Music And Events - listings Jun 10
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Tue 01/06/2010
SNAKE MOUNTAIN REVIEW Whip-round.
NEW FORMAT FOR THE MONTHLY SHOWCASE FEATURING THE FINEST FOLK AND AMERICANA INFLUENCED ARTISTS ... 10 resident artists (listed below) play 3 songs each and each month take it in turns to present their choice of featured special guest to play a longer set.
8:30pm UPSTAIRS
Thu 03/06/2010
£6
8:00PM - CELLAR
A fiery quintet performing new-wave rock music with a psychotic edge. Fierce and abstract yet serving the concept of the song, their unique sound nods towards Beefheart and Pere Ubu, with the loosest elements of funk and krautrock dragged through the most oblique angles. Black Carrot put the art back into Artrock!
A canadian born artist who continuously pushes the production envelope, he records with a densely multi-tracked wurlitzer, a Rhythm Ace drum machine, and drums sampled on a primitive 1980s sampler. However on this tour is playing with a full band. Mantler has exquisite vocals, remarkable craftsmanship, and adeptness at creating unique musical moments.
Thu 03/06/2010
ownly 3 poond
*LONDON'S FINEST FOLK CLUB* and home of the *LANTERN SOCIETY RADIO HOUR*
Trevor Moss and Hannah Lou (ex Indigo Moss) host an enchanting musical evening in our Dickensian acoustic room featuring the finest new and established folk influenced talent playing round the camp fire (but without the fire). And it's like a real society too, you know. *COME DOWN AND PLAY* (but please try and arrive before 8.00pm if you do want to play) 8.30pm UPSTAIRS
Now with a fine new album out on LOOSE RECORDS ... "An intimate elegy for an England not yet lost ... passionate and quite beautiful." Americana UK
Fri 04/06/2010
£6 first come first served so get down early.
Proclaimed as "ONE OF THE BEST KEPT SECRETS IN THE ANNALS OF BRIT GARAGE-ROCK" by UNCUT mag, THE BITTER SPRINGS head to The Betsey on the back of new single "My life as a Dog in a Pigsty" with good friends Morton Valence along for the ride ... should be a goody.
8:30
The Bitter Springs have released 6 critically acclaimed albums and a slew of 7inchers and EPs since forming in 1996. Their 3rd album, "Benny Hill's Wardrobe" was MOJO's Album of the Month. Impossible to categorise because of their constant genre-hopping, they have in front man Simon Rivers an especially witty, sharply socially conscious and erudite lyricist and have never played the same set twice. A unique night is guaranteed.
M.V. have been around since the mid 00s and have been on the verge of almost making it ever since. Selected as Fopp's MOST PROMISING NEWCOMERS of 2006, tipped by the Guardian in 2007, their debut LP fulfilled the promise. Majestic opening track 'Chandelier' was a BBC RADIO 2 SINGLE OF THE WEEK. They also released possibly the best single you've never heard of the past decade, Sailors, a full-fat slice of hook-rich electro-pop that needs to be heard.
Sat 05/06/2010
CLERKENVILLE WEST £5 WHOLE PUB
OUR MONTHLY TRI LEVEL FEST OF ALT.COUNTRY, COSMIC AMERICANA AND BLUEGRASS -
3 bands plus DJ POCO POW rinsin it in the main bar til 1.00am ish. Bands alternate between upstairs and the cellar, you pick up a pint each time you pass GO. Doors 7.30, first act 8.30, bar til 1.00am
Rockingbirds front man and London's finest country vocalist - The Camden Cowboy - and his band in a long awaited return to the live circuit.
A rare outing for emerging Psychedelic-Indie-Country outfit with the ghosts of The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band and Big Star haunting their every melodic note.
The bluesome twosome - Cowbell - are Jack on guitar and vox and Wednesday on drums playing simple but effortlessly catchy songs. Formed a mere 10 months ago, this band is already tight tight tight, churning out country-tinged blues in a wholly uncliched and cheery fashion hooking the ear of every person in the room.
