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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, February 09
WE//ARE//ANIMAL + Pope Joan + New Young Pony Club
Pope Joan
We//Are//Animal
New Young Pony Club
New Young Pony Club are joining us again (they liked
the place so much last time they decided to come back!) to promo their
new album - Tickets are limited and they'll be on stage bang on eight
thirty so please arrive early!
Pope Joan mix ambient walls of processed guitar noise,
furious drum lines and quirky 8-bit synth keyboards are all underpinned
by an incredibly demanding pop sensibility.
Falling somewhere between the kinetic playfulness of Les Savy Fav, quirky
pop of early-era XTC and the sonic spectrum of TV on the Radio, Pope
Joan are a band that demand serious attention and are set to establish
themselves as part of the new wave of exciting and experimental British
art-pop.
"Pope Joan mix their hardcore roots with classic pop: 80's inspired
hand claps and synths suppliment spiky, avante-garde guitar work...it
sounds like the unholy combination of Fugazi jamming with The Cars,
but this is surprisingly good." - Rock Sound
http://www.myspace.com/popejoan
http://www.myspace.com/weareanimal
http://www.myspace.com/newyoungponyclub
Ticket Link:
http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=368351 |
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Tuesday, February 16
Freelance Whales + Gyratory System + New Islands
THINK ABOUT LIFE LATENIGHT!
Think About Life
Latenight party set
http://www.myspace.com/thinkaboutlife
Freelance Whales
Gyratory System
New Islands
Freelance Whales have been supporting our old friends Fanfarlo around the US and they're coming over here to play for us. They've got a single coming out in February too:
http://www.roughtrade.com/site/shop_detail.lasso?search_type=sku&sku=322078
"Freelance Whales found one another in late 2008, in Queens, amidst a strange amalgam of unfamiliar instruments, and precariously arranged pop songs."
"It's awash with gentle, naive bliss, and if you're the type that likes to observe hooks blossoming with the pace of an actual flower opening, then you might have just found a new favourite band." - NME
http://www.myspace.com/freelancewhales
We're entering into that dangerous territory where the word 'eclectic' might be used for or against us here. Gyratory System are pretty special though. They were even asked to Support Soulwax at their recent Brixton Academy shows!
"Gyratory System is a live/electronica project started by producer Andrew Blick. It takes conventional musical sounds, shatters them into small pieces, processes and reassembles them, to create the sound of a distorted marching band stopping off to pick up a rhythm section at Lagos en route to a rave in Dusseldorf."
“Like a score written by Kraftwerk and Looney Tunes…slightly maddening and totally compelling…this lurchy, lovely…thing’– NME, 8/10 album review
“an amazing album...mind bogglingly brilliant bonkers electronica” – Huw Stephens, 1FM
“not only is this a superb album but you won't hear another one like it all year” – John Doran, BBC Music
“Ridiculously awesome…This is the music of the Mahavishnu Orchestra captured by a SETI cluster, processed through a myriad of deluded wobbly synthesisers and spat in your grimacing face” – 20 Jazz Funk Greats
http://www.myspace.com/gyratorysystem
Opening are NewIslands from (slightly) up north:
http://www.myspace.com/newislands
Latenight, for dancing purposes we've got Think About Life all the way from Montreal!
http://www.myspace.com/thinkaboutlife
Ticket Link:
http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=365876
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Tuesday, February 23
Wild Palms + Hot Horizons + Filthy Boy
Wild Palms
Hot Horizons
Filthy Boy
We've finally got Wild Palms along for a White Heat headline. They're
one of the best new bands in the country at the moment (in my opinion
obviously) and heading up up up. Catch 'em before they get there.
http://www.myspace.com/wearewildpalms
http://www.myspace.com/hothorizons
http://www.myspace.com/filthyboyswithfilthytoys
Ticket Link:
http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=367294
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Tuesday, March 02
Dum Dum Girls + Veronica Falls + Yuck
Dum Dum Girls
Veronica Falls
Yuck
Dum Dum Girls are signed to Sub Pop and make the kind of lo-fi fuzz
pop that's "neither lo-fi nor too polished... a short tribute to
love, fun and the classic pop form of the '60s girl groups and early
punk rockers" according to Rough Trade. They say they're making
"blissed-out buzz saw" and that's about right too. It's very,
very good.
http://www.myspace.com/dumdumgirls
http://www.myspace.com/veronicafallshard
http://www.myspace.com/yuckband
Ticket Link:
http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=365033 |
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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...
