A Mixtape Affair is back on October 17th at islington bar academy with an evening of Indie gems past and present.

As the featured Club of the week on Steve Lamacq’s 6Music show, you can guarantee a night of the hottest live bands and the best guest DJs playing A-sides, B-Sides and Rarities from our vaults.

Fox Cubs are our LIVE stars this month. Described by NME as one of the ’10 Hopes of the Near Future’ following a blistering set at Reading Festival, now is the time to check out their epic brand of indie that has seen them compared to The Killers and Bloc Party. In the year since forming they’ve recorded live sessions for Radio 1 & XFM, headlined Steve Lamacq’s stage at Camden Crawl and picked up Single of the week on his show.

Octobers DJs are Homework + Detention & Jimmy Mixtape, playing future classics sit alongside the anthems and keeping you dancing til 3. Entry is free before 11.30 and £5 after with drinks deals all night so get down sharpish.

Playing Pixies, Blondie, Teenage Fanclub, Joy Division, The Smiths, The Specials, My Bloody Valentine, Talking Heads, Ramones, The Cure, Buzzcocks, Blur, Bloc Party, Good Shoes, The Futureheads, Libertines, New Order, The Strokes, The Cribs, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Violent Femmes, The Velvet Underground, David Bowie, The Rolling Stones, The Clash, Pulp, Maximo Park, Echo & the Bunnymen, The Stone Roses, Dinosaur Jr, Belle And Sebastian, Arcade Fire, The Rakes, The Stooges, The Police, Gang of Four, Kate Bush, The Rapture, Kings of Leon, Mystery Jets plus many many more.....