I’ve always found these threads really useful for seeing what’s coming up, so what’s in your diary? I’m starting 2018 on Thursday with Laetitia Sadier and The Leaf Library at The Lexington, followed by:
23/1 Mary Epworth, Oslo
24/1 Snapped Ankles, Moth Club
30/1 Weather Station, Oslo
31/1 Alela Diane, St Pancras Old Church
19 and 22/2, Four Tet, Village Underground
7/3 Elbow, The O2
15/3 The Clientele, Scala
23/3 Django Django, Printworks
11/4 Arcade Fire, Wembley
12/4 Gwenno, Hoxton Hall
24/4 Courtney Marie Andrews, Hoxton Hall
14/5 Olafur Arnalds, Royal Albert Hall
I’ve got half an eye on one of the Ezra Furman dates and toying with Hookworms in Birmingham once I get paid again.
How about you?
Yo la Tengo - RFH - beginning of May (birth of child dependant)
I wanted to see YLT but Friday is a work night.
Lau (January)
British Sea Power (February)
Arcade Fire (April)
The National x 2 (June)
The Leaf Library
Paramore
First Aid Kit (rough trade gig)
The Go! Team (rough trade gig)
Cults
Beth Orton
Damon and Naomi
The Go! Team
First Aid Kit
Belle and Sebastian (twice)
Tuneyards
Big Thief
Susanne Sundfør
Belly
The Leaf Library/Laetitia Sadier is a brilliant start to the year. Have a good evening there too.
Castleface all-dayer - Manchester
Fever Ray - Manc
LCD Soundsystem - Glasgow
No Age - Bristol
Want to book: Yo La Tengo, Hookworms, Shonen Knife (Brum), Go! Team, Alvvays (Manc)
Just Converge so far. Probably ATDI in March.
Going to see crywank tomorrow, which should be alright. I genuinely like his earlier stuff a lot more than the more recent albums, but alas. He’s also playing 2 gigs in Belfast in one day, one of which is all ages, which is a nice thing to do IMO.
Otherwise, fa
Snail Mail & Soccer Mommy @ Lexington
Lubomyr Melnyk @ Jazz Cafe
Anthony Reynolds doing Jack songs with a full band @ St Pancras Old Church (I think)
Castlemania London
Angel Olsen @ Union Chapel
Primavera Barcelona
Might book Suuns and hopefully shitloads of Deerhunter shows when the tour gets announced properly.
April:
Flight Of Conchords (Three Arena)
Yo La Tengo (Olympia)
June:
Forbidden Fruit - War On Drugs, Spoon, Grizzly Bear
LCD Soundsystem
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Go Go Penguin
Rolo Tomassi
Converge
Yep, quite a short list…
Hot snakes
Dinosaur jr
They might be giants
Finger on the pulse
Sat Jan 20th - Wolf Alice - Debaser Strand, Stockholm
Fri Jan 26th - Baby In Vain - Oceanen, Goteborg
Tue Mar 20th - Fever Ray - Troxy
Wed Mar 28th - Vessels - Oval Space
Thu Apr 5th - Big Thief - KOKO
Thu Apr 19th - IDLES - Heaven
Sat Apr 28th - Bicep - Roundhouse
Thu May 10th - Protomartyr - Scala
Tue May 15th - Japanese Breakfast - Islington Assembly
Fri May 25th - LCD, YYYs - All Points East
Sun May 27th - Bjork, Beck, FJM - All Points East
Sat Jun 9th - QOTSA - Liseberg, Goteborg
Sat Jul 7th - The Cure et al - Hyde Park
Paul Draper @ Rescue Rooms Nottingham
Protomartyr @ Mama Roux Birmingham
Protomartyr @ Scala London
Bjork @ APE London
And no doubt Twilight Sad and Interpol on their return (can’t make the Cure thing )
Feb
Hot Snakes @Thekla
March
Gun Outfit@Louisiana
April
Converge@Electric Ballroom
May
Zeke@Thekla
June
Primavera Porto
NO SHAME
Tue Mar 20th - Fever Ray - Troxy
Fly in from Lisbon in the morning and then Fever Ray in the evening. Lovely.
That’s all I’ve got so far this year.
National and Nick Cave at APE in London in June
Outlines-Brudenell
Fever Ray-Albert Hall
Open Mike Eagle- Leeds
Ezra Furman - Leeds
Children of Zeus - Leeds
LA Witch- Leeds
Fever Ray - Manchester
Primavera - Barcelona
…is all I’ve got tickets for, but hoping to go to Wand, British Sea Power, Four Tet, Young Fathers and Phoenix in Glasgow over the next few months.