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FIDLAR @ The Garage, Highbury
FIDLAR are recent cousins in a family of West Coast hardcore bands that stretches back through Black Flag and the Circle Jerks to The Germs. Unlike the social commentary, paranoid conspiracies,...
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Viv Albertine @ Nambucca
Achieving some degree of fame or notoriety while barely out of their teens, guitarist Viv Albertine, singer Ari Up, bassist Tessa Pollitt and drummer Palmolive forged in The Slits an uncompromising,...
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Viv Albertine @ Nambucca
Viv Albertine, former Slit, ex-punkette and film director, now writer caustic, post-marital songs of middle age and confusion. [Words and pictures originally published at Clashmusic.com] 1234►
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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club @ Brixton Academy
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club at Brixton Academy, April 2013. Photo: Rosie Wadey The opening drumbeats of ‘Let The Day Begin‘ are joined by growling chords that emerge thick and juicy like steak. Black...
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Foals @ Royal Albert Hall
Foals Foals play a triumphant gig at London’s cavernous Royal Albert Hall touring their highly-acclaimed third album Holy Fire. Pictures originally published in issue 85 of Clash magazine, April 2013....
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Chvrches @ Village Underground
Chvrches In six months more people have demonstrated an interest in CHVRCHES than the C of E (or indeed, the Kirk) could ever hope for in this godless, heathen age. Last weekend they played Alexandra...
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Photos of Chvrches @ Village Underground
Tonight Chvrches face the challenge of a room full of hipsters in this brick Shoreditch temple. The rites begin with the kickdrums of ‘Lies‘, foreboding bass tones that recall early Gary Numan, spiky...
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Adam Ant @ The Roundhouse
Adam Ant live at the Roundhouse, London, May 2013. Photo: Rachel Lipsitz Adam and the Ant’s huge hits in the early 1980s – at one point he had eight records in the charts simultaneously – are indelibly...
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CSS @ Village Underground
Lovefoxx and the rest of the Brazilian five piece still have the same sense of fun after four albums as they did way back in 2006 when they released ‘Let’s Make Love And Listen To Death From Above’,...
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Modeselektor @ The Roundhouse
Modeselektor and collaborator Apparat deliver their brand of good-humoured heavy Berlin techno at a one-off date at The Roundhouse, London. [Pictures originally published at Clashmusic.com] 12345►
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End of the Road Festival 2013
End of the Road Festival… I’d half hoped it might be at the foot of the A303, but sadly it’s nearer Wiltshire. That’s about the only disappointment though, and it’s a trivial one. Three and a bit days...
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Chilly Gonzales @ Cadogan Hall
Auteur pianist, rapper, surrealist piano teacher, comedian and vaudeville entertainer, Chilly Gonzales is a fairly unusual proposition. Born Jason Beck, the Canada-raised, Europe-residing musician has...
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Festival Internacional de Benicàssim 2013
Festival de Benicàssim 2013 For a festival once described as Glasto-del-Sol – with sun and sand instead of mud and rain – it’s somewhat ironic that, even at a fairly sweltering 30°C, it’s hotter in...
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