Scott H. Biram unleashes a fervent display of conviction through, not only the genuine blues, classic country, bluegrass, and rock n roll, but he seals the deal with punk, heavy metal, and frankly, anything else he wants to. He’s The Dirty Old One Man Band.

He will still the room with haunting South Texas blues, then turn it upside down, into a truck driver's mosh pit. Like he says, it might be baptism, or it might be murder, either way…you gonna see the light.

This legally ordained preacher’s singing, yodeling, growling, leering and brash preachin' and hollerin' is accompanied by sloppy riffs, and licks literally yanked, one at a time, out of his collection of crusty, worn out, Gibson hollowbody guitars, and battle axes. All this held down with a pounding backbeat brought forth by his amplified left foot, and self customed stomp board. The remainder of this brutally charming one-man band consists of an unwieldy combination of beat-up amplifiers and old microphones strung together by a tangled mess of guitar cables.

Don’t get too close! You gonna get some grease on ya!

Years of compulsive touring, along with a steady diet of down and dirty blues, rock, punk, country, and hillbilly have developed Scott H. Biram's signature concoction, attracting a hefty array of fans who dig the bizarre and twisted sides of the rock and roll spectrum. His live shows, performed all over the world, deliver a take no prisoners attitude, a stomping, pulsing John Lee Hooker-channeling, and cockeyed tales of black water baptisms and murder, all while romanticizing the on-the-road lifestyle.

SCOTT H. BIRAM IS THE DIRTY OLD ONE MAN BAND. ©1974

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Scott H. Biram

Scott H. Biram - Ain't It a Shame

Scott H. Biram - Ain't It A Shame

Gigs

London

The Lexington

Bird On The Wire

Wednesday

The enigmatic Naarm (Melbourne) based Glass Beams radiates a psychedelia rendered with cyclical riffs and dizzying melodies.

Self recorded in a home studio, ‘Mirage’ is the debut release from the artist, showcasing an inclination for cosmic instrumentation, eastern scales and kraut pervaded polyrhythms, issuing four compositions that lend from a profusion of sounds and influences.

“My father was born in India and moved here when he was 17, and in searching for new energy and inspiration to write music, I dug around for music from my father’s hometown and surrounding areas. I found a wealth of Indian classical, disco and pop music that formed the building blocks for this record. As soon as I had that vision of what I wanted to write and why I wanted to write it, the songs just flowed out really." – Glass Beams

Upon release, Glass Beams 'Mirage’ oozed onto the turntables of Gilles Peterson, The Gaslamp Killer, Trevor Jackson, NTS & Rhythm Section DJ’s and featured on BBC6’s ‘Fantastic Beats’ segment. This support culminated in the standout track ‘Taurus’ being included on the Grammy nominated Jayda G’s lauded ‘DJ Kicks’ release, with NME proclaiming Glass Beams as ‘An Essential Emerging Artist’ for 2022. Glass Beams’ self recorded studio material awakens into an immersive live show; hypnotic renditions of the songs performed by a masked quartet.

We may not know much about the enigmatic Glass Beams but ‘Mirage’ is one epic inauguration, leaving the listener with more questions than answers.

Support comes from Floral Image!

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Bad Vibrations

Glass Beams + Floral Image

Floral Image

Glass Beams

Bad Vibrations presents Baba Ali at The Lexington on 9th June 2023 with support from Vanity Fairy and C.A.R.

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Baba Ali + Vanity Fairy & C.A.R.

Angel

Vanity Fairy - He Can Be Your Lady

Vanity Fairy

Baba Ali

C.A.R.

Limited earlybird tickets guarantee entry - tix on the door from 11pm.

A London nightlife institution, White Heat always brings the best indie, new wave, post punk and leftfield pop to the dancefloor.

Running till 4am upstairs at the Lexington.

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White Heat Club

Talking Heads - Psycho Killer

party

Party

**DISORDER** one of London's most loved indie clubnights erupts at **The Lexington** on the 2nd Sat of each month! A Disordered mix of the best Indie, MOR, Alternative Pop, Electro and 80's Pop Hits till 4am!

