The Slimelight

saturday 5th April 08
WHITEHOUSE + RAMLEH + DISSENTION (Stefan Jaworzyn/Chris Corsano duo)
Please note: Ramleh will be playing a power-electronics set.
Doors 8.00pm

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Originally Posted by sarramkrop

Saya (Tenniscoats)
Sunday, 13 April 2008
Cafe Oto

18 - 22 Ashwin street
Dalston, London, E8 3DL

£5 http://www.wegottickets.com/event/28621

Saya, vocalist and primary songwriter for Japan's Tenniscoats touches down in London for a rare solo spot to open Dalston's latest live performance space CAFE OTO with a set of inspired psychedelic avant-pop.

Tenniscoats celebrate all that makes song vital in our collective consciousness, matching emotive live performance against delicately psychedelic folk songs. As Johan Berthling of Swedish trio Tape commented:

"Their starting point is pop songs, but with a staggeringly free approach: psychedelic folk tunes, complex instrumentals and short pop jewels side by side, everything is possible. A song can be performed in a myriad ways. Their interplay is angular and at the same time the most sensitive one has heard. A feeling of a music that constantly goes on, whether Saya and Ueno are on stage or not. A music free of pretensions, but urgent as few things I have heard."

Saya is one of the key figures in the tokyo underground pop scene, a catalyst and collaborator, organising shows and giving opportunities to younger musicians on the scene, whilst spreading her own wings with far-flung collaborations. Two are due later this year with The Pastels (on Geographic/Domino) and Deerhoof's Satomi as OneOne - the name a sweet pun on the japanese onomatopoeia for a dog's bark. These follow last year's two stunning records - Totemo Aimasho (trans. 'Lets meet very much' for the Australian ROOM40 label) and Tan-Tan Therapy (for Häpna in Sweden).

Saya is also a member of Maher Shalal Hash Baz and runs the Majikick label with her partner Takashi Ueno (Tenniscoats' guitarist/saxophonist) from their base in Tokyo's outer suburbs.

"Innocence without the sweetness that sometimes puts people off of twee-pop, hearkening back instead to the ramshackle psychedelic sing-song of the Red Krayola... well worth checking out." pitchforkmedia.com

ABOUT CAFE OTO

Cafe OTO is a venue based in Dalston, London presenting the most innovative artists working today with a particular focus on new music. The venue's aim is to support and foster a vibrant creative community rooted in their local surroundings whilst embracing the best new music and art from the U.K. and abroad.

Cafe OTO (meaning noise/sound/music in Japanese) comprises of one large café/performance space open during the day serving food and drink with an evening programme of live music, films, talks and discussions. Based on the ground floor of an old warehouse on Ashwin Street in Dalston the venue opens in April 2008.

www.myspace.com/tenniscoats
www.tenniscoats.com
www.cafeoto.co.uk
www.wegottickets.com/event/

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Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels

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Check out their future listings. This looks like it's going to be a killer venue:

http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/programme.shtm

Friday, April 11, 2008 From 19:00 Adv £ 8.00 Door £ DOOM/STONER ROCK

 

WITCHCRAFT plus DANAVA and GENTLEMAN'S PISTOLS


Tuesday, April 22, 2008 From 19:00 Adv £ 8.50 Door £ DUB THRASH

 

DUB TRIO plus INVASIONhttp://www.southern.net/southern/band/DUBTO/

The Garage

 

Monday 16th June
Mean Fiddler and Rore Music presents:
Melt Banana + Guests
Doors 7pm £12.00 adv

 

Monday 25th June
Mean Fiddler and Rore Music presents:
Melt Banana + Guests
Doors 7pm £12.00 adv

The Forum
Tue 20th May

ATP Presents presents

De La Soul





Doors - 7:00 PM
Tickets - £22.50
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De La Soul is a Grammy Award-winning hip hop group from Amityville, New York. They are best known for their eclectic sampling and quirky, surreal lyrics, and their contributions to the evolution of the jazz rap subgenre. The members are Kelvin Mercer (Posdnuos, Mercenary, Plug Wonder Why, Plug One), David Jude Jolicoeur (Trugoy the Dove, Dave, Plug Two) and Vincent Mason (P.A. Pasemaster Mase, Maseo, Plug Three). The three formed the group in high school and caught the attention of producer Paul Huston (Prince Paul) with a demo tape of the song "Plug Tunin'". Prince Paul was also sometimes referred to as Plug Four.

