Music And Events - listings Aug 10
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Tue 03/08/2010
PENPUSHER issue 16 Launch Party featuring readings from:
NIVEN GOVINDEN, JOHN OSBORNE, JON STONE, TRAVIS ELBOROUGH, SARAH HESKETH & TIM WELLS. It's also a chance to pick up the latest issue of PP, which includes short fiction by Miguel Syjuco, Kirsten Reed, and a special Donut Press feature with extracts from their upcoming titles by AB Jackson, Ahren Warner, Jude Cowan, Matthew Caley, and Wayne Holloway-Smith. We also feature poetry from Paul Birtill, Emily Berry and Molly Naylor, and fiction from Niven Govinden, Jenny Newman and Abby Fung + much, much more. 7pm UPSTAIRS
Where new writing finds its voice ... A London-based literary magazine, published three times a year, featuring original short fiction, poetry, reviews, columns, literary facts and curiosities
Thu 05/08/2010
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 06/08/2010
£5
INDIEPOP SPECIAL .... The world weary and wise WORLD ATLAS come all the way over from Brooklyn New York to play some romantic, knowing pop songs for a discerning London audience. Dashing London pop groups ELECTROPHÖNVINTAGE + THE UNDERSTUDIES play before them. Fans of Belle & Sebastian and Camera Obscura will be in the right place here tonight.
8:00PM UPSTAIRS
Infused with boy / girl harmonies and countermelodies their songs depict both innocence and experience. Their instrumentation includes vibraphone, organ, shakers, trumpet and string arrangements taking the music beyond the pop confines of drums, bass and guitar.
Electrophönvintage has been playing music since 1999. They released a lovely 7" on Plastic Pancake in 2000. In 2005 they released the very short and concise We Sang a Yeye Song album on Unique Records.
"...a London collective, by way of Scotland, they make the kind of dreamy indiepop that Felt peddled in their prime, tinged with a caustic wit last seen dribbling from Luke Haines’ mouth." LAST FM
Fri 06/08/2010
A night in celebration of all things LAWRENCE!
with special guests ROCKET COTTAGE playing all the DENIM + GOKART MOZART hits and DJ sets from LUPE NÚÑEZ-FERNÁNDEZ (PIPAS + AMOR DE DIAS) and THE PUBLISHERS plus SPECIAL GUESTS. 8 ISH TO LATE ISH - CELLAR
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Sat 07/08/2010
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
DJ - 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 09/08/2010
FREE
ALBUM LAUNCH ... "COWABUNGLER":
"The live band consists of Oli with Babak Ganjei and Melinda Bronstein (Wet Paint), William Reid (Gold Sounds, Disappearers) and Jonnie Fielding (Helsinki, Pan I Am, Carl Barat). The recorded band also features three of The Rumble Strips and one of Dan Michaelson’s Coastguards. Musically the album is a bubbling cauldron of folk instrumentation featuring no less than 25 instruments, ranging from the euphonium to drum machines, guitaleles (kind of like a ukulele we think!), and a personal favourite of ours, the humble yet versatile saucepan-and-floor"... MUSIC MULE 8:00PM - CELLAR
Round Ron Virgin write for the depths, but can be outright enjoyed for the apparent simplicity of their melody, production and technique ... they feel good, sound good, but despite that, are the genuine article. Now, click the link thing and have some.
Fri 13/08/2010
8:00PM CELLAR
Sat 14/08/2010
**ELVIS 2010 COMEBACK SPECIAL** £4
ALAN TYLER and JON THE BOATMAN present 3 floors of THE KING in the Betsey's 2nd annual Elvis event ... screening the legendary "1968 COMEBACK SPECIAL" plus ALL ELVIS ROCKIN DISC PARTY in the cellar. Guest DJs from THE DIAMOND JIVE CLUB and DAN AVENELL.
PLUS ... A return of the specially brewed SHEPHERD NEAME ale *ALE HOUSE ROCK* - a hoppy summer session beer brewed from all American hops ... and from the kitchen: CHEESEBURGERS, CHILLI-DOGS and DEEP FRIED PEANUT BUTTER + JELLY SANDWICHES, (the latter presumably in some part responsible for knocking Elvis from this mortal coil) DOORS 7PM, FILM 7:30PM, ELVIS MENU TILL 10, DANCIN TILL LATE.
At the beginning of the '68 Special project, a nervous Presley had said to the executive producer Bob Finkel: "I want everyone to know what I can really do." Critics generally agree that the broadcast did show what Elvis Presley really could do - The '68 Special is widely credited with revitalizing his career following years of formulaic movies and recordings of variable quality. The informal jamming segment in front of a small audience is regarded as a forerunner of the so-called 'Unplugged' concept.
Mon 16/08/2010
FREE
We're delighted to announce a new afterwork session of chilled folk / Americana from Jason EVERY MONDAY EVENING IN THE MAIN BAR.
6pm MAIN BAR
Thu 19/08/2010
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
Wed 25/08/2010
£5 on the door
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
Fri 27/08/2010
Tickets £5 in Advance (see ticket link below)
Founding member of some of the greatest indiepop bands of the last 20
years (The Cat's Miaow, Hydroplane, The Shapiros), playing a special one off gig for us whilst visiting Europe. This going to be very special, it really is your only chance to see him in this country. Doors 8pm UPSTAIRS
For those in the know you'll be aware of Bart's knack for writing dreamy, jangly sublime songs of breathtaking brevity. For those who aren't, listen to the latest Bart and Friends record 'Make You Blush' and you'll sound find out.
When they're not playing together as Electrophonvintage, Delphine, Remi, Christos and Ian moonlight as The Sunny Street, sketching gorgeous love letters in the atmospheric hinterland between indiepop and dreampop.
Sat 28/08/2010
£5
UKULELE DUO ...
Whether it be Bowie or Britney, Motorhead or Madonna, the Re-entrants somehow manage to get in all the hooks, riffs, solos and vocal harmonies with nothing but two voices and two ukuleles. Their abilities on the instrument belie its cute appearance and music hall associations, and whilst the audience may laugh at two large men with such tiny instruments launching, arms windmilling, into a rock classic, the laughter soon turns to applause and heads shaken in disbelief. 8.30pm UPSTAIRS
"...not only hysterically funny showmen, but as another onlooker observed, they can really play, can't they?‚ " Review of Bearded Theory Festival 09 ... "Their act is so very strong: they transcend the limitations of the ukulele" George Hinchliffe, The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
Tue 31/08/2010
£3 WITH FLYER, £4 WITHOUT
8PM UPSTAIRS
Paper Aeroplanes is a girl and a boy from the westest extremes of Wales, who spend a lot of time on the M4 in pursuit of pop perfection ... They are not afraid of a good tune and Sarah Howells gorgeous voice will melt even the most hardened of hearts. Come fly with them. "a confident collection of commercial pop gems" Record Of The Day ... "this is VERY, VERY GOOD INDEED, the finest radio album to come out of Wales since Rockferry" Adam Walton, BBC Radio Wales
Winner of The Arts Foundation Songwriting Award 2009 ... "When I realised I felt a small pang of jealousy for how good one of these song-writers is - that was when I knew I'd found my winner." (Arts Foundation Judge Vashti Bunyan).
THE KARMA SUTRAS
The Instant Karma house band
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