Tippex Wedding Festival
3rd July
The
lady behind one of London's best booking agencies is getting married,
so a rare parade of eccentric experimentalists are helping to raise
funds for the honeymoon (Hawaii if it goes well, Margate if not).
Best For: Dalstonians who see Barden’s Boudoir as an extension of their own living room
Toby Tobias 'Space Shuffle' Album Launch
3rd July
Already
one of the secret ingredients making Radioslave's Rekids the label to
go to for spaced-out, slo-mo techno, Toby Tobias launches his debut
album.
Best For: People with beards and nice trainers
The Trailer Trash Shoreditch Pleasure Cruise
6th July
Ah,
boat parties. Sipping a cocktail and sauntering round on deck while the
sounds of Hannah Holland's bastard batty bass clash all around you. And
all for a tenner!
Best For: Star-gazing and deck-staggering
Solexism
6th July
Lex
Records celebrates a new lease of life thanks to recent signings like
Gruff Rhys's Neon Neon project and the amazing heartbreak, possibly the
UK's only live Italo-disco duo.
Best For: Style-conscious types who don’t do vapid
Pollinate Records
10th July 9pm - 2am
A
new label pushing out-there electronics ropes in human blender DJ
Rupture, as well as two of dubstep's most interesting outsiders, in
order to help get noticed.
Best For: DJs who think they’re handy on the decks – it’ll be straight home for extra practice hours
FWD: Dusk and Blackdown album launch
13th July
Dusk
and Blackdown's love letter to London's margins has got to be one of
the more adventurous dubstep long-players released for a while; it's
launched at this special edition of the genre-defining FWD night.
Best
For: Anyone who’s ever driven through an industrial zone with ‘Dubstep
Allstars’ on the stereo and thought, ‘This is London’
Noise Of Art
16th July
A
hectic agglomeration of art and noise; tonight German electronica
giants Booka Shade play live at this shiny looking mini-fest.
Best For: Pounding pounding techno music
Lovebox Weekender
19th - 20th July
A
festival on your doorstep with musical globalista Manu Chao, The Young
Blood Brass Band, Chicago house luminary Frankie Knuckles and more fun
and games than you can shake a glowstick at.
Best For: Going barefoot and getting reacquainted with the hula hoop
Peace Not War
20th July
Party
featuring the eclectic talents of international hip hoppers and lyrical
impresarios intended to remind us what it's all about. Peace obviously.
Best For: Dropping the attitude and getting down with your brothers and sisters (man)
Lyrics Born
20th July
World
famous and immensely excellent rapper Lyrics Born touches down at
Dingwalls to show the good people of London a thing or two about rhyme.
Best For: American hip hop
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