2. Final week’s line-up announced at the Bull & Gate
We really are approaching the last days of one of London’s most legendary live venues. “And we might be getting a touch moist of eye come May 4th,” says Tom from promoters Club Fandango, “because the time has very nearly come to say hello, wave goodbye to a bastion of the leftfield live music scene for as long as some of us can remember (33 years of alternative rocking to be precise).”
Some names? Heroic alt.rockers SIX BY SEVEN, original 80s electropumpers JESUS JONES, fragrant folksters GOLDHEART ASSEMBLY, and lastly but by no means least ED HARCOURT, who promises to play out the very last night armed with “little more than a piano and a pair of sharp sideburns”.
Don’t miss some new acts too such as Nadine Shah, Ed Zealous and The Machine Room and Melanie Pain. More names are to be announced in the days ahead, but for now those very final bills look like this:
FINAL WEEK: TIMETABLE OF ACTS
Tuesday April 30th: Fortuna POP! records present
THE UNDERSTUDIES + COSINES + THE FIREWORKS + THE LISTENING PARTY Advance tickets £5.00
Wednesday May 1st: fierce panda records present
SIX BY SEVEN + THE MACHINE ROOM Advance tickets £10.00 from
Thursday May 2nd: Club Fandango presents
JESUS JONES + ED ZEALOUS
SOLD OUT
Friday May 3rd: Steve Lamacq’s Going Deaf For A Living presents
GOLDHEART ASSEMBLY + NADINE SHAH + SPECIAL GUESTS
Advance tickets £8.00
Saturday MAY 4TH: Club Fandango and many friends present
ED HARCOURT + MELANIE PAIN + SPECIAL GUESTS + DISORDER DJS
Advance tickets £10
Post-Bull & Gate the Club Fandango shows will go on, mostly at their new monthly night at the Shacklewell Arms in Dalston. Where else?
Next: everyone’s favourite Sunday lunchtime Heathside pub gets a makeover
3 thoughts on “Pinboard: New free April print issue out now! Plus Bull & Gate, Spaniards Inn and St Pancras Old Church”
I’ve always found the row of shops on Fortess Road leading up from the junction with Kentish Town Rd to The Junction a little disconcerting:
-the hat shop that never looks open
-the thai restaurant that never seems to have any customers (but does seem to have a revamp on an annual basis)
-the junk shop with the cage permanently outside (often with furry handcuffs on)
Having previously lived in the piano shop that’s no longer a piano shop, it was a very odd road to walk along daily. Genuine new arrivals would distinctly improve that road.
The hat shop? You mean the tailor Chris Ruocco? Try a bit later in the day. I think earlier in the morning Chris is busy organizing things at the men’s pond on the Heath. He has a harmonium (or some small keyboard instrument) in the front of the shop, and has specialized in clothes for musicians, including – most famously – George Michael in the Wood Green early years. Very much worth asking Chris for a Kentishtowner interview: has many stories to tell.
Agree – I knew someone who had a suit made by Chris and he mentioned Diana Ross used to pop in also.