First Names Announced for Community 2015 – A Brand New Festival In East London‏

admin — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 20:24:09 +0000

You can never have too much music, and as such, never too many festivals at which to celebrate the best new bands. The first names for the latest party to grace the mean streets of Shoreditch, Community, have been announced, and its an electric and exciting mix of some of the names that will be becoming more familiar as we edge into 2016. Old favourites The Macbeth and The Old Blue Last will be joined by trendy XOYO and The Village Underground as well as a whole host of other venues in opening their doors to indie, rock, hip hop, dance, grime and pop acts. The full list as it stands is below, but highlights include The Beach, Vince Staples, Beasts, Sundara Karma, Blonde, Pale Honey and Eliot Summer.
Tickets go on sale 9am Friday 18 September, and are available from Ticketweb.

TUESDAY 3RD NOVEMBER

CARGO Samm Henshaw Jim Caesar Plus guests	COURTYARD THEATRE Communions Fews Steve	HOXTON BAR & KITCHEN RAT BOY Pretty Vicious Zibra Anteros
MIRANDA @ ACE HOTEL Brolin Plus guests	THE MACBETH THE CUT PRESENTS Hacktivist Black Peaks Beasts Wars	RED GALLERY Sunset Sons The Beach Damien Ike
XOYO BØRNS White Transviolet	ZIGFRID VON UNDERBELLY VÉRITÉ Plus guests

WEDNESDAY 4TH NOVEMBER

CARGO 4AD PRESENTS Pixx Søren Juul	COURTYARD THEATRE The Japanese House Dreller Plus guests	HOXTON BAR & KITCHEN DIY PRESENTS Clean Cut Kid Mi Amigo April Towers NGod
THE MACBETH KERRANG! FRESH BLOOD PRESENTS Fort Hope Brawlers Trash Boat Boston Manor	OLD BLUE LAST Skinny Girl Diet Piano Wire Strange Bones	VILLAGE UNDERGROUND Blonde KStewart Huntar
XOYO Petite Meller Jimi Charles Moody Tiggs Da Author	ZIGFRID VON UNDERBELLY Matt Woods Kopecky Plus guests

THURSDAY 5TH NOVEMBER

CARGO DJ SEMTEX PRESENTS ARRIVAL FEAT. Vince Staples Kojey Radical Plus guests	CONCRETE JOHN KENNEDY X-POSURE (RADIO X) PRESENTS Will Joseph Cook Otherkin Lake Komo Plus guests	HOXTON BAR & KITCHEN Eliot Sumner Plus guests
THE MACBETH KILLING MOON PRESENTS Sundara Karma Vitamin Pale Honey Beach Baby	RED GALLERY Magic Gang INHEAVEN Day Wave	MIRANDA @ ACE HOTEL THUMP PRESENTS Airhead Marc Piñol Andrea SG Lewis Thump DJ’s
OLD BLUE LAST RAW POWER MANAGEMENT AND SEARCH AND DESTROY RECORDS PRESENT Very special headliner TBA Dead! Shvpes	ZIGFRID VON UNDERBELLY Greg Holden George Cosby Joseph J. Jones

Benjamin Booker & Tigercub @ The Old Blue Last

admin — Fri, 30 May 2014 19:42:35 +0000

May 20th 2014
When people say retro, they’re being a bit lazy. With thousands of years behind us, the idea that something is evocavative of the past isn’t in itself particularly revealing. For example, there’s not a lot uniting the two acts on the bill tonight in terms of the actual sonic output, but both have clearly learned from their forbears. Three piece Tigercub spent a youth listening Nevermind, whereas headliner Benjamin Booker bubbles over with blues, boogie and soul style.
Upstairs at the Old Blue is more full than empty when Tigercub set to the stage, their brash dirge pop ricocheting through the building. This is grunge with melody, less aggressive than their pals The Wytches, and they pump through the set with a solidity and stamina. Raw and fuzzy, they play with a louche power, no doubt helped by the gangly yet definite presence of seven foot tall front man Jamie. Whirring distortion fuelled tracks like Mother, Little Rope, and latest single Blue Blood land well, and although there’s a general feeling that these guys aren’t reinventing the wheel, but when the wheel includes Sonic Youth, Nirvana, or Dinosaur Pile Up, there might not be a need to.

Benjamin Booker is the man everyone is here to see. A glance around the crowd shows how broad an appeal the man has, with suited city types standing next to skinny jeaned hipsters, with industry chin strokers and music fans alike mingling between them. The names David Letterman and Alabama Shakes are not usually names I would consider it to be beneficial to be associated with, in terms of guiding my listening choices (because that’s what a band worries about…), but along with a recent Letterman performance, album production from Andrija Tokic of Alabama Shakes fame, and touring with Jack White, Booker has the talent and tunes to back it up.

Booker, 24, grew up in Tampa and spent time playing in a garage rock duo, but it is evidently his years in New Orleans that really honed his sound, adding that blues melody layer to urgent garage chords, and creating something immediate and fresh, yet which hits the cerebral cortex: that mash of old and new being ignited being the root of good music. Tonight performing with backing musicians, Booker is clearly the master of his craft and the stage, and there was almost no need for the drummer, so tight and rhythmic is Booker’s sound. Running through tracks from his debut album, out on Rough Trade later this year, Booker demonstrated his expertise in quick clipped riffing and vibrant scales, underpinned by rocking chords.
And when he launched into Violent Shiver, exactly that was felt through the venue, with foot shuffling and limb twitching starting to accompany the chin nodding. A cigarette and whisky voice, an ear for a good tune, and a passion for playing are all alluring for any crowd, even the Vice-tastic Old Blue one.

the old blue last – and so she thinks

First Names Announced for Community 2015 – A Brand New Festival In East London‏

Benjamin Booker & Tigercub @ The Old Blue Last