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Camden Crawl 2008 Line-up Announced
As winter’s days grow increasingly numbered, it’s the time of year when our thoughts must turn toward formulating a survival plan for the most gig-loaded two days we know: the Camden Crawl. Back for...
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Ken Saves The Indie Gig
As much-loved venues like the Spitz and Hammersmith Palais closed their doors forever last year, we began to worry that the small gig would one day become an endangered species. One of our favourite...
View ArticleAn Interview With Black Cab Sessions
We fell in love with Black Cab Sessions the moment we first heard of them. How could we not? Taking a drive around the best city in the world (okay, we’re biased, yes) in a design classic with some of...
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Music Preview: El Guincho
Whilst often lovingly, and perhaps ad nauseam, compared to Panda Bear’s Person Pitch, El Guincho’s debut Alegranza! is a more extroverted affair than its most cited point of musical reference. Joyous...
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Tourists Trapped
Visitors to the London Eye yesterday were treated to an extended journey courtesy of a tyre which required repair mid-ride. Whilst a normal trip flies by in roughly half an hour, this fateful trip...
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Field Day 2008 Line-up Announced
Still a newcomer to the city festival circuit, Field Day returns for a second year to Hackney’s Victoria Park on 9 August 2008. The recently announced line-up looks like it should provide a diverse...
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Music Preview: Ether 08 at Southbank Centre
The Camden Crawl isn’t the only festival in town this weekend. If the thought of braving the Stables Market even on an average Sunday sets your agoraphobia aflame, you don’t have to miss out on great...
View ArticleMusic Preview: Merzbow at ULU Tomorrow
If you like your music noisy, we have a lot in common. If you’re willing to subtract all semblance of melody and dig an improvised sonic assault of electronic noise terror, then we’ll see you tomorrow...
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Camden Crawl 2008: Day One Review
With the Camden Crawl spanning two days and as loaded as ever with amazing acts, it’s impossible to do it any justice in only one post. Whilst we easily could write at length about everything we saw,...
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Camden Crawl 2008: Day Two Review
After five hours of sleep (thank you Mr. Postman for waking us up) and an Eggs Benedict at the Camden Kitchen, we had mostly recovered from the first day of Camden Crawl 2008 and were once again...
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Massive Attack’s Meltdown Tickets On Sale
With their Ether 08 festival still in full swing, Southbank Centre didn’t take even a moment to rest this past weekend when they announced the line-up details for this year’s Meltdown. Curated by...
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Review: Bring Me the Head of Ubu Roi
The first time we heard David Thomas’ take on punk vocals, we were sure the pitch control on our turntable was broken. We had similar concerns the first time we listened to My Bloody Valentine’s...
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Londonist Live: Merzbow and Sutcliffe Jugend at ULU
On Saturday 19 April, three of Londonist’s bravest aural explorers arrived at ULU to undergo some serious sonic punishment in the form of Satori, Sutcliffe Jugend and the unmistakeable king of...
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Music Preview: Atmospheres 2
When we first learned that Touch was planning a follow-up to last autumn’s brilliant Atmospheres festival, the question wasn’t whether or not we would attend but what line-up they had in store for us...
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Atmospheres 2: Day One Review
As we walked across Lambeth Bridge towards the Museum of Garden History on Thurdsay evening, we were immediately reminded us of how much we enjoyed the first Atmospheres festival. It was on that...
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Atmospheres 2: Day Two Review
After the fantastic sound journey we took with Philip Jeck on Thursday night, we returned to the Museum of Garden History on Friday evening for the second instalment in Touch’s Atmospheres 2 festival....
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Win Tickets to Hox To Dot
If you happened to miss both the Camden Crawl as well as the Stag and Dagger, all hope is not yet lost for you catching an urban festival this season. This weekend the Dot To Dot festival runs through...
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Londonist Live: Hox To Dot Festival
With multi-venue neighbourhood crawls fastly becoming the favoured method of throwing a festival in the city, new ones are springing up all the time. This past weekend the Dot To Dot Festival took the...
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Londonist Live: Spiritualized at Rough Trade East
You don’t need us to remind you that the weather on Monday was terrible. The whole day off work and not the smallest bit of sun to be seen. We had it all planned out to stay tucked in bed listening to...
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Music Preview: CocoRosie’s Sierra Casady at the ICA
As part of his ongoing first solo UK exhibition at the ICA, this Saturday sees French artist Loris Gréaud present an interpretation of his Cellar Door libretto with CocoRosie’s Sierra Casady and...
