LISTINGS

• Thursday, May 17 Blackbird Blackbird, Philco Fiction, Himalayan Headquarters 8pm adv £8

  Lo-fi dreamy electro-pop shoegazing syth-pop from San Francisco.
  downstairs DJ What She Came For

  http://www.wegottickets.com/event/150131
  https://www.facebook.com/events/297344150315895/?ref=ts
• Friday, May 18 White Lights / SJM presents Tanlines 7.30pm-4am, club from 11pm adv £7.50

  The Brooklyn duo play deeply personal electronic pop fusing the music of the band's childhood (New Order, The KLF, Stock Aitken Waterman, Stevie Winwood) with pristine synthetic sounds and their own homespun organic ones. After 11pm we have Thunderbird Gerard, DJ (Warp) Stephen, Young Turks DJs and more for FREE!
  9.45pm - Tanlines
  10.45pm - Warp DJ Stephen.
  11.30pm - Thunderbird Gerard
  12midnight - Warp DJ Stephen
  1am - Young Turks DJs (nic & tic)
  2am - DJ Tobias
  downstairs DJ Ren Rox plays retro hits to dance to.

  http://www.seetickets.com/Event/TANLINES/The-Lexington/618430
  
• Saturday, May 19 Gypsy Hotel - Trans-Siberian March Band, Fancy Chance, Mila & Renoir, The Long Insiders, Dalston Fisting Club, Tricity Vogue 8pm-4am £12, adv £9.99

  Whiskey-soaked rock'n'roll and cabaret with...
  Trans-Siberian March Band - World Beat Brass Oddities!
  Fancy Chance - Burlesque Terrorist No. 1!
  Mila & Re-Noir - Saucy Soviet Chansons!
  The Long Insiders - Twang'n'Tunes!
  Dalston Fisting Club - Double Dippin!
  Tricity Vogue - And Her Ukulele!
  dj Scratchy - Resident Wax-Spinner!
  
  downstairs DJ Dexter til 4am.

  http://www.wegottickets.com
  
• Sunday, May 20 Doing It For The Kids - Babeshadow, Liz Lawrence, Telegrams 6pm £9, adv £7

  An evening of bands, raffle and cakes in aid of vulnerable children and young people.
  
  Babeshadow: We were recently introduced to Babeshadow and are looking forward to working with the band who will be performing this summer with Pete Doherty at the Yard Life Festival.
  
  Liz Lawrence: We are very excited to have Liz Lawrence joining this year who has recently released her debut album 'Bedroom Hero' and is currently touring in Ireland.
  
  Telegrams: Telegrams went down a storm at Doing it for the Kids 2010, and we're glad to have them back for 2012. Seeing them is a must for those who appreciate great lyrics.

  http://www.wegottickets.com/event/164710
  
• Sunday, May 20 Hangover Lounge - St Etienne Playback Plus Q&A 2pm-9pm free

  From 2pm you can hear a playback of St Etienne's new album 'Words And Music' and then there'll be a Q&A session and then Bob & Pete will DJ.
  DON'T BE LATE!
  The perfect music to calm your minds after a hard Saturday night's drinking and stave off the dread of the week ahead. That might mean vintage soul or reggae or folk or indiepop or psych, all pitched just so �" every Sunday at The Lexington.
  
  from 9pm until 2am -

  DJ Luchador

  presents Eclecto-vision with mixed up sounds and visuals.

• Monday, May 21 Fortuna Pop! Presents Still Flyin', Poppy Perrezz, Cosines 7.30pm £8, adv £6.50

  Still Flyin’: Still Flyin’ have been redefining indie-pop since 2004, drawing inspiration from classic pop songwriting and great times with great friends. 'On a Bedroom Wall' sees the band returning with a streamlined live setup to bring a tight new sound to their production and songcraft, mixed with a healthy dose of ingenuity and fun. Following on from the 80s influence and synth-tastic Neu Ideas releases, Still Flyin’ have once again upped their game, mixing hook-heavy melodies with signature choral harmonies and roto-toms aplenty.
  Poppy Perrezz : Bristol-based band play feel-good, sunshine-happy music for cool and groovy summer nights. Described variously as pinball electro, chirp-hop or even electro-funk-folk pop, one thing’s for certain: you’re unlikely to have heard anything quite like it before.
  Cosines: “Like Electrelene playing “Kids in America”.

  http://www.wegottickets.com/event/160587
  
• Monday, May 21 Rough Trade Pop Quiz 8pm-10pm £1 per team member, up to 6 in a team

  Paul Missile presents the pop quiz with picture rounds, music rounds and lots of questions. Prizes galore plus lots of lolz

• Tuesday, May 22 The Local presents Gravenhurst, Sweet Lights 7.30pm adv £11

  The Bristol singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer from Nick Talbot plays sonically diverse, starkly diverse pieces constructed on mellotrons, optigans and antique synthesizers.
  
