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Rose Elinor Dougall
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Barfly, London (26/8/10)
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Former Pipettes vocalist performs solo.
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Luke Abbott
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Ginglik, London (26/8/10)
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Luke Abbott performs among Border Community talent on Shepherds Bush Green.
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Sam Amidon + Caitlin Rose
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CAMP Basement, London (19/8/10)
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Three young singer-songwriters do it their own way in an East London basement venue.
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Junip
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Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen, London (16/8/10)
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Jose Gonzalez's new venture makes its London debut.
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Smoke Fairies
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Enterprise, London (11/8/10)
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Beloved of Jack White and Richard Hawley, the Sussex girls set about winning over a function room in a Camden boozer.
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Lucky Soul
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Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen, London (10/8/10)
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A late start for the late-starting retro girl headliners, with support from The Lodger and The School.
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Sleigh Bells
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Lexington, London (9/8/10)
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With able and willing support from Teeth, this is about the here and now.
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Bonnie Prince Billy
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Shepherd's Bush Empire, London (4/8/10)
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Will Oldham and his backing band The Cairo Gang set the dramatic power of music centre stage.
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Led Bib
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Ronnie Scott's, London (3/8/10)
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Last year's Mercury nominees return to the genre's heartland, with support from Phronesis.
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Biffy Clyro
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iTunes Festival @ Roundhouse, London (31/7/10)
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The 2010 iTunes Festival closes, with the Scottish Mercury-nominated trio supported by Pulled Apart By Horses.
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13 Most Beautiful... Songs For Andy Warhol's Screen Tests, with music by Dean & Britta
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Barbican Theatre, London (30/7/10)
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The Galaxie 500/Luna stars soundtrack stars of another era in this mixed media piece.
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OK Go
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Electric Ballroom, London (28/7/10)
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Pea soupers of dry ice, brass handbells and guitar-mounted lasers. What's not to love?
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Tomorrow, In A Year - feat. Hotel Pro Forma and music by The Knife
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Barbican Theatre, London (27/7/10)
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A specially commissioned 'electro-opera', or mixed media presentation, inspired by Darwin's On The Origin Of Species.
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Klaxons
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Village Underground, London (27/7/10)
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Ahead of their long-awaited follow-up to their Mercury-winning debut, Shoreditch gets a showcase preview.
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Holly Miranda
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Westminster Reference Library, London (27/7/10)
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After her previous London-playing plans were foiled by That Bloody Volcano, finally she's able to bring The Magician's Private Library... to a library.
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Wild Nothing
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Audio, Brighton (24/7/10)
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Dream pop from Jack Tatum and co as they showcase buzz album Gemini on the south coast.
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Dracula, The Music and Film featuring Philip Glass and the Kronos Quartet
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Hackney Empire, London (22/7/10)
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As the Barbican's epic Blaze season continues, music and film, myth and minimalism merge.
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Taraf de Haïdouks
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Hackney Empire, London (21/7/10)
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An absent band leader ushers in his son as a replacement, and the show goes on. Should it have?
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Regina Spektor
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Academy, Leeds (21/7/10)
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An emotional night at Leeds for the Russian-American songstress.
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Allo Darlin'
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Luminaire, London (21/7/10)
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Part of the Indietracks warm-up week of events, with American acts supporting the Anglo-Australian uke-brandishing headliners.
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School Of Seven Bells
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Scala, London (20/7/10)
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The sometime Secret Machines guitarist and his company of statues showcase new album Disconnect From Desire.
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Soul II Soul
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Somerset House, London (18/7/10)
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Jazzie B and a reconstituted crew wheel out the hits and set in train a trip down memory lane, as the Summer Series comes to its close.
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The Divine Comedy
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Somerset House, London (17/7/10)
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Neil Hannon returns to the sometime Inland Revenue office, this time incarnated in solo form, with support from Cathy Davey.
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Bombay Bicycle Club
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iTunes Festival @ Roundhouse, London (17/7/10)
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Stephen Fry, of all people, provides support to the indie folksters' run-through of second album Flaws.
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Florence And The Machine
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Somerset House, London (15/7/10)
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More from Somerset House as Florence and her Machine celebrate her continuing success story.
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Gil Scott-Heron
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Somerset House, London (14/7/10)
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The Godfather of Rap finally makes it to London town, but what happened to material from the new album?
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Tired Pony
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Forum, London (14/7/10)
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The Lightbody-Buck supergroup of R.E.M., Snow Patrol and Belle & Sebastian elements lands in Kentish Town.
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The xx
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Somerset House, London (13/7/10)
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Whether they're nominated for this year's Mercury Prize or not, there's little doubting the transformation wrought on this band in the space of just a year.
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The Temper Trap
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Somerset House, London (12/7/10)
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A bill of Australians continues the Summer Series, with an opening set from Townsville natives The Middle East.
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N-Dubz
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Somerset House, London (11/7/10)
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Dappy and co follow in the footsteps of Canaletto, offering aspirational fun to emergent Middle Englander wannabes.
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Noah And The Whale
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Somerset House, London (10/7/10)
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Charlie Fink and co take their turn in the former tax office courtyard and hint at a future direction divorced from their recent introspection.
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Air
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Somerset House, London (9/7/10)
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Seagulls remain unruffled over convivial courtyard surrounds as white pantaloned Frenchmen get chilled, with support from Ólöf Arnalds.
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Mystery Jets
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Somerset House, London (8/7/10)
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The 2010 Summer Series kicks off.
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Arcade Fire
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Hackney Empire, London (7/7/10)
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Win Butler and co play a showpiece gig ahead of their third album The Suburbs' release and Reading/Leeds headline slots.
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Foals
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iTunes Festival @ Roundhouse, London (4/7/10)
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The Oxford boys work up a sweat, with support from Two Door Cinema Club.
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Delorean
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Lexington, London (2/7/10)
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Balearic vibes on the first floor of a London boozer courtesy of the buzzy boys from Spain.
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Janelle Monáe
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Hoxton Square Bar + Kitchen, London (1/7/10)
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Her debut London gig was one of those I Was There moments as the album The Archandroid is previewed.
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