*cancelled* Goldfrapp | Mon 6 Nov | O2 Institute | £28.50
Touring with this year’s stomping Glam-rock success story of an album ‘Silver Eye’, Alison Goldfrapp and co. are back in futuristic synth-disco-punk style. See our full preview here.
The Winter Passing | Wed 8 Nov | O2 Academy 3 | SOLD OUT
Irish indie punks The Winter Passing are young’uns, but they’ve got an anarchic energy and earnestness that fits rights in with Stateside outfits like Hop Along. New EP ‘Double Exposure’ shows they’ve got hooks in their armoury too, a good sign of things to come. seetickets.com
Dinosaur Pile-Up | Wed 8 Nov | Mama Roux’s | £11
Dinosaur Pile-Up are a band out of time, all 90s hair riffs and bubblegum-punk vocals – a band with ‘cult favourite’ all over them, and a must-hear ticket for fans trying to fill that Reuben-shaped hole in their hearts. By turns sugar sweet and head-banging, this music was made for both long motorway drives and a good-natured kickabout in the mosh pit. seetickets.com
Employed to Serve | Wed 8 Nov | The Flapper | £8
This week’s tip for a ferocious, feral freakout is young hardcore band Employed to Serve, whose mammoth new record ‘The Warmth of a Dying Sun’ burrows deep into the low-tuned sledgehammer approach once favoured by Architects and Bring Me the Horizon. It’s also their richest and most ambitious outing to date. seetickets.com
Big Business | Thu 9 Nov | The Flapper | £14
If you prefer your heavy music a bit more old-school, Big Business play an eccentric, murky and adventurous brand of hair metal, like Mastodon throwing all of their radio-friendliness out of the goddamn window. But Big Business bring new and expansive things to their genre, rather than retreading old sounds; a dark, wild, and unexpected delight. seetickets.com
John Joseph Brill | Thu 9 Nov | Sunflower Lounge | £7
A sorrowful troubadour with a voice three whiskeys into the night, John Joseph Brill has expanded from his proggy, Martin Grech roots into something altogether more Bowie-esque. It’s an impressive transformation that suggests Brill has a bunch more strings to his bow yet. seetickets.com
Holy Moly & The Crackers | Thu 9 Nov | Hare & Hounds | £7
Seven-piece folk rabble play a cinematic, moonshine mix of rock, pop, folk, balkan and ska – if John Hughes directed a Tarantino-written screenplay, Holy Moly would probably be the soundtrack. Touring in support of upcoming new album ‘Salem’, this eclectic and barnstorming bunch are the gypsy-punk riot you didn’t know you needed. seetickets.com
Kagoule | Fri 10 Nov | Actress & Bishop | £8
Grungey post-punkers Kagoule haven’t stayed still since their excellent 2015 debut, ‘Urth’ – latest single ‘Monsieur Automation’ puts them in a new league: garage-rock distance runners whose raw sound and ecstatic energy make their twists, turns and wild outbursts look easy. They should have been born in 90’s Washington DC, but we’re lucky to have em. seetickets.com
Together Pangea | Sat 11 Nov | Sunflower Lounge | £8
Together Pangea are Golden State to the very core – a mixture of drive-time blues and goofy Mac Demarco rock, drowned in vintage guitar tones and spaced-out reverb. This year’s new LP ‘Bulls and Roosters’ is a taut refinement of everything they’ve done so far – their best outing yet, a breakneck burst of urgent melodicism. seetickets.com
Words: Chris Donald - Gigs Editor
Published on: Wed 1 Nov 2017