London Grammar | Mon 23 Oct | O2Academy | SOLD OUT
The intensely atmospheric Nottingham trio return to another sell-out show in Birmingham, touring their second, chart-topping studio album from earlier this year, Truth Is a Beautiful Thing. Waiting list places only now www.seetickets.com
Rationale | Tue 24 Oct | Hare & Hounds | SOLD OUT
The Zimbabwe-born singer known as Rationale has been courting no end of ‘One to Watch’ lists this year. Recent single ‘Loving Life’ is tasteful 80s revisionism crossed with the deep house danceability of South Africa’s gqom movement: a confident talent going from strength to strength. See our full preview here.
Manchester Orchestra | Tue 24 Oct | O2 Institute | £18.15
Manchester Orchestra have wrung some serious mileage out of frontman Andy Hull’s dramatic old-soul blues: but now the band is at their best and their most complex, channeling the grandeur of the Walkmen as much as the hard-hitting Far influences you’d already expect. The title of the next-great indie rock band looks closer than ever. See our full preview here.
Sleaford Mods | Thu 26 Oct | O2 Institute | £21.50
Sleaford Mods’ peculiar lofi musical diatribes have captured the cultural zeitgeist of popular dissent and despair, filling an agitprop void that has been barren for decades since the days of Crass. Scorn for the establishment and facile convention has never sounded so real, worthy and downright hilarious. See our full preview here.
Weezer | Fri 27 Oct | O2 Academy | £44
The granddaddies of alternative rock return to the UK for a short tour after last year’s breezy effort, the ‘White’ album. Weezer’s powerhouse sound and cute lyricism has lost none of its resonance in a career spanning a quarter of a century. Face it: you still need Weezer in your life. See our full preview here.
Bloody Knees | Fri 27 Oct | Sunflower Lounge | £6.60
Maybe the antithesis of tonight’s Weezer gig (and a fraction of the price) is Bloody Knees, a pop-rock band with the melancholy edge of Brand New and a raw, guttural melodicism that Weezer hasn’t touched since Pinkerton. Young charmers with bellies full of fire, new EP ‘Maybe It’s Easy’ is a perfect refinement of what they do best. seetickets.com
The Lovely Eggs | Sun 29 Oct | Actress & Bishop | £11
Hailing from Celtic-tinged northern England, and fiercely independent, The Lovely Eggs are proud members of a spaced-out folk-grunge-drone scene of their own invention. To say non-mainstream is underselling it: we say they’re an algae-covered pond at the foot of a mystic mountain. See our full preview here.
Words: Chris Donald - Gigs Editor
Published on: Sun 1 Oct 2017