We are now open 6 days a week
Tuesdays to Sundays
Offering Promoters, Bands and DJ's to get involved helping us out who wants to book / play at Bardens Boudoir on our Free Entry Events.
If you have an idea about an event that you would like to help and get involved with us, please email
bookings@bardensboudoir.co.uk Please give your complete contact details and a full proposal
The Launch of Hot Silk Pockets debut 7" single 'Panda Eyes'
SCREAMING TEA PARTY
HOT SILK POCKETS
MATHEW SAWYER AND THE GHOSTS
SPINMASTER PLANTPOT
SEXBEAT DJ's Till Late!!!
Doors: 8pm
Entry: £3
http://www.myspace.com/stolenrecordings http://www.myspace.com/screamingteaparty http://www.myspace.com/hotsilkpockets http://www.myspace.com/theghostsmyspace http://www.myspace.com/ppot http://www.myspace.com/sexbeat_london
Supine Studios is our home. We are a small collective of Artists, Designers and Musicians living in a house in Hackney, North East London. In our intimate surroundings of clutter and garbage we have an art studio and a music studio in which we do wonderful things......................If you would like to hire the Music Studio space either for practice or for recording, just send us a message. Artists who have used the studio include our own Cibelle (herself) and Simon (of Triggerbox and Foreign Beggars), and from elseware: Dev from Lightspeed Champion, Triggerbox, Barbarossa, Johnny Flynn and the Sussex Wit, Josh Weller, the Bleeding Heart Narrative and Emmy the Great................Johnny's music video for 'Little Donkey' by Florrible and Misrabella (a collaboration between Florence and the Machine and Laydee Isa) is available to watch!
A HUMAN
A.HUMAN formed in a stream lined, brass tapped, no spirit pub shop in Clerkenwell London. Their meeting was forced through employment, serving lamb cordial to suited no-brains who cared more for the wage than they did for their souls. Tired of the prospect of serving these people forever they wrote music in a lounge with a window, watched life insurance adverts whilst passing Roll-ups. In their own world they continued to create, with time interest came from the world that trades in music, and on a pier, on a Golden Mile they signed away their eyes.
THE OUTSIDE ROYALTY
The Outside Royalty are a 6 piece indie electro chamber rock band formed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The band moved across the water to England in the summer of 2006, and has ever since been attracting attention in all the right places. On May 12th 2008, they release debut single 'Falling' as 7" on Bloody Awful Poetry records, produced by Phil Vinall (Radiohead , Pulp, Placebo, Elastica). Aside from the single release party on 28th April at Madame Jo Jo's, a series of other live shows and in-store performances across the UK and London will celebrate the release. So then, the story so far: cutting their teeth in the few live music venues that Pittsburgh had to offer, an article ran in a local music magazine 'The Front', which talked of the Pittsburgh music scene's demise, and cried out to any talented bands: 'get out now! Move to New York, move to LA!' The piece led with a picture of The Outside Royalty. Luckily for the UK public, they chose none of the above, arriving recently in London with 4 original members remaining. Tony Visconti, who was corresponding with Adam at the time, warned of the perils of London living - saying they'd need a "bucket full of money and a barrel full of work visas" to make it work. Having neither, they set off regardless - following little more than a "gut feeling". After picking up a new bassist and cellist, and despite all living under each other's feet in a drafty and squalid Victorian terrace (just off the Archway Road), they remain intact and making highly revered music. They've toured with Young Knives, played with Babyshambles, The Duke Spirit, The Holloways, Juliette & the Licks, Spinto Band, The Shins, Good Shoes, been championed by Colin Murray with repeated spins on Radio 1, Gideon Coe, Tom Robinson and Steve Lamacq on 6music, and had 2 'sell out' Club NME shows at Koko. Along with this, guest musician Rick Nelson from Polyphonic Spree has featured live with the band on numerous occasions. With such a storming live show to boot, it's finally time for the The Outside Royalty to be invited in. The Outside Royalty are: Adam Billing (Vox/Guitars), Echo Wu (Violin), Frederique Legrand (Cello), Paul Crawford-Smith (Bass), Eizan Miyamoto (Synths), Brandon Paluzzi (Drums).
SUPINE DJs Till Late!!
Doors: 7.30 pm
Entry: £5 / £3 Cons
http://www.myspace.com/supinestudios http://www.myspace.com/theahuman http://www.myspace.com/theoutsideroyalty
GYPSY HOTEL PROUDLY PRESENTS:
FRANK SANAZI AND THE IRAQ PACK BAND
With Saddami Davis Jnr + Nancy Sanazi
Frank Sanazi, The Ubermeister of Lounge brings a NEW ORDER and discipline to the usually more relaxed swing style. He has embraced the modern idiom by singing about and reflecting on the world around him. As his music and style originate from his homeland he has preferred to call the whole movement 'Fatherlounge'.The Iraq Pack have in the past appeared in front of millions in their own right but now are happy to keep their heads down in the intimate surroundings of Bardens Boudoir, Frank says he always new he'd make it to Holyrood and it is a culmination of one of his greatest dreams...as well as another tour of Europe.
Frank has been accused of racism, an accusation he strongly rebuffs by pointing out that he is on tour with two gentleman from the middle east and another who is both black and Jewish.
Frank is at pains to point out that he is a great family man and is proud of his daughter Nancy's success, especially with her smash hit 'Jack Boots are Made for Walking', and she looks certain to follow in her father's goose steps..Frank loves animals and children, taking a special interest in the nation's youth. He subscribes to and partakes in many charities; he particularly likes the ones with stylish uniforms... Frank longs for the world of Love, Peace and above all efficiency.Saddami by comparison prefers the tranquility of sensory deprivation. He has been known to spend many solitary months fasting without light, and although originally into the underground music scene, has recently opted for music that is dubbed 'Ultimate Swing'. Osama Bing Crosby as a performer is always on the road, it seems, popping up to gig sometimes in the most unusual places. Dean has unfortunately taken to drink and women in consolation since his house collapsed in the 90's.
&
Special Guests
Miss Behave and Lucifire
DJ'S:
Baron Von Swankster (The Girl Can't Help It)
&
Paul-Ronney Angel (The Urban Voodoo Machine)
TICKETS £10 ON THE DOOR.
DOORS 8PM
LIMITED SEATING
SHOW STARTS 9.15 SHARP!
DRINKIN' AND DANCIN' TILL 2AM
'Frank Sanazi is Comedy Gold' -The Evening Standard.
