Delia's Gig Guide: 31st March

by Delia Dansette on Mon, 2008/03/31 - 12:55am Post to Twitter

Monday 31st March
Luminiare- New Adventures + The Ads + Thomas Tantrum (some good pop for a tedious Monday)
Notting ?hill Arts Centre - Velofax + Restlesslist + The Bobby McGees + Mayor McCa + Midnight Express DJs + Phil Adams (1) + Beat Happening Djs
The Social - The Superimposers + RW Hedges + The Kambourines
93 Feet East - The McKenzie Break + Talk (formerly Telex) + Animals Talking + Stealing Signs - Free
Old blue Last – bishops, eight legs
Amersham Arms- XX Teens - free

Tuessday Apr 1st

Madame jo jos – fanfarlo, munch munch, el guincho (blissed out swaying pop cooing vocals and swoopy violins yum yum)
Buffalo bar- White Denim, ape drape escape (blah blah blah sxsw blah blah blah yeah whatever. ape drape escape are good too hurrah!)
Vibe Bar- Now – free (krautrocking popsters)
Under the Westway – Brunettes, Bobby Cook, The Sleepers
Scala – Be your Own pet
Hoxton square bar- lionheart brothers
Bardens – rings, graffiti island, haunted fucking
Windmill – the computers, the scrape, small mercies
93 FEET EAST – Hus The Many (heed the few)

Weds Apr 2nd
Star Of Bethnall Green- Marina topley bird, White Denim (lady with a nice voice sings good pop songs – this is the venue that used to be pleasure unit)
Metro – Parka, Domino State (scotch popsters)
100 Club – Thomas Traux, Flipron, Dana Imanuel
Scala – Patrick Watson, Miracle Fortress
Hoxton Bar – Brunettes
Buffalo Bar- Jukebox Vandals, St4ve bland Assembly, Bear Hug
Macbeth- DJ Yoda, Elysian quartet, Kreepa, John Mathias And Nick Ryan
Old Blue Last - Live: Notorious Hi Fi Killers, Tap Collective - $2

Thurs Apr 3rd
BATH! – Back To Mine- Circulus, Ulyusses, Beth & Becky (take the the day off and take a train to hang out in a medieval pop land!)

Macbeth – Sunset Cinema Club, Damn Shames (mischievous Brummy pop boys with good songs)
ICAA- Youthmovies
Old blue Last – operahouse, Super Nashwan, Death Cigarettes
Buffalo Bar- Eden James, The Forth, The Kubricks, Drago’s Guilt
Bloosmbury Bowling Lanes –white denim, red light company
Catch – project komakino, guillotines, goodnight and I wish
229 Great Portland Street- Research
Black Gardenia – Le Tetsuo, Plugt – FREE!
Ginglik - Esiotrto, Lucky elephant, The Zetland Players, Man And The Vertebraates

Fri Apr 4th
Proud- rumble strips, yoav, more assured (what used to be the stables and sell interesting stuff is now another nightclub which London is (of course) very short of – oh good! Rumble strips are good. I was expecting garagey yawny same olds but they’re kinda soulful and poppy and really good...soulful in a sorta dancey way not in a oh dear I pooped my pants way.)
Prince albert - Brixton - coldharbour lane - The Debretts, I Wanna Be Sedated, The Actionettes dance troupe! free!!!! (girly fronted spiky popsters and ramones tribute band and dance trou0pe! and free! )
Luminiare – miracle fortress
Boston arms – Hollywood sinners, the urges, the despondents
New cross in – china dogs, mouthwash, dd coys, retro crooks
Bardens – das wanderlust, the Gresham flyers, Arthur & Martha
Cargo - size 9, bikini beach band, sugars
Koko- late – ghost frequency, ebony bones
Amersham arms- raw poo
Pizza express – the new seekers
93 Feet East – The Slips, electricy In Our Homes, Televised Crimewave, The Skip Theatre