With its playful wordplay, innovative sampling, and witty skits, the band's debut album, 3 Feet High and Rising, was hailed as a hip-hop masterpiece. It is also the band's biggest commercial success to date, with their subsequent albums selling progressively less, despite receiving praise from critics. A measure of 3 Feet High and Rising's cross-over appeal was the fact that it was voted Album of the Year by NME Magazine, a title better known for its taste in guitar-based music. De La Soul has influenced numerous other hip hop artists such as Camp Lo, Black Eyed Peas, and Digable Planets. They were also instrumental in the early stages of rapper/actor Mos Def's career, and are a core part of the Spitkicker collective. They are the longest standing Native Tongues Posse group, after the Jungle Brothers.

The Forum

Thu 22nd May

Meanfiddler presents

Einsturzende Neubauten





Doors - 7:00 PM
Tickets - £16.50
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In their 27th year, Einstürzende Neubauten again prove the potency of their philo-acoustic long-term therapy. After their successful 2007 tour of the U.K. the mature avant-garde All-Stars present their new album Alles wieder offen, showing their intimacy and fragility in a completely new light. Blixa Bargeld, Alexander Hacke, N.U. Unruh, Rudolf Moser and Jochen Arbeit have triumphed over the old Berliner Mauerkrankheit, the fever has sunk to a normal temperature and the apocalyptic visions and the yearning for death of the early days are now part of the past. Alles Wieder Offen is released Nov. 6th on their own Potomak label, distributed by Ryko in the United States.
Today, Einstürzende Neubauten is the first and only band which successfully uses the Internet productively to gather and concentrate activities of their fans from around the world. Einstürzende Neubauten launched their official website www.neubauten.org in 2002, and made it the center of their musical activities. Entire albums are financed by registered Supporters via subscription. The principle is simple: their Supporters buy the next Einstürzende Neubauten album before it's recorded. With this funding in hand the band has time to work in peace rather than wasting time and energy in endless discussions with record companies about marketing and "brand identity" - irksome intrusions into the artistic process! In return Supporters world-wide have exclusive access to Einstürzende Neubauten's internal working processes.
Supporters were able to watch the recording sessions via web-cam for the first two "Supporter Albums" (2002/2005) and were also called upon by the band members in direct chat discussions to comment on the working process and influence it. In the same way, the "Musterhaus" series (a collection of experimental albums) is being marketed solely on the website.
The untiring exploring spirit is still driven by a hot burning desire. Einstürzende Neubauten are still on the unending quest for the undiscovered Sound and have once again perceptibly redefined their parameters.
For every generation its own sickness, and for every generation its own cure. Sometimes the proven household remedies are the most effective. Or so they say.
Ticket Line: 0871 230 1093

Sunday 20th April
Club Motherfucker present: DAT Politics

Only London / South East show!

plus support TBA



Doors: 8.00pm. Admission: £6. Tickets available in advance from We Got Tickets

 

MAY

Thursday 8th May
Bardens present:



Damo Suzuki





Doors: 8pm. Admission: £6, tickets available in advance from We Got Tickets

93 Feet East

WEDNESDAY 9th JULY

 

