This week sees RIGHT CLICK SAVE AS and A GUN RACK? coming to No Fiction;
RIGHT CLICK SAVE AS
Self professed fan of the Star Wars prequels and socially awkward brain child Ben Mercer has been performing as his alter ego ‘RightClickSaveAs’ ever since relocating to the capitol earlier in the year. Really showing all other superheroes with alter egos how it’s done (badly, without a costume or any crime fighting what so ever), his influences include all things electro while having a certain flare for the works of Radiohead and the punky styling’s of indie bands ala Futureheads. His music can be best described as ‘interesting’ and is commonly found subjecting people to it around London. http://www.myspace.com/rightclicksaveasband
A GUN RACK?
Decidedly a case of a song writer not knowing how good he is. We’d introduce him to our Mums as Crouch End’s answer to Billy Bragg tinged with a hint of Belle and Sebastian. A serious new talent. Make sure you make it down to catch him. http://www.myspace.com/agunrack
Plus the NO FICTION residents with cuts from the likes of ERRORS, ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, KRAFTWERK, THE XX, THE DEAD WEATHER (et al) on the decks.
See you down for dancing.
The No Fiction Crew
xx
Doors 8pm. Bands from 9.30pm.
FREE ENTRY
Loads of drink offers (like Tequila £2 a shot,) just ask at the bar!
No Fiction is @ POWER’S
332 Kilburn High Road
NW6 2QN
Every once in a while you go to a gig and there’s something in the air. A certain feeling you’re in the presence of the future, witnessing the crest of a new creative epoch. This year I had that feeling watching WILD PALMS at the Victoria and again seeing ERRORS in store at Pure Groove. I’m pleased to say I wasn’t alone in feeling it about what surely must be one of the best shows we’ve ever had last night. POPE JOAN are stunning. I’ve never seen anyone own the whole venue quite like that before. And the boys were on the top of their game indeed. People were wandering in for a pint and then stopping mesmerised mouths literally open in front of the stage. Like I said. Once in a while there’s something in the air.
I must sing the praises of MATT TRAKKER too. Theirs was an incredible set. Their drummer is returning to the UK next year so they’re going to stop using a mic-ed up a ghetto blaster for their backing beats. More’s the pity. That was something to behold! Far from novelty though. MT have some serious song skills. We’re proud to have played host to them at No Fiction.
I enjoyed my set this week. Fail request of the week would probably be Wolfmother. I’m big on Modular records and WM aren’t out of the remit for what we play, but if I was to go down that road I would probably go straight to source and just play some real Led Zepplin rather than the wannabe. Best request was probably ‘just play more Smiths’. Those who know me will know that usually gets a big Can Do! I’m a proper sucker for the Mozz Father.
Here’s how the playlist shaped up for last night;
Andrew NoFiction: Yadnus - !!! Blind - Hercules and Love Affair (Frankie Knuckles RMX) Leather – Death In Vegas Fire – The Whip Anyway you choose to give it – Black Ghosts Shoes – Tiga Flicking your switch – Ladytron My girls – Animal Collective The way we were – XX Teens Let’s go surfing – Drums Mansard roof – Vampire Weekend Ask – The Smiths Magnet – Bombay Bicycle Club North American scum – LCD Soundsystem Cinema car – Transformer Three bar rumba – Wire Golden phone – Mikachu and the Shapes 22 grand job – The Rakes My little brother – Art Brut Drugs - Black Lips Riot radio – The Dead 60s No Fun – Iggy and the Stooges Road runner (once) – John Richman and the Modern Lovers Human fly – The Cramps Shot by both sides – Magazine Transmission – Joy Division Black tongue – The Yeah Yeah Yeahs Love in a trash can – The Raveonettes This is love – PJ Harvey Dance the way I feel – Ou Est Le Swimming Pool Walking on a dream – Empire of the Sun On board – Friendly Fires M.E. – Gary Numan NY Excuse – Soulwax Shake a fist – Hot Chip Heart rate rapid – Metronomy The game is not over – T Raumschmiere Feat. Miss Kittin I love London – Crystal Fighters Treat me like your Mother - The Dead Weather Atlas – Battles Fledermaus can’t get it – Von Sudenfed Farewell to the fairground – White Lies Heard it through the grapevine – The Slits One way or another – Blondie Stop me if you’ve heard this one before – The Smiths Trans Europe Express – Kraftwerk Seven nation army – The White Stripes Heroes – David Bowie Close to me – The Cure Young folks – Peter, Bjorn and John Sex on fire – Kings of Leon Debaser – Pixies Paper planes - M.I.A. Disco 2000 – Pulp Munich – Editors Slowhands - Interpol Graffiti – Maximo Park Can’t stand me now – The Libertines Wuthering Heights – Kate Bush Warrior’s dance – The Prodigy Kids – MGMT Wordy rappinghood – Tom Tom Club Broken English – Marianne Faithful (Baron Von Luxxury RMX) Hi friend – Dead Mau5 Thou shalt always kill – Dan Le Sac vs. Losers Kiss with a fist – Florence and the Machine Hard to explain – The Strokes Heavy Cross – Gossip Islands – The XX
Make sure you’re down next Friday for RightClickSaveAs and A Gun Rack?. This will be epic. As a taster here’s a you tube of RCSA doing an unplugged gig for us at Liquid Nation last Summer;
No Fiction is every Friday at Power’s, 332 Kilburn High Road, London, NW6 2QN.
