Delia's Gig Guide: 12th November

The week gone=

Cats and rain just don’t go and the Panther Girls prove it edging soggily
white-booted up the cobbles of Brick Lane their ears bending beneath the
weight of London’s finest grey and soggy deluge.
Panthers are playing an Oxjam Pushing Pussy night featuring music from
gossamer-winged stilletoed rawkers extreme The Fairies Band. It’s enough to
make you think Lynyrd Skynyrd would have written a song called Pink Socks
Rock if only they’d thought of it first. Panthers try and persuade the
bouncers to get involved (no really get involved mr bouncer!) and carry them
off stage as a grand kicking and screaming finale. Mr bouncer agrees (in the
face of exuberant girly enthusiam) and then is conspicuously absent for the
rest of the night (ie he is hiding the big wuss)

At the Buffalo Bar it’s Betty and the Werewolves. They bounce and stomp to
accentuate their tunes and do their best to bang them into the earth with
their heels. Smiles and summer picnic dresses and wobbly tuning but
infectious pop tunes all round from a band that aren’t applauded but howled
at by a hungry-for-more mob. Baby Gravy are sinister but body-swaying
playing head-catching tunes with flares of saxophone answered by a
threatening synth and won’t back down singer Iona pushing the songs in your
face with sassy menace while the beats are neatly caughty by goalie drummer
Zarah and expertly pinned to the floor.

It may not be indie-rock but they can defy gravity and laugh in the face of
how-the-fuck-did-you-do-that? It’s the Sadler’s Wells and it’s ballet –
people flit around the stage as though bending your legs over your head (and
somehow beyond, yes even unto infinity) is quite the normal done thing. I
come out and think that I must be able to leap into the air and spin like a
leaf in a happy storm but suddenly I feel like gravity has pulled me down
from the moon and I’m a weary Shetland pony trotting along in a coal mine
and in desperate need of a donkey sanctuary.

At The Roundhouse it’s The Hot Puppies who used to be a good altish-rock
band and are now like some kind of theatrical spectacle pop opera rolled up
into a half hour show. It’s an all-ages show and little ‘uns creep closer
and closer to the stage as if they’re playing grandma’s footsteps but
instead of pouncing on them singer Bec beckons them forth with smiles and
promises of perfect harmonies.

At the Old Blue Last Effi Briest are Midwich cuckoos in negative. Six
Carrrie-esque too cool for school (and they’ll burn it down anyway) indie
geeks with sleek seal-like hair hanging down their necks. They make a
clamour like Nico has been given the rest of the VU’s instruments to play
and holds her very own exploding plastic inevitable Ladyfest 40 years early.
A lovely drone-blend of violin and accordion and guitar just asking to have
fairy lights strewn across it.

Walking through kings cross it’s all excitement, activity, blocked off bits
and fluoro-clad policeman looking sweaty. The queen is coming to open the
new train station that goes to parlez vouz paris mate?? (non and lost my
passport anyway). I have just made proud collection of the biggest
collection of hats ever all done up in brown paper and string – going
through kings cross I must look like I’m in possession of the mostest
biggest bomb in the world ever. I hope no one detonates me and confettis my
new hats over the shiny new station in terrorist prevention glory.

The week ahed =

MONDAY 12TH NOVEMBER

Luminaire – Darren Hayman (wry quirk-pop about cities and love and stuff)
Rough Trade East- Correcto – 7pm – free email instores@roughtrade.com
(someone from royal we and someone from franz ferdy as heard lots on marc
riley’s show s’good)
George Tavern – Safetyword, the new southpaw soviet, klava – free
Koko - Tortoise
Big Chill ?house- Mules - free

TUESDAY 13TH NOVEMBER
Dingwalls – Young Knives, Pete and the pirates (well yes precisely…pete and
the pirates…they’re rather good aren’t they?)
KCLSUS- Raveonettes (blondie/jamc/bo diddley pop)
Hedges and butler – The Munroes, Ipso Facto, Starling
Good Ship –Napoleon IIIrd, Keyboard Choir, Applicants, Pagan Wanderer Lu
(very oxford type affair I think. Worth going if only to find out if the
keyboard choir have brought their excellent robot dancers)
Pigalle – Horace Andy (old school reggae chap)
Monarch – 3 inches of blood, chtonic
Old blue last – fleeing new york, the girls
Scala – digitalism
Buffalo bar – talk taxis, the steers, electricity in our homes
Catch – the bleeps, starfighter x, the immortal Johnny dance
Notting Hill Arts club – Martina Topley Bird, royal Treatment plant
Windmill - Grantura, Ox, The golden Retrievers
White Heat - Findo gask, favours for sailors