  
  "Gorgeous, melancholy English psychedelia… This is, simply, beautiful music."The Guardian
  
  "Gravenhurst makes beautiful music" Independent On Sunday
  
  “softly f***ing psychotic 9/10” Vice Magazine
  downstairs DJ Dexter

  http://thelocal.tv/listings/eventdetails/22-may-12-gravenhurst-the-lexington/
  
• Wednesday, May 23 Metropolis presents Beth Rowley, Marcus Bonfanti 7pm adv £12

  The Bristol-based singer-songwriter is heavily influenced by blues, gospel and Americana music, Beth has a stunning and unique voice that has been acclaimed the world over, and having taken a break to write new songs with Ron Sexsmith, Ed Harcourt and others she is back to play a few select shows ahead of new releases in 2012.
  
  “The way she handles the gospel blues vein that runs through tracks like ‘There’s Only One Cloud’ and ‘Almost Persuaded’. This girl was born to testify.” BBC
  
  “Her voice is astonishing. She projects it to the rafters without any apparent effort”. The Independent
  downstairs DJ Sonic Medusa

  http://www.seetickets.com/Event/BETH-ROWLEY/The-Lexington/622964
  
• Thursday, May 24 Eat Your Own Ears presents Martin Creed 7.30pm adv £10

  Martin Creed is an artist and musician. He famously won the Turner Prize for "The lights going on and off".
  
  His second single, Where You Go, will be released on 27 February following last year's Thinking / Not Thinking. Having traveled the world in 2011 with his exhibitions and his band, Martin is finishing work on his debut album Love To You, which will be released in May 2012.
  
  To celebrate the release, Martin and his band will be performing live at The Lexington on Thursday 24th May.
  
  Creed is currently working on an orchestral piece for the London Sinfonietta, and in the summer his music for bells has been commissioned to be played as part of the events on the opening day of the Olympics.
  downstairs DJs Andrew & Rachel

  http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=490883
  
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• Friday, May 25 White Light / Mean Fiddler presents Hounds Below, The Brute Chorus . .

  CANCELLED!

  http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=493285
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• Saturday, May 26 Club 27/11 9pm-4am £5, £3 before 11pm

  Monthly Indie (Old & New)/90s/Baggy Club Night Live Band & DJs from 9:30pm - 4am. (Band onstage at 10:30pm).
  
  Resident 27/11 DJs: Woolfie, Mega Rowlett Plus: Mike (Candybox, Bedrock)
  
  Music from the likes of: Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, Art Brut, Ash, Babyshambles, Beatles, Billy Bragg, Black Grape, Blur, BRMC, Camera Obscura, Charlatans, Clash, Concretes, Cribs, Coral, Courteeners, Cure, Dizzee Rascal, Doves, Drums, Enemy, Foo Fighters, Friendly Fires, Glasvegas, Happy Mondays, Horrors, Ian Brown, K......asabian, Kings Of Leon, Kinks, Klaxons, Jamie T, Jam, Joy Division, Ladyhawke, La’s, Libertines, Maccabees, Madness, MGMT, Mucky Pups, Music, Mystery Jets, National, New York Dolls, Oasis, Plan B, Primal Scream, Pulp, Rakes, Ramones, Rifles, Rolling Stones, Santigold, Small Faces, Specials, Stone Roses, Streets, Strokes, Sunshine Underground, Supergrass, Twang, Vampire Weekend, View, Virgins, Verve, White Stripes, Who, XX, YYYs, Zutons, etc...

• Sunday, May 27 Throwing Up, Dana Jade, Zoetrope, Daughters Of The Kaos (DJs) 7pm adv £5

  Clit Rock is back with another stunning line up of Musicians and poets. Come join us raise funds for Daughters of Eve, an organisation committed to protecting young women and girls at risk of FGM in the UK. As well as the amazing live music from the likes of Dana Jade and Throwing Up, on the night there will also be a stall with t-shirts, sweets, cakes, a raffle and DJs afterward for the purposes of mingling, dancing with a bar open till late.
  
  This will be an educational as well as entertaining and powerful evening so please come join us and raise not just funds but also awareness of FGM and the great work Daughters of Eve are doing.
  
