Sat 12th July
Luminaire

Brainlove Club and La Route Du Rock present
LAETITIA SADIER
+ Poni Hoax
+ Adam Kesher
+ Fluokids DJs

Doors 7.30
£6 via WeGotTickets
£7 door

laetitita sadier solo, not monade?

Nope, solo:

http://www.theluminaire.co.uk/live-m...y-2008-791.php

THU 24 JULY, THE CROSS KINGS, 126 YORK WAY, LONDON 8pm £5
THE RADIOACTIVE ENSEMBLE

This event is a rare chance to see a meeting of New Zealand and UK sound artists in one night. It will be an adventurous mix of electro-acoustic, improvisation, found sound and noise.

Nigel Wright has been creating audio for over 8 years and is known for his spacious, expansive sound pieces. Dense layers of tonal drones adumbrate the field recordings, guitar, and tape loops that Wright uses as source material for his laptop-based live performances. This performance is part of his European tour. http://www.myspace.com/nigelwright

Julien Ottavi is part of a generation of audio artists to emerge in the 90s that indicated some of the directions that music and sound art is taking. While at art school, he organized a series of concerts, bringing international artists from the experimental scene to Nantes, drawing touring musicians to movements happening outside of Paris. This became not just a destination but a nexus for collaborations. http://www.noiser.org/

Ben Spiers is a Member of: Empty Mirror (w/ Karl Willis); Seen Through (w/ Antony Milton); Glory Fckn Sun (w/ Antony Milton & Simon O'Rorke); Black Window (w/ Andrew Weeks). "Solitary notes dropped into a gloom of taut scraping" http://www.myspace.com/transientrecordings

Peter Wright - London resident and New Zealand native Peter Wright maps the same guitar/noise outlands as his NZ predecessors The Dead C, an acknowledged influence, first blazed through. His kit is an electric 12-string, pedals and, when recording, a laptop. He improvises a digital drone or melody fragment, the loops, layers and adds field recordings. Since 1998, he has released 30 discs of solo material, much of it honing the same massive, blissful drift of decay and evolution. This is Peter's last U.K show before returning to New Zealand. http://www.myspace.com/distantbombs

The Radioactive Ensemble is an international collaborative art and music project. We have members in the U.K, Italy, U.S.A, Germany, France, Japan, Brazil and New Zealand. Founded by Rick Jensen the Ensemble explores various collaborative sound art experiments. www.myspace.com/theradioactiveensemble.

That sounds really interesting Blunderbuss, I may have to go along to that...

Did you two go in the end? If not, you missed out...

I'd have liked to, but I had to choose between that and Alexander Tucker the next dat, and AT won.

Meh, difficult gig decisions are best avoided- go to both!

I'd have liked to, but I have a living room with bare plaster walls and it ain't gonna paint itself.

Just a reminder... next Friday.

...yeah, not very "London" I grant you. Must try harder.

I couldn't due to my niece visiting. I have seen them twice before and I am sure I'll see them again.

Unfortunately not, due to a) a very stressful time at work (having to stay at the office stupidly late) and b) "recovering" from a night out with sarramkrop :). My mate John and his girlfriend told me all about it at our mate's wedding on Friday, and it does sound like it was pretty awesome. I'm glad that you had yerself a great time there, though.

it was great, we got a full strip from Eugene, and a long, fantastic set. Harvey Milk were pretty shit for me personally, but Part Chimp were predicatably excellent. T'was good stuff.

Sounds top-drawer, TINH. I saw Part Chimp supporting Pelican 18 months ago, and thought they were pretty damn good. Oxbow always kill live too.

This could be good (from the Upset The Rhythm site):



