Archive for November, 2008
Les Gars Rocks Koko’s Club NME
As the projector screen that hid the stage at Club Koko in Camden rose, so the three figures of Toronto’s Les Gars exploded. Loud and fast un-syncopated, down-struck guitar, a stage-bounding bass player, and relentless mashing drums not so much shook our hands but ripped our arms unceremoniously from our polite and pointless bodies.
The Grandees’ Box of Cricks
Only The Grandees could make poo and penis jokes this funny. They brought uproarious jollity to the Hen and Chickens’ packed theatre this week with The Box of Cricks, a surreal and silly treat that makes Little Britain look like You’ve Been Framed.
Shoreditch’s Good Catch
Despite the economic crisis sweeping the nation, London is inherently a city for rich people. Unfortunately, this is often manifested in its nightlife and more and more venues are becoming all plush interiors and chamomile toilet paper. This is why it’s so nice to go out somewhere nobody cares if you scribble on the bathroom [...]
Get Some Saturday Night Beaver
I’m beginning to think that it’s pretty much impossible to have a bad night at the Bethnal Green Workingmen’s Club. Everything is the right side of quirky, and although the events are unfailingly bizarre, the atmosphere is never aloof.
Lukestar & Airborne Toxic Event at Dublin Castle
According to the God-sent font of wisdom that is Wikipedia, there are some 44,000 Americans resident in London. A quick headcount reveals that all but three of them are here tonight, packed to the gunwales inside the inexplicably prestigious Dublin Castle to witness the heroically chiselled angsty-ness of California’s The Airborne Toxic Event and Norway’s [...]
Alice Russell Album Launch at The Scala
With the forthcoming release of Pot of Gold, Alice Russell’s second full-length studio album, she put on a stirring performance last night at The Scala to celebrate its launch.
Le Rif: Moroccan in Finsbury Park
Le Rif is one of a number of restaurants on the Seven Sisters Road that offers foreign cuisine, reflecting the cosmopolitan make-up of the area.
Slim Jim’s LA Dive Bar in Islington
If you’ve ever been to an LA dive bar you’ll know that they’re far grimmer and grimier than Islington’s new designer take on the desolate drinking den. Slim Jim’s Liquor Store has taken inspiration from the downmarket watering holes of downtown LA, where a jukebox and hard liquor succeed glamour and pretence. But on first [...]
Hot ‘n’ Sweaty Bikram Yoga
Don’t feel bad if you haven’t yet heard of Bikram yoga – you’re not alone. Until yesterday it was utterly new to me too, but the clue is in the title. Bikram is known as ’hot yoga’. And they really mean it.
Lukestar at The Luminaire
Although Scandinavia has produced generation after generation of gifted musicians, those that take up instruments in this part of the world have an inbuilt obstacle to forging any sort of success for themselves.
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