**Early Bird Advance Tickets from DICE are limited! Plenty of tickets will be available on the door on the night at the venue from 11pm.**

The Cure / The Strokes / Vampire Weekend / Foals / Arctic Monkeys / Fleetwood Mac / New Order / Blur / The 1975 / Sam Fender / Pulp / ABBA / Tame Impala / LCD Soundsystem / Whitney Houston / Robyn / Pixies / The Killers / Kings Of Leon / Disclosure / Elvis / Fontaines DC / Run DMC / The Supremes / M83 / The Smiths / Talking Heads / MGMT / ​Pixies / Whitney Houston / MIA / Caribou / Bruce Springsteen / Wet Leg / The National / The Chemical Brothers / Daft Punk / Arcade Fire / ​Phoenix / The Clash / The Libertines / ​Depeche Mode / The Beach Boys / Madonna / Justice / Lionel Richie / Interpol / The Kooks / Cornershop / Hot Chip / The White Stripes / ​Franz Ferdinand / Kate Bush / The Ronettes / The Hives / The Cribs / ​The Stone Roses / The Beastie Boys / Duran Duran / Diana Ross / Oasis / Jay Z / The Maccabees / Soft Cell / Catfish & The Bottlemen / Two Door Cinema Club / Blondie / Nirvana

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Disorder Club Night

The Strokes - Reptilia

An Evening with Dan Mangan

\+ special guest Steven Adams

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An Evening with Dan Mangan

Fool for Waiting

Dan Mangan

Steven Adams

LOUD WOMEN presents:

- DEATH PILL – riot grrrlz band from Ukraine: 'a face-toasting listen' – The Guardian
- TsuShiMaMiRe – punk rock trio from Japan
- SHOOTING DAGGERS – London queercore/hardcore punk
- RABIES BABIES – feminist, fast, funny, furious, DIY as fuck.

Accessibility info:

The Lexington is an early Victorian building and as such is not easily accessible for anyone with limited mobility. While the main bar is on the ground floor and accessible without steps the music venue is up a flight of stairs. The venue is happy to help with access where possible; for any further information please contact: info@thelexington.co.uk

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 Death Pill + TsuShiMaMiRe + Shooting Daggers + Rabies Babies

Death Pill - Miss Revolt

Death Pill

つしまみれ

Shooting Daggers

Rabies Babies

80s bangers, new romantic sounds, new wave, synth-pop, the occasional stadium anthem and more all night long in the neon drenched club to keep you burning like an eternal flame til 4am!

Limited advance tickets available from dice // tickets available on the door from 11pm

Dancing with tears in our eyes to... Depeche Mode // New Order // Duran Duran // Kate Bush // Bananarama // Bronski Beat // Fleetwood Mac // Erasure // Adam and the Ants // Visage // Kylie Minogue // A-Ha // Kim Wilde // Billy Idol // Prince // Madonna // Simple Minds // Communards // Culture Club // Wham! // Pet Shop Boys // Talk Talk // Bruce Springsteen // Frankie Goes to Hollywood // Dire Straits // Run DMC // Queen // The Cure // Whitney Houston // Spandau Ballet // Gary Numan // Eurythmics // Human League // OMD // Soft Cell // Talking Heads // Blondie // B52s // Laura Branigan // Dexy's Midnight Runners // The Police // Bowie and much more

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Age Of Consent // 80s & New Wave Night

Heaven 17 - Temptation

22-year-old singer / songwriter Bella White has a one-of-a-kind musical talent: a finespun breed of country/folk both fresh in perspective and wholly steeped in bluegrass tradition, despite her upbringing in the Canadian city of Calgary. Her sophomore album, Among Other Things (Produced by Jonathan Wilson) unfolds with gorgeously textured layers encompassing elements of country, folk, indie, and classic rock.

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Bella White

Baba Yaga's Hut Presents:

Colossal Squid + Waterflower

23rd June 2023 - The Lexington - £15

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Baba Yaga's Hut

Colossal Squid + Waterflower

I Lost Detroit

Colossal Squid

Waterflower

It's a 90s night, but it's not a Britpop night! But there will be Britpop, and all the other pop, indie, grunge, baggy, punk and one hit wonders that made the 90s the single most fun decade, ever.

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Poppin' Off: a 90s night. Pulp Special!

Alice Deejay - Better Off Alone

If Body Type’s debut record Everything Is Dangerous But Nothing's Surprising (2022) was an exuberant and furious declaration of dominion, then their swift follow-up Expired Candy is all about reveling in the space they’ve carved out. This is a euphoric, lawless rock record, characterised by unfaltering intensity. Oceanic yearning mixes with sly humour. Guitars spit and swell and slice through harmonies. Moments of elation and bizarre imagery are wrung from the monotony of every day. Vocals knot together, producing ecstatic, slanted melodies. Expired Candy is an album about not being so certain that confinement and desolation lead to a dead end. Instead, stagnation may serve as the perfect breeding ground for joyous bewilderment and an inflamed imagination. Like the stale confection of its title, Expired Candy contains sweetness, but is also acidic, strange, tough, and undeniable in its jagged pleasures.