'Cabaret Favourite' The Stage.
http://www.franksanazi.comhttp://www.lucifire.comhttp://www.myspace.com/gypsyhotel
PRE
GRAFFITI ISLAND
SAD SHIELD
AMERICAN SPIRIT
SEXBEAT DJs
Doors: 8pm
Entry: £4
http://www.myspace.com/preprepreprehttp://www.myspace.com/sexbeat_londonhttp://www.myspace.com/graffitiislandhttp://www.myspace.com/sadshieldshttp://www.myspace.com/americanspiiirit
Sharpening their sonic duets amongst the hard brick walls of a garage on the outskirts of the city, our three primary protagonists loaded themselves with a handful of blues inspired nastiness.Coaxed out of the confines of the garage by The Long Blondes to play their first gig in November '04, their debut in Sheffield as The Dreams Of Michigan carried just one record that was to make its way to their debut album.Fast forward 6 months, a new name and a whole rack of better songs, their second gig in a small London bar was one of more promise. Their Leeds hometown debut was a packed affair of sweaty anticipation. Leeds club-night Bad Sneakers saw the potential and offered their mutual debut recording over a handshake. Released in February 2006 on limited pink 45, 'Doo Wop/TV' was picked up by the likes of XFM's John Kennedy and soon became a live favourite. It is now their rarest release.The follow up, 'Monsters', became a viral hit, ensuring a top ten indie placing on release. Phil Jupitus named it his 'Single Of The Week', Mark Riley invited them for the first of two live sessions and most of Europe invited them on tour.Sweetened by the prospect of lengthy touring, Anna, Jodie and Matt juggled fulltime jobs with heavy touring schedules with the likes of Nine Black Alps and The Long Blondes. With their third offering came the dancefloor record they'd hoped for. Way To My Heart, produced by The Bees' 'Paul Butler', was another top ten indie smash and found its way into the heart of Richard Hawley who kindly asked them to accompany him around the country. Then disaster struck. A debilitating wrist injury meant the sad departure of youthful drummer Jodie two weeks prior to recording the album. A record deal in the bag, studio time getting put back further and further, time forced a change. Further major league supports with the likes of Seasick Steve helped them widen their audience with Long Blonde, Screech Louder, standing in on percussion duties. And then the revelation. Having known Alex from his drumming days in Leeds, the remaining duo captured him from his London base, locked him away in a freezing cold warehouse and played him endless loops from the album till he saw drum beats in his sleep.
Without time to breathe they ran to the confines of an underground studio and spent 4 weeks hammering their debut long player into the work they had long promised. Producer Will Jackson, hot off duties with The Pigeon Detectives and The Cribs, slowly became a 4th member of the band as he attempted to capture the intensity of their live shows. What escaped from the desk was a mature collection of distorted duets, cinematic ballads and bass heavy dancefloor drama. Two days fresh from the studio and it was on the road with The Von Bondies eager to hit stages up and down the country. Now with 4th single 'Black Friday' is released on 9th June followed by the awaited debut, The Curse Of The Sugars', on 23rd June they are fine tuning things to add to their exciting live show.'
KASMS
REDTRACK
BIRDS OF PARADISE
Birds of Paradise consist of the dynamic duo of Pussy Fausfed (piano, vocals) and Rebel Royale (drums). Formed in the scorching summer of 06, the pair's musical style is best described as "Misc" as it encompasses a broad range of influences from blues to punk to opera to rockabilly to cabaret. Do not be fooled by their stilettoed, false eyelashed, well corseted exteriors for within them lies the essence, neigh; the SPIRIT of filthy filthy rock."
THE PANTHER GIRLS
The Panthergirls are an all-girl dance troupe specialising in 60s and 70s dancing to artists such as Reparata and the Delrons, Nancy Sinatra, Lulu, Darlene Love, Kipper, Jimmy Jukebox, Milk 'n' Cookies, Catapult and many more. They can always be seen performing with Glam-rock revivalists Glam Chops, also dancing to other contemporary artists, appearing live with bands including Art Brut, Crystal Castles, Help She Can't Swim, Los Campesinos!, Shrag, Cats in Paris, The Nuns, Piney Gir, The Hot Puppies, Circulus, The Loves, Friends of the Bride and Munch Munch.
SEX BEAT DJs Till Late!!!!!!
Entry: £5 Advance from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/38850
Doors: 8pm
http://www.myspace.com/thesugarshttp://www.myspace.com/kasmshttp://www.myspace.com/redtrackthebandhttp://www.myspace.com/wearebirdsofparadise http://www.myspace.com/thepanthergirls http://www.myspace.com/sexbeat_london
BARRELHOUSE
Blues/Rock 'n' Roll outfit, who formed three years ago. Barrelhouse has a growing fan base in London and the South East, and always attracts a large crowd. Their live performance consists of original floor fillers packed with energy, which guarantees to get the audience moving. Barrelhouse aims to bring the British Blues scene into the 21st century with their explosive, raw sound.
JACK DEAN and THE GUN
Doors: 7pm
Entry:
http://www.myspace.com/musicbarrelhousehttp://www.myspace.com/jackdeanmusic
THE PICTURES
"The Pictures is London's underground film night dedicated to bringing you the best of the capital's film scene, as well as premieres, previews and selected gems from the international film world, capped off with free popcorn, bingo and dancing. Each night we transform Bardens Boudoir into our own midnight movie house and invite you to come and see. We'll be screening films from across the spectrum, be they avant-garde or slapstick comedy, transgressive, punk, experimental, documentary, romance or musical. We accept all submissions and bring the best of them to our silver screen - shorts, features and anything in between. We also hand pick our own selection of new films from around the world that you just don't see anywhere else. If you love films, you need to be here. If you make films, bring them along so we can show them next time. If you love popcorn, you're in luck, it's on the house. Your night at The Pictures is capped off with bingo and performances in the intervals, then DJs and dancing til 2 at the end, plus drinks promos, free zines and posters and excellent company, all in the lavish surroundings of our boudoir cinema, with free entry. Bring a date." November features shorts plus an exclusive UK screening of the seminal tourfilm 1991: The Year Punk Broke starring Sonic Youth, Nirvana et al."
FREE POPCORN
BINGO
DJs Till Late!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HAPPY HOUR ALL NIGHT
Bottles, Shots, Spirits and Wines
£2.50
Doors: 7pm
Entry: FREE ENTRY
The Last Days of Disco
Live: The Oscillation (DC Recordings)
DJs: Rory Phillips (Durrr/Our Disco)
Andy Blake (Dissident)
Slutty Fringe DJs
David H (Be)
After a short but successful run over the summer, The Last Days of Disco have upped sticks and made the move up the Kingsland Road from Shoreditch to Dalston, where they are busy making themselves at home under a furniture shop at Barden's Boudoir. From Donna Summer to the DFA, Last Days takes you to a parallel universe where dirty throbbing dubbed out disco rules the roost, the streets are paved with the shit from Bianca Jagger's horse and the girl down the chip shop thinks she's Grace Jones.
