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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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The Mayfair Set
Already Warm Captured Tracks 7”

Article written by Ged M - Jan 10, 2010

A collaboration between the Dum Dum Girls and Blank Dogs, this would fit perfectly into a Peel show in the 80s – ‘Already Warm’ is a culture clash of Joy Division grinding post-punk darkness and the soaring indie of the Cocteau Twins, where the contrasting effects work really well together. I found it initially strange and clashing but the more I hear it, the more it grows. ‘Desert Fun’ is more 80s-influenced indiepop, a dark surf music (“fun, fun in the desert sun”) constantly sparking with spiky notes like a homesick Fire Engines stranded in California, if that were possible. Definitely a grower.

Links:
http://capturedtracks.com/
http://www.myspace.com/themayfairset