MIKAL CRONIN tonight in London!

Morning all!

Today we’ve announced two new events for you, PROTOMARTYR will be heading to The 100 Club next April and sooner still GUN OUTFIT will finally make it back over to London next February. Details of both shows can be found in our ‘upcoming listings’ below, along with the show blurb for tonight’s exciting MIKAL CRONIN, J FERNANDEZ and THEO VERNEY concert at The Scala. Tickets for tonight are £13 on the door from 7.30pm and live music will be commencing from 8.15pm. In other news, tomorrow’s CALVIN JOHNSON show at The Tin Tabernacle is now completely sold out, we won’t have any tickets on the door, but we will have a bar and you can expect supports INVISIBLE FOXX (boasting some cello arrangements, no less!) to start around 8pm. Read on…

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MIKAL CRONIN

J FERNANDEZ

THEO VERNEY

Tuesday 17 November

Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, King´s Cross, London, N1 9NL

7.30pm | £13 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/325344  

MIKAL CRONIN was raised in Laguna Beach, California, where as a teenager he developed a passion for both surfing and rock & roll. While attending Laguna Beach High School, he fell in with a handful of like-minded music fans, and formed a band that played local parties. After a spell as bassist in surf-punk Charlie & The Moonhearts, Mikal began working on his own garage-accented pop tapping into his love of 80's indie rock. Around the same time, Mikal also befriended kindred spirit Ty Segall, joined his live band and also collaborated on an album together called 'Reverse Shark Attack'. Mikal Cronin's self-titled album was released by Trouble in Mind Records in September 2011. Conceived and recorded as a sort of therapy to help cope with adjusting to life post-college, an ensuing break-up and geographic isolation, Mikal’s solo debut is fully realized, cohesive and beautiful, with themes as personal as they are universal; questioning your future, accepting your past and living in the moment. Taking influences such as late sixties Del Shannon and The Everly Brothers and filtering them through his own mutant California fuzz, Mikal deftly explores his singer/songwriter side that at moments feels like a punk Harry Nilsson or Curt Boettcher that balances sweet melodies and chords with hefty, psychedelic guitar freak-outs. 2013 saw Cronin release, 'MCII', his first disc for Merge Records, which was all about new beginnings, looking at new relationships and growing up in the 21st century. Earlier this year Merge released Mikal’s third album, entitled ‘MCIII’. Marked by lush arrangements, stunning melodies, and deeply personal lyrical work for which Cronin is now known, the album is also a deliberate attempt to simply sound bigger in everyone’s head.

https://www.mergerecords.com/mikal-cronin  

J FERNANDEZ has a colourful world of imagination that’s perfectly captured in his debut album ‘Many Levels of Laughter’. With lyrics reflecting the profound (emotional mushroom trips), the mundane (dentist visits, board games) and life’s other curiosities (sleep apnea, Craigslist encounters), he’s made an album steeped in DIY origins, but offering a superior exploration of sound that’s all set to wrap J Fernandez in a far worldlier embrace. Born to Filipino immigrant parents, J (Justin) Fernandez relocated to the Chicago from his native Little Rock, Arkansas to begin work for the U.S. map company Rand McNally. Spending his spare time navigating his own personal world of musical endeavours, he created three unique and accomplished early EPs ‘Olympic Village’, ‘No Luck’ and ‘Memorize Now’ that placed him alongside label peers Best Coast, Mount Eerie, and Dirty Beaches whilst winning him praise and comparisons to everyone from Syd Barrett, to Robyn Hitchcock and Ennio Morricone. Fernandez’s songwriting draws on disparate influences from Terry Riley to the annals of early electronic music, pop and psychedelia, not to mention Can, Yo La Tengo, Jim O’Rourke, Electric Prunes, James Burke’s ‘Connections’, Carl Sagan, Bas Jan Ader, the winter in Chicago, and Adderall. Listen closely to ‘Markers’, you can hear manipulated found sounds of the outside world behind looped Casio keyboards. Elsewhere the mellow jazzy tones of ‘Filled With Joy’ recall the energy and sonic sound of 90s Argentine band Babasonicos whilst the layers of broken Moog string synthesizer on ‘Apophis’ is played backwards and perhaps hints at a sound of the future.

https://jfernandez.bandcamp.com/

THEO VERNEY is a rock-n-roll prodigy from Brighton! He’s spent the last two years building excitement and anticipation across the UK and Europe with his no holds barred, psych-­infused shows. Theo is currently recording his debut album to follow up the much­ acclaimed ‘Heavy Sunn’ EP which was released last year on Hate Hate Hate Records (The Wytches, Fat White Family). He’s been touring with his band regularly since its release, supporting the likes Drenge, Toy, Archie Bronson Outfit, La Luz and Parquet Courts as well as his own headline shows. Theo's new EP 'Brain Disease' is out now, go check it out!

http://theoverney.tumblr.com/

Thank you for reading this, before we head off we wanted to point you in the direction of this show taking place this week too, which looks fantastic and well worth your attendance!

Constant Flux presents...

THE FISH POLICE

JOEY FOURR

DANIEL WAKEFORD

WITCHING WAVES

Saturday 21st November 2015

DIY Space For London

96-108 Ormside Street, London, SE15 1TF

£5 / carers free or donation

Flat Access / Accessible Toilets

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Enjoy your week!

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MIKAL CRONIN

J FERNANDEZ

THEO VERNEY

Tuesday 17 November

Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, King´s Cross, London, N1 9NL

7.30pm | £13 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/325344  

CALVIN JOHNSON

INVISIBLE FOXX
Wednesday 18 November
The Tin Tabernacle, 12-16 Cambridge Avenue, Kilburn, NW6 5BA
7pm | £10 | SOLD OUT

SLIM TWIG

TARZANA (Spencer Clark, Jan Anderzen, Floris Vanhoof)

TROON LEINAD (DJ set)

Wednesday 2 December

The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS

7.30pm | £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/334563

MOSS LIME

AS ONDAS

Monday 7 December

Old Blue Last, 38 Great Eastern St, Shoreditch, EC2A 3ES

8pm | £5 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/334740  

IAN SVENONIUS (Escapism)
OLIVIA NEUTRON JOHN
Tuesday 15 December
Power Lunches Arts Cafe, 446 Kingsland Road, Dalston, E8
8pm | 7.00 | SOLD OUT

IAN SVENONIUS (Escapism)
OLIVIA NEUTRON JOHN
Wednesday 16 December
Power Lunches Arts Cafe, 446 Kingsland Road, Dalston, E8
8pm | 7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/338385

GUN OUTFIT

Wednesday 17 February

The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB

7.30pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/340160

PROTOMARTYR
Monday 4th April
100 Club, 100 Oxford St, Oxford Street, W1D 1LL
7.30pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/339599

*NB. Tickets onsale from 10am this Friday.