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About White Light
White Light runs 8 - 4am. The bands are usually on from 8 -
10:30 (first band 8:30, second 9:15, headline 10:00. Sometimes it
runs a bit later than that. Tickets for all shows are available from
Ticketweb and on the door of White Light on the night. Prices are usually
£5 advance but for big shows this sometimes
changes!
If you're coming down for the club then the best way of getting straight
in without queuing is to arrive about 10:30 - 11:30pm just as the
bands finish and some people go home. The club costs £5 or £4
with a flyer or FREE with an email (sign up for the
mailinglist on the right).
Coming up at White Light
A few bands that have played in the past:
Fanfarlo, Darker My Love, Vivian Girls; Pains of Being Pure at Heart;
Rakes...
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Recently, At White
Light
Friday, March 05
Rockfeedback present: ddmmyyyy / Iselt / Mice
After eleven, and for free with a printout of the mailout (£5
without), you've got White Light DJs bringing you the party. Before 11
it's Rockfeedback bringing the noise.
DD/MM/YYYY - are an experimental indie band from Toronto,
Canada. This is their first UK visit. Like a more dischord-y Mai Shi,
other comparisons seem most clear to Q and Not U, Fugazi and Don Cabellero,
but the band are certainly doing their best to push out in their own brave
new direction. http://www.myspace.com/ddmmyyyy
ISELT
- This is a band whose recent rise to the public psyche has been catalysed
by their efforts to stay quietly out of the spotlight (no myspace, official
website, etc). Fortunately, their live show is anything but quiet. Theatrical,
ambitious, engaging and hypnotic featuring two drummers, Islet are one
of certainly one of the most exciting about. this date sees them play
off the back of a tour with Cardiff friends Los Campesinos, and Huw Stephens
"Happy Huw Year" new band extravaganza.
http://thisisislet.com
MICE
- UK guitar-drums two-piece featuring a member of Talons combining the
tech-wig outs of Don Cabellero, Owls and US college rock indie titans
with intricate melodic punk rock styling. A clear DIY aesthetic at their
core, stop-starty rhythems shard up into hard rock chugs before giving
way to swashes of lucsious melodic release.
http://www.myspace.com/miceisaband
Tickets are £6
and can be purchased here:
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/68021 |
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Friday, February 26
Dum Dum Girls + A Grave with no Name + Guests
Dum Dum Girls are signed to Sub Pop and make the kind of lo-fi fuzz pop
that's "neither lo-fi nor too polished... a short tribute to love,
fun and the classic pop form of the '60s girl groups and early punk rockers"
according to Rough Trade. They say they're making "blissed-out buzz
saw" and that's about right too. It's very, very good.
http://www.myspace.com/dumdumgirls
http://www.myspace.com/agravewithnoname
Latenight at White Light we've got Beef Warehouse DJs for your pleasure:
"North London's answer to Sigfried and Roy: Andy Stone and David
Harrison will be taking to the Lexington for a late night full of shots,
tunes, dancing and talking crap."
Tickets:
http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=365035 |
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Friday, February 19
A Badge of Friendship Presents:
These Monsters (Album Launch) + Shield Your Eyes + The Munroe Effect
To
celebrate the release of their forthcoming debut album Call Me Dragon
(on Brew Records / Function Records), we’ve decided to throw a little
party at The Lexington on Friday February 19th 2010. The Leeds lads will
also be joined by Function Records’ Shield Your Eyes and Munroe
Effect.
“Time has frozen
as witnesses halt in their tracks, intoxicated by the heady miasma of
post-rock resonance. Both comforting and devastating.” – The
Fly Magazine
These Monsters will
bring you nothing less than huge waves of sound over prog-tastic riffs
and off-kilter beats with brilliantly executed rock-sax-action –
it’s no wonder Rock Sound named them as Ones To Watch for 2010!
With Function’s
hardest-touring-band-ever, Shield Your Eyes, and Portsmouth’s Munroe
Effect supporting, this is going to be an alt-rock party you won’t
forget in a hurry! And as if we hadn’t spoiled you enough, hotly
tipped rockers of the moment, Pulled Apart by Horses, will be coming down
to DJ between the bands.
Tickets are £6 on the door or £5 in advance from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/70808 |
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Friday, February 12
Jonquil + Airwaves + Horse and Condor + Young and Lost latenight
Of Jonquil Rough Trade say "re-inventors of pop music, with moments
of sublime melodicism set against dense polyrhythms that call to mind
animal collective, built to spill, early arcade fire or akron/family,
and some camp-side gathering, incorporating doo-wop, party horn arrangements
and gentle balladry."
Air Waves are over
from New York (bands from New York play for us slightly more often than
bands from Dalston which is both weird and really not helping our carbon
footprint), compliment Jonquil about perfectly, are loved by Dan Deacon
and you might describe them as a Kinda Lo-Fi Neil Young influenced indie
folk sorta work of genius.
Horse and Condor are
our house band. We love them and they're very different every time. Talking
Heads meets all kinds of other things and refuses to stay the same month
to month.
Check out the Jonquil
blog:
http://jonquilband.blogspot.com
And of course the Myspace...
http://www.myspace.com/jonquiluk
http://www.myspace.com/airwavesmusic
http://www.myspace.com/horseandcondor
Tickets:
http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=365877
LATER, AT WHITE LIGHT:
YOUNG & LOST CLUB PRESENT...
Nothing Bad Magazine's launch party!
'New online quarterly NOTHING BAD magazine launches in March to bring
you the best in music, fashion, art and literature. We’ll be bringing
you an armful of interviews with young designers, exclusives from big
bands, bloggers, soon-to-be literature heroes and anything else we think
you should know about.'
Special guest Djs - Rory Phillips (Durr), Transparent, Abeano, Ferry Guow
(Semifinalists and Celestial Bodies), Gary Card, Young & Lost Club
and Lambrini Girls
£5 -
or print this to get in free
11PM - 4AM
The Lexington, 96 - 98 Pentonville Road,
St Pancras, London N1 9JB
02078375387
http://www.youngandlostclub.com
http://www.nothingbadmag.com |
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Friday, February 05
Club COG Present:
Pete and the Pirates + Airship + Guests
http://www.myspace.com/peteandthepirates |
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