8 till 2am. 18+ bring ID.
Always FREE ENTRY.
Drinks promos on Kronenburg, Tequila and Red Stripe.
Friday sees the long awaited return of one of our all time favourites accompanied by spine tinglingly accomplished new London talent;
POPE JOAN
It’s just shy of a year since we last had PJ grace the stage at Power’s. Last time around they supported TRASH FASHION for our X-Mas bash. 09 has been an equally strong year for the boys seeing them support BEARSUIT and FAUNS. The Brightonian four piece describe themselves as “Ambient walls of processed guitar noise, furious drum lines and quirky 8-bit synth keyboards are all underpinned by an incredibly demanding pop sensibility.” Small wonder then that the NME, Artrocker and The Fly have all given them drooling complementary reviews. Their myspace songs are very true to the live show. check out http://www.myspace.com/popejoan to see why we’re all a commotion about this Friday.
Supporting we have a an exceptional band, that narrowly avoided being headline themselves by mere luck of a coin toss;
MATT TRAKKER
Road to V Festival 2008 winners and V Fest 2009 performers, MT have more musical ideas in their tracks than we’ve had hot dinners. Wasting no time in telling the world this tour de force three piece from London had to politely decline two Major label deals after only their third gig. Choosing instead to hone their craft over the last 12 months, we’re very glad to be boasting these lads at No Fiction. “The resulting sound starts somewhere around the melodic punk rock of the Replacements, takes a short detour at the melancholy of Bon Iver and finishes with the instinctive song-writing of Jackson Browne. Lyrically, Matt Rider’s observations are honest, humorous, and heartbreaking in equal measures.” http://www.myspace.com/mattsmusicmachine
Friday the 20th promises to be something exceptional indeed.
Plus the NO FICTION residents with cuts from the likes of ERRORS, ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, KRAFTWERK, THE XX, THE DEAD WEATHER (et al) on the decks.
See you down for dancing.
The No Fiction Crew
xx
Doors 8pm. Bands from 9.30pm.
FREE ENTRY
Loads of drink offers (like Tequila £2 a shot,) just ask at the bar!
No Fiction is @ POWER’S
332 Kilburn High Road
NW6 2QN
Friday 13th always brings out the whackos. Last weekend the Police had to get involved twice to remove nutters from outside the venue. Add to this mayhem a large birthday party of Spaniards on a quest for house and RnB, throw in an onstage tea pot doll house and it ended up being a bit of a weird one for me.
What did buoy me up though was the fantastic feedback I got from you lot not only to our blinding live performers Chapter 24 and Fever Fever but the tremendous response I got from my DJ set for the early part of the evening. Glad to have been of service.
Fail request of the week: ‘Anything spanish, even if it’s the Macarana…’ Best request of the week Japanese Voyeurs.
