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OFFLINE is urban75's lively club night in Brixton (and occasionally elsewhere), serving up a fantastic mix of great bands, DJs, performers, poets, stand up, acoustic acts and more. Our nights are always FREE!
Since 2004, we've put on award winning acts like ROB NEWMAN (Newman & Baddiel), STEWART LEE, RICHARD HERRING ('Lee & Herring'), ROBIN INCE, JOSIE LONG, SHAZIA MIRZA, JOHN HEGLEY, HOWARD MARKS, SIMON DONALD (Viz), new wave star TOM ROBINSON (TRB), Mercury Prize nominees THE PORTICO QUARTET, JIM BOB (Carter USM), DARREN HAYMAN (Hefner), TV SMITH (the Adverts) and more - all playing for just two lovely beers! »More...
REVIEWS:
"brilliantly eclectic... It's always a roadblock - it's that good! " TIME OUT
"Like someone's friendly house party, opened up for the general public....Entertaining, friendly, and free." Londonist
"A terrific night of fun." Richard Herring
"A f*cking brilliant night" Larry Love (Alabama3)
"Offline... Always edgy, consistently unpredictable and genuinely good" SOUTH LONDON PRESS
"An eclectic mix of cabaret & live music...Pick of the Week!" GUARDIAN
"So successful it hurts... Just go!" TIME OUT
It's going to be a hard rocking night of the finest punk, blues, garage and rockabilly at the Albert, with the 'surfabilly Clash,' SILVER BRAZILIANS and the burlesque backbeating KITCHENER plus the usual rabble of ace DJs onboard, original videos, street photo slideshows and more.
LIVE ONSTAGE:
THE SILVER BRAZILIANS 11.45pm
Mexican traffic accidents, terrorist girlfriends and Milton Keynes massage parlours appear to be uppermost in the minds of The Silver Brazilians if their particular brand of hoodlum blues is anything to go by.
Taking traditional twelve-bar mayhem and giving it a contemporary twist these 'down home' garage punks released their debut E.P 'Iraqdonalds' and headlined the Stummerville Foundation for New Music event in Hollywood last summer.
Inspired by their West Coast experience their following release 'Fender Car Disaster' - features the song 'Kate Winslet' - deemed 'Coolest Song in the World'! on Little Steven's Underground Garage Radio show. The new E.P ‘Do You Remember the Future Baby?' is out now.
"A surfabilly Clash..."(NME)
"Rocking 50’s rhythms with 60's beat sensibilities…" (Shindig!)
"A lovely cracking little band" (Andrew Loog Oldham)
"Shades of Lennon's amphetimine loaded Hamburg period" (The Boiler Room)
KITCHENER
Rural/vaudevillian folk outfit packing double basses, squeezeboxes, melodicas, acoustic guitars and "upbeat tunes so catchy you can hang your coat on them."
"Eccentric troubadours" The Guardian
PLUS:
MULTIMEDIA
Original photos, old footage, pop 45 sleeves, and more.
PLUS A SPINNING PLATTER OF DJS!
We'll also have a full crew of hard-drinking Offline regulars throwing down a top selection of tunes, including:
EDITOR (urban75)
An ale-fuelled onslaught of ska, punk, rock'n'roll, big band, rockabilly, Mrs Mills & Liberace in a floor stomping package proving that drinking'n'DJing can be a perilous trade.
NIPSLA (Falling over studios)
Packing more pop than a Rice Krispies factory, Nipsla's DJ bag is a veritable jumble sale of joy, overflowing with indie, dance, electro and party tunes.
LANG & LOPEZ (The Actionettes)
A veritable platter splatter of 50s, 60s, Motown and more vital tunes from the Actionettes' very own Glamour Queens of Vintage Vinyl.
BARON BOBBY BAUHAUS (charcoal soul)
More mysterious than Robert Smith's eyeliner bag, Bobby gets dancefloors rocking with quirky, darkside indie-pop and kohl-smudging breakbeats.
