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Pendulum - In Silico
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Tindersticks at London Royal Festival Hall, Sat 03 May
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Adam Green, Noah & The Whale at Manchester Club Academy (Cellar), Fri 11 Apr
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Effi Briest at London Camden Barfly, Tue 22 Apr
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Cut Copy at London King's Cross Scala, Wed 23 Apr
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Frightened Rabbit at London Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes, Thu 01 May
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Explosions In The Sky's guide to ATP
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Flight Of The Conchords: comedy Kiwis on their musical dabblings
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Late Of The Pier, The Displacements, A Place To Bury Strangers, Collapsing Cities at London Camden Barfly, Wed 07 May
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Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
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Crawling, talking: The Wave Pictures in conversation
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Track-by-Track: Johnny Foreigner's Waited Up 'Til It Was Light
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Singles Round-up (12/05/08)
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The Wave Pictures - Instant Coffee Baby
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The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing
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Iron and Wine, Bon Iver @ Sheffield Leadmill, 14/05
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Liars, Battles, Fuck Buttons, Dirty Projectors @ London Astoria, 14/05
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Jay Reatard, Soiled Mattress and the Springs, Times New Viking @ London Barden's Boudoir, 14/05
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Man Man, Bloodgroup @ Manchester Phoenix, 14/05
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Black Lips @ London 100 Club, 15/05
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The National @ Dublin Olympia, 15/05
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Jens Lekman @ Glasgow Oran Mor, 15/05
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the pAper chAse, Black Mountain, Vessels @ Leeds Cockpit, 15/05
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The Raconteurs @ Liverpool Academy (Liverpool University), 15/05
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Frightened Rabbit @ Dunfermline Carnegie Hall, 15/05
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Caribou, Born Ruffians, Wildbirds & Peacedrums @ London King's Cross Scala, 15/05
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The Twilight Sad, Frightened Rabbit, Dirty Summer @ Dunfermline Carnegie Hall, 15/05
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Glass Candy, Mike Simonetti @ Manchester Star & Garter, 15/05
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Nasty Fest IX @ Leeds The Faversham, 17/05
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Example, Bloodgroup, Christopher D. Ashley @ Brighton Pressure Point, 17/05
Astoria
Address: 157 Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0EL
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Phone: 020 7434 0403
Capacity: 2,000
Nearest tube: Tottenham Court Road
Ah, the Astoria - home of all those mid-level bands who will play venues a third of the size everywhere else in the country. Anyone who's anyone has played here.
You get free roam of the venue's three levels. There are enough bars to get served quickly enough at and you can escape the music at the middle bar if it all gets a bit too much for your poor little ears. There is a 'VIP' round the sides of the stage on the second level.
Acoustics can be dodgy depending on where you stand.
- Adie Nunn
Upcoming events
Reviewed events
17/03/2008 - Foals
14/02/2008 - Justice
10/02/2008 - Les Savy Fav, Future Of The Left, Los Campesinos!
01/11/2007 - Animal Collective
16/10/2007 - Bad Brains, Sonic Boom Six
07/09/2007 - Paramore
03/09/2007 - The Polyphonic Spree
16/06/2007 - Megadeth
29/05/2007 - The Thermals, The Cribs
22/05/2007 - The National, Annuals
19/04/2007 - Gravenhurst, Explosions In The Sky
14/03/2007 - LCD Soundsystem, Prinzhorn Dance School
07/03/2007 - The Bees
25/02/2007 - The Shins, Alberta Cross
21/02/2007 - !!!, Maximo Park, Blood Red Shoes
16/02/2007 - Regina Spektor, Love Is All
27/01/2007 - The Bronx
06/11/2006 - New Young Pony Club, Lily Allen
04/11/2006 - Enter Shikari, :(
06/10/2006 - Engerica, Seether, The Art Of Dying
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