Here’s the set;
Andrew NoFiction: Please don’t touch – Polly Scattergood (Golden Filter RMX) Solo – Chew Lipps Lebanon – The Human League Blind – Hercules and Love Affair (Frankie Knuckles RMX) Forever indebted – Shout Out Out Out Wake up – The Arcade Fire Crystal clear – Fiery Furnaces Rich – The Yeah Yeah Yeahs Denise – Blondie Wordy Rappinghood – Tom Tom Club Boys keep swinging – David Bowie Love in a trash can – The Raveonettes This is love – PJ Harvey North American scum – LCD Soundsystem Ask – The Smiths Disorder – Joy Division California uber alles – Dead Kennedys F*ck the people – The Kills Who can say – The Horrors Heard it through the grapevine - The Slits Psycho killer – Talking Heads Let’s go surfing – Drums Sister self doubt – Get Shakes Change your mind – Sharpe and Numan Treat me like your Mother – The Dead Weather Dancing with tears in my eyes – Ultravox! Atlas - Battles Zero – Smashing Pumpkins Cracked LCD – Ladytron Serious brainskin – Von Sudenfed Evil – Interpol We are the Pipettes – The Pipettes Something for the weekend – Art Brut Shred A – Le Tigre Road runner (once) – John Richman and the Modern Lovers Shopping for blood – Frans Ferdinand Killer - Sons and Daughters Cherry bomb – The Runnaways Seven nation army - The White Stripes New York city cops – The Strokes Common people – Pulp I wanna be your dog – The Stooges Stand and deliver - Adam and the Ants Monkey gone to heaven – Pixies Boys don’t cry – The Cure Graffiti - Maximo Park Can’t stand me now – The Libertines Rapture – Blondie Oxford Comma – Vampire Weekend Let’s dance – David Bowie On board – Friendly Fires Ready for the floor – Hot Chip Kids – MGMT Young folks - Peter, Bjorn and John Paper planes - MIA Warrior’s dance – Prodigy Sex on fire – Kings of Leon The look of love – ABC Hungry like the wolf – Duran Duran In for the kill – La Roux (Skream RMX) Happy up here – Royksopp (Boys Noize RMX) Move your body – Tiga (Only 4 Erol RMX) You could easily have me – Metronomy You got the love – Florence and the Machine
See you down next Friday (20th) at Power’s (332 Kilburn High Rd, NW6 2QN) for Pope Joan and Matt Trakker. Free Entry from 8pm!
A little while ago (17th Oct 09) we had Yer Beauties play for us at Liquid Nation. A rather good video of their opening song on the night ‘Crystal Mary’ has cropped up on Youtube. Here it is for your enjoyment. xx
Now I have a problem; this week is statistically supposed to be the most depressive week of the year and the club night falls on Friday the 13th. So we’ve come up with one of our strongest line ups of the year to combat those winter blues and bad ju ju…
CHAPTER 24
We put on C24 at Liquid Nation a few weeks ago. It was, in short one of the best gigs of my life. The NME have taken notice of them too reviewing them in the 03rd Oct 09 issue as “a riposte to any punk-rock bore who tells you musical competency is the enemy of DIY.” DO listen to ‘Hepcats on their myspace to get an idea of how wonderful their frisky guitar sound is. DON’T think that is the be all and end all. It gets better, (oh, so better,) when you see them live. I deride anyone not to see this band and fall in love. Yes, they really are that good. http://www.myspace.com/chapter24
In support, complementing C24 like a fine bottle of red to a good meal;
FEVER FEVER
Contemporaries of Violet Violet these “Busy, catchy, muscled-up blasts” (Unpeeled) have been played on Six Music, Radio 1. If every band in the world had a song titled ‘IDon’tKnowAboutArtBrutButIKnowWhatILike’ the world would be a far better place than it is today. Their sound is lush, rich, panzer-ish. Think a balls out Kenickie and you won’t go too far wrong. I bet you ten pounds this lot will be doing the mainstream festival circuit in 2010. See them now. You won’t get another chance to see them in a setting as intimate as Power’s again. That’s for sure. http://www.myspace.com/feverfevertheband
Plus the NO FICTION residents with cuts from the likes of ERRORS, ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, KRAFTWERK, VELVET UNDERGROUND, FRIENDLY FIRES (et al) on the decks.
See you down for dancing.
The No Fiction Crew
xx
Doors 8pm. Bands from 9.30pm.
FREE ENTRY
Loads of drink offers (like Tequilla £2 a shot,) just ask at the bar!
No Fiction is @ POWER’S
332 Kilburn High Road
NW6 2QN
A little quieter than usual (most likely due to all that bloomin rain! Gruuuumble…..) Probably the first time all the people in the venue were part of the No Fiction Facebook group. It was good to see a nice throng of the faithful for both bands. Goes to prove that it is really only down to you guys that we are able to continue to put on these kinds of shows in Kilburn. We’re extremely fond of Midi Midis and Doe Face Lillian. Hopefully we’ll get both back for you very soon. (Loved the epic 15 minute track DFL ended with and the guitar assault on the wall.)
Extra thanks to Alex and Sophia for their delightful guest DJ sets. Ladies, you’re welcome back any time.
