LGN XYZ alt-pop discotheque – Friday 5th October 2018

Oh, that’s right, we’re back.

LGN XYZ alt-pop discotheque
https://www.facebook.com/events/241870216365137/

A DIY disco for alt-pop people of all persuasions.

Playing the likes of:
Charli XCX, Carly Rae Jepsen, Lizzo, Tegan & Sara, Yelle, Ariana Grande, Le Tigre, Robyn, Janelle Monae, Madonna, Confidence Man, SOPHIE, Daphne & Celeste, Dua Lipa, Uffie, All Saints, Kim Petras, Celine Dion, Danny L Harle, Camila Cabello, Sleigh Bells, Martha, Moloko, Kero Kero Bonito, Mariah Carey, Justin Bieber, Tommy Genesis, MIA, Kanye West, Eternal, La Roux, LCMDF, Katy Perry, Tinashe, Prince, Bossy Love, Sleater-Kinney, A G Cook, Bis, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Luscious Jackson, HOLYCHILD, Self Esteem, Rihanna, Run The Jewels, Gloria Jones, Björk, Justin Timberlake, Grimes, Little Mix, The Spook School, Avril Lavigne, Foxes, Christine & The Queens, Fight Like Apes, Lykke Li, Kim Weston, Kiesza, Justice, Gravy Train!!!!, Brassy, George Michael, Tove Styrke, Violent Femmes, Lorde, Chvrches, Taylor Swift, Chela, Let’s Eat Grandma…

No nobheads.

10pm-3am
Friday 5th October 2018
Moustache Bar Dalston
£3 advance, £5 on the door

Tickets on Outsavvy, DICE and Wegottickets. Go get ’em!

Playlists playlists playlists

Hello Susan,

Over the past few months, in a semi-futile effort to keep our hands in the business of playing bops and other good tunes, we’ve put together a few hour-long playlists on la Spotf. (If there’s a more accessible thing than Spotify, do let us know; we are old and tired.) Here are they to date:

LGN Hour, Saturday 24th March 2018

Featuring Confidence Man, Girls Aloud, PINS, Bieber, RTJ, Brassy and Bossy Love.

LGN Hour, Friday 27th April 2018

Featuring Ariana, Tommy Genesis, Yelle, Gravy Train!!!!, Camilla Cabello, Mariah Carey and Daphne & Celeste.

LGN Hour, Saturday 22nd July 2018

Featuring SOPHIE, Eternal, Let’s Eat Grandma, Charli XCX, Le Tigre, Tilly & The Wall and Jeppo.

LGN Hour, Monday 6th August 2018

Featuring Pretty Girls Make Graves, Robyn, Madonna, Chela, Lizzo, LCMDF and Justice.

More to follow, more to follow.

Come and listen to playlists like this in a sort of club / dancing scenario at LGN XYZ

Yelle – Ba$$in

We went to Vancouver last year – yeah, check us out – and saw two gigs there. One we kind of arranged the holiday around was Tegan & Sara doing The Con X at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Another that we were delighted to coincide with was Yelle at the Imperial.

Because Yelle puts on an incredible show. Whether it’s us being slightly concened about the moving floor as a packed room jumped in unison at the Old Blue Last, or grinning our faces off downstairs at Electrowerkz, or throwing shapes at Oslo and Village Underground, she/they are one of our faves. Love her and them and her and them.

The Imperial seemed a bit disconcertingly posh going in, but we needn’t have worried – it was a jumparound dancefest and Yelle were incredible. Can’t wait to see them again.

Faire des ronds avec ton LGN XYZ.

Tegan & Sara – Now I’m All Messed Up

There’s a bunch of moments on the Let’s Eat Grandma album that are massively Tegan & Sara. Which is no bad thing, obviously.

Shan’t witter on. This song’s very good. Makes us cry a bit. One of the better ones on one of the newer albums, and they did a lovely acousticy version on the Con X tour. Love.

Go if you want, to LGN XYZ.

Let’s Eat Grandma – It’s Not Just Me

SOPHIE on production duties with your man from the Horrors, so it says on a website we just glanced at and that’s the sort of diligent fact-checking you’re going to get here.

We’d never heard of Let’s Eat Grandma before Hot Pink, the SOPHIE connection bringing us in. That track is a fucking belter, not entirely dissimilar to slamming one of the Vroom Vroom tracks into a softer pop song.

This one is a softer pop song, but bloody lovely and our current fave. Current, because we’ve only given the album a couple listens and we’re liable to give it a lot more. Very good it is. And always good to have more bands to make us jealous that we never had friends at school or otherwise that wanted to be in a band with us. Sob.

 

Don’t fail to believe at LGN XYZ.

SOPHIE – Immaterial

Yes, we’re brazenly going ‘Material Girl‘ to Immaterial. Deal with it.

We went to the SOPHIE show at Heaven earlier in the year and (whisper it, WHISPER IT) didn’t love some of it. Sorry sorry sorry. Maybe we were overhyped.

But we did love the audience being a glorious post-gender futurescape, and we did massively love this unbelieveable banger slamming into the latter part of the set with a shining bit of text lighting up in syllables (IM-MA-TE-RI-AL in white, GIRL in blue, BOY in pink, natch natch natch). And fuck does it go off.

Kind of bop of the year this, and insane it doesn’t (yet) have a music video. So you’ll just have to enjoy the above (and look up footage from the gig because the graphics are ace).

Always the same and, never the same, LGN XYZ.

Madonna – Burning Up

 

Give us 80s Madonna.

Oh, hello there. So we reached 16 daily posts before completely neglecting this for weeks, which isn’t bad now is it?

Anyway, let’s continue.

Today, your Saturday 7th July 2017, is hot as anything in London town. It’s also Pride. And there’s also some boring football bollocks going on. Ignoring the latter, this song and artist seemed a good pick.

Although, TBH, the timing and weather is coincidental because we knew we were going to use the ’80s Madonna’ connection. Look, shut up, we’re getting back into the swing of this to complete week 3. ENJOY THE VIDEO.

 

Come on, let go at LGN XYZ.

Bis – Action And Drama

Lois Maffeo features on Detour, a song and single off of Bis’ second album. It’s a good ol’ song, but always felt to us the odd one out on Social Dancing, and so it wouldn’t be a representative intro.

This would, though. Action And Drama was another single off that album, and as well as being an absolute fucking smash in and of itself, it has the B-Side of Like Robots which is one of our absolute favourite ever songs in the world ever ever ever. It’s amazing.

We love Bis. Love love love love love Bis. This was one of the first albums we bought, and loved, and got massively obsessed over the band being everything. Intro to pop, intro to punk, intro to DIY, intro to drum machines, intro to feminism, intro to riot grrrl, intro to the world.

We’ll be getting fresh at LGN XYZ.