NISENNENMONDAI

BEARDS

PLEASE

Monday 28 July

The Luminaire

311 Kilburn High Road, Kilburn, NW6 7JR | Map
8:00 | £8 | Buy tickets
NISENNENMONDAI are one of our most favourite bands! Imagine an insane birthday party with Sun City Girls, Keiji Haino and Mika Miko all invited, things are gonna go volcanic, and that's where Nisennenmondai come in! Of all the noisy girl groups of Kansai, Tokyo, Nisennenmondai - their name translates as 'Year 2000 problem', a reference to the millenial computer bug - honestly! - are at once the most intense and hypnotic band to run out of the scene. Himeno Sayaka (drums), Zaikawa Yuri (bass) and Takada Masako (guitar) met, of all places, at the same after school music club at university in Tokyo and quickly jumped into band formation, self-releasing two EPs with short shrift before touring Japan alongside the likes of Death Sentence: Panda!, OOIOO, Lightning Bolt, Hella, Oshiri Penpenz, and Afrirampo. Their pulsing rhythm section and metallic overtoned guitar sound something like a heathen and tranced-out amalgamation of Boredoms, Neu!, Ruins and Leopard Leg - apt comparisons considering their group ensemble ethic and circular pattern performance setup.
www.nisennenmondai.com | www.myspace.com/nisennenmondai BEARDS are three outstanding beasts of nature who find Leeds their habitat. The Dickosaurous, The Clairedactil and The Kathodocus come on stage dressed in cloaked day-glo majesty, rip it up and swap instruments with delight. Born of the herky-jerky party sound, Beards tread ever onwards with motorik abandon, expect jittery wonk pop, shrieking vocalisations and guitar jab par excellence.
www.myspace.com/beards2000
PLEASE are Keebie (Cleckhuddersfax, Poltergroom), Michael and Rowland from London. Delectable offerings of riff and boogie in divine freakbeat equilibrium. Elements of the freakbeat sound include strong, direct drum beats, loud and frenzied guitar riffs, and extreme effects such as fuzztone, flanging, distortion and compression or phasing. Progressive Eastern scales tweaking through pomp rock anthems provide immediacy amongst short swathes of psychedelia.
www.myspace.com/pleees

i saw nissenenmondai earlier this year and they were rubbish, they did this for about 45 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozn-w2qX0P0

they used to be a really good band, but they changed their style quite a bit.

So I went to this. It was excellent, musically. Some very interesting acts. However the smallest crowd of any gig I have ever been too. There were about 10-15 people there, a large proportion of which I beleive were the artists. Pretty sad really.

Booked my ticket to this this evening:

Tricky + Wild Beasts + Skream

A Domino Records Crystal Anniversary Event

6 October 2008 / 20:00
Barbican Hall

Part of A Domino Records Crystal Anniversary
Part of Autumn Contemporary Events 08


Tickets: £15 / 20 / 25
subject to availability

Rediscovering his Bristolian roots on his latest album Knowle West Boy (Domino Records) the original Tricky Kid returns to play his first London show in over five years.

Knowle West Boy sees Tricky explore the musical influences of his childhood shaping and filtering them into the here and now. The resultant mix redefines his current status as an outsider superstar and the outsider’s homeboy.

Culturally, Tricky bridges white and black Britain, particularly in his fusion of rock and hip hop, high art and pop culture. His debut album Maxinquaye was nominated for the Mercury Prize and voted Album of the Year by NME Magazine.

‘He's an enigma capable of moments of utter genius’ NME

Wild Beasts hail from Cumbria and are known for an unusual instrumental sound led by distinctive falsetto vocals, as explored on their debut album Limbo, Panto – ‘There are hints of early Roxy Music, Sparks and second world war military bands, all conspiring to make them probably the most original new band in Britain’ – The Guardian.
Key dubstep producer Skream, responsible for some of the genre’s classic cuts, such as 2005’s Midnight Request Line, exemplifies the style’s intoxicating blend of strangeness and rhythmic drive.

^^ Can't wait for that. In other news tonight!:

~ Keiran Hebden (Four Tet) and legendary drummer Steve Reid are due to return to London for a show at Dingwalls on the 20th of November. (they also play a date in Manchester).

~ Belgian neo-prog-rockers dEUS play at The Forum on the 15th of October.

Tonight's headline being!:

~ THE RESIDENTS perform 'Bunny Boy' on the 7th of December in a UK exclusive show at The Forum. Further details are yet to emerge.

And now our lighthearted-joke item to close tonight's proceedings:

~ Dingwalls in Camden plays host to Thurston Moore's wet dream Be Your Own Pet on the 26th of August.

Thats all for tonight!

And now more on the featured story - the fractured but nonetheless unending tale of Queenadreena and Daisy Chainsaw sideprojects -

~ Katie Jane Garside's alternative folk side project Ruby Throat will open for Catherine Anne Davis at the Bush Hall, 7th of August

~ Meanwhile Crispin and Nomi will be keeping themselves entertained with their side-band The dogbones, who play the Bull & Gate on the 20th of September.

and BREAKING NEWS from a reiable sorce (eg my mate what manages the Dogbones) is that Queenadreena have confirmed a London date for the coming monthes. Stay tuned for more details!!

The Domino Records gig in Oct sounds like a winner. Will see how the money situation is, and get a ticket for that as soon as I can. I wonder whether Wild Beasts named themselves after the 1982 Franco Prosperi film, where zoo animals gobble industrial strength quantities of PCP, and go on the rampage in a "major European City"?