The Oscillation
Born out of the ashes of The Orichalc Phase, The Oscillation is Demian Castellanos' mightiest incarnation yet, a bewildering mix of pop songs and expansive psychedelic freakouts that demands comparison with the harder edge of the 70's krautrock scene, the lambent tones of bands like Spiritualized or Loop at their most medicated, or The Ruts battling their way out of an echo chamber to a background of white noise.
Having wowed critics and punters alike with the astonishing debut set 'Out Of Phase', The Oscillation have gone on to become one of the most exciting live acts around today, adding a heady mix of brain frying psychedelia to the dark disco punk of many of their label mates.
Rory Phillips
Having spent the best part of a decade re-defining London nightlife alongside Erol Alkan at the now legendary Trash (R.I.P) and bringing mutant disco to East London with Our Disco, Rory Phillips has built a solid reputation for parties that carve their own path while packing out the dancefloor.
Continuing the tradition, Rory's raucous headline slot at Trash's successor Durrr and the joyful crate digging of SAY YES perfectly showcase his diverse and ever evolving musical style, showcasing the best in new music while constantly unearthing hidden gems from the past aided, of course, by his trademark telephone headphone.
Aside from his sets at the aforementioned nightclubs Rory has played to crowds all across Europe, Asia, The USA and South America, provided keyboard duties for Whitey and (most proudly) recorded a DJ session for the sadly missed John Peel Show.
Andy Blake (Dissident)
Andy blake runs the dissident.london label and has a huge collection of wild and exotic disco, italo, afro-cosmic, hi-nrg & acid house records that he regularly plays to packed dance floors at all kinds of different clubs and parties. So far in 2008 he has dj'ed to a rapturous reception at Cocadisco, Disco bloodbath, Fabric, Matter, Glasgow's legendary club 69, Lasermagnetic, Horse meat disco, The big chill, Bestival, Scala in Berlin for Popkomm, Bloggers Delight, The Egg and many other underground disco parties. You can always expect a wild and crazy ride thru the finest dance music of the last 30 years whenever you have the chance to hear Andy dj.
Slutty Fringe DJs
Having started over two years ago as a way to blag some free music and get into clubs without queuing, Slutty Fringe has ,despite it's success, remained a bastion of undiscovered music and slightly shabby journalism.
David H
Resident and promoter of both The Last Days of Disco and the sprawling indie/electro/disco behemoth that is Be at The Proud Gallery in Camden, David has entertained crowds the world over with his inspired disco selections.
Doors: 8pm
Entry: £4 in advance (via www.ticketweb.co.uk) / £5 on the door
www.thelastdaysofdisco.netwww.myspace.com/theoscillationswww.myspace.com/roryphillipsmusicwww.sluttyfringe.comwww.be-at.co.uk
Shake 'n' Bake bring Bands Broads and Buns to Bardens Boudoir.
Presenting a night of wild live music, dancing gals and hundreds of beautiful cakes. Expect to be lured to the dance floor by the irresistible sounds of our bands, bumpin' jumpin' and jivin' with cats and kittens from all walks of life. You'll find a world of fallen glamour where the good times are easy, the cakes are free, and there are no rules.
Sounds generously supplied by:
Miss Cookie
Screamin' out the finest in jumpin' R'n'B, wild wild rockabilly, honkytonkin daemons & angels and barrel house blues.
The Woodsmen
Skeletal country ballads, jangling gypsy blues, and drowned sailors reels.
The Mandibles
Ramshackle gypsy jazz and frantic swing, guaranteed to get everyone dancing.
All of this sprinkled with Charleston, Twist, Swing and GoGo from one of the UK's most energetic and glamorous dance troupes, The Shake n Bake Girls.
Not to be missed, with Shortbread Jenga and Fancy Dress to boot, come one come all!
DOORS: 8pm
ENTRY: £7 or £5 concessions
http://www.myspace.com/shakenbakebath http://www.myspace.com/mscookieandthecutters http://www.myspace.com/theewoodsmen http://www.myspace.com/themandibles
VILE IMBECILES
THE MOTHERS OF MEMPHIS
THE HATEFUL
GOONITE CLUB DJs Till Late
Doors: 8pm til late
Entry: £6 / £5 (nus, flyer, email) / £3 after 11pm
www.myspace.com/theguillotineswww.myspace.com/vileimbecileswww.mothersofmemphis.comwww.myspace.com/theh8ful
Naevus
'Relatively Close to the Sea'
Album Launch
Formed in 1998 by Lloyd James and Joanne Owen.
Album releases to date: Truffles of Love (Wooden Lung, 1999); Soil (SPKR, 2001);
Behaviour (Operative, 2002); Perfection is a Process (Operative/Old Europa Cafe, 2004); Silent Life (Hau Ruck!, 2007). Other releases include: Sail Away 7" EP (Hau Ruck!, 2003); Document Three CD split w/KnifeLadder (Terra Fria, 2004); The Body Speaks 10" EP (Hau Ruck!, 2004);
Bedtime/Badtime 10" split w/Spiritual Front (Old Europa Cafe, 2005
Special Guests
Doors: 8pm
Entry: £5
THE LOCUST
SPECIAL GUESTS
THE LOCUST
What did you want, sonic inducer, sheep in wool coats dumpster diving for forever hidden treasure? What did you think, summer cesspool sleeper, English wasn't a language conceived for business? Allow me, please, to introduce New Erections, the third full-length from the Southern California decade-plus young endeavor, The Locust, as a post-futurist to primitive again strangled tongue-shearer just 'cause the business is lickin' pretty bad.
Circumstances prohibiting, if the Locust could've soundtracked the previous two World War's they probably would've. Time ain't always on our side. Fortunate for ears and unfortunate for Earth, this procession leader of an album is a hell of a charm with New Erections clocking in at twenty-three minutes proving a potent and primal alarm that sludges along peach hairs before this breaking levy.
Here is New Erections, eleven tracks deep and somehow totally anthemic, throbbing in the void of those past limps crumbled by planes and bleak brains, blanketed by soft skulls with electric socket glory holes for eyes that worship the steel wool pulled over them.
New Erections, a celebratory prost! to the old photos of you, mid-twenties, with friends pissing on GG's shallow grave now under-exposed by the current you, over-miserable hollow white-collar power-slave.
New Erections, later Saddam, hey Gomorrah...No more goose-stepping around the issue, huh? No more domes stuffed with down tissue, right?
New Erections, find you pill synthetic sweat sympathetic, poker-face vague with Viagra, on your knees praying of drawing that magic card and hard up for hard-ons.
New Erections, mighty kind of your snitching hairy palms to loosen the grips on strangling blood-filled phallic police tips.