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Recently, At White
HEat
Tuesday, February 02
Shy Child + O Children + Run Toto Run
Shy Child
O Children
Run Toto Run
They've just finished their new album, Liquid Love, and they're coming
to us to do a bit of showcasing. For a free track from the album go
to their site:
http://www.shychild.com
"Like DFA 1979 produced by The Neptunes" - The Guardian
"Brain bending cyber pop" - NME
"They make your feet twitch, your head nod and ..make you throw
up some shapes your body never knew existed." - Dazed & Confused
http://www.myspace.com/shychildmusic
Main support comes in the form of dancefloor friendly post-punk from
old friends and regulars O Children.
http://www.myspace.com/ochildren
Opening we have the rather lovely Run Toto Run.
"Like Sufjan Stevens going mad with samplers and keyboards"
- The Manchester Evening News
"A curious mix of anti-folk and airy, Postal Service-indebted electronica"
- NME
“ … another indication that Manchester is crawling with
talent” - Steve Lamacq
http://www.myspace.com/runtotomusic
+ OFFSETCIRCLES DJs
Between the bands! (Offset Festival, ECC, Junkclub)
"Playing the finest in GoodSound from dark guitar sounds to forward
thinking electronic music."
http://www.offs-tc-rcl.es
Ticket Link:
http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=365100 |
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Tuesday, January 26
Fools Gold + Lawrence Arabia + Vision of Trees
Fools Gold are over from LA & here's what the Guardian started with while making them a 'one to watch in 2010': "If Talking Heads had been listening to African music and not funk at the time they recorded Remain in Light, it's conceivable they would have ended up something like the Los Angeles-based 12-piece band Fool's Gold, who play African-based music that will appeal to indie, pop and dance audiences. Despite being steeped in Tinariwen's desert blues and soukous music, they have also grown up listening to American pop radio – especially Talking Heads and R&B. The result is a brilliant, euphoric, universally transcendent amalgam of global sounds." http://www.myspace.com/foolsgold
http://www.myspace.com/lawrencearabia
http://www.myspace.com/visionsoftrees
Tickets:
http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=362495 |
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Tuesday, January 19
MEN (featuring JD Samson of Le Tigre) + Trash Kit + Bunny Come
MEN are the Brooklyn-based band and art/performance collective consisting of JD Samson (Le Tigre) Michael O’Neill (Ladybug Transistor) and Ginger Brooks Takahashi (LTTR). Having recently completed U.S. tours with both Peaches and Gossip, and following on from packed club shows in London last May, MEN take a break from recording their debut album to return with their high energy live show / dance party.
http://www.myspace.com/men
http://www.myspace.com/trashkit
http://www.myspace.com/bunnycome
Tickets:
http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=356636
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Tuesday, January 12
Rose Elinor Dougall + Two Door Cinema Club + Racehorses
TICKETS FOR THIS SHOW ARE NOW SOLD OUT
I think this'll be the first time we don't have our customary 50+ tickets available first come first served on the door. It'd be a bit mean to make you queue for tickets in this weather. Keep checking here or Twitter for more information.
This is our January pop moment. RED makes the kind of beautiful, swirly fuzzy pop that Stereolab were famous for, Two Door Cinema Club somehow encapsulate all that's been good about British Indie in the last ten years in a shiny new coating and Racehorses are the welsh purveyors of a post-foals indie pop. Possibly.
http://www.myspace.com/roseelinordougallmusic
http://www.myspace.com/twodoorcinemaclub
http://www.myspace.com/racehorsesmusic
Tickets:
http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=360564 |
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Tuesday, January 05
Esben and the Witch + Grasscut
“It’s Siouxsie and the Banshees or Early Cure, but with a dark digital edge that haunts the same shadowy forests as Fever Ray.” NME
“Instantly captivating… Like walking into a hidden attic full of ancient maps, portraits, furniture and ephemera… Romantic and gothic, a shadow of something intangible and otherworldly.” theQuietus.com
“A haunting, evocative blend of electronica, gothic melancholia, and the dynamics of post-rock… Startlingly accomplished for a new group.” The Stool Pigeon
“Dark, sensual cinematic fusion that blends the hi-tech with the traditional… A flow of music that would have the Mercury judging panel salivating, their pulses racing and gushing plaudits out one after another.” Loud & Quiet
http://www.myspace.com/esbenandthewitch
http://www.myspace.com/grasscutmusic
Advance Tickets (£5, £6 on the door for the bands / £5 for the club)
http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=361700
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