Buffalo Bar
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Train: Highbury (3 mins)
Tube: Highbury & Islington (3 mins)
Outside Highbury and Islington tube station, and underneath the Famous Cock pub,
Reviewed Events
Oceansize, The Rain Band at London Buffalo Bar, Thu 28 Nov
The Buffalo Bar in Highbury is buzzing smilingly. Only two bands on the menu at the The Basement Clubnight, but two very fine ones indeed... In the left corner, hunched over fashionably moody, are new-found indie gods Oceansize, drenching the venue in their blend of etherial dreams and brutal guitar»
The Vaults, Junkbox at London Buffalo Bar, Tue 14 Jan
Junkbox are rocking the stage. Their DIY approach is breaking shambolic wind in the faces of the gathered masses for the umpteenth Artrocker extravaganza. An audience of excited and excitable people are desperately vying for space in this cramped and seedy feeling underground box-room. Reminiscent of the <»
Hey Colossus at London Buffalo Bar, Sat 06 Sep
I was never much of a fan of Stanton, so when I first heard that two members of said band, namely Bob and Joe, were staring a new band called Hey Colossus with a few chaps from I'm Being Good, Yeast and econoline, I was hardly tripping over myself with excitement. Then I read the e»
Paper Cuts at London Buffalo Bar, Tue 27 Jan
Ross Cummins fronts the second great band to emerge from the ashes of Symposium. We're talking mighty eardrum damage and head-crunching riffs here. Bring it on!»
Archie Bronson Outfit, The Duke Spirit, The Magic Numbers at Buffalo Bar, Islington, Thu 27 May
If the dead could groove, this band could well provide the soundtrack...»
65daysofstatic, Up-C Down-C Left-C Right-C ABC + START, Jason And The Astronauts at Buffalo Bar, Islington, Thu 14 Oct
Sometimes it feels like Gentle Giant being battered by the brute strength of Zeppelin at their bombastic best. They play maybe two songs, fleshed out by what must be sections of improvisation, and climax with a shudder felt as far away as Birmingham. Birmingham, Alabama.»
The Chalets at London Buffalo Bar, Tue 23 Nov
When pop music's as catchy, addictive and as downright brilliant as that purveyed by The Chalets, how can it fail? If it's pop-rockin' X Factor that you want, without having to resort to an evening in with a parasitical rock-star wife and her wannabes, then this is it.»
Millionaire, Bullet Union at London Buffalo Bar, Tue 19 Jul
The years away from these shores have seen a stark change come over Belgian shapeshifters Millionaire. The arrogance and showmanship that have characterised Millionaire from the start are self-evident but the Prince manoeuvres of old are swept aside to make room for an arsenal of stoner riffs and Jagger swagger.»
Blood Red Shoes at London Buffalo Bar, Sat 17 Sep
It begins with a disclaimer, of sorts: “I’ve just had tonsillitis,” says drummer Steve, a chest-bearing throat-shredding front man in a former musical life. We’re to forgive him if his vocals crack under the strain of recent illness. As it happens, they go the distance fine...»
Josh T Pearson at London Buffalo Bar, Thu 27 Oct
A shuffle, a sigh, another quip; then, song. Silence spreads from front to back as chatterboxes close for business: out to lunch, back in 30 minutes, do not disturb...»
Wives at London Buffalo Bar, Sun 20 Nov
Im going!! (to cry) :( Aw this is sad yet im quite happy!??! I hope they play a little longer/harder tonight with less interruptions. I predict they will go out with a BANG and i will aid them in every way possible! I will report back when i »
Squid at London Buffalo Bar, Sun 12 Feb
The perfect antidote to the Sunday evening blues...»
Econoline, An Emergency, DJ Das Gink, DJ CrabbyCrab, Foals, Silver Rocket DJs at Buffalo Bar, Islington, Fri 17 Feb
It’s strange: to look at the four people on stage, shuffling nervously into the positions they’ll maintain for the next thirty minutes, you’d think this was their first-ever show before an audience of paying punters, past ‘gigs’ in front of sympathetic friends and family still fresh in their minds...»
