London Gigs, May 2012

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FRIDAY 18TH MAY
**NEMESIS TO GO RECOMMENDS** ZOETROPE, DJ TENDRAW, DOGFEET, MERRIN @ Buffalo Bar, Upper St, 20.00, £5
'A rush and a push of riotous grrl-noise from Zoetrope; scrapyard percussion and 'nuff attitude from Dogfeet. I think we're in for a cellar full of exhilarating rackets tonight.'
AGENT, FERAL SUN, DISSIDENT, CHERRY BLOOM @ 229 Grt Portland st, 19.30
BLAZE BAYLEY @ Monto Water Rats, Kings Cross, 19.30
CLUMSY, FC-20, KOMLA @ 100 Club, Oxford St, 19.30, £8adv £10door
CONCRETE KNIVES - Club NME @ Koko, Camden, 21.30, £5
CYMBALS, BECOMING REAL, DROP OUT VENUS @ Birthdays, Stoke Newington Rd, 20.00, £5
DIGITS, LOOK STRANGER!, BOY MANDEVILLE, JAY BROWN @ 93 Feet East, Brick Lane, 19.30, FREE
pop-electronica from London based Canadian, Digits
FLINT KIDS plus DJs @ The Battersea Barge Tideway Walk, Nine Elms Lane, Vauxhall, 21.00, £10adv
GEMMA HAYES@ St Giles In The Field, Soho, 19.30
Ireland's Gemma Hayes brings her mix of prog rock, folk and electronica to London
GORGEOUS GEORGE, THIS IS LAURA @ Jamboree, Cable St, 19.30, £4.50adv £6door
Gorgeous George have a 'unique blend of Eastern European folk musics with a distinctly youthful South London wisp...They deliver hillarious tales of frighteningly believable and relative characters that make listening to them feel like one big fly on the wall documentary in a Council Estate' (Jamboree)
HAUSCHKA, JOHANN JOHANNSSON, DUSTIN O'HALLORAN @ Barbican Hall, 19.30
FatCat Records present the 130701 Transcendentalists Tour 2012, they say 'Each artist here occupies their own unique outcrop of the broad-reaching 'post-classical' field. Where Dustin O'Halloran's hauntingly evocative string arrangements and solo piano pieces gently, quietly break hearts, Hauschka (aka Dusseldorf-based prepared-piano player Volker Bertelmann) experiments playfully and exploratively with timbre and rhythm, allowing extra-textual clicks and tics into his sonic journeys through organic / electronic modernist piano. Jóhann Jóhannsson, contrastingly, offers a study of stillness and richness of texture - soft electronics and restrained, harmonic use of a full string quartet subtly permeate and underpin his own sonic collages.'
HELLO BABIES, RICHARD LAMY'S A DISGRACE, THE EMPTY GESTURES, JS RAFAELI & THE READ, ERIN K & TASH, THE BIG FIBBERS, NIGEL BURCH, NAT THE HAMMER - The Spring Antifolk Fest 2012 @ 12 Bar Club, Denmark St, 19.00, £6 1 night £10 both
'Antifolk 2 dayer returns. The hedonistic and chaotic Antifolk double header is back with leading alternative, new and punk folk acts like Sergeant Buzfuz, The Rebel (Country Teasers), The Empty Gestures, Erin k & Tash and new acts like Sheepy and Richard Lamy's a Disgrace'
I.R.I.S, WHEN GIANTS FALL @ Upstairs at The Garage, Highbury Corner, 19.30
Iris are a four piece post-hardcore rock band from Deal in Kent
JAMES GRANT @ The Borderline, Manette St, Soho, 19.30
JAYCE LEWIS @ Barfly, Camden, 19.30
JOHANN JOHANNSON, HAUSCHKA, DUSTIN O'HALLORAN @ Barbican, 19.30
'Three artists from FatCat Records open up very different pathways through the new musical zone where post-classical, electronica, ambient and song meet.'
JOHNNY HEADBAND, HEYMOONSHAKER, HARRIET STARLING @ The Finsbury, 336 Green Lanes, 21.00, FREE
LIBRARY VOICES, THE RED LAPELS plus more @ Underbelly, Hoxton Sq, 19.30 £6adv
Canadian pop ensemble Library Voices
LOCAL GIRLS, KNICKERS, THE FEATHERS, THE FIREWORKS @ The Wilmington Arms 69 Rosebery Avenue, Clerkenwell, 19.30, £5adv £6door
MAYORS OF MIYAZAKI, DEATH PEDALS, PITY PARTY, FRAU POUCH - This is DIY @ V22 summer arts festival, Almond Building, The Biscuit Factory, Drummond Road, Bermondsey, SE16 4DG, 20.00, £3 - more info here
Third night of new DIY venture as part of a summer arts project down at the Old biscuit factory in Bermondsey, full list of events and details of gigs going on here - tonight curated by Motherboy. Expect math-prog challenge from The Mayors, Death Pedals 'Hot Snakes, pedal to the metal 80s, clammy handed demented art school types with THAT bass' and Frau Pouch who say they make noisy, scuzzy garage rock with ridiculous lyrical content...
MO JAZZ ORCHESTRA, CLAUDIO SIGNORILE feat. RHA STRANGES, SENA QUARTET - The Jazz Market @ Heroes, Kentish Town Rd, 19.30, £4adv £5door
MYSTERY JETS, SLOW CLUB, THEME PARK, PEACE @ Brixton Academy, 19.30
THE NEW CUT GANG, THE RECUSANTS plus DJs @ Ryans Bar, Stoke Newington, 20.00, FREE
NEW IVORY, SWIM DEEP, SHEEN plus DJs @ Old Blue Last, Grt Eastern St, 20.00, FREE
NURSERY OF NAUGHTINESS, ROSSI NOISE, OLOS AND THE TWISTED INDIVIDUALS @ Dublin Castle, Camden, 19.00, £6adv £7door
PEASANT @ The Vortex, Dalston, 19.30, £7.50adv
'Damien DeRose, the talented singer and songwriter behind Peasant, will release his third and most complete album "Bound for Glory" later this Spring...DeRose makes music that beckons and calls out, as if demanding to be heard. DeRose also has a secret weapon: a voice that seems to expose his very soul.”
RELEASE THE BATS, HERETICS plus DJs @ The Finsbury, 336 Green Lanes, N4, 20.00, FREE
THE SCRIBES, SHEEPY @ Prince Albert, 418 Coldharbour Lane, Brixton, 21.00, FREE
'Gritty witty hip-hop with THE SCRIBES plus quirky and upbeat psychedelic pop rock from SHEEPY'
SHARKS, SULK @ The Purple Turtle, Camden Town, 19.30
Sharks are, according to Rock Sound 'An abrasive, scathing sound which incorportates plenty of hooks and infectious lures mixing the early punk approach of The Clash and SLF with Gallows, all of which results in a sonic treat'
SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO @ Fabric, 20.00
SWIMMING, SATURDAY NIGHT GYM CLUB, TREE PIT, THE FRANKLYS, ENJOYED @ The Star of Kings 126 York Way, 19.00, £4adv
Swimming is a five-piece art-rock band from Nottingham. The Guardian say “This lot specialise in surging, shimmering synth-pop refracted through waves of My Bloody Valentine guitar haze” plus 'Joining the musical dots across the Irish Sea, Saturday Night Gym Club is an Anglo-Irish collective of electronic storytellers. They deftly weave threads of organic pop brilliance into the fabric of bass-heavy dancefloor euphoria'
TANLINES, THUNDERBIRD GERARD plus DJs @ The Lexington, Pentonville Rd, 19.30, £7.50adv
Brooklyn duo Tanlines, play deeply personal electronic pop
TIM BURGESS in conversation with LUKE TURNER plus Reading & Performance @ Rough Trade East In-store, Brick Lane, 18.00, FREE
TRUST, VISIONS OF TREES @ Birthdays, Stoke Newington Rd, 21.00, £5
Trust 'Tales of lust, wax, and erotomania carry along on a dense black vapor of speed, space and tears. Trust is a pop hit factory buried in the mud.' plus East London male-female duo Visions of Trees, who describe their sound as "moody and messed-up pop"
THE UNDERGROUND REBELLION, THE SPEEDOPHILES, ENKELINATION plus more @ The Horatia, Holloway Rd, 20.00, £5
THE XX @ Battersea Arts Centre, 19.30

SATURDAY 19TH MAY
ALASKA, HELLA BETTER DANCER, BRANDON LEE WEBB @ Powers Bar, Kilburn, 20.00, FREE
ALLMAN BROWN plus more @ AAA Archangel, 11 Kensington High St, 20.00, £6adv £8door
BELAKISS, THE LYSERGIC SUITE, GRINGO STAR @ Barfly Camden, 19.30, £8adv
BORN BLONDE, KRAMERS, IVORY SEAS, FLORIDA ROOMS @ 93 Feet East, Brick Lane, 19.30, FREE
BOROUGH LOVERS, LONG DEAD KINGS, BECAUSE OF THE BEARS, THE SEA KINGS, WORRY DOLLS @ The Wilmington Arms 69 Rosebery Avenue, Clerkenwell, 19.30, FREE
Folk, americana, and acoustic music night
BREATHE OUT (single launch), JOSEPH COWARD, A.R.T @ Old Blue Last, Grt Eastern St, 20.00, FREE
CARAVAN OF WHORES, STONE KINGS, CRIMSON DREAM, THOUSAND YEARS OF CHAOS @ Scream Lounge, Croydon, 19.30, £4
CHARALAMBIDES, THE MICHAEL FLOWER BAND, DEAN MCPHEE, HITODAMA @ Cafe Oto, Dalston, 20.00, £8adv £10door
interstellar texan folk drone duo Charalambides
COLD PUMA'S, SHUDDER PULPS, VISION FORTUNE, WEIRD MENACE @ Power Lunches Arts Cafe, Kingsland Rd, 20.00, £3
CONTEMPT, EASTFIELD, THE 12 BORES plus more @ Bridgehouse II, Canning Town, 19.00, £6
THE CURST SONS, THE HOBOS, TARQ BOWEN, HAILEY BEAVIS, HATRICK AND ROB LOBSTER @ The Windmill, Brixton, 19.00, £5
'The Curst Sons have been playing their powerful stripped back take on early American traditional music since 1998' plus 'The Hobos cross paths in London to bring you traveling folk music with twinges of bluegrass and a longing for the open road. Described as "beauteous sharp tongued acoustica" by Trashville Promotions'
DOM PIPKIN & THE IKO'S, THE DIRTY GENTLEMEN - Mardi Gras Mambo @ Empowering Church, Westgate St, Hackney, 20.00, £7adv
ENTHRONED, GORATH, FROSTMOON ECLIPSE, SATURNIAN, FUNERAL THRONE, ROSICRUCIAN, THE FURIOUS HORDE - Infernal Damnation Fest IX @ Underworld, Camden, 14.00, £17adv
THE FARM @ Islington Academy, 19.30
FIONA BEVAN, BEN MONTAGUE, THE SHOESTRUNG, POPES OF CHILLITOWN plus more @ Ginglik, Shepherds Bush, 20.00, £8adv £10door
FLASHBANG BAND, VOODOO CHILD @ The Finsbury, 336 Green Lanes, 21.00, FREE
HAPPY MONDAYS, INSPIRAL CARPETS @ Brixton Academy, 19.30
HELLO BABIES, SHEEPY, SERGEANT BUZFUZ, EXTRADITION ORDER, THE REBEL, POPULAR TYRE plus more - The Spring Antifolk Fest 2012 @ 12 Bar Club, Denmark St, 19.00, £6 1 night £10 both
'Antifolk 2 dayer returns. The hedonistic and chaotic Antifolk double header is back with leading alternative, new and punk folk acts like Sergeant Buzfuz, The Rebel (Country Teasers), The Empty Gestures, Erin k & Tash and new acts like Sheepy and Richard Lamy's a Disgrace'
LE MASQUE plus more @ Jamm Brixton, 19.30, £10adv
Le Masque is a London based, experimental pop band
LILYGUN plus supports @ Electrowerkz, Torrens St, 19.00, £8adv £10door
Lilygun say they are a guitar based rock band and are primarily Anna-Christina, the songwriter/singer/guitarist, her music has been described as a shower of bullets and petals...
LONG DEAD KINGS, BOROUGH LOVERS, BECAUSE OF THE BEARS, THE SEA KINGS, WORRY DOLLS @ The Wilmington Arms, Rosebery Ave, Clerkenwell, 19.30, FREE
NEBUKADNEZZA, SELF LOATHING, GHEE, ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT, THE ATROCITY EXHIBIT @ The Unicorn, Camden, 19.00, FREE
Thrashed up 3 piece Nebukadnezza, chaotic blasting with full speed ahead riffing and groovy head pounding breakdowns
NGUZUNGUZU, EVIAN CHRIST, VERY SPECIAL GUESTS, BECOMING REAL plus more @ Corsica Studios 4/5 Elephant Rd, 20.00, £8adv £10door
NOW I SEE BEES I WON, LOST IN THE RIOTS, HOLD THE DAWN, BANDCALLEDMAC plus more @ The Good Ship, Kilburn, 19.30, £5
now i see bees i won are 'London's first post-rock-ambient-world-math-folk outfit' (Good Ship)
OCTOBER SKY, DEAR SHERLOCK, SUNDAY RECOVERY, THE JUDE @ Nambucca, Holloway Rd, 20.00
PADDY STEER, GUILDHALL SAXOPHONE ENSEMBLE, REAL TUESDAY WELD, PINEY GIR - Artic Circle 6th Birthday Fundraiser @ Westminster Reference Library, 19.30. £10adv £12door black&white dresscode
RAF AND O, GERTRUDE, LILY GASKELL AND THE SLUTS, SHE MAKES WAR plus DJs - Benefit gig for Feminist Fightback @ The Victoria, Dalston, 20.00, £4adv £5door
Glitchy electronic dream pop from Raf And O plus Gertrude are an all female post punk rock outfit from London town with do things their own way and make fantastic use of a clarinet and electric cello, edgy and melodic.The band have got an album out called 'Speak Shape Create Time' which is released on their own Urban Missfits label. Plus She Makes War "appealingly grainy angst-pop shot through in leftfield with the conceptual imagination of someone like Melissa Auf Der Maur" (Wears The Trousers)
THE RESONATORS, BEV LEE HARLING, FIONA BEVAN plus more @ Hootananny, Brixton, FREE before 23.00 £3after
RICHARD BLUES, GREG MILLER BAND, LITTLE DEVILS @ The Royal George, Charing Cross Rd, 20.00, £5
SILBERMOND @ Upstairs at The Garage, Highbury Corner, 19.30
STEPHANIE O'BRIEN, SWEET LIGHTS, ERIN K & TASH - Daylight Music @ Union Chapel, Islington, 12.00-14.00, FREE
'On Monday 30th April ex-Kurt Vile & War On Drugs guitarist Shai Halperin will release his self-titled debut LP under the moniker SWEET LIGHTS… Halperin marshalling the classic elements of modern pop music and displaying his own songwriting credentials with a masterful mixture of dynamic, genre-bending song craft, innovative arrangements and surreal, poignant lyricism.' (Bella Union)
THIS MANY BOYFRIENDS, FEVER DREAM, OWL & MOUSE @ The Waiting Room, Stoke Newington, 20.00, FREE
This Many Boyfriends are an indiepop band from the North and described as ‘sounding like 5 people high on several bowls of sugary cereal, bouncing down a stair case on a number of bright orange spacehoppers' by Steve Lamacq
TRANS SIBERIAN MARCH BAND, THE LONG INSIDERS plus more - Gypsy Hotel @ The Lexington, Pentonville Rd, Angel, 20.00, £9.99adv
TRUST, VISIONS OF TREES, THE HAXAN CLOAK plus DJs @ Birthdays, Stoke Newington Rd, 21.00, £5adv
Dark and ferocious pop duo TRUST on their first European trip from Canada

SUNDAY 20TH MAY
AGONYST, THE MOTHERS ANGER, THIRTEEN, XII BOAR, BLIND HAVOC, THIS MEANS WAR plus more @ Purple Turtle, Camden, from 16.00, £5door
BABESHADOW, LIZ LAWRENCE, TELEGRAMS @ The Lexington, Pentonville Rd, 18.00, £7adv £9door
colourfully dark indie rock from London's Babe Shadow
THE DANDIES, THE SCREAMING KICKS, PINK CIGAR, THE STAGS @ The Wheelbarrow, Camden, 19.00, FREE
EMRE, BAND LAB RATS @ The Finsbury, 336 Green Lanes, 21.00, FREE
GIRLYMAN plus more @ The Slaughtered Lamb, Clerkenwell, 19.30
GOOD LOVELIES @ Underbelly, Hoxton, 19.30, £10adv
All-female Canadian folk music trio, Good Lovelies
IT BITES, JON AMOR BLUES GROUP @ Bush Hall, 19.30, £18adv
JON WINDLE, JOBY HARDWICK, CERI JAMES @ New Cross Inn, 19.30, £6adv £8door
Ceri James’ knack has always been as a heart felt singer songwriter with his influences firmly set in the glorious era of 60s pop' (GIITTV)
JONNY NEESOM, THE ACAPELLA PUNK, UMAU, RICHARD BASTIAN, JD SMITH, GLOBETOWN PEOPLE, LUKE CROSS plus more @ Good Ship, Kilburn, 15.00-19.00 FREE
NELL BRYDEN @ Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank, 19.30
RUSSELL JOSLIN @ Birds Nest, Deptford, 20.00, FREE
hard hitting folk