Dec4OFFLINE GYPSY SWING SPECIAL
Friday 4th Dec
A fantastic night of gypsy swing, flamenco guitars and enough great tunes to make you want to shake your maracas in delight
Prince Albert, 418 Coldharbour Lane, Brixton SW9 8LF
Tel: 020 7274 3771. 9pm - 3am. FREE ADMISSION plus CHEAP BAR!
Transport: 2 mins from Brixton tube/BR/buses. Map and venue info Permalink to this event
It's going to be a sweet night of smooth gypsy swing with Phil Grispo , special guests and a crew of DJs onboard, original videos, street photo slideshows and more.
LIVE ONSTAGE:
PHIL GRISPO 11.45pm
Phil Grispo, Europe's premier Gypsy Swing guitarist, is back with a new line up of two guitars, a bass & piano. The former lead guitarist of the King's Cross Hotclub plays a mixture of Gypsy swing & Waltz
MULTIMEDIA
Original photos, old footage, pop 45 sleeves, and more.
PLUS A SPINNING PLATTER OF DJS!
We'll also have a full crew of hard-drinking Offline regulars throwing down a top selection of tunes, including:
EDITOR (urban75)
An ale-fuelled onslaught of ska, punk, rock'n'roll, big band, rockabilly, Mrs Mills & Liberace in a floor stomping package proving that drinking'n'DJing can be a perilous trade.
NIPSLA (Falling over studios)
Packing more pop than a Rice Krispies factory, Nipsla's DJ bag is a veritable jumble sale of joy, overflowing with indie, dance, electro and party tunes.
LANG & LOPEZ (The Actionettes)
A veritable platter splatter of 50s, 60s, Motown and more vital tunes from the Actionettes' very own Glamour Queens of Vintage Vinyl.
BARON BOBBY BAUHAUS (charcoal soul)
More mysterious than Robert Smith's eyeliner bag, Bobby gets dancefloors rocking with quirky, darkside indie-pop and kohl-smudging breakbeats.
Dec10OFFLINE DOGSTAR CHRISTMAS PARTY
Thurs 10th Dec
Dogstar, Brixton, 389 Coldharbour Lane, Brixton, SW9 8LQ
Tel: 020 7733 7515. 9pm - 2am. FREE ADMISSION all night!
Transport: 2 mins from Brixton tube/BR/buses. Map and venue info Permalink to this event
We're pulled out the stops to bring you a festive feast of a Christmas party, with a fantastic line up of fabulous acts including the massed drums of BARKING BATERIA, a liquor-fuelled hoe-down with THE CEDARS, the dazzling, all-girl go-go shimmying of the THE ACTIONETTES and the sublime MR B, THE GENTLEMAN RHYMER serving up hip hop in a spiffing manner. Plus we'll have great comedy, videos, cabaret, top notch DJs and surprises: and it's all for FREE!
LIVE!
ON THE FIRST FLOOR: an evening of fantastic live music:
BARKING BATERIA
Don't miss this one! An electrifying feast of dancefloor-erupting Brazilian samba, delivered in a unique Bhangra, Funk and Drum 'n' Bass style will turn the club into an instant Brixton carnival. Expect up to 40 drummers and get ready to shake your booty harder than it's ever been shaken before - they tore the place apart when they played Offline launch party!
MR B - THE GENTLEMAN RHYMER
A one-man mission to introduce Hip-Hop to the Queen's English
'Note perfect'- The Telegraph
'Pure genius'- Tom Robinson, BBC 6Music
Check out the 'Straight Outta Surrey' video
"Equally indebted to Chuck D and Terry Thomas" The Argus
Hilarious '30s swinging jazz samples and dope beats...blowing up with the Ascot and Goodwood massive.
urbanjunkies
THE CEDARS
The soundtrack to wild, liquor-fuelled hoe-down!' Drawing inspiration from the likes of Robert Johnston, Gillian Welch and John Lee Hooker, The Cedars are an Americana 4-piece playing infectious stomping rhythms with a mournful female vocal and a mean dose of banjo and slide guitar.
