Many thanks HEB.

Thanks a bunch, this is great info

Saturday 7 November 2009
The Monroe Transfer + Sam Sallon + Heligoland
The Union Chapel, Islington
Daylight session: Noon - 2pm
Free!!

NB: No Victoria Line this weekend though

The Kits are playing Thursday night at Water Rat in Kings X

Wednesday 16 December 2009
The End Of The Road Festival's Xmas Bash
With Joe Gideon & The Shark ** + **Josh T Pearson
Cargo, London
Not yet on sale

Wednesday 16 December 2009
End Of The Road Festival - Christmas Shindig
Josh T Pearson + Joe Gideon And The Shark + Esben And The Witch + Ringo: Music Bingo + End of the Road Festival DJs
Cargo, London
Tickets £11.20 incl.

As well as the ATPs, Josh T is also playing The Windmill on the Monday

Monday 14 December 2009
Josh T Pearson + Tenebrous Liar + Duke Garwood
The Windmill, Brixton
Tickets £6.05 incl.

Final TAS

Like all good things, the twee party had to come to an end. After two and half of the best years of dancing, frolics and cupcakes, the time has come for Elaine to finish her PhD and Pavla to get one of those PROPER jobs. And so with heavy hearts, from December 2009 TWEE AS FUCK will be no more.

Tickets

I'm going to be in London in May. Have already sent off e-mails to Friday Night With Jonathan Ross, Never Mind The Buzzcocks and Mock The Week hoping to get audience tickets for at least one of them when I'm there (will only be there for 3 weeks).

What are my chances??

It's a bit luck of the draw really
What about Have I Got News For You, Harry Hill's TV Burp, or Eight Out Of Ten Cats?

HAPPY NEW YEAR @ WINDMILL BRIXTON

With The Indelicates, Black Daniel, Bop Social, Keith TOTP
Plus loads and loads of DJs playing stuff until it's time to go home (whenever that is)
We’ll show you a fun time and not rip you off!

THE INDELICATES (Brighton)
''Agit-pop of the highest order, The Indelicates pump out crafted, ambitious, pop songs, such as....'Waiting For Pete Doherty To Die'. stunning'' - NME

BLACK DANIEL
Nu Yawk-Sarf London dirty disco, fuzzy blues sensations.

BOP SOCIAL
File under big anthemic electro indie AND lots of fun

KEITH TOTP & HIS MINOR UK INDIE CELEBRITY ALL-STAR BAND
London’s very own mass-ranked guitar band with some actual semi-famous people in it.

Special cheapo, cheapo early bird price! - £5
Brixton Windmill
THU 31ST DEC, 2009 8pm- whenever

cosmic slop at gold bar in stokey 4th December. my mate is djing should be fun.

Anyone remember the Camden Lurch scene?
Th' Faith Healers play ATP warm-up show at The Lexington tomorrow

This is gonna be astounding...
Carbon/Silicon will be appearing as special guests of the Rich Kids at Islington Academy on 7th January 2010.

The night has been arranged by former Rich Kids members Glen Matlock and Midge Ure, and is being held as a benefit concert for the family of Rich Kids guitarist Steve New, who has battled with cancer for the last year.

Other confirmed guests include The Illuminations (featuring Clive Langer, Steve Allen and Ian Broudie), TV Smith, Viv Albertine, Patti Paladin and Gary Kemp.

Glen and Midge will perform solo sets on the night, and Steve New will play with his current band - Beastellabeast - before all four of the Rich Kids (including original drummer Rusty Egan) take to the stage. Special Guests will no doubt ''join in the racket and play guitars very loudly'', according to Midge.

Hey HEB and others,

my bro is in the UK (and sometimes reads this board), and i want to get him and his gf a gift. I thought tix to a gig, but i couldn't get the ones i wanted to. Instead, i thought about a voucher to a restaurant. Do you know of any good pub/restaurants in the inner east of london that might be worth paying a visit to? I recently went to one near-ish Liverpool station, but can't for the life of me remember what it was called. It had a good crab dish.

Bistroteque in Bethnal Green - I haven't been there but friends have. It's meant to be great - has cabaret on a Wed night and fixed price dinner menu.

The Triffids

A Secret In The Shape Of A Song
Friday 9 April 2010
Barbican Hall
19:30 Hrs
Tickets: £15/ 20/ 25

David McComb - the brilliant, impressionistic songwriter behind Australian cult heroes The Triffids - died in 1999. In 2006, the remaining members of the band were persuaded to play his music for the first time since they split 17 years previously. Standing on stage and hearing those songs roll out one after the other, like a perfect set of waves, they realised that the best way to remember their departed friend was through his music.

