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 [...]

CAREER SUICIDE + GEOFFREY OI!COTT + BIG DIFFERENCE + COP OUT
The Casbah, Sheffield
Wednesday 6th August 2008, 8:00pm

The perils of musical polygamy: Jonah Falco splits his days between two of Toronto’s brightest bands - as the drummer from Fucked Up, but also as one quarter of Career Suicide, who because the former have seemingly decided to [...]

HEALTH + BUTTONHEAD + GENTLE FRIENDLY
WHITE HEAT vs. NO PAIN IN POP
Madame JoJo’s, Brewer Street, W1
Tuesday 10th June, 8:00pm

Hey, I should talk about music while I’ve got the energy to type constructive things instead of googling lyrics that could be used in foreign court cases, soooo here’s some more visual proof that I have little [...]

Just some visual proof that I haven’t spent all of last month failing my studies, develop emotional attachments to people that don’t exist and generally drink myself stupid; last month was the month of seeing bands and then seeing them again a short while afterwards, preferably in a different city that doesn’t house tramps [...]

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 [...]

WHITEHOUSE + RAMLEH + DISSENTION
Electrowerks, Torrens Street EC1
Saturday 5th April, 9:00pm

Whitehouse came to my attention through an arduous article awash with details like how for 28 years they have “crossed boundaries of morality and taste with their transgressive noise”. Heh, quite. When a group produces songs entitled ‘A Cunt Like You’ or ‘Bloodfucking’ you start [...]

The Mae Shi are an example of why you should go to a show based on things you’ve heard from the room next to you. They’re from Los Angeles and sound like a birthday party where everything is going wrong, things are getting broken and your friends are sat in the corner wondering what to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]