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Gallops +Portasound @ The Lexington
It’s a bad day to be a drum – wrong place, wrong time. If you’re a drum today, you are going to get your head kicked in, because it’s all about the drummers – a succession of progressively more...
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FIDLAR @ The Garage, Highbury
FIDLAR are recent cousins in a family of West Coast hardcore bands that stretches back through Black Flag and the Circle Jerks to The Germs. Unlike the social commentary, paranoid conspiracies,...
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Viv Albertine @ Nambucca
Achieving some degree of fame or notoriety while barely out of their teens, guitarist Viv Albertine, singer Ari Up, bassist Tessa Pollitt and drummer Palmolive forged in The Slits an uncompromising,...
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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club @ Brixton Academy
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club at Brixton Academy, April 2013. Photo: Rosie Wadey The opening drumbeats of ‘Let The Day Begin‘ are joined by growling chords that emerge thick and juicy like steak. Black...
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Chvrches @ Village Underground
Chvrches In six months more people have demonstrated an interest in CHVRCHES than the C of E (or indeed, the Kirk) could ever hope for in this godless, heathen age. Last weekend they played Alexandra...
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Psychemagik, The Juan Maclean, Medlar @ The Nest
Psychemagik. Descending into The Nest there is only darkness, and disco. Red lasers and lights barely cut the gloom, bodies whisper to each other in the club’s seated alcoves, or writhe under the...
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Adam Ant @ The Roundhouse
Adam Ant live at the Roundhouse, London, May 2013. Photo: Rachel Lipsitz Adam and the Ant’s huge hits in the early 1980s – at one point he had eight records in the charts simultaneously – are indelibly...
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Chilly Gonzales @ Cadogan Hall
Auteur pianist, rapper, surrealist piano teacher, comedian and vaudeville entertainer, Chilly Gonzales is a fairly unusual proposition. Born Jason Beck, the Canada-raised, Europe-residing musician has...
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Kent Spong – vintage synthesiser repair
Kent Spong: analogue repair man – Sound on Sound June 2013 Somewhere in suburban Surrey is an unremarkable semi-detached house much like any other. But despite appearances this dwelling doubles as a...
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Festival Internacional de Benicàssim 2013
Festival de Benicàssim 2013 For a festival once described as Glasto-del-Sol – with sun and sand instead of mud and rain – it’s somewhat ironic that, even at a fairly sweltering 30°C, it’s hotter in...
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