The Weasel: Pop Music and Contemporary Art
14-28 July
This two-week project presents artists who work with music and includes film during the day and live performances by night. Gigs and films will be shown on a stage and screen specially designed by Assume Vivid Astro Focus in typically psychedelic style.
Artists include Johanna Billing, Charles Atlas, MaxiGeil! & PlayColt, Saltpeter, Skills 7 Stamina 12, DJ Rubbish, DJ Scotch Egg, Matt Stokes, Abake and many more.

The full line up and listings are on www.myspace.com/theweasel_slg or go to www.southlondongallery.org

Films are free and live performances just £5.

The Fall
17/18/19/20 July

LONDON - CARLING ACADEMY ISLINGTONCarling Academy Islington
N1 Centre
16 Parkfield Street
London
N1 0PS
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Tel: 0905 020 3999
Website: http://www.islington-academy.co.uk

The Scala

 

Thursday 26 July 2007
CHIMERA PROD IN ASSOC WITH AUDI TT REMASTERED
DJ YODA & THE HERITAGE ORCHESTRA PLUS SPECIAL GUESTS PLAID & O DUO
DJ Yoda and The Heritage Orchestra come together for the live premiere performance of Gabriel Prokofiev’s pioneering new work Concerto for Turntables & Orchestra. From Edgard Varese’s experiments with reel-to-reel tape to the Musique Concrete of Pierre Schaeffer’s studios in the 1950s, classical composers have manipulated recorded sound long before Grandmaster Flash scratched his first record..... More
Time: 8pm until 12.30am
Admission: £16.00 in advance
Tickets: www.ticketweb.co.uk 08700 600 100 or pop in to Scala's box office between 10am and 6pm Monday to Fridays
Buy tickets online




Wednesday 21 November 2007
TIDAL CONCERTS PRESENTS
GORGOROTH PLUS VERY SPECIAL GUESTS ENTHRONED
Time: 7.00pm
Admission: £12.00 in advance
Tickets: In advance from Ticketweb - 08700 600 100 / Ticketmaster - 0870 534 4444 / See Tickets - 08712 200 260 / Star Green - 0207 734 8932
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The Spitz

 

Sat 7 July
OUT OF AFRICA Presents:
JOSE HENDRIX (Live),
+ featuring K-MELIA,
+ alongside DJ Ilka (BBC Africa on your Street)
+ DJ Eric Soul (Afrogroov)
Out of Africa teams up with Enchanted Tunes to bring you the future sounds of The Congo. Presenting a special Ndombolo remix of Congolese rumba spiced up with African hip-hop.
This is London 's liveliest night featuring live contemporary African bands alongside DJs spinning cutting-edge African club beats that brings everyone to their feet. Experience beats that bang such as Naija Pop, Ivorian Coupe Decale, Kenyan Benga, Congolese Soukous, Senegalese Mbalax, Afrobeat and more. "Innovative...An intoxicating mix...Quite unlike anything else in the Capital". The Guardian Guide
www.outofafrica-london.com
£10 / £7NUS on the door

 

Tues 10 July
Mavryx Midsummer Mayhem:
OTHIN SPAKE feat. TREVOR DUNN & SHELLEY BURGON
+ Ad:Art
+ Red Paper Dragon
Improv, experimentalist and free jazz super trio. Othin Spake feature the legendery bass player and John Zorn collaborator Trevor Dunn, founder of in fluential avant-progressive experimental rock group Mr Bungle. Harpist Shelley Burgon ventures into the world of spatialised electro-acoustic music. Experimentalist drummer Teun Verbruggen brings noise, free jazz, emo, total improv to the trio.
www.mavryx.co.uk
£10 Get Tickets

The Spitz

 

Fri 13 July
Spitz Presents:
POLAR BEAR
+ ETMO
+ Scary Gotcha DJs
The big haired enfent terrible of modern British jazz, Polar Bear make it the luckiest night of the year for anyone with the good taste to watch this magnificent band. A lethal dose of raw hypnotic grooves far-out spontaneity.
Laptop, sax and ethnic flutes, Etmo calls his musical exploration Ka 'lei ' (as in kaleidoscope). Etmo performs with DJ Sio B 'baas and percussionist Jon Tubmen.
"Polar Bear blast out of the past, full of straight, cool school skills, and detonate the past, bursting with edgy, forward-looking lust." Observer Music Monthly
www.polarbearmusic.com
www.myspace.com/officialetmo
£10 Get Tickets

 

Mon 16 July
Plan B Magazine Presents:
OXBOW DUO
+ Duracell
+ ZX Spectrum Orchestra
Oxbow Duo - Eugene Robinson and Niko Wenner, the singer/lyricist and songwriter/architect of Oxbow 's mean mania, make the making of Oxbow music a thing of rarefied beauty using little more than the rudiments of guitar and voice for the non-electrical rendering of a terror no less absolute because of a lack of volume. Fans of Lightning Bolt will love Andre Duracell, from Lyon - a one man 8-bit drum-trigger frenzy. D igitised voices and crunching beats from ZX Spectrum Orchestra. A soft centered selection of bleeps, melodies and poll-axe beats so galvanized it 's a wonder the Spectrum 's made it out alive. Who needs PS3?
www.theoxbow.com
www.andreduracell.com
£7

[Iain]

Polar Bear = yawn

I don't know his music too well, is it really shit? I am SO looking forward to the Oxbow Duo. Oxbow are an incredible band live. If I manage to get all sorted out this evening, I wouldn't mind going to that gig in Whitechapel cause I live in the area.