"“They’re very clearly a class act; there are a whole raft of signed bands unfit to lick the shiny boots of The Cedars" - Performing Musician
THE ACTIONETTES
A ballroom blitzkrieg of shimmying, sparkling, synchronised routines from this all-girl dance troupe, kicking their shiny white boots to 60s girl group classics. As seen on Charlie Brooker's TV show and BBC2's Culture Show, these stars of Ladyfest 2008 are not to be missed!
"With each shake of the hips, the smiles get wider..." The Independent
VIC LAMBRUSCO'S CABARET HOUR 'Abrasive political comedy' - Time Out
Comic piquancy - Independent With a full line up of comedians, wags, poets and wordsmiths to be announced.
PLUS:
TOP DJS!
We'll also have a full crew of hard-drinking Offline regulars throwing down a selection of ska, punk, reggae, roots, rock'n'roll, new wave, punk, big band, garage rock and more, rocking on till the early hours, including:
EDITOR (urban75)
An ale-fuelled onslaught of ska, punk, rock'n'roll, big band, rockabilly, Mrs Mills & Liberace in a floor stomping package proving that drinking'n'DJing can be a perilous trade.
NIPSLA (Falling over studios)
Packing more pop than a Rice Krispies factory, Nipsla's DJ bag is a veritable jumble sale of joy, overflowing with indie, dance, electro and party tunes.
LANG & LOPEZ (The Actionettes)
A veritable platter splatter of 50s, 60s, Motown and more vital tunes from the Actionettes' very own Glamour Queens of Vintage Vinyl.
BOBBY BAUHAUS (charcoal soul)
More mysterious than Robert Smith's eyeliner bag, Bobby gets dancefloors rocking with quirky, darkside indie-pop and kohl-smudging breakbeats.
Dec18OFFLINE CHRISTMAS PARTY
Friday 18th Dec
Get down and party!
Prince Albert, 418 Coldharbour Lane, Brixton SW9 8LF
Tel: 020 7274 3771. 9pm - 3am. FREE ADMISSION plus CHEAP BAR!
Transport: 2 mins from Brixton tube/BR/buses. Map and venue info Permalink to this event
It's going to be a big festive night of fun with the incredible ska with THE DISPLAY TEAM, plus special guests to be announced and a crew of ho-ho-ho DJs onboard, original videos, street photo slideshows and more.
A beast with 24 limbs, and 6 brains fused into a sympathetic matrix of heady harmonies, ballistic brass, romping-stomping riffs and more 'wonk' than a bad hedge.
"rock, punk & funk to jazz, reggae and & circus ska with bizarre off the wall vocals & crazy brass melodies"
"On record, the band are an entertaining and vicious bunch, crunching out their brass-fuelled, heavy rock with ease, but in a live environment, they take that sound and transform it into a flurry of twisted stop-start, brackish chaos"
MULTIMEDIA
Original photos, old footage, pop 45 sleeves, and more.
PLUS A SPINNING PLATTER OF DJS!
We'll also have a full crew of hard-drinking Offline regulars throwing down a top selection of tunes, including:
EDITOR (urban75)
An ale-fuelled onslaught of ska, punk, rock'n'roll, big band, rockabilly, Mrs Mills & Liberace in a floor stomping package proving that drinking'n'DJing can be a perilous trade.
NIPSLA (Falling over studios)
Packing more pop than a Rice Krispies factory, Nipsla's DJ bag is a veritable jumble sale of joy, overflowing with indie, dance, electro and party tunes.
LANG & LOPEZ (The Actionettes)
A veritable platter splatter of 50s, 60s, Motown and more vital tunes from the Actionettes' very own Glamour Queens of Vintage Vinyl.
BARON BOBBY BAUHAUS (charcoal soul)
More mysterious than Robert Smith's eyeliner bag, Bobby gets dancefloors rocking with quirky, darkside indie-pop and kohl-smudging breakbeats.
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