London in Stereo // September 2015

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STAFF ON REPEATthe tracks we can’t stop listening to this month

JESS: AUTRE NE VEUT - WORLD WAR PT.2

DAVE: PALEHOUND - HEALTHIER FOLK

LOKI: SILVERSUN PICKUPS - NIGHTLIGHT

DANNY: YUNG - BLUE UNIFORMS

GEMMA: DEERHUNTER - SNAKESKIN

JACK: /PLEASE/ - NOT BIG

So this year’s Visions festival was another cracking success huh? Sunshine, bands and smashing my phone to death...oh wait. Well that bit wasn't great, but I don't thinkI can blame anything other than myself, and maybe Girl Band. Yes, let's blame Girl Band; Dara, you owe me a new phone.

As festival season draws to a close we've got our fingers crossed for sunshine and a light breeze for camping at End Of The Road. Either way we'll have fun, but our hangovers would appreciate tents that

aren't flooded. Come say hi as we attempt to get people dancing when we're DJing at 7pm on the Friday, we promise to play only the hits.

There's so much to get stuck into this month, I don't think we've ever seen such an impressive release schedule. Don't worry though, we're here to help you sift through it all. And if you're ever in need of more? Head to the site,we've got you covered.

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SHURA+ CLEAN CUT KID& ROSEAU17.09.15BRIXTON ELECTRIC

FLORENCE + THE MACHINE+ THE STAVES21.09.15ALEXANDRA PALACE22.09.15ALEXANDRA PALACE24.09.15ALEXANDRA PALACE25.09.15ALEXANDRA PALACE

YUNG23.09.15SEBRIGHT ARMS

WOLF ALICE+ DRENGE& MADE VIOLENT26.09.15BRIXTON 02 ACADEMY

SLEAFORD MODS02.10.15FORUM

THE STRYPES02.10.15KOKO

BABY STRANGE06.10.15BOSTON MUSIC ROOMS

MEADOWLARK06.10.15THE LEXINGTON

GENGAHR08.10.15SCALA

EDITORS13.10.15EVENTIM APOLLO

LEFTFIELD14.10.15ROUNDHOUSE

ALL WE ARE14.10.15SCALA

JP COOPER15.10.15KOKO

ANNE-MARIE21.10.15OSLO HACKNEY

SPEEDY ORTIZ+TRUST FUND21.10.15DOME TUFNELL PARK

HONNE21.10.15OVAL SPACE

SWIM DEEP+ THE MAGIC GANG22.10.15ROUNDHOUSE

MARIBOU STATE27.10.15VILLAGEUNDERGROUND

YEARS & YEARS27.10.15BRIXTON O2 ACADEMY28.10.15BRIXTON O2 ACADEMY

HEALTH28.10.15HEAVEN

METZ+ PROTOMARTYR& SPRING KING01.11.15SCALA

BROKEN HANDS03.11.15OSLO HACKNEY

ALGIERS09.11.15THE LEXINGTON

VAULTS11.11.15KOKO

LUCY ROSE+FLYTE& C DUNCAN18.11.15FORUM

ALABAMA SHAKES+ MICHAEL KIWANUKA18.11.15BRIXTON O2 ACADEMY19.11.15BRIXTON O2 ACADEMY

JOHN NEWMAN23.11.15KOKO

LION BABE24.11.15HEAVEN

PUBLIC SERVICEBROADCASTING29.11.15BRIXTON 02 ACADEMY

JASON ISBELL+ JOHN MORELAND22.01.16O2 SHEPHERD’S BUSH EMPIRE

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17. TALES FROM THE CITY

20. EMPRESS OF

26. BATTLES

32. ALBUM REVIEWS

40. EVENTS

45. GIGS OF THE MONTH

48. LIVE LISTINGS

67. INTO THE NIGHT

69. IN LONDON

70. LIVE REVIEWS

73. PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS

CONTENTS

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YO LA TENGOO2 SHEPHERD’S BUSH EMPIRE

TUE 20 OCT

AURORAHOXTON BAR & KITCHEN

FRI 18 SEP

WILL JOSEPH COOKTHE LEXINGTON

MON 14 SEP

JOHN GRANTEVENTIM APOLLO

THU 12 NOV

SUNDARA KARMAOSLO

THU 29 OCT

NOTHING BUT THIEVESELECTRIC BALLROOM

FRI 30 OCT

TOVE STYRKESCALA

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SAINT RAYMONDSCALA TUE 01 DEC

SCALA WED 02 DECSCALA THU 03 DEC

FIDLARTHE FORUMSAT 14 NOV

MIKKY EKKOOSLO

THU 17 SEP

JOSEF SALVATHEAVEN

TUE 20 OCT

RADKEYTHE DOME

THU 05 NOV

LIANNE LA HAVASBRIXTON O2 ACADEMY

MON 14 DEC

IZZY BIZUTHE BREWHOUSE

THU 24 SEP

THE SOUND OF ARROWSTHE BREWHOUSE

THU 15 OCT

JME

This is one of my favourite bookings at the festival this year. They haven’t played live in over 30 years and we’ve convinced them to get back together for a reunion show at Simple Things. Legends of Bristol’s 80s post-punk scene and affiliates of The Pop Group, they will be a surefire head-turner with their unique jazz/punk crossover. ‘In The Air’ is an utterly insatiable slice of 80s pop nostalgia from a lost Bristol treasure.

MAXIMUM JOYIN THE AIR

It’d be easy to go with ‘#SHUTDOWN’, however ‘Man Don’t Care’ takes the crown as my grime tune of the year in what will certainly be the first year I’ve ever had a grime tune as my track of the year. The Giggs verse is a killer and the vocal contrast between the two MCs is what defines this track. Also any tune that manages to shoehorn “digestives” and “cinnamon tea” into the flow is worthy of high praise.

JME FT GIGGSMAN DON’T CARE

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BARNT

THE SOFT MOON

Simple Things Festival takes place in various

Bristol venues, October 24th, with an opening

concert on October 23rd.

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Simple Things festival co-programmer; Luke Sutton

The most divisive track ever in this Simple Things office. A colleague of mine once heard this in a club andwas immediately sick with excitement.For that reason alone it makes thelist, not to mention Barnt’s expertly curated oddball DJ sets. A definitefor anyone looking for a bit of latenight weirdness.

