Islington Buffalo Bar

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Address: Upper Street, Islington, London, N1 1RU (map)

Phone: 0207 359 6191

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Train: Highbury (3 mins)

Tube: Highbury & Islington (3 mins)

Reviewed Events

Blood Red Shoes, Tiger Force, Venom Seeds at Islington Buffalo Bar, Islington, Tue 04 Oct

Review by Tommy Mack

What’s the best thing about so-called Art Rock? It’s noisy. And the worst thing? Well, it’s often little else; a plodding, opaque racket, sacrificing rhythm and melody for sheer density of sound. And it’s White – an unfunky, machine-like grind, made strictly not for dancing to, separating itself from it’s cockier cousin by eschewing its blues roots. Not so multinational London trio Venom Seeds.»

Silver Rocket Club at London Islington Buffalo Bar, Fri 18 Nov

Review by Mike Diver

This shit is going to be CRUNK, y'all.»

Paper Cuts, The International Karate Plus, Mystery Meat, Popular Workshop at Islington Buffalo Bar, Islington, Sun 04 Dec

Review by Tom Edwards

Mystery Meat deliver rock for rock's sake, and there ain't no better place to come from than that.»

Silver Rocket vs Noisestar vs DrownedinSound at Islington Buffalo Bar, Islington, Fri 16 Dec

Review by Mike Diver

You know, two or three months by now, this will be a fully formed obsession...»

Artrocker at London Islington Buffalo Bar, Tue 18 Apr

Review by Larry Davies

Well we had to watch Attack!Switch!Attack! unfortunately but finally These New Puritans arrive after a lot of fiddling about with a keyboard. So what are they like? Think a more sophisticated version of fellow Southend sceners the Horrors, except this »

Silver Rocket at London Islington Buffalo Bar, Fri 21 Apr

Review by Mike Diver

Lords, y’see, are true masters of their mutant-blues craft, of venturing beyond post-prefixes and into a realm of retrospective yet forward-thinking compositional intelligence... »

Silver Rocket at London Islington Buffalo Bar, Fri 16 Jun

Review by El Presidente Daniel! J Guntrip, Lord of Savoy, Piedmont and the Many Ocean States of Atlantica

So here's a little story: I put this band on a compilation CD recently. To aid in writing the press sheet for it, I asked every band to give me a brief description of their music, a sort of one-liner to sell themselves. Optimist Club's suggestion was t»

Artrocker Festival at London Islington Buffalo Bar, Thu 17 Jan

Review by Alex Denney

Ipso Facto are a band on the devil’s payroll, a freak show burlesque of pop noir to send a nation’s ambulance force careening down cul-de-sacs while people die screaming in terrific-sounding agony. Their hands, anything but idle»