Wednesday 27 May 2015

Rose McDowall tomorrow and Mikal Cronin on Monday!


Hello again!
It was great to see so many of you at our Monotony and Julie Ruin shows these last two days. If you’d like an extra dose of Monotony in your life you can now watch them perform live for Marc Riley on his new TV show ‘All Shook Up’, along with WIRE and Jane Weaver too, check this out!



Tomorrow we’re very lucky to have the spellbinding ROSE MCDOWALL in town for a rare London performance at St Pancras Old Church. With drums, guitars, cellos, flutes and violins all the mix it sounds like it will be very special indeed. Songs from her entire career have been promised in the set so there’s a case to be made for treasure chest over selection box, excitement levels reaching critical. In support we have one of our favourite bands from London playing, THE WHARVES, providing suitable entrancement. You can read more about tomorrow’s show below, along with the full listing for Monday’s MIKAL CRONIN and DIGNAN PORCH show, here you go…



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ROSE MCDOWALL
THE WHARVES
Thursday 28 May
St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, NW1 1UL

ROSE MCDOWALL’s trajectory from punk provocateur to chart-subverting pop star to underground neo-folkster has been one peppered with unknowns and adventure. McDowall began her career in her hometown of Glasgow, operating within the nascent punk scene with her first group The Poems. After a meteoric rise to pop stardom with Strawberry Switchblade (along with friend Jill Bryson), McDowall submerged herself in the post-industrial landscape, recording with the likes of Coil, Boyd Rice and Current 93. Shortly after, she began recording with her own group Sorrow, before disappearing into the underground, re-surfacing for occasional performances only. Throughout this year, Night School Records are attempting to tell the story of Glasgow’s wayward daughter through a schedule of reissues and unreleased material. Spanning Rose’s 34 year career, the project will include reissues and unreleased recordings alongside unseen photographs and new sleeve notes. Record Store Day saw the first fruit of this collaboration, an official release of the unapproved ‘Don’t Fear The Reaper’ 12” single, and it hasn’t left our turntable since. This will be a rare concert from Rose with a full band, in the year of her long-overdue reappraisal, not one to miss!
https://myspace.com/rosemcdowall
 
THE WHARVES, who hail from Ireland, France and England, sport startling duel vocals, courtesy of Gemma Fleet (bass) and Dearbhla Minogue (guitar), which hang gracefully over their minimal rock format. They invoke the reverberated spook of 60's girl groups, the mid-fi guitar crunch of Kim Deal's The Amps, the vocal flavours of The Roches and the narrative and structural panache of 70's progressive folk. Marion Andrau's thunderous drumming drives through these compositions, ensuring the wealth of disparate influences remain focused and celebratory. In 2013 they released a split LP with The Rosy Crucifixion on Glasgow's Soft Power Recordings and released a full length LP last year called ‘At Bay’ with Nottingham's Gringo Records.
https://thewharves.bandcamp.com/



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MIKAL CRONIN
DIGNAN PORCH
Monday 1 June
100 Club, 100 Oxford St, Oxford Street, W1D 1LL

MIKAL CRONIN was raised in Laguna Beach, California, where as a teenager he developed a passion for both surfing and rock & roll. While attending Laguna Beach High School, he fell in with a handful of like-minded music fans, and formed a band that played local parties. After a spell as bassist in surf-punk Charlie & The Moonhearts, Mikal began working on his own garage-accented pop tapping into his love of 80's indie rock. Around the same time, Mikal also befriended kindred spirit Ty Segall, joined his live band and also collaborated on an album together called 'Reverse Shark Attack'. Mikal Cronin's self-titled album was released by Trouble in Mind Records in September 2011. Conceived and recorded as a sort of therapy to help cope with adjusting to life post-college, an ensuing break-up and geographic isolation, Mikal’s solo debut is fully realized, cohesive and beautiful, with themes as personal as they are universal; questioning your future, accepting your past and living in the moment. Taking influences such as late sixties Del Shannon and The Everly Brothers and filtering them through his own mutant California fuzz, Mikal deftly explores his singer/songwriter side that at moments feels like a punk Harry Nilsson or Curt Boettcher that balances sweet melodies and chords with hefty, psychedelic guitar freak-outs. 2013 saw Cronin release, 'MCII', his first disc for Merge Records, which was all about new beginnings, looking at new relationships and growing up in the 21st century. This month Merge released Mikal’s third album, entitled ‘MCIII’. Marked by lush arrangements, stunning melodies, and deeply personal lyrical work for which Cronin is now known, the album is also a deliberate attempt to simply sound bigger in everyone’s head.
https://www.mergerecords.com/mikal-cronin 

