1234 Shoreditch Festival

Just over a month until this year's 1234 festival in Shoreditch Park so we thought we'd post a little reminder about the line up.

It really is great this year, ok, so the festival is no longer free, but its still a total steal when you consider the quality of the bands that Sean McClusky and co are now able to book.

Established US groups such as Dum Dum Girls, Vivian Girls and Wavves line up beside lesser known, up and coming UK talent such as Grave With No Name, S.C.U.M and art rock pioneers such as Vic Godard & Subway Sect.

The cheaper early bird tickets are sadly all gone but its still only £20 for a day ticket, miles cheaper than Reading et al and a miles better line up in Tally Ho's humble opinion!

For more info on the festival, which takes place on 24th July in Shoreditch Park, East London, check out this link

Out this Monday....

Right.... we’re quickly approaching the second payday of this year. So all the typical January griping of financial hardship and ‘what a long month it’s been’ can be cast aside in a haze of record buying!

Here’s what you can get your hands on this coming Monday(22nd). Go on treat yourself.


Crocodiles - Neon Jesus (Hell Yes) www.myspace.com/crocodilescrocodilescrocodiles

Fair ohs / Spectrals – split (Tough Love) www.myspace.com/toughloveonmyspace

Memory Tapes - Seek Magic (Acephale records) www.myspace.com/memorytapes

Strange boys - Be Brave (Rough Trade) www.myspace.com/thestrangeboys

Quasi - American Gong (Domino) www.myspace.com/theequasi

Girls - Morning Light www.myspace.com/girlssanfran

Vivian Girls Live in London

Vivian Girls @ Hoxton Bar & Kitchen, 26th Jan '10

You'd be forgiven for thinking Vivian Girls have moved to these shores, their recession flauntiJng trips across the Atlantic have become so frequent. Not that we're complaining, we've pretty much worn out their second LP Everything Goes Wrong so it was with some excitement that we ambled along through the winter chill to catch them play a set that concentrated on that record, coloured by a few choice selections from their many 7" singles and their self titled debut.

Kicking off with the same one-two punch that bleeds Everything Goes Wrong into your speakers, 'Walking Alone at Night' and 'I Have No Fun', live the girls seem to exorcise the frustrations that haunt them at the beginning of the record. Ali's drumming gallops and Cassie's distorted Pink Flag-isms rage, padding out the harmonies and seemingly bathing the crowd in a white wash of punk mischief. 

Last night's show (the last of a uk tour) serves as a timely reminder of the band's progression from 20 minute sets and over-hype, into the finished product. Now entirly unreliant on the charming pop chorus of previous show stoppers like 'Wild Eye's'.

For fellow sound setters in the class of 08', the new Viv's gigs send a clear message to yank up the belts and don't dare to disappoint. If second album Everything Goes Wrong wasn't enough proof of the metamorphosis, only prompting glances to the bedside pictures of the Kickball Katy of old, then live, the girls ascendancy is complete.

Coming soon...

Gig's to check out over the next few weeks....

JAMMER / SPECTRALS / GUN CRIME
Thursday 21st Jan
Old Blue Last Re-launch Party / Vice Issue Launch
38 Great Eastern St
Shoreditch EC2A 3ES
FREE ENTRY

THESE NEW PURITANS
Monday 25th Jan
Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Rd, London, W12 7LJ
Tickets: £13

VIVIAN GIRLS / VERONICA FALLS
Tuesday 26th Jan
No Pain in Pop presents.
Hoxton Bar + Kitchen
2- 4 Hoxton Square, N1 6NU
Tickets: £9

MIDLAKE / KISSAWAY TRAIL
Thursday 28th Jan
The Tabernacle, Powis Square, London, W11 2AY
Tickets: £12

REAL ESTATE / COLOURS
Saturday 30th Jan
Bird on a Wire presents
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, London, N1 9JB
SOLD OUT!

SURFER BLOOD / GOLDHAWKS / FICTION
Wednesday 3rd February, 2010
Hoxton Bar and Kitchen
2-4 Hoxton Square, London, N1 6NU
Tickets: £6.50