Fairfield Halls will be working more closely together with Croydon Council in the future management…
The South Bank Centre resonated with the music of emerging artists on the evening of Thursday, May 9, for the double-launch of Pure Gold and NX Records. Final year undergraduates and alumni from the Department of Music at Goldsmiths, University of London took to the stage across three venues to…
Students from the Popular Music Course at Goldsmiths College are launching their own record label this week in collaboration with Matthew Herbert, founder of Accidental records. NX Records will launch alongside the annual PureGold event at The Sounthbank Centre. The label will act as platform enabling students and alumni to…
Saturday 20th April saw the annual worldwide event Record Store Day. It was launched in 2007 and has gone on to be a major success. In the East London Lines boroughs a number of stores participated including the renowned Rough Trade Records and Kristina Records in Hackney. The day encourages…
Friendly Fires will perform a charity gig next Wednesday to commemorate Adam Connolly, the Hackney man who recently took his own life. The event will be headlined by the Mercury Prize-nominated band whose drummer, Jack Savidge, was Connolly’s flatmate. Friends and family of the deceased man have teamed up to raise…
Chart-topping singer Florence Welch came back to her musical roots in Brockley last week, where she began her hugely successful career. Welch and her band performed tracks from their latest album Ceremonials at the famous Grade II listed Rivoli Ballroom as part of a live broadcast on BBC Radio 2.…
Labrinth has received his first number one UK single in the Official Singles Charts with :”Beneath Your Beautiful”…
Boots Riley and The Coup will play Goldsmiths in support of the Love Music Hate Racism campaign and to mark the release of their new album ‘Sorry to Bother You’.…
Sometime Blur guitarist Graham Coxon kicked off the Oxjam music festival in Hackney on Monday night as the charity chain prepared for gigs all across east and south London.…
Calling time on a momentous two weeks in the history of London, the Olympics’ came to a triumphant end on Sunday with a closing ceremony that was attended by 80,000 people and watched by 26.3 million people nationally. Described by the creative director, Kim Gavin as “a mashed-up symphony of…
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