  8:30pm - Dana Jade
  9:30pm - Throwing Up
  10:15pm - Zoetrope

  http://daughtersofeveclitrockepisode2.eventbrite.com/
  
• Sunday, May 27 Hangover Lounge 2pm-9pm free

  The perfect music to calm your minds after a hard Saturday night's drinking and stave off the dread of the week ahead. That might mean vintage soul or reggae or folk or indiepop or psych, all pitched just so �" every Sunday at The Lexington.
  
  from 9pm until 2am -

  DJ Luchador

  presents Eclecto-vision with mixed up sounds and visuals.

• Monday, May 28 My Tiger My Timing, Artifacts, Ornament Tournaments 7pm free

  My Tiger My Timing kick off celebrations for the launch of their debut album 'Celeste' with a special show at The Lexington. The band from south east London, with previous releases on Kitsuné and Modular Records, have been described as "shimmery post-punk in which all the guitar lines dangle like silver filigree chains” (Drowned in Sound) and “alternative pop with a dark heart that’s bursting with desire” (Clash).
  
  Support comes from Goldsmiths College-based Artifacts, who mix electronics and wall of sound guitars to create songs full of passion, melancholy and heart.
  
  And "no-nonsense pop/rock nonsense" from Crawley's fabulous Ornament Tournaments.
  
  Music after the bands from Style & Fashion DJs.

  https://www.facebook.com/events/236524873120734/
• Tuesday, May 29 Pull Up The Roots presents Anais Mitchell 7.30pm returns only

  Anais Mitchell presents songs from her brand new album, 'Young Man in America', together with songs from her earlier albums. Mitchell will be accompanied by her Young Man band for the first time in the UK

  http://www.wegottickets.com/event/153070
  
• Wednesday, May 30 Goldenvoice presents Broken Hands 7.30pm adv £6

  Broken Hands are Dale Norton, Callum Norton, Thomas Ford & Jamie Darby. A band who herald from Kent and play a raw alternative-indie-blues which belies their youthful age, they formed a very very short time ago and even though they have grown up and had already been playing music together in Canterbury on an off since their early teens it was their fascination with the Blues and their sheer love of playing and watching live music that has bought them even closer together in recent months, the result of a few loose jams in a local rehearsal studio was all it took to realise that the time had come to practice exactly what they preach and love... So weirdly that is exactly what they have done !! Their name came from a character in a classic Western film called 'White Feather' (they all love Westerns.....) it was the perfect fit for the new sound and the freedom they had found when playing.
  
  As well as being one the most exciting live acts to come from Kent in living memory (and selling out their debut London show on August 2011 at the Bull and Gate in Kentish Town despite only having a handful of shows under their belts) Broken Hands also run and are the brains behind cult Canterbury club night ‘Hoochie Coochie" which packs in both fans and friends alike, pulling hundreds of like minded people together to celebrate music, guest live acts and everything that is good about living !!! Dale Norton - Vocals
  Jamie Darby - Guitar
  Thomas Ford - Bass
  Callum Norton - Drums
  www.brokenhands.co.uk
  

  http://www.aeglive.co.uk/artists/broken-hands
  
• Thursday, May 31 Ja Ja Ja - Reptile Youth, Maribel, Sansa

  8.20pm Sansa
  9.15pm Maribel
  10.10pm Reptile Youth

• Friday, June 01 White Light / Imperial Leisure, The Vex, Popes Of Chilli Town 8pm-4am, (club after 11pm) adv £6

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  http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=504703
  
• Saturday, June 02 21st Century Noise 8pm-4am £6, £5 FB list, after 11pm £5, £4 FB list

  We're back UPSTAIRS at The Lexington for another 21st Century Noise, with a playlist of post-2001 guitar or remix tunes.
  Johnny Headband (11pm) “Detroit-based trio Johnny Headband are comprised of brothers Chad and Keith Thompson (bassist for Electric Six) in addition to RGS on drums, they bring you a riot of off-kilter electronic pop.
  Mother's Ruin (10pm ) Choruses, soundscapes and riffs, taking you from Joy Division to U2 via Kate Bush.
  Rev 78 (9:15pm) Have been described as "Ian Curtis and Morrissey’s bastard lovechild."
  Roxanne de Bastion (8:30pm)
  - “One of the most perfect voices I have ever heard” said Tom Whalley, BBC 6 Producer.
  
  then DJs playing post-2001 electro / remix / indie / post-punk - yes, it's 21st Century Noise ONLY!
  