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FORM Presents

Body Type

Palms

Body Type - Palms

Jessica Lynn + special guests

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Jessica Lynn

Following a rapturously received sold-out gig at The Social, Iraina Mancini has announced a live show at The Lexington on 13th July.

*‘Full of femme fatale poise and swooning chanteuse flourishes’* - The Times

*'Iraina seizes on the best aspects of the past, blurring those impeccable 60s and 70s influences with a touch of modernity’* - Clash

Iraina’s current single ‘Cannonball’ is receiving play on both BBC 6Music and Radio 2, and she has recently finished work on her debut album, which Needle Mythology, the label founded by music writer, author and broadcaster Pete Paphides, will release on vinyl and CD in August.

Of ‘Cannonball’, Iraina says, “I wrote it about taking a chance in life and following your heart. I got lost in my head in an action packed, 60s stylish thriller film.” The video for ‘Cannonball’ sees Iraina living out that 60s action film fantast with a healthy dose of tongue in cheek humour. ‘Cannonball’ was co-written by Iraina with Simon Dine (Paul Weller, Candie Payne, Dexys) and produced by Sunglasses for Jaws (Miles Kane) with additional production by Erol Alkan.

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Iraina Mancini

Iraina Mancini - Cannonball

Jack Botts

Moving from Sonic Youth-like art punk to eclectic pop over the course of their decades-long career, Blonde Redhead remained one of indie rock's most creative acts. The band formed in 1993 after Japanese art students Kazu Makino and Maki Takahashi randomly met Italian twin brothers Simone and Amedeo Pace at an Italian restaurant in New York. (The name was taken from a song by the '80s no wave band DNA.) With Makino and Amedeo on guitars and vocals, Simone on drums, and Takahashi on bass, the band's chaotic, artistic rock caught the attention of Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley, who produced and released the band's debut album, Blonde Redhead, on his Smells Like Records label. Shortly after the album's release, Takahashi left the band. The remaining members continued as a trio, releasing a second album, La Mia Vita Violenta, on Shelley's label in 1995. For their 1997 release, Fake Can Be Just as Good, recorded for Touch & Go, the trio was joined by guest bass player Vern Rumsey from Unwound. By 1998, the band eliminated bass and scaled back to guitars, drums, and vocals for In an Expression of the Inexpressible. Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons and the Melodie Citronique EP followed two years later. The band's first for 4AD, Misery Is a Butterfly, was released in spring 2004. For 2007's 23, the group opted for a mix of dream pop and delicate electronic textures. Three years later, Blonde Redhead delivered Penny Sparkle, a more stripped-down, even more electronic-leaning set of songs the band recorded in New York and Stockholm with Alan Moulder, Van Rivers, and the Subliminal Kid. In 2014, Blonde Redhead returned with Barragán, featuring production from Drew Brown (Beck, Stephen Malkmus, Radiohead).

The band revisited its early days in 2016 with the Numero Group box set Masculin Feminin, which collected Blonde Redhead and La Mia Via Violenta along with demos, singles, and radio performances from that era. That year also saw the release of Freedom of Expression on Barragán Hard, a collection of Barragán remixes including contributions by Deerhoof, Van Rivers, Nosaj Thing, and Connan Mockasin. Blonde Redhead returned with new music in 2017 in the shape of the EP '3 O'Clock', which they released on their own Asa Wa Kuru Records.

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Blonde Redhead

Thrilled to invite you to Samuel Nicholson's, Birthday Suit album launch at The Lexington. Terrific support comes in the form of Preen and Sweet Giant.

With his love of music set alight by listening to Motown records in the car with his mother, corrupted by hard rock records handed down by his father, and finally formed by his own forays into jazz, folk and experimental music of decades past, Nicholson is a cathartic songwriter, an impassioned singer, and a gifted guitarist.

Nicholson’s forthcoming new album, Birthday Suit, comes after years of searching and longing. It serves as a dysfunctional self-portrait and a love letter in equal parts, dancing from electrifying guitar solos to naked vulnerability, as it brings the listener into the world of someone who has recently been diagnosed with autism.

