I SHOOK THE ROYAL THRONE

Can a review of Nail The Cross be done in three hundred words? We report, you decide.
I had my reservations about this event but they were generally washed away with good times and off licensing. Music with guitars! These New Puritans are no longer staid, and fronted by Bizarro Simon Armitage; someone described Wet Dog [...]

THE MAE SHI + JOHNNY FOREIGNER
Kings College WC2
Tuesday 13th May, 8pm
Yes, them again. But first! Johnny Foreigner tried to break the ice by asking if anyone had commited suicide. And that was the highlight! The world already has Help She Can’t Swim and Los Compesinos!, so it doesn’t need another person to sing in that [...]

ART BRUT
Amersham Arms, New Cross, SE14
Saturday 26th January, 10:30pm

I have been in love with Art Brut since the very first time I heard ‘Formed A Band’. Amongst the midst of bands stealing everything they could from the early 1980s/their parents’ incomes to buy nice shoes, there were these cheeky buggers from London whose only aim [...]

Okay, so it appears I’m into the whole ‘let’s update once a week if I can be arsed’ mode. That won’t do! Media and communications I think has decided to get all hard and abstract on my behind, which I guess is nice but at the same time easy things are better. Sigh. On Saturday [...]

MENEGUAR + PRE + RYAN JEWELL + SPIN SPIN THE DOGS
Old Blue Last, E1
23rd September 2007 8:00pm

So I’m finally here. It’s ever so refreshing to live somewhere where things actually happen, you can find bands playing and good places to buy records and then be able to get home without running to catch the last [...]