New Erections, with the world's voluptuous vomit crashing in all around, towers a true testament in the inevitable wake of tidal sewage.
C'mon stiffs, we must demolish and level together... in the dead of everything...in the cold-sweat of the night, heat of the freon freedom fight, New Erections is exactly what we wanted.
Doors: 7pm
Entry: £8.50
Advance from wegottickets http://www.wegottickets.com/event/37010
LIGERS N DREAMS
A shameless yuletide festival of decadence hosted by Ligers N' Dreams.
We're taking it back to the late seventies, eighties and early nineties when rock was rock, jeans were truly tight and hair was truly big. Think early Guns N' Roses, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Motley Crue, Bowie, Aerosmith, Patti Smith, The Rolling Stones.
So come join us... Get your rocks off with the ligers in the smoky half light. Drink and dance in the dark, then drink some more. Make up your face and glam up your hair. Peel on your strides and pad up your tops. Get your cowboy boots out of the closet and get down to rock with us on December 6th.
This is Studio 54 in leopard skin and mascara. This is Axl Rose's wedding. This is Debby Harry taking her knickers off back stage at CBs. This is Ligers N' Dreams.
Ligers N' Dreams... For those about to rock we salute you!
"For those about to rock... here's where you can indulge your Axl Rose and leather-trousered fantasies and hear the Bon Jovi, AC/DC and Whitesnake riffs that so few other London clubs play."
TimeOut
"Skin-tight leather debauchery, bleached-toxic hair spray fumes and sex, drugs and rock 'n roll glitter under electric light. This is hard, glam rock at its dirty best."
The Times On-Line
"The Ligers n' Dreams DJs get on the case with a playlist to rival Bill and Ted's. This is possibly the only place in London where you can practice your Axl Rose tantrums and air your leather strides."
Flavorpill.com
"Ligers N Dreams rocks like nothin' else bitch!"
WGSN
Doors: 9pm
Entry: £5
Damo Suzuki
Suzuki Kenji, born January 16, 1950, in Japan, popularly nicknamed Damo Suzuki, is a singer probably best known for his membership in German krautrock group CAN.
Suzuki spent the late 1960s wandering around Europe, often busking, during which time he would only have been a teenager.
When Malcolm Mooney left Can after recording their first album Monster Movie, Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit encountered Suzuki singing on a street in Munich, Germany whilst the two were sitting outside at a street café. They invited him to join the group, and he did, performing with them that evening.
Suzuki was with Can from 1970 to 1973, recording a number of well-regarded albums such as Tago Mago and Ege Bamyasi. His freeform, often improvised lyrics, sung in no one particular language gelled with Can's rolling, psychedelic sound.
Suzuki converted to the Jehovah's Witness faith when he married his German girlfriend, who was also a Jehovah's Witness, after the release of the album Future Days, and retired from music in 1974.
He returned to music in 1983, and currently leads what is known as Damo Suzuki's Network- as he tours, he performs live improvisational music with various local musicians (so-called "Sound Carriers") from around the world, thus building up a 'network' of musicians that he has and can collaborate with.
Kawabata Makoto
Guitarist, performer on numerous traditional instruments, composer, improviser, mixing engineer, producer, leader of the Acid Mothers Temple, speed guru.
"Music, for me, is neither something that I create, nor a form of self-expression. All kinds of sounds exist everywhere around us, and my performances solely consist of picking up these sounds, like a radio tuner, and playing them so that people can hear them. However, maybe because my reception is somewhat off, I am unable to perfectly reproduce these sounds. That is why I spend my days rehearsing.
Where do these sounds come from? Who is sending them out? That is not something for me to know, and neither is there any way that I could find out. I simply believe that they come from the 'cosmos'. (Maybe other people would call God the source). Since I was a small child I have been prone to hearing ringing sounds in my ears and other sound phantasms. At the time, I believed that these were messages aimed directly at me from a UFO, and so I would gaze up at the sky. But once I started playing music myself, I came to feel that these noises were a kind of pure sound. And I promised myself that one day I would be able to play those sounds myself. It is only recently that I have begun to feel that I have been able to come close to reproducing these sounds in my solo guitar work, and in my INUI project.
However, in June of 1999, I finally discovered my own 'cosmos' and I experienced an instant of total union with it!! That 'cosmos' is still tiny in size - although any cosmos can, by its very nature, be infinitely huge or infinitely small. The energy and vibrations contained within that it far exceeded my imagination in scope and beauty. I can only describe the miraculous instant when my 'cosmos' accepted my consciousness as MAGIC."
(Kawabata Makoto. July 8th 2000)
THE KITS
After starting out in the city of Melbourne, Australia, The Kits have now relocated to London
where their sound has come into its own. Drawing comparisons with The Saints, Gang of Four and The Sonics, The Kits' tales of crime, addiction and short-lived romances have resulted in a rapturous following and earned them recent supports with The Dirtbombs,Wolfmother, The Saints and The Nightmarchers, as well as rave reviews in magazines like Kerrang and Artrocker.
Harking back to the days when rock'n'roll was still considered a threat to the world's youth,
The Kits are set to conquer the world with the release of their long-awaited debut album. A
garage rock'n'roll band at heart, they've taken the stomp and grit of the '50s and '60s and
given it the injection of eternal youth through relentless guitar hooks and snarling vocals.
MONKEY ISLAND
You wanna talk garage rock? Imagine Bleach era Nirvana playing the blues with droplets of the bleakest,
blackest comedy running down their spines, equal parts frantic garage, malevolant hardcore and fractured Coltrane fallout..
Entry: £7 advance from
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/35989
Doors: 7pm
DRINKIN' AND DANCIN' TILL LATE!!!!!!
http://www.damosuzuki.de/http://www.myspace.com/kawabatamakoto http://www.myspace.com/thekits http://www.myspace.com/monkeyislanduk
With a special show to launch his new single Winter Home Disco, with remixes by Hot Chip and FOUND, Johnny Lynch, aka THE PICTISH TRAIL will offer up more stirringly subversive stuff from the Fence Collective. Lynch writes warm, welcoming tales with tiny keyboard patterns, acoustic neo-folk rumblings and all manner of undeniable oddball noises.'
'Akin to Lou Barlow sobbing his tiny heart out while submerged in Loch Ness, this is the sound of Scotland quietly floating far, far out to some deep enchanting waters. And never dreaming of floating back.
PLAYER PIANO
Provo, Utah based four piece PLAYER PIANO may make a soundscape of intuitive structures, sparse vocals, and captivating arrangements. The band draw the listener into a blizzard of chiming guitars and sizzling cymbals.
