Live Review: Set Your Goals, A Loss For Words, This Time Next Year & Decade - Underworld, London - 1/6/11

Slam Dunk, apart from being the place to be for all the summer's pop punking rock goodness, has the added bonus of bringing some of our favourite acts to our shores for their own headline shows in and around the festival, and just two days after Less Than Jake closed the final gig in the Slam Dunk series up in Birmingham, Set Your Goals grace the capital to call time on their latest UK tour.

Being an opener is tough. Playing in front of people, many of which don't care if you're any good or not can be brutal, but tonight's headliners would testify to the fact that everybody has done it. It's like crossing the music Gods' palm with silver before advancing to bigger and better things. And while it's not quite a case of Decade forgetting their wallets, the Somerset 5-piece fail to really capture those select few who aren't at the bar, try as they might with their fusion of sandpaper riffs and spit shined vocals.

Live Review: This Will Destroy You, Talons and eaststrikewest - Camden Underworld, London - 30/09/2010

Instrumental bands are becoming ever more prevalent, and with them they carry the unique ability to bury their way into your soul and disrupt it furiously. A simple chord change can somehow move you to contented introspection, reduce you to tears, and then terrify you completely. With that in mind, was there ever a more befitting venue to house an all ambient post-rock line up than Camden Underworld, situated beneath sister pub The World’s End? “Underworld” isn’t just a clever name with alt. Connotation; the venue is genuinely made from 90% shadow.

London-based six piece eaststrikewest open the night, and have the defining factor of being the only band on the line-up that comes bearing vocals. Their fusion of ambient and pop elements produces moving songs without ever being weighed down under a crescendo of distortion. Talons come next, filling the room with their original theatrical arrangements, complete with harmonised violins. Through both sets, the crowd sit kneecap to kneecap on the floor, swaying lazily like boats on water, waiting for the tempest.

Cynics to Open For Off With Their Heads

Cynics will be opening for Off With Their Heads at the Underworld, Camden on September 18th. Pacer will also be supporting.

The Get Up Kids Underworld Photos

Photos from The Get Up Kids' show at the Underworld, London from this past Wednesday can be seen here.

Alkaline Trio London Show On Sale Today

Tickets for Alkaline Trio's upcoming London show at the intimate Camden Underworld this month (January 25th), go on sale today at 3pm from the Hassle Records webstore, which can be found HERE.

The Friday Night Boys London Headline Show

The Friday Night Boys will play Camden Underworld on October 6th.

Tickets can be purchased here.

Elissa Franceschi to Play Camden Underworld

Elissa Franceschi (sister of josh, lead singer of You Me At Six) is set to play London's Camden Underworld on 23rd January, as she is supporting Luke Pickett.