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Our recommendation for your weekend: Field Day festival, London

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One of the best London day festivals, held in Victoria Park over two days. The perfect mix of live bands, DJ sets, food, people and fun to help kick off festival season in style.

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We’ll be going on the Saturday and are most looking forward to seeing Caribou, Kindness, Spector, Django Django, Honne, John Talabot, Leon Vynehall…along with everyone else on the monumental line up!

Saturday and weekend tickets have sold out but there are still some tickets left for Sunday – get them here.

Here’s Caribou performing Can’t Do Without You the last time we saw them at Brixton Academy back in March to get you in the mood:

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Check out our Past Events page to see our music archives or, if it’s festivals you’re after, see what our festival season holds…

 

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June means one thing – summer festival season is here!

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It’s June! How is it June?! Pretty sure it’s still meant to be only February or some other month early in the year… But (there’s always a but), June does mean one very exciting thing – FESTIVAL SEASON HAS OFFICIALLY STARTED!!!!!

Ahhhh festival season: sun, (inevitably) rain, cider, Pimms, (supposed) cocktails, random food, quirky food, bad for you food,new friends, new trends, silly head-wear, hot pants and butt cheeks, ridiculously white sneaks, the never-ending quest to find a waterproof jacket, new music, old music, music we love, dancing, (shuffling,) laughing, singing, fairground riding…amazing memories being made!

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Eastern Electrics 2014

There are so many festivals to choose from, it’s sometimes hard to decide whether to stick with what you know and love or try something new. Then you have the difficulty of deciding whether to stay on home turf or venture abroad. What to do, what to do…

This year, we’ve chosen to do a bit of both: we’ve got some of our faves in there and then some new adventures planned. Let the festival countdowns begin –

  • Field Day – London, UK, Saturday 6th June – 5 days to go
  • Wild Life – Brighton, UK, Sunday 7th June – 6 days to go
  • Sonar – Barcelona, Spain, Thursday 18th June – 17 days to go
  • Lovebox – London, UK, Saturday 18th July – 47 days to go
  • Boardmasters – Cornwall, UK, Friday 7th August – 67 days to go
  • V Festival – Essex, UK, Saturday 22nd August – 82 days to go
  • Dimensions Festival – Pula, Croatia, Wednesday 26th August – 86 days to go

Please keep your fingers crossed for sun. We’ll see you in the field 🙂

We’re Lost In Music x

Check out our Past Events page to see our music archives. Why not take a look at our reviews of two of last year’s festival season highlights: Berlin Festival and Unknown?

 

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Spotlight on Honne

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Honne

The Laundry, London (13th May 2015)

Well hello Honne!

Hello indeed (you will notice that all their social media handles include ‘Hello Honne’).

Honne are West Country electronic duo Andy and James. Something of an enigma really – it was very hard to find much information on the boys when sitting down to write this!

How did you find out about them?

Ever thought ‘I really want to go to that venue’ and bought tickets to a gig as a good excuse? Well, that’s what happened here. Having recently moved to East London, the venue is now pretty much on my doorstep so it worked out quite nicely.

Turns out I wasn’t the only person to have this thought as the gig was sold out…

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Spotlight on Glass Animals

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Glass Animals

Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London (10th March 2015)

Who are Glass Animals?

Glass Animals are British indie rock four-piece Dave Bayley, Drew MacFarlane, Edmund Irwin-Singer and Joe Seaward.

Having made a good first impression in 2014, the boys have been tipped for success in 2015…

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Spotlight on The Thirst

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The Thirst

100 Club, London (7th March 2015)

Who are The Thirst?

The Thirst are Brixton-based foursome Mensah Hart (vocals and guitar), Kwame Hart (bass guitar), Mark Lenihan (guitar) and Marcus Harris (drums). If you hadn’t guessed, Mensah and Kwame are brothers.

How did you first come across them?

Completely by chance (although I guess you come across most new discoveries that way)! I was running errands in Brixton and heard a guitar riff that made my head turn…it was these boys playing in front of the iconic David Bowie mural opposite the Underground station. I bought their CD there and then and tickets for their gig at 100 Club as soon as I got home.

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Who would our BRITs winners be?

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The BRIT Awards 2015

The O2, London (25th February 2015)

Tonight sees many of the best in homegrown (and international) musical talent come together for one of the biggest music award shows in the UK: The BRIT Awards. Ahead of the show, we look at who our winners would be.

You can watch the Awards streamed live here from 8pm.

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Spotlight on OK Go

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OK Go

KOKO, London (13th February 2015)
With support from Oscar and the Wolf

How did I not know about OK Go sooner?

That’s a good question; the boys (Damian Kulash, Tim Nordwind, Andy Ross and Dan Konopka) have been together for the last 17 years! Sometimes though a good thing goes unnoticed until you stumble across it unaware.

So what did you find?

Formed in Midwest America (Chicago to be precise), the boys have experimented with various sounds throughout their career but are largely described as an alternative rock band – something which is evident when you consider they have toured with the likes of Kaiser Chiefs to the Music to Panic! At The Disco in the past.