Doors: 8pm
Entry: £8.50 Advance tickets from
www.ticketweb.co.uk 08700 600 100
www.seetickets.com 0870 264 3333
http://www.eatyourownears.comhttp://www.myspace.com/pictishtrailhttp://www.myspace.com/fencerecords http://www.myspace.com/theplayerpiano
Rock a Hula! xmas special
Bee bop a hula, she's my baby
Time Out Critic's Choice No1 night Rock a Hula! celebrates its re-launch at Barden's Boudoir
Rock n roll and hula hooping!
Swing Dancers of London - free lesson (get there from 8pm!)
Hula hoops provided and star hoopers to help you learn a trick or two!
Lilia La Scala performing!
Flower girls!
Ice cream sellers!
The most fun you will have all winter!
* It's a rockabilly hula dreamboat * what it would be like if Johnny Cash had a beach party with the andrews sisters * rum and coca cola * south pacific * pin up beauties * hawaiian surf dudes * happy days* Rock a Hulas 1 - 4 were amazing successes, at the Dolphin in Hackney. Everyone hoola hooped all night... there have been hoola-offs, celebrities, and the place was transformed into a 50s tiki paradise, bunting, flowers and palm trees...
Now Rock a Hula! is moving to Bardens Boudoir, and boy are we excited! A host of djs will be spinning everything from Johnny Cash to the Andrews Sisters, random circus songs, 1920s jazz, doo wop * rock n roll * surf * doo wop * boogie woogie * rhythm n blues * country * jive * rockabilly * tiki hula boogie *
Swing Dancers of London will be partnering you with gorgeous folk in a free dance lesson to get you going.
Live Bands:
Madam Flo and TheBonTonRoulet
Ultrabrite trumpet, sleazy saxophone, groovy bass lines, wham-bam thank you m'am drums, and louche vocals and harmonica, Madam Flo & The BonTonRoulet play an explosive mélange of R'n'B (from when it meant Rhythm'n'Blues), sprinkled with a healthy dose of jazz and rockabilly. One of the most unique outfits to emerge from the London Rhythm 'n' Blues and burlesque scenes. Guaranteed to both fuel your feet and feed your mind, their groove is undeniable.
Lili La Scala
a street opera singing, burlesque dancing, balloon popping, trapeze swinging, glass walking diminuitive diva with a taste for high heels and the high life makes a special appearance.
The Cotswolds - formerly The Fucks
Two english eccentrics; Jemma Freeman and George Lionel Barker came to be a band as a result of a dare by a friend. Built on this foundation there is a mentality of inspiration, excitement and bravado to be found in their performance and music. Their indefatigable desire to entertain is engaging, they are outrageous, charming, but lovely!
Star London Hula Hoopers will be shaking their thing on the dancefloor throughout the night, and we've got plenty of hoops to go around so wind your belly, wiggle your body. For all those slightly concerned about their hoola hooping ability, prepare to be AMAZED! the big blue hoops we have are so easy you barely need to move, yet you will look like a pro. Or you can simply enjoy the view of beautiful guys and gals shaking them hips!
ROCK A HULA DJs!!!!!!!!!!!
More acts TBA!
And finally, don't miss the hoop-off contest. The winner gets a trophy! Think 'hawaiian run dmc style dance-off'
Entry: £3 all night
Hoola hooping & swing dance lesson included!
Doors: 8pm - 2am
http://www.rockahula.orghttp://www.swingdancersoflondon.org/http://www.myspace.com/madamfloandthebontonroulethttp://www.myspace.com/thefucksuk
'True as a wizard, just a blizzard,
I ain't taken no crap.
I'm rhymin' and designin'
with your girl in my lap...'
Club Motherfucker Live! December Edition
Drinks Deals for the first couple of hours and Delicious Vinyl 'RMXXOLOGY ' Giveaway.
Bands early, Dancing and ting 'til late!
Arrive Early Motherfuckers!
Live!Live!Live!
Manda Rin
You are a teenager and start a band with your mates from school. You are fun and spirited and people start to take notice of you. Your band become the only unsigned band ever to appear on Top Of The Pops, get on the cover of the NME and sign to the Beastie Boys' Grand Royal label in the U.S of 'merica. You sell shed loads in Japan and soundtrack the super cool Powerpuff Girls cartoon series. Everything seems possible but then you suffer one of the most unwarranted press backlashes evs. You brush yourself off and still manage to remain optimistic and in love with music. You are officially awesumz. You are Manda Rin. Hooray!!
Bis were way ahead of their time but the time is now for Manda's solo project, an album of fun disco-punk with a strong guitar pop edge. She cites new inspiration from the likes of CSS, To My Boy and Late of the Pier but lets not forget she has been making that music herself for over a decade now thankyouplease.
Manda Rin we salute you! Come and give her some fucking love!
Disasteradio
Luke Rowell has been fascinated with the possibilities of combining synthesized sound with pop melody since his family got a Commodore 64 when he was like, 6 years old. If it had been antiques he was into and he lived in the UK he would have been on Wogan for sure. His adult musical endeavor is an attempt at creating electronic music that is evocative and sudden while embodying a backdrop of new wave / synthpop pastiche, tongue-in-cheek modernism and themes of camp science. It sounds Yum, Eat it up!
A Grave With No Name
Londons A Grave With No Name was born in Church. Not the house of God, but the bedroom studio of main mans Alax Shields. He started the solo project with a variety of shitty drum machines and dusty guitars and later called on bassist Tom King and guitarist Anupa Madawela to add some welly to the crunchy pop he had already made. The result nods to the likes of Daniel Johnston and Animal Collective and is dreamy goodness. Coolez!
Pash(ly)
'Pash(ly) is Susan Ploetz pretending to be a band all by herself. From uncomfortably intriguing, to beautiful, funny, sexy and danceable: to Pash(ly) it all fits in and makes sense, even if it shouldn't. Susan has toured in the US, Canada, and Asia with her work and has self-released 2 CDs: Meet Me behind the Couch and Soft is Not Weak.' She has been co-curating a performance night called Grab Bag with Khaela Maricich of The Blow since July 2006 and comes to Mofo to perform for you. Feel Special!
Super Fun Dance Party
after
with
awesumz guest
Deejay
PARTYGEIST
(Mac3000)
w/Mark Eats
+
Between the band sounds
from
Club Mofo
Host/Promoters/The ones who thunk it up
Daughters of the Kaos
w/ TWINKLIFE Djs (Nails Club)
You do the dancing it up, we love you long time
FUNFUCKINTIMEZ!
In the spirit of the lord we have presents for you at this party. The leg ends at Delicious Vinyl have given us a bunch of Rekkids and stuff to give away to celebrate the release of The Delicious Vinyl All-Stars 'Rmxxology Deluxe Edition'.
