TUESDAY 31ST MAY
** ORGAN & LONDON GIGS Presents ** SECOND SIGHT, THUMPERMONKEY LIVES, OAF @ The Victoria, Dalston, 20.00, £5
'ORGAN and LONGON GIGS presents a launch party and gig to celebrate the release of ADRIAN BELL'S second book, "AYLESBURY. BOLTON, WOLVERHAMPTON, HOVE: A LITTLE MAN AND 101 CARDIACS GIGS" The night will be a small Pond-like gathering of Affectionate Friends to celebrate the birth of Adrian's new book. We have bands, DJs going off and things, Squallor will be alive in not very tidy East London, and most of all we need a small pond.. Headline band will be classic proper prog rock cover band, SECOND SIGHT, hopefully with a Cardiacs tune in there alongside the slices of Genesis, Yes and King Crimson...Support comes from THUMPERMONKEY LIVES, a fresh and thrilling full on prog rock band alive with new musical adventure...The night will be opened by the mighty OAF - "Lunatic post-punk noise making oddballs from the South Coast", they'll throw things in to a right old panixphere and get thing going off'
ALEX LIPINSKI, KARL CULLEY, MARCIA MELLO @ 12 Bar Club, Denmark St, 20.00, £6
ART BRUT, KEITH TOTP plus more @ The Lexington, 19.30, £11adv
Eddie Argos and his indie-art-rock warriors in residence
BEATY HEART, WHOMADEWHO @ Madame JoJo's, Soho, 20.00, £5
BELLE & SEBASTIAN @ Roundhouse, Camden, 20.00, £25adv
CULTS @ Rough Trade East In-store, 19.00, FREE
DEAD JERICHOS, FLOWER OF ZEUS, CARNIVORES, NEW YEARS EVIL @ Old Blue Last, 20.00, FREE
DIE!DIE!DIE!, THE NEAT, EELS ON HEELS @ The Macbeth, Hoxton, 20.00, £5adv £6door
Die!Die!Die! 'Creating sheets of guitar maelstrom underpinned by driven and pounding heavy krautrocking bass and drums'
DUCKTAILS, JULIAN LYNCH, BIG TROUBLES @ Hoxton Sq Bar & Kitchen, 19.00, £9.50adv
EXOTICA(single release) plus more @ Dublin Castle, Camden, 20.00
FLEET FOXES @ Hammersmith Apollo, 19.30
FLEET FOXES return with release of second album 'Helplessness Blues'
FLOWER OF ZEUS, DEAD JERICHOS, NEW YEARS EVIL @ Old Blue Last, 20.00, FREE
'The aesthetic of heavy guitar, and infectious drumming delivered in a super-flurry of energy is the subversive and deviant quality that is FoZ’s eccentricity.'
HAL FLAVIN @ AAA Archangel, Kensington High St, 20.00, FREE
HALF JAPANESE, LET'S WRESTLE, THE LOVELY EGGS @ Scala, Kings Cross, 19.30, £12adv
The Lovely Eggs 'Shouty Nothern pop girl and boy from kiss me quick Lancashire, boundless shouty bouncy don’t look at me confident energy' (Organ Magazine)
THE HOOSIERS @ Dingwalls, Camden, 20.00
HOTHEAD SHOW plus more @ Cafe 1001, Brick Lane, 19.00
IMPERIAL LEISURE, UNITED VIBRATIONS, RANDOM IMPLUSE, DANSETTE JUNIOR, CYNIKAL & THE STREET ORCHESTRA, JOHN BLOOD, POETICAT plus more - UpRise Live @ Proud Gallery, Camden, 19.30, £15door
An evening of Peace, Positivity and Progress. Partying. Three rooms of acclaimed live music, DJ’s , inspirational speakers, plus a debate or two. All monies from this funds and awareness raiser, raised go towards costs of the free annual UpRise Anti-Racism Festival - see more at UpRise
JONATHAN JEREMIAH @ Bush Hall, 19.30, £8.50adv
KATE MCGILL & MIKE DIGNAM @ The Garage, 19.30
NEW KID IN TOWN, AMBERSUIT plus more @ The Monarch, Camden, 19.30, £4adv £door
PATRICK WOLF @ The Garage, 19.30
RACHAEL SAGE @ The Enterprise, Camden, 19.30, £6adv £8door
THREE TRAPPED TIGERS, TALL SHIPS @ Cargo, 19.30, £8.50adv
Impressively colourful experimental electro-prog and touches of jazz, touchs of Battles, glitch, 65Days and all kinds of good things, fine other rock from Three Trapped Tigers. Plus 'Tall Ships' beauty is in their uncluttered simplicity, their breezy space that masks the complex details that have gone into making this second album so refreshingly uncluttered. Simple songs that have more than enough in them to have them more than stand up to lots of exploring and unwrapping.' (Organ Magazine)
THURSTON MOORE plus more @ Union Chapel, Islington, 19.30, £17.50adv
'Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth has a new LP called Demolished Thought out on Matador on May 23rd'
TO KILL A KING, BASTILLE, ROBBIE REDWAY @ The Social, 19.00, £6adv
Communion are proud to announce the release of To Kill A King's ‘Fictional State’ EP
THE TOOTONES, AMBERSUIT plus more @ The Monarch, Camden, 19.30, £4adv £5door
VETO plus special guests @ Barfly, Camden, 19.30, £7adv
'VETO hail from Aarhus in Denmark. A shared love of pre-programmed electronic rhythm and unrestrained rock energy allow the five-piece to create anthemic songs, built up of edgy, rhythmic guitar riffs led by the melodic vocals of Troels Abrahamsen proclaimed by critics to have one of the most significant voices on the Danish rock scene.' (Spc Live London)
VREID, KAMPFAR, SECRETS OF THE MOON, KRAKOW @ Underworld, Camden, 19.00, £14
