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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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Noah and the Whale
Blue Skies Young & Lost Club

Article written by Paul M - Aug 30, 2009

The kooky name and the previous cheery ad-friendly Five Years Time hit will have led some to unfairly dismiss Noah and the Whale as daytime radio pop fodder. As a result the pooh-poohers will have missed out on their utterly charming and occasionally brilliant debut album and will presumably be giving its forthcoming follow-up long player a swerve, from which this melancholic ballad has been released as a very limited taster. It's the "I Will Survive" tale of a young man finally closing the tear sodden book on the former love of his life before marching confidentally onwards to a new life. Yes, it's sentimental and as wet as a weekend in Kendal but you'd have to have a house brick for a heart to not be touched, and its sweet melodies and trumpeted finale add to its charm.

Links:
http://www.noahandthewhale.com/