I SHOOK THE ROYAL THRONE

ISTRT, night number one.

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 [...]

So, the day of reckoning has arrived for this celebration of okay bands and shitloads of dubstep: Nail The Cross started about an hour ago and I should really go up and enjoy the parade of Shoreditchers and promoters throwing money away in the name of making SE14 look special.
Not entirely sure what’s being nailed [...]

Two French exchange students found dead after a fire in south-east London were the victims of a ”frenzied, horrible and horrific attack” having been bound and stabbed repeatedly in the head, neck and torso before the house was set alight.
Laurent Bonomo, of Velaux, and Gabriel Ferez, of Prouzel, both 23, were found lying in the [...]

I miss New Cross.
The past nine months have been certainly something - chaotic, expensive, wonderful, three pound ten a pint - but that was all expected, rather unlike the gaping chasm that once housed my overdraft and my continued inadequacy when it comes to spirit measures. For every time stood watching The Teenagers and encounters [...]

Everyone has their favourite Sudbury, Ontario based power pop trio, I’m sure. But I bet yours isn’t as good as mine: Statues are on Deranged and were raised on whoops and three chords and the stylings of Vic Reeves. I blame this past week of beautiful weather that I was told only appears in London [...]

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 [...]

UNITAUR: CRYSTAL CASTLES + THESE NEW PURITANS + THE TEENAGERS
Goldsmiths Student Union, New Cross, SE14
Saturday 10th November, 09:00pm

So last night was a little bit busy. Wonky-haired media juggernaut Vice’s national tour of thoroughly hip ruffians stomped along down the road to Goldsmiths’ union and they scrubbed it up well indeed. The fact that they’ve come [...]

In early August I went down to London and went to a few good gigs, a boring in-store performance and a nice festival that was marred by slightly rubbish organisation. I’ve got a fair bit of media and thoughts about all of them and I’ll make some very late judgements in the next few days. [...]