BARNTTUNGSTEN

The krautrock stylings of Oakland’sThe Soft Moon will make a welcome return to Bristol when they play a late night slot in Colston Hall’s The Lantern. The track is a four-minute builder accompanied by one of the gnarliest videos we’ve witnessed of late.

THE SOFT MOONWANT

The biggest statement on their debut record and one of the most exciting bands to emerge in recent times. From their austere aesthetic to the changes in pace, ‘I Am Here’ is an absolute Simple Things essential for those who want to see an act at the top of their game.

SAVAGESI AM HERE

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LISTEN TO: Fall In

ONLINE: @PixxMusic // facebook.com/PixxMusic

LIVE: Pixx plays Mirrors Festival

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Over the past 25 years, Croydon’s BRIT School has spawned more than its fair share of big names, and shouldered more than its fair share of criticism. Its detractors’ primary gripe appears to be that - standout talents like Adele and Amy Winehouse aside - it’s an environment that fosters homogeneity. Of course, that’s a pretty easy conclusion to draw when you’re willfully ignoring the college’s recent protégé.Alongside fellow alumni TĀLĀ, King Krule and Alex Burey, Hannah "Pixx" Rodgers is part of a new breed of musicians proving that the BRIT School is more than capable of producing distinct voices. Born and raised in Chipstead, she started out making more traditional, acoustic, singer-songwriter fare, before opting to explore synth-embellished dream-pop under her grandmother’s nickname. Now 19 years old, Rodgers has just signed with 4AD. It’s hard to imagine a more perfect pairing.

On her debut EP, Fall In, Rodgers traces an invisible line through the illustrious indie’s back catalogue, marrying the dark, insular beauty of trailblazers Cocteau Twins and Dead Can Dance with the electronic experimentalism of current signings Grimes and Purity Ring. There are whispers of Connan Mockasin, too, in the water-warped guitar effects on the title track, and of Låpsley, in the rumbling, pitch-shifted vocals threaded through ‘Flee’. Accentuated by a voice of quite-astonishing purity, the silvery beauty of these compositions herald the arrival of a unique new creative force.

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MON 19 OCTOBER VILLAGE UNDERGROUNDNATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS

MON 19 OCTOBER THE LEXINGTONMARLON WILLIAMS

WED 21 OCTOBER THE ISLINGTONCIARAN LAVERY

THU 22 OCTOBER SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERSRUKHSANA MERRISE

MON 26 OCTOBER KOKOHALF MOON RUNTUE 27 OCTOBER ROUNDHOUSE

BEAR’S DENTUE 27 OCTOBER KOKO

SUSANNE SUNDFØRTUE 27 OCTOBER OSLO

ALEX VARGASWED 28 OCTOBER THE ISLINGTON

LIAM FROSTWED 28 OCTOBER HOXTON BAR & KITCHEN

NEW DESERT BLUESTHU 29 OCTOBER SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS

STARLINGMON 2 NOVEMBER KOKOAMBER RUN

WED 4 NOVEMBER O2 SHEPHERD’S BUSH EMPIREJACK GARRATT

MON 9 NOVEMBER ROUNDHOUSETHE STAVES

WED 11 NOVEMBER ISLINGTON ASSEMBLY HALLPATRICK WATSON

WED 11 NOVEMBER SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERSMIKE WATERS

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Dingwalls

Thurs 03 Sept.

The Lexington

Tues 29 Sept.

Electrowerkz

Weds 21 Oct.

Oval Space

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St. John at Hackney

Sat 07 Nov.

Bush Hall

Weds 11 Nov.

o2 Shepherds Bush

Empire Fri 11 Sept.

Birthdays

Fri 02 Oct.

Corsica Studios

Weds 28 Oct.

KOKO

Weds 04 Nov.

Islington Assembly

Hall Sat 07 Nov.

Oval Space

Fri 13 Nov.

Sebright Arms

Mon 14 Sept.

The 100 Club

Sat 10 Oct.

o2 Shepherds Bush

Empire 28 & 29 Oct.

Oval Space

Thurs 05 Nov.

Birthdays

Sat 07 Nov.

SCALA

Sun 22 Nov.

SCALA

Tues 15 Sept.

XOYO

Thurs 15 Oct.

Islington Assembly

Hall Thurs 29 Oct.

Village Underground

Thurs 05 Nov.

Village Underground

Sun 08 Nov.

Moth Club

Mon 30 Nov.

o2 Shepherds Bush

Empire Wed 23 Sept.

The Victoria

Thurs 15 Oct.

The Dome

Fri 30 Oct.

Union Chapel

Fri 06 Nov.

The Victoria

Tues 10 Nov.

KOKO

Mon 30 Nov.

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RESTORATIONSLexington Islington

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PISSED JEANS1OO Club Soho

Thu 18 & Fri 19 Aug

CAYUCASSebright Arms Bethnal Green

Monday 14th September

CHASTITY BELTThe Victoria Dalston

Thursday 15th October

TITUS ANDRONICUSVillage UndergroundThursday 5th November

NATALIE PRASSKoko Camden

Monday 30th November

COSMO SHELDRAKEXOYO Shoreditch

Thursday 2nd July

VISIONS FESTIVALVenues across London Fields Saturday 8th Sep

JACCO GARDNERDingwalls Camden

Thursday 3rd September

GIRLPOOLScala Kings Cross

Tuesday 15th September

FATHER JOHN MISTYO2 Shepherds Bush EmpireWed 28th & Thur 29th Oct

MARIKA HACKMANUnion Chapel Islington

Friday 6th November

LE1FThe Nest Dalston

Wednesday 8th July

ARTHUR RUSSELL INSTRUMENTALSOval Space Monday 10th September

ALVVAYSO2 Shepherds Bush EmpireFriday 11th September

UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRAO2 Shepherds Bush EmpireWednesday 23rd Sep

SONGHOY BLUESKoko Camden

Wednesday 4th November

THE ORBOval Space Hackney

Friday 13th November

madness ensued. I believe several of the people in the touring party ended up shirtless on the dance floor. Not a pretty sight. The next day we went to a pub with the label folks somewhere up by the old Arsenal stadium. I know this because it was the day of the parade after their undefeated season (The Invincibles!). It was pretty impressive to see the fans take to the streets, pouring out of pubs still holding their pint glasses and joining the parade. We drank all day, went out for a curry, and collapsed into bed. The next day we returned to NYC. It had been a great visit, but I only had hopes that we'd get back. Luckily, we found a willing partner for our third release Boys & Girls in America, and we came back hard. I spent a lot of time in London over the next few years, often posting up at the Jury’s Inn in Islington.I made a bunch of friends there that are still dear to me today. I gained confidence getting around the city, and feel at ease meeting friends in different parts of town. One night I went to see a band at the Buffalo Bar and walking there didn't seem so far without a guitar in hand. But still, whenever I'm walking around London, I sing to myself. I sing the songs by the Clash and the Jam and all the others - the songs that made me fall in love with London before I even got there.