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MONDAY 21ST MAY
**ORGAN RECOMMENDS** GALLON DRUNK @ Rough Trade EAST in-store, Brick Lane, 19.00, FREE
'A collision of funk, punk and skewiff jazz from the legendary Gallon Drunk. "Why? Because they don't sound like anyone else" (John Peel)'
AL PARRISH, RUSS CHANDLER @ Green Note, Parkway, Camden, 20.00, £10adv £12door
CHOIR OF YOUNG BELIEVERS, HELLA BETTER DANCER, KLAK TIK @ Birthdays, Stoke Newington Rd, 19.30, £6.50adv
Lush dramatic indie rock/pop colour from Denmark's Choir of Young Believers 'Singer and songwriter Jannis Noya Makrigiannis has a beautifully crystalline voice, but the backdrop to his icy purr is equally beguiling, with taut melodies and an evocative atmosphere' (CMU)
THE DUNWELLS @ The Borderline, Manette St, Soho, 19.30
GORGOROTH @ The Garage, Highbury Corner, 19.30
THE LUCKY FACE, MY MATE GEORGE, SLATE ISLANDS, THE BIG FIBBERS, ACTON BELL, COLOSSAL YOUTH plus more - Under the Influence @ Boogaloo, Highgate, 19.30, £3
Under the Influence night celebrate Eurovision week 'each act will perform a cover of a Eurovision entry as well as two of their own songs'
MALCOLM MIDDLETON presents 'Human Don't Be Angry' @ Cargo, Rivington St, 19.30, £14.50adv
Malcolm Middleton presents his new album 'Human Don't Be Angry' which will be released on 16th April by Chemical Underground. ‘HDBA is a facade, a front so I can have fun again musically,’ says Middleton, who describes himself as having felt bored and restricted by what he jokingly refers to as the ‘heart-on-sleeve complaining’ of his solo work. ‘I thought I'd go back to what I enjoy,’ he says, ‘which is playing guitar and writing melodies.’
MIKE NISBET, TERRIBLE EYES, JAMES MORGAN, AIN @ Nambucca, Holloway Rd, 20.00, £3adv
Scottish singer songwriter, Mike Nisbet has his debut album 'Vagrant' out now, 'It’s hard for any songwriter to pull off this solo acoustic style, but Mike does it with such calculated coolness and Rufus Wainwright-esque deep vocals, that the genuine passion is portrayed in a very collected manner'
MOLLY WAGGER, INCA GOLD, SHY FOR SHORE plus more @ The Social, Little Portland St, 19.30, £5adv £7door
THE RASMUS @ Islington Academy, 19.30
SEADOGS, LIEUTENANT @ The Macbeth, Hoxton, 19.00, FREE
'Seadogs are a funk-fuelled attack of fuzzed-up classic rock, doused in sexy electronica' and Camden-based three-piece Lieutenant play 90's influenced heavy-grungy-rock
STILL FLYIN', POPPY PERREZZ, COSINES @ The Lexington, Pentonville Rd, 19.30, £6.50adv £8door
'Still Flyin’ have been redefining indie-pop since 2004, new album 'On a Bedroom Wall' sees the band returning with a streamlined live setup to bring a tight new sound to their production and songcraft' (Lexington)
TEMPER TRAP, CYMBALS @ Koko, Camden, 19.30
TO KILL A KING @ Barfly Camden, 19.30
"Dark lyrical musings.matched by epic musical sensibilities"; two elements used by Mojo to describe To Kill A King's sound
VARIOUS CRUELITIES @ Hoxton Sq Bar & Kitchen, 19.30
'Various Cruelties is the musical alias of the prodigiously talented yet charmingly contradictory Liam O'Donnell - a teenage Strokes fan in thrall to the 'New York cool' of Richard Hell yet with a voice so sweetly soulful and a head full of classic soul standards he was never going to end up fronting some 'two-bob-indie-by-numbers' band in his native Leeds.' (Rough Trade)

TUESDAY 22ND MAY
**ORGAN RECOMMENDS** NOUGHT, DEAD DAYS BEYOND HELP @ Westminster Kingsway College 211 Gray's Inn Road, WC1X 8RA, 19.00
'Nought meanwhile play very English very instrumental, very prog flavoured classically-structured English rock with just a touch of dirty bite around the edges, we love their uncompromising honesty and their complex drive, we love their tunes, we love NOUGHT plus DEAD DAYS BEYOND HELP, Jem Doulton and one time Camp Blackfoot guitarist Alex Ward rediscovering his love of mathy punky avant prog...'
AMARANTHE, DYNAZTY, SOEN - Spinefarm Records night @ The Garage, Highbury Corner, 19.30
ANNA TERNHEIM @ Bush Hall, 19.30, £14
APPALOOSA, YOUNG SHOES, FOUNTAINS @ Buffalo Bar, Islington, 20.00, £5adv
BEANS ON TOAST @ The Wheelbarrow, Camden, 20.00, FREE
BENEATH THE BEACH, DOLL RATS, PRIVATE JET, THE CONNECTORS @ Upstairs at The Garage, Highbury Corner, 19.30
BLACK CASINO & THE GHOST, STINA & THE SOLDIERS, SHACKLEWELL ROW, TYLER KYTE, ADAM BURRIDGE @ Notting HIll Arts Club, 19.00, £6flyer £8door
BLEACHED (members of MIKA MIKO), PAWS, WEIRD MENANCE @ 33-35 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, 20.00, £6adv
Hailing from Glasgow, three-piece PAWS bash out infectious garage pop-rock
BRENDAN BENSON, YOUNG HINES @ Scalal, Kings Cross, 19.30, £15adv
BRIDGE & TUNNEL, ABOVE THEM, BEAR TRADE, KELLY KEMP @ The Windmill, Brixton, 19.30, £6
'Sonically anchored by a guitar-driven melodicism reminiscent of later-era Small Brown Bike, Long Island’s Bridge and Tunnel harness the explosive, angular technique employed by luminaries like Fugazi and Cursive to convey a cutting sense of immediacy and intensity.'
CONCRETE KNIVES plus more @ Madame JoJos, Soho, 19.30, £5adv
EC DAWSON, PENNILESS COVE, NO THOUGHTS NO GRAVITY, NEB(B)BIA plus more @ The Good Ship, Kilburn, 19.30, £5
GRAVENHURST, SWEET LIGHTS @ The Lexington, Angel, 19.30, £11adv
'Gravenhurst is the work of songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Nick Talbot from Bristol, England. The Ghost In Daylight is his most sonically diverse work yet, with starkly acoustic songs resting alongside densely layered pieces constructed from mellotrons, optigans and antique synthesizers.' (The Local) plus 'On Monday 30th April ex-Kurt Vile & War On Drugs guitarist Shai Halperin will release his self-titled debut LP under the moniker SWEET LIGHTS… Halperin marshalling the classic elements of modern pop music and displaying his own songwriting credentials with a masterful mixture of dynamic, genre-bending song craft, innovative arrangements and surreal, poignant lyricism.' (Bella Union)
IT BOYS @ Barfly Camden, 19.30, £7adv
JAPANDROIDS @ CAMP Basement, Old St, 19.30
JOHN J PRESLEY, MA POLAINE'S GREAT DECLINE, PETE KOSANOVICH @ Powers Bar, Kilburn, 20.00, FREE
JOSH KUMRA @ The Social, Little Portland St, 19.30, £6adv
THE KABEEDIES plus guests @ Electricity Showrooms, Hoxton, 20.00, £5adv
The Kabeedies play positively twee DIY new wave flavoured indie pop
KRYSTLE WARREN @ Dingwalls, Camden, 19.30
THE LABORATORY OF ODD, FORMBY, CARS LIKE SHARKS, IRIS @ Club Surya, Pentonville Road, Kings Cross, 20.00, £5
Grunge punk from the Laboratory Of Odd and heavy progressive rock from Formby
LILIES ON MARS, THE FILTHY ORPHANS, VERONIKA VESPER, HORACIO TOULOUSE LA MAGA, THE WHITE TOPS plus more @ 93 Feet East, Brick Lane, 18.00, £5door - profits to Emergency UK
The delightfully experimental dream-pop of Lilies On Mars 'The three piece, two girls on guitars and voices, one boy on delicate drums, have a ethereal other-worldly quality to their experimental pop, healthy hints of what some would call shoe-gazing, atmospheric pieces of warmly textured pop, very much pop, soft waves of reverb and subdued electronica that’s far to considered to really be called lo-fi...' (Organ)
LOOK STRANGER! plus more @ 93 Feet East, Brick Lan, 19.30
lLook,Stranger! offer a 'punchy slice of Yeasayer-esque pop, full of surprising hooks, with an exhilarating, sing-along chorus'
OBERHOFER, SHINES, KAPPA GRAMMA @ Hoxton Sq Bar & Kitchen, 19.30
Alt-pop sort Oberhofer touring to promote Brad Oberhofer and band's just released debut album 'Time Capsules II'
PASSENGER @ The Borderline, Manette St, Soho, 19.30
PAWS plus more @ Birthdays, 33-35 Stoke Newington Rd, Dalston, 19.30
Hailing from Glasgow, three-piece PAWS bash out infectious garage pop-rock
POND @ Rough Trade EAST in-store, Brick Lane, 13.00, FREE
POND, GROSS MAGIC @ Cargo, Rivington St, 19.00
Featuring three members of Tame Impala Pond released their third album in March and is 'an evolution of Tame Impala's psych-rock that doesn't stray too far from the parent band's repertoire'
RYCO SAINTS, MY FRIEND EJECT, EMPTY LUNGS @ The Monarch, Camden, 19.30, £4
SWEET LIGHTS plus more @ The Lexington, Pentonville Rd, 19.30
'On Monday 30th April ex-Kurt Vile & War On Drugs guitarist Shai Halperin will release his self-titled debut LP under the moniker SWEET LIGHTS… Halperin marshalling the classic elements of modern pop music and displaying his own songwriting credentials with a masterful mixture of dynamic, genre-bending song craft, innovative arrangements and surreal, poignant lyricism.' (Bella Union)
TAME IMPALA @ Cargo, Rivington St, 19.30
Australian psych band Tame Impala playing in support of debut album 'Beard Wives Denim'
TEMPER TRAP, CLOCK OPERA @ Koko, Camden, 19.30
WHITE DENIM @ The Forum, Kentish Town, 19.30
YIP DECEIVER, MAMMAL CLUB @ Old Blue Last, Grt Eastern St, 20.00, FREE
Yip Deceiver is the brainchild of multi-instrumentalist Davey Pierce, which was originally intended to be a solo project, but has since become a collaborative effort with Dobbratz.'

