The Cavalcade + Socialist Leisure Party + Tracey's Love

£5.  8-11pm

PEBBLES RECORDS PRESENTS THE CALVACADE MANY MOONS ALBUM LAUNCH PARTY

This Is the Kit (single launch) + Ichi + The Hand performing live with additional music from the Need No Water DJs + guest DJ Chris Lucraft (Broken Sound)

Kick The Plug hereby presents to you the launch of This Is The Kit's new single Moon. Already getting radio support from Cerys Matthews, Tom Ravenscroft, Gideon Coe and John Kennedy, anticipation is riding high for This Is The Kit's return, so this should be a cracking gig.
With support all the way from Japan in the shape of one man band Ichi and from Bristolian duo The Hand (Wig Smith and Rachael Dadd). Expect musical brilliance..., culinary treats and badges give-aways, with additional music from guest DJ, Chris Lucraft (Broken Sound).

This Is The Kit
http://www.myspace.com/thisisthekit

Ichi
http://www.myspace.com/ichijapan

The Hand
http://www.myspace.com/thehandand

Price: £5.00 on the door / £4 advance

Advance tickets:
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/87656

KICK THE PLUG

Sam Sallon + Jack Harris + Betty Frances + Craig Storrod

7.30pm. £3-4.

MUSICBORN

Kentish Fire + Audiopeel + The Producers

8pm. £5.

MUSICBORN

Healer/Monster
The Barefoot Smile
Outlaws Kept the View
Saturday 4th September
 
Doors – 7.30pm
 
£4

There will a steady progression in volume & vibes on the 4th. Starting with two man acoustic folk blues of Outlaws Kept The View and moving through the indy, folky harmonied sound of The Barefoot Smile whose edgier tunes will get your hearts and ears ready for the full on cathartic release that is Healer/Monster. it's gonna be emotional and amazing in equal measures!

HEALER/MONSTER

Anna and Katy try out some new material for their channel 4 show.

ANNA & KATY

10:15
Vox Von Braun: "One of the things we love about Vox Von Braun is the playful approach they take in recognizing their varied and semi-retro influences while maintaining a unique, strong sound that stands more than well enough on its own."
Milk Milk Lemonade
http://www.myspace.com/voxvonbraun

9:20
Waifs & Strays: the feeling a blind boy gets reading Die Hard in braille whilst a dog licks his feet but he thinks it's his Nan wanting money again.
http://www.myspace.com/waifsandstraysuk

8:30
last days of KWAN: The Odies + Because + Fixative + Mr Jaw + Present Black + Team Bear + Silent Archives + Siege the Besieged = last days of KWAN.
http://www.myspace.com/lastdaysofkwan

£3.99 adv / £5 door

GOONITE

The Blanche Hudson Weekend + The Sunday Reeds (Australia) + Evans The Death

Doors 8pm. £4 door (£3 advance).

The Blanche Hudson Weekend
A return to the Wilmington Arms for The Blanche Hudson Weekend (featuring former Manhattan Love Suicidues duo Caroline and Darren and other assorted weekenders) after the storming set at the Indietracks festival. Bringing to you all kinds of noise, fuzz, melody, dissonance, rawness, killer tunes and buzzsaw pop. Take a bit of 1960s girl group sounds, mix with Girls In The Garage type ramshackle production, add some gun slugging guitars and sugar sweet vocals with a keen ear for a great hook.

"The beauty lies in the simplicity (of the song). It tries not to do much and because of it, achieves more" - Drowned In Sound on recent single 'Let Me Go'.

The Sunday Reeds (Australia)
The Sunday Reeds are a female-fronted noise pop/rock band named after Melbourne patron of the arts Sunday Reed. The love-child of some kind of rock 'n' roll orgy between The Jesus and Mary Chain, Joy Division, The Ramones and The Velvet Underground. Driving bass lines, plenty of guitar feedback, primitive pounding rock beats and alto, sex-laden female vocals. If Nico had joined The Ramones, strapped on a bass guitar, and a whole lot more noise was added, this is how it might have sounded. After spending much time songwriting and recording in a hell-hole apartment, founding members Romana Ashton and Drew Jones were joined in early 2009 by drummer Andy Dawson. And then there were three... The Sunday Reeds' debut album 'Drowning in History' is out now through Squirrel Records

Evans The Death
A conjoining of the unlikely twin towns of Chelmsford and Clapham, Evans The Death is, in truth, the creation of five like minds temporarily parted by the A10. Drawing inspiration from the independently minded guitar bands of the 80’s and with a healthy disdain for the concept of stardom, Evans The Death songs put high stock on the intelligence of lyrics and the primacy of melody. Despite actively avoiding the well trodden route of hype gigs and fervent web activity to gain a name, their ‘Sleeping Song’ has already been a fixture of the more forward thinking blogs.

ODD BOX

FEED YOUR HEAD presents 4 up-and-coming cutting-edge new bands!