  Jeff Automatic (Transmission / DIY Radio), Ed Wilder (Club NME), El Conchitas (Shoreditch Radio / Popstarz)

  https://www.facebook.com/events/324350350968628/
  
• Tuesday, June 05 Song Kick presents Tom Williams & The Boat TBC adv £11

  The Kent sextet play heartfelt tales of lost love

  http://detourjam.com/tomwilliamsboat/london
  
• Wednesday, June 06 Mean Fiddler presents Gideon Conn, 6 Day Riot 7.30pm adv £7.50

  Gideon Conn and his band produce a unique, upbeat sound with a fantastic hip-hop meets folk rock vibe to promote new album 'Take It All'.

  http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=494760
  
• Thursday, June 07 Clash / Line Of Best Fit presents Stealing Sheep, Simian Ghost, Rough Fields 8pm adv £6

  Liverpudlian trio Stealing Sheep play noisily drenched DIY-pop delivering mystical harmonies drenched in a hazy psychedelic folktronica with medieval synths, hypnotic beats and spiraling whammy guitars. Support from Swedish indie-pop trio Simian Ghost and...

  http://www.eventim.co.uk/cgi-bin/the-best-fit-tour-Tickets-london.html?affiliate=EUK&doc=artistPages%2Ftickets&fun=artist&action=tickets&key=752838%242065938&jumpIn=yTix&kuid=468358&from=erdetaila
  
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• Saturday, June 09 Paris Is Burning - Kid North 8pm-4am £7, adv £4, £3 after 11pm

  The French band play a blend of indie, post-punk and electro - DJs play indie/electro/pop until 4am.

  http://www.wegottickets.com
  
• Sunday, June 10 Psychedelic Sunday with The Hall Of Mirrors . .

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• Tuesday, June 12 The Word Magazine presents The Blockheads 8pm adv £19

  The Word Magazine proudly presents the legendary Blockheads in the latest of the 'Word In Your Ear' show series.
  As ever, the event shall be compered with élan and aplomb by Master of Ceremonies, WORD editor Mark Ellen, and discs shall be spun for the head and the hips by our very own Prince of the Platter, David Hepworth.
  A most splendid time shall be had by all!

  http://thewordmagazineblockheads.eventbrite.co.nz/?ebtv=C
  
• Wednesday, June 13 La Sera, Novella 8pm adv £8

  Since joining all-female punk trio Vivian Girls during the spring of 2007 Katy Goodman's DIY-style bass playing and drifty-faded vocals have sent waves of adoration rippling throughout Brooklyn's pop punk circuit. Her newest band La Sera showcases her signature style, bringing her talent for creating dreamy pop songs even more to the forefront.

  http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=504294
  
• Thursday, June 14 Mean Fiddler presents Abigail Washburn with Kai Welch 7pm adv £10

  The singing, songwriting, Illinois-born, Nashville-based clawhammer banjo player pairs venerable folk elements with far-flung sounds, and the results feel both strangely familiar and unlike anything anybody’s ever heard before.

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• Saturday, June 16 Gypsy Hotel - The Troubadours, Fabulous Rusella, Buffalo's Wake, The Ladykillers, Billie Rae, John Crampton, Ria Gruen 8pm-4am £12, adv £9.99

  The Troubadours - Folk Rock Explosion!
  Fabulous Rusella - And Her Pancake!
  Buffalo's Wake - Gypsy Punk Orchestra!
  The Ladykillers - Rockabilly Garage Guys!
  Billie Rae - Bohemian starlet!
  John Crampton - Footstomping Blues & Bluegrass!
  Ria Gruen -
  dj Scratchy - Resident Wax-Spinner!pinner!

  http://www.wegottickets.com
  
• Sunday, June 17 Wills-Moody Rock'n'Roll Jumblesale 2pm-6pm free entry

  Clothes, books, DVD, bric-a-brac, STUFF!

• Wednesday, June 20 SJM presents Tom Baxter 7pm adv £15

  Soulful and passionate songs from the English singer-songwriter with emotionally raw lyrics and a touch of Latin flavour.

  http://www.seetickets.com/Artist/TOM-BAXTER/78832
  
• Thursday, June 21 Metroplis presents Phantom Limb 7pm adv £8

  One listen to Phantom Limb and you instantly find yourself transported to that all-too-often unexplored crossroads between country music and old style R&B. This is a band steeped in a tradition where the two genres share their musical DNA. It’s The Staples Singers fronting The Band in The Last Waltz, Ray Charles striking gold when he made his first country album, Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham down in Muscle Shoals writing Do Right Woman, a song that would go on to be recorded by both Aretha Franklin and The Flying Burrito Brothers.

  http://www.seetickets.com/Event/PHANTOM-LIMB/The-Lexington/631380
  
• Friday, June 22 White Light / Guided Missile presents Knifeworld, Thumpermonkey, Barringtone, Something Beginning With L - DJ Max Tundra . .