WEDNESDAY 23RD MAY
**NEMESIS TO GO RECOMMENDS** VIKTORIA MODESTA (Single Launch), THE FACE, JOHNNY LAZER plus Mark Moore DJ set @ Hoxton Sq Bar & Kitchen, 19.30, £10adv £12door
'The inscrutably cool Viktoria Modesta is the very model of a futuristic pop star. Tonight she launches her debut single 'Only You' - a wide-screen, diva-esque virtual James Bond theme, all swooning synths and swoopy vocals. Expect a suitably glam show to go with her electronic dramatics. Support from electropop-soulsters The Face, and the trash-pop disco of Johnny Lazer. Yes, tonight is very much about pop music, so for one night only let's put our rock 'n' roll angst in our back pockets and get our glitter on.'
THE ACOUSTIC STRAWBS @ The Borderline, Manette St, Soho, 19.30
Britain's most successful international folk-rock band, The Strawbs
ALASDAIR ROBERTS, ELLE OSBORNE @ The Slaughtered Lamb, Clerkenwell, 19.30
BALOJI @ Village Underground, Holywell Lane, 20.00, £14adv
The African/Belgian star combines rap with Congolese rhumba to create a unique contemporary sound. ‘A nuanced blend of verbal passion, traditional Congolese sounds, funk and reggae – Baloji could be the artist to give African rap a truly global profile.’ (The Telegraph)
BEST FRIENDS, THE BLACK TAMBOURINES, JERRY TROPICANO @ Hotel Street 121 - 125 Charing Cross Rd, 19.30
BETH ROWLEY, MARCUS BONFANTI @ The Lexington, Pentonville Rd, Angel, 19.00, £12adv
'The Bristol-based singer-songwriter is heavily influenced by blues, gospel and Americana music, Beth has a stunning and unique voice that has been acclaimed the world over.' (Lexington)
DAMO SUZUKI, TEMPERATURES @ Birthdays, Stoke Newington Rd, 19.30, £7
Damo Suzuki with his ever experimental journeys 'Former Can vocalist and legendary wildman...now performing improv with his loose Network, an assemblage of whichever local musicians are to hand at the time. Expect wigginess of the highest oder.' (Time Out)
DAVID COULTER with JASON SINGH, TOUT, ROSS DOWNES - The Attic @ Hackney Picture House, 270 Mare St. Hackney, 20.00, £5
Trestle Records Presents an evening of instrumental music...
ELECTRIC DISCHARGE MACHINE plus supports @ Catch, 22 Kingsland Rd, 21.00
EXHUMMED, ANAAL NATHRAKH @ The Garage, Highbury Corner, 19.30
EXITMUSIC @ Electrowerkz, Torrens St, 20.00
'Sometimes, listening to Exitmusic, it's hard to tell exactly whether the goosebumps you're getting are from the parts that are chillingly beautiful and melodic or the ones that are aching and guttural.' (Rough Trade)
FANTASY RAINBOW, HENRY SKEWES @ Strongroom Bar, Curtain Rd, 19.00, FREE
FEI COMODO @ Islington Academy, 19.30
FELDSTAR, THE OCTOBER GAME, EDEN LEY @ The Good Ship, Kilburn, 19.30, £6/£5
Feldstar celebrate release of new single 'Shadow' 'Feldspar write serious and beautiful songs with real meaning which will delight old rockers, young nerds, housewives, and regular gig goers alike.' (Good Ship)
GIRL'S NAMES, FRENCH KISSING, DROP OUT VENUS @ The Waiting Room, Stoke Newington, 20.00, £5adv
INLAND SEA @ Nambucca, Holloway Rd, 19.30, £5adv
THE INSTANTS, FORMS, THE BOW STREET RUNNERS, THE LIGHTWORKER @ New Cross Inn, 19.30, £3
JONQUIL @ Cargo, Rivington St, 19.30
Jonquil describe themselves as "Paul Simon's take on The Smiths"
JULIETTE WALLACE AND THE VAGINAS, RAPTUSOUND, COULEURS, L.I.A. @ Dublin Castle, Camden, 19.45, £6
Electro rock band Raptusound 'atmospheric, dark, and brooding' (Tom Robinson, BBC6Music)
LOST ALONE @ Barfly Camden, 19.30, £7.50adv
MANFLU plus more @ The Workshop, Old St, 19.30, £5adv
'Man-Flu nail proggy time changes to new wavey angularity and dip the lot in a vat of no-shit attitude. They're half way between X-mal Deutschland and Sonic Youth, where avant-rock and punk rock meet and warily shake hands. Not a bad place to be, if you ask me.' (Nemesis To Go)
MICHAEL KIWANUKA @ Shepherds Bush Empire, 19.30
OZRIC TENTACLES @ Islington Academy, 19.30
PETE ROE @ The Wilmington Arms 69 Rosebery Avenue, Clerkenwell, 19.00, £6door
'Pete Roe is a London-based Folk singer/songwriter. Pete plays a plethora of instruments but is known for his mesmerising guitar and spirited piano talent coupled with his beguiling voice.'
RACHAEL DADD @ The Gallery Cafe, Bethnal Green, 19.30, £8.50adv
SHADES OF JADE, VOODOO TRASH, DIMENSION FLUX plus more @ 333 Mother Bar, Old St, 20.00. FREE
SVETLANA AND THE BAND, ED & THE GOOD SHIP BAND, THE RAKETTS plus more @ Camden Rock, Kentish Town Rd, 20.00, £5
TALK IN COLOUR plus DJs @ Floripa, 91-93 Grt Eastern St, 19.00, £5 (adv tickets include free CD album)
Talk In Colour 'By turns dark then uplifting, slipping effortlessly between pure instrumentals and vocal driven tracks...the band blends electronic and organic instrumentation into a blistering aesthetic'
TOTALLY ENORMOUS EXTINCT DINOSAURS @ Koko, Camden, 19.30, £12adv
WE DIE TONIGHT, THESE CITY LIGHTS, FROM AFAR, DOOMED FROM DAY ONE plus more @ Upstairs at The Garage, Highbury Corner, Islington, 19.30
YNGVE & THE INNOCENT, THE LUCKY STRIKES, INDIGO EARTH, PHILLIOUS WILLIAMS @ 93 Feet East, Brick Lane, 19.30, FREE
Yngve & The Innocent are going to be showcasing songs from their debut album 'The Sadness Of Remembering'
THE ZOMBIES @ Jazz Cafe, 19.30

