Booked my Residents ticket today. (plus my second Primal Scream show, but we'll brush that one under the mat for now) Scared. Real scared.

you're so lucky to see the residents, i didn't even think they played live!

I saw them a few years back in London, and they were superb.

LIFE ALONG THE BORDER: A TRIBUTE TO NICO
South Bank Centre
Saturday 11 October

John Cale, composer, co-founder of the Velvet Underground and producer of Nico's most renowned albums presents an iconoclastic tribute to this beloved icon. A very special line-up of artists re-imagine her life, work and songs in this unique event.



JULIAN COPE
South Bank Centre
Tuesday 18 November

Rock star, antiquary, musicologist, and poet Julian Cope returns to the Royal Festival Hall following the release of Black Sheep, 'a musical exploration of what it is to be an outsider in modern Western Culture'.

Sic Alps on the 7th of October at Barden's Boudoir.

Thursaday, September 4
PONYTAIL
COWTOWN
INDICA RITUAL
GENTLE FRIENDLY
Thursday 4 September
Barden's Boudoir
(38-44 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, N16 7XJ)
8:00 | £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/32309

PONYTAIL is a quartet hailing from Baltimore. Created in January 2005 - strangers brought together and chosen at random by a local poet - they began their relationship as infants and their first years were musically chaotic, feeding on exhaustion and borderlining on retardation, yet ultimately relating to pop. Refining a sound that crosses the standard rock band aesthetic with the world of new age, ska, Afropop and concrete poetry, the four released their first full-length 'Kamehameha' on Creative Capitalism in 2006. Their sopohmore effort 'Ice Cream Spiritual' is hot of the press courtesy of label du jour, We Are Free, and sees the band's duelling guitars and Molly Siegel's shamanic vocal limbered into some of their most boisterous pop-punk jams to date.
www.myspace.com/jreamteam | www.nowwearefree.com

COWTOWN play short, hi-octane, thrill pop - a brash, sleazy keyboard / drums / guitar trio, squawking out the most catchily yelped bubblegum noise west of Yorkshire. Their first album 'Pinecone Express' is out now on Chinchilla-Tone and follows two 7" via Golden Lab and On The Bone Records.
www.myspace.com/cowtownsuperstars

INDICA RITUAL is five super-slick dudes from Liverpool who play awesome pop songs, dead fast and in technicolour. Add prog-rock party fun, the skronk of Devo, undulating guitar and synth riffs, and the result will make your feet move and your brain itch. Equally at home throwing out motorik shapes at Italian techno nights, or shakin' alongside the noisiest avant rock acts, they've shared stages with everyone from Dirty Projectors to Hadouken of late!
www.myspace.com/indicaritual

GENTLE FRIENDLY is a duo from London, whose music resembles the mighty gallop of the fabled Scandinavian Wild Hunt - hurling itself forward across woods crystallised with snow, not to terrorise and maim the pale peasants staring wide-eyed from the side of the road, but searching for a gleaming reservoir of power which lies hidden in the depths of the wilderness. With a pop glint in their eye that would have made the Unicorns or Yo la Tengo proud, they grab you in the slipstream of their exalted assault, accelerating towards a place you might have visited before by the hand of like-minded explorers such as Animal Collective, Silver Apples or Dan Deacon.
www.myspace.com/gentlefriendly

Animals & Men - post punk messthetics feautred band,similar to Raincoats,Delta 5

LONDON RYAN'S BAR.

FRI 5TH SEP, 2008 7.30pm

+Electricity In Our Homes
Pheromoans
Go Faster DJ's

Limited Capacity

London Musicians' Collective's 16th Annual Festival of Experimental Music
Thursday November 29th | Friday November 30th | Saturday December 1st

Cochrane Theatre, Southampton Row, Holborn, London WC1B 4AP

"International in its sweep, uncompromising in its substance" - Time Out

Two dozen performers from around the world are given free reign to
redefine music. Over three days they coax incredible sounds from all
manner of instrument, in every conceivable manner. Performers include
the elder statesman of Japanese sound-art Yasunao Tone; mesmeric
minimalist legend Charlemagne Palestine; and Norbert Möslang,
enigmatic torturer of household electrical goods.

Group improvisations, drawing on diverse talents thrown in at the deep
end of spontaneity, feature Tony Buck, superlative drummer of
Australia's best export, The Necks; brilliant Belgian string virtuoso
Julia Eckhardt; and sensational American trumpeter Peter Evans.

And to surprise ourselves, some players at the very edge of audio
arts: Taku Sugimoto, whose guitar playing is so restrained as to
stretch the laws of time; Bob Levene, who uses turntables as audio
sculpture; and Helena Gough, who reveals the laptop as a landscape
teeming with twittering life.

Take an example from Eve and Experiment.

Thursday 29 November:
Yasunao Tone + Taku Sugimoto + Bob Levene + Angharad Davies & Julia Eckhardt & Michael Duch

Friday 30 November:
Charlemagne Palestine + Norbert Möslang + Robin Hayward & Matt Davis + Billy Roisz & Angélica Castelló

Saturday 1 December:
Peter Evans & Steve Beresford & Mark Sanders + John Butcher & Tony Buck & Burkhard Stangl + Margarida Garcia & Barry Weisblat + Helena Gough

The Jesus and Mary Chain have announced another London date. The Forum on the 20th of October.

A curious event involving Kevin Shields in late October, for you to gaze upon:

http://bardensboudoir.co.uk/events/2...he-rhythm.html

No Age w' Times New Viking, Electric Ballroom on 20th Oct 08.

EDIT: 27th.

I wouldn't take it for granted that that's Kevin Shields the man, if I were you. I suspect it may be Kevin Shields the band.

Here we go: http://www.myspace.com/kkevinsshields

Do I win a prize?

Ha ha, who the hell calls their band Kevin Shields?!

they're a noise band and they're pretty good

Tickets for Magazine's first gig in a long long long time now on sale!

http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/Magazi.../artist/970953

Saturday, October 25th 2008, 7:30pm, £6.50 on the door
St Giles in-the-fields Church, 60 St Giles High Street, London WC2H 8LG, UK
Duane Pitre (with Ensemble) > James Blackshaw > Rameses III
plus DJ set from Cheapmachines

Thu 27th November
The Fly, New Oxford Street:
Ufomammut / Lento

RISE ABOVE 20TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW - 13TH DECEMBER, LONDON ULU

The line-up features a very rare headline performance from Electric Wizard (their first UK performance in several years), who will have an exclusive 12" vinyl on sale only at this gig. 300 copies will be available on the night and will not be on sale anywhere else.

The current line up is; Electric Wizard, Grand Magus, Taint, Gentleman`s Pistols, Diagonal, Moss, Litmus, Serpencult, and Witchsorrow. There is still the possibility of one or two more bands being added.

It`s going to be a great day, so get there early. Doors are 3 pm. Tickets are already on sale and selling fast. They are a mere £15.00 (+booking fee) and are available here.