DIGNAN PORCH smudge the lines between lo-fi pop, 60’s psych, indie rock and punk. Hailing from South London, Dignan Porch give the impression that they're careering along with only a couple of wheels still on the road, just about in control, but always on the verge of tipping over. There is a sadness that lurks beneath many of these DIY pop songs, creeping into the fabric of the band’s sound. After a couple of albums through Captured Tracks, Faux Discx released their brilliant latest LP called ‘Observatory’ last year. Check out their recent single ‘Out Of The Picture’ released through Art Is Hard too!
http://dignanporch.com/ 


See you tomorrow, thanks for reading!
UPSET THE RHYTHM
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/////  UPCOMING    SHOWS   \\\\\

ROSE MCDOWALL
THE WHARVES
Thursday 28 May
St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, NW1 1UL

PROLAPSE
ART TRIP AND THE STATIC SOUND
Friday 29 May
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
7.30pm | £10 | SOLD OUT

PROLAPSE
THE WOLFHOUNDS
Saturday 30 May
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
7.30pm | £10 | SOLD OUT

MIKAL CRONIN
DIGNAN PORCH
Monday 1 June
100 Club, 100 Oxford St, Oxford Street, W1D 1LL

SAUNA YOUTH // Album launch //
RICHARD ROCK ‘N’ ROLL
PRIMETIME
RATTLE
Friday 5 June
The Old Baths, 80 Eastway, Hackney Wick, London, E9 5JH

NO BABIES
MARGY PEPPER
COMMISERATIONS
Tuesday 9 June
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS

AUSMUTEANTS
TENSE MEN
THE CONNECTORS
Wednesday 10 June
Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, London, E8 2EB

LITURGY
CIRCUIT DES YEUX
Thursday 11 June
Electrowerkz, 7 Torrens Street, Angel, EC1V 1NQ

DAN DEACON
YEAH YOU
WUME
Tuesday 16 June
Oval Space, 29-32 The Oval, Cambridge Heath, E2 9DT

ARIEL PINK
HARRY MERRY
Wednesday 17 June
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, E2 6NB
8pm | £17 | SOLD OUT

REIGNING SOUND
THE NUMBER ONES
THE CASTILLIANS
Monday 22 June
100 Club, 100 Oxford St, Oxford Street, W1D 1LL

VEXX
HUMAN FORM
VERTICAL SLUMP
Wednesday 1 July
Montague Arms, 289 Queen's Rd, New Cross Gate, SE14 2PA

PEGA MONSTRO
Saturday 15 August
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6 |
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/321016

DEERHOOF
Tuesday 25 August
Tufnell Park Dome, 2A Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park, NW5 1HL
7.30pm | £12 |
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/313096

FUZZ
Friday 4 September
Heaven, The Arches, Villiers Street, Charing Cross, WC2N 6NG
7pm - 10pm | £14 |
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/318321

STEPHEN STEINBRINK
JULIE BYRNE

Thursday 10 September
St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, NW1 1UL
7.30pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/319333  

DOPE BODY
USA NAILS
Wednesday 16 September
Old Blue Last, 38 Great Eastern St, Shoreditch, EC2A 3ES
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/318804

MARTIN NEWELL - ‘THE GOLDEN AFTERNOON’
Saturday 19 September
St Giles In The Fields, 60 St Giles High Street, Covent Garden, WC2H 8LG

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