THURSDAY 24TH MAY
AURA NOIR, <CODE>, DISFAGO, SEPUKU @ Underworld, Camden, 19.30, £12adv
Auro Noir are back for their 2nd ever UK show, celebrating release of "Out To Die"
BEACH HOUSE @ Village Underground, Grt Eastern St, 19.30, £16adv
Baltimore's Beach House release 4th album "Bloom"on 14th May via Bella Union - they “deliver wistful soundscapes that soar from stripped-back verses into epic choruses” (The Fly)
THE BERMONDSEY JOYRIDERS, THE PHOBICS @ Madame JoJo's, Soho, 19.30
The Bermondsey Joyriders - a trio featuring members of Cock Sparrer, Chelsea and The Heavy Metal Kids who tout a unique blend of punk rock and slide guitar sounds
BODKIN LANE @ Bush Hall, 19.30, £10
THE CONNECTORS, HIGH WINDOWS, CITY DWELLER @ The Silver Bullet, Finsbury Park, 19.30, £4
CRYBABY @ St Pancras Old Chuch, 19.30
DANIEL LAND & THE MODERN PAINTERS, MY AUTUMN EMPIRE @ The Wilmington Arms 69 Rosebery Avenue, Clerkenwell, 20.00, £5
Daniel Land & The Modern Painters release second album 'The Space Between Us', "Daniel Land and his band are magnificent, magical and monolithic slice of shoegaze beauty. Sounds like Slowdive reimagined by Phil Spector' (NME) with support from Epic45 side project My Autumn Empire
ED WOOD JR, GUNS AND KNIVES plus more - This is DIY @ V22 summer arts festival, Almond Building, The Biscuit Factory, Drummond Road, Bermondsey, SE16 4DG, 20.00, £3 - more info here
This is DIY is part of a summer arts project down at the Old biscuit factory in Bermondsey, full list of events and details of gigs going on here
THE ENEMY @ Shepherds Bush Empire, 19.30
FRED PAGE @ The Waiting Room, Stoke Newington, 19.30, FREE tickets here
GEORGIE FISHER, KELLY WOODS, MASQUA, ROY SUDAN plus more @ AAA Archangel, 11 Kensington High St, 20.00, £5adv £7door
THE GRAVELTONES, MELODY NELSON, JD SMITH, RICHIE RICHARDS plus DJs @ Catch, 22 Kingsland Rd, 21.00, FREE
THE HALL OF MIRRORS, HELLA BETTER DANCER plus Djs @ The Lock Tavern, Camden, 20.00, FREE
“Dream-pop collective The Hall Of Mirrors are probably South London's best kept secret. Ethereal they may be, but lump them in with the current crop of shoegazers at your peril, for this band has an identity which is totally their own.” (Shindig Magazine)
HAVALINA HEAT, GEPPETTO'S, HUMAN WAVE ATTACK @ Power Lunches Arts Cafe, Kingsland Rd, 20.00, £3
JASON MANNS plus more @ The Good Ship, Kilburn, 19.30, £10
MARTIN CREED @ The Lexington, Angel, 19.30, £10adv
'Martin Creed is an artist and musician. He famously won the Turner Prize for 'The lights going on and off'. His second single, 'Where You Go', will be released on 27 February following last year's 'Thinking / Not Thinking'. Having travelled the world in 2011 with his exhibitions and his band, Martin is finishing work on his debut album 'Love To You', which will be released in May 2012.' (EYOE)
MIKILL PANE plus more @ Hoxton Sq Bar & Kitchen, 19.30
THE POPGUNS plus more @ Buffalo Bar, Islington, 19.30, £8adv
The Popguns play their first London show for over 15 years.
SAY ANYTHING @ XOYO, Cowper St, 19.30
SET YOUR GOALS, MAKE DO AND MEND, SPYCATCHER @ Old Blue Last, Grt Eastern St, 20.00, £10
'Set Your Goals are a San Francisco, California based pop punk band with hardcore influences and dueling vocalists formed in 2004.'
THE SUBURBIANS @ Barfly, Camden, 19.30
SWEET BILLY PILGRIM @ Rough Trade EAST in-store, Brick lane, 19.00, FREE
Sweet Billy Pilgrim present new album 'Crown And Treaty' which according to Rough Trade is quite simply stunning. 'Ambitious, literate, dramatic, heartfelt, beautiful, artistic and capable of moving you to tears, it is the sound of a band taking a quantum leap forward, throwing every ounce of their belief, passion and dreams into the creation of a truly special body of work' (Rough Trade)
THE TURN, PAYROLL, THE CALL UP plus comedy @ 93 Feet East, Brick Lane, 18.00, FREE
VIKTORIA MODESTA (Single Launch) plus more @ Hoxton Sq Bar & Kitchen, 19.30, £10adv £12door
VIVA LAS VEGAS, THE TED ARMY, THE DUEL, LES TOSSEURS - Alternative Eurovision @ 12 Bar Club, Denmark St, 19.00, £6
VULTURES QUARTET, JO QUAIL, ANTON MOBIN, WINDOW TAPPERS @ The Miller, London Bridge, 19.30, £4adv - all profits will go to Oxfam
Chaos Theory presents a special charity event in association with Zos Kia Sounds Recordings, Feat. Vultures Quartet who are an 'improvisation group, which mixes electro-acoustic, dark ambient, free jazz and industrial, utilising conventional instruments played unconventionally, open-source software, found objects, homemade instruments and electronics.' plus the night will also feature solo sets, collaborations and improvisions from all other performers
WANDERLINGS, MAGIC EYE @ Shacklewell Arms, Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, 19.30, FREE
WHEATUS, MC LARS, MATH THE BAND, CORNMO @ The Garage, Highbury Corner, 19.30
THE ZOMBIES @ Jazz Cafe, 19.30

FRIDAY 25TH MAY
**ORGAN RECOMMENDS** GALLON DRUNK plus more @ Nambucca, Holloway Rd, 19.30, £10adv
'Gallon Drunk return with new album, “The Road Gets Darker From Here”... 'the trio have refocused their utterly distinctive musical vision with a collection of impassioned songs, imbued with pure mania, despair and abandonment'. A collision of funk, punk and skewiff jazz from the legendary Gallon Drunk'
**NEMESIS TO GO RECOMMENDS** JAH WOBBLE and KEITH LEVENE play METAL BOX IN DUB @ The Village Underground, 19.30, £15
'As John Lydon takes the current line-up of Public Image Limited around the tour circuit, two of his former colleagues - original PiL bassist Jah Wobble, and original guitarist Keith Levene - give us their own interpretation of the band's groundbreaking 1979 album, Metal Box. We're told John Lydon isn't happy about the appearance of this old-school PiL splinter group, but it's going to be fascinating to hear what Wobble and Levene do with the krautrock-meets-dub stylings of the Metal Box material.'
ALARMIST, EATENBYBEARS, ETIQUETTE plus visuals by Slipdraft @ The Cavendish Arms, 128 Hartington Rd, Stockwell, 20.00, £5
ANIMAL CIRCUS, ELISSA FRANCESCHI @ The Finsbury, 336 Green Lanes, 21.00, FREE
BAD WOLF plus more @ Silver Bullet, Finsbury Park, 19.30
'Bad Wolf mean business; they let rip and take you on a rocket trip with a full-throttle howl at the moon! "When they turn berserker, they sound like Matt Bellamy chained to a monster truck being dragged around a derby" (NME)
BLANCMANGE @ Islington Academy, 19.30
'One of the truly original English Synth pop acts and a major influence on everyone from Hot Chip to Metronomy, Blancmange take to the road'
THE BRUTE CHORUS plus more @ The Lexington, Pentonville Rd, 19.30
'The Brute Chorus have been combining garage, blues and folk music with a scatology of Biblical stories, nursery rhymes and fairy tales since 2008.' (Barfly)
THE CHAPMAN FAMILY @ The Macbeth, Hoxton, 19.30, £5adv
THE DANDIES, THE SCREAMING KICKS, THE LOUD, GST CARDINALS, THE CONNECTORS @ Purple Turtle, Camden, 19.30 FREE before 20.00, £5after
THE DOGBONES, POINO, CLAIRE LEMMON, DOGSTAND - Benefit for TIM SMITH (Cardiacs) @ The Windmill, Brixton, 20.00, £10adv
The Dogbones 'glorious glam-punk art-racket...pounding voodoo punk rock' (Nemesis To Go) plus 'Poino are an abrasively angular mathy post-punk delight, they're awkwardly good, they're prog rock for noiseheads who don't like prog rock (and for those of us who do), their debut album is one of the vital releases of recent times, everyone should have it. (Organ)' and featuring a 'rare set from one of Tim Smith's favourite singers, Clare Lemmon was the main songwriter and front women with seminal indie band Sidi Bou Said.'
EXILES, DEATH SURF @ The Silver Bullet, Finsbury Park, 19.30, £3
GAZ COOMBES @ Bush Hall, 19.30, £12.50
GIANA FACTORY, BEATY HEART plus DJs @ The Nest, Dalston, 21.00, £7
Danish dark-pop sorts Giana Factory mark the release of their debut album, 'Save The Youth'.
GENERAL FIASCO, HUNGRY KIDS OF HUNGRY - Club NME @ Koko, Camden, 21.30, £5door
HACKNEY COLLIERY BAND, UNITED VIBRATIONS plus more @ The Garage, Highbury Corner, 19.30
'Hackney Colliery Band are a nine-piece East London brass juggernaut headline a special showcase night of the best Wah Wah 45s latest signings.'
HARAKET, JAMIE ISAAC, EDIT/SELECT, SAM SALLY @ New Cross Inn, 19.30, £3
HOUNDS BELOW, THE BRUTE CHORUS @ The Lexington, Angel, 19.30, £8adv
THE HORRORS, BEAK>, BO NINGEN, TOY @ Brixton Academy, 19.30, £17.50adv
INCA GOLD, THESE FOREIGN ARMIES, LOW MOON LOW @ The Horatia, 98-100 Holloway Rd, 20.00, FREE
Psychedelic pop from Inca Gold
THE INVESTIGATION @ Upstairs at The Garage, Highbury Corner, Islington, 19.30
MARTIN REV(Suicide) plus very special guests @ Purple Turtle, Camden, 19.00, £12.50adv
THE MUSGRAVES, WHITESTAR, AWAY WITH THE FAERIES @ 229 The Venue, Grt Portland St, 19.30
OUTFIT @ Rough Trade EAST in-store, Brick lane, 18.30, FREE
PARISO, CROCUS, WITCHCULT, MONOLITH, BROTHERHOOD OF LAKE @ Power Lunches Arts Cafe, Kingsland Rd, 20.00, £5/£6
aggressive, adrenalin filled hardcore from Falmouth's Crocus
PARTLY FAITHFUL, THE DOGBONES plus The Horrors & O Children DJs @ Brixton Jamm, 19.00, £10adv
'The Partly Faithful bring their art-rock post-punkery deaingl in Bauhaus-esque arch theatrics expect sheets of shuddering guitar from Gemma Thomson (of Savages and John & Jehn), a starkly precise rhythmic rumble, and a frayed at the edges Bauhaus-meets-The Horrors feel.' (Nemesis To Go) plus 'glorious glam-punk art-racket...pounding voodoo punk rock' from The Dogbones
PAUL KALKBRENNER @ The Forum, Kentish Town, 19.30
POPE @ Barfly Camden, 19.30, £5adv
THE PRIMITIVES @ The Borderline, Manette St, Soho, 19.30
SHE MAKES WAR plus more @ The Cellar, Basement of Worlds End Distillery, 19.00
She Makes War "appealingly grainy angst-pop shot through in leftfield with the conceptual imagination of someone like Melissa Auf Der Maur" (Wears The Trousers)
SKREAMER, DAKEN, DRIVEN plus more @ The Borderline, Manette St, Soho, 19.00
SLAYER performing Reign In Blood, SLEEP, MELVINS, WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM, YOB, DEATH GRIPS plus more - ATP I'll Be Your Mirror @ Alexandra Palace - full info here
THE SOFT MOON @ XOYO Cowper St, 19.30
TV BUDDAHS @ The Garage, Highbury Corner, 19.30
WARNING/WARNING, THE AFTERNOON GENTLEMEN, LIFE DESTRUCTION, SWINE LORD, ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT - Scumfest 2012 @ The Grosvenor, Stockwell, 19.00, £7
WE HAPPY FEW, JIM LOCKEY & THE SOLEMN SUN, YOUNG CAUSEWAY, OLIVIA MANCINI @ The Wilmington Arms 69 Rosebery Avenue, Clerkenwell, 20.00, £5adv £6door
THE YESMEN, SHOSHIN, SCARLET HILL plus more @ The Good Ship, Kilburn, 19.30, £5

