Saturday 2nd March

THE HALL OF MIRRORS + THE HYPNOTIC EYE + DJ SET!

8pm – 12am

W I L D E Presents…

THE HALL OF MIRRORS
A hazy world of beauty, love, pity and desire. Kaleidoscopes of emotion, swimming through tragic romantic stories. What’s in your looking glass?’ Hauntological pop creators The Hall of Mirror’s weave ‘Skewed psychedelia and dreamy Victoriana’ – The Independent. ‘There is something in her over-enunciated tones, her received pronunciation that brings to mind a young, female Syd Barrett’ Paul Lester, The Guardian

EXPLORE: http://www.thehallofmirrors.co.uk/

THE HYPNOTIC EYE
The Hypnotic Eye music will turn you on to that stitched up blend of pop psychedelia, and punk rock played by DIY garage band’s in West Coast America of the swinging 60’s. With their frenzied guitar riffs, chunky rhythms and jaunty vocals they impart a progressive old sound. The Hypnotic Eye’s freak beat sound is a comrade to rock and roll bands The Black Keys and the Pretty Things, with a superfluous of tight rhythms and the spice of 60’s psych fusion!

NME called them “Gloriously CATCHY!”
The QUiEtus called it “fuzzed-up ramalama”
Record collector called it “like sex”
Mark Ronson said “THIS IS FUCKING Amazing!”
Rhys Webb called them “Sultry Organ-Led Garage”
Dirty Water Records just said “Hit”

EXPLORE:  http://hypnoticeye.co.uk/

THE HYPNOTIC EYE VINYL DJ SET
The Human Expression, The Seeds, The Music Machine, Jacques Dutronc, David Bowie, The Heard, The Smoke, The Electric Prunes, The Painted Ship, The Fox, The Attack, The Creation, John’s Children, The Omens, The Rolling Stones, Wimple Winch!

£5 Early Bird / £6 Advance

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Saturday 9th March 

CABLE STREET RECORD STUDIOS

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Saturday 16th March 

KINGS CROSS HOT CLUB + MALPHINO !

8pm – 12am

KINGS CROSS HOT CLUB
Gypsy Swing . Hot Club Jazz . Parissien Musettes

The Kings Cross Hot Club disseminate revolutionary propaganda concealed in mood-altering music. An international collective with a wide variety of skills and experience, the KXHC is a formidable unit. It combines battle-hardened experience with youthful talent – grizzled, dogged old-veterans, complimented by beautiful, young new recruits, all wedded to the idealism of solving the world’s problems through a relentless campaign of music-based anarchic frivolity, with casual disregard for how the fools seduced by their promise of a phantom utopia are going to get up in the morning and earn their taxable income in support of our glorious State.

LISTEN: http://www.kingscrosshotclub.com/music/

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MALPHINO

Malphino is a band that plays a heady mix of Latin American music – from Brazilian Forró to Colombian Cumbia via a variety of tropical rhythms and a nod of the hat to Italian film score.
While based in London, members of Malphino hail from all corners of the world. The band usually comprises accordion, tuba, organ, gitane guitar and percussion but will often have guest instruments and vocals appearing in live performances.

Listen HERE

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 £5 ADV HERE 
£8 Door

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Saturday 23rd March

COCONUT REVOLUTION !

8pm – 12am

Jim Palmer, Ramon Goose, Modou Toure…West African, blues & tropical pop
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On the Decks:
THE SHOUT COLLECTIVE
Spinning the best selection of blues, soul, funk & global sounds

£3 Before 8.30 & £5 After

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Saturday 30th March

THE GRAPHITE SET + PAUL RUBINSTEIN

8pm – 12am

THE GRAPHITE SET

http://thegraphiteset.com/

The Graphite Set aka Lily Buchanan is a female singer and guitarist.
Some people say she’s a bit like Patti Smith, Some people say she’s a bit like Nico, some people say she’s a bit like Grace Slick. Come and decide for yourself. No ones knows better than you…

PAUL RUBINSTEIN
http://www.weyesyouno.com/we

Paul Rubinstein’s electro pianist performances are outrageously good, angular, avant-garde and theatrical. His eerie melodic songs are rather beautiful, unique and off-kilter which are an equally musically challenging and enjoyable experience.

TICKETS: £4 Advance HERE / £6 Door

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Saturday 6th April 

W I L D E  presents SON OF DAVE

The celebrated fusion of funk vocal-patterns with divergent rhythm-and-blues riffs and New Orleans atmosphere are relit for a fourth time under Benjamin Darvill’s moniker Son of Dave. The conspicuous songs of Darvill stem from a real ache to conquer a guitar dominated world of music with his raucous harmonica playing. Fuelled along by vocal beat-boxing, foot stomping and a medley of improvised percussion. The Sonof Dave imagination concocts a wholly modern yet timeless sound reminiscent only of Son of Dave.

