On Thursday, an eclectic mix of high profile musicians comes together to perform Beck’s songsheet album Song Reader. The line-up includes Beck himself, plus Jarvis Cocker, Franz Ferdinand, Beth Orton, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Joan As Police Woman, Villagers, The Staves, Guillemots, Michael Kiwanuka, James Yorkston and The Pictish Trail. The house band features Polar Bear‘s Seb Rochford (drums) and The Invisible‘s Tom Herbert (bass) and Dave Okumu (guitar), with music direction by Ed Harcourt and David Coulter.
One of the all-time great composers, Burt Bacharach, plays a second show at the Royal Festival Hall on Sunday, while on Wednesday Brummie band Misty’s Big Adventure play Catch, with support from David Cronenberg’s Wife.
On Friday, Apparat plays Krieg & Frieden live at the Islington Assembly Hall ahead of teaming up again with Modeselektor for a new Moderat album, due out this summer.
Monday 1 July
Editors – Village Underground
Goldheart Assembly – Rough Trade East
Tuesday 2 July
Nick Mulvey – Social
Robbie Williams – Wembley Stadium
Dead Can Dance – Roundhouse
Tom Robinson – Tabernacle
Younghusband – The Macbeth
Wednesday 3 July
Allo Darlin’ – Vortex Jazz Club
Dingus Khan – Cargo
Misty’s Big Adventure – Catch
The Pictish Trail – Rough Trade East
Sweet Baboo – Servant Jazz Quarters
Thursday 4 July
Beck – Barbican
Scritti Politti – 229
Anti-Flag – Electric Ballroom
Simone Felice – St Giles-in-the-fields
Friday 5 July
Pissed Jeans – Electric Ballroom
Apparat – Islington Assembly Hall
Roller Trio – The Front Room
Saturday 6 July
Scott and Charlene’s Wedding – Victoria, Dalston
Sunday 7 July
Blondie – Roundhouse
Burt Bacharach – Royal Festival Hall
Beck MP3s or CDs
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