SATURDAY 26TH MAY
**NEMESIS TO GO RECOMMENDS** HEALTHY JUNKIES, DIVINE REBELLION, IN EVIL HOUR, CUNT CRUSHER @ The Hope & Anchor, Islington, 20.00, £5flyer £6door
'A rock 'n' roll assortment tonight in the legendary cellar of the Hope And Anchor - where, legend has it, U2 once got in a strop after only four people turned up to see them. I think tonight's gig will be a little busier, though: the punky, glammy rock of Healthy Junkies and the feisty mutant-blues of Cunt Crusher will see to that.'
14TH, MOSCOW YOUTH CULT, BLEEDING HEART NARRATIVE, IMAGINAIRE plus DJs @ Queen of Hoxton, Curtain Rd, 20.00, FREE before 21.00 £7adv
BLACK MANILA, FOLIE ORDINAIRE, WIRED DESIRE, CAUGHT LEAVES @ The Finsbury, 336 Green Lanes, 21.00, FREE
Black Manila headlining, fusing psychedlia, rock n roll, big basslines and pounding rhythms.
THE BRIEFING, VIVIEN GLASS plus more @ The Good Ship, Kilburn, 19.30, £5
BUZZCOCKS @ Brixton Academy, 19.30
THE CYNICS, THEE VICARS, THEE SAVAGE KICKS @ Boston Music Room, Tufnell Park, 19.30
DANIELE SILVESTRI @ The Garage, Highbury Corner, 19.30
DEATH VALLEY SURFERS plus more @ 12 Bar Club, Denmark St, 20.00, £6
Death Valley Surfers described as "Crazy Rock & Roll like Bo Diddley on speed"
DR BLUEGRASS AND THE ILLBILLY 8, CUT A SHINE, PERHAPS CONTRAPTION, KESTON COBBLER'S CLUB, JACK DAY plus more @ St John-at-Hackney Church, Lower Clapton Rd, E5 0PD, 19.00, £9adv
The Cobblers Club: SPRING JIG, full event info here feat. 'Perhaps Contraptions are truly progressive with their stench of bluebells and their walking on eggshells and going off and things. Strange prog flavoured jazz/thrash and floating anarchy from behind The Musical Box with Zappa, Ring, Henry Cow, Mr Bungle, Gong and even stranger performance...'(Organ Magazine)
EASTEND PROMISES, DUKES OF MARMALADE, FUXE @ Bridgehouse II, Canning Town, 19.30, FREE
GHOSTS YOU ECHO, ONE MAN DESTRUCTION SHOW, TENDER OBJECTS @ The Victoria, Mile End, 19.00, FREE
Ghosts You Echo are a London based 3 piece, that utilise an ensemble of sounds ranging from keyboard to violin. 'Taught, dark, percussive songs filtered through this one woman band’s unique musical vision' (Roundhouse) plus One Man Destruction Show is Adam Harmer, a rock and roll playing one man band.
GODZILLA BLACK plus more @ The Unicorn, Camden, 20.00, FREE
'Godzilla Black, who combine Kraut-rock with art-rock with noise-rock are back with a new album to be released soon
HUE AND CRY @ Islington Academy, 19.30
JILL JACKSON @ Barfly, Camden, 19.30, £15adv
JUDAS PRIEST, SAXON, KOBRA AND THE LOTUS @ Hammersmith Apollo, 19.30
LOLA COLT, BONFIRE NIGHTS, THE MEDUSA SNARE, ELECTRIC ALICE @ The Victoria, Dalston, 19.30, £5
Electric Alice play high-energy, fast, raw punk and garage music and headlining are London based Lola Colt. The six piece "somehow marry the best bits of louche Americana with shoegazing and deliver a sonic punch that is menacing and oozing with cool, imbued with the sounds of Link Wray and the Velvet Underground and Ennio Morricone."
THE LOST BROTHERS @ Rough Trade WEST in-store, Notting Hill, 17.00, FREE
MOB47, DESPERAT, STAB, PETTYBONE, FILTHPACT - Scumfest 2012 @ The Grosvenor, Stockwell, 19.00, £8
raw, angry, intense political hardcore punk from London's revolutionary all-girl hardcore band Pettybone
MOGWAI, DIRTY THREE, CODEINE, MUDHONEY, CHAVEZ, BILL WELLS & AIDAN MOFFAT, HARVEY MILK, FLOOR, THE SOFT MOON plus more - ATP I'll Be Your Mirror @ Alexandra Palace - full info here
NEW SUNSET HOTEL, JAMES COOK, THE MELTING ICE CAPS @ The Wilmington Arms 69 Rosebery Avenue, Clerkenwell, 19.30, £7door
OCASAN (single launch) @ Upstairs at The Garage, Highbury Corner, Islington, 19.30
ORCAS, RAFAEL ANTON IRISARRI, BENOIT PIOULARD @ Cafe Oto, Dalston, 20.00, £8.50adv £10door
'The Centrifuge Agency is delighted to be welcoming the critically-acclaimed Orcas for their first ever London show, fresh from the release of their widely praised debut album on Morr Music. This will be a very special evening with both band members, each respected and established in their own right, also performing solo sets. Seattle’s post-minimalist composer Rafael Anton Irisarri plays his only solo UK show this year and Michigan's Benoît Pioulard returns to London after recently enchanting a full house at Cafe OTO with his unique guitar and vocal explorations. Be prepared for an evening of Pacific Northwestern experimental guitar music, avant-folk songcraft and symphonic neo-classical ambience.'
PACER, IT'S NOT OK, RIVALRIES, BAD IDEAS, CRYWANK, FERALUS, SHANKLAND - Bill & Ted Fest @ The Miller, London Bridge, 18.30, £5adv £6door
RUSS CHANDLER, KATE DENNY, JOHN DEVINE, JACQUELYN HYNES & J.EOIN, SARAH JANE MILLER, THE RAVEN, KAREN RYAN & PETE QUINN plus more - Bethnal Green Folk Day @ The Gallery Café 21 Old Ford Road, from 12.00noon, £10door
'A mini Folk Fest in the garden, cafe and rooms of the Gallery Cafe, Bethnal Green featuring the best of the local Folk Scene ...[plus] Afternoon Acoustic Stage in the Chapel hosted by the Stoke Newington based Mondegreen Folk Club with a selection of their regular performers and performances from the floor. Bring your instruments, voices and yourselves!'
SCUM - The Reading Of The Truth @ The Bishopsgate Institute, 19.30
Shoegaze youths SCUM are to take up a one-night residency in East London, playing live and curating a range of music, poetry and film by their artistic associates.
TV BUDDAHS @ Upstairs at The Garage, Highbury Corner, 19.30
WASHINGTON IRVING @ Powers Bar, Kilburn, 20.00, FREE
YASIIN BEY @ The Forum, Kentish Town, 19.30