The first time I got to London was the first time The Hold Steady visited in 2004. I was 32 years old. The band had just released Almost Killed Me and Les Savy Fav asked us to support them at the Islington Academy. Like a lot of bands we stayed at the Columbia Hotel near Hyde Park. We drank a bunch of beers from the old bothered bartender and called it a night. Predictably I woke up early with a bit of jet lag so I went for an early morning walk. As a lifetime rock and roll fan I was very excited to see the sights. Just looking at the tube map at Marble Arch I saw all of these places I knew from the songs and the books - Shepherd's Bush (The Who!), Knightsbridge (The Clash!), Abbey Road (The Beatles!). I walked over to Portobello Road, singing a more obscure tune (‘Spring Collection’ by The Vapors) and then all the way over to Carnaby Street to indulge my fantasies about being in The Jam. Later that evening we played the show and it was fantastic. There were a lot of people there and we sold a boatload of merch, enough to make the trip profitable. After the show we walked down to the Buffalo Bar for the after-party. It was a long way to walk with our guitars and we started to argue with each other about going home or continuing on. Eventually we made it and booze and

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Considering the press buzz that’s trailed her for the past two years, it’s a delight to discover that Lorely Rodriguez is entirely without airs. Ask her a question and you’re immediately rewarded with a frank answer, albeit articulated in an enthusiastic tumble of half-finished sentences, punctuated by sudden pauses and subject to unpredictable interjections. This unpretentious, led-by-the-gut approach spills over into her long-awaited debut album as Empress Of, which is simply titled Me.

“I overthought my record to the point where I just named it something so simple, you know?” she laughs, continuing at 100mph, “I was just like, ‘I can’t think about this anymore. What is this record about? It’s about me. Ok, that’s what it’s called.’”

The album was written in Mexico, where Rodriguez stayed at a friend’s house on the banks of Lake Avándaro, situated aside a Monarch butterfly reserve. “I realised I was going to be touring this record for two years,” she reasons, “And I didn’t want to play a record inspired by how much bullshit I have to deal with every day, living

in New York, whether that’s gentrification or capitalism or fucking whatever.” Rodriguez recalls heaping pressure on herself to make the most of the time in isolation, setting up her monitors and laptop the moment she arrived in Mexico. For five weeks, she worked twelve-hour days in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the lake – with the movies ‘Suspiria’ and ‘Alice In Wonderland’ alternately looping in the background – stopping only to make the twenty-minute walk to Valle De Bravo for supplies. This tireless work ethic is credited to her time at L.A. arts academy LACHSA, where Rodriguez studied jazz and classical composition from the age of thirteen. “When you have that mentality of spending hours and hours studying something, it crosses over into everything you do. I feel like, if I did anything I would want to do the best job I could.”Me certainly features Rodriguez’s best work yet. Swapping the gauzy dream-pop of 2013’s Systems EP – and the “ethereal beats” of her early Colorminutes sketches – for precision-lasered electro-pop, it’s a set that positively fizzes with kinetic energy. “When I wrote that EP I’d never played live,” she explains. “With this [album], it was really important to me to write something that translated to the stage, because playing live is a huge part of who I am as an artist. I want to have fun on stage, you know?”

words: Gemma Samwaysphotography: Abi Dainton

Empress Of

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“...I feel like, if

I did anything,

I would want

to do the best

job I could.”

Empress Of’s debut album Me is released September 11th via Terrible Records.Live: Roundhouse, October 29th,supporting Purity Ring.Online: facebook.com/[email protected]

This directness permeates the record’s lyrics too, which deal with intimacy and heartbreak, and find Rodriguez repeatedly asserting her independence, be that from the male gaze on ‘Kitty Kat’ or from a destructive relationship, as detailed on album-opener ‘Everything Is You’.“There’s definitely an arc to the record,” she explains. “It starts with me being so in love with someone that I can’t even acknowledge myself in the relationship. And by the last song on the record [‘Icon’], I’m just in a room by myself with the lights on, having learned to love myself.”When I venture that this sense of empowerment is particularly acute on ‘Need Myself’, Rodriguez jumps in, “Oh yeah, definitely! I mean, just last week someone made me upset by something they said. But I went home and put that song on and was just like, ‘OH WAIT: perspective. Perspective. I don’t actually need validation from anyone else – I can do this.’ To make something that is that empowering for myself is sick.”“Putting myself in a vulnerable position, and writing this album, has made me more of a confident person,” she concludes, adding excitedly, “I just hope everyone has their own experience with it.”

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You haven’t heard from Battles for a while.You were starting to wonder what happened to that band. You really liked those guys.You started to wonder if they would be back.If that third album was on its way?

Well now you can rest easy. Ferocious new track ‘The Yabba’ pounded out our headphones in August and new album La Di Da Di is due out on Warp this month. Never doubt Battles. While you were on the 08.35 to Liverpool Street they were working fervently on new music to unleash upon the world. For Battles never stop. They write and they record and they tour then they write and record and tour again. Their meticulous work on each album and their overwhelming commitment to their band becomes apparent when talking to them. All three musicians, Dave Konopka on bass, Ian Williams on guitar and John Stanier on drums – will refer to this band as being like a marriage.

“I would’ve given up,” states John Stanier, when I dare to ask what type of band or project he might start were he not in Battles. Dave Konopka backs him up, “That’s like asking if you weren’t married to your wife, who would you choose!” Their rumination is sincere and it’s easy to assume why. The departure of their vocalist Tyondai Braxton, after the first album, left the band somewhat stunned but seemingly has solidified the glue between the three, who share a wonderful camaraderie between them, having fought against the odds to carry on as one of the most respected bands around today. Continuing to seamlessly merge electronic

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and organic spheres, Battles’ new release La Di Da Di is a hypnotic cacophony of repetition, loops, soars and drifts. This band will not be leaving us anytime soon.