  KNIFEWORLD: Including 2 members of CARDIACS, Knifeworld are a complex psychedelic powerhouse, hook-laden nerveshatter, dense arrangements and joyful melancholia colliding in kaleidoscopic music as utopian meltdown. support from bonkers prog-rockers THUMPERMONKEY, synth-pop oddities BARRINGTONE and SOMETHING BEGINNING WITH L ("There's something brilliant to pick out of any and every song on this album. It's possibly the most consistently thrilling debut of the year" Americana UK )
  plus - DJ MAX TUNDRA

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• Thursday, June 28 Frankie Rose 8pm adv £8

  Frankie Rose (ex Crystal Stilts, Dum Dum Girls and Vivian Girls) is back with her second album 'Interstellar'. It forgoes the 60's sounds prevalent on her debut in favour of a deeply engaging, 70's indebted pop record, one with experimental leanings harking back to Arthur Russell, Angelo Badalamenti's 'Twin Peaks' score, and leavened by innate melodic instincts akin to New Order. (Rough Trade)

  https://www.ticketweb.co.uk
  
• Friday, June 29 White Light / Guided Missile presents Bis, Ace City Rockers, No Cars 8pm adv £10 - sold out

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  playing a special one-off reunion date
  
  t www.wegottickets.com Full band line up with real drums!
  
  "Glasgow punk-disco legends, bis, return for a one-off London show.Manda Rin, John Disco and Sci-Fi Steven play their first show in London for over five years and the first ever to feature a full live rhythm section. The band will be playing a selection of material ranging from the scratchy new wave of the early EP's of 1995/1996 through the disco pop of the "Social Dancing" era and beyond, with the outside chance of the first brand new bis songs in ten years. Get tickets early before the former teen heroes succumb further to adulthood, the youthful optimism may have mutated into a sarcastic cynicism but bis is and always has been, first and foremost, a pop group. One who meshed their influences into creating a unique sound which became an influence itself over a new generation of bands."

  http://www.wegottickets.com (from 10am on March 1st)
  
• Saturday, June 30 Club 27/11 9pm-4am .

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• Sunday, July 01 Hangover Lounge presents The Lobster Boat Band feat David Tattersall (The Wave Pictures) & Howard Hughes 7pm adv £6, concs £4 (NUS/JSA)

  David Tattersall (The Wave Pictures) & Howard Hughes (Coming Soon) play songs old and new - including tracks from their debut album 'The Lobster Boat', released on Where Its At Is Where You Are (WIAIWYA). They will be joined by a full band including Franic Rozycki (The Wave Pictures).

  http://www.wegottickets.com/event/163498
  
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• Tuesday, July 03 RockFeedback presents Eugene McGuinness 7.30pm adv £7.50

  This show celebrates the launch of Eugene McGuinness' second full-length LP 'The Invitation To The Voyage’, out on Domino records.

  http://www.wegottickets.com/event/163917
  
• Wednesday, July 04 No Pain In Pop - Echo Lake, Evans The Death 8pm adv £5

  Echo Lake launch their album with special guests.

  http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=505705
  
• Wednesday, July 25 Pull Up The Roots presents The Wilderness Of Manitoba 7.30pm adv £9.50

  The return of Toronto's gently rocking, multi-instrumental chamber folk quintet.

• Wednesday, September 05 Sleep Party People 7.30pm adv £8

  Danish multi-instrumentalist Brian Batz plays eerie hypnotic music to soundtrack your dreams.

  http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=508463
  
• Sunday, October 21 SJM presents The Travelling Band 8pm adv £10

  The Travelling Band’s shimmering blend of cosmic-country-pop, understated psychedelia, vocal harmonies and nu-folk has made them one of the most talked about artists to emerge from the Manchester music scene �" “If you consider the term Mancunian Americana to be an oxymoron try listening to The Travelling Band. Brilliant.” Marc Riley BBC 6 Music.
  

  http://www.gigsandtours.com/Event/THE-TRAVELLING-BAND/Lexington-London/637222
  


Please note! The Lexington is an 18+ venue.