SUNDAY 27TH MAY
AERIALS UP, FORMS, ROBINSON @ Barfly Camden, 19.30
THE AFGHAN WHIGS, ULTRAMAGNETIC MCS, THE MAKE-UP, ARCHERS OF LOAF, THEE OH SEES, YUCK, SLEEPY SUN, TENNIS, TALL FIRS, FOREST SWORDS, DEMDIKE STARE, SISKIYOU plus more - ATP I'll Be Your Mirror @ Alexandra Palace - full info here
APPALOOSA, YOUNG SHOES @ Catch, 22 Kingsland Rd, 20.00, £4
THE CORRESPONDENTS, PSYCHEMAGIK plus more @ The Lock Tavern, Camden, from 15.00, FREE
Some electro swing mashup from The Correspondents
DEATH TOLL 80K, ENDLESS GRINNING SKULLS, BERSICKER, LICH, CEAST TO EXIST - Scumfest 2012 @ The Grosvenor, Stockwell, 18.00, £7
EVA SALZMAN, GUNS OR KNIVES, PAUL NORCROSS, HELVELLA @ The Strongroom Bar, Curtain Rd, 20.00, FREE
FOREVER NEVER @ Barfly, Camden, 19.30
GENTICORUM @ The Underbelly, Hoxton Sq, 19.30
"Firmly rooted in the soil of their native land, the energetic and original traditional ‘power trio’ also incorporates the dynamism of today’s North American and European folk cultures in their music."
THE HANDSOME FAMILY plus more @ 100 Club, Oxford St, 19.30, £15adv £17.50door
HEART OF A COWARD @ Upstairs at The Garage, Highbury Corner, 19.30
JOHNNY DOWD @ The Windmill, Brixton, 14.30 & 19.00 £11adv
Americana artist Johnny Dowd will be playing afternoon and evening shows 'Although bracketed as "Americana" in the early days, his experimental, noisy breaks and lyrics that dealt out doses of Southern Gothic, dark humour and absurdism soon won him wider admirers'
LILIES ON MARS, THOUGH FORMS, JOE INNES @ Power Lunches Arts Cafe, Kingsland Rd, 20.00, £4
'The delightfully experimental dream-pop three piece Lilies On Mars 'The three piece, two girls on guitars and voices, one boy on delicate drums, have a ethereal other-worldly quality to their experimental pop, healthy hints of what some would call shoe-gazing, atmospheric pieces of warmly textured pop, very much pop, soft waves of reverb and subdued electronica that’s far to considered to really be called lo-fi...' (Organ)
RODDY WOMBLE, CAVE PAINTINGS @ The Borderline, Manette St, Soho, 19.30
STIG NOISE, ALRIGHT THE CAPTAIN, MY MARCAILLE plus DJ Taigen (Bo Ningen) @ Old Blue Last, Grt Eastern St, 20.00, FREE
Stig Noise are like 'a crossover like Fugazi featuring vintage Casio tones and trumpet in more danceable way' and Alright the Captain 'A Midlands' ace three-piece are also coming to support HOU Project and and HOU Project! They should not only be called Math but also influenced by a bit of factor of shoegaze and hard aspect. The result of their original style brought experimentally new-age alternative. They are such a live band, you will find what it does mean from their performance which is organised very well.' plus a metal cellist from France, My Marcaille
STOLEN DEER, INDIGO EARTH, THE JOKER AND THE THIEF, ATLANTICS @ Hoxton Sq Bar & Kitchen, 19.30, £4adv £6door
SUZY BOGGUSS @ Bush Hall, 19.30, £22.50adv
SWEET LIGHTS plus more @ Old Queens Head, Islington, 19.30
'On Monday 30th April ex-Kurt Vile & War On Drugs guitarist Shai Halperin will release his self-titled debut LP under the moniker SWEET LIGHTS… Halperin marshalling the classic elements of modern pop music and displaying his own songwriting credentials with a masterful mixture of dynamic, genre-bending song craft, innovative arrangements and surreal, poignant lyricism.' (Bella Union)
THROWING UP, ZOETROPE, DANA JADE plus more - CLIT ROCK episode 2 @ The Lexington, Pentonville Rd, 19.30, £5adv
CLIT ROCK 2 An event to raise awareness and funds for Daughters Of Eve an organisation committed to preventing and ultimately eradicating Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) - More info here
TONS, CHORA, AN INFINITY ROOM (A.I.R.) @ Cafe Oto, Dalston, 20.00, £6adv £7door
'An evening of radical approaches to improvisation and collective sound making with Tons - a group of musicians of the highest creative calibre with national and international reputations in the fields of improvisation, jazz and sound generation and London's trash gamelan ensemble Chora. The evening will now open with the subtle psycho-active space transformations of A.I.R.'s sustained multiple organs.'

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MONDAY 28TH MAY
**NEMESIS TO GO RECOMMENDS** DAVID RYDER PRANGLEY & THE WITHCHES, MALEFICENT, FREAK STATIC, AEONS @ Purple Turtle, Camden, 19.00, £5
'Rachel Stamp frontman David Ryder Prangley plays a rare gig with his other band, The Witches - an ad-hoc project which enables him to work with a variety of musicians and explore all manner of musical tangents. That, of course, means that nobody quite knows what'll happen tonight, but that in itself means this gig is worth catching. Main support from Maleficent, who combine the dramatic swoops and swirls (and a killer rock diva vocal) of former Royal Ballet dancer Maleficent Martini with crunchy industrial-strength rock. A night of strange collisions in prospect, then.'
ADMIRAL FALLOW @ Cargo, Rivington St, 19.30
Admiral Fallow 'adding clarinet, flute, double bass and four jaw-dropping voices to the usual indie line-up they smash through joyous, heart-filled, orchestral-tinged and beautifully well crafted songs - perfectly mixing melancholic folk with soar-away pop melodies'
AWOLNATION, ARCANE ROOTS - HMV Next Big Thing @ The Garage, Highbury Corner, 19.30
ESPERANZA SPALDING @ Koko, Camden, 19.00, £25adv
GIRLS @ The Forum, Kentish Town, 19.30
San Franciscan indie sorts Girls are playing a single London show on behalf of their second album 'Father, Son, Holy Ghost'
HOPELESS HEROIC, PRESS TO MECO, FJOKRA, DIRTY EXCUSE @ Upstairs at The Garage, Highbury Corner, 19.30
HUSKY @ Rough Trade EAST in-store, Brick Lane, 19.00, FREE
Australian quartet Husky release debut album 'warm, acoustic timbres and carefully crafted songs' (Rough Trade)
THE MINUTES @ The Borderline, Manette St, Soho, 19.30
THE MOUTH OF GHOSTS plus more @ 333 Mother Bar Live, Old St, 19.30
SAINT ETIENNE @ The Palladium, Argyll St, 19.30
SMOKE FAIRIES @ The Tabernacle, Powis Sq, 19.30
STOLEN DEER, ANOTHER COSTUME PARTY, LUKE GAMBLING @ 93 Feet East, Brick Lane, 19.30, FREE
TOWNS, SULK @ Barfly Camden, 19.30, £7adv
WALLS, BLUE DAISY plus DJs @ Hoxton Sq Bar & Kitchen, 19.30, £7.50adv
Walls combine 'dreamy guitar and haunting vocals together with emotive synth lines, sample manipulation and vintage drum machine magic' (EYOE)

TUESDAY 29TH MAY
**ORGAN RECOMMENDS** THREE TRAPPED TIGERS @ Sailor Jerry's Hotel Street, 120-125 Charing Cross Rd, 19.00, FREE
'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.'
ANAIS MITCHELL, THE YOUNG MAN BAND @ The Lexington, Angel, 19.30, £11adv
'Anais Mitchell presents songs from her brand new album, 'Young Man in America', together with songs from her earlier albums. Mitchell will be accompanied by her Young Man band for the first time in the UK'
CABLE35, ECHOTAPE, EUDORA FLETCHER, TAI CHI SWAYZE @ 93 Feet East, Brick Lane, 19.30, FREE
CASIOKINDS @ Barfly Camden, 19.30
CHALET plus more @ The Good Ship, Kilburn, 19.30, £5
CLORINDE, ORCHESTRA ELASTIQUE, DAICHI YOSHIKAWA @ Cafe Oto, Dalston, 20.00, £5door
'Fractal Waves present Clorinde + Orchestra Elastique + Daichi Yoshikawa for a night of beautiful instrumental music, free form experimentations & various permutations in between.'
COVES (EP Launch), SHE'S SO RAD, MODERN BORDERS @ Power Lunches, Kingsland Rd, 20.00, £3
THE CROOKES @ The Borderline, Manette St, Soho, 19.30
DALEY @ Jazz Cafe, 19.30
GRAMME @ Rough Trade EAST in-store, Brick Lane, 19.00, FREE
Seminal late '90s post-punk outfit Gramme are back
FOREIGN OBJECTS, HEX ON BEACH, COVERGIRL @ Birthdays, Stoke Newington Rd, 19.30, £5
Covergirl, a post punk super group, formed of members of Trash Kit, Bloody Knees, Wet Dog and Peepholes.
JAMES YORKSTON AND THE ATHLETES, SEAMUS FOGERTY @ Cecil Sharp House, Regents Park, 19.30
JAPANDROIDS @ Upstairs at The Garage, Highbury Corner, 19.30
JOSH KUMRA @ The Social, Little Portland St, 19.30, £6adv
KATHRYN WILLIAMS presents THE POND @ Union Chapel, Islington, 19.30
'Kathryn Williams launches new project The Pond, with fellow musicians, Simon Edwards and Ginny Clee. Their self-titled debut is released by One Little Indian on 28th May. 'The Pond is an explosion of ideas augmenting vintage beats, 60’s pop, Eastern flavoured loops - and even a rapper'
KYLA LA GRANGE @ Village Underground, Shoreditch, 19.30
LIMP BIZKIT @ Brixton Academy, 19.30
THE MILK BAR plus more @ Dublin Castle, Camden, 20.00
MOONFACE, TU FAWNING, BLUE ON BLUE @ Cargo, Rivington St, 19.30, £7.50adv
ONELINEDRAWING, DAVE MCPHERSON, KATIE MALCO @ Old Blue Last, Grt Eastern St, 20.00, £9
PURE LOVE @ Scala, Kings Cross, 19.30, £13.50adv
Frank Carter's post-Gallows project Pure Love, as is co-chaired by ex Hope Conspiracy guitarist Jim Carroll, are to play their second ever live show
POG, THE ASTRONAUTS, PATRIK FITZGERALD @ Milfords, 1 Milford Lane, Covent Garden, WC2R, 20.00, £6
Pog album launch for their new album Between The Station And The Sea
SAVAGES, VERITY SUSMAN (Electrelane) plus Djs @ The Shacklewell Arms, Shaclewell lane, 20.00, £6adv
'SAVAGES are a London-based-four-piece who played their first show with British Sea Power in January ; vocalist Jehnny Beth (John & Jehn) guitarist Gemma Thompson, bassist Ayse Hassan, drummer Fay Milton, deliver an inspired, assertive performance, a mixture of guitars with a groovy no wave/punk rythmic session.'
SONDRE LERCHE @ The Garage, Highbury Corner, 19.30
WE WERE EVERGREEN @ Bush Hall, 19.30, £8adv
Parisian alternative indie-electro-pop band, We Were Evergreen
ZARJAZ, THE PHEROMOANS, WAY THROUGH @ The Victoria, Dalston, 20.00, £5