If you don't already own this, what the fuck is wrong with you guy? You better get one from us for free before anyone else finds out that you're lame. If you do have it, you cool, get one for your Mums Stocking anyway. You know she needs to stop listening to Il Divo!
Here be the low down:
RMXXOLOGY was born a year ago when Delicious Vinyl honcho Rick Ross met Peaches after a show. After agreeing that she would do a version of Tone Loc's "Wild Thing" they began brainstorming a dream team of artists to let loose on the Delicious Vinyl catalog.
This led to the creation of The Delicious Vinyl All-Stars, a collective including prime-time players like Eminem and Diplo, as well as upstart French freakers Mr. Flash, Breakbot, and Don Rimini, and L.A. new jacks Cory Nitta (Pink Enemy/Philippians) and Bobby Evans (Brother Reade). Soon each of the Delicious Vinyl All-Stars was having their way with a Delicious Vinyl classic of their choosing...including classic tracks by Tone Loc, Young MC, The Pharcyde, Masta Ace, The Brand New Heavies, and Fatlip.
FREE STUFF, WOOT! WOOT!
Bardens Boudoir is located at 38 - 44 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, London N16 7XJ... Travel:The nearest overground is Dalston-Kingsland (two stops from Highbury & Islington tube), Bardens is then a five minute walk up Kingsland Road... Buses 67, 76, 149 and 243 stop on the doorstep. Buses 149, 243 and 76 operate all night... Buses 242, 30, 38, 56 all go to Dalston Junction which is a five minute walk up to Bardens. Buses 38 and 242 operate all night night long baby.
(the Black door and down the stairs to the basement)
DOORS: 8:00 - Late
ENTRY: £4 before 8:30, £6 After, £5 with Flyer
FYI.The next Mofo will be Saturday 10th January 2009, we are NOT holding a New Years Eve Party this year. FYI.
http://www.myspace.com/musicmandarin http://www.myspace.com/disasteradiohttp://www.myspace.com/agravewithnonamehttp://www.myspace.com/pashlyhttp://www.myspace.com/partygeistishere http://www.myspace.com/clubmotherfuckerhttp://www.clubmotherfucker.com http://www.myspace.com/clubmotherfuckerrecordedhttp://www.last.fm/group/Club+Motherfucker+Live%21http://www.flickr.com/photos/32746578@N00/
'True as a wizard, just a blizzard,
I ain't taken no crap.
I'm rhymin' and designin'
with your girl in my lap...'
Club Motherfucker Live! December Edition
Drinks Deals for the first couple of hours and Delicious Vinyl 'RMXXOLOGY ' Giveaway.
Bands early, Dancing and ting 'til late!
Arrive Early Motherfuckers!
Live!Live!Live!
Manda Rin
You are a teenager and start a band with your mates from school. You are fun and spirited and people start to take notice of you. Your band become the only unsigned band ever to appear on Top Of The Pops, get on the cover of the NME and sign to the Beastie Boys' Grand Royal label in the U.S of 'merica. You sell shed loads in Japan and soundtrack the super cool Powerpuff Girls cartoon series. Everything seems possible but then you suffer one of the most unwarranted press backlashes evs. You brush yourself off and still manage to remain optimistic and in love with music. You are officially awesumz. You are Manda Rin. Hooray!!
Bis were way ahead of their time but the time is now for Manda's solo project, an album of fun disco-punk with a strong guitar pop edge. She cites new inspiration from the likes of CSS, To My Boy and Late of the Pier but lets not forget she has been making that music herself for over a decade now thankyouplease.
Manda Rin we salute you! Come and give her some fucking love!
Disasteradio
Luke Rowell has been fascinated with the possibilities of combining synthesized sound with pop melody since his family got a Commodore 64 when he was like, 6 years old. If it had been antiques he was into and he lived in the UK he would have been on Wogan for sure. His adult musical endeavor is an attempt at creating electronic music that is evocative and sudden while embodying a backdrop of new wave / synthpop pastiche, tongue-in-cheek modernism and themes of camp science. It sounds Yum, Eat it up!
A Grave With No Name
Londons A Grave With No Name was born in Church. Not the house of God, but the bedroom studio of main mans Alax Shields. He started the solo project with a variety of shitty drum machines and dusty guitars and later called on bassist Tom King and guitarist Anupa Madawela to add some welly to the crunchy pop he had already made. The result nods to the likes of Daniel Johnston and Animal Collective and is dreamy goodness. Coolez!
Pash(ly)
'Pash(ly) is Susan Ploetz pretending to be a band all by herself. From uncomfortably intriguing, to beautiful, funny, sexy and danceable: to Pash(ly) it all fits in and makes sense, even if it shouldn't. Susan has toured in the US, Canada, and Asia with her work and has self-released 2 CDs: Meet Me behind the Couch and Soft is Not Weak.' She has been co-curating a performance night called Grab Bag with Khaela Maricich of The Blow since July 2006 and comes to Mofo to perform for you. Feel Special!
Super Fun Dance Party
after
with
awesumz guest
Deejay
PARTYGEIST
(Mac3000)
w/Mark Eats
+
Between the band sounds
from
Club Mofo
Host/Promoters/The ones who thunk it up
Daughters of the Kaos
w/ TWINKLIFE Djs (Nails Club)
You do the dancing it up, we love you long time
FUNFUCKINTIMEZ!
In the spirit of the lord we have presents for you at this party. The leg ends at Delicious Vinyl have given us a bunch of Rekkids and stuff to give away to celebrate the release of The Delicious Vinyl All-Stars 'Rmxxology Deluxe Edition'.
If you don't already own this, what the fuck is wrong with you guy? You better get one from us for free before anyone else finds out that you're lame. If you do have it, you cool, get one for your Mums Stocking anyway. You know she needs to stop listening to Il Divo!
Here be the low down:
RMXXOLOGY was born a year ago when Delicious Vinyl honcho Rick Ross met Peaches after a show. After agreeing that she would do a version of Tone Loc's "Wild Thing" they began brainstorming a dream team of artists to let loose on the Delicious Vinyl catalog.
This led to the creation of The Delicious Vinyl All-Stars, a collective including prime-time players like Eminem and Diplo, as well as upstart French freakers Mr. Flash, Breakbot, and Don Rimini, and L.A. new jacks Cory Nitta (Pink Enemy/Philippians) and Bobby Evans (Brother Reade). Soon each of the Delicious Vinyl All-Stars was having their way with a Delicious Vinyl classic of their choosing...including classic tracks by Tone Loc, Young MC, The Pharcyde, Masta Ace, The Brand New Heavies, and Fatlip.
FREE STUFF, WOOT! WOOT!
