of Bitter Ruin fit in to the fetish carnival that is Festival Of Sins is anybody's guess: given that this particular event celebrates the sin of gluttony perhaps they'll be scoffing cream cakes on stage, or something. Definitely not your average Camden gig, anyway. More info on all Festival of Sins events from the website - www.festivalofsins.co.uk'
MONDAY 14TH JUNE
**DELIA SPARROW RECOMMENDS** THOMAS TANTRUM, THE LOVELY EGGS @ The Lexington, 20.00, £6adv
'Thomas Tantrum: Fresh from recording their second album and recent sold-out UK tour with Band of Skulls, Southampton's favourite art-punks, Thomas Tantrum, return. "Thomas Tantrum...have wowed audiences up and down the country with their blissful, cutting songs of indifference and vigour. The mixture of styles and experimentation is what tantilizes most."- Artrocker. The Lovely Eggs: The Lancastrian girl/boy duo sing songs of cuteness, birds and satan in a haze of fuzzy guitars and dulcet vocals. "Twee without giving you a sugar rush sickness, suddenely noisy without making your ear drums bleed, The Lovely Eggs embrace the ridiculous with their Edward Lear/ Ivor Cutler pop." - Artrocker Free dowload 'The Last Kiss' available now on http://www.myspace.com/thomastantrum'
TUESDAY 15TH JUNE
**ORGAN RECOMMENDS** CYPRESS HILL @ Brixton Academy, 19.30, £25
'One of the most successful and influential hip-hop/rock groups, Cypress Hill announce a London show for June in support of their new album 'Rise Up' - their first in 6 years!'
THURSDAY 17TH JUNE
**NEMESIS TO GO RECOMMENDS** BLACK CHERRY, GLASS DIAMOND, THE ELECTRIC RIOT @ Queen Of Hoxton, 20.00, £5before 21.00 £6after
'This one's recommended on the strength of Glass Diamond: 8-bit anarchists who play it fast and brash and weird. This is what Atari Teenage Riot would sound like if they really were riotous teens'
**DELIA SPARROW RECOMMENDS** DARKER MY LOVE, KOOLAID ELECTRIC COMPANY @ The Lexington, 20.00, £7adv
'From Los Angeles and San Francisco, Darker My Love build upon various pop influences with layers of shoegaze and psychedelia, welcoming of distortion, reverb, and noise. The Koolaid Electric Company: The Leighton Buzzard psych-rock collective build a soaring wall of sound. This band love fuzzy, reverb-laden rock 'n' roll and sunburned harmonies that stick in your head long after the needle has left the groove. Expect musical odysseys complete with shimmering guitar anthems, blasts of buoyant pop, and a few surprises. Sunny, harmonized beatles pop, the ever-present wall-of-sound distortion quilt so loved by shoegazers, swooning and occasionally falling completely into one or the other. Enamoured less of the inscrutable haze of My Bloody Valentine or Slowdive, Darker My Love's hunger for noisy walls of sound strays closer to the Swervedriver school of shoegaze. Tracks like the pumping, organ-spattered, 'American Woman'-ish 'Blue Day' and its distorted swirl start things nice and loud, paving the road for spacier jams like the Pink Floyd meets the Doors echoes of 'add one to the other one.'
**ORGAN RECOMMENDS** MARIA SLOVAKOVA @ Patrick's Harvist, Kensal Rise, NW10, 19.00, FREE
'Maria performs creations from her soon ot be released album, her beautifully textured spoken word poetry with experimental electronica and organic cello providing the soundscapes that go with the projections. Some odf Maria's paintings will also be on show in the gallery downstairs. Doors 6.30 for art show, Maria live around 8.15 for a 30 minute set, then DJs and such afterwards..'
**NEMESIS TO GO RECOMMENDS** Deviation Street Club with TITS OF DEATH, THE DIRTY ROBBERS, MURDOC, THE WHAT? @ Peter Parker's Rock Club, Denmark Street, 20.00
'An event organised by the Sweet But Deadly collective, purveyors of the finest in fuzz guitars to the rock 'n' roll inhabitants of London. This gig should be worth catching for the killer riffs of Tits of Death - yes, they are an all-female band, and yes, they are quite a lot better than their name. The What? serve up some stripped-down sixties-style garage punk, and that sounds good to me, too. More details of all Sweet But deadly events are here: www.myspace.com/sweetbutdeadlyclub'
FRIDAY 18TH JUNE
**DELIA SPARROW RECOMMENDS** TELEVISION PERSONALITIES, LE VOLUME COURBE, GOLDEN GLASS @ The Lexington, 20.00, £5adv £6door
'Dan Treacy and friends will be playing a special show as Dan will wave goodbye to his 40's and turn 50 at midnight. Special guests are the wonderful Le Volume Courbe and Golden Glass (a brand new band featuring Robert Cooksey ex- Sea Urchins) Later White Light DJs play music to dance to upstairs, music to lounge to downstairs.'
SATURDAY 19TH JUNE
**NEMESIS TO GO RECOMMENDS** MOTOR, ULTERIOR @ Electrowerkz, 7 Torrens St, 20.00, £8.50adv includes entry for Slimelight club after bands
'The rampant techno of Motor isn't my usual musical area, but any band with a track called 'Death Rave' gets my vote. Ulterior inject a dose of rock 'n' roll, with their Suicide-plus-guitars punker-tekno racket: this is a band that shamelessly wears leather trousers, and gets away with it on sheer attitude.'
MONDAY 21ST JUNE
**DELIA SPARROW RECOMMENDS** LITTLE RED, THE SHIMMER, PLANET EARTH @ The Lexington, 20.00, £5adv
' Straight outta Melbourne, Australia, with 3 lead singers fighting for every note over 4 part harmonies & skin-tight primal rhythms they are the hottest all-singing, all-dancing incarnation of the quintessential rock'n'roll band with the addition of doo-wop, punk, obscure gospel references and blues. The Shimmer: Driving electro pop with a touch of gothic pomp from the brother/sister duo. Planet Earth: Folk pop that encourages jumping and dancing.'
THURSDAY 24TH JUNE
**NEMESIS TO GO RECOMMENDS** GET A BUZZ club with THE APES PARTY, PUSSYCAT AND THE DIRTY JOHNSONS, LIZZIE & THE YES MEN, THE CINDERS @ Undersolo, Inverness Street, Camden. 20.00, £5
'Another night of fuzzed-out garage rock and splendidly ramshackle sixties-style punk assembled by the Sweet But Deadly collective this time featuring bands from the UK, USA, and Italy. Definitely worth breaking out the pointy boots for this one, I reckon.'
MONDAY 28TH JUNE
**NEMESIS TO GO RECOMMENDS** THE DOGBONES, SEVEN SUMMITS, THE HUNDRED DAYS @ Dublin Castle, 19.45, £4.50 with flyer, £6 without
'A bit of a random selection of bands here, but recommended on the strength of The Dogbones, who seem to be on a never-ending tour of London just now. Their campaign to inject a certain manic post-Stooges voodoo edge to our gig circuit continues with this kickabout in Camden: it'll be loud and weird and wired - at least while The Dogbones themselves are on stage.'