The Arts Cafe
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Nice intimate venue, a little white hall/room with a bar and some tables.
Nearest tubes = Aldgate, Aldgate East, Liverpool Street
Reviewed Events
Woe, Rollerball at London The Arts Cafe, Fri 18 May
Varied descriptions of the bands playing tonight left me excited but quite unsure what to expect. Woe apparently combine the ethos of punk and hardcore with quiet folk and jazz instrumentation, while Rollerball were described as a gypsy-band Godspeed you black emporer! Woe cleary abandoned»
Electrelane at London The Arts Cafe, Thu 10 Jan
Hey, get down from there! Yeah you Mister Gargoule dancing upon the ceiling! …like you, I am questioning what it is I am drinking. Electrelane seem to be able to do this to me. I’m being imprecise because whatever it is they are doing just now, makes me feel as if I am standing outside of myself or floating abov»
Scout Niblett, Neil Halstead at London The Arts Cafe, Thu 17 Jan
Scout Niblett open the evenings proceedings, to a hushed room.People stand clutching their beers,as a nagging head ache unfurls on stage. Perhaps the people at the front were having some kind of epic moment of clarity as the singer moves her way through a none-too-chipper tune,but we at the back lost interest a»
Herman Düne, The Broken Family Band, The Mendoza Line at The Arts Cafe, Poplar, Tue 07 Jan
Genre Music is more interesting when it is made by people who do not belong to the culture associated with the genre. No, think about it. Abandon all your notions of "authenticity" being urgent and key in music; they are wrong. The best Prefab Pop is not made by well-tanned teenagers from Florida, it's made b»
Printed Circuit, Capitol K, Marshmallow Coast at London The Arts Cafe, Thu 09 Jan
Remember the future? No, really, remember Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers In The 25th Century, shiny silver jump-suits and pristine space-discos filled with jive robots and hipster aliens that made the future look like such a happening place in 1982? If you believ»
Los Planetos Del Agua, The Telescopes at London The Arts Cafe, Fri 24 Jan
It's a relief to know that not all angsty teenagers listen to Radiohead and spend the rest of their adolescence trying to emulate Muse. Some of them stick Boards Of Canada stickers on their guitars, acquire DD-5 sample pedals and violin bows, and proceed to work the Mogwai-esque quiet »
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