Recording at the infamous Machines with Magnets studios in Rhode Island, which John refers to as a “magical laboratory”, was a no brainer for the band. He explains, “It’s in the middle of nowhere with absolutely nothing to do. You just get tonnes of work done. We worked with our friends Keith Souza and Seth Manchester who we’ve worked with many times before and I don’t think we’d be able to record with anyone else at this point.”I asked them more about the new record; its creation, its instrumentality and their readiness for the road.

You wrote your individual parts of the last album in isolation from one another.Did you do that again this time round?Dave: Writing the parts in isolation last time was under baptism of fire. We really just needed to get it done. We rewrote the entire album so the isolation came as a functional decision. So now it’s for functional reasons. We have a computer in our rehearsal space and, between Ian and myself, we’ll exchange files and parts that we’re working on. We find that it’s more conducive to be able to play music to a computer and jam to other people’s recorded parts. When we’re writing it’s easier for me to sit there with the computer and play one part over a loop from Ian rather than ask Ian to sit there and play the same thing over andover again.

La Di Da Di is a real reinvention of the Battles sound. Was that intentional?

Ian: I think it’s bound to happen, as time passes. We naturally are always searching for new things to do as opposed to making records that we know that we know how to make. The whole point of rock and roll is being barely able to pull

off what you’re going to pull off and it could be a disaster at any second but then it works and you’re like “oh my god – it worked.”

Was the decision to not have vocals on this album a preconceived idea?

John: It was definitely not a preconceived thing; it just kind of happened that there aren’t vocals. When we were writing, there might have been some stuff that didn’t make the record that we thought there possibly should be vocals over, but maybe not. That didn’t really take the centre stage. We were just more concerned with seeing what happens. We definitely didn’t sit down and make that decision early on at all.In my mind it’s not that big of a deal.

Some of the tracks are quite short, like ‘Tyne Wear’ and ‘Flora > Fauna’. How do you know when a trackis finished?

Dave: Sometimes we write tracks that are really really long so we need to edit it down and make it more digestible and leave some space for other stuff on the album.Other tracks, the less epic ones, are cool ideas that work well together that we like playing around with that we don’t necessarily build a song around. For a band like us, making an instrumental album, it’s nice to have a mix of some shorter tracks and more epic longer tracks.

Were the tracks ‘Dot Net’ and ‘Dot Com’ praise or condemnation of the digital age? People have a strong feeling about that.

Ian: It was possibly a retro futurism that had a certain snarky edge, laughing at the Internet bubbleof the late 90s before our innocence was punctured by the GeorgeBush years.

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and having fun.It’s a tricky line to walk.”

How do you think living in a metropolis affects the music you write? On Gloss Drop there was the track ‘Wall Street’, which sounded very frenetic. Do you think living in a city informs the music that you make at all?Dave: I think it’s more indicative of the global village that our world has become.Well sometimes bands go and work out in a barn in the countryside….Dave: Who’s that, Ben from Fuck Buttons?How did you know? Yeah Ben from Fuck Buttons moved to Scotland and it seems very relaxed up there.Dave: Planting plants. I saw a picture of his little garden on instagram. See? This is what I’m talking about, the global village. How did I know Ben has a little garden in Edinburgh? That’s the thing, having that localization of music, if we were from Kansas would we sound different? Yeah, maybe in the 80s but now that everything is interconnected there’s kids in Boise, Idaho making

electronic albums. You know, there are still folk musicians in New York City.I think it all becomes this giant wash, which gets back to the pessimistic approach to ‘Dot Com’ and ‘Dot Net’.You’ve just announced a huge tour for the Autumn. Are you looking forward to hitting the road? Are there any particular dates you’re looking forward to?John: Everywhere.Ian: It all matters.Are you expecting any challenges when performing the new album live?Ian: I’d say the new batch of songs is pretty challenging to play live, but also there’s a lot of opportunities to make it more fun. We’re gonna walk that line between being challenged and having fun. It’s a tricky line to walk.

La Di Da Di is released September 18th via Warp.Battles play Bristol’s Simple Things festival,October 24th and Electric Ballroom, October 28th.bttls.com // @BATTLES // facebook.com/battlestheband

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Stand Out Tracks:Pears For LunchTexting An Alien PaulBaloo

Live: October 6th100 Club

Girl Band’s debut album was, in part, inspired by a psychotic episode that lead singer Dara Kiely suffered after a messy break up. He thought he was God, could control the weather, and there was a spell where he moved into a tent in his garden and refused to leave.Holding Hands With Jamie captures all the chaos, turmoil and confusion of these emotions. Through every one of its nine songs you can feel the very primal grip of this paranoia. The result is an album which is challenging, abrasive, and brutal. And brilliant. Most definitely brilliant.And this brilliance lies in how they bombard you but remain in complete control. Even when it feels like songs could fall apart at any moment the band are in command of all these elements – every whirring beat, every screeching guitar – to create a maelstrom of noise. It’s an album that’s thick with sound and submerges you under the squall; a vortex of turbulence and screaming guitar squall.Hubcaps are used as percussion, Gaviscon bottles used when there were no plectrums. It’s so singular and inventive it’s hard to make comparisons. You can say LCD Soundsystem, but they don’t really sound anything like them. HEALTH, The Birthday Party, krautrock, The Fall. They’re all touchpoints. But this is much more than that.From the metallic swagger of ‘Baloo’ through to the cathartic short blast of rage of 'The Last Riddler', it’s an intense, gripping ride. ‘Texting an Alien’ provides some sense of quiet and sounds like Can working with Nick Drake. And the wonderfully titled ‘Fucking Butter’ sprawls menacingly across its seven brain-squashing minutes right through to its ‘Nutella’ screaming climax.Amid this visceral assault of noise you only catch fragments of Kiely’s lyrics, but it proves he can find humour in the disarray: “give it to me straight like a pear cider”, “wearing Lynx Africa” and on ‘Pears for Lunch’ he even admits, “Spend my time watching Top Gear with my trousers down.”Girl Band haven’t taken the easy route to making a debut album. The fact that these are all completely new songs shows that. And this isn’t an easy listen. But what they have made is the bold and ambitious statement of a band capable of anything. Inventive, ferocious, relentless. If you’ve been looking for An Important Band in your life, they are it.Danny Wright