Plans and Apologies, The Retro Spankees, DDD, Tiger Force at Buffalo Bar, Islington, Sun 18 Jun
A wicked night. Went for The Retro Spankees (as they never fail to impress me live) and they were awesome as ever but was also impressed by the other three bands. The Retros played a few new songs which went down well, but the song of t»
Artrocker at London Buffalo Bar, Tue 18 Jul
Mike Title is one of the UK’s most under-rated hellraising frontmen. At the turn of the millennium, as Michael Frankel, he fronted Sona Fariq, whose legacy is some of the most frenzied venue-levelling rock shows in living memory and a Warners-released album of hedonistic funk-flecked punk rock mash-up that still awaits discovery from the world at large...»
Silver Rocket 6th birthday at London Buffalo Bar, Fri 21 Jul
DiS nods, harder and harder, hair sticking to eyelids and ears but any annoyance ignored in favour of concentrating on Collapse’s seconds-away-from-explosion riot-rock; each song is a Molotov with its fuel-soaked rag a little too short for comfort, each bead of sweat that falls from a protagonist’s brown burns the stage like an HR Giger alien’s acidic saliva...»
Jeremy Warmsley, Plan B, The Rumble Strips at London Buffalo Bar, Thu 24 Aug
Yes, the language is intended to reinforce the often violent and visceral subject matters, but songs like ‘Missin’ Links’ and ‘Who Needs Actions When You Got Words’ – the latter the title track from Plan B’s debut album – would be perfect mainstream material, ripe for FM consumption without some bland Streets-style ballad playing burly quarterback to aid their cause, if stripped of the excess swearing...»
Future Of The Left at London Buffalo Bar, Sat 14 Oct
Late homework handed in finally, detailing the live exploits of ex-Mclusky / ex-Jarcrew power trio. The music is darker, the guitars have fewer strings, and the drums are loud enough to bring down the Walls Of Jericho. Top stuff, really...»
Silver Rocket at London Buffalo Bar, Fri 16 Feb
In the intensely crimson Buffalo Bar, some bands play. They are uniformly shit until Mittens arrive. Mittens, who play the kind of pop favoured by a naked Jason Lytle slathering cream all over The Mountain Goats. This is bracing, utterly fresh and stripped-down popular music, devoid of any garish over-indulgence. Whizz-bang and that's a song...»
Kontakte, Seventeen Evergreen at London Buffalo Bar, Wed 13 Jun
Kontakte here. We'd like to say sorry to everyone that caught our set last night. The onstage sound was the worst we have ever ex»
Post War Years, Metronomy, The Teenagers at London Buffalo Bar, Thu 28 Jun
There are two main types of music that make me want to contort myself - brash, smack in the face beats and rainbow-brite colours, good old cut-out-and-keep dirty sleaze, or the (near) opposite - mind-fuckingly intelligent mash and melange of time signatures and cut-n-paste melody fragments. In other words, the wonderfully dumb and the wildly creative. »
Screaming Tea Party, The Sticks, Let's Wrestle at London Buffalo Bar, Sat 21 Jul
The Screaming Tea Party rip it up again with their sonic waves and punked up attitude - Japanese style. they blased through their »
Bearsuit, Le Tetsuo, Screaming Tea Party, The Total Drop at Buffalo Bar, Islington, Thu 16 Aug
That this concert is taking place at all is a tragedy. Although I know relatively little about either Iain Smith or Chow Chow, the»
Too Pure Singles Club Launch Party at London Buffalo Bar, Thu 13 Sep
This launch party gig was pretty packed and there was a tangible air of excitement over the much lauded label Too Pure's new batch»
You Me The Switch, Vessels, Kontakte, Instruments at Buffalo Bar, Islington, Wed 13 Feb
Instruments trade in such a technically precise, youthfully exuberant form of rock music – seemingly unrestricted by genre-snobbery – that they surely must be counted as one of 2008’s great hopes»
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