As it’s our LAST EVER O!IW tomorrow *sob :’(* we’ve made a playlist of some of the best artists who have played for us over the past five and a half years. It features the likes of GROUPLOVE Lianne La Havas Anna Calvi Superhumanoids YADi Clock Opera Goldheart Assembly LA SHARK BIG DEAL Bahamas plus loads and loads and loads more. It’s pretty amazing looking back at some of the awesome performances we’ve had the privilege of hosting and we’re going to miss it like hell!
Hope you enjoy!
Yes, it’s true. After five and a half years and over two hundred live performances, June 20th at the Old Queens Head will be our last O!IW for a while, maybe even forever!! :”"”"(
To make it less sad and full of tears we’ve booked the best line-up evah to mark the end of “The Best Night in London Named After A Shins Album.”
Playing for you live and for FREE will be the amazing…
NIGHT WORKS – The dreamily wonderful project from Gabriel Stebbing (formerly of Metronomy/Your Twenties).
SHEEN - A brilliant East London 6 piece who will be sure to bring the party. Free download here.
MIKE HUGHES - An amazing new folk / Americana artist who’s just been wrapping up his album in the studio with Miles Kane’s band
If that wasn’t enough, June 20th will also be the birthday celebrations of James Hawkins and Tom Gillet, as if we needed any more sense of occasion!
Please come and party like it’s 2008. And this time we will most definitely be bringing cake.
Much love,
O!IW xxx
Here’s a track to put you in a sultry mood this cloudy Wednesday morning. Freddie Dickson is a young Londoner who yesterday premiered his first track ‘Shut Us Down‘. We don’t have much more info on Freddie other than that, but this is a simply beautiful track that sent actual shivers down our spine when we first heard it. Very excited to hear more!
Check it out here:
Dear Oh! Inverted World-ees,
We apologise for our lame lack of blogging these last few months. I would say it’s because we’re all just super busy, but you know Barack Obama is a busy man and I’m sure he achieves more than we do on your average day.
The good news is we’re returning to the Old Queens Head on Thursday 18th April for another amazing night of free live music featuring…
———-WYLDECK———-
Who sound something like this:
———-FALLING OFF MAPS———-
Who sound a little bit like this:
AND…
———-SOPHIE JAMIESON———-
Who makes lovely sounds like this:
And just because we’re really desperately trying to make things up to you, here’s a bonus cover by D-E-W-L of Grizzly Bear’s ‘While You Wait For The Others’ which has nothing to do with this Thursday’s O!IW but is just really great.
So after an insanely long three month break (!!) WE ARE BACK! Not only are we back with one of the best line-ups we’ve ever had, but it’s our 5th Birthday so we will be celebrating HARD. This is despite the fact it is January and feels like there is nothing to live for. So please come to the Old Queens Head on January 17th and enjoy all of the below FOR FREE.
The line-up is…
——–OLD DIRTY BRASSTARDS——–
Old Dirty Brasstards is a 9-piece drum & brass combo, playing The Beatles to Lady Gaga by way of En Vogue. They are probably the most fun thing you’re going to see in 2013 and we very much recommend you do not miss out!
——–GOLDHEART ASSEMBLY——–
Returning for the third time (and for their second birthday celebration with us) is the truly wonderful Goldheart Assembly. They’re an Oh! Inverted World favourite and we’re super chuffed to have them back!
——–KHUSHI——–
We’re super excited to also welcome KHUSHI onto the stage. Tipped as One to watch for 2013, KHUSHI is lead by a London born singer songwriter’s beautifully crafted and relentlessly catchy alternative pop songs which are a marriage of disarming honesty and irresistible melodies. As the always on it Disco Naivete says, this sounds like an excellent mix of The National, Alt-J, tUnE-yArDs & Bon Iver.
One of the most beautiful videos of the year perhaps? It’s definitely pretty damn lovely. Nosaj Thing with Blonde Redhead’s Kazu Makino on vocals turns out to be a pretty perfect combo.
