Delia's gig guide: 17th Feb

Sunday Feb 17th
Amersham Arms – Beans on toast, eliza dolittle, dan smith, devin tuffy
100 club – hatcham social, neil’s children, electricity in our homes, scum

Mon Feb 18th
Enterprise – Lets Bitter Cinema, Rio en Medio
Rough Trade East – Pete and the pirates – 6.30pm – free but I think you gotta email them first….check their webbo roughtrade.com
93 feet east – load.click.shoot, I need to discover, pencil toes – free
water rats – lea shores, the flow, sunny day sets fire
gramphone – jenny hoyston
hoxton bar & kitchen – my sad captain, fireworks night, gold sounds
soho revue bar – the social, hot rocket, brute chorus
old blue last – golden silvers, davie fiddle and the lucky egg, dan smith – free

Tues Feb 19th
Luminaire – andre Williams with the flash express
Islington academy – electric 6
Buffalo bar- one more grain, load click sohoot, new black light machine
Madame jo jos – let tetsuo, s.c.u.m and omsone else if forgot
Old blue last – cobra dukes, arrow
Vibe bar – debrettes, wet dog, Monday club – free
Bardens – Joana And The Wolf, Torpedo
Dublin Castle -= Parka, Sharks
Slaughtered Lamb – Pure Groove POP QUIZ!

Wed Feb 20th
Canal 125 – The Cedars, Blabbermouth, Sam Carter, Mark Alexander
CC Club – Robert Gordon/Chris Spedding
ICA – to rococo rot
Cargo – morton valence
Scala – nouvelle vague
Buffalo bar- sisters, semaphore, northwood, anhtony elvin
Old blue last -f7cked up
Bar rumba – screaming tea party, artefacts for space travel
Bardens – Cadence Weapon, Cutting Pink With Knives,

Thursday Feb 21st
Ginglik – The Answering Machine, Cassie & The Cassettes, Touranmetns
100 Club – sketchbeat, anomalies
NewSlang&The Works – Los Campesinos, Johnny foreigner
ULU – Vampire Weekend
Buffalo bar- chap, guillotines, creepy morons
Bardens – hightown crows, sterling roswell, darkwood
Macbeth – --chips for the poor, Beezcat + + Mr Basista + Lobster Q DJs
Old blue last – lowline, cristine, the haunts

Fri Feb 22nd
93 Feet East – born ruffians, brute chorus, late greats – free think…
rough trade east – lark – 7pm, free
boston arms – billy childish and the …
constitution – pyrofessional, mannequins, standon delaplane
buffalo bar- keyboard choir, champion kickboxers, hong kong in the 60s
ryans – micragirls, jooks of kent, los raw gospels
Macbeth – fabulous penetrators, mysterons
Old blue last – dead kids, agasskodo teliverek
New Cross somwehwere – Monday club
Wilington Arms – Bookhouse Boys, Dan Michaelson, Ginger tom – onstage 8.45pm
Half Moon – Supreme Vagabond Craftsman, Straw Bear Band, Hamilton ?yarn

Sat 23rd Feb

Buffalo Bar – The Nuns, The Sticks
12 Bar Club – London, The Crabs, The Bleach Boys, The Amazing Spacefrogs, Night Of Treason (old school 76 punks)
Hammsersmith appollo – mark ronson, rumble strips, dan le sav vs scroobius pips
Astoria 2 – late night! Division of laura lee, the golden silvers
Notting hill arts centre – the tailors, tree creepers, john george cooper – 4pm - free
Half Moon - Let’s Wrestle, Creepy morons, Buen Chico
Borderline – Kitty Diasy and Lewis, peggy sue and dthe pirates
93 Feet East – Man Like Me, Sky line, Neech
Purple Turtle – Nephu Huzzband -
Betsey Trotwood- The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, The Parallelograms, pocketbooks

Sun Feb 24th

Windmill – I’m Being good, ripping Yarns
Cargo – Boris (japanese and kind of....well...sort of BIG sounding....but ominious and quiet at the same time...)
100 club – Mekons
Dingwalls – Tellison, Furthest Drive Home, Maple State
Monsta – Ruling Class, Getaway Team, Old Street Musical Union

Tours

F*cked UP
Feb 17th – Southampton Joiners
Feb 18th – Cardiff Uni
Feb 19th – Nottingham Rock City
Feb 21- Manchester Academy 2
Feb 22 – Newcastle Academy
Feb 23 – Glasgow ABC
Feb 24 – Leeds Met Uni
Feb 25 – Brighton Engine Rooms
Feb 26th – Exeter Uni
\Feb 27th – Portsmouth Pyramid
Feb 28th – Sheffield Corporation
Feb 29th – London Astoria
Mar 1 – Kingston Fighting cocks

Virgin Passages
17 Feb – London – 93 Feet East
28th Feb – Nottingham Bodega
29th Feb – Glasgow Beat club
01 Mar – Manchester Night & Day
3 Mar – Birmingham Bar Academy
4 mar – Brighton Pressure POINT
5 Mar – London ICA

Los Campesinos!

Feb 17 Sheffield, Leadmill
Feb 18 Manchester, Club Academy
Feb 19 Brighton, Concorde 2
Feb 20 Reading, Fez
Feb 21 Kingston, 'New Slang' @ The Works
Feb 23 Portsmouth, Wedgewood Rooms

Lovvers

18 Feb Clwb Ifor Bach Cardiff w/ I Was A Cub Scout [14+]
19 Feb Cavern Exeter w/ I Was A Cub Scout [14+]
20 Feb Croft Bristol w/ I Was A Cub Scout [14+]
21 Feb Freebutt Brighton w/ I Was A Cub Scout [14+]
22 Feb Esquires Bedford w/ I Was A Cub Scout [14+]
23 Feb Jug of Ale Birmingham
24 Feb The Cumberland Arms Newcastle w/ Chronicity &
Epideme
25 Feb King Tuts Glasgow w/ Ex Wives
26 Feb Fibbers York w/ The Old Romantic Killer Band
27 Feb Barfly Liverpool
28 Feb Venue tbc Manchester
29 Feb The Social Nottingham w/ The Shitty Limits + C.I.P
1 Mar The Cockpit [Room 2] Leeds w/ Sailors + M.K.B.L
3 Mar Taylor Johns Coventry

Futureheads/ Thomas Tantrum

Feb 23- Northampton Soundhaus
Feb 25 – Exeter Phoenix
Feb 27 – Tamworth Palace
Mar 5 – Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
Mar 6 – Oxford Academy
Mar 7 – Stoke Sugarmill

Late Of The Pier
Feb 17 Manchester Club Acdemy
Feb 19 Newcastle Academy 2
Feb 20 Glasgow King Tuts
Feb 21 Edinburgh – cabaret Voltaire
Feb 22 Liverpool Revo
Feb 24 Peterborough The Met
Feb 26 Sheffield The Small Plug
Feb 27 Northampton Roadmenders
Feb 28 London ULU
Feb 29 Hertford Marquee

Operator Please

Feb 17th – Nottingham Social – Operator Please
Feb 25th – Brighton Pressure Point
Feb 27th – Faversham Leeds
Feb 28th – Glasgow Barfly

Delia: 07985 309 475

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  • Brad Thu, 2008/02/21 - 9:19pm

    Fucked Up at the Astoria. I

    Fucked Up at the Astoria. I can't see how they are not gonna piss on Gallows etc. at that gig. Anyone who has released 30 vinyl EPs (and one cassette), and only one album over four years is alright with me.

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