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This Many Boyfriends ‘I Should Be A Communist’
With their new, Ryan Jarman-produced, single ‘I Should Be A Communist’ out this week, Emily Solan explains her love for This Many Boyfriends… Read More »
Lower Dens
Multi-instrumentalist Carter Tanton is supporting a band he occasionally adds his input to, but while he shares the same lo-fi aesthetic as tonight’s headliners Lower Dens, he is slightly … Read More »
Karin Park
Fresh from supporting Azari & III and SBTRKT on their European tour dates, tonight, Karin Park plays a show that is her very much all about her. The 6’3” force of nature stalks through … Read More »
Gossip
More bands could do with a Beth Ditto in their ranks. Funny, frank and with a voice to break walls (and balls), she hits XOYO over the head with her charm and charisma tonight. It probably helps … Read More »
Garbage
If ever there was a place to continue the ongoing 90’s it is East London. However, word of Garbage’s return has clearly not spread to the plaid clad, My So Called Life watching hipsters of … Read More »
What A Week With John Kerrison #24
Where there was a Libertine thespian, a cage-fighting musician and a spy trapped in a sex-bag… Read More »
PS I Love You
A Canadian drums’n’guitars duo, pasting their melodic indie stomp with claustrophobic scuzz… ladies and gentlemen, give it up for Japandro – oh! On the surface, it’s pretty easy to draw … Read More »
Peace Sign To Columbia Records
Peace have signed to Columbia Records and plan to release their debut album next year. The band, who have recently toured with Mystery Jets and Manic Street Preachers, celebrated signing to the … Read More »
Novella Premiere New Video
Click above to watch Novella’s new video for ‘He’s My Morning’ exclusively on The-Fly.co.uk. The song is taken from the band’s self-titled EP, available from 28th May on Italian Beach … Read More »
The Invisible Frontman Hospitalised
Singer Dave Okumu hospitalised after electrocution on stage in Nigeria… Read More »
Robin Gibb Dies Aged 62
Bee Gees singer passes away… Read More »
What A Week With John Kerrison #23
When Emo hair got blinding, Barton got quoting and the Beeb got Glitter Read More »
We Are Augustines
Sporting Indiana Jones hats and on the face of frontman Billy McCarthy a pencil-thin moustache, We Are Augustines resemble a bunch of gentlemen explorers as they bound on stage, arms aloft at … Read More »
Of Mice & Men
Tonight is going to be a special night. It’s one of those rare occasions in which the line-up is so strong; that even the touts can’t find a single person selling a spare ticket. The stage is … Read More »
Keep Shelly In Athens
In the concrete bunker that is new Dalston venue, Birthdays, a kaleidoscope of ambience brightens the otherwise non-descript room. Shells, a Bath-based down tempo electronica artist, sends out … Read More »
Weird Dreams
Lurking underneath a weighty parting of hair is an intense Doran Edwards. His gaze catches a pair of scantily clad women dancing overly seductively to ‘Velvet Morning’, a song that adopts the … Read More »
Splashh
First gigs are a minefield for bands. Book them too early and risk looking unprepared. Fritter away the time leading up to one telling yourself rehearsal can wait until tomorrow and you’ll come … Read More »
Hot Water Music
East London hipsters won’t be seen begging for anything other than drugs, Geek Pie haircuts and validation from their friends – so the fact that the Old Blue Last is overrun tonight with … Read More »
Lightships
Gerard Love is among the most reticent men in pop, to the extent that his appearances as one third of Teenage Fanclub‘s songwriting core frequently call to mind a self-help group for … Read More »
The Sunshine Underground
The Sunshine Underground are here to test potential material for their third album on a sold-out Leeds Met, finishing a two-week UK tour with the biggest hometown gig they’ve done for ages. … Read More »
Camille
A lone light bulb swings. Barefoot, Camille caresses it with a certain fondness making the heaving Barbican that tiny bit, uncomfortable. Pretentious theatre? No, we’re witnessing the … Read More »
Ghostpoet
Gathering in the beating heart of Southampton’s Cultural Quarter, the thick layer of dry ice and lush red drapes seem an intimate and fitting setting for the brooding, dejection of London MC … Read More »
The Temper Trap
Don’t be fooled by that jovial karate-based video for new single ‘Need Your Love’, the follow-up to 2009’s ‘Conditions’ is as earnest – and as overly ambitious – as ever. Take … Read More »
The Rapture
Whilst the so called New Rock Revolution made stars of Jack White, Julian Casablancas and Pete Doherty it’s fair to say it left The Rapture behind somewhat. Add band disputes and reports of … Read More »
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy with Trembling Bells
Will Oldham’s involvement in this show has been publicised with a degree of caution. A collaboration between him and Glaswegian psych-folk torch bearers Trembling Bells, he performs only a … Read More »
Track Of The Day #98
HEALTH – ‘Tears’ Read More »