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Ought’s 2014 breakthrough, More Than Any Other Day, wasn’t so much reviewed as exalted via encomia. Rightly so, and this ambitious follow-up is every bit as deserving of our plaudits. Loosely categorised as art-rock, Sun Coming Down actually finds the Montreal quartet incorporating tropes from

post-punk, industrial rock and even jazz, in its fluid song structures and application of atypical time signatures. Tim Darcy remains a dazzlingly charismatic and capricious mouthpiece, his delivery swinging wildly between Julian Casablancas-esque crooning and the deadpan snarl of Mark E. Smith. Lyrically, he’s on top form too: on sprawling stand-out ‘Beautiful Blue Sky’, he wrings euphoria from apathy using a monologue of banal conversation-starters. When, on ‘Never Better’, Darcy states, “This is the high watermark of civilisation,” you can only concur. Gemma Samways

Much was made of Youth Lagoon’s ambitious approach when it came to recording his second album; The Year Of Hibernation was notable for its intimacy, but Wondrous Bughouse nudged the sound into widescreen and was all the better for it. With each record, Trevor Powers grows, and Savage Hills Ballroom,

his third and predominantly piano-based, carries the whiff of an artist stripping his sound to its rawest form and starting over. There’s the soaring elegance of ‘Highway Patrol Stun Gun’, a slow motion wrestle between majestic keys and growling synths and a clear highlight, and ‘Free Me’ lives long in the memory mostly due to its propensity for bombast. Perhaps it lacks urgency, but Savage Hills Ballroom cleanses the soul after a hectic summer. Lee Wakefield

That Kendrick Lamar called Little Simz “the illest doing it right now” is endorsement enough, but on Simbi’s debut LP it’s evident why the creator of To Pimp A Butterfly is orbiting around her. “They told her women cannot call themselves kings” she spits during opener ‘Person’. It’s a statement she

spends the whole album refuting, creating a sprawling opus that tugs at every emotional fibre in a heartstring in her constant quest for musical self-affirmation.She takes hip hop to sublime heights in the eerie dystopian strains of ‘Gratitude’, the chillingly macabre ‘Dead Body’, and the apologetic ‘God Bless Mary’ (directed to her next-door neighbour who has “heard everything before the world has”).This year gave America King Kunta. Britons, all hail King Simbi. Tim Hakki

YOUTH LAGOONSAVAGE HILLS BALLROOMFat Possum Records // September 25th

OUGHTSUN COMING DOWNConstellation // September 18th

LITTLE SIMZA CURIOUS TALE OF TRIALS + PERSONS Self-release // September 11th

There is a pervasive school of thought that pop music, in order to target the most common denominator, must not stray into conceptual lyricism. They'd have us believing that if it’s not a four minute cry wank about emotionally blackmailing a partner to stay, not caring what the haterz say, or communicating solely in platitudes, that we'd all switch off and never buy a record again. The latest offering

from Meghan Remy, her first album on 4AD, pisses on this notion from a great height without ever getting her hands dirty. It's a pristine pop album that delves imperviously into “experiences of the everywoman” with a melodic adroitness that launches it into a difference class from her early, rough-around-the-edges recordings. More Talking Heads than Taylor Swift, the pulsating disco textures of 'Woman's Work' and 'Window Shades' dazzle, whilst the reverb washes of 'Navy & Cream' beat down like glorious lashes of thunder. Lead single 'Damn The Valley', a song about the loss experienced by partners of servicemen and women, hooked around a reggae beat, on paper shouldn't work, but it's both a chilling indictment of the futility of war and one of the best pop songs we'll hear all year. Just as label mates Grimes and St. Vincent broke through on later-career releases that struck a subversive pop note, Half Free does similar work and deserves to be considered on a equal footing to those stellar records. Woodrow Whyte

Songwriter and musician Roxy Brennan of Two White Cranes (also ex-member of Trust Fund, new Joanna Gruesome front-person, singer in Grubs – you get the idea...) wrote on her blog about the conflicting beauty of loud and quiet, and the freedom that comes with being noisy: “Sometimes I sing really really softly and occasionally I screech and holler...the important thing for me about loud music is that I thought I

couldn’t make it, and now I know not only that I can, but anyone can. When you are young and inexperienced and most importantly a girl, it can be easy to feel intimidated”. Roxy puts that thought to good use on Grubs’ debut, because it’s the unexpected discord that fills the album with personality and colour. On first inspection It Must Be Grubs has the gentle timidity of a standard indie pop record, particularly when ‘What Cost’ starts with Brennan’s soft refrains, but as the track progresses, Roxy’s uncontrolled howls interplay with Owen’s more casual vocals, making a wonderful juxtaposition. It Must Be Grubs is informed by the louder aspects of indie pop – think The Wedding Present via The Shop Assistants – with a propensity for melody standing out on tracks like ‘Windwaker’ and ‘Good Timez’, while the garage-punk jangle of ‘Gym Shame’ sounds like a lost Flying Nun record. Lyrically, it’s basic but clever: “I am a work in progress, I am progressing slowly, she is the perfect person...” laments Brennan, composed, before breaking into frustrated, ear-piercing dissonance. It’s this restrained chaos that defines the record – the sound of someone about to let loose at any given moment, and when Roxy does shout, you can almost hear the relief. Hayley Scott

U.S. GIRLS HALF FREE4AD // September 25th

GRUBS IT MUST BE GRUBSReeks of Effort/Tuff Enuff // September 11th

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There is something transfixing, captivating and entirely arresting about Beirut. There always has been. The emotion that effortlessly pours from Zach Condon throughout No No No somehow provides joy (earworm, and album, highlight ‘Perth’) and melancholy (the stunning ‘At Once’) in equal

measure; an almost unique gift. The brass, one of the ubiquitous elements of Beirut, heightens this sense of feelings throughout, scattering wonderfully to the climax of the record’s title track.This fourth full-length is a tidy, fuss-free thing of beauty, from ‘Gibraltar’’s bouncing percussive opening through ‘August Holland’, with its floating woodwind and string lines and the gently mysterious instrumental ‘As Needed’, to the walking-paced ‘Pacheco’ which tip-toes soporifically towards the finale.No No No is an intelligent, wholly satisfying work from a group increasingly impossible not to love. George O’Brien

