This is why Brixton is the best place to live in London!
At the Ritzy were the excellent local spoon-troubling folkies, the No Frills Band, playing live with a wild night at the Albert afterwards watching an experimental band playing along to the 1927 German expressionist film directed by Fritz Lang, Metropolis.
Both events were free.
Check out the video of the No Frills band (shot on a Palm Pre which did a better job of it than I expected) below: