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HDIF's Gig Of The Week
Tues Nov 27 - Let's Wrestle + Tigercats + Omi Palone at Lexington
A rare gig by the magnificent Let's Wrestle, who have somehow managed to remain a best-kept secret despite being one of the finest bands in London right now. Their gloriously sardonic lo-fi pop, with echoes of everyone from The Fall and Pavement to Jonathan Richman and Swell Maps, has so far illuminated two brilliant albums, and hopefully this show is evidence that a third is soon to come. Support comes from the wonderful Tigercats and Omi Palone, both firm HDIF favourites. A stunning line-up and an utterly unmissable show.

Sun Nov 25 - Bobby Womack at Forum
Sun Nov 25 – Mi Mye + The School + Werewandas + Alphabet Backwards at The Lexington
Mon Nov 26 - The Human League at Albert Hall
Mon Nov 26 - Great Lake Swimmers at Bush Hall
Mon Nov 26 - Marilyn Manson + Rob Zombie at O2
Mon Nov 26 - Foxygen at Sebright Arms
Mon Nov 26 - Martin Rossiter + Jennifer Left at Borderline
Mon Nov 26 - Big Wave + Joyland + Bare Pale at Old Blue Last
Mon Nov 26 - Beach Day + The Sharp Tongues + The South London Lo-Fi Explosion at Windmill
Tues Nov 27 - Tinariwen + Sam Lee at Union Chapel
Tues Nov 27 - Elbow at Wembley Arena
Tues Nov 27 - Do Make Say Think at Electric Ballroom
Tues Nov 27 - Hundred Waters + Foxygen at Shacklewell Arms
Tues Nov 27 - Oh Susanna + The Abrams Brothers at Borderline
Tues Nov 27 - Public Service Broadcasting at Koko
Tues Nov 27 - Let's Wrestle + Tigercats + Omi Palone at Lexington
Tues Nov 27 - Heart Ships + M¯ + Men's Adventure at Old Blue Last
Tues Nov 27 - IROK + Concrete Knives + Shields at Barfly
Tues Nov 27 - Sudden Infant + KK Null + Spoils And Relics at Cafe Oto
Tues Nov 27 - Dan Mangan at Scala
Tues Nov 27 - The Rolling Stones at O2
Weds Nov 28 - Dirty Three at Shepherd's Bush Empire
Weds Nov 28 - Macy Gray at Koko
Weds Nov 28 - Wild Nothing at Lexington
Weds Nov 28 - Tribes + Dan Avery + Get Some at Hoxton Bar & Kitchen
Weds Nov 28 - Darwin Deez at XOYO
Weds Nov 28 - PVT + Dark Bells at Birthdays
Weds Nov 28 - Pandr Eyez at Shacklewell Arms
Weds Nov 28 - Being There + Shinies at Old Blue Last
Weds Nov 28 - Thea Gilmore at Union Chapel
Weds Nov 28 - Lisa Knapp + Sasha Siem at Old Queen's Head
Weds Nov 28 - David Cronenberg's Wife + Dear Joseph + Paul Hawkins & Thee Awkward Silences + The Noise at Buffalo Bar
Thurs Nov 29 - Tinariwen at Union Chapel
Thurs Nov 29 - Scrawl + Shannon Wright + Joel R L Phelps at Cargo
Thurs Nov 29 - The Masonics + Fallen Leaves + Methodist Centre at Buffalo Bar
Thurs Nov 29 –- The Talks + The Carnabys + The Leano + Jade Hopcroft at AAA
Thurs Nov 29 - Eighteen Nightmares at the Lux + The Burnin Jacks + Hypnotic Eye at The Macbeth
Thurs Nov 29 - Soul II Soul + Jazzie B + Caron Wheeler at Islington Assembly Hall
Thurs Nov 29 - The Ex at Cafe Oto
Thurs Nov 29 - The North Sea Scrolls at St Pancras Church
Thurs Nov 29 - Scrawl + Shannon Wright + Joel R L Phelps at Cargo
Thurs Nov 29 - Tinariwen + Sam Lee at Union Chapel
Thurs Nov 29 - Lucero + Sweetheart Contract at Windmill
Fri Nov 30 - Adam Ant at Shepherd's Bush Empire
Fri Nov 30 - The Sonics at The Garage
Fri Nov 30 - Twinkle Brothers at Jamm
Fri Nov 30 - Alasdair Roberts + Richard Dawson at Vortex
Fri Nov 30 - Chain & The Gang + The Nuns + Mickey Gloss at Lexington
Fri Nov 30 - The Ex at Cafe Oto
Fri Nov 30 –- Raba + Portlights + Rekall + Linda Harrison at AAA
Fri Nov 30 - Becky Lee and Drunkfoot + Tongue Tied Twin + One Man Destruction Show at The Stags Head
Fri Nov 30 - The Mob + Kill Pretty + Andy T + Hagar The Womb + The astronauts at Boston Arms
Fri Nov 30 - Magnetic Fields special at How Does It Feel To Be Loved? at Canterbury Arms
Sat Dec 1 - Chips For The Poor + Playlounge + Yucky Slime at Power Lunches
Sat Dec 1 - Glasvegas + Megan Thomas + Dexters at Garage
Sat Dec 1 - The Ex at Cafe Oto
Sat Dec 1 - The Machine Gunners + Deathline + Winterhours + Hares at Sebright Arms
Sun Dec 2 - Martha Wainwright + Aroara at Shepherd's Bush Empire
Sun Dec 2 - Neurosis + Godflesh at Forum
Sun Dec 2 - Trash Talk + Witch Cult at Birthdays
Sun Dec 2 - Elbow at O2
Mon Dec 3 - The Raveonettes at Village Underground
Mon Dec 3 - Jon Spencer Blues Explosion at Electric Ballroom
Mon Dec 3 - Sharon Van Etten + This Is The Kit at Shepherd's Bush Empire
Mon Dec 3 - Ben Gibbard + Aaron Espinoza at Union Chapel
Mon Dec 3 - Bad For Lazarus + Slaves + Cold In Berlin at Barfly
Mon Dec 3 - Cuff The Duke + Charity Children at Slaughtered Lamb
Mon Dec 3 - The Time And Space Machine + Lola Colt + Black Market Karma at Lexington
Mon Dec 3 - Shield Your Eyes at Old Blue Last
Tues Dec 4 - Mark Lanegan at Forum
Tues Dec 4 – Tom Loffill & Band + Bens Pens at The Others
Tues Dec 4 - Deerhoof at Garage
Tues Dec 4 - Yeasayer at Shepherd's Bush Empire
Tues Dec 4 - Archive at Heaven
Tues Dec 4 - Ben Folds Five at Brixton Academy
Tues Dec 4 - James Iha at Bush Hall
Tues Dec 4 - Skaters at The Social
Tues Dec 4 - Night Beds + Eyes And No Eyes at Slaughtered Lamb
Tues Dec 4 - Doldrums at Shacklewell Arms
Tues Dec 4 - Evan Dando And Juliana Hatfield at Royal Festival Hall
Tues Dec 4 - Arcane Roots + My First Tooth + Gunning For Tamar at Old Blue Last
Weds Dec 5 - Beth Orton at Union Chapel
Weds Dec 5 - The Fall at Islington Assembly Hall
Weds Dec 5 - Florence And The Machine + Haim at O2
Weds Dec 5 - Sebastien Tellier + Kyla La Grange at Shepherd's Bush Empire
Weds Dec 5 - Willy Mason at Scala
Weds Dec 5 - Chew Lips + 2 For Joy at Birthdays
Weds Dec 5 - Stornaway at South Bank
Weds Dec 5 - Slow Magic + Marcin Sky + Sculpt at Shacklewell Arms
Weds Dec 5 - US Girls + Slim Twig + Zacht Automaat at Lexington
Weds Dec 5 - God Is An Astronaut + Maybeshewill + Nordic Giants at Heaven
Weds Dec 5 - The Wave Pictures at Dingwalls
Weds Dec 5 - Colorama + Seamus Fogarty at Sebright Arms
Weds Dec 5 - Lach + Erin K at Slaughtered Lamb
Weds Dec 5 - MT + Paranoid People Meet In The Middle at Victoria
Thurs Dec 6 - Lonesound + Intervals + Cable Street Collective at The Macbeth
Thurs Dec 6 - Mission Of Burma + Slowcoaches at Birthdays
Thurs Dec 6 - Kurt Vile And The Violators + Lower Dens + Dark Dark Dark at Forum
Thurs Dec 6 - Kitty, Daisy & Lewis + Lulu James + Alice Jemima + Laurence Galpin at House Of St Barnabas
Thurs Dec 6 - Kathleen Edwards at Bush Hall
Thurs Dec 6 - Jeru The Damaja + Phoenix Da Icefire + Galaxy High at Silvet Bullet
Thurs Dec 6 - The 1975 at Barfly
Thurs Dec 6 - Boris at Scala