WEDNESDAY 14TH NOVEMBER – Delia’s birthday (where's my present?)
Corsica Studios – Cobra Killer, Circle, Zombie Zombie (and maybe I’ll go
to this for my birthday treat cos they are 2 sexy but at the same time
fierce and proud warrior ladies who play noisy electro pop jerks with broken
glass and champagne mixed in)
Islington bar academy – wolfmen
Ghetto – tigerpicks – latish
100 club – yeti, popular workshop, alverez kings, model horror
Koko – two gallants
Monarch – make model
Social – holy fff,ck
Water rats – The Brightlights, Sister, Fat Sue, Ebony Bones
Buffalo Bar- Montage, Haank, Members Of The Public
Windmill – William, And What Will Be Left Of Them, Elfred And Uber Peas,
Lewsor
Gramaphone - skank you very much, domino effect, Clay pigeon

THURSDAY 15TH NOVEMBER
St Moritz – The Priscillas (girly glam-rock-punk frolics)
Luminaire – Kid Carpet (toys and pop songs)
ULU – Hoosiers
Buffalo bar- The Jim Jones Revue, Copter, The TAP collective (worth going
even if only to see if sci-fi-brummie garage-punks Copter have found their
little Milo yet!)
Ginglik – cut of fyour hands, dananasnananacroyd, new cassettes
Scala – Barbara carlotti, emilie simon, gong gong
Water rats – Johnny panic, paul st paul and the apostles
Bardens – honkey finger, dennis hopper choppers, d-6, emit bloch
Amersham Arms- Man Like Me, The Cocknbull kid, The Walk Off
Plastic People – Kode 9, Spaceape, the bug

FRIDAY 16TH NOVEMBER
Pigalle – 9 ton Peanut Smugglers (retro-styled knee-jerk skanking sounds)
Amersham Arms- the Loud howlers, Amanacer, Free reighn
Cross kings pub – babet, david walters, kilma – French celebration…
Finsbury town Hall – Cut A Shine, Fat 45, The bona fide family band
Whitechapel galler- emmy the great
Dublin castle – francis dashwood and the hellfire club
Dirty water club – d30, the vipers, the lot lizards
333 – bla blah blah , mama shamone, captain black
93 feet east – get shakes, chik budo, 586, cobra dukes
ace café – the surfin gorillas
bardens – they came form the stars I saw them, sculpture
half moon – the wave pictures, Monday club, dexter Bentley
old blue last – plastic little, awful crew
clockwork – hatcham social, elle s’apelle, ja ja w3underbar
Windmill - Simon Joyner, Julie Doiron, Darren Hayman, Sparky Deathcap

SATURDAY 17TH NOVEMBER

Buffalo Bar- Shaun Horton and the Tennessee Trio, Bill Fadden And the
Hopstars (hillbilly hop hoe-down)
Roundhouse Studios 2pm – Talk Taxis, Let’s Wrestle (all-ages)
Inn On the green – The Len Price 3, Fallen Leaves, Black time (get there in
time to see Black time cos they're raucous wired punked up garage)
The Social – Weird Love (2girl/2boy kinda drone garage punk pop)
Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes – Guillotines, Stripchords (country-noir-punk
featuring heidi cool lady heelz and twang-surf sauce)
The Fly – Bastila, Looker, Runner
Ryans – D30, Monkey Island, D66
Macbeth – Ill East, Matthew Sawyer and the ghosts, The Millipeds
Windmill – Lisa Lindley Jones, Kelley Stoltz, Witches, Maxwell’s Demon,
Eddie

SUNDAY 18TH NOVEMBER
Monkey Chews – Friends Of The Bride, Looker, Jon byrne, Marcus Mumford
Cargo – Wire doo dah – Jackie-o motherfkkkccer5, polly shang kuan band
Corsica studios - acid mothers temple and the melting parasdido ufo,
diagonal
Windmill – picastro, tenebrous liar, jo mango, mary ellen mcgee,
Buffalo bar- southern tenant folk union – Nashville country doo dah night.

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