MONDAY 31ST OCTOBER
**NEMESIS TO GO RECOMMENDS** MAN-FLU, ADVERT, SULK, ZOETROPE @ Hoxton Sq Bar & Kitchen, 19.30, £4 if you write on the Facebook event wall, otherwise, £5 on door
'Manflu's own club, Flying Dropkicks, teams up with Club The Mammoth for this Hoxton Halloween bash. Certainly Manflu's scary, angular, thump-and-clang dynamics should get you suitably spooked. Zoetrope are new to me, but I've given them a quick listen on MySpace and I'm rather taken with their no-wavey punker bashabouts. Never mind the pumpkins, just bring the noise.'
A1 @ Islington Academy, 19.30
THE ACCUSED, BLASTED @ Underworld, Camden, 19.00, £12adv
BOY CRIED WOLF, THE MINUTES, KING HATS @ Bull & Gate, Kentish Town, 19.45, £5adv/flyer £6door
BLACK VEIL BRIDES @ The Borderline, Soho, 19.30
BLUE ON BLUE @ Rough Trade East in-store, Brick Lane, 19.00, FREE
"A stripped-down, garage take on shoegaze; the boy / girl guitarists could be Bobby Gillespie and Kim Deal...the point is: they could be tremendous." (DiS)
CODES, BOMBERS, THE CONNECTORS plus more @ 93 Feet East, Brick Lane, 20.00, FREE
DOLDRUMS , BLUE ON BLUE (EP Launch), JEREMIAH JAE @ Old Blue Last, 20.00, FREE
DZ DEATHRAYS plus guests @ Buffalo Bar, Islington, 19.30, £5adv
'A blend of driving monster beats firing over an avalanche of guitar similar to the sound of a squadron of attacking Panzer tanks. Not bad, for a band designed for playing drunken house parties in Brisbane.'
EDDIE READER @ Bloomsbury Theatre, 19.30
FUCKED UP @ Scala, Kings Cross, 19.30
'Fucked Up are arguably the best hardcore album band of at least the last 20 years. The Toronto sextet's Hidden World and The Chemistry of Common Life both manage the nearly impossible feat of keeping a piledriver punk-rock assault compelling for more than 45 minutes straight...' (Pitchfork)
GOTYE @ St Stephen's Church, Shepherds Bush, 19.30
Australian cult sensation Gotye has announced he's to bring an ambitious new live set-up to London. "I have a ten-piece band, in which everyone sings and plays multiple instruments", he says. "It's exciting because it's dangerous. It could go wrong on every song."
HERO & LEANDER plus more @ Proud Camden, 20.00
OLD FOREST, SEALINGS plus special guest @ The Macbeth, Hoxton, 20.00, FREE
SEALINGS "Two guys grinding axes with satan by writing dark pop songs full of burning sounds and intensely bad ass groans, they've been crawling out of their pit to play shows in London and the surrounding area over the last few months" (Neu Magazine)
OLFAR, BINKO SWINK, IAN WILLIAMS & THE DEAD FLOWERS, BRENT NEWMAN & THE BROKEN ARROWS, SHE MAKES WAR plus more @ Tamesis Dock, Albert Embankment, 20.00, £4adv
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)
SMOKE FAIRIES @ Barfly Camden, 19.30
'Smoke Fairies are a British folk-blues duo comprising of Jessica Davies and Katherine Blamire. They play dark, languorous acoustic songs heavily influenced by American forms such as bluegrass, blues and Appalachian folk.' (Barfly)
SOPHIE BARKER plus more @ The Elgin, 96 Ladbroke Grove, Notting Hill, 19.00, FREE
Sophie Barker celebrates release of her new singles 'A Forest' and 'Sat Goodbye'
THE SPECIALS @ Brixton Academy, 19.30
STEVEN WILSON @ Shepherds Bush Empire, 19.30
SUBMOTION ORCHESTRA @ XOYO Cowper St, 20.00
WARM BRAINS, COLOURS, EVANS THE DEATH @ Barfly Camden, 19.30
ZOMBINA & THE SKELETONES plus more @ Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes, 20.30
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