Ha ha, quite possibly... My heart is really with Tricky and Skream on this one though, Wild Beasts sound a bit 'Antony and the Johnsons' to me. But hey, I may be wrong.

You seem like the sort of guy to whom Keiran Hebden & Steve Reid would appeal Melly, is this not so? (The Tricky tickets will go fast, there weren't great numbers left when I booked)

The Sticks are playing at Catch 22 in Shoreditch on the 15th of August.

Yeah, I'd be up for that, too, as it happens.

cool - Slimelight, Colour out of space, Tricky, Keiran Hebden - it seems our paths shall converge often over the coming months!

Should be good fun, eh, This Is Not Here!

Yeah I'm actually really looking forward to the shit I've got planned for the next few monthes, some really seminal gigs are long overdue...

February 14, 2009 [EDIT - February 13, according to The Forum web page]
Kentish Town Forum
Magazine (yes, THAT Magazine - the ideal valentines day treat for your beloved!)


Magazine are reforming for their first gigs since 1982. They play in February at Manchester Academy (13) and London Forum (14). Tickets go on sale on September 15.

The line-up is Howard Devoto, Barry Adamson, Dave Formula and John Doyle. Promoters Gig Cartel told PS: "We don't know who will play guitar in place of John McGeoch. It may be a special guest, but we can't confirm who yet."

Accessible enough from London to count, if people are keen enough:

October 6
Brighton Concorde 2
Melvins

ew, Melvins. One of the worst shows of this year so far for me.

I think I've just come!

_slavo_ - am off to see the Smelvins in December - I'll remember to shout "Booo!" to them on your behalf :D

October seems like it's going to be ''hot'' in London. And that film rules.

7-9 NOVEMBER, 93 FEET EAST
HOKABEN MUSIC FESTIVAL
SUN RA'S ARKESTRA, DON CABALLERO, FUCKED UP, ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE, KID 606, CHRIS CORSANO & MICK FLOWER DUO, PART CHIMP, GRAVENHURST, SHITMAT & DJ SCOTCH EGG, AUFGEHOBEN, TRENCHER, RAMESSES, I'M BEING GOOD, LORDS, KATIE STELMANIS, BIRDS OF DELAY, APATT, MUGSTAR, SJ ESAU, TEAM BRICK, HEY COLOSSUS, SHIT & SHINE, NEPTUNE, BODUF SONGS, VIALKA, TODD, STEARICA, ZZZ, BIRDS OF DELAY, ZUN ZUN EGUI, DETHSCALATOR, CHOPS, BROMANCER, IL GOBLINI, DEFIBRILLATORS

Friday 7th Nov: 7pm til 1am, Sat 8th Nov: 5pm til 1am & Sunday 9th Nov: 5pm til 11pm.

Weekend tickets: £60 :eek: plus £3.75 booking fee. Day tickets will be available a month before the festival date when the lineup for each day is announced.

http://www.hokaben.co.uk/index.html

Fuck me ragged with a penguin, that looks awesome! *Starts saving up pennies*

wow!

ROCK-A-ROLLA & LAST.FM/PRESENTS
FIRST TIME EVER IN THE UK , LED BY EX-MR BUNGLE GUITARIST TREY SPRUANCE:
SECRET CHIEFS 3
Plus:
ZU
SKULLFLOWER


LIVE AT CARGO, LONDON , TUESDAY 16th SEPTEMBER 2008, 7pm - MIDNIGHT


Rock-A-Rolla magazine have hooked up with Last.fm/Presents to bring you a night of the most exciting music on the planet today! We are extremely delighted to announce that the legendary Secret Chiefs 3 will be making their first ever UK appearance, headed by Trey Spruance (Ex Faith No More / Mr Bungle).Also on the bill are the incredible Zu , Italy ’s finest avant-rock/jazz/noise/whatever fusionists, and Matthew Bower's seminal Skullflower! Plus Rock-A-Rolla and Last.fm DJ sets!!!

For more info on the event check out www.last.fm/presents

TICKETS ON SALE NOW!!!! available from www.ticketweb.co.uk and www.cargo-london.com/event/secret-chiefs-3-zu-skullflower

Or click below to purchase your tickets immediately:

http://www.cantaloupegroup.co.uk/sho...roducts_id=768

http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?reg...l&event=280397


Event details:

Name: Rock-A-Rolla & Last.fm/Presents
Venue: Cargo
Address: 83 Rivington Street, Shoreditch, London , EC2A 3AY
Date / Time: Tuesday 16th September/ 7pm
Cost: £12
Web: http://www.last.fm/presents

skullflower rarely play in london, but fuck those seeing those two other bands