SMALL HORSES…. plus support from… THE RECUSANTS | BELAKISS | PARKING OFFENCE

£6 or £4 flyer……….. Bands start @ 8.15pm!

There’s a FREE shot of Jagermeister on the door to the first 25 people in the door!

FEED YOUR HEAD

Louis le Prince & the Projectors + Jimmy Gnecco

HOPEHOUSE RECORDS PRESENT

The second installment of the mighty Death & Glory and the quality acts
just keep on coming. Without further ado, I give you....

DORA BRILLIANT (www.myspace.com/dorabrilliantuk)
London trio Dora Brilliant are infectious. Seriously, don’t touch them –
they’ll give you a disease and until an antidote is discovered we can’t be
sure you’ll survive. I jest, of course, it is their tunes that are
infectious and tracks like ‘Not My Face ...Please’ and ‘Human Being’ will
have you twitching and jittering all night long. A Dora Brilliant live
show is a rare beast so you don’t want to miss this chance to see one of
the scene’s most intriguing and exciting bands. I wasn’t joking though,
don’t touch them...

STAGES OF DAN (www.myspace.com/stagesofdan)
Three men named Chris in a band named after a Dan playing songs that will
make you dance like an agitated Llama. Three statements, only one of them
is true. Fear not though, the bit about the songs is all true and their
brand of rock’n’pop’n’folk’n’blues is really starting to turn some heads
these days. Steve Lamacq described their feel-good track ‘Gary’ as “the
catchiest song I have heard in a long time” and they just keep churning
them out. There is no fat on these boys, just three lean men playing meaty
songs hung on shiny pop hooks. Hmmm, abattoir rock anyone?

THE B OF THE BANG (www.myspace.com/thebofthebang)
Southsea’s finest, The B Of The Bang, return for their third Ravenous show
because we simply love them that much! Using everything from Mandolins to
Moogs, Wit and his merry troupe make 21st century music for 21st century
minds with a 19th century touch of class. The Fly called them “An
unpredictable concoction of anti-folk, malice-laden vocals, psychedelic
big-top clown breakdowns and smatterings of B-movie horror soundtracks”
and we think that sums them up nicely. Certainly the kind of band that
should be gracing your ipod at 3.00am on the nightbus to give you that
sense of wonder at the world!

A.J. DUNNE (www.myspace.com/alexjdunne25)
London based Texan Alex J. Dunne is more frequently seen as part of the
fantabulous Winterhours but is an outstanding artist in his own right.
Drawing on the likes of Jeff Buckley, the mellower moments of Beck, Bon
Iver and the National, Dunne creates sparse yet filmic tunes that could be
the soundtrack to many a break up. Perfect for to start a show that
heralds the start of Autumn then! Come get your folk on...

It all kicks of at 7.30pm and will cost you £3 for the pleasure. And we'll
throw in some Recharged Radio DJs to keep things fun!

DEATH AND GLORY

Wilmington Film Club presents:

Up In The Air

Show times - 3pm, 5pm, 7pm.

FREE!

WILMINGTON FILM CLUB

William Andrews returns with a collection of the best live comedy around.

LINE UP TBC

JOKE PARTY

This month we've flipped Bright Club upside-down, with six regular
audience members taking to the stage for the first time to find the
funny in their jobs, hobbies and expertise. They've listened for too
long - now THEY'RE in charge!

With:

Kent Valentine - Bright Club's best mate will be the Pied Piper to
this crowd of comedy newcomer
Colin Hazel - Tinkling the ivories
Alex Nightingale - Hard as nails urban librarian
Hugh Harvey - Melanin-challenged musician
Mark Ewins - Knows the secrets of your dinner
Rob Davis - The most playful guy in town
Elise Bramich - Obsessed by size. Sorry boys.
Benji Fox - Sound (man) as a pound (er, man).

8pm. £5

BRIGHT CLUB: REVOLUTION

FEED YOUR HEAD presents 4 up-and-coming cutting-edge new bands!

GUNS TO CAVIAR…. plus support from… THE NAKED POLAROIDS | THE FURBELOWS | guests

£6 or £4 flyer……….. Bands start @ 8.15pm!

There’s a FREE shot of Jagermeister on the door to the first 25 people in the door!

