London Diary Dates

We just took a glance at our diary. It's like this week's London gigs were all hand picked by RobotPigeon.

Sunday 1st August (Today) - Unicorn Kid - Underage Festival
We said:"Do you like haggis?"
He said: "I’m normally a vegetarian, but I like vegetarian haggis. It’s mostly oats anyway isn’t it?"

Tuesday 3rd Aug - Othello Woolf - Hoxton Bar & Kitchen
We said: "with echoes of Bowie, inflections of Elton John and riffs of 70s funk Woolf effortlessly sidesteps being robotpigeon-holed and makes us think 'yes, this man is exciting and interesting, without trying to be cool and trendy, whilst also being musically relevant, yet concurrently forward thinking. His general appearance is not hideous either'"

Wednesday 4th August - Midsomer Murders - ITV

AND:

Wednesday 4th Aug - Safari - Stag's Head, Hoxton
We said: "What smells make you feel sick?"
They said: "There was a smell where we recorded our album. It was like Weetabix and cold porridge. It was a dead fox or something, and when you smelt it you couldn’t stand up."

Thursday 5th August - Peter Lyons - North London Tavern
We said: "There are many layers and sounds firing off in all directions, which makes for more than your run of the mill singer-songwriter. Peter also released some of his music on a limited edition cassette tape, which earns instant 'redundant format' brownie points from us. We might have been late to the party on this one, but we promise to be at the front of the queue for him in future."

Friday 6th August - Dancing Robot Music - CAMP
We said: "one has nice hair and the bottom one has BRILLIANT hair" (don't let it be said we never let anything drop). Here's something new we have to say about them that could be used in a soundbite capacity: They sound like Fischerspooner took a pill and went to the Haribo factory to steal some samples from a Tangfastic crocodile, then added some casio bleeps and a rousing build to form an 80s inspired, yet forward thinking, disco volcano. And they have great hair.

AND

Friday 6th August - Slaughterbrains - The Camp, Islington
We said: "As Dannii will probably say on X Factor this Saturday - 'You've got the full package. Banging beats, some bloody logos, a strong horror identity, massive potential. You could press it tomorrow and make a hit ricord.'"

That is next week sorted then. Let us know if we've missed anything...

NB. In no way, shape or form was this a post designed solely to ensure we are on the guest list for all these dates.