POCO POW
TROTWOOD resident DJ spinning a twangy brew of cosmic faves and whatever else happens to drift through his transom from The Band, Beach Boys, Big Star, JJ Cale, Johnny Cash, Chicago, Gene Clark, Crazy Horse CSN/CSNY/C&N, CCR, Delaney & Bonnie, Flying Burrito Brothers, Little Feat, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Maria Muldaur, New Riders Of The Purple Sage, Michael Nesmith, John Phillips, Poco, Spirit, Steely Dan, Manassas, Velvet Underground, Foghorn Leghorn, Scottsville Squirrel Barkers, Neil Young, Ry Cooder, Bob Dylan, Byrds, Grateful Dead, Area Code 615, Nana Mouskouri, Bobbie Gentry and that …
Mon 07/06/2010
GLISSANDO are a duo from Leeds playing ambient, slowcore, classical based music. Their debut album ‘With Our Arms Wide Open We March Towards the Burning Sea’ was released to high critical acclaim on Gizeh Records in June 2008. A heavy touring schedule in 2008/09, including shows with Stars of the Lid, took this beautiful band to fresh audiences and complete with added members Glissando is now a breathtaking live experience. Work is ongoing for album number two which is expected to be released at some point in 2010.
Doors: 8pm CELLAR
KONTINENT
Talvihorros is an experimental composer from London, UK exploring the possibilities of the guitar. His compositions venture into the fields of ambient, experimental, drone, post-rock and folk but dont fall into the cliches associated with any of these genres.
Wed 09/06/2010
Discussion: THE QUANTUM CATHEDRAL THE NATURE OF REALITY AND WHETHER ANYTHING IS ACTUALLY REAL AT ALL ...
The Large Hadron Collider is the largest and most complex machine humans have ever built, and we have done so for the singular purpose of exploring the most fundamental dimensions of our existence. MANJIT KUMAR of WIRED MAGAZINE (and author of Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality) considers the work that has gone into this extraordinary project to be paralleled only by the gargantuan collaborative efforts that went into the building of the great medieval cathedrals. Huge machines, explorations of reality: the quantum cathedral that is the LHC may open up extraordinary new perspectives on the nature of our reality, and whether anything is actually 'real' at all. Multiverses, a raging argument between the classicist Einstein and the iconoclast Niels Bohr, undecidability... Apple 5 promises to open up some of the fundamental questions of physics, and how they impact on the fundamental issues of existence too. 7:30 PM UPSTAIRS
Thu 10/06/2010
MY GRASS IS BLUE £5
Our monthly BLUEGRASS HOEDOWN ... 2nd Thursday of the month ... keepin’ it pure and keepin’ it real with the finest pickers in the land totally unplugged and harmonising the hell out of the upstairs bar ... banjoes, mandolins and candles, it's a beautiful thing!
8.30 pm UPSTAIRS
banjo, mandolin, dobro, upright bass and guitar plus knockout Appalachian/NorthLondon harmonies! Speedgrass, Philosograss, and Lovegrass all the way from our resident heroes.
Without doubt one of last year's finest special guests return to MGIB ahead of appearances at Glastonbury, Camp Bestival and Truck Festivals this summer.
Thu 10/06/2010
LIANNE HALL + GUESTS £5 on the door
8:00PM CELLAR
Singer songwriter with beats and loops, playing songs from new LP and 3 Peel sessions.
Berlin-based solo guitarist with gadgets and layered vocals.
PILAR AWA
Poetic anti-prison songs in English and Spanish, with keyboards.
