London Live: 6-12 July

Gig of the Week: Tinariwen @ Roundhouse

Continuing my love affair with most things Malian, desert band extraordinaire Tinariwen hit the Roundhouse this Thursday as part of the third iTunes festival. Their follow up to 2007′s fantastic Aman Iman, Imidiwan, is garnering similar levels of adulation from both music and mainstream presses. Tickets for this show and all the others during the month long run at the Roundhouse are available for free from the iTunes festival Facebook page, or through their site here.

Elsewhere this week Welsh trio The Victorian English Gentlemen’s Club make their London return, in support of stomping new ‘un Parrot. Catch them Monday at The Lexington. Other recommendations include the incredible live experience that is !!! at Electric Ballroom, M83 wrapping up (surely!) their tour surrounding our 2008 album of the year Saturdays=Youth with support from the returning Maps. Also on the comeback trail are Jealousy faves Honey Pine Dresser, now with all members on the same patch of earth for the first time in months. They’re playing as part of the all-dayer on Saturday at the Cross Kings. Finally, in unusual venues of the week Morton Valence play on the Battersea Barge, their tales of Bob and Veronica surely set to rock the boat… cue groans.

Tinariwen – Tahult In

Check out the rest of this week’s fantastic haul below.

Photo: Mick Orlosky, Coachella 18.04.09

Monday 6 July

Florence & The Machine – Rough Trade East Instore

Franz Ferdinand, Passion Pit – iTunes Festival @ Roundhouse

Lil Wayne, Kid Cudi – Hammersmith Apollo

My Latest Novel, Here We Go Magic, Chimes & Bells – ICA

Victorian English Gentlemen’s Club – The Lexington

Why? – The Garage

Tuesday 7 July

!!! – Electric Ballroom

Alessi’s Ark – The Lexington

Dananananaykroyd, The Late Greats – Levi’s Ones To Watch @ Vibe Bar

Here We Go Magic, My Tiger Timing, Gallops – Madame JoJos

M83, Maps – Koko

Wednesday 8 July

Killa Kela – Cargo

Passion Pit, Fanfarlo – Levi’s Ones To Watch @ Vibe Bar

Revere, The Strange Death Of Liberal England – The Lexington

White Denim – Heaven

Thursday 9 July

The Bellrays – Borderline

Cymbals Eat Guitars – Brixton Windmill

Morton Valence – Battersea Barge

Tinariwen, Oi Va Voi – Roundhouse

The Twilight Sad, We Were Promised Jetpacks, Kill It Kid – ICA

Friday 10 July

Casiokids, Teeth, Django Django – Moshi Moshi @ The Garage

Daedalus – ICA

Engineers – Bush Hall

Everything Everything – Levi’s Ones To Watch @ Vibe Bar

Future Of The Left – Garage

Saturday 11 July

Lily Allen – Summer Series @ Somerset House

Honey Pine Dresser – Cross Kings

Kate Nash, Peggy Sue, Brigitte Aphrodite, Laura Dockrill – Ugly Shy Girls @ Queen Elizabeth Hall

La Roux, Dan Black – Roundhouse

Sunday 12 July

The Field – Queen Of Hoxton

Mumford & Sons, The Temper Trap – Roundhouse