They set to work on a three hour long celebration, featuring an array of special guests, which was unveiled at the Sydney Festival in 2008 – a show which now comes to The Barbican. It will be a night of song that no-one wants to end.

A Secret In The Shape Of A Song was originally presented by Sydney Festival

On sale on 19 Dec

Any idea who’s doing vocals for this?

Bistroteque in Bethnal Green - I haven't been there but friends have. It's meant to be great - has cabaret on a Wed night and fixed price dinner menu.

I want to go there... I've heard it's great.

Do you know of any good pub/restaurants in the inner east of london that might be worth paying a visit to?

If they're not vego gabbo, try this

http://www.roast-restaurant.com/

so i shall be visiting this place you call London next year. it better be smashing.

Damon & Naomi instore

Damon K (dada_drummer):
adding an in-store to our London visit @roughtradeshops east May 10 7pm http://bit.ly/oWO5h - full show w/richard youngs @cafeoto May 11 #fb

http://twitter.com/dada_drummer/status/61050521275990016

Independent Label Market: Berwick Street

Today - from 10am to 5pm

The event will take place on Berwick Street, where the heads of these labels will sell their wares directly to the customers, at that traditional goods exchange - a market stall.

“I started making mixtapes and selling them. I had a stall in Camden market. That's really what a record company is, apart from the fact it's not legal. You sort the music, get the artwork done, do the manufacturing and then sell them. That was actually the most fun, visceral way of running a record label that I've ever been involved in, because you talk to every single person who buys something”
(Richard Russell, Founder of XL Records)

Armed with flasks of tea and punnets of 7”s, each label boss will man their own stall and spend the day meeting their public - and where better to launch this than on Berwick Street, where the first market appeared in 1778.

Berwick Street and the surrounding area has always been very well known for its independent record shops, especially through the 1990s into the early 21st century (including Vinyl Junkies, CD City, Sister Ray, Selectadisc, Reckless Records, Phonica, and Mr Bongo's), however many have now closed due to the emergence of digital downloading.

SPECIAL RELEASES AND/OR GUEST APPEARANCES FROM THESE NEW PURITANS, MUMFORD & SONS, ADELE, FLORENCE & THE MACHINE, WHITE LIES, MANIC STREET PREACHERS, CRYSTAL CASTLES, THE BIG PINK, HOT CHIP, THEO PARRISH, YUCK and many many more….

ANGULAR
Last ever copies of These New Puritans debut EP ‘Now Pluvial’, last copies of Klaxons debut single ‘Gravity’s Rainbow’, copies of our first ever release, ‘The New Cross’ compilation feat. Bloc Party’s debut track.
Artist guests: Tim Key, Gyratory System, These New Puritans

BELLA UNION
Signed copies of for example Explosions In The Sky, Marques Toliver and Midlake, plus special hand-crafted fanzine and karaoke cassette.

CHESS CLUB
Chess Club hits big with a handful of the first ever White Lies release, the ‘Unfinished Business’ 7”, AND Mumford And Sons super rare tour EP 10”

DOMINO
As well as a host of special editions, box sets and limited releases ‘Domino Baggu’ – bags exclusively designed by artist Jason Evans will be on sale in perky summer colours.

FORTUNA POP!
Limited edition coloured vinyl Comet Gain / Crystal Stilts split 7”s, the new Comet Gain album before it hits the shops, artist guests Darren Hayman with the new Hefner re-release and ukulele, plus Comet Gain.

HEAVENLY
The last ever copies of St Etienne’s 7’’s special box set, signed copies from The Head & The Heart, extremely limited 7’’s Motown Junk from Manic Street Preachers

HOUSE ANXIETY
Last copy of The Big Pink’s debut single, and last remaining copies of Zoo Kid and 2:54’s recent and sought after limited singles.

MEROK
Ltd edition tape cassettes of brand new release by Deptford Goth. The last few copies of Klaxons second single, and the last copies of Crystal Castles debut EP.

MOSHI MOSHI
Obscure stock clearance gems at giveaway prices from The Drums, Lykke Li, Florence and The Machine. Early Hot Chip 7’’s. Artist guest: Slow Club

MUTE
Cake (more details to follow!)

PEACEFROG
The first batch of their special, 20th anniversary releases, including Theo Parrish and Little Dragon and more

R&S
Limited editions of sold out items, test pressings and rare back catalogue finds. Artist guests: Vondelpark and Blawan

ROUGH TRADE
A release exclusive to this event. Alexander - ‘Truth’ on the a-side, ‘Truth’ remix by White Arrows on the b-side. Alexander is the lead singer of Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros and this is a song off his debut self-titled solo album.

