Brixton Sessions

Windmill Brixton presents:
CW STONEKING (Melbourne)
C.W. Stoneking, is a musician who draws influence from pre-war blues, jazz, 1920s calypso, folklore, and personal experience to produce his original songs. Accompanied with his trusty National Resophonic guitar and tenor banjo, or with his brass band, the ‘Primitive Horn Orchestra’ Stoneking’s songs range in style from lonesome field holler blues, to hokum blues duets, to full blown jungle epics.

BRENT NEWMAN & THE BROKEN ARROWS(London)
Born in the Great Plains, raised in the Great Lakes, living in Great Britain, ex-Koreans singer Brent and his band rumble along nicely like Tom Petty sharing a beer with The Spinto Band.
www.myspace.com/brentnewman

JD SMITH
Rockabilly punk blues.
‘astounding, a Rockabilly and blues one man guitar wunderkind.’ – Distorted magazine
www.myspace.com/stuartjamesdurdensmith

Saturday 28th August

1992: THE YEAR READING PEAKED.
Plus Super Mario Kart 18th Birthday Party!
*Live Nirvana Karoake
*4 or 5 Magicians
*Applicants
*Kannberg 1664
*Amy Blue
*Me And My Sister

BANANIRVANA – Live Nirvana Karaoke Band!
At 10pm, a live trio of stonking rock musicians take to the stage to form Bananirvana – the world’s greatest Nirvana tribute – for one night only. Jon is Krist Novoselic on bass, Dan is Dave Grohl on drums, and Sam is Kurt Cobain’s hands on guitar.
And Kurt’s voice? Well in addition to some very special indie-rock celebrities on guest vocals, this is YOU!
A 20 song set will be played, picking the best of the actual Nirvana set on the night, and every song will feature a different singer. Applications for potential Kurts are open to anyone, male or female, we just ask the following things :

4 or 5 MAGICIANS…as Manic Street Preachers
Brighton five-piece 4 or 5 Magicians are more exciting than the prospect of Paul Daniels actually fulfilling his long-running promise to leave the country under a Labour regime.

APPLICANTS…as EMF
Techinicolour splattercore as if played by dinosaurs with gnarly claws.
‘The intercontinental Applicants… parallel universe popstars with a fondness for fake blood and liver-destroying quantities of booze, and that’s just on the bus to the the gig.

KANNBERG 1664..as Pavement
Reunited for one show (after a successful show at the recent Pavement alldayer), Alexei from Johnny Foreginer, Craig from Internet Forever, Aaron from Eelectricity and Lust, and Dan from 4 or 5 Magicians join forces for ten top tunes from Stockton, California’s finest.

AMY BLUE ..as Smashing Pumpkins
AMY BLUE make beautiful, dark and electrifying music that’s different from every band you’ve heard this year, or last decade. Pitchfork said they were ‘pretty clever actually’.

ME AND MY SISTER..as Bjorn Again
are made up of, err, two sisters: Vicki and Becky… or VECKY as they are sometimes called.

Sun 29th SUNDAY BBQ
*Poeticat
*Corporal Machine & The Bombers
*Milk Kan
*Ratface
*Paranoia Pete POETICAT
Spoken word, experimental vocals, raw melodic acoustic guitar, and the earthy pulse of the cajon!

MILK KAN
Our favourite hiphop bluegrass punkers throw an end of summer party with some likeminded crazy souls.

RATFACE
Joining the dots between DIY British Punk and Alternative Hip Hop, Bristols Finest Bedsit MC blasts out raw energetic vocals laced over rough-cut keys, beats and guitars to produce what are essentially charming and vital pop songs.

CORPORAL MACHINE & THE BOMBERS
Every gig deserves a tuba and the Corporal has one in his massed ranks, who together create great knees-up music hall punk.

PARANOIA PETE

Mon 30th Bank Holiday Monday BBQ
*Mobius Loop
*Evans The Death
*The Owls Are Not What They Seem
*Lion O’Brien
*Tiny Birds

MOBIUS LOOP
From Preston, but now living in a van in Streatham. They play measured folk-blues with a splash of reggae and some furious guitar wigouts.
Onstage:

EVANS THE DEATH
…come from Clapham and Chelmsford. They do JANGLE and they do NOISE. it’s a winning combo and many bloggers are already on to the melodic joys of this young half-south-London band.

THE OWLS ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEM
Mixing junk shop melodies, gin-soaked harmonies, scratchy guitars and lush Autoharp swells The Owls are not what they seem have inadvertently slapped the face of the traditional indie pop line up.

LION O’BRIEN
…write songs about love, work, robots, vampires and other aspects of common everyday life. Blending sharp lyrics with infectious melodies and anthemic choruses, Lion O’Brien are striving to forge their own original brand of feel-good indie with a splash of folk-pop.
Tonight they’ll be playing more a chilled-out stripped down acoustic set.
‘Gorgeous, sharp, life-affirming pop music – you can’t beat it! ‘ – TOM ROBINSON BBC 6 MUSIC

TINY BIRDS
With songs covering themes from 16th century painting to the joys of London’s night buses, Tiny Birds mix folk sounds with indie songwriting along the lines of Hefner, Fanfarlo, Arcade Fire and Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci. If you like vocal harmonies, banjos, ukuleles and sad songs with happy music, they’ll be right up your street.

UPSTAIRS @ THE RITZY

Friday, 27 August 2010
UPSTAIRS – Around The World: MADAGASCAR! Feat NOGABE RANDRIAHARI

Saturday, 28 August 2010
SWINGING 60S UPSTAIRS FOR PLAN DAY!

BRIXTON JAMM

BRADLEY ZERO

Saturday 28th August 2010
Music: Dubstep, hip hop, afrobeat, disco, house, swing
Doors: 10:00pm
Ends: 4:00am
Price: £3 before 11pm, £5 after

YESSUM brings together 3 of south london and Brighton’s foremost party promoters. Tonight they bring with them their three heavyweights, BRADLEY ZERO, ANDRE MASSON and DJ ARV guaranteed to make you boogie with a tasty, eclectic and unpredictable mix of hip hop, afrobeat, disco, house, swing.

Sunday 29th August
JOSHUA, MILE SAGNIA

Music: Dubstep, hip hop, afrobeat, disco, house, swing
Doors: 10:00pm
Ends: 4:00am
Price: £3 before 11pm, £5 afterOptions

It’s going to be strictly shorts and flip-flops for our annual sunny summer excursion to Brixton beach. With highlights like West Coast Housemeister Joshua at the controls it’s sure to be hot and sticky so get your tan topped up and your lounger in position – we’ve been digging this kind of laid back groove since well before the Germans arrived on the scene.

HOOTANANNY

Friday 27 August
LOS ALBERTOS + NEW GROOVE FORMATION+ DJ CHRIS VAN TOFU
FREE 9pm-3am

Saturday 28 August
GUNGHODOWN:ARUBA RED + VINCHA BACKPACKER + REV 78 + DJ SON OF A PITCH
FREE 9pm-3am

Sunday 29 August
EVERTON BLENDER
£12ADV Doors 8pm-3am