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FREE entry, with Dirty Water DJs playing garage, beat, psych, soul, rhythm'n'blues, rockabilly, rock'n'roll, etc.

• Dirty Water DJs | See Dirty Water on Myspace
  

  Dirty Water DJs play sixties garage and beat, soul and rhythm'n'blues, rockabilly, rock'n'roll, and more.

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The Stag's Head is at 55 Orsman Road, just off Kingsland Road, near the canal.

• Dynamite Pussy Club | See Dynamite Pussy Club on Myspace
  

  This is crazy duel-guitar fuelled garage-rock'n'soul. Think James Brown meets The Cramps or a mix tape of garage and shake yer ass mambo. Formed in late 2009 by Chris and Ed of Rusty Springfield. Imagine Kid Congo/Jon Spencer and The Monks locked in an asylum and it'll sound like these guys. They're releasing a 7" single on Glasgow's Eruption Records in June and currently recording a debut album to be released later in the year.

• Mutagénicos | See Mutagénicos on Myspace
  
  Loa Mutagénicos will be your newest favorite group in the current music scene. They will cause they will move your hips with their wild SURFING sound and they will make you jump around and shake your head to their wild GARAGE beats! They are forsaking their favoured past time of being chatted up by the girls on the sunny beach of the Ebro to come to London for you. But these young men are a lot more than five pretty faces: they are the new sensation that will free you from your boredom with of boring music. If you need them only have to shout: “KAZOONGAAAAA!”

• Exciters | See Thee Exciters on Myspace
  

  "Conforming to the rule that any band who spell 'The' with two 'e's will always be beer-soaked garage rockers (see also: Thee Headcoats, Thee Shams), the second single from Thee Exciters comprises four songs, each more beer-soaked and garage-rockin' than the last. Fittingly for a band whose singer has a reputation for on-stage nudity, the likes of "Ugly Face" and "Things Ain't Right" are the kind of songs that in the unlikely event that they woke up one morning as dogs would be muzzled, or at the very least made to wear one of those funny plastic cones around their heads to stop them chewing their own balls. An oblique recommendation, yes, but we're standing by it." - NME

  The album "Spending Cash, Talking Trash" is out now on Dirty Water Records.

• David Peter and The Wilde Sect | See David Peter on Myspace
  
  This quartet comes fresh out of the Copenhagen underground. Their mission? To teach the youngsters of today about music with a soul - a very desperate teenage soul that is. David Peter and the boys are tired of pop charts, and tired of the misuse of words such as r&b, beat and ravers of today. With a love for danish beat and 'pigtråd', these four boys bring it down to a very raw and energetic act, that will make the teens dance and shout! With influences taking in the likes of The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Kinks, The Downliners Sect, The Shadows of Knight, The Outsiders, The Lions, The Namelosers, The Defenders, Les Rivals, Bo Diddley, The Gories, The Monks, this is REAL dance music!
• Mutagénicos | See Mutagénicos on Myspace
  
  Loa Mutagénicos will be your newest favorite group in the current music scene. They will cause they will move your hips with their wild SURFING sound and they will make you jump around and shake your head to their wild GARAGE beats! They are forsaking their favoured past time of being chatted up by the girls on the sunny beach of the Ebro to come to London for you. But these young men are a lot more than five pretty faces: they are the new sensation that will free you from your boredom with of boring music. If you need them only have to shout: “KAZOONGAAAAA!”

• Priscillas | See The Priscillas online
  
  The Priscillas’ sound is timeless yet effortlessly of its time. Ambitious yet instantly catchy. Fun yet deeply affecting. Already slated to be future cult heroines, their true time is now. You’ve always known that the all-girl, London-based foursome have their punk side. But as upcoming album Holloway Or Bust!? proves, there’s much, much more to them. It’s a glittering, Technicolor jukebox where every song is a number one in heaven. Everything you want and need from a great album is here in gigantic, heaped shovelfuls - climactic rock, sassy roll, bubblegum pop, heartbreaking showstoppers, brain-melting mariachi, and glam rock stomp.
• Exciters | See Thee Exciters on Myspace
  

  "Conforming to the rule that any band who spell 'The' with two 'e's will always be beer-soaked garage rockers (see also: Thee Headcoats, Thee Shams), the second single from Thee Exciters comprises four songs, each more beer-soaked and garage-rockin' than the last. Fittingly for a band whose singer has a reputation for on-stage nudity, the likes of "Ugly Face" and "Things Ain't Right" are the kind of songs that in the unlikely event that they woke up one morning as dogs would be muzzled, or at the very least made to wear one of those funny plastic cones around their heads to stop them chewing their own balls. An oblique recommendation, yes, but we're standing by it." - NME

  The album "Spending Cash, Talking Trash" is out now on Dirty Water Records.

