Rough Trade East is very excited to present a listening party to celebrate 'the record', the debut album from boygenius, released on April 7th via Polydor.

**There will be some limited exclusive tote bags and litho prints to give away at the event!**

All CD/LP purchases will be shipped at release from April 10th, 2023 via Second Class Mail.

More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/boygenius/the-record-5

All ages

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Rough Trade Recommends presents: Sunnbrella, Butch Kassidy, The Early Mornings.

Rough Trade's monthly new music showcase returns with some of the best up and coming acts in the alternative scene.

Sunnbrella album launch special.

This is an 18+ event

RT Recommends: Sunnbrella, Butch Kassidy, The Early Mornings 

Sunnbrella - Nick Hornby

The Early Mornings

Butch Kassidy

Sunnbrella

Gigs

Rough Trade East is very excited to present a signing with Nakhane. This unique event celebrates the release of their latest album 'Bastard Jargon' released March 31st via BMG.

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new album on your format of choice to be collected from Rough Trade East on the day of the signing. More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/nakhane/bastard-jargon-2

All ages

Nakhane: Signing

Nakhane - Standing In Our Way

Nakhane - Standing In Our Way - Edit

Rough Trade East is very excited to present a special instore Q&A and signing with A Certain Ratio. This unique event celebrates the release of their latest album '1982' arriving on March 31st via Mute.

**A Certain Ratio will be joined by guest host John Kennedy (Radio X).**

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new album on your format of choice to be collected from Rough Trade East on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE > > https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/a-certain-ratio/1982

All ages

A Certain Ratio: Q&A + Signing

A Certain Ratio - Lucinda

A Certain Ratio

Rough Trade East is very excited to present an in-store live performance and signing from Mammal Hands. This unique event celebrates the release of their latest album 'Gift From The Trees' released 31st March via Gondwana Records.

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new album on your format of choice to be collected from Rough Trade East on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/mammal-hands/gift-from-the-trees

All ages

Mammal Hands: Live + Signing

Kandaiki

Mammal Hands

Rough Trade East is very excited to present a stripped back matinee performance from DMA's. This unique event celebrates the release of their new album 'How Many Dreams?' released on March 31st via I Oh You.

**Please note this show is a performance only there will be no in-person signing all albums will be pre-signed by the band.**

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new album on your format of choice to be collected from Rough Trade East on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/dma-s/how-many-dreams

All ages

DMA's: Stripped Back (Matinee)

DMA'S - Fading Like A Picture

DMA'S

Rough Trade East is very excited to present a stripped back performance and signing from DMA's. This unique event celebrates the release of their new album 'How Many Dreams?' released on March 31st via I Oh You.

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new album on your format of choice to be collected from Rough Trade East on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/dma-s/how-many-dreams

All ages

DMA's: Stripped Back + Signing

Rough Trade East is very excited to present a live performance and signing from Daughter. This unique event celebrates the release of their new album 'Stereo Mind Game' released on April 7th via 4AD.

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new album on your format of choice to be collected from Rough Trade East on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/daughter/stereo-mind-game

All ages

Daughter: Live + Signing

Daughter - Swim Back

Daughter

Rough Trade East is very excited to present a very special in-store performance and signing from Tigercub. This unique event celebrates the release of their album 'The Perfume of Decay' released on June 2nd via Loosegroove Records.

Fans will be provided with exclusive prints to be signed by the band!

All CD/LP purchases will be shipped at release from June 2nd, 2023 via Second Class Mail.

More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/tigercub/the-perfume-of-decay

All ages

Tigercub: Live + Signing

Tigercub - Play My Favourite Song

Tigercub

Rough Trade East is very excited to present a live performance and signing from Billie Marten. This unique event celebrates the release of their new album 'Drop Cherries' released on April 7th via Fiction.

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new album on your format of choice to be collected from Rough Trade East on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/billie-marten/drop-cherries

All ages

Billie Marten: Live + Signing

Billie Marten - I Can't Get My Head Around You

Billie Marten

Rough Trade East is very excited to present an instore performance and signing with Ailbhe Reddy. This unique event celebrates the release of their new album 'Endless Affair' arriving on March 17th via MNRK.

