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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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Single/Download Review

Lupen Crook and the Murderbirds
The Lost Belongings EP Beast Reality Records

Article written by Ged M - Jul 21, 2009

Lupen Crook is an odd one. Though fully joined with his Murderbirds, he’s still a troubled and intense troubadour, his music filled with fear and disgust (he gives his address as “Dysunited Kingdom”). There’s something very poetic about him, part Pete Doherty, part Percy Bysshe Shelley, spitting out his words in Estuary English in songs that are part-skiffle, part-ballad, part-cabaret (‘Lest We Connect The Crooked Family’) or dabbling in folkatronica (‘Scare Crows’). The whole thing is DIY in spades: released on his own label, the cover is a Jackson-Pollacked wallpaper offcut, held together with a pitch black jigsaw piece. The effect is individual, resolutely uncommercial and a psychologist’s dream. Mr Crook has a love/hate relationship with listeners, his uncompromising stance making it “hate” for a lot of people, though his general disconnect with the “real” world makes me want to embrace him. But then I’m an odd one too.

Links:
http://www.lupencrookandthemurderbirds.co.uk/
http://www.myspace.com/lupencrook