MAIN HALL: BLANK CANVAS


ELYSIAN QUARTET + SEAN O'HAGAN + DOMINIC MURCOTT + WILL DUTTA

7:00PM - 11:00PM

£6 IN ADVANCE / £8 ON THE DOOR

The ELYSIAN QUARTET is one of the UK most innovative ensembles and the only British string quartet of its generation to focus exclusively on 20th Century, contemporary and experimental music. They have performed all over the world to great acclaim and have worked with artists as diverse as virtuoso beat-boxer Killa Kella, jazz pianist Keith Tippett and experimental electronic composer Simon Fisher-Turner. They have recently supported Hot Chip and Polar Bear.
SEAN O'HAGAN is one of the founding members of The High Llamas and has collaborated extensively with Stereolab. He is also known for his string arrangements with amongst others the Super Furry Animals and Doves as well as his extensive remix portfolio and recent film scores. Tonight sees the premiere of his String Quartet. DOMINIC MURCOTT specialises in work that combines live instruments with technology. His compositions are performed internationally and he has performed around the world with various artists, particularly as a member of The High Llamas and has recorded with many influential pop groups including Stereolab, Pavement and St Etienne. When not composing or performing he is Head of Composition at Trinity College of Music. Tonight's Installation for String Quartet is a unique multi-media work exploring synchronisation between performers, film and computer and is viewed as one of the most important multi-media pieces of recent times. WILL DUTTA is emerging as an extremely exciting, versatile and creative pianist, collaborator and event producer. His recent projects include work with DJ Yoda, The Heritage Orchestra and Plaid and he has performed extensively in the UK and abroad as soloist and collaborator.

BLANK CANVAS, a night of live contemporary classical and experimental music led by pianist Will Dutta together with progressive DJ sets and guest performances by some of the leading DJs and soloists in London and abroad. Supporting Blank Canvas is DILETTANTE, the first specialist classical music community on the Internet. The site harnesses the latest in web technology to create a global network connecting musicians, audiences and enthusiasts with the music that unites them.

Monday 12 May 2008
ATP CONCERTS PRESENTS
MEAT PUPPETS
PLUS SPECIAL GUESTS HOWLIN RAIN
Rise to Your Knees is the first album of new material to bear the Meat Puppets name since 2000, and the first in a dozen years to reunite guitarist/singer/main songwriter Curt with his brother, bassist/co-founder Cris Kirkwood, who recently rejoined the band after a lengthy struggle with substance abuse.
The 15-song album--the resurgent Meat Puppets' first for the independent Anodyne label--boasts the same visionary fusion of complementary contrasts that originally endeared the band to a large and loyal audience in the 1980s, when they emerged from their hometown of Phoenix, Arizona to redefine the parameters of American indie rock.
Rise to Your Knees-- recorded in the band's adopted home base of Austin, Texas -- finds the Kirkwoods and new drummer Ted Marcus tapping into the same adventurous spirit that first put Meat Puppets on the map, recapturing the transcendent highs of their most
celebrated work. The resulting music adds an inspired new chapter to
the already massive legacy of a band whose body of music is an indispensable cornerstone of contemporary alternative rock.
For most of the 1980s, Curt, Cris and original drummer Derrick Bostrom turned out a remarkable run of independent releases, originally released on the SST label, including such acknowledged underground classics as Meat Puppets , Meat Puppets II , Up on the Sun
, Mirage , Huevos and Monsters . On those albums, the band applied
punk's loud, fast energy and a free-spirited sense of experimentalism to an ever-evolving mix of bluesy hard rock, high-lonesome twang and
homespun psychedelia. The threesome delivered its eclectic
iconoclasm with an increasingly sophisticated level of instrumental interplay, highlighted by Curt's inventive guitar runs and his and
Cris' rough-hewn vocal harmonies. The trio's dynamic interaction was
further reflected in their adrenaline-charged live shows, which were prone to induce delirious sonic highs.
Meat Puppets exercised a massive influence on more than one generation of like-minded indie combos--including Nirvana, whose fandom ran so deep that they invited them along as opening act on their In Utero tour, and invited the Kirkwoods to share the stage to perform three Meat Puppets numbers on Nirvana's historic 1994 MTV Unplugged special.
After nearly a decade of D.I.Y. success, Meat Puppets made a successful transition to major-label status in the first half of the '90s, signing with London Records and releasing Forbidden Places , Too High to Die and No Joke! , making unexpected inroads into the rock mainstream and even achieving a surprise hit with "Backwater."
The band went on hiatus for the remainder of the '90s, and Curt eventually reemerged leading a completely new, Austin-based
four-man Meat Puppets lineup for 2000's Golden Lies . He then formed
Eyes Adrift with Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic and Sublime drummer Bud Gaugh; that outfit released one self-titled album in 2002.
Kirkwood then spent an extended stint touring as an acoustic solo act, releasing the stripped-down album Snow under his own name in 2005, before feeling the urge to reactivate Meat Puppets.
"I never broke the band up," asserts Kirkwood. "I never
said, 'There's no more Meat Puppets.' I drove thousands and
thousands of miles doing solo stuff, and I had a blast doing that, but
nobody was watching out for my ass except me. After four or five
years of that, I'd had enough and was ready to play electric. And
then some trusted friends in Phoenix said that Cris was rehabilitated, so I called him up and he seemed ready."
New drummer Ted Marcus arrived in an appropriately organic fashion, initially entering the band's orbit while working as soundman on a new Meat Puppets documentary, which had been shooting during the
early stages on Rise to Your Knees ' birth cycle. "After a few days
of tracking, everybody was like, 'Sonofabitch, this is amazing,'"
recalls Curt.
Having made self-produced low-budget indie records and expensive major-label albums with big-name producers, Kirkwood has a pretty clear idea of which approach works best for his band, whose music has always been rooted in spontaneity and inspiration.
"In the '80s, we used to just crap this stuff out," he notes.
"Those SST records cost, like, five grand apiece, if that much, and
those are the records that made people like us. Later, when we got
into a position to work in bigger studios with outside people, we'd wind up spending a whole bunch of money and having to satisfy the
people who gave us that money. We did that all through the '90s, and
I'm just not interested in doing that anymore.
"Now, if I can get away with it, I'll make a record as cheap as I can and put as little work as I can into it, which is what we did
with this one. I don't like putting a lot time into it. We cut a
track, and If we've played it halfway right, we're done with it."
With Rise to Your Knees already the subject of a rapturous groundswell among longtime fans, the reborn Meat Puppets' sense of
musical mission is as strong as ever. "I think this is the most
dynamic version of the band ever, and so far the love coming from the audience has been really, really great," he notes, adding, "We started
when Reagan was in, and I think it's a similar time now. It feels
medieval . It feels like the world is a fuckin' pile of shit that's
full of snakes and flies, and we're here to put some frosting on it."

