Every Monday our editors bring you their personal highlights of the week ahead. James Lachno selects his top three upcoming gigs.
Wednesday 7th April
Method Man @ Matter
Probably the most high profile member – and de facto 'frontman' – of rap legends Wu Tang Clan, Method Man (or Clifford Smith to his mother) is touring to plug his new record, the pun-tasticly titled ‘Crystal Meth’. Our sides are splitting. If he manages navigate his way through the backstage haze of marijuana (or indeed meth) smoke to actually appear, this should be a belter.
Thursday 8th April
Sunny Day In Glasgow @ Windmill, Brixton
Philadelphian troupe A Sunny Day in Glasgow play their first ever UK show tonight. Luckily it’s not the 1980s anymore, otherwise this Brixton date might have had them thinking the whole of the UK was one big riot – whereas thankfully civil unrest now only happens North of the Watford Gap. The band are dreamy shoegazers who Pitchfork love, if you were wondering.
Sunday 11th April
Ultravox @ Hammersmith Apollo
Potty-mouthed Bob Geldof may have got all the publicity at Band Aid, but the event’s ‘forgotten man’, Midge Ure, has certainly got the musical one-up on his former partner in charity. Whilst no-one could give two hoots about the Boomtown Rats (not least thanks to the extraordinarily irritating ‘Why I Don’t Like Mondays’), Ultravox’s pioneering electro-fried synth-pop still influences everyone from La Roux to Franz Ferdinand.
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