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new album on your format of choice to be collected from Rough Trade East on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE > > https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/ailbhe-reddy/endless-affair/vinyl-lp-blue-plus

All ages

Ailbhe Reddy: Live + Signing

Ailbhe Reddy - Bloom

Ailbhe Reddy

Rough Trade East is very excited to present a Q&A in celebration of the release of 'Kerrang! Living Loud: Four Decades on the Frontline of Rock, Metal, Punk, and Alternative Music' with Simon Neil (Biffy Clyro), Josh Franceschi (YMAS), Nick Ruskell + More

*If it happened in rock, Kerrang! covered it…*

*The world’s best-loved rock and alternative publication is celebrating more than 40 years of living loud with the release of this fantastic new book, charting the rise of heavy metal, grunge, emo and all of alternative music. Highlighting the heaviest albums, the rowdiest mosh pits and the most incredible moments in rock history, get set for a truly wild ride through the iconic magazine’s hallowed pages.*

*As well as a foreword from Metallica’s Lars Ulrich, the book also features over 30 exclusive interviews from some of the planet’s biggest rock stars, including Duff McKagan (Guns N’ Roses), Jonathan Davis (Korn), Amy Lee (Evanescence), Matt Bellamy (Muse), Skin (Skunk Anansie) and Serj Tankian (System Of A Down).*

*And for this Q&A discussion, a global exclusive for Rough Trade East, we’re delighted to welcome Biffy Clyro frontman and Kerrang! devotee Simon Neil to discuss the book, Kerrang! and the spirit of rock with author Nick Ruskell, alongside other guests to be confirmed shortly.*

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new book oto be collected from Rough Trade East on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/kerrang-nick-ruskell/kerrang-living-loud-four-decades-on-the-frontline-of-rock-metal-punk-and-alternative-music

All ages

Kerrang! Living Loud: Panel Q&A with Simon Neil (Biffy Clyro), Josh Franceschi (YMAS), Nick Ruskell + More

Biffy Clyro - Saturday Superhouse

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Talk

Rough Trade East is very excited to present an In Conversation and signing with Eddie Piller. This unique event celebrates the release of Eddie's book 'Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances: A Life In Mod – From the Revival to Acid Jazz' released on April 6th.

**Eddie will be joined by Richard Searle.**

*This is the memoir of a teenage mod from the East End of London. A journey of discovery for a schoolboy dabbling with punk, funk, record shops, discos and clothes, and then... WHAAAM! An unstoppable wave of like-minded kids fall headlong in love with 60s mod culture, revived and reformatted for the 70s and 80s generation. Eddie Piller was one such kid. His life was changed forever. Written with humour, passion and attention to detail, Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances is perhaps the ultimate mod memoir, taking us from meeting the Small Faces as a toddler, to the 1979 Mod revival, through the more purist 1980s mod scene and eventually to Acid Jazz. A born storyteller, Eddie takes us evocatively into a world of scooters, clothes, and music. We run with the crowd to decaying seaside towns, East End backstreet boozers and sweaty teenage gigs, all fizzing with an uncontainable excitement and often exploding into violence.Once mod touched your soul it changed the way you looked at life, unexpectedly broadening your horizons. In Eddie it awakens a can-do attitude that sees him setting up a fanzine, putting on club nights, hustling jobs in the music industry, and eventually setting up a record label. It even takes him to Ireland at the height of the troubles and to Australia where the local mods take him on a military exercise...Visceral and always entertaining, Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances is a stand-out memoir that relives the thrill of the 70s and 80s, and the movement that helped make mod the most enduring and successful British youth culture of all time.*

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new book to be collected from Rough Trade East on the day of the event. More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/eddie-piller/clean-living-under-difficult-circumstances-a-life-in-mod-from-the-revival-to-acid-jazz

All ages

Eddie Piller: In Conversation + Signing

Eddie Piller

Rough Trade East is very excited to present The Art of Darkness: A History of Goth - John Robb in conversation along with a special guest host for the evening. This unique event celebrates the publication of 'The Art of Darkness: A History of Goth' released March 17th via Louder Than War Books.

**John Robb will be joined in conversation by Youth.**

*With interviews with the likes of Andrew Eldritch, Killing Joke, Bauhaus, The Cult, The Banshees, The Damned, Einsturzende Neubauten, Danielle Dax, Johnny Marr, Trent Reznor, Adam Ant, Laibach, The Cure, Nick Cave and many others this is a deep dive and walk on the dark side and into the darkheartland of Goth.*

More product information can be found HERE > https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/john-robb/the-art-of-darkness-a-history-of-goth-2/paperback

All ages

John Robb In Conversation with Youth (Killing Joke) 

John Robb

Rough Trade East is very excited to present a signing with Temples. This unique event celebrates the release of the band's latest album 'Exotico' released April 14th via ATO.

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new album on your format of choice to be collected from Rough Trade East on the day of the signing. More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/temples/exotico

All ages

Temples: Signing

Temples - Afterlife

Temples

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Artist signing

Rough Trade East is very excited to present a live performance and signing from Phoria. This unique event celebrates the release of their new album 'River Oblivion' released on April 14th via Akira Records.