Like any album made from passion it’s as rough only as much as Son of Dave wants it to be, with moments of sonic disorder, verbosely outrageous uses of the harmonica, and others of pure, rhythmically controlled homages to big-band swing. It’s not meant to be easily filed in your record collection, instead sit beside it like a noncompliant child, still working out what it wants to be while challenging its elders at every new acrobatic arrangement. Of course the philosophy is best expressed through Son of Dave himself, who has written his own introduction letter to the record.

Self-produced by Benjamin Darvill, ‘Shake A Bone’ is, like all Son of Dave material, written to be devoured by its listener; not dissected or deliberated on. It’s a classic piece of pop not made to any recognisable model, but with a strict agenda to be a piece of dusty blues you can gladly dance to in downstairs jazz bars or sunny Hyde Park gatherings.

Tickets: £12 Advance / £15 Door

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Saturday 4th May

WILDE Presents GABBY YOUNG + OTHER ANIMALS !

8pm – 12am

“Howling mad and completely irresistible” BBC 6Music

“Gabby is a special talent with an enchanting voice.” – BBC Radio 2

“A kaleidoscopic world of gaudy spectacle and burlesque beguilement” – musicOMH

And that’s before you get to the music. Almost uncategorisable, Gabby’s unique perspective on the world around her is inspired as much by her singularly surreal imagination as it is real events – most recently, her courageous survival of throat cancer. Gabby Young and Other Animals offer a slew of stunningly beautiful, often haunting songs that are a genre bending explosion of gypsy folk, pop, rock, jazz, cabaret – and a whole lot of soul.
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EXPLORE:
www.giftofthegabrecords.com

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TICKETS:
£12 Early Bird 
£14 Adv

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Saturday 18th May 

CHOTOKOEU + SAM GREEN & HIS MIDNIGHT HEIST

8pm – 12pm

CHOTOKOEU
Chotokoeu are an electrifying Ska, Reggae Fusion band with a maniacal concoction of music genres that will have you jumping and skanking all evening long to their infectious, dynamic and joyful sound. They mix up twisted ska, with undertones of gypsy punk, rock, exotic Spanish language, and dub reggae with sprinkles of dark surrealist tones accompanying the fevered vocals and raucous energy!

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SAM GREEN & HIS MIDNIGHT HEIST

Sam Green is a Lapslide Guitar Singer-Songwriter whose music is directly influenced by the greats such as Robert Johnson and Duane Allman as well as the new wave of modern Roots popularized by the likes of Xavier Rudd and Ash Grunwald. Sam’s live shows are as diverse as they are captivating and he often changes gear between stompin’ punk rock barndance to heart-on-his-sleeve folk from song to song… “This ridiculously good Lap-Steel player evokes the greats like John Fahey while he rolls out his own contemporary folk songs of freewheeling wisdom” Hamilton House, Stokes Croft Bristol, March 2012

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TICKETS:
£4 Limited Early Bird
£5 Advance
£7 Door

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Saturday 15th June

THE TIN CAN. 44s 

8pm – 12am

The Tin Can .44s are a four piece band on the low side of the road with one foot in the gutter. Their music is inspired by the mythology of The Blues, the storytelling of folk music, the melodies of jazz and the dancing of ‘jump’, Swing and Rock ‘n’ Roll. The Tin Can .44s’ live sound is simple and effective: a traditional guitar trio lead by ‘Electric Slim’ Phil Overton is driven home by the powerful, dirty harmonica of ‘Boxcar’ Joe Strouzer. This four piece band take no prisoners, holding their ability to improvise over strong, dance rhythms of all kinds very close to the chest.

The ethos of the band was set when Electric Slim met Boxcar Joe in the witching hour, down a dark alley in Soho. Clapping time to Boxcar Joe’s howling harmonica, Slim sang about nothing but hard times laced with more poison than he could ever want. In his songs you can learn about the perils of wearing a dead man’s coat, the insanity drawn on the inside of his eyelids, why a certain girl should come see him after the show, and how a guitar riff can stitch you up better than any doctor.

Influences: Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Jack White, Louis Armstong, Howlin’ Wolf, Willie Dixon, Son House, Miles Davis, Nat Adderley, Wes Montgomery…

LISTEN AND SUPPORT HERE: http://thetincan44s.bandcamp.com/album/the-moloch-company-ep

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Saturday 7th September

THE WICKED WHISPERS

8pm – 12am

“Think of swirling US psych / West Coast bands and you get the picture.” Heavy Soul

With Michael Murphy’s plaintive warbling vocals packing Country Joe, Grace Slick and the whole San Franciscan vibe, paired with an
fascination with the forever-beautiful actress Audrey Hepburn an enchanting psychedelic sound is created.

Softer in tone than its predecessor the singer’s shimmering, yearning vocal and a piping Farfisa create a romantic psychedelic pop sound that could have quite easily been made by a late ’60s New England Ivy League school band in thrall with The Zombies and Donovan.

EXPLORE: http://www.thewickedwhispers.com/

“Take the edge-of-macabre organ styling’s of The Doors and apply it to a slowly swaying, retrojangle with a British accent. Add some plaintive harmonies and a slightly modern sensibility and what you end up with is The Wicked Whispers”.
– Musoscribe