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Just wondered if anyone has any word on good bands in town right now I've seen a few decent ones of teh London circuit recently. Any suggestions?...please dont say "oh, my friends band (actually my band...)"

Ben

thisisntastatement | 12 Mar '07, 16:06 | Send note | Report this | Reply

the Sleeping Years.

lyle | 12 Mar '07, 16:07 | Send note | Report this | Reply

.

buttonhead are easily the best band based in london.

they have a string of gigs around london at the moment i think.

shedontusejelly | 12 Mar '07, 16:29 | Send note | Report this | Reply

sailplanes

dead good wedding present/k records/shellac type noise with male and female vocals, their last e.p. was a glorious sound of clanging.

oh and part chimp obviously...

amyblue | 12 Mar '07, 16:32 | Send note | Report this | Reply

buttonhead are great fun

dan_thw | 12 Mar '07, 18:50 | Send note | Report this | Reply

I LOVE BUTTONHEAD

sarkyfox | 12 Mar '07, 19:00 | Send note | Report this | Reply

coming to see em on wennersday?

supporting la 'Jetson?

-gen- | 12 Mar '07, 20:06 | Send note | Report this | Reply

tomorrow?

errrrrrm

sarkyfox | 13 Mar '07, 12:58 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Come and see them

tomorrow night with us (redjetson) at the Luminaire!!!

IanJ | 13 Mar '07, 16:13 | Send note | Report this | Reply

someone plug us please seeing i'm not allowed to

dan_thw | 12 Mar '07, 18:45 | Send note | Report this | Reply

he said good !

lyle | 12 Mar '07, 18:46 | Send note | Report this | Reply

joking...

http://www.myspace.com/4or5magicians

lyle | 12 Mar '07, 18:47 | Send note | Report this | Reply

sorry!

I misread "good" as "incredible"!

dan_thw | 12 Mar '07, 18:50 | Send note | Report this | Reply

you have a problem

...

lyle | 12 Mar '07, 18:58 | Send note | Report this | Reply

i have lots of problems

dan_thw | 12 Mar '07, 19:04 | Send note | Report this | Reply

like all of us !

lyle | 12 Mar '07, 19:09 | Send note | Report this | Reply

You're in a Brighton band

Silly.

Murder | 12 Mar '07, 18:47 | Send note | Report this | Reply

shows played in Brighton : about 5

shows played in London : about 25

We're a London band!

dan_thw | 12 Mar '07, 18:49 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Oh alright

That's a pretty faultless logic.

Murder | 12 Mar '07, 18:56 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Lyle's already plugged that hole

but I'll add to the 4/5M love.

Dunno what kind of thing you're looking for, but I was recently impressed by live shows from these two:

Shimmy Rivers And And Canal
http://myspace.com/shimmyriversandandcanal

Down I Go
http://myspace.com/disastercore

and I'm locked in a long-term affair with:

Gooblar
http://myspace.com/gooblar

joeymahone | 12 Mar '07, 18:55 | Send note | Report this | Reply

score one for safety

bobj | 12 Mar '07, 18:53 | Send note | Report this | Reply

john & jehn

tons of fun.

http://www.myspace.com/johnjehn

-gen- | 12 Mar '07, 20:12 | Send note | Report this | Reply

...

Favours For Sailors
http://www.myspace.com/favours4sailors

4 or 5 Magicians
http://www.myspace.com/4or5magicians

Twisted Charm
http://www.myspace.com/twistedcharm

The Doghouse Riley Band
http://www.myspace.com/thedoghouserileyband

As someone else said, The Sailplanes are good as well. Loads more that I can't think of. There are about 10,000 shit bands in London though.

ConcentrationFace | 12 Mar '07, 20:22 | Send note | Report this | Reply

and

www.myspace.com/ourowndevices so so good

allisfulloflove | 12 Mar '07, 20:26 | Send note | Report this | Reply

go and listen to favours for sailors

they just recorded a new demo with the same guy that did ours, and it sounds brilliant.

dan_thw | 12 Mar '07, 21:13 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Indeed....

...favours for sailors are awesome. I played a gig with those at 93 Feet East in January. Dead nice chaps they were too!

I'm liking a lot the sound of 4 or 5 Magicians too. I take it that's your band Dan?
Good stuff!

dead_fred | 12 Mar '07, 21:49 | Send note | Report this | Reply

yep, thanks!

which band are you?

dan_thw | 12 Mar '07, 22:00 | Send note | Report this | Reply

I play guitar in this lot...

www.myspace.com/gofasterband

The gig we did with Favour for Sailors was ace. We spent a fair few minutes in the 93 Feet East dressing room admiring the detail people had put into drawing cocks on the ceiling. Good times.

You got any plans to bring your band oop north?

dead_fred | 12 Mar '07, 22:39 | Send note | Report this | Reply

hopefully

we're gonna get a DIY UK tour organised for June. We have people around the country who have contacted us who put gigs on, but its always difficult to justify putting on a band who probably wont bring in a whole load of people, however much you like them, which I understand. Still, would be nice. If you could sort us out with a gig in Liverpool that would be ace, your band sounds great! We are now myspace friends ... as soon as you accept!

dan_thw | 12 Mar '07, 23:55 | Send note | Report this | Reply