Bardens Boudoir is located at 38 - 44 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, London N16 7XJ... Travel:The nearest overground is Dalston-Kingsland (two stops from Highbury & Islington tube), Bardens is then a five minute walk up Kingsland Road... Buses 67, 76, 149 and 243 stop on the doorstep. Buses 149, 243 and 76 operate all night... Buses 242, 30, 38, 56 all go to Dalston Junction which is a five minute walk up to Bardens. Buses 38 and 242 operate all night night long baby.
(the Black door and down the stairs to the basement)
DOORS: 8:00 - Late
ENTRY: £4 before 8:30, £6 After, £5 with Flyer
FYI.The next Mofo will be Saturday 10th January 2009, we are NOT holding a New Years Eve Party this year. FYI.
http://www.myspace.com/musicmandarin http://www.myspace.com/disasteradiohttp://www.myspace.com/agravewithnonamehttp://www.myspace.com/pashlyhttp://www.myspace.com/partygeistishere http://www.myspace.com/clubmotherfuckerhttp://www.myspace.com/clubmotherfuckerrecordedhttp://www.last.fm/group/Club+Motherfucker+Live%21http://www.flickr.com/photos/32746578@N00/
Maths Class
-"Incredible. Best live band in the country right now" - Artrocker
Electricity In Our Homes
Razor sharp post-punk No-Wave noise. in the tradition of acts, such as: Mars, DNA and ,Josef K.Last gig of the year..not to be missed
Sir Yes Sir
A British take on Pavement and The Thermals.
Gyratory System
2nd gig ever from former One More Grain members Expect experimental krautrock electronic noise
Doors: 8pm
Entry: £5 Advance From WE GOT TICKETS
www.wegottickets.com/event/39288
http://www.myspace.com/noisex3www.myspace.com/mathsclasswww.myspace.com/electricityinourhomeswww.myspace.com/gyratorysystemwww.myspace.com/siryessiryessir
Pamplemousse Presents
From 1/3 of les hommes who brought you theparlour, and one femme fatale who didn't, Pamplemousse brings yuletide greetings to N16 on Friday 19th December. We come bearing cheap entry all night (£2 before 9pm, £3 after), 2 live bands for your seasonal delectation and DJs till 2am. Get Christ-moussin'!
LIVE!
CHIK BUDO
"Mega distorto party music with added mental Sax" from South London's Chik Budo - debut double A-side Little Zed/Scienceboy was released on Fake Product this summer to great acclaim, receiving airplay from both XFM and BBC6Music.
"Chik Budo will not serenade you with sweet songs about love or bamboozle you with an aggressive political agenda. Instead they will try to make you happy by blasting you with a squalling noise... Don't worry if this sounds scary. Trust me, you will enjoy it." - Rough Trade
DJs!
LAZY DRAG - Old Skool sounds from the remixer/DJ extraordinaire
LIME HEADED DOG - Joel and Steve ex of Good Shoes
More TBC...
Doors: 8pm
Entry: £2 before 9pm, £3 after
http://www.myspace.com/pamplemoussepamplemousse www.myspace.com/chikbudo
GYPSY HOTEL
LITTLE VICTOR (USA)
-The Beale Street Blues Bopper Returns to Gypsy Hotel!
MIKELANGELO & UNDINE FRANCESCA
-Kabaret Noir From Behind the Iron Curtain!
ROB SKIPPER AND THE MUSICAL DIFFERENCES
-Holloways Man and His Folk Rockin' Roots Stew!
LADY FLO (France)
-Does Elvis Burlesque!
WALKING WOUNDED
-Sweet Home Hackney's Very Own Balkan Rockers!
AGENT LYNCH
-A Dangerous X-Mas Present!
RASP THORNE
-Shit-kickin' Brimstone Muzak!
CHRIS MARTIN
-No, not the cunt from Coldplay, but the man who juggles boobs and knives - beware!
DJ SCRATCHY
-The Pogues' tour DJ, and our RESIDENT WAX-SPINNER!
DOORS 8PM (SHOW STARTS 9PM SHARP!)
DRINKIN' AND DANCIN' TILL 2AM
COVER £6.66
Gypsy Hotel NYE Party!
The Cesarians
Bad Breed
Luxury Condo
Sophia Landi
Baron and Missys Misadventures
Nigel Burch
Miss Amanda Mae Steele
DJ Scratchy
more tbc!
Doors: 6pm till very late/early!
Price: Only £9.99!
Sexton Ming's RIM label showcases its eclectic mix.
Rude Mechanicals
A splat of Beefheart, a dash of the Tiger Lillies, and a formidable front woman singing of alien mice and squealing flatmates who live under beds. Petrifying, quizzical, musically refreshing: convulse at the sheer outrageousness of it all.
The Tropics of Cancer
Hi-class lo-fi, from jazz standards turned upside down to punk to be bop, all in a rich sauce of Tin Pan Ally, topped with She Rocola's playful and tumultuous purrs. The Tropics of Cancer bloody well play what they like. With nice hats.
Sexton Ming: the Medway legend himself reads his unforgiving spoken word - you laugh or cry but either way you'll spill your drink. Poetry for people don't like poetry.
The Deptford Beach Babes
Twisted surf-rockabilly, grass skirts and twangy guitars with Jane Ruby (from Naked Ruby) on vocals, and a rotating guest line-up including members of The Urban Voodoo Machine.
UZI & ARI
Uzi & Ari have awakened! In contrast to their previous effort, "Headworms" exposes a very lucid and exuberant band with a newfound urgency. I imagine Shepard standing on a chair in the center of a room, encumbered by a large coterie of instruments, dancing wildly, dipping his brush into the palette of sounds that surround him to fashion just the right rhythms and crescendos to color his canvas. RIYL: Radiohead, Múm, Sigur Ros, The National.
LONELY GHOSTS
Lonely Ghosts is the brainchild of Tom Denney (guitarist and co-vocal extraordinaire in indie noise kids Help She Can't Swim). Exploring more avant-pop, electro and acoustic influences than Help She Can't Swim, Lonely Ghosts is an eclectic amalgamation of sounds all held together by his love for a pure 'pop' tune.