Saturday Apr 5th
Dirty South- Peter & The Test Tube Babies, The Black Marias, The Phobics (im sorry I used to love peter & the test tube babies. Elvis is dead…now where is that record? I once brought 2 of their albums from reckless and they both had the wrong record in – that kinda stopped me exploring them further (limited funds as always…it’s comedy punk by the way.)).
Macbeth – Lovvers, Glamour Soundsystem
Electroworersk- Whitehouse, Ramleh, Dissenion (noisy noise possibly a bit dodgepot or are they just playing devil’s advocate eh eh eh? A lot of people have a lot of opinions about them and I don’t know enough about it to say either way - work it out for yourself clever clogs)
Enterprise – Molloy, What Every Woman Wants (poppy lot with a tracy song)
93 Feet East- Gullemots, Hot club de paris
Sin – Trademark – latish
Notting Hill Arts club – Broken Records, Vessesl, Monroe Transfer- Free- 4pm
Amersham Arms – Death Set
Sheepwalk – Pete Molinair, Alan tyler – free
Catch – Partyline, Wet Dog, Kasms, Noisy Pig
Phoenix- Crepy Morons

Sunday 6th april
Old Blue Las t- Live: Project Komakino, S.C.U.M. Micron 64, An Experiments on a Bird in the Air Pump – Free (I do like free! An evening of moody pop with a touch of dark noise and factory floor ambience)
Water Rats- Team Waterpolo
Bar Music Hall – My toys Like me – free
Leonards- Scaramanga 6, Friends Of The Bride – 6pm - #3
Windmill – Low Lows, Jonny Parry trio, Show witout PUnbhc

Tours

Clinic
Apr 8th – Bristol Thekla
Spr 9th – London 229
Apr 10th – Brighton Audio
Apr 111th – Leeds Brudenell Social club
Apr 12th – Manchester – academy 3

She Beats
Apr 5th – Dry Bar – Manchester
Apr 11th – Riffs Bar Swindon
May 15th – Lousiana bristol

Los Campesinos! (most of these are 14+ but please check!!!!!!!!!)

10th Apr – Solus Cardiff
11th April – Tunbridge Wells forum (underage)
12th Apr – LSE London
13th Apr – Waterfront Norwich
14th Apr – Windmill Brixton
16th Apr – Jailhouse Hereford
17th Apr – St Georges Bradford
18th Apr – Camden Crawl
19th Apr Camdden Crawls
20th Apr – Hoxton Bar & Grill

Pete & The Pirates/ Let’s Wrestle

8th Apr – Nottingham Rescue Rooms
9th Apr – Birmingham Bar Acadey
10th Apr – Liverpool Bar Acaademy
12th April – Bristol cooler
14th April – Manchester Ruby Lounge

José González
Fri 3 April Sheffield Leadmill, £16.50 www.gigsandtours.com 0870 0104555
Sat 4 April Preston 53 Degrees £16 www.livenation.co.uk 0870 4000688
Tue 7 April Edinburgh Assembly Rooms £18 www.pclpresents.com 08700 600100
Wed 8 April Manchester Opera House £16.50 www.gigsandtours.com 0870 4016000
Thu 9 April Norwich UEA £16 www.livenation.co.uk 0870 4000688
Fri 10 April London Shepherds Bush Empire SOLD OUT
Sat 11 April London Shepherds Bush Empire £18 www.livenation.co.uk 0870 4000688
Sun 12 April Truro Hall For Cornwall £16 www.seetickets.com 08712 200 260
Mon 13 April Bournemouth The Pavillion £16 www.livenation.co.uk 0870 4000688
Tue 14 April Bexhill On Sea De Le Warr Pavilion £16 www.dlwp.com 01424 229111

White Denim (All shows are supports)

Tue 1 April London Buffalo Bar £5 www.artrocker.com
Wed 2 April London The Pleasure Unit £5
Thu 3 April London Bloomsbury Bowling
Fri 4 April London Barfly £6