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new album on your format of choice to be collected from Rough Trade East on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/phoria/river-oblivion

All ages

Phoria: Live + Signing

Phoria - Slope

Phoria

Rough Trade East is very excited to present a live performance, Q&A and signing from Ligeti Quartet & Anna Meredith. This unique event celebrates the release of their new album 'Nuc' released on April 14th via Mercury KX.

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new album on your format of choice to be collected from Rough Trade East on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/anna-meredith-x-ligeti-quartet/nuc

All ages

Ligeti Quartet x Anna Meredith: Live/Q&A + Signing

Ligeti Quartet & Anna Meredith - Tuggemo

Ligeti Quartet - Tuggemo

Ligeti Quartet

Rough Trade East is very excited to present a live performance and signing from Billy Lockett. This unique event celebrates the release of their new album 'Abington Grove' released on April 14th 2023 via Photo Finish Records.

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new album on your format of choice to be collected from Rough Trade East on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/billy-lockett/abington-grove

All ages

Billy Lockett: Live + Signing

Billy Lockett - Miss Missing You

Billy Lockett

Rough Trade East is very excited to present a reading, live performance and signing from Simon Armitage. This unique event celebrates the release of Simon's latest book 'Never Good With Horses: Assembled Lyrics' released on April 20th via Faber.

**Simon will be joined by LYR bandmates Richard Walters and Patrick Pearson for a short live performance on the night.**

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new book to be collected from Rough Trade East on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/simon-armitage/never-good-with-horses-selected-lyrics/hardback

All ages

Simon Armitage Book Launch: Reading/Live + Signing

LYR - Awakening

Rough Trade East is excited to present Meditations On Crime - an evening of film and music with Harper Simon and special guest Ian Svenonius. This unique event celebrates the release of the new album and book 'Meditations On Crime' released on April 14th via Anti Fragile/Hat and Beard.

This unique multimedia event celebrates the release of a self-titled book, LP, and an exclusive first screening of a companion short film.

Some tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new album and/or book to be collected from Rough Trade East on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/meditations-on-crime-harper-simon/meditations-on-crime-2

All ages

Meditations on Crime: An Evening of Film and Music

Rough Trade East is very excited to present a live performance and signing from Master Peace. This unique event celebrates the release of their new EP 'Peace of Mind' released via PMR.

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new EP to be collected from Rough Trade East on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/master-peace/peace-of-mind-2

All ages

Master Peace: Live + Signing

Master Peace - Country Life

Master Peace

Rough Trade East is very excited to present a live performance and signing from Nick Waterhouse. This unique event celebrates the release of his new album 'The Fooler' released on March 31st via Innovative Leisure.

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new album on your format of choice to be collected from Rough Trade East on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/nick-waterhouse/the-fooler

All ages

Nick Waterhouse: Live + Signing

Nick Waterhouse - The Fooler

Nick Waterhouse

Rough Trade East is very excited to present a live performance and signing from Skinny Pelembe. This unique event celebrates the release of their new album 'Hardly The Same Snake' released on April 28th via Partisan Records.

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new album on your format of choice to be collected from Rough Trade East on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/skinny-pelembe/hardly-the-same-snake

All ages

Skinny Pelembe: Live + Signing

Skinny Pelembe - Don't Be Another

Skinny Pelembe

Rough Trade East is very excited to present an In Conversation and signing from James Ellis Ford. This unique event celebrates the release of their solo debut album 'The Hum' released on May 12th via Warp Records.

*James Ellis Ford has been hidden in plain sight for his entire two-decade-long career. The composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer and songwriter has worked with some of the biggest names in music, from Arctic Monkeys to Depeche Mode via Foals, Gorillaz and Kylie Minogue and as part of Simian Mobile Disco and The Last Shadow Puppets’ touring band. This year he takes centre stage with a bewitching debut solo album The Hum. It is as much a homage to the tender and eccentric English pop music of Brian Eno and Robert Wyatt as it is love letter to his wife and son’s Palestinian roots; as much exploration of the pastoral verve of Canterbury prog as it is informed by the dynamics of modern hip-hop production; as much a madcap Radiophonic voyage into the cosmic unknown peppered with Can-like grooves. With The Hum, James Ellis Ford has finally come out of hiding.*

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new album on your format of choice to be collected from Rough Trade East on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/james-ellis-ford/the-hum-5/

All ages

James Ellis Ford: In Conversation + Signing

James Ellis Ford - I Never Wanted Anything

James Ellis Ford

Rough Trade East is very excited to present a live performance and signing from 7ebra. This unique event celebrates the release of their new album 'Bird Hour' released on May 5th via PNKSLM Recordings.

