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How many beautiful folk pop melodies exist still to be discovered in fair Scotland? Following Belle & Sebastian, Butcher Boy or Stornoway, you might think they’re now in short supply. Not if you’re Admiral Fallow, though: Louis Abbott’s outfit mix careful lyrics with yearning tunes and lush arrangements to arrive…
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Friday 4th May will see Swedish electro pop sensations ICONA POP, heralded live dub step collective ENGINE EARZ EXPERIMENT, the mesmerizing celestial ECHO LAKE and Dublin’s darkly majestic FUNERAL SUITS join previously announced headliners DEATH IN VEGAS to complete the bill for the festival’s opening night marathon set to take…
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We were intending to open this piece with one of those ‘if Arctic Monkeys met Queens of the Stone Age’ analogy thingies, but realised that actually happened a few years ago and Marmozets had nothing to do with it. One of the bright lights of West Yorkshire’s music scene, Marmozets…
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If you don’t know MistaJam, you don’t know award-winning radio presenting when you see it. MistaJam has been with Radio 1Xtra since 2005, and has been rolling around the corridors of Radio 1 itself since 2008. From dubstep to hip hop, grime to Drum & Bass, MistaJam knows his beats…
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Fence Records is the quintessential DIY music and the semi-official curator of Scotland’s finest music. Most famous for being the spiritual home of King Creosote, who co-owns the label, the label is also home to James Yorkstone, Kid Canaveral, Lone Pigeon … and Johnny Lynch, aka Pictish Trail. We caught…
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Emerging like a phoenix from the flames of the Magpie’s Nest (and who doesn’t love mixed bird metaphors?), the Nest Collective is simply the best folk club this side of your bowlback mandolin. It has a simple idea – bring the best folk to the capital of fine island nation…
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The Local are cunning. Not in a super-villain-evil-genius way, you understand, but simply because they’re not local at all! They are in fact a music promotion and management agency with acts from all over this wonderful musical world of ours, based in London but bringing fine sounds to your ears…
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Poster Roast exist to promote some of the most beautiful gig posters you are likely to see anywhere. We don’t just mean on the inside of toilet cubicle doors, either: the gang behind Poster Roast put on exhibitions, championing the art of the screen-printed poster with enthusiasm and élan. Poster…
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Get Comedy are behemoths of mirth, routinely populating venues across the land with the very finest and freshest comedy masterminds. They are also a comedy collective of their own, popping up at festivals and clubs throughout the year and resembling veritable firecrackers of hilarity. They are Crawl veterans, and we’re…
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You don’t wind up at the centre of skateboarding in the UK for over a decade without having some chops. But Caught In The Crossfire don’t just manage the sorts of stunts us mere mortals can only manage on the Xbox: they know their music, too. Their events are legendary…
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Are there two words in alternative music more freighted with meaning than ‘rough’ and ‘trade’? The label, the bankruptcy, the shops, the revival. The shops, of course, are the stuff of legend: Aladdin’s caves of goodies and arcane post-punk knowledge. We caught up with Sean Forbes, of the very…
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We have an apology to make: the whole time we were editing this interview, we were listening to Flight of the Conchords. (You know the one: “I’m the pretty prince of parties / You’re a tasty piece of pastry”.) That is entirely Urban Nerds’ fault, whose reputation as London’s premier…
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Camden Royalty, Club Fandango first started out over ten years ago at Dublin Castle. Since, they’ve not just added the Barfly, they’ve gone national: from Belfast to Birmingham, the Club Fandango experience has a foothold far beyond their modest North London beginnings. We’re more than a little bit proud that…
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Moda is a party, label, artist collective and blog ran by Jaymo & Andy George.
Their insatiable appetite for new sounds means Moda is constantly moving forward, evolving, thinking and rethinking. The next few weeks alone see the Moda crew host their third party at Fabric…
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Knock2Bag began life in Shepherd’s Bush, serving to the public the finest slices of comedy from a mix of established and up-and-coming names. That commitment to high quality, diverse line-ups meant we had a lot in common when we met at a Shoreditch speed dating night. Within our allocated space…
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Fear & Records isn’t just two words and an ampersand which don’t quite scan, the little beggars. Peter White’s labour of love is also home to some of the most exciting records and artists you might be likely to meet (or, indeed, listen to). Peter manages Masks, Johnny Foreigner and…
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If you continue to labour under the misapprehension that DIY referred to B&Q, Sexbeat exist to prise you away from your Wickes catalogue. Ragamuffin merchants of 7”s, cassettes, fanzines and a panoply of other exciting things, Sexbeat also promote live music from the likes of Andrew WK, Trash Talk, Cerebral…
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Chris Coltrane is a man on a mission. Aiming to radicalise you into the Tory-hating provocateur you were born to be, his LOLITICS comedy club rubs the shining faces of its unsuspecting audience in the mirthful muck of Coalition Britain. If you thought David Cameron’s face couldn’t get any funnier,…
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If we’re honest with ourselves, we all know that the height of Western civilisation came with the invention of the lindy hop. Like messengers from a time when men were men and shoes wore spats come the London Swing Dance Company. If your life is missing flappers and fedoras –…
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