BEIRUTNO NO NO4AD // September 11th

Under the wild mane of hair and behind the boyish smile resides one righteous rocker. If you caught him romping away on his

electric guitar in Victoria Park this summer, you know. But few would have guessed the Philly ace would employ a banjo, piano, farfisa, arps, horns and a synth to administer his latest dose of psychedelia melancholia. “I woke up this morning/didn’t recognise the man in the mirror/then I laughed and I said/oh silly me, that’s just me,” he croons disarmingly on ‘Pretty Pimpin’. Not one to pen a duff track, his sixth album is his cohesive best, thanks to his trademark laconic delivery, bluesy acoustic guitar licks and a greater focus on his singing. All in a daze work. Geoff Cowart

KURT VILEB’LIEVE I’M GOIN DOWN Matador Records // September 25th

L.A. psych combo Wand have made a name for themselves as one of the most exciting new acts in the scene in just over a year, recording and

releasing music at a breakneck speed. Their third album, 1000 Days, is the band’s first for Drag City and finds the band refining their psychedelic musings, abandoning the furious hard rock tendencies of their debut LP Golem in favour of a sound that sits somewhere between Tame Impala and sixties psych-pop. During the past year Wand has evolved quickly, turning into an ambitious multi-faceted entity, equal amounts catchy and weird. With 1000 Days the trio delivers their finest release to date, and continue to get better every step of the way. Johan Alm

WAND1000 DAYS Drag City // September 25th

Those who’ve watched Mica Levi’s CV expand to include everything from a hip hop turn with the London Sinfonietta, an award-winning soundtrack for the Scarlett Johansson film Under The Skin and a stint as artist in residence at the Southbank are aware of her talents. What we’d like more than

anything is for them all to come together on one record. Alas, this isn’t it. Formed out of a series of jams never initially intended for public consumption, the mood here is doggedly nonchalant. Hooks are there, but they’re problematic; they exasperatedly screech on ‘Sea Air’, and suffer from a wonderful wooziness on ‘Oh Baby’.Yet the overall lesson is there’s still merit in a genius taking things far less seriously than their audience. Thomas Hannan

“I’ll go my way if I’m going at all,” sings Lauren Mayberry on Every Open Eye’s opening track: the message is clear. CHVRCHES are doing exactly what CHVRCHES want to do. Having eschewed an expensive studio in favour of their own Glasgow flat, there was money to be spent on all the Moogs

their hearts desired and it shows. Synths dance through the album like dragonflies, ranging from classic ‘80s electro to something that sounds like a dotmatrix printer having a love affair with an accordion. This is a band that is older but trying not to be weighed down by it, as urgent beats underpin huge stadium bangers leading into a pensive, almost haunting ending. If Every Open Eye could be summed up in one song it would be ‘Make Them Gold’. It’s textbook CHVRCHES - pure pop shot through with thoughtful sentiment. Kate Solomon

Too is a celebration of physical and mental decay, substance abuse and sexual self-degradation. The ground is littered with beer cans, the best years have gone up the wall in a pissy streak and death waits at the bottom of a bottle. FIDLAR’s Zac Carper knows this. He is a martyr in a dirty war

against himself, drinking and medicating to a vitriolic state, his thoughts as likely to manifest themselves in a moment of clarity (‘Sober’, ‘Bad Habits’) as they are to derail the party (‘40oz. On Repeat’, ‘Punks’). Either way the argument is compelling. Relationships are whack, people do suck and we’re all going to turn into our parents one day. The result is a cathartic collision of skate-punk nihilism and pop melody; Suicidal Tendencies playing Pet Sounds on a mescaline bender. Grant Bailey

CHVRCHESEVERY OPEN EYEVirgin EMI/Goodbye Records // September 25th

MICACHU & THE SHAPESGOOD SAD HAPPY BADRough Trade // September 11th

FIDLAR TOOWichita Recordings // September 4th

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NADINE SHAH

Oh no, another multi-venue, impossible-to-see-everything-you-want-to festival I hear you groan. Well, we’re welcoming this new addition to our London festival calendar with open arms. Using some of the most stunning venues around, including the criminally under-used Hackney Round Chapel, Mirrors will showcase the very best in forward-thinking new music. A completely mixed bag of genres, which the organisers describe as a conscientious approach to programming.Our highlights include the electrifying sounds of our previous cover star Nadine Shah, dreamy psychedelia from The Wytches, pop infused electronica from 4AD’s latest signing Pixx and a rare show from the spellbinding LA duo Rhye.With each venue less than ten minutes apart, this is pretty much guaranteed to be a great day.Saturday 31st October. £15. Various venues.mirrorslondon.com // @mirrorslondon

MIRRORS FESTIVAL

We first sampled the wares of Grillstock at their St.Nicks Market stall in Bristol, and have been firm fans ever since. So if they’re putting on a huge bbq event in London, you can bet we’re going to be there. Let’s face it; ribs, wings, burgers, sausages, maybe a few beers, possibly a pickleback or two...the idea of going to a bbq is never far from the collective London In Stereo mindset, because in bbq world there is no judgement. And thank goodness, because with chilli-pepper, hot-dog and hot wing eating competitions happening, this is not going to be an event to hold back at. The King Of The Grill competition promises to reward us with some incredible samples too - and we’ll be looking out for the teams with our favourite names; Thank you for Smoking and Team Smokin' Penguin. Let’s bbq!September 5th-6th. Chestnuts Field, Walthamstow, London, E17 6HE. Tickets from £30.grillstock.co.uk/london-festival // @grillstock

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Running until the end of November, Music for Museums begins this month with a mission to explore the intersection of visual art and experimental music. Focused primarily around ticketed live shows, it’ll feature works from ground- breaking avant-garde composers and artists, as well as compositions and improvisations by more contemporary contributors. And as the icing on the cake, there’ll be a free programme of film screening throughout too, focusing on the dynamic relationship between moving image and music.

Sep 17th - Nov 29th, Whitechapel Gallery, E1 7QX whitechapelgallery.org // @_TheWhitechapel

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A couple of months ago we got all excited about the Open Garden day in London, where some of the capital’s most stunning outdoor spaces were open to be explored by the public. This month it’s the turn of London’s finest and most difficult-to-get- a-peek-at buildings, as they throw open their doors. With more than 800 private homes, government buildings, historic sites and educational establishments on the list, and most not even requiring a ticket, plan a fascinating and educational day out with their shiny new app now.

