Next event: Muso’s Guide and Broken Glass present… Beyond The Curve

Together with the critically-acclaimed theatre company Broken Glass, we are bringing an all-day programme to The Camden Head (100 Camden High Street) on Sunday 4 April from 3pm, showcasing award-winning poetry, cutting-edge theatre, short film, found-sound DJing, dark theatre cabaret and acclaimed folk-noir.

The day’s hand-picked programme represents the shared ambition to bridge the gap between different types of performance and open up new audiences to an array of diverse talent.

It’s all at The Camden Head, Sunday April 4, from 3pm – late, and Beyond The Curve tickets can be bought from We Got Tickets for £8, or £6 if you’re quick enough. Here’s that link again: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/74842 … Continue Reading

Lisbon’s Youthless cover Wild Beasts for Portugalia

Youthless

Muso’s Guide favourites Youthless are getting a name for themselves over in their home country of Portugal, with radio DJ Henrique Amarro inviting them in for four days on his show, Portugali, to do a series of acoustic covers of some of their favourite songs.

You can hear them from March 8 – 11 at 3pm on Antena 3 and on the station’s podcast after those dates. They’ve also covered The XX’s ‘Islands’, to be aired later in March. Not only is their employment of a synth killer, but their music taste appears to be similar. … Continue Reading

Los Campesinos! get bigger, play Shepherd’s Bush Empire

Los Campesinos!

How exciting, that Los Campesinos! are now big enough to play Shepherd’s Bush Empire. How brilliant.

And how great that it’s going to be happening! Tickets go on sale Monday 8th March at 9am, hot on the heels of their sold-out Koko show very recently. … Continue Reading

R. Kelly set to play first UK tour in 8 years

R. Kelly

We’ve just found out that the incredible R.Kelly has announced dates where he’ll hit the UK for the first time since 2002, taking on Manchester, London (twice!) and Wolverhampton.

His first UK shows were at the Hammersmith Apollo way back in 1992, and it’s where he’ll be again come April. It’s a revisiting of his peak, through shows that’ll hopefully blow our minds.

Think about a 20-year career taking in such heights as ‘She’s Got That Vibe’, ‘Bump ‘n’ Grind’, ‘Ignition (Remix) and the frankly barking Trapped In The Closet series and we’re pretty sure you’ll find yourself in a tizz about the whole thing. … Continue Reading

Win a pair of tickets to see Errors at the Scala

Errors

Those lovely folks at Eat Your Own Ears have given us a pair of prize tickets to give away for this fantastic triple-bill of a gig, headlined by post-electro band Errors, formed in Glasgow in 2004. The gig’s on March 4 at the Scala in London, and also features Race Horses and So So Modern.

To win, just answer the following question:

What was the name of Errors’ 2008-released debut album?

a)    It Is Something But It’s Not Like Um, I Haven’t A Clue Mate

b)    It’s Not Something But It Is Like Whatever … Continue Reading

New Broken Social Scene song ‘World Sick’ right here!

Not Squares – Asylum

Like, video of the day or something?

Our Lost Infantry announce tour

Our Lost Infantry

Muso’s Guide favourites Our Lost Infantry, who opened our last spectacular show at The Lexington at the tail end of January, have announced details of an upcoming tour.

You should go.

Also, there’s a date not on there – they’ll be supporting Grammatics on March 12 at, once again, The Lexington.

They’ll be hitting the cities of London, Blackburn, Accrington, Leeds, Bracknell, Southampton and their home-town of Aldershot.

(it’s a well pretty poster too) … Continue Reading

Summer Camp’s identities revealed as Jeremy Warmsley and Elizabeth Sankey

Summer Camp (one of our top tips for 2010), who we formerly thought Swedish as reported on their MySpace, before falling head over heels for them and ignoring the identity-crisis (check out this guffery), have had their identities finally revealed by The Stool Pigeon.

Instead of being seven kids who met at a summer camp, they’re actually MG favourite Jeremy Warmsley (interviewed here) and Platform Editor Elizabeth Sankey. The Stool Pigeon revealed the news unashamed, simply detailing Summer Camp’s line up.

Here’s hoping that now we’ve passed this hurdle, there’ll be gigs to come…

Muso’s Guide presents… woo.: Queen of Hoxton, February 18th, FREE!

We’re launching a brand-new free-entry clubnight called woo. at the Queen of Hoxton in London on Thursday February 18th [Gmap], featuring The Power Trio DJs (ooh, mysterious!) on the decks, playing:

My Bloody Valentine, Air France, Yo La Tengo, Memory Tapes, The Ronettes, Air, New Order, The Shangri-Las, Neon Indian, Vivian Girls, The Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth, The Cure, Summer Camp, Beach House, TV On The Radio, M83, The Knife, Iggy and The Stooges, Sonic Youth, Jimi Hendrix, The Radio Dept, No Age and more.

The PR has this bit of parodial wankery so we’re sticking it in here too:

woo. [wu?]
interj & n & vb
A less sycophantic and more authentic version of its descendent, ‘woo!’.

Do come. … Continue Reading