About White Heat
White Heat runs 8 - 3am. The bands are usually on from 8 - 10:30 (first band 8:30, second 9:15, headline 10:00. Sometimes it runs a bit later than that. Tickets for all shows are available from Ticketweb and on the door of White Heat on the night. Prices are usually £5 advance, £6 on the door but for big shows this sometimes changes!

If you're coming down for the club then the best way of getting straight in without queuing is to arrive about 10:30 - 11:30pm just as the bands finish and some people go home. THe club costs £5 or £4 with a flyer or £3 with an email (sign up for the mailinglist on the right).

Coming up at White Heat

Tuesday, August 26
Ra Ra Riot + The Joy Formidable + Guests
http://www.myspace.com/rarariot
http://www.myspace.com/thejoyformidable
Tuesday, September 02
So So Modern + Flashguns
http://www.myspace.com/sosomodern
http://www.myspace.com/flashguns
Tuesday, September 09
Hanggai (China) Live.
Sometimes White Heat does some slightly strange things. Arguably booking a traditional Mongolian folk band could be included in amongst those strange things. Arguably though they're basically pretty amazing and snuggle beautifully into our slightly leftfield music policy. Arguably. Pitchfork say: "Sometimes, an album takes you so by surprise that it takes days to get your mind around just how much you like it. Hanggai's debut was like that for me-- this record floored me the first time I played it. Simply described, this album takes traditional Mongolian folk music and instrumentation and projects them into a loosely rock-based structure. This is not really a folk album, though it sometimes has the feel of one. Producers Robin Haller and Matteo Scumaci, Westerners both, allow the band to straddle the folk and pop worlds, creating something new and exhilarating in the process." They gave it an Eight. Check the rest of the review at the link below.
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/node/137688
http://www.myspace.com/hanggaiband
Tuesday, September 16
Jonquil + This Town Needs Guns + Three Trapped Tigers
http://www.myspace.com/jonquiluk
http://www.myspace.com/thistownneedsguns
Tuesday, September 30
Johnny Foreigner + Dananananaykroyd + William
Drowned in Sound are big fans of these guys and are sponsoring the gig too. Here's what they have to say:
JOHNNY FOREIGNER... Take all your favourite parts of brain-sizzling indie past - Kinsella twists and Pavement riffs, intelligent lyricism and catchy melodies - and meld them with pop's imminent future: punchy percussion and streamlined synths, sing-along choruses and heavy-duty hooks. The Birmingham-based trio's debut album 'Waited Up 'Til It Was Light' ranks among 2008's best, and was shortlisted for DiS's inaugural Pluto Prize.
DANANANANAYKROYD... Scottish sensations lighting up stages wherever they go; a whirling sextet full of flailing limbs and screaming throats, clap-along breakdowns and euphoric highs. Picture in your mind the best party imaginable, bodies packed tight and sweaty, everybody smiles: without even trying, you've pictured your standard Dana gig, minus the delightful hairs-on-end heat and torrentially exuded energy.
http://www.myspace.com/johnnyforeigner
http://www.myspace.com/dananananaykroyd
http://www.myspace.com/williamtheband


A few bands that have played in the past:
Bloc Party; The Long Blondes; Tom Vek; Jamie T; Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster; Mclusky; Maximo Park; The Horrors; Love is All; The Blood Arm; Forward, Russia!; You Say Party! We Say Die!; Klaxons; Chomehoof; Shitdisco; Lethal Bizzle; Guillemots; Todd; The Young Knives; Chinese Stars; Death From Above 1979; Les Georges Leningrad; Test-Icicles; Clor; Semifinalists...

Recently, At White HEat
Tuesday, August 19
The Wave Pictures + Supports
http://www.myspace.com/thewavepictures
Friday, August 15
White Heat in Scotland!
We're heading up to Scotland for the first time in over a year to put on a White Heat night in Edinburgh! Back to the Cabaret Voltaire we go and with us we bring Dells from London and hook up with Locals Jesus H Foxxx. There is no more fun than DJing in Edinburgh. Edinburgh Festival's also on so there's really no excuse for coming up!
Tuesday, August 12
Birthday Party Part II: Acid Mothers Temple and the Cosmic Inferno + Sh*t and Shine
White Heat Birthday Party Part II
Acid Mothers Temple are over from Japan and they’re going to be playing a marathon 90 minute set of the finest Japanese Psych. Joining them on drums will be Pikachu from Afrirampo making the full Cosmic Inferno Lineup:
Tabata Mitsuru : Bass & Vocals
Higashi Hiroshi : Synth, Guitar & Vocals
Shimura Koji : Drums
Kawabata Makoto : Guitar & Vocals
Pikachu : Drums & Vocals
Support from the UK’s finest purveyors of multi-drummered repetitive noise. Expect… Well, don’t expect what you expect because it’s different each time. Probably only four drummers for this one!
http://www.myspace.com/acidmotherstemple
http://www.myspace.com/shitandshine
Tuesday, August 05
Birthday Party Part I: Love is All + Je Suis Animal + Still Corners
White Heat Birthday Party Part Show
Love is All + Je Suis Animal + Still Corners
For our birthday party we're teaming up with our favourite new club (they just celebrated their 1st Birthday). Twee as F*ck. To that end we're flying Love is All over form Sweden for a one off London show. We last had them play back in July 2006 so we're very excited to be getting them back. Support from Jes Suis Animal (who we're flying in from Norway!) and Still Corners (who, in a sop to our Carbon Footprint we're not flying in) from London.
http://www.myspace.com/loveisall8
http://www.myspace.com/jesuisanimal
http://www.myspace.com/stillcorners
Monday, August 04
Field Day Pre-Party: White Heat DJs + Dananananaykroyd + The Mae Shi
Monday 4th August
FIELD DAY FESTIVAL PRE-PARTY

THE MAE SHI + DANANANANAYKROYD + WHITE HEAT DJS
Quoth the press release: Field Day performers THE MAE SHI bring their DIY rock and busted electronics, along with hotly-tipped Glaswegian party-rockers DANANANANAYKROYD and WHITE HEAT DJS to a festival pre-party in the intimate surrounds of The Old Blue Last featuring a Tombola and other surprise fete activities with a chance to win a pair of tickets for FIELD DAY
http://www.myspace.com/fielddaylondon
http://www.myspace.com/themaeshi
http://www.myspace.com/dananananaykroyd

The Old Blue Last, 38 Great Eastern St, Shoreditch EC2A 3ES
Doors 8pm
Tickets £7.50 (advance) from:
www.ticketweb.co.uk
www.seetickets.com
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