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09.04.09

Jefferson Airplane, formed in 1965, a great year to be doing anything musical, think Rolling Stones at their satanic best, think The Animals all over American TV, and the very first tape cassettes go on sale. The Beatles also played some over rated pop music at Shea Stadium, but that does not concern us here. The Airplane's singer was the very beautiful and very talented Grace Slick, who in her own words, "only got into music because it looked like fun and she could smoke pot all day" bless. She also got very close to dosing Nixon with a massive hit of LSD but was refused entry at the last minute to the party that she had been invited to at the Whitehouse. Their most famous song was easily the sublime 'somebody to love' but you also need to check out "White Rabbit" and "Mexico" for two of the best songs ever to emerge from the 1960's. Grace is alive and well, and currently earning a crust as an artist, one of her favourite things to paint are white rabbits, and for this we say Happy Easter bunnies Grace, we loves ya.

Ted in a heavily tied dyed outfit.

SOUNDCRASH

Barry Ashworth and Jason O'Bryan AKA the Dub Pistols have spent the best part of a decade at the forefront of Beats culture. From their early singles for Concrete Records to their genre defying 'Six Million Ways To Live' long player, from intimate venues to festival headline-sets, chewing up hip-hop, dub, techno, ska and punk and spitting them out in a renegade futuristic skank they have consistently defied categorisation and exceeded the highest of expectations. Currently riding high on the success of the recent 'Speakers and Tweeters' album (featuring Rodney P, who will be along tonight, and Terry Hall) we are thrilled to have them along to KOKO for a night of good vibes, good tuneage and good skanking.

For more info go here.


NME RADAR TOUR

Seems everyone is talking about La Roux, which is a good thing because, La Roux is set to headline NME's annual new talent showcase, which arrives here on Tuesday 19th May, come see if it's all true. La Roux will be joined by Magistrates, Heartbreak and The Chapman Family.

For more info go here.




LADYHAWKE PLAYS FOR CHARITY

Ladyhawke commented: “I am really pleased to be doing this Ambition Gig for TreeHouse, a charity which provides and campaigns for the specialised education that young people with autism need. Autism can affect pretty much every way in which a person interacts with the world – going to a gig like this would often be impossible. The sounds, the crowds of people, the bright lights - all this can be pretty traumatic for someone with autism. But with the right education early on, children can grow up to become independent, happy individuals and I think everyone deserves that opportunity.”.

For more details go here.

The Bays The Bays
The Bays The Bays
   

It's a while since we caught up with The Bays, but we are so glad we did. Their set last Saturday,was quite simply one of the best live shows KOKO has ever seen. Sublime, magical and able to make you think and dance at the same time.

Photography by Tom Bunning and Tom Oldham

Spotted at Club NME this week. If we spotted you then email us proof and we'll put you on the guest list for the next one. info@koko.uk.com

Photography by NME
 
   

Punk Fiction is an anthology of short stories, poems and illustrations submitted by an impressive line up of contributors. Each piece of work shares one unifying theme - everything included in this collection is inspired by a punk rock song.


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Go Grace go.

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