Time: 7.30pm
Admission: £14.00 in advance
Tickets: See Tickets – www.seetickets.com / 0115-912-9000 Stargreen – www.stargreen.com / 0207-734-8932 WeGottickets.com
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Cafe Oto's programme has been updated:http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/programme.shtm

[Toilet & Bowels]

there are so many gigs coming up this month and next month

13/04 saya from tenniscoats
15/04 method man & redman
19/04 merzbow
19/04 flower corsano duo
21/04 lesbian
22/04 ramleh, giffoni, consumer electronics
01/05 health
01/05 taint
02/05 john weise
09/05 the rebel & cheveu
12/05 meat puppets & wooden shjips
14/05 times new viking
15/05 nachtmystium
19/05 raekwon & ghostface
20/05 scorces
23/05 public enemy, dr octagon, anti-pop consortium & edan
24/05 i am a kamakura

East London's top experimental performance venue presents:

A NIGHT OF ELECTRONIC NOISE!

Featuring:
Craig Hilton (Processed GuZheng)
Promute (Laptop and sound manipulations)
Cementimental (Various electronic noise)
and Seesar (Percussion)

Come see, hear, and feel the electronic madness!

The event happens Monday 28 April

£4/£3 concessions
Doors @ 19:00

The George Tavern is located at 373 Commercial Road, E1 0LA
Closest tubes stops: Whitechapel and Shadwell (also Aldgate East and
Limehouse)

Resonance104.4fm is proud to present a unique concert of new music
featuring Australia's foremost improviser JON ROSE

Friday 11th April 2008, St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, Kings
Cross. Doors open at 8pm and concert starts at 8.30pm. Entrance £8 and
£5 concs. There will be a bar.

This is a unique (for British audiences probably the very last)
opportunity to hear the music of Jon Rose and two of his own very
favourite acoustic settings:

The Kryonics

Jon Rose, violins (including the Stroh cello); Aleks Kolkowski,
violin (including the Stroh violin); Joe Williamson, contrabass violin

+

Temperament

Jon Rose, violins; Veryan Weston, resident Brindley & Foster wind
organ with tracker action

At last audiences in London can find out what this euro-star-music is
all about as the wind organ at the oldest church in Britain - St.
Pancras, London (founded 314 AD) - has been confirmed for a
Weston-Rose concert on 11th April with Aleks Kolkowski's Kryonics
Stroh Violin project on the same bill.