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Music Review: Raster-Noton 12th Anniversary at the ICA
Whilst celebrated anniversaries generally include the first, tenth, twenty-fifth and so on, we’ll afford a dodecadecimal exception to Raster-Noton. The German label has never been much for conformity,...
View ArticleRecent Warp Signing Pivot Plays London Gigs
Always reliable purveyors of fine musical offerings, Sheffield’s Warp Records recently signed their first Australian artist, Pivot. Specialising in off-kilter, driving rhythms peppered with just the...
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Warp and Flying Lotus Present Brainfeeder
If you like your beats broken and blunted, Warp Records has your Saturday night sorted. No, we’re not suggesting that you stay home and chill out to your old Artificial Intelligence records, quite the...
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Matthew Dear’s Big Hands Tonight at the ICA
As Thursday lurches towards an end, naturally thoughts turn to starting the weekend early. Rather than another tired trip to the pub, we can’t think of a better way to do so than with minimal techno...
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Our Adidas
From the moment we first heard the song, we were hooked, and we’ve been addicted to Adidas ever since. The song, of course, was Run-D.M.C.’s classic paean to their favourite footwear, “My Adidas”,...
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Londonist Live: Gong at Meltdown 2008
When you go out to see a band that has existed for just over forty years, there’s a high chance of it sounding past its prime. It is a testament to the boundless creativity of Daevid Allen and...
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Londonist Live: The Dubstep Chronicles at Meltdown 2008
Never underestimate the power of bass. This is a lesson that the Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall learned as pieces of aluminium cracked and began to break free from the ceiling on Tuesday...
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Londonist Live: Warp and Flying Lotus Present Brainfeeder
A brief word of advice, should you ever wish to foray into the questionable profession of music journalism: it’s probably not the best idea to begin your busiest week of gig attendance with a rave....
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Londonist Live: Yellow Magic Orchestra and Pivot at Meltdown 2008
“What is house? Technotronic, KLF or something you live in To me house is Phuture, Pierre, Fingers, Adonis The Pioneers of the Hypnotic Groove Brian Eno, Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode and...
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Londonist Live: Stiff Little Fingers and Mark Stewart at Meltdown 2008
Stiff Little Fingers’ Inflammable Material provided a soundtrack for our teenage years, every single one of its three chords forever fused with our memories of youth. As we grew a bit older, it...
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Preview: Lucha Libre London
With their acrobatic leaps and iconic masks, Mexican wrestlers are known all over the world. As one would expect, witnessing one of their wildly energetic matches generally involves buying a plane...
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Review: Lucha Libre London at the Roundhouse
We’ve always romanticised what our first Lucha Libre would be like. Running from both gangsters and the law through the mean streets of Mexico City, we duck down a back street only to discover the...
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Preview: Gravetemple at Underworld
Metalheads and experimental music fans unite this week as Stephen O’Malley once again rolls into town on a storm cloud of doom and drone. The mastermind behind avant-metalist outfit Sunn O))),...
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Preview: Horatio Oratorio at Shunt Vaults
Recorded sound hasn’t existed as a physical object for very long, and no sooner does it arrive than it starts to slip away. One hundred and twenty odd years may seem like a long time when the records...
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Win Tickets To See Jamie Lidell at Koko
It seemed ages away when we first mentioned it only last month, but this year’s iTunes Festival is now well under way. Koko has been rocking overtime under the deluge of gigs that span the entire...
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Review: The Magnetic Fields at Cadogan Hall
Despite last night’s dreary weather, The Magnetic Fields exercised their usual level of restraint by not performing “All The Umbrellas In London” nor even “In The City In The Rain”. This reserve...
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Review: Gravetemple at Underworld
First formed in 2006 to play a few small gigs in Israel, Gravetemple was never a Stephen O’Malley project we expected to see live. When we learned that they were to play this year at Birmingham’s...
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Preview: Oren Ambarchi at The Luminaire
Having recently appeared live with Gravetemple and still on loan to us from Australia, experimental guitarist Oren Ambarchi will play a solo set on Monday 14 July at The Luminaire. Whilst Gravetemple...
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Review: Oren Ambarchi at The Luminaire
Of any day of the week, ambient minimalism perhaps works best on a Monday. The noisy whirlwind of the start of the working week brought to a halt by its simple calm. Whilst Oren Ambarchi’s Monday...
View ArticlePreview: Wet Sounds
Although this season hasn’t been much of a scorcher, we still need to visit the local lido at least once a year or it just doesn’t feel like summer. With the number of gigs we attend, we’re often...
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