September 19-20th, across London.openhouselondon.org.uk/ // @openhouselondon

OPEN HOUSE LONDON

The Hackney we know is pretty rich in exotic sights, but it seems this history stretches way beyond the assembled beautiful people in London Fields. Yep, some 200 years ago Hackney was a botanical trailblazer, where people from around the globe flocked to see the likes of the world’s largest hothouse, amazed by sights they’d never otherwise have laid eyes on. Electric Bloom culminates this month with an immersive, app-lead, trail around heritage landmarks, with artist installations, original music scores and more, all celebrating this rich history.

September 12th, Hackney Central. Free.electricbloom.org // @SDNA

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SHACKLEWELL ARMSCHARLES HOWLCharles Howl’s debut album this yearwas a surprise psych-rock gift, uppingthe pop and embracing the distortion.

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BUSH HALLJESSICA PRATT Celebrating the release of her newalbum, Pratt will raise the hairs on yourneck with her beautiful sound.

@Bushhallmusic08/09/15 £13.50adv

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OSLOGWENNO // H. HAWKLINE A co-headline show from two captivatingWelsh performers. After near unanimouspraise for her solo debut, we're especiallyexcited about seeing Gwenno.

@OsloHackney22/09/15 £10adv

HOXTON BAR AND KITCHENWYLDEST // SALTWATER SUN //AFTERBLOOMNew Crush team up with London-basedindependent label Hand in Hive for anight of ridiculous pop fun.

@HoxtonHQ21/09/15 FREE

THE GOOD SHIPPURE YOUTH // ANNIE REW SHAW Pop rock fun from London indie quartetPure Youth takes over The Good Ship.

@thegoodshipNW616/09/15 £5adv

THE DOMESURFER BLOOD //ETERNAL SUMMERSThe blissed out Floridian's bring aslice of summer back into our lives.

@DomeTufnellPark30/09/15 £10adv

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O2 ISLINGTON ACADEMYMELANIE FIONA The Canadian Soul and R&B singer headsto London to sing a collection of her hits.

@O2Islington13/09/15 £22.50adv

BORDERLINEHEARTLESS BASTARDS //HATCHAM SOCIALMore unbridled and seeminglyspontaneous than ever their fifth album,this promises to be a real fun show.

@theborderline01/09/15 £12adv

ANGEL

KILBURN

HACKNEY CENTRAL

TUFNELL PARK

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SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERSALBERT GOLDPop hooks to rival the biggest stars,don't miss out one Albert Gold'sstunning voice at this intimate show.

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NEW CROSS INNWITCHING WAVES // ICE BATHS //FOUR QUARTERSPost-punk influenced fun with threebrilliant new acts worth paying attention to.

@NewCrossInn30/09/15 £3 NEW CROSS /

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BEDROOM BARTARQ BOWEN // JOE CORBIN A night of blues folk to get yourfeet tapping.

@StrongroomBar30/09/15 FREE

FABRICRICHIE HAWTIN // BODDIKA //JULIAN JEWELL // SOMNEM_nus take over Fabric's Room 1,bringing the mighty Richie Hawtinand new signee Julian Jewellplaying live.

@fabriclondon12/09/15 £23adv

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BIRTHDAYSBRUISING // DOE // GRUBS An incredible free show with three of ourfavourite loud and ridiculously fun bands,don't miss out.

@_Birthdays07/09/15 FREE

THE FINSBURYJOELPETERS // DANTEVILLES // OTZEKISun-bleached guitars, big vocals and pulse-like rhythms combine.

@TheFinPub10/09/15 FREE

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THE LOCK TAVERNRIDDLES // CLAW MARKS // TSUKIDescribed as "an insane mix of punkimbued psychedelic space-rock "what’s not to love?

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WAITING ROOMETCHESEtches celebrate the launch of theirnew EP, bringing their intricatearrangements to the Waiting Room.

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100 CLUBDREAM THEMES VS MR B THEGENTLEMAN RHYMER A band covering TV Themes? I hear youask. Well, yep and it's even better thanyou ever thought it could be.

@100clubLondon16/09/15 £10adv TOTTENHAM

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ntia.co.uk // @wearethentia // facebook.com/wearethentia

– We, at London In Stereo, have been so concerned about the spate ofrecent venue closures, and attitude towards London’s nightlife, thatwe felt we had to do something to raise more awareness of the issues.Therefore we’ve invited Alan Miller of the The Night Time IndustriesAssociation (NTIA) to contribute a monthly column, celebratingLondon’s nightlife and highlighting the struggles it faces –

More than fashion though. most of thetapestry of city life that is so exciting is directly influenced – and intertwined – with our buoyant nightlife.In Brick Lane where I was involved in co-founding The Old Truman Brewery – dedicated to creative industries – it was anchored around bars and night time events that heralded new possibilities that gradually filled up with design, tech, media and innovation companies. So too with Hoxton Square and later Deptford, Peckham, Dalston and beyond. This is equally true of Liverpool, where The Baa Bar and Cream were so important in regenerating the town centre, as well as in Manchester,Leeds and Glasgow. The Arches, in Glasgow,will always be with us – slaughtered on the altarof ‘crime stats’ and punished for diligently operating professionally.The gravitational pull of London for international businesses and travellers has much to do with the excitement of our nightlife, the diversity and interest in our innovative food offerings, restaurants, theatres, bars, cocktails events, pop- ups and of course our nightclubs. All of this, we should be aware, can easily be extinguished.As The Specials sung of Coventry all those years ago “This town…is coming like a ghost town”. However, like in Hackney, where local residents and businesses got together and had over 4000 sign-ups – double the amount of many of the top ranking local councillors – for the We Love Hackney Campaign (welovehackney.org) our voices, when co-ordinated can, and do, make a difference.So have your voice heard with us. This is London. It is all of ours. Join the NTIA and tweet and tell your friends and associates about us. In the end, we only have ourselves to hold accountable if we do not change the way it is. Alan D Miller

The trailer for the latest This is England series on Channel Four captures the moment that Britain turns from the late 1980s Thatcherite Britain to a world where acid house parties and dance music changed the landscape forever. Whether Manchester or the Midlands, London or Brighton, it was the moment that changed what it had previously meant to go outUp until then, the majority of areas saw particular kinds of nightclubs and pubs with football and postcode rivalries and proper punch-ups all being very much part of the normality of every weekend.Then, the magic moment where a fusion of the gay disco club scenes of New York, Chicago and Detroit converged with the Balearic sounds and the now oh-so-famous story of those DJs from England that brought that mash-up back from Ibiza to UK clubs – along with the momentous turning point that was The Hacienda – meant that Britain would never be the same again. I say all of this, not so much as a nostalgic trip down memory lane, but rather to reflect for a moment on who we are and where we have come from. It seems that just at the point where young people go out, have fun, meet and become inspired by the exchange with their contemporaries, so it is that some in authority want to demonise the phenomenally successful cultural and economic arena that is London’s bar and clubland.Nightclubs are the places we fall in (and sometimes out) of love in, we make friendships and bonds that can last a lifetime, get inspired and let ourselves imagine something different for a moment. It is impossible to imagine an Ian Schrager without Studio 54, and all that it meant. So too with Alexander McQueen or any of the most recent young fashion designers without nightclubs. Mods, Rockers, Punks, Ska, Reggae, Soul Boys, B-Girls, Hip Hop, Casuals and Ravers. all of these of course were born on the dance floor.