Not since the gothic horror of H P Lovecraft in his 'Music of Erich
Zahn' has the art of music offered such an evening of candlelit
weirdness and intrigue. The combination of Tenor violin, half stopped
organ, Stroh violin, bass violin, and bowed saw will set the spine
erect and tingling. The setting? None other than London's home of
spook - St Pancras Old Church. Equipped with the notable stiffs of
Johann Christian Bach, Mary Shelley, and Thomas Hardy to name but a
few, the graveyard offers little comfort for those who would entertain
an evening on the hard pew contemplating mortality and the ancient and
modern of music. The crow awaits you at the door. Dress code: Black.
Makeup: Black.

The 2:13 Club Presents

REASSEMBLE
John Say and Sheena Vallely
found sounds mixed and improvised lively
+
The May King
Simon King – guitar / Paul May – drums
‘Scuffling boatswains of OXO’ Jazz Architecture Monthly
+
Oli Mayne - synth /vibes + Noel Taylor – clarinet / sax
+ James O’ Sullivan - guitar
'urgent, quickfire, abstract, lyrical, pulsed musings in the pursuit of
musical solipsism, or - to put it more plainly - a right old
muddle of anything and everything'
+
Big Pictures on the Wall – David Holmes
Introspective Projections.

Wednesday 9th April 2007 20:13
@The Lion
132 stoke newington church street n16
admission: £6 / £4

no recording / no photography - just be there!
contact:twothirteen@btopenworld.com
www.2-13.co.uk

Corsica Studios presents
BABA YAGA’S HUT
Nothing is as it seems………


SUNDAY 4TH MAY 2008


LYDIA LUNCH
HTRK
+ GUESTS

Corsica Studios presents a special musical-visual performance featuring Lydia Lunch, James Johnston and Ian White in celebration of the launch of Lydia’s new book The Gun is Loaded forthcoming from Black Dog Publishing London UK.

The Gun is Loaded is the first volume of its kind to document Lydia’s visual art. Spanning nearly two decades of work within its 250 pages, it includes images from her portrait series of street urchins in New Orleans; her investigations into the haunted ruins of Pennsylvania and West Virginia; her intimate portraits of murderous lovers and her most recent self-portraits and photomontages. Infused with her apocalyptic vision of America’s spiritual collapse and the brooding sexuality which has marked much of her work, The Gun is Loaded is rich in visuals and text, demonstrating Lydia’s continued presence at the autopsy of American society and the forefront of its vital underground culture.

To mark the release of this landmark work, Lydia will present material from her new cd - The Ghost of Spain, a psychoambient musical journey through the troubled history of the country she now calls home. The enduring themes of fractured memory, sex, sorrow, rage and war will be illuminated by James Johnston and Ian White. James, the founder and multi-instrumental force behind Gallon Drunk, and percussionist Ian White are past masters at musical mood manipulation and the perfect mediums for Lydia's deeply affecting Spanish séance.

Seasoned collaborators, Lydia recently contributed vocals to the track Doughboy on Gallon Drunk's limited edition 7-inch vinyl release of their blistering single Grand Union Canal. Performing live together, the incendiary dynamic between the Drunk boys' musicianship and Lydia's muse promises an aural conflagration.

Photographs from The Gun is Loaded will be projected throughout the evening, creating a provocative atmosphere of seductive and haunting images, inviting the voyeur into the private dreams, desires and obsessions of one of America’s most fearless daughters.

The Gun is Loaded will be available for purchase on the night of the show.

http://www.lydia-lunch.org



HTRK
http://www.myspace.com/htrk
HTRK (formed 2003) are a mysterious three-piece from Melbourne who reside in Berlin and London. Inspired by the sounds and images of David Lynch, The Birthday Party and electronic artist Pita, HTRK effortlessly create music of sublime tension and beauty. Heavily processed and bathed in reverb, was after 'Nostalgia' that Birthday Party guitarist Rowland S. Howard became interested in HTRK, eventually going on to produce their forthcoming debut album 'Marry Me Tonight', which will be released later this year.