Sun 13/06/2010
SUNDAY POETRY SESSION free
NOTE CHANGES TO THIS EVENT (it is not now an Ivor Cutler all-dayer as originally billed) :
POETRY IN THE MAIN BAR 4-6 PM DONUT PRESS POETS 6-8 PM READINGS INSPIRED BY CARRY ON FILMS 8-10 PM IVOR CUTLER TRIBUTE SESSION / WITH POETS READING CUTLERS WORK AND SONGS BY THE BOYCOTT COCA COLA EXPERIENCE. 3pm onwards
Tue 15/06/2010
FREE
THE LEGENDARY AMBIT MAGAZINE, FOUNDED IN 1959 AND PUBLISHER OF THE LIKES OF
J. G. BALLARD, WILLIAM BURROUGHS, IVOR CUTLER AND CAROL ANN DUFFY, HAS JUST PUBLISHED ITS 200TH ISSUE ... JOIN AMBIT FOR A NIGHT OF EXCELLENCE WITH READINGS FROM THE POETS BELOW PLUS: READERS FROM THE FLOOR... (TURN UP EARLY TO SIGN UP FOR A SPOT - ONE PAGE MAX!) 7:00PM UPSTAIRS
GEORGE SZIRTES
George Szirtes became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1982 and has since won many awards for his work. He lives in Norfolk where he teaches Creative Writing at the Norwich School of Art and Design and the University of East Anglia. His latest book of poetry is The Burning of the Books and other poems (2009). His Selected Poems 1976–1996 appeared in 1996, and his New and Collected Poems in 2008. His poetry collection Reel (2004), was awarded the 2004 T. S. Eliot Prize.
DONALD GARDNER
Donald Gardner was born in Britain but has lived in Holland since 1979. His debut as a performance poet was in the 1960s in New York where he lived for three years, taking part, for instance, in the legendary 1967 reading at the East Village Theater. He is a translator of poetry, notably of work by Octavio Paz and Ernesto Cardenal. Recent works include 'How to get the Most out of your Jet Lag' (New Haven, Ct. 2001; 'The Glittering Sea' Hearing Eye, 2006 and 'I Dreamed in the Cities at Night', translations of the poetry of Remco Campert, Arc, 2007. Donald also helped to guest-edit Ambit 198, the Dutch issue.
VIDYAN RAVINTHIRAN
Vidyan Ravinthiran is a graduate student and lecturer at Balliol College, Oxford. His pamphlet, At Home or Nowhere, was published last year by tall-lighthouse; other poems have appeared in Magma, Poetry Review, The North, the Times Literary Supplement and Ambit and are forthcoming in Stand, Horizon Review, Poetry Wales and an anthology of American and Oxford poets to be published by Waywiser Press.
LIZ BERRY
Liz Berry was born in 1980 in the Black Country. She works as an infant school teacher in London and is studying part-time for an MA in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway. Her poems have appeared in magazines including The North, Smiths Knoll, Mslexia and Poetry Wales and her pamphlet The Patron Saint of Schoolgirls is appearing imminently from tall-lighthouse.
Wed 16/06/2010
THE GREGORY AWARDS POETRY AWARDS NIGHT WITH READINGS ...
The Eric Gregory Award is an annual awards scheme for the encouragement of young poets. Candidates must be British by birth, under the age of 30, and may submit a published or unpublished volume of poetry (up to 30 poems). 7:00 PM UPSTAIRS
Thu 17/06/2010
ownly 3 poond
*LONDON'S FINEST FOLK CLUB* and home of the *LANTERN SOCIETY RADIO HOUR*
Trevor Moss and Hannah Lou (ex Indigo Moss) host an enchanting musical evening in our Dickensian acoustic room featuring the finest new and established folk influenced talent playing round the camp fire (but without the fire). And it's like a real society too, you know. *COME DOWN AND PLAY* (but please try and arrive before 8.00pm if you do want to play) 8.30pm UPSTAIRS
Now with a fine new album out on LOOSE RECORDS ... "An intimate elegy for an England not yet lost ... passionate and quite beautiful." Americana UK
Fri 18/06/2010
£4
Originally hailing from Edinburgh, London based fuzzystar and the malfunctioning androids perform off-kilter pop that is filled with narrative and melody. Odes to love failed and fulfilled, as demonstrated in the sincere but playful Stikkle Brick song, the off-beat rhythms of Mathematics and the more plaintive Miss Lonelyhearts (Title inspired by the Nathaniel West novel). At gigs and on radio they have reminded audiences of Sebadoh/Lou Barlow, The Lemonheads, Neutral Milk Hotel and Mark Kozelek of the Red House Painters.