Best request of the week = Ostric Tentacles. Will be bringing that with me next week for defo. Fail request of the week = Bullet for my Valentine. Not really a big fan of growly man music back to back with The Strokes…
Here’s the track listing the three of us laid down;
Andrew NoFiction: The way we were – XX Teens Six and three quarters – Ipso Facto Sea within a sea – The Horrors Transmission – Joy Division Seconds – The Human League Love -> Building on fire – Talking Heads Rip it up – Orange Juice Stop/start/synchro – Rose Elinor Dougal You came out – We Have Band Sound of silver – LCD Soundsystem Solo – Chew Lipps NY excuse – Soulwax White diamonds – Friendly Fires Velvet – The Big Pink Treat me like your mother – The Dead Weather Tokyo Joe – Roxy Music Spellbound - Siouxie and the Banshees Metal – Gary Numan
Alex: All the kings men – Wild Beasts Heart rate rapid – Metronomy Love and pain – Clor Brother sport – Animal Collective Swimmer one – Cloudbusting Weekend without make up – The Long Blondes Angst in my pants - Spartus Help I’m alive – Metric Terra Firma – The Young Kinves One of us is going to die young – Ark Cherry bomb – Bratmobile
Sophia: Street life – Roxy Music Metal Guru – T-Rex Pornography – Client Connection – Elastica Trash - Suede NSPSH - Sophisticated Side Pony Tail
Andrew NoFiction: What difference does it make - The Smiths Let’s go to bed - The Cure
Alex and Sophia: The Model – Kraftwerk Ashes to ashes – David Bowie Psychosis safari - The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster Everybody’s happy nowadays – The Buzzcocks Death at the chapel - The Horrors Decision – The Young Knives (Datarock RMX) Fire – Arthur Brown Going underground - The Jam
Andrew NoFiction: Love will tear us apart – Bis Trans Europe express – Kraftwerk Cars – Gary Numan Killing in the name – Rage Against the Machine (Losers RMX) Shoes – Tiga Shake a fist – Hot Chip Dance the way I feel – Ou Est Le Swimming Pool Seven nation army – The White Stripes Modern love – David Bowie Boys don’t cry – The Cure Disco 2000 – Pulp Reptillia – The Strokes Date with the night - The Yeah Yeah Yeahs Send me a postcard – Shocking Blue Looking for a kiss – The New York Dolls Monkey gone to heaven – Pixies Don’t bring me down – ELO Heard it through the grapevine – The Slits This town ain’t big enough for the both of us - Sparks This charming man – The Smiths
Sophia: Sheena is a parasite – The Horrors
Andrew NoFiction: Gett off - Prince 9 to 5 - Dolly Parton Don’t you want me – The Human League Into the groove - Madonna Psycho killer – Talking Heads Blue Monday – New Order Boy from school – Hot Chip Encore en fois – Sash Blood splashing – Fake Blood Last night – The Strokes
Next week (Friday 13th November) we’ve Chapter 24 and Fever Fever. It will be breathtaking we promise!
No Fiction is every Friday at Power’s Kilburn, 332 Kilburn High Road, NW6 2QN.
8pm till 2am. 18+ (please bring ID)
Always Free Entry
Thank you, thank you to everyone who dressed up to come down to our pre-Halloween party on Friday. (check out the previous post for pics!)
This Friday we have two No Fiction favourites returning. We are very pleased to be hosting the Single Launch for ‘Ambulance Cafe’ the debut by none other than the
MIDI MIDIS
This is the third outing for the 8-bit love affair duo at No Fiction. Having now a series of serious live dates under their belts (93 Feet East, Secret Garden Party, Roundhouse,) they are returning to where it all began for them in London (No Fiction) for the official launch of their stunning debut. If the Ghostbusters did battle with Mastersystem sound cards, or if the record industry took away all The Strokes instruments and forced them to make music using a NES then MIDIMIDIS would be the result. Genuinely unique. Each time we’ve had them a dozen people have come up to me and gone ‘OMG! They were really good!’ Make sure you catch them at what may be their final show for us…
http://www.myspace.com/midimidis
In support we have the glamtastic shoegaze-grunge punk of
DOE FACE LILLIAN
Having previously been hand picked to support Glasvegas you can understand why we’re getting a bit moist over this show. They also have a song called Double D which is our favourite kind of D. (No, not for that reason, it’s because we’re massive Dexter’s Laboratory fans. All together now: DEE DEEEEEE!) Eh hem. Anyway, just make sure you get down to catch them. Dark delights aplenty.
http://www.myspace.com/doefacelillian
Plus the NO FICTION residents with cuts from the likes of ERRORS, ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, KRAFTWERK, VELVET UNDERGROUND, FRIENDLY FIRES (et al) on the decks.
Hope to see you down for dancing.
The No Fiction Crew
xx
Doors 8pm. Bands from 9.30pm.