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£7 Adv. (http://www.wegottickets.com)
7.30 pm
Corsica Studios
4 Elephant Road
London
SE17 1LB

020 7703 4760
info@corsicastudios.com
www.corsicastudios.com

JAPANESE NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL 2008
2 musicians play 4 different units

SUNDAY 27TH APRIL

In 1997,1999, 2003, 2005 and 2006 a set of performances aroused a storm of frenzy and shriek in Europe, USA, China, Mexico... and they will be back with even greater power in Europe. This time 3 musicians (YoshidaTatsuya and Kawabata Makoto) form 7 units!! A cappella, comic free form, progressive core, troubadour, cosmic psychedelic......
You'll be experiencing the essence of all kinds of extremes in the current new music scene in Japan on a single night.

ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE SWR
AKATEN (Kawabata/Yoshida)
RUINS ALONE (Yoshida Tatsuya solo)
KAWABATA MAKOTO (solo)


ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE SWR (Kawabata/Yoshida)
Acid Mothers Temple have rapidly become acclaimed as the greatest, most extreme trip psychedelic group in the world. Releases have appeared on labels around the world at an amazing pace, and the magnificence of their live performances is already being whispered of as legendary. SWR is the AMT Family's most powerful battle-formation yet. featuring Tsuyama and Kawabata from the original AMT and Yoshida from Ruins. their crushingly acute freakout sound will pulverize the world's legions of wannabe psych groups.

KAWABATA MAKOTO solo
Kawabata Makoto is best known for his speed-demon noise-fuzz guitar in Acid Mothers Temple, but he is also widely active as an unparalleled drone guitarist. Drawing upon a huge reservoir of original techniques including metal glissando and bow-work that can summon up the sound of a string ensemble or orchestra, his work in this area cannot be simply categorized as minimal, drone or experimental. You'll find it hard to believe that a single guitar can create sonic worlds of such meditative and elegant depth.

RUINS ALONE (Yoshida Tatsuya solo)
Yoshida is one of the most innovative drummer/composer/improviser in Japan's new music scene. pioneer of Drum & Bass duo RUINS was founded by Yoshida in '85 . Tunes are complicated and mysterious, and songs are sung in the language of their own invention. It's high-tension, wild, heavy, speedy, acute, and powerful tremendous ensemble never sounds like they are only two players. now RUINS had no bassist and currently he has been playing as RUINS ALONE. playing RUINS songs with sampling bass.

AKATEN (Kawabata/Yoshida)
Formed in 1995 with the motto of "irresponsibleness" and "perfunctoriness." They easily free themselves from the spell of the traditional seriousness of the art. Using daily commodities like scissors, toothbrush, zipper, camera, and plastic bottle as percussions, and shouting their brand names over and over as the "songs," the show is performed under the concept of low cost and maximum sound effect. AKATEN is the experimental convenience store punk band that provides the sound images of cheap and simple daily lives.


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£8 Adv.
7.30 pm
Corsica Studios
4 Elephant Road
London
SE17 1LB

020 7703 4760
info@corsicastudios.com
www.corsicastudios.com

http://www.wegottickets.com/event/28008

http://www.acidmothers.com

thurs 17 april 08
the cross kings, 126 york way, london n1 0ax
8.30pm £5 / £3 or even more if you want

see live:

lol coxhill
phil minton
gerry f fitzgerald
ian mclachlan
sibyl madrigal & the 3 skins
glistening cogs of greenland
ysd reacting to films by hugh metcalfe
frank bangay & tunde busari
sir gideon vein
and hugh, of course.

www.iotacism.com/klinkerizer/index.shtml
www.thecrosskings.co.uk

SLASHER RISK are on tour in Europe from this Thursday the 18th April with UK support from TEMPERATURES and A MIDDLE SEX:

Friday the 18th April:

SLASHER RISK
TEMPERATURES
A MIDDLE SEX
TRINITY
BEACH FUZZ

The Klondyke
Burnage Range (off Albert Road)
Levenshulme
Manchester
M19 2HQ

£4 entry, doors 8pm.


Saturday the 26th April:

SLASHER RISK
TEMPERATURES
A MIDDLE SEX
LITTLE PENGUIN

Haggerston
438 Kingsland Road
Dalston
London
E8 4AA

Free entry! Doors 8pm. DJ Jim Backhaus and Mark Pilkington.

 

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