[Iain]

Well, it's a bunch of young guys doing incredibly smug fusion-y jazz. I'd imagine that Bitches Brew is mentioned in 78% of writings about them and it's probably their favourite album when any twat with half a brain knows that On the Corner is the best Miles Davis and that, bang for buck, his wife was better.

[MellySingsDoom]

Originally Posted by sarramkrop

I don't know his music too well, is it really shit? I am SO looking forward to the Oxbow Duo. Oxbow are an incredible band live. If I manage to get all sorted out this evening, I wouldn't mind going to that gig in Whitechapel cause I live in the area.

I'm definitely up for seeing this too - have never seen Oxbow before (in any formation).

[Iain]

Yeah, I'd like to see Oxbow also. I might try and make it to Supersonic fest in July where they are playing.

They're really worth checking out live. They rock and have a frontman with such an unforgettable stage presence.

[Katy]

Kimya Dawson
LONDON SPITZ
MONDAY 25TH JUNE, 2007 7.00pm
+ Angelo Spencer
£7.00

Selfish Cunt
LONDON BORDERLINE
SATURDAY 30TH JUNE, 2007 7.00pm
+Starvation Box
£7.00

MARNIE STERN
THIS IS MY CONDITION
CHOPS
HANDS ON HEADS
Thursday 12 July
Barden's Boudoir, 38 Stoke Newington Road, N16 7XJ
8pm | £6

Holly Golightly
LONDON 100 CLUB
THURSDAY 19TH JULY, 2007 7.30pm
Plus support
£9.50


Ari Up's The Slits
LONDON SPITZ
SUNDAY 12TH AUGUST, 2007 7.00pm
+ Wet Dog
£10.00


Billy Childish
LONDON DIRTY WATER CLUB @ BOSTON MUSIC ROOM
SATURDAY 25TH AUGUST, 2007 8.30pm-3.00am
Support band on stage by 9.30pm
Billy Childish & the Musicians of the British Empire on stage around 10.15pm
Then DJs till 3am
£6.00

Resonance FM's The Bike Show is organising a performance of Godfried Willem-Raes’s second symphony for ’singing bicycles’. It will take place in the morning of Saturday 7 July, starting outside Scooterworks Cafe, 132 Lower Marsh, SE1 This is the day of the Prologue Time Trial of the Tour De France, in Central London, so it will be possible to take part in the Singing Symphony in the morning and watch the Prologue in the afternoon!

If you would like to equip your own bicycle and come along, you’d be very welcome. If you would rather we supply you with the necessary equipment, we’d be happy to do so, though we will need the money beforehand: dynamo & bracket (£10), speaker & connecting wires (£5), resonating tube (free, hopefully), white suit (£5). We will have sound engineers and bicycle mechanics on hand on the day to help with the set up, which will take place from 10am. We hope to begin the performance shortly after 11am. Email to confirm your participation and your equipment requirements (if any) to bikeshow@gmail.com . We will be in touch regarding payment to cover equipment costs.

For more on the Symphony, pasted below is the lowdown. Or you can listen to the Bike Show’s feature on the symphony.

Quote:“Have you ever dreamt of playing in a symphony? Have you heard of the early-20th-century-futurists favoring the street over the palette or the theatre? Maybe Godfried-Willem Raes’ ‘2nd Symphony’ could be your chance. And, it isn’t even very difficult: join the symphony with your bicycle. Then, together at the occasion of a workshop, we carefully prepare and tune your instrument; you and your colleagues cycle in a long row at a regular pace; the last cyclist overtakes the whole group. The Singing Bicycle’s Symphony you perform, will delight you and your audiences in a wonderful and exciting way.

The ‘Symphony for Singing Bicycles’ is an open air event scored for a minimum of twelve cyclists with their own bicycles. A workshop of two hours is enough to prepare the instruments for the performance:

1. each bike -if it doesn’t already has one- receives a dynamo to generate its own electricity (6 Volt / 3 Watts);
2. a impedance-matched loudspeaker (15-15 Ohms) is connected to the dynamo. The power rating of the speaker should be at least 3 Watts, corresponding to the average power delivered by the generators.
3. each loudspeaker gets a carefully calculated length of tube in order to obtain a specific musical scale ;
4. by cycling at different velocities, (the last cyclist overtakes continuously the whole group), glissandi are obtained. At very specific velocities, resonance will occur in the tubes.
5. by cycling on different pavements, timbre-variation and frequency modulation is obtained. Cobble-stones provoke tremolo’s, narrow streets reverb and echo the sounds
6. every cyclist wears a white overall-suit labeled -in large numbers- with the resonant frequency and the interval ratio (between 1/1 and 1/2) of her/his individual instrument.