FREE ENTRY
Loads of drink offers (like Tequilla £2 a shot,) just ask at the bar!
No Fiction is @ POWER’S
332 Kilburn High Road
NW6 2QN
It brought a tear to my eye and a smirk to my face to see so many of you make the effort for our all hallows eve, eve party on Friday. My fave costumes were the guy with the large axe in his head and the knife seller girl. Special thanks must go to Mike and the guys for the amazing bar decorations. Cheers gang.
We enjoyed the Mouldy Peaches-esque stylings of HEARTS!ATTACK but it was destined to be THE CURSORS night with Nathalie from the band doing a full on Carrie for the show (above). Pure rock and roll from the fake blood soaked start to the guitar amp catching fire end.
Whilst others ran around putting out flames we cracked out the spooky tunes for an undead disco. Thanks to all who came and danced. (BTW: Fail request of the week = Status Quo. Sorry fella, not really what we’re about.) Here’s what we played;
Andrew NoFiction: Metal - Gary Numan Sea within a sea – The Horrors Black angel’s death song – The Velvet Underground Frankenstein – New York Dolls Vulture – Patrick Wolf Like a wraith pinned to the mist – Of Montreal Always like this – Bombay Bicycle Club Evil – Interpol Mansard roof – Vampire Weekend Red socks pugie – Foals Love sick – Friendly Fires Rich – The Yeah Yeah Yeahs Cherry bomb – The Runnaways Shot by both sides – Magazine Dead souls – Joy Division Round – XX Teens Alcoholics unanimous – Art Brut Big mouth strikes again – The Smiths Killing moon – Echo and the Bunnymen The Rat – The Walkmen Mis-shapes - Pulp Monkey gone to heaven – The Pixies In between days – The Cure Broken English – Marianne Faithful (Baron Von Luxxury RMX) Treat me like your Mother – The Dead Weather Taxidermy – Kasms Oh! Bondage up yours! – X-Ray Specs Bad moon rising – Credence Clearwater Revival Ghost town – The Specials We share our Mother’s health – The Knife Skeleton boy - Friendly Fires The bears are coming – Late of the Pier A la la – CSS Thriller – Michael Jackson This charming man – The Smiths Eton rifles - The Jam Boy’s don’t cry – The Cure Last night – The Strokes Seven nation army – The White Stripes Rapture – Blondie Over and over – Hot Chip Some bizarre love triangle – New Order Believe – Chemical Brothers Omen – The Prodigy Cars – Gary Numan Heard it through the grapevine – The Slits Send me a postcard darling – Shocking Blue Can’t stand me now – The Libertines Apply some pressure – Maximo Park Road to nowhere – Talking Heads Disco 2000 – Pulp Young folks – Peter, Bjorn and John Time to pretend – MGMT Don’t bring me down – ELO Rip it up – Orange Juice Walking on a dream – Empire of the Sun Paper planes – MIA Kiss with a fist – Florence and the Machine Sex on fire – Kings of Leon Let’s stick together – Bryan Ferry Heavy cross – The Gossip Munich – Editors Helicopter – Bloc Party Let’s go surfing – The Drums Rock me Amadeus – Falco
The next No Fiction is Friday the 6th of November and we have Midi Midis and Doe Face Lillian LIVE!
All free entry and loads of drinks promos too!
Catch the action at Power’s, 332 Kilburn High Road, London, NW6 2QN.
So this all hallows eve… eve we have for you a frighteningly good bill (though not as frightening as my puns);
THE CURSORS
Local heroes and No Fiction favourites The Cursors treat us to a spooked up dose of their rockabilly tinged shriek-beat. Probably one of the best, if not the best act I’ve discovered in the last year. Come and find out why this west London four piece is our punk rock valium. http://www.myspace.com/thecursorsmusic
In support we have
HEARTS!ATTACK
On a rare British tour, we managed to snag them for a very special Free show: “they both decided that violence makes people unhappy and handclaps make them happy. thus a tweecore indiepop dynasty was forged.” http://www.myspace.com/heartspowattack
Plus the NO FICTION residents with creepy Halloween cuts from the likes of THE HORRORS, THE GUILLOTINES, THE KILLS, FAKE BLOOD, BIKINI KILL (et al) on the decks.
EXTRAVAGANT PRIZES FOR THE BEST COSTUMES!
See you down for dancing.
The No Fiction Crew
xx
Doors 8pm. Bands from 9.30pm.
FREE ENTRY
Loads of drink offers (like Tequilla £2 a shot,) just ask at the bar!
No Fiction is @ POWER’S
332 Kilburn High Road
NW6 2QN