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With Dirty Water DJs. FREE entry.

The Stag's Head is at 55 Orsman Road, just off Kingsland Road, near the canal.

• Spivs | See The Spivs on Myspace
  

  One of the most talked about bands you’ve never heard off, oddball rock'n'roll trio The Spivs regurgitate the wild sounds of 50s rock'n'roll, 77 punk and 60s garage with a sound so stripped back and raw that it could even make a whore blush. Often described as sounding like early Cramps meets The Scientists, this is a band that is a must see for anyone, anywhere in the world, who thinks they dig real rock'n'roll music!

• Yes Boys! | See Yes Boys on Myspace
  
  A review: "Yes boys! They say their influences are the Kinks, and I believe them, they have that same kind of pace, fast but not rushed, like walking in the park and suddenly being attacked by ninjas. A kind of sedation but without the groggy high, Yes Boys mix a classic rock'n'roll sound with a more pop and punk vibe that represents the new generation. I’m not certain, but I think Yes Boys supported Marty McFly at the prom, when he famously played Johnny B. Goode, that isn’t a fact I just think that that would be one hell of a line up. This is a new band that has all the traits and styles of an old classic."

• Masonics | See The Masonics on Myspace
  
  Bruce Brand writes: "The Masonics - a winning combination of Milkshakes, Pop Rivets, Wildebeests, Kaisers, film editors, Micky & Ludellas, Vectors, Headcoats, commercial artists, Kravin "A"s, Auntie Vegetables and landscape gardeners. (Not bad, seeing as there's only three of 'em.)" In short, this is garage rock'n'roll at its finest.
• Dustaphonics | See The Dustaphonics on Myspace
  

  The Dustaphonics offer a pure sound and a unique attitude, mixing the wild blast of the original soul and rhythm’n’blues of the 1950s and ’60s, the positive energy of ’50s rock’n’roll,  the freshness of early-’60s surf-beat, the intensity of garage-rock along with the softer vibe of jazz. And it is all done with a true authentic spirit. From a garage-rock background comes the music of Yvan, along with Bruce (from Thee Headcoats) and John (from the Wildebeests), who are joined by Aina on vocals, whose background is in hip hop and drum and bass, but who is now often compared with the great, raucous sounds of Ike & Tina Turner.

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The Stag's Head is at 55 Orsman Road, just off Kingsland Road, near the canal.

• Idiotas | See Los Idiotas on Myspace
  
  These two guys are old friends, having been in Los Estuches, one of the most legendary garage bands in their home town of Valladolid, Spain. Having shared an obsession for vintage rhythm'n'blues, rock'n'roll, garage, blues and punk rock since an early age they decided to make music together again when they found themselves both living in Amsterdam. With releases on the great Slovenly record label you can be assured that this duo has one hell of a garage-rockin' sound with a kick-ass live show!
• Blowouts | See
  
  This new four-piece outfit from London like to play fast simple ’77-style punk rock. The kind of punk rock from when it was still more or less just basic rock'n'roll, that rattles along at a cracking pace with a good amount of aggression and energy. This is a bunch of true rock’n’roll guerillas. The guitar sounds like a swarm of killer bees with stingers full of snake venom. And the vocals are pure ragged trouble with a capital "T". A bunch of excitable guys with extremely good taste in real rock'n'roll music they're sure to be building up quite a following very quickly, so make sure you're able to say that you saw them first!

• Billy Childish & The Musicians Of The British Empire | See The MBEs on Myspace
  

  With his latest combo, The Musicians of the British Empire, Billy carries on his tradition of home made punk and rhythm and blues, singing odes to Joe Strummer and nodding to The Who, whilst showing the next generation what a real rock ’n’ roll group sounds like. Since his first recordings in the late '70s with the Pop Rivets, Childish has followed a single-minded course under a variety of monikers including the Headcoats, the Milkshakes, the Mighty Caesars and more recently the Buff Medways. Childish hasn't really deviated from his punky Kinks-Who-Bo Diddley-Link Wray formula – but, hey, if it’s good it’s good, if it ain’t broke there’s no need to fix it!

• Billy Childish & The Musicians Of The British Empire | See The MBEs on Myspace
  

  With his latest combo, The Musicians of the British Empire, Billy carries on his tradition of home made punk and rhythm and blues, singing odes to Joe Strummer and nodding to The Who, whilst showing the next generation what a real rock ’n’ roll group sounds like. Since his first recordings in the late '70s with the Pop Rivets, Childish has followed a single-minded course under a variety of monikers including the Headcoats, the Milkshakes, the Mighty Caesars and more recently the Buff Medways. Childish hasn't really deviated from his punky Kinks-Who-Bo Diddley-Link Wray formula – but, hey, if it’s good it’s good, if it ain’t broke there’s no need to fix it!