New to London...

Greetings all,

I am moving to London from Australia next week. The music scene over there is a mystery to me. Could someone please help me with which venues, bands/artists, networks, websites, zines, towns, record stores, rehearsal spaces I should be exploring when I arrive?

To give you an idea, here is a list of sounds that I like:
Tim Hecker
LIARS
OOIOO
The Dirty Three
Karen Dalton
Pivot
Boards Of Canada
Always
Wire
This Heat

You get the idea...

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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  • Brad Tue, 2008/07/29 - 7:00am

    ...whereas I kinda wanna go

    ...whereas I kinda wanna go to Australia for a bit. Information swapsies?

  • jacktheripper Wed, 2008/07/30 - 11:10am

    hey, yep.. Where in

    hey, yep..

    Where in Australia do you want to go?

    I can tell you all the good venues and bands to see in the country...

    what music are you into?

    check out www.messandnoise.com for australian indie music info.

    I am moving to the east end...kinda into left of centre stuff....liars, boredoms, dirty three etc...

    any hints?

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