Thurs Dec 6 - Ghost Carriage Phantoms + Buffalo Ink + The Melting Ice Caps + Blue Balloon at Windmill
Thurs Dec 6 - Get People + Cave Painting + Ivory Seas at Lexington
Thurs Dec 6 - Lund Quartet at Vortex
Fri Dec 7 - London Afrobeat Collective at Rich Mix
Fri Dec 7 - The J-PEGS + Paul Bevoir & The Family Way + Radiateur + The Mothers Of Memphis at The Betsey Trotwood
Fri Dec 7 - Band Of Skulls at Brixton Academy
Fri Dec 7 - Deathasaurus at The Dublin Castle
Fri Dec 7 - Race Horses + Bluebell at Koko
Fri Dec 7 - Gary Numan at Forum
Fri Dec 7 - Black Manila + The Wild Eyes at Macbeth
Fri Dec 7 - The Men They Couldn't Hang + Atilla The Stockbroker at Borderline
Fri Dec 7 - Stars at The Garage
Fri Dec 7 - Kathleen Edwards at Bush Hall at Bush Hall
Fri Dec 7 - Ice Sea Dead People + Mystyrys + Playlounge at Victoria
Fri Dec 7 - The Len Price 3 + The Past Tense + The Fallen Leaves + The Legendary Grooveyman at Half Moon Putney
Fri Dec 7 - The Actionettes DJ at Great Big Kiss soul club at Buffalo Bar
Sat Dec 8 - Ibrahim Maalouf at Rich Mix
Sat Dec 8 - We Are The Physics + Dingus Khan + Team X at Buffalo Bar
Sat Dec 8 - You Me At Six at Wembley Arena
Sat Dec 8 - Tina In The Green Dress + Chris Yendell + Eden Billy Simpson + A Kid Called Sorrow at Silver Bullet
Sat Dec 8 - Modesty Blaise + The Sunny Street + Vanilla Ride + Doggy + Peru + The Fireworks at Betsy Trotwood
Sat Dec 8 - The Fleshtones + The DeRellas at Shacklewell Arms
Sat Dec 8 - Lisa Knapp + Collectress + Portakal at Union Chapel
Sat Dec 8 - Keith TOTP + Abdoujaparov + Chris T-T and the Hoodrats + New Royal Family + Rhesus + Insult + Ben Floyd Trio at Windmill
Sat Dec 8 - Alabama 3 at Forum
Sat Dec 8 - Mono at Village Underground
Sat Dec 8- Damn Vandals + Miss Neutron Bomb + Bordeauxxx at Fiddler's Elbow
Tue Dec 11 - The Popguns at Lexington
Weds Dec 12 - The Wolfhounds + Design at Macbeth
Weds Dec 12 - Thee Faction at Buffalo Bar
Thurs Dec 13 - The Black Keys at O2
Fri Dec 14 - The Hives at Roundhouse
Fri Dec 14 - Saint Etienne at Shepherd's Bush Empire
Fri Dec 14 - Motorcycle Display Team + Bedlamytes + The Vanderbilts + Howlin' Circus at Alley Cat
Sat Dec 15 - Orbital at Brixton Academy
Sat Dec 15 - Subhumans at The Grosvenor
Sat Dec 15 - The Damned at Roundhouse
Sun Dec 16 - Rancid at Forum
Mon Dec 17 - Slow Club at Koko
Thurs Dec 20 - Glam Chops + Mrs Mills Experience + Blobby Band + No Cars at Buffalo Bar
Fri Dec 21 - David Devant & His Spirit Wife at Lexington
Fri Dec 21 - Django Django at Shepherd's Bush Empire
Tues Jan 8 - Allo Darlin' + Tender Trap + The Spook School at Lexington
Weds Jan 9 - Herman Düne + Withered Hand (solo) + Joanna Gruesome at Lexington
Thurs Jan 10 - Darren Hayman And The Long Parliament + Shrag + Haiku Salut at Lexington
Fri Jan 11 - Comet Gain + Milky Wimpshake + Evans The Death at Lexington
Fri Jan 18 - Drugstore at St Pancras Old Church
Fri Jan 18 - alt-J at Shepherd's Bush Empire
Sat Jan 19 - alt-J at Shepherd's Bush Empire
Thus March 7 - Sigur Rós at Brixton Academy
Fri March 8 - Sigur Rós at Brixton Academy
Sat March 9 - Sigur Rós at Brixton Academy
Weds March 20 - Yo La Tengo at Barbican
Sat March 23 - Rolling Stones at O2
Sat March 30 - Rolling Stones at O2

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