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Prides: These are the seeds you sow

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Prides

Heaven, London (12th February 2015)
With support from Model Aeroplanes

This last week has seen us discover two great new acts (Model Aeroplanes and Oscar and the Wolf) as they performed as support for two of the headliners we originally went to see. Prides were an act we discovered in the same way; supporting Foxes at KOKO back in May 2014.

Hailing from Glasgow, the trio are fairly new to the scene having only formed in 2013. The boys have quickly built their own following and have since featured on the likes of Radio 1’s Playlist and even Made In Chelsea‘s music list (Seeds You Sow featured on Series 6, Episode 11 – make of that as you will…) As a result, they were easily able to fill Heaven’s 1,800 capacity on Thursday evening.

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Spotlight on 2:54

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2:54

Dingwalls, London (4th February 2015)

Who are 2:54?

Described as an alternative rock band, 2:54 are fronted by Irish sisters, Colette and Hannah, accompanied by bass guitarist Rich and drummer Alex.

Almost toying with being pop at times, the guitar bass and drum beats keep the band grounded by a darker sound, with hints of Garbage and The XX dropped in for good measure.

Where can I see them play?

TwoFiftyFour_DingwallsYou’ve missed them in London (if that’s where you’re reading from) – that’s where we saw them last night, at Camden’s Dingwalls.

They’re off to the States next, kicking off in Brooklyn on the 27th February. For more dates, check out their Live page.

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The Kooks can’t escape us, even if we have to fly to another country to see them…

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The Kooks

Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam (31st January 2015)

You know what makes us grumpy? Not getting tickets to a gig we want to see. You know what makes us even more grumpy?! A band or artist we want to see not coming to London as part of their tour. Now that may sound a bit spoilt (and we are – we’re usually spoilt for choice!), but we like to be able to take in all those events we want to without having to worry about complications. The Kooks were kindly the most recent band to challenge us but, fear not, we simply made a short trip to Amsterdam to make sure we saw them in person as they showcased their most recent comeback.

Having not been a huge fan of Listen when it was released last year, we were only cautiously optimistic that this was going to be a sound decision… We’re glad we made the effort though – putting on an adept show, complemented by one of the best stage sets we’ve seen in a while, along with wholesome acoustics in a great venue, the boys had us fully tuned in from the get-go.

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We’re Lost In Music’s 2014 in Review

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We’re Lost In Music’s 2014 in Review

Hi everyone!

As 2014 draws to a close, it seems apt that we take a look back at what the year has had to offer.

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Let me down gently La Roux

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La Roux

Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London (12th November)

On Wednesday night we made the trek west to see fellow south Londoner Elly Jackson, front La Roux at Shepherd’s Bush Empire.

And she certainly didn’t let us down.  Gently or otherwise.

Admittedly, the Empire is not our favourite venue.  The lack of a sloping floor can make it difficult to see the stage, it’s invariably difficult to get to the bar, and it would be quicker to drive through central London in rush hour traffic than to get served by the cloak room staff.  But more on that later.

This being my first time seeing La Roux, I couldn’t wait to see how their studio sound would be recreated live.

After bursting onto the scene in 2009 with her self-titled album La Roux, it’s taken 5 years for her to release her follow-up Trouble in Paradise.  Much has been written about the anxiety attacks she suffered in the wake of her debut album, and at one point she even thought that she may have had throat cancer.

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Klaxons with a dash of THUMPERS and a smidgen of moshing…

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Klaxons with support from THUMPERS

Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London (4th November)

On a scale of 1-10 of excitement, I would say I was about an 11 for this week’s Klaxons gig. Although I was lucky enough to see them at Berlin Festival 2013, I had missed out on getting tickets for their comeback gig at 600-capacity venue, Oslo in London earlier this year. Seeing them in Berlin had brought back so many great memories of almost 8 years earlier when they released their first album, Myths of the Near Future (which I have on special edition vinyl 🙂 ), and I had desperately wanted to see them again in a smaller venue.

Back then, in 2007, I saw them at Newcastle Academy and remember not necessarily having the best experience as we got caught up in a teenage mosh pit and I got elbowed in the ribs on more than one occasion. A mosh pit! Why are people moshing to Klaxons?! I’m glad I won’t need to worry about that this time I thought…oh how wrong I was!

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Moody and cinematic, indie infectiousness – New Desert Blues and We Are Scientists intimate London gig

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supported by: New Desert Blues

Brooklyn Bowl London (22nd October)

There’s nothing like exploring a new venue, discovering a talented new band, and drinking a LOT of cider on a chilly Wednesday evening to the feel-good tunes (and witty repartee) of We Are Scientists.

First – the venue.  The concept?  Live music played in a bowling alley. Literally in a bowling alley.  With the stage directly in front of you, a long bar to the left (overcrowded and under-staffed – standard – unfortunately) and the flourescent lights of disco bowls to the right, Brooklyn Bowl is slick, clean, and a very cool entertainment venue.

And the sound!  Crystal clear, perfect acoustics, and no ear plugs required.  

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