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Why do you live in London?Because over the years this placehas become my home. I can walk up the road and bump into friends like you would in any other city, town or village but you also have pretty much anything you could want or need on your doorstep.

What’s your favourite gig venue?Tough question... I’m not sure I can answer it because I’ve played gigs in some shit-hole venues with terrible sound that have turned out to be the best gigs because of how responsive the audience was and vice versa.

Best London show you’ve ever played?Probably Shepherd’s Bush Empire, supporting Laura Mvula.

Where do you like to eat/drink?I’m really keen on Green Papaya which is a little Vietnamese place on Mare St.To drink, I’d have to say Satan’s Whiskers on Cambridge Heath Road. In my opinion they do the best Old Fashioned in London (and trust me, I’ve tried a lot of Old Fashioneds in a lot of places).

You’re in London, it’s sunny out, where do you go?The Ladies’ Pond at Hampstead Heath.

Favourite outdoor space?I really love Hackney Marshes – basically anywhere I can’thear traffic.

If you could live anywhere in London where would it be?I love where I live now in Cambridge Heath, but I guess if I could be anywhere, I’d probably choose somewhere between Stoke Newington and Highbury. What’s the perfect way to spend the day?Would definitely be a lazy Sunday walk around Victoria Park, maybe a trot along the canal to The Narrow Boat for some lunch and then some bar somewhere for a casual descent into Sunday drunkenness.How would you advise someone to get the most out of London?Walk or cycle, I’ve discovered most of London’s gems by chance.Does London influence the musicyou write?Hugely, not always in a good way. I love London but it’s not always an easy city to live in.

. . . IN LONDONwith ROSEAU

They were followed by discarded shirts and flaunted tattoos as the raucous Ceremony crew wobbled The Laundry as they combined their wild mix of punk and hardcore abandon with, yes, skipping ropes. The guitars were unplugged for a post-dinner aperitif of progressive electronic tomfoolery, with Norfolk’s Luke Abbott taking the brewhouse stage, before Benjamin Power of Fuck Buttons – aka Blanck Mass – got cranking at Moth Club. Both drew crowds. And both were besieged with the same frustrating problem of an underpowered PA that shamefully failed to do justice to their forward-thinking sets.Luckily, the five-strong London crew of Toy had their guitars set to stun back at The Laundry unveiling their psychedelic and finely-crafted rock. With just one more lap of Hackney to go, it saw the most polite band of the evening – Camera Obscura – get a St John at Hackney Church crowd up and dancing, and even kissing, with their clever pop. The veteran Scottish band seemed to take the edge off some of the festival’s rougher diamonds – which brings us nicely to the set from American power rap, punk and hardcore trio of Ho99o9 at Moth Club. They threatened to destroy the long-time ex-servicemen’s club with their seismic assault and wild slam dancing, which had the club’s owners looking to secure the room’s fixtures and fittings.Back at the brewery, Mancunian DJ extraordinaire Andy Stott’s late-night set was a welcome contrast as its down-tempo groove served as a blissful way to close out a fantastic day. Geoff Cowart

What could be more fun than a piss up in a brewery? How about a piss up in a brewery, a heap of street food trucks, piles of vinyl and 27 bands playing on a sunny summer festival day? No mud or tents. Welcome back to Visions festival. Taking Hackney by storm for the third year, the day-long festival got underway with Girl Band’s storming early afternoon set in the disorienting darkness of The Laundry. Blinking eyes emerged from the Dublin band’s buzzsaw guitar fest only to squint across the street into the London Fields Brewery as young south London MC Loyle Carner unleashed his powerful hip-hoppy verses. His disarming smile and proud tales of his parents and upbringing warmed the crowd’s cockles, while his gritty tales of London life caught them cold. Back at The Laundry, the Hackney heat couldn’t faze the Florida lads of Merchandise. Their set of gruff Replacements-inspired rock made more sense as it evolved, pushing sceptics to hail their songwriting and knack for a killer melody line.Dinner time was a blur of ale and pizza, before folks hit the melody trail again in search of Torn Hawk’s edgy guitar loops, while Son Lux’s day-glo percussive explosions were framed by the dramatic sunset at Oval Space.

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by Kate Solomon

When I was 11, my parents took me to see the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. It was around the time Pride and Prejudice was on TV and I think they had a vague idea that this was what young ladies ought to be doing instead of grubbing around in the garden or taping Backstreet Boys songs off the radio. My god, it was boring - and at some point before the interval I whispered that opinion quietly into my sister’s ear. A middle-aged man with hairy ears and a score open in front of him turned around, fixed me with a glare and shushed me.

Well, we thought he was the worst person alive. It was embarrassing to have been shushed, and to make ourselves feel better we spent the interval and most of the journey home roundly abusing this kill-joy, this heartless old saddo.So it is with some distress that I realise I have become that hairy-eared man – or, at least, I am working up to it.

Once the reserve of the guestlist wankers hovering around the bar, talking all the way through gigs has spread further and further into London’s crowds.I have so many questions about these people: why are they there? Do they often pay money to stand in a loud room shouting at each other? Do they know that pubs exist? The odd “I love this song!” or “Cor did you see what the drummer just did?” is fine - but long, in-depth discussions about washing utensils, social media strategy and how to get home? No.

Since my current campaign of trying to shame them into shutting up by rolling my eyes a lot is not working, consider this a warning: be quiet while the band is playing or I’m going to turn around, fix you with a glare and shush you.


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