Doors: 8pm
Entry: £6 advance from
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/38787
http://www.myspace.com/benshepardhttp://www.myspace.com/lonelyghosts
THE WAVE PICTURES
The Wave Pictures are Dave Tattersall, Franic Rozycki and Jonny ''Huddersfield'' Helm. In 1998 Franic and Dave lived in a village called Wymeswold where they started playing music together, with Hugh J. Noble on drums. The band was called Blind Summit. When Hugh decided he didn't want to play drums he went to Exeter to study Philosophy instead. The band changed it's name to The Wave Pictures. Hugh was replaced by several drummers, until Jonny "Huddersfield" Helm became the permanent replacement. For a few years Dave, Franic and Jonny lived apart, meeting up sporadically to play music. They kept on writing songs and recording, and they played shows across the UK and in France and New York. During this time highlights included playing at the Mofo Festival in Paris at the invitation of friends Herman Dune, and playing shows with The Jeffrey Lewis Band. Dave also sang The Wave Pictures song "Dust Off Your Heart" with Herman Dune on a radio session for the late great John Peel. The Wave Pictures also served as backing band and co-songwriters for John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats, the results featuring on a seven-inch single released by 4AD records. Last summer, the band finally moved together and currently share a flat in Bethnal Green, London. They are more active than ever. They have toured Spain and Sweden with the mighty Darren Hayman, formerly of Hefner, and played several times in Berlin and France.
SUPPORTS TBC
GOONITE DJs Till Late!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HAPPY HOUR BETWEEN 8pm and 9pm
Bottles, Spirits, Shots £2.50
Doors: 8pm
Entry: £6 Adavance From
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/39385
http://www.thewavepictures.com/http://www.myspace.com/thewavepictures
TRANSGLOBAL UNDERGROUNG
WINNERS OF BBC CLUB GLOBAL AWARD FOR 2008! CURRENT ALBUM IS 'MOONSHOUT'
with guest appearances from NATACHA ATLAS, KRUPA, BLASTED MECHANISM, AIWA, YANKA RUPKINA, NALINI PATTNI, DOREEN THOBEKILE and many more...
Transglobal Underground return with their 7th album, 'Moonshout', the follow-up to 2004's 'Impossible Broadcasting'. Released on their own label Mule Satellite Recordings, the 14-track album features founding members Tim Whelan (keyboards/ guitar) and Hamid Mantu (drums/ programming), plus the current core members of the collective, Godfrey 'Tuup' Duncan (lead vocals/ congas), Sheema Mukherjee (sitar/ bass), Gurjit Sihra (dhol/ kaos pad) Ravinder Neiyyar (dhol/ tables) and Krupa (vocals) 'Moonshout' presents Transglobal Underground's expansive musical kingdom in four distinct moods. The album commences full-on with some of the most dancefloor-friendly songs they have ever recorded. The sounds and influences are from all over the world but the source is clearly the collective's birthplace in London. Opening track 'Dancehall Operator' is a mix of Brazilian drum and bass and Indian rhythms. Title track 'Moonshout' includes the Romany roots of rap with vocals by MC Rise FM (Hungary) and Shugmonkey (UK). Vocalist Krupa features on the Bollywood pop style of 'Emotional Yoyo'.Krupa's music is an extraordinary blend of Indian tribal beats, urban funk and pop. Having performed and collaborated with TGU for several years (she was featured on their album Impossible Broadcasting) Krupa and TGU break new ground with EMOTIONAL YOYO which is a remix of OH NO, a song composed, produced and originally performed by Krupa. She continues to write and record music in her own distinct, yet varied style. Listen to more of Krupa's tracks and read more about the artist herself on her myspace 'Awal' features Iraqi rapper Naufalle from French/Arabic band Aiwa as well as Transglobal Underground's original vocalist Natacha Atlas who has of course found great success as a solo artist with material still for the most part produced by the collective (this is Natacha's first appearance on a Transglobal Underground album since her legendary period fronting the group). Transglobal Underground's collaboration with Portugal's notorious Blasted Mechanism on 'Total Rebellion' moves the album into a second section of a harder edged territory, with the collective also finally achieving their ambition of writing an angry country song in 'Swampland' (featuring Black Sifichi from France/ USA on vocals) and with 'Cape Thunder' (featuring South African vocalist Doreen Thobekile and Shimmer Baby from the UK) creating a nightmarish vision of chaos. There is real beauty to be found on the album, too, most notably on the track 'Mera Jhumka' featuring Indian ghazal singing star Nalini Pattni which introduces a series of dub-soaked soundscapes with a strong sub-continental drift, leading up to the epic 'Spice Garden' featuring the amazing voice of legendary Bulgarian traditional vocalist Yanka Rupkina. The album's final three tracks (including 'Mag ak Ndaw which features Prague-based Senegalese vocalist Burama Badji) have little to do with anything Transglobal Underground have ever done...in fact they have little to do with anything anyone has ever done - you could say that this is the closest to Elvis that Transglobal Underground have ever come!
Support From
VICTOR MENACE
The original sound of Ninja Folk! A fusion of fast paced all-original gypsy and classical melodies, laced with occasional cock-rock moments, swing and reggae grooves, and a sprinkling of tourette's induced expletives. Sporting an undeniable all-star cast, led by Fiddle and Soprano Sax, and backed by Guitars, Bass, and Drums - it's chair smashing, pint glass throwing, tipsy gyspy mayhem of the highest order! All songs written by Victor Menace!!!. Full "sing-a-long with menace" lyric sheets available on request, translated into 452 languages.
LE VAGABOND BOOGALOO CLUB DJs Till Late !!!!!!!!
Doors: 8pm
Entry: £8.50 Advance from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/39464
£10.00 On The Door
http://www.myspace.com/transglobalunderground http://www.myspace.com/victormenacehttp://www.myspace.com/vagabondboogaloo
OXFORD COLLAPSE
Like many of the best things, Oxford Collapse started as a joke of sorts. And, thankfully that sense of spontaneous fun remained when they decided they'd become an actual band after playing shows around their hometown of Brooklyn, NY in 2002. Yes, Brooklyn. But, let's not let preconceptions about Oxford Collapse's location on a map confuse the issue. This band might be stuck in an era of mp3s and a more general cultural digitization, but they possess a vitality born of blaring tape decks, deafening basement shows and a wide-eyed, bottomless enthusiasm that makes "jaded" sound as dirty and shameful as it should. Already they've released two full-lengths (Some Wilderness in 2004 and A Good Ground in 2005), and a handful of singles and EPs. Taking cues from post-punk pioneers and genre-transcending bands like The Embarassment, Mission of Burma or fIREHOSE, Oxford Collapse construct melodic art-pop packed full of chiming guitars and shout-along vocals ("Let's Vanish," "Loser City") Remember the Night Parties is both restless/nervous and heartfelt, with time signatures that are as urgent as they are unpredictable. At once angular and redefined, detached and immediate, the new album finds Oxford Collapse testing the waters of their own inspiration.
Since the joke began, Oxford Collapse has toured extensively with the Constantines, the Joggers, and Part Chimp. Recorded in the Summer of 2006 at Headgear Studios in Brooklyn with John Agnello (Sonic Youth, The Hold Steady), Remember the Night Parties is their Sub Pop Debut.
Doors: 7pm
Entry: £6.50 Advance from wegottickets http://www.wegottickets.com/event/39240