FEED YOUR HEAD

Shmekla - http://www.myspace.com/shmekla

K.U.R.V.A. - http://www.myspace.com/kaunasunitedrapvariuosartists

Shiaure -  http://www.myspace.com/shiaure

Gathor & Krapshtukas (Mirazh Squad)

Def One - http://www.myspace.com/defoneition (beatboxer)

MUSICBORN

10:15
Scream Tupelo: Raised at the altar of Elvis and The Cramps, baptised in the fire of sonic fuzz and primitive stomp, Screaming Tupelo is a one man ear-pounding, heart-thumping blues-punk evangelist, delivering his testimony of raw blood and tears, sweat-soaked rock’n’roll.
http://www.myspace.com/screamingtupelo

9:20
Richie Phillips: electric or acoustic guitar, instrumentals from rhythmic to experimental, great music!
http://www.myspace.com/richiekickoutthejam

£3.99 adv / £5 door

GOONITE

HELMHOLTZ RESONATORS SOUNDSYSTEM + THE EMPTY GESTURES + CLIP STAMP FOLD + KING ROBOT

A top notch evening of leftfield alt-rock with foot-tapping electronic quirks liberally scattered amidst the guitars and caterwauling... not a shaky half-baked bunch of jangly indie wannabes insight, just great, impressive thought provoking good-time daftness/earnestness/nessness...

8pm. £5 / £3 members (www.tinyurl.com/spoonface)

 The Empty Gestures - Recently described as “the drunk British Tom Waits” (indiefolkforever), Paul Hawkins is one of the most compelling, unusual and imaginative new songwriters in Britain today. His songs evoke the emotional primacy of Nick Cave, the imaginative storytelling of Jonathan Richman and the wit of Jarvis Cocker to produce dark fantastical narratives on subjects ranging from teenage boys who throw themselves into nuclear reactors in the hope of gaining superpowers to lonely outsiders who don medical coats and operate on unsuspecting bystanders. The Empty Gestures are the guitarless & drumless Euro-sinister electro-pop distillation of his regualar ant-folk kraut-rock backing band The Awkward Silences.
 
Paul is a key figure in the contemporary UK antifolk scene.

THE MONKEYBALL EXPERIMENT

3pm-10.30pm
£4 in advance, £5 otd
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/80355
Free CD of live Recluse recordings available to the first 25 people
 
 
Recluse events, run in association with FBox Records, aim to host divergent live performers who traverse the musical tightropes between the analogue and the digital, the past and the present.
Specialising in showcasing performers too idiosyncratic to fit into any one genre, Recluse events offer performers and the audience with an open-minded event characterised by stylistic variation and live vitality.

Live acts:
Hybernation - sublime electronically manipulated found sounds and objects
Tom White - floating surround sound textures from the Smallfish/Hibernate artist
Vlk - textural noise using Max MSP processed cello, found objects and electronics
Katzgraben - delicate electronica tinged post rock textures
Rome Pays Off - two basses and treated laptop steel guitar flowing effortlessly between static textures and intense swathes of sound
Ten - laptop treated guitar, percussion and field recordings
Burning Zoo - guitar loops and primordial electronics
P Jorgensen - atmospheric minimalism and crystalline tones

DJ sets from Coldstream

Visuals from FBox Records

www.recluse01.com
www.myspace.com.reclusenight
 
 

RECLUSE EXPERIMENTAL ALL- DAYER

Circulus + Three Beards

7.30pm to 11pm

£8

Rout of the Blues - an evening of folkish sounds old and new with special guests mushroom pixie folk rockers Circulus ably supported by Three Beards. Plus The Fox and The Blacksmith play their favourite folky tracks ranging from Midlake & Tunng to The Albion Band & Caravan. Rout of the Blues - a future folk tradition.

ROUT OF THE BLUES

My Sad Captains + 5 Cent Theatre + Jess Sheehan

£7 on door. 7pm.

All proceeds to L'Arche Uganda (school bus) & and child refugees on the Thai Burmese border.

SOCIAL 4 SOCIAL PRESENTS

Crawdaddy! is a 60s soul, ska and R&B night in Central London, run by resident OUR DJs.

We play Tamla Motown, Stax, Trojan, Bluebeat and more, all on original vinyl.

FREE the FIRST FRIDAY of every month!

7.30pm

CRAWDADDY

Pubs cost a fortune, there's nothing good on and the music is terrible.

Not any more.

"Further down towards Exmouth Market, the Wilmington Arms is setting itself up as pretender to its crown. At the monthly night run by the sketch troupe Ladygarden, it's not unusual to see stars from Peep Show's Isy Suttie to Lenny Henry performing to a 40-strong crowd, spot Jennifer Saunders at the bar or bump into Ash Atalla, the producer of The Office, scouting for new talent."

See below for context.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2011/feb/19/this-weeks-new-comedy

http://www.wegottickets.com/event/103658

http://www.wegottickets.com/event/103661

The Really Lovely Comedy Show:

http://www.spoonfed.co.uk/spooners/evolmike-871/the-really-lovely-comedy-show-the-wilmington-arms-4170/ 

Bam Thwock:

http://vlstatic.com/assets/maps/guides/lp_nov_2010.pdf

Crawdaddy! is a 60s soul, ska and R&B night who will blow your goddamm socks off. They play Tamla Motown, Stax, Trojan, Bluebeat and more, all on original vinyl and if you ain't dancing we will no longer consider you a mortal being.