TRANSPARENT
Rare titles form Yuck, Purity Ring, Holy Others etc, plus exclusive handmade t-shirts

TRI-ANGLE
Tri-angle T-shirts exclusively on sale at the event. First physical copies of Tri-angle’s Lindsay Lohan tribute album, ‘Let Me Shine For You’, previously only available digitally.

WALL OF SOUND
Stockroom finds such as promo only vinyls with promo only tracks, slipmatts, stickers, badges and mugs. Artist guest: Jon McClure from The Reverend and the Makers. Fellow label Play it Again Sam will join the stall.

XL
20 exclusive hand-made rave/grime/garage/jungle/dubstep mixtapes from Richard Russell, 10 signed Adele albums 1 per person per hour, very few Radiohead’s ‘Universal Sigh’ newspapers, extremely rare surprise items from XL’s past plus past rave classics etc.

Any suggestions for decent budget accommodation?

http://www.yha.org.uk/find-accommodation/london/hostels/london-st-pancras/index.aspx

Me and my better half stayed at the double room. clean and nice and close to everything.

Oh woops, missed that tugboat. Will check it out when I'm on a PC. The place I'm staying at is fantastic anyhow.

Any gigs on this week or next?

ladyelle
Try here
Also check out comedy - lots of Edinburgh warm-ups about at v cheap prices
Enjoy!

Cheers HEB!

Only recognise a few band names there, maybe I'll just go for a wander around..

Wow, that place looks really central, Tugboat. What kind of perks do they have? Tell me more! May consider staying there later this week maybe. I just emailed them about rates.

The place I'm staying at the moment though is actually really fantastic. It's so, so clean, curtains on all bunks, and decent free brekkie. Also a restaurant for dinner in case I'm too lazy to head out elsewhere. Pretty perfect. Only downside is it's about 20 mins on the tube, but that's not so bad I guess.

Might go see the Raveonettes tonight, maybe Kitty, Daisy & Lewis next week... hm.

The Blue Aeroplanes with special guest guitarist Angelo @ The Borderline tonight

S.C.U.M. are supporting The Raveonettes tonight
They're starting to attaract a lot of attention; personally I think they're lost what was good about them, and this Pete Murphy/Nick Cave style posing is a sad joke

Any idea what playing times might be for tonight, HEB? Think doors are at 7.

BANDSTAND BUSKING AT MELTDOWN 2011

Join us on Saturday the 18th 1-5pm for free sets from some of the best bands in town.

The Bandstand Busking freestage at Ray Davies’ Meltdown Festival
Saturday June 18th, 1pm-5pm

4.15pm - Guillemots
3.15pm - She Keeps Bees
2.30pm - Peggy Sue
1.45pm - Woodpigeon
1pm - Sam De La Haye (on invitation by Ray Davies)

Be sure to keep an eye on our Twitter for updates @bandstandbusks

Also this Saturday
The Union Chapel presents:
Daylight Music
With Catherine A.D. + Trombone Poetry + Cellestial Quartet
Saturday 18th June 2011
12 noon - 2pm
free

Daylight music is a dazzling idea presented by the Union Chapel to open up their amazing gothic venue to a shiny new daytime crowd and provide a rather exciting platform for artists. Encouraging experimentation and profiling new music as well promoting a free music ethos. Join us!

Produced by Arctic Circle

... and on Monday:

Monday 20 June 2011
Crystal Stilts + The 1990s + Still Corners
XOYO London
32-37 Cowper Street, EC2A 4AP
7:30pm

Tickets £11.50 + fees *

• Although Still Corners have a £5 guestlist via their Facebook

Hey HEB, do you know of the current status of the Freebutt?

As it was - dead I'm afraid

I had heard that it was supposed to reopen in a new guise but is yet to do so

The Sonics & Wire are playing at the Royal Festival Hall tomorrow night! I'm going!

Together? That's a bit spesh.

Yes!

posting on this forum too - boy, it's gone quiet since i left the uk;)

howdy folks...

due to all the shenanigans of the jeff mangum curated atp being moved march 2012 - we've now swapped our tickets to the nbc atp (curated by les savy fav/battles & caribou) and featuring the likes of:
archers of loaf, silver apples, four tet plus many more
(http://www.atpfestival.com/events/nightmare2011/lineup.php)...

09 dec 2011 to 11 dec 2011, butlin's holiday centre, minehead, uk

alas.. one of our original chalet mates can not attend that weekend, and therefore we've a spare ticket... looking at 170 quid.

it's a 4 bed self cater chalet - myself, australian mate and british chick.

yes. it's a little odd posting this on an australian music message board, but being the bunch of international jetsetters that you are:)...

ping me a pm if you're interested...

This friday at the Blues Kitchen, Camden! come down!