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Pictures from some recent gigs we've hosted:

29 March 2013 - Brixton, London

Viv Albertine, VuVuVultures, Left Leg, Mickey Gloss, Big Wave, No Cars, Arthur Gunn, Simon Love (Pictures)

8 March 2013 - Lexington, London

R.Ring, Golden Grrrls, Slushy Guts and Equinox (Pictures)

On Our iPod

Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold (album)

Antony Harding - Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear (album)

Black Angels - Indigo Meadow (album)

Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin (album)

Still Corners - Strange Pleasures (album)

Savages - Silence Yourself (album)

Mikal Cronin - MC II (album)

Can’s Ege Bamyasi played by Stephen Malkmus and Friends(album)

Victoria and Jacob - Festival 7"

Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City (album)

Sauna Youth - False Jesii Part II 7”

Lightning Bolt - Oblivion Hunter

Robyn Hitchcock - There Goes The Ice (2x 12")

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Festivus Highline Records

Article written by Ged M - Dec 7, 2012

So you’re sick of Mariah and festive Wham, while Elton and Cliff give you worse intestinal torment than undercooked sprouts. The answer might be to go for something with less grease and more glitter, like the Highline festive special. Taking its name from the Seinfeld invention of a secular non-commercial holiday celebrated on 23 December, the record has every style to suit the season. Spectorish Xmas-album nostalgia is catered for by The Birthday Kiss’s ‘Sentimental Christmastide’, which is balanced by the Werewandas’ raunchy cowpunk ‘I Love You Santa Claus.’ The magnificent accordion-led shuffle-folk of Skiffle and the Piffles sounds like an alcohol-free Pogues while Still Flyin’ reminisce about a childhood in Europe for ‘St Veit’, set to funky Orange Juice rhythms. Piney Gir is ever the glass-half-full girl, Mark Monnone is a little twee and Russell El Deastre (the ex-Research man) helms a wonderfully eccentric Christmas break-up tale. Meanwhile the magnificent Glam Chops, voiced by Eddie Argos, stitch together all the best bits of glam rock singles circa 1971-74 for the anthemic ‘Countdown To Christmas’.

Hunks and Friends send up every seasonal cliché on ‘The Magic of Christmas’ with its materialistic call for “TV specials, selection boxes…” and it’s left to the Real Tuesday Weld to make the case for tradition, in his finest crooning style: “we’re drowning in a sea of stuff we’ll never need… I hope that we’ll still value the things that matter”. A bit like Christmas day, all emotions are here. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you may feel slightly nauseous but only a curmudgeon could fail to be moved by the gifts on show. And not a Noddy Holder in sight…

Links:
http://highline-records.com/