Now for a bit of healing. This is ‘Heal’ the first single from The Child of Lov’s debut album, which will feature contributions from some people you might have heard of…DOOM, Thundercat and Damon Albarn – nothing major then…
The Child of Lov writes, produces and performs his music using guitars, a cheap pink bass, a keyboard, some self-made instruments, a lot of raw vocal harmonies and a big hip hop heart. He started making music secretly at age 15, and even now in his early twenties, likes to retain some privacy. TCOL has been living more or less like a recluse for the past few years, spending time in London, Paris and Amsterdam but being more artistically rooted in the southern state of Georgia, USA. This wandering solitary one man music collective is currently working on his first album, to be released by the Domino affiliate Double Six.
Check it out here…
We’ve been trying to deny it, but we’ve come to accept that it is in irrefutably Autumn and it is definitely ‘Sweater Weather‘. This is okay though as we look rubbish in bikinis and enjoy comfort food, seriously you should have seen James down the beach in his two piece this summer…* Crap weather is also more reason to come to the the cosy confines of the upstairs of the Old Queens Head to hear some particularly warming artists on one of our best line-ups of recent months.
On the bill for October we have…
For the second time, as they were so good the first, the wonderful Harry Oakwood (Millionnaire)
Our friends the equally brilliant musicians, The Sea and I.
And opening we have the ridiculously good Alexander Wolfe
Hope to see you there!
* – admittedly this is lie, but a great visual nonetheless.
No, not that kinda rampage, silly! We’re talking about the latest track to be released by the wonderful ML who we think may have had a few too many before writing this track…
SEPTEMBER 20TH – ELEPHANT / BEN THOMAS / LOOKING GLASS
Oh! Inverted World returns to the Old Queens Head on September 20th for another amazing night!
Cynical occasional OIW attender: “yeah yeah, you do it every month. OF COURSE YOU’RE BLOODY BACK AT THE OLD QUEENS HEAD! Why should I bother to come along this time?“
Err, well for one thing we have three astonishing artists on the bill. ASTONISHING I TELL YOU!
Cynical occasional OIW attender: “again, your line-ups are admittedly generally OUT OF THIS WORLD, but I quite enjoy sitting around in my pants watching Family Guy repeats and getting my hand stuck in a pringles tube – can you promise these musicians will be better than this experience? I bet you can’t, loser.”
How about we bring along some pringles, you record Family Guy and you get yourself a life? We’ve conducted some research and the fact is these artists and the unique inverted worldliness atmosphere we create are far better than both reruns AND pringles – brave statement, we know.
So we have…
————-ELEPHANT————-
If you’re yet to discover Elephant, then get set for your next music crush. They’re a boy-girl duo who have been together for two years and make incredibly beautiful, lushly-layered, synth-ladened heartache pop. It’s hauntingly wonderful and washes over you in a dream-like manner. We cannot wait to see them live.
————-BEN THOMAS————-
Ben is a British singer-songwriter who has spent the last few years as Adele’s guitarist and is now creating his own incredibly special music. Just a word of warning, the emotional indie-folk he writes is probably going to make you go a wee bit tingly inside. Have a listen here.
————-LOOKING GLASS————-
Looking Glass started as Jim from My Sad Captains solo recording project and so far he’s have released 3 EPs in the last 3 years, which have had radio play from people like Lauren Laverne, John Kennedy, Gideon Coe, Steve Lamacq and Marc Riley. The set-up has changed from a four-piece band to a one-man setup involving drums, keyboard, sampler and loop pedals.
So how does that sound, lazy friend?
Cynical occasional OIW attender: “Pretty good I spose. Will their be DJs?”
Yes there will.
Cynical occasional OIW attender: “Will they be awesome?“
Of course. Stop asking stupid questions!
Cynical occasional OIW attender: “Bring the pringles, and I’m there.“