LEAFCUTTER JOHN IN CONCERT
Saturday 7 July
Beaconsfield, London
Doors open 7pm
Advance tickets £12/£8

A totally one-off evening during which the artist-composer Leafcutter John will present fresh work that has emerged from Soundtrap II. Special guests will perform the new compositions using the floor-based instrument created by the artist.

The Soundtrap II commission includes research and development, a period of public activation, a concert, a limited edition CD, broadcasts on Resonance 104.4 fm and live web streaming to the respective websites http://www.leafcutterjohn.com and http://www.beaconsfield.ltd.uk with downloadable MP3's.

The live concert will be a rare chance to see Leafcutter's creative process in action following this concentrated period of experimentation and represents an exciting departure within his oeuvre.

Buy tickets at http://www.beaconsfield.ltd.uk/ or please call 020 7582 6465. Limited availability - sales on a first come first serve basis so please book early to avoid disappointment.
(Tickets on the door £15/£10)

Beaconsfield, 22 Newport Street, Vauxhall, London, SE11 6AY
Tube: Vauxhall and Lambeth North
Bus: 3 (W.End) 77 (Waterloo) 344 (Elephant & Castle) 360 (Kennington)
http://www.beaconsfield.ltd.uk/
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Beaconsfield is an independent, commissioning organisation. Set up by artists in 1994, it provides an important resource for the development and presentation of international contemporary art.

[sonicl]

 

[racehorse]

Originally Posted by sonicl

 

wow, red rose, great little space.
do you ever go to the London Improviser's Orchestra that happens behind the pub every 1st sunday of the month?
it's fantastic.

[sonicl]

I rarely go very far north of Oxford Street, unless there's a band playing that I really really want to see, then I might venture as far as Islington or Camden. I may risk mixing with all the Spurs fans to see Religious Knives though.

[pokkeherrie]

not sure if this been posted before, but while I'm here anyway:

BOREDOMS (JP)
26/10/07 : The Wire festival (Shoreditch Town Hall) - London (UK)

2:13 Club at the Lion, Stoke Newington Church St, N16 on Wed 11th from 2013, starring Steve Beresford, John Coxon, Mark Sanders plus John Bisset&Paul May plus the Apocrypha Theatre £6/4
www.2-13.co.uk

Friday July 13th
@ The Red Rose

RELIGIOUS KNIVES
AIRPORT WAR
NALLE
THE ONE ENSEMBLE
FAMILY BATTLE SNAKE

129 Seven Sisters Road,
London Doors 7.30pm, £6

http://wegottickets.com/event/19600


RELIGIOUS KNIVES
Religious Knives is Mike Bernstein, Maya Miller (both of Double Leopards) and Nate Nelson (Mouthus). Psych-minimalism with slowly shifting synth melodies, atonal guitar, twisted percussion and haunting vocals. Recent releases on Troubleman Unlimited, No Fun Productions and their own Heavy Tapes.
Only UK appearance.

AIRPORT WAR
Airport War was started by James Hoff as a forum for his poetic and visual investigations into sound and performance. Airport War made its debut in November 2005 at PERFORMA05 with an installation/performance at the White Box Gallery in New York . This occasion also marked the release of Over and Over the Endless Corner, a 16 record album/carry-away installation.

NALLE
Nalle are a Glasgow-based three piece featuring Hanna Tuulikki (vocals, kantele, flutes), Aby Vulliamy (viola) and Chris Hladowski (bouzouki, clarinet). The sound is one blissed out, expansive drone, comparable to Tuulikki's Finnish compatriots Lau Nau or Islaja, but with a distinctly Anglo-Scottish twist. Recent album 'By Chance Upon Waking' out on Pickled Egg Records.

THE ONE ENSEMBLE
The One Ensemble are in fact four - Daniel Padden (guitar and vocals ), Chris Hladowski (bouzouki), Peter Nicholson (cello) and Aby Vulliamy (viola). Daniel is one quarter of Volcano The Bear, while Chris and Aby are members of Nalle and Glaswegian jazz-folk big band Scatter. Fusing Eastern European traditions, classical chamber music, mystical minimalism and free jazz into a heady brew, their music is otherworldly, magical and unmistakably beautiful.

FAMILY BATTLE SNAKE
Family Battle Snake is Bill Kouligas and Harry Astras, Greek natives but with the former living in London . Heavy telepathic improvisations and all too rare duo (full) line-up. For the past 2 years have played almost all around Europe and released loads of recordings on many European and American labels.
-
Second Layer Records will have a stall at the show too.
www.secondlayer.co.uk