WEDNESDAY 30TH MAY
**ORGAN RECOMMENDS** EXTRA LIFE, GUM TAKES TOOTH, PLAYLOUNGE @ Old Blue Last, Grt Eastern St, 20.00, £6adv
''Like anything unique, Extra Life's sound is agonisingly hard to describe. Almost as difficult as describing Cardiacs. Looker has gathered some of the cream of the burgeoning New York experimental music scene, including musicians from Ocrilim and Little Women, with violin and wind synth a seamless part of the sound. Undoubtedly progressive, peppered almost casually with mathy complexity, they seamlessly combine it with intense industrial darkwave heaviness and richly gleaming 80s synth pop.' - ORGAN reviews carry on here'
CAAN @ The Garage, Highbury Corner, 19.30
FIXERS @ XOYO Cowper St, 19.30, £8.50adv
Fixers music is all psychedelic woozes and harmonies and are set to release their debut album, 'We'll Be The Moon', on 14 May.
FOREVER NEVER @ Barfly Camden, 19.30
THE HUNDRED IN THE HANDS @ Madame JoJo's, Soho, 19.30
Synth-pop-inclined and Warp-signed duo The Hundred In The Hands
HYPERPOTAMUS, LEWIS FLOYD HENRY @ The Gallery Cafe, Bethnal Green, 19.30, £8.50adv
ISLET plus support @ Birthdays, Stoke Newington Rd, 19.30, £8adv £10door
'Wonderful Welsh newcomers Islet..The band's debut album Illuminated People is out now on Turnstile'
IT HUGS BACK, SHE'S SO RAD, DEAD SOCIAL CLUB, KEEBO @ The Macbeth, Hoxton, 20.00, £5 NUS/flyer/adv £6door
'Switching between joyous pop-punk delight and delicate melancholia in a heartbeat, It Hugs Back melt layers of fuzzy vocals and guitars into their reassuring blend of endearing shoegaze and heart-on-sleeves vulnerability.'
KASSIDY plus support @ 100 Club, Oxford St, 19.30
LACH, NAT THE HAMMER @ Boogaloo, Highgate, 19.30
MODEL SOCIETY, OVERSPILL, RONSON KIPLIN, HAYDON'S PLACE, TIM MCDONALD AND THE LEISURE CLASS plus more - Kilburn Festival @ The Good Ship, Kilburn, 19.30, £3/£5
MY PRESERVER @ Upstairs at The Garage, Highbury Corner, 19.30
SCREW @ Underworld, Camden, 19.00, £30adv
WILKO JOHNSON in conversation plus signing & Performance @ Rough Trade East In-store, Brick Lane, 19.00, FREE
WILLY MASON, SWEET LIGHTS @ The Tabernacle, 19.30
ex-Kurt Vile & War On Drugs guitarist Shai Halperin is SWEET LIGHTS… Halperin marshalling the classic elements of modern pop music and displaying his own songwriting credentials with a masterful mixture of dynamic, genre-bending song craft, innovative arrangements and surreal, poignant lyricism.' (Bella Union)
THE WINTER OLYMPICS, MUNCIE GIRLS plus DJ @ The Wheelbarrow, Camden High St, 19.30, FREE
'DIY dance-rockers The Winter Olympics bring their no-budget arena rock show to Camden in support of their debut Freakscene Records release 'I Prefer the Early Stuff'. Taken from the forthcoming album 'Profit & Loss' the single will be available to buy on limited edition Oyster Card at this FREE gig. Support comes from Exeter indie-punk upstarts the Muncie Girls and DJ duties are in the capable hands of DJ Massive Disappointment, aka Jasper Future from Art Brut.'

THURSDAY 31ST MAY
2:54 @ Rough Trade EAST in-store, Brick Lane, 19.00, FREE
ALT-J @ Corsica Studios, 19.30
THE BATTLES OF WINTER plus special guests and DJs @ The Black Heart, Camden, 19.30, £5
The Battles of Winter describe themselves as heart racing post punk, with a quintessentially English feel...
BELLERUCHE plus guests @ Scala, Kings Cross, 19.30, £14adv
'With their brand new LP 'Rollerchain' forthcoming on Tru Thoughts records, Belleruche have created a more bass heavy, evocative and darker sound in the studio and on stage, whilst still retaining that melodic soulful touch'
BINKO SWINK, GOLD ROAD @ The Wilmington Arms 69 Rosebery Avenue, Clerkenwell, 20.00, £6
BOB MOULD @ Rough Trade EAST in-store, Brick Lane, 13.00, FREE
COWBELL, THE KILCAWLEY FAMILY, UG @ The Lock Tavern, Camden, 20.00, FREE
Cowbell play garage/soul/rock n roll with a truly British feel
ELECTRONIC VOICE PHENOMENA // NEW LANGUAGE MEDIUMS @ Cafe Oto, Dalston, 20.00, £5adv £7door
Performance event showcasing 4 innovative commissions in voice, glitch and noise as part of an exploration of a new poetic
ELEPHANT 3 @ Karamel Club, 4 Coburg Rd, Wood Green, 19.30, £8
FOREIGN OFFICE, LOOK STRANGER! @ Electricity Showrooms, Hoxton, 20.00, £4adv
FRENCH HOUSE, EMMA, TWIN GRAVES, FELIX STENHOUSE @ New Cross Inn, 19.30, £3
HOODLUMS, HATCHAM SOCIAL plus DJ set from Mike Joyce @ Proud Camden, 20.00, £10
'PANIC! A Live Homage To The Smiths' is a night dedicated to the oft-(and rightly)-revered Manchester icons The Smiths. The evening will bring you not only exclusive viewing of Kevin Cummins' iconic photography, but also live performances from two of London's most hotly tipped up and coming bands who will be performing their own interpretations of some of the most influential Smiths songs recorded. Plus - All Night Long Promotions have managed to snare The Smiths legend Mike Joyce for a rare special guest DJ Set'
THE HUNDRED IN THE HANDS @ Hoxton Sq Bar & Kitchen, 19.30, £8adv
Synth-pop-inclined and Warp-signed duo The Hundred In The Hands
JACK SAVORETTI @ The Borderline, Manette St, Soho, 19.30
Singer songwriter Jack Savoretti described as ‘raw, soulful and yearning…a voice that sounds like the truth’celebrates release of ablum 'Before The Storm'
JAKE BUGG @ 100 Club, Oxford St, 19.30, £8
KING CHARLES @ Heaven, 19.30
LARRY AND HIS FLASK plus supports @ The Windmill, Brixton, 19.30
Larry and His Flask are an American punk-bluegrass musical group from Central Oregon
LITTLE SWITZERLAND, ABBIE LAMMAS, THE HAPPY ENDINGS, GOODNIGHT OHIO, COUNTING COINS @ AAA Archangel, 11 Kensington High St, 20.00, £5adv £7door
'Four like-minded musicians from Little Switzerland playing via the genre of pop, indie, roots and reggae. Along with heavy guitar lines and vocal melodies from Goodnight Ohio (previously Belle Collective) and ending off with ska & gypsy punk band Counting Coins and brother sister duo, The Happy Endings. Looking forward to another smasher of a showcase as Discovery 2 pairs up with Hull’s Warren Records.'
LUCKY DRAGONS, HIGH PLACES, JASON URICK @ Birthdays, 33-35 Stoke Newington Road, 20.00, £8adv
Lucky Dragons create an ecstatic form of electronic music that celebrates the spirit of life with surprising, inventive and uplifting live performances. These usually involve brain-wrangling visual projections and various forms of inspired audience interaction.
MIDAS FALL plus more @ Underbelly, Hoxton Sq, 19.30, £5adv
MIIKE SNOW @ Brixton Academy, 19.30
MOULETTES @ Bush Hall, 19.30, £9adv
NORDIC GIANTS @ Hoxton Hall, 19.30, £6adv
Brighton's post-rock duo Nordic Giants
THE PAROV STELAR BAND @ Koko, Camden, 19.00, £19
REMUS DOWN BOULEVARD, GREENMAN @ Bridgehouse II, Canning Town, 19.30, FREE
TEMPA T, MMOTHS, SOLAR BEARS @ Old Blue Last, Grt Eastern St, 20.00, FREE
18yr old Jack Colleran aka MMOTHS 'has embraced endless nights and bags beneath his eyes in exchange for something more; a uniquely ethereal sound that's entirely his own. Disregarding genre conventions, the Ireland-based artist and producer mesmerizes with sparse synths dripping in reverb, transforming digital soundscapes into organic songs, equally fit for both a night on the town and one spent indoors in the company of candlelight.' (Rough Trade)
WILLIAM CONTROL @ Islington Academy, 19.30

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