*It will be love at first listen. for fans of Wet leg, Soccer Mommy and Life Without Buildings. 7ebra is the project of 25-year-old twin sisters Inez and Ella from Malmö, who grew up playing music together. Inez plays electric guitar and sings, Ella plays a keyboard, organ and Mellotron - whilst manually playing drum samples with her feet - as they both sing haunting harmonies in a way that only twins can. Beautiful but punk, minimalist but epic. The duo are making big waves across the indie scene already- touring with the likes of Teleman, Future Islands and The Dandy Warhols, as well as booking slots at festivals such as SXSW, Eurosonic and End of the Road. On their debut album Bird Hour, they effortlessly combine their own brand of minimalist indie rock hooks with relatable and charismatic songwriting, all tied together with the unique production stylings of Tore Johansson (Franz Ferdinand, The Cardigans).*

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new album on your format of choice to be collected from Rough Trade East on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/7ebra/bird-hour-2

All ages

7ebra: Live + Signing

7ebra - If I Ask Her

7ebra

Rough Trade East is very excited to present a live solo performance and signing from BC Camplight. This unique event celebrates the release of their new album 'The Last Rotation of Earth'' released on May 12th via Bella Union.

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new album on your format of choice to be collected from Rough Trade East on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/bc-camplight/the-last-rotation-of-earth

All ages

BC Camplight: Solo + Signing

BC Camplight - The Last Rotation Of Earth

BC Camplight - The Last Rotation of Earth

BC Camplight

Rough Trade East is very excited to present an in-store live performance with Island of Love. This unique event celebrates the release of their debut album 'Island of Love' released on May 12th via Third Man Records.

**This show is Free Entry.**

*Originally called 'Love Island' - until "Linus didn't make the audition process so we jumbled it around" (or, possibly, for legal reasons) - Third Man London's first signing settled instead on Island of Love.*

*For the label, an island within the UK music scene is exactly what Karim, Linus, Daniel and Jimmy are: feedback-fuelled adolescents with a depth of songwriting unheard since Teenage Fanclub's formative Catholic Education, and late '80s Dinosaur Jr. So mind-bendingly good are the group that Third Man co-founder and owner Ben Swank presented an offer approximately thirty seconds after they played the opening weekend of Third Man's new Soho digs (...new to the extent that drummer Jimmy left the stage with paint up his back).*

Some tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new album to be collected from Rough Trade East on the day of the event. More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/island-of-love/island-of-love

All ages

Island of Love: Live

Island of Love - Head Case

Island of Love

Rough Trade East is very excited to present an In Conversation and signing from Mat Osman. This unique event celebrates the release of their brand new novel 'The Ghost Theatre' released on May 11th via Bloosmbury.

**Mat will be joined by writer and co-founder of the Quietus, Luke Turner.**

*Mat Osman is the bassist and founder member of iconic British rock band Suede and a composer of music for TV and films. He also worked as a culture journalist during the noughties, writing about art and travel for papers, magazines and online.*

*On a rooftop in Elizabethan London two worlds collide. Shay is a messenger-girl and trainer of hawks who sees the future in the patterns of birds. Nonesuch is the dark star of the city's fabled child theatre scene, as famous as royalty yet lowly as a beggar.Together they create The Ghost Theatre: a troupe staging magical plays in London's hidden corners. As their hallucinatory performances incite rebellion among the city's outcasts, the pair's relationship sparks and burns against a backdrop of the plague and a London in flames. Their growing fame sweeps them up into the black web of the Elizabethan court, where Shay and Nonesuch discover that if they fly too high, a fall is sure to come.Fantastical and captivating, The Ghost Theatre charts the rise and dramatic destruction of a dream born from love and torn apart by betrayal.*

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new book to be collected from Rough Trade East on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/mat-osman/the-ghost-theatre

All ages

Mat Osman: In Conversation + Signing

Rough Trade East is very excited to present an instore performance and signing with Avalon Emerson & the Charm. This unique event celebrates the release of their debut album '& the Charm' which will be released on 18th April via Another Dove.

**All CD/LP purchases will be shipped at release from April 28th, 2023 via Second Class Mail.**

More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/avalon-emerson/and-the-charm

All ages

Avalon Emerson & the Charm: Live + Signing

Avalon Emerson - Sandrail Silhouette

Avalon Emerson

Rough Trade East is very excited to present a live performance and signing from Demob Happy. This unique event celebrates the release of their third album 'Divine Machines' released on May 26th via Liberator Music.

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new album on your format of choice to be collected from Rough Trade East on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/demob-happy/divine-machines

All ages

Demob Happy: Live + Signing

Demob Happy - Autoportrait

Demob Happy

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