London Zine of Music, Arts and Miscellaneous Happenings. Monthly updates & seasonal physicals.
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1) adjective describing the silence produced when a performance leaves the audience speechless (ie: one could hear a pin drop)
2) verb to indicate the location of a particular happening
BRAND SPANKING NEW Issue No.1
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___Gwenifer Raymond @ The Bedford £17 - One of, if not the greatest contemporary fingerstyle acoustic guitar players. Raymond plays gripping instrumentals that moves in sudden intricate directions. With the guitar front and centre, she uses the language of blues and folk as a jumping-off point for her moody and dark ballads.tickets
07
___Pindrop Presents: HEADLINER @ The Windmill £6 - tickets
08
___Ladylike @ The Social £5.2 - tickets
10
___Barbican Estate @ The Post Bar FREE - rsvp
___Life Is Beautiful Records Takeover @ Cafe Oto £9/£15 - tickets
12
___Bathtime Harvest Party @ The George Tavern £9 - tickets
___The Vaselines @ MOTH Club £25.5 - A band accidentally formed in place of a Glasgow fanzine, The Vaselines' unashamed naivety proves that simplicity and authenticity stand the test of time (that and the Kurt Cobain shoutout). These drum machine stamped nursery rhymes are the natural progression from Humpty Dumpty for reserved, angsty teens and those that were once reserved, angsty teens. PS. Get you anorak out for the full duration because 14 Iced Bears will be there too. tickets
13
___Concentration @ Sebright Arms £8 - tickets
15
___Wax Head @ Shacklewell Arms FREE - rsvp
18-21
___Fred Frith 75th Birthday Residency @ Cafe Oto £10/16/18 - Perhaps the most legendary avant-garde guitarist ever, Frith is a man who has acted as the fulcrum for experimental scenes across the world: playing in late 60’s Cambridge’s renowned Rock-In-Opposition band Henry Cow and 80’s New York’s no-wave jazz-freakout group Massacre. Since then, he has become a pioneer in prepared-guitar extended-technique and extended, enrapturing pieces. tickets
18
___Nala Sinephro @ Barbican Centre £24.72 - tickets
19
___Jim E Brown @ Paper Dress Vintage £10 - tickets
22
___Cuckoo Spit @ The Windmill £5 - tickets
23
___High Llamas @ The Lexington £24.32 - tickets
___Sonic Boom @ Dingwalls £24.48 - Throughout his career, from Spacemen 3 to Spectrum and all audio experiments in between, Pete Kember has noblely mastered the fuzz of the poly-drug experience so that the rest of us don’t have to risk the complications. As Sonic Boom, he mixes pop prowess with ambient textures to produce modern psychedelic hymns to make you feel like you’re tuned in to a different frequency. tickets
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___Blue Bendy @ Lexington £14.25 - Pulled in all directions by catchy slacker melodies, genius lyrics with more than a handful of post-irony (“Didn’t have you down as the memelord type”) and piano-driven progressive pop sagas, London’s six-piece belatedly celebrate the release of their debut album ‘So Medieval’. tickets
25
___HYPER GAL @ Shacklewell Arms £13 - tickets
27-29
___Otomo Yoshihide Special Big Band Residency @ Cafe Oto £12/£18/£20 - tickets
28
___Ideal Living @ Old Blue Last FREE - rsvp
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___The Mall @ Shacklewell Arms £13.6 - tickets
31
___PC Music present: POP CRYPT II: NIGHT @ Outernet £39.27 - The legendary hyperpop/experimental electronic label might be dead, but on all-hallows eve, even the departed can return. Split between a “Day” and “Night” segment with a lineup still to be determined, if last year’s event is anything to go off, it'll haunt you if you miss it. tickets
Nala Sinephro on the 18th will be amazing but has been sold out forever.
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DR
___Dirty Postcards by The Korgis (1979, UK)
___If I Could Make You Care by Cardinals (2024, Ireland)
GKA
___Pearls by Sade (1992, UK)
___Hurrian Hymn To Nikkal (1400BCE, Ancient Mesopotamia)
MMB
___Bon’yō vs. Bōyō by Midori (2010, Japan)
___Difficult by Uffie (2010, France)
MR
___I Won’t Share You by The Smiths (1987, UK)
___All Night by The Dare (2024, US)
SE
___Cool Daddio by R. Stevie Moore (1974, US)
___Dog’s Life by Plantoid (2023, UK)
Pindrop is DR, GKA, MMB, MR, & SE
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