“The record is a dysfunctional self-portrait of my life at a time when I was falling deeply in love,” says Nicholson of the album. “Having previously gathered that I am not easy to love, I began to write these songs as a way of warning this person about my nature, and a way of being realistic about my ability to love and support another human being at that time.”

Ahead of the release on June 9th, Nicholson has shared two singles - West Coast Feeling and Black Dog Funeral.

“absolutely brimming with raw excellence” - Tenement TV

“By becoming more openly himself, Samuel Nicholson has never sounded better.” - For The Rabbits

“Absolutely blown away” - Deb Grant, BBC 6 Music

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Samuel Nicholson / Preen / Sweet Giant

Samuel Nicholson - West Coast Feeling

Sweet Giant

Preen

Samuel Nicholson

Call the cops ..

London's premier Madchester night is back!

Prepare to experience the ultimate throwback to the iconic Madchester music scene of the late 80s and early 90s. Our club night will transport you back in time with the sounds of legendary Madchester bands such as The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, New Order and The Charlatans filling the air.

Our DJs will be spinning all the biggest Madchester/Baggy/Acid House hits to keep you dancing the night away. So come dressed in your best retro gear, whether it's a classic Acid House t-shirt, a pair of Doc Martens, or an oversized jacket.

Expect an night filled with an atmosphere that evokes the spirit of the Madchester movement.

Featuring Adored DJs and Special Guest DJ: Rob Fiddaman (BBC/Islington Radio)

Expect to hear: Roses, Mondays, New Order, Joy Division, The Smiths, The Charlatans, Inspiral Carpets, Northside, Primal Scream, A Certain Ratio, A Guy Called Gerald, 808 State, Marshall Jefferson and many many more ...

Rave on!

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Adored

To call Current Affairs a Glasgow band may initially seem misdirection. Though Joan Sweeney (ex-Rose McDowall’s Band, Aggi Doom, The Royal We) is a lifer, Sebastian Ymai (Comidillo Tapes, Pissy, Anxiety) came from Chile via York, recently relocating to Berlin in 2021, and new member Gemma Fleet (The Wharves, Order of the Toad, Dancer) alongside Andrew Milk (Shopping, Pink Pound) were persuaded to leave London for the ‘second city’ after touring through with previous bands. However, Glasgow is the heart and hub of the band’s music, musical life and the place where Off the Tongue was solidified and produced. 

Their current line up formed in 2020, but the four have been circling each other for years, touring and playing with their previous bands within the close UK network of DIY music. Stalwarts of their respective scenes they finally began working together through the creation of the Spitehouse collective – a project designed to promote Queer and female-fronted music through events mainly held at Transmission Gallery and Glasgow Autonomous Space, putting on many local and international acts (Sneaks, Sacred Paws, Still House Plants and Comfort amongst others). When an opening for a new bassist arrived, Gemma was the obvious compliment, the slogan of Spitehouse being the language of Current Affairs – “Everyone’s welcome, but don’t get it twisted.”

Following on from 2019’s singles collection, Object & Subject, the wait for their debut full-length may belie the urgency of its sound. Songs that were written in pieces over a long time and distance, but fully formed in the instant of the recording room across just a few days by producer Ross McGowan at Chime Studio. Current Affairs’ song-writing process has always been collaborative. Songs are developed responsively, with each of the band’s members sending/bringing elements or hooks to each other, but practices being the place where the songs flesh out, structure and are fully realised. These new songs feel a little brighter than their previous offerings, yet still hold true to their propulsive and caterwauling sound. Still embryonic in the most exciting way that that can be. Current Affairs’ music straddles new-wave pop and gothic post-punk in the way that you should expect a Glasgow-Berlin band to do so: with grit and panache. 

Written from within the world of crumbling services, broken bonds and wounded spirits, Off the Tongue rolls off an ecstatic rage, filled with hope for you, them and everyone else. It’s a rallying cry away from hopelessness, forgiving your fears and laying them to waste. Their album holds a place for you to be angry and to be focussed. In lieu of having anything else, we’ve always got each other, and an uncertain future is open game for us too.

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Upset The Rhythm

Current Affairs

Current Affairs - Crimes

Poppin' Off: a 90s night

Chinese Football tries to keep the original tension of punk music and operating with a DIY attitude. Inspired by late 1990s emo pioneers like Jimmy Eat World, Get Up Kids and American Football, Chinese Football specializes in a potent guitar bass driven wistful indie rock sound. Mixing with brain washed guitar riffs with Mandarin lyrics, Chinese Football is devoted to expressing the fantasy of youth and its frustration.

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