Stereo Jealousy

Gig Of The Week – Marnie Stern @ The Luminaire

A relatively quiet start to the week soon gives way to a first class end with my undoubted highlight being the appearance of Marnie Stern at Kilburn’s Luminaire on Thursday. The New Yorker has been around town a few times since the release of last year’s excellent This Is It… (which made #5 in my Best of ‘08 list) but I’ve missed her each time. No doubt the intimate venue will be shredded by her awesome guitar work. A few tickets are still available from We Got Tickets.

The week ends with two varied festivals in Clapham and Shoreditch. The two line ups are wildly different, with Ben & Jerry’s sponsored affair on Clapham Common seeing some well established acts like The Human League, Teenage Fanclub and Super Furry Animals lead a solid but slightly anodyne line up. A more of-the-moment line up can be found at Sunday’s 1-2-3-4 Festival taking place in Shoreditch Park, headed up by The Rakes, Patrick Wolf, Chrome Hoof and S.C.U.M. Also in the festival vein the iTunes festival and Somerset House summer series continue, although with slightly less big hitters than the previous week.

Listen:

Marnie Stern – Letters From Rimbaud
Marnie Stern – Vault

Watch:

Marnie Stern – Transformer
Marnie Stern – Ruler

Find out more:

Marnie Stern Myspace / Last.fm / Wikipedia / Label

Photo: Sexy Fitsum

Read on for the rest of the week’s highlights below…

Monday 20 July

Bloc Party, Delphic – iTunes Live @ Roundhouse

Marianne Faithful – Queen Elizabeth Hall

Calvin Harris, Mr Hudson – Somerset House

Let’s Wrestle – Barfly

Tuesday 21 July

Au Revoir Simone – Pure Groove Instore

Morrissey – Doll And The Kicks

Oasis – iTunes Live @ Roundhouse

Wednesday 22 July

The Death Set – Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen

Kasabian, Twisted Wheel – iTunes Live @ Roundhouse

Thursday 23 July

Black Box Recorder – Queen Elizabeth Hall

Frankmusik – Heaven

Graham Coxon, Esser – iTunes Live @ Roundhouse

Marnie Stern – The Luminaire

Rachel Unthank & The Winterset – Royal Opera House, Linbury Studio

Friday 24 July

Caribou – The Luminaire

Ipso Facto, HTRK – Queen of Hoxton

The Dø, Speech Debelle – Barfly

Sky Larkin – White Light @  The Lexington

Vitalic, The Horrors + more – Cocadisco @ Corsica Studios

Yacht – Cargo

Saturday 25 July

Au Revoir Simone – Proud Galleries

Ben & Jerry’s Sundae ft The Human League, Super Furry Animals, The Futureheads, Camera Obscura, Teenage Fanclub + more – Clapham Common

Envelopes – Kicker Conspiracy @ Barden’s Boudoir

Gary Numan – Shepherd’s Bush Empire

Sunday 26 July

1-2-3-4 Festival ft. The Rakes, Patrick Wolf, autoKratz, S.C.U.M. + more – Shoreditch Park

Cornershop – Jazz Cafe

Remember Remember – Cafe Oto