7:30pm CELLAR
Kat's debut long player Dirty Birds received critical acclaim from popular and mainstream press, notably Steve Lamacq on Radio 2 and Tom Robinson of BBC 6Music who also invited Flint to appear at Wychwood Festival.
Normally seen on-stage with recent Betsey residents THE CROSHAW FAMILY Marty will be going it alone but with occasional help from a few friends. Expect his passion for bluegrass, alt. country and old-time rock'n'roll to shine through. With previous tour support slots for The Duke & The King and Alasdair Roberts it's bound to worth a listen...
Plus an eclectic Americana/Folk and Rockabilly DJ Set from Croshaw.
Wed 23/06/2010
£3 on the door
MONTHLY MUSIC SHOWCASE
8:00pm - 10.30pm
THE KARMA SUTRAS
Thu 24/06/2010
STORYTELLING EVENING - Midsummer Meltdown. £5
JOIN VAYU NAIDU COMPANY'S STORYTELLERS
for exciting and diverse tales inspired by boastful beasts and political meltdowns from all over the world. 7:30pm UPSTAIRS
Mon 28/06/2010
SPOKEN WORD OPEN MIC FREE
An evening of spoken word entertainment - all performers welcome. Arrive for 7:30 if you wish to perform.
8:00 UPSTAIRS
Tue 29/06/2010
HOUSE OF MIRTH! £5
*STAND UP COMEDY SHOW* - LAST TUESDAY OF EVERY MONTH ...
As recommended by TIME OUT and LONDON IS FUNNY. LIMITED CAPACITY ... You can buy tickets on the link below. 8.00pm UPSTAIRS
“One of the most versatile comedy performers around today” – One4Review, 2009 “The nuanced songs are great on their own, before you even consider some of the truly impressive one-liners between them. These inspired, quotable pearls of wisdom show that fine comic writing underpins her flawless, perfectly timed performance. Her set is subtle enough to be believable, but not too understated to be hilarious. She’s a relative newcomer, but has certainly got the talent for a sustained and stellar career in comedy.” – Chortle, 2009
‘With the fractious energy born of frustration that puts one in mind of an evil Lee Evans merging with the verbal assaults of ‘equal opportunities offender’ Jerry Sadowitz, this taut, scrawny ginger comic, with his strangulated London twang, fires his ire any which way’ - The Independent, August 2009 ‘Andrew Lawrence spews hypnotically articulate misanthropy that is very funny indeed, if aboslutely not for the easily shockable’ - The Telegraph, August 2009
hosts SARA PASCOE and JESSICA FOSTEKEW
*** DON’T FORGET TO BRING YOUR BOOKING REFERENCE WITH YOU***
Wed 30/06/2010
£5
MONTHLY RESIDENCY FOR HACKNEY'S FINEST BLUEGRASS TINTED FOLKSTERS.
You might have caught them at their Sunday morning busking spot on Columbia Road ... well you can catch them here the last Wednesday of the month too. "one of those rare acts that, rather than seek fame and fortune by any means necessary, are content to achieve simply on the back of good songs and hard work ... gentle harmony-led songs call to mind early Simon & Garfunkel and even The Everly Brothers. And while Faulkner's superb harp playing conjures images of freight train-hopping Americana, the unadorned, strictly English-and-so-what vocal delivery sets them apart from the crowd and adds to the charm ... impossible to dislike. - Gerry Ranson, Rock n Reel, Sept/Oct '09 8:30 UPSTAIRS
"Easy-flowing harmonies and melodies swim along like early Jayhawks, the lyrics smiling in the face of life and love's travails". Andy Fyfe, Q Magazine, Nov '09
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