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HDIF's Gig Of The Week
Thurs 18 Mar - Hidden Cameras at St Leonard's Church
Because where better to see a "gay church folk" band than in an actual church? Situated in the godless diocese of Shoreditch, St Leonard's Chuch, also known as Shoreditch Church, dates from 1740 and is mentioned in the nursery rhyme "Oranges And Lemons" ("When I grow rich, say the bells of Shoreditch"). Hidden Cameras, here to promote their latest album "Origin:Orphan", you'll know all too well of course.

Sun 14 Mar - Grizzly Bear + Beach House at Roundhouse
Sun 14 Mar - Mumford And Sons at Shepherd's Bush Empire
Sun 14 Mar - Norton Money + John Drain + Charlie Hangdog at Stag's Head
Sun 14 Mar - The Godfathers + Piney Gir And The Age of Reason + The Jazz Butcher at 100 Club
Sun 14 Mar - Trent Miller And The Skeleton Jive + Dan Raza + Benjamin Folke Thomas + Harrisburg + Pepe Belmonte + Marcia Mello + Emily C Smith + Jack Day at Windmill
Mon 15 Mar - Retribution Gospel Choir + These Monsters at Cargo
Mon 15 Mar - Mono at Scala
Mon 15 Mar - A Grave With No Name + Yuck + Celestial Bodies at Hoxton Bar & Kitchen
Mon 15 Mar - Delphic at Heaven
Mon 15 Mar - Retribution Gospel Choir at Cargo
Mon 15 Mar - The Tallest Man On Earth + Alessi's Ark at Bush Hall
Tues 16 Mar - Fun Lovin' Criminals at Koko
Tues 16 Mar - Emma Pollock + Josh Pyke at Tabernacle
Tues 16 Mar - The Woe Betides + Summer Holiday + White Collar Weapons + Coppers For Karma at Notting Hill Arts Club
Tues 16 Mar - Franz Nicolay + Rook And The Ravens + Dexy And The Hand Me Downs at Windmill
Tues 16 Mar - Foreign Office at Madame Jo Jos
Weds 17 Mar - The Marshall Arts Family + Palace Of Justice at Hideaway
Weds 17 Mar - Spectrum + Hush Arbors at Luminaire
Weds 17 Mar - Kiosk at ICA
Weds 17 Mar - Joana And The Wolf + The Munroes + Junior Victor + The Cellophone Flowers at Monarch
Weds 17 Mar - James Taylor Quartet at Ronnie Scott's
Weds 17 Mar - Artefacts For Space Travel + Neon Highwire + Double Rainbow at 93 Ft East
Weds 17 Mar - The Woody Pines + The Jolenes at Sheepwalk
Weds 17 Mar - Klak Tik + Twin Falls + Conrad Vingoe + Citizen Helene at Slaughtered Lamb
Thurs 18 Mar - Chapterhouse at Scala
Thurs 18 Mar - Hidden Cameras at St Leonoard's Church
Thurs 18 Mar - Bad Lieutenant at Electric Ballroom
Thurs 18 Mar - Envy at Cargo
Thurs 18 Mar - MGMT at Heaven
Thurs 18 Mar - Two Door Cinema Club + Citadels at Hoxton Bar & Kitchen
Thurs 18 Mar - James Taylor Quartet at Ronnie Scott's
Thurs 18 Mar - The Bridport Dagger + Life In Film + Ay Ducane + Cruella Ribbons at Passing Clouds
Thurs 18 Mar - Ivan Ink And Pen + Slow Moving Millie at Old Queen's Head
Thurs 18 Mar - Hafdis Huld + Bodebrixen + Katzenjammer at Lexington
Thurs 18 Mar - EastStrikeWest + The Winchell Riots + Sleeping With Antares + Media Circus at 93 Ft East
Thurs 18 Mar - The Lost Cavalry + Heliopause + Twin Falls at Windmill
Fri 19 Mar - The Stranglers at Hammersmith Apollo
Fri 19 Mar – Babe Shadow at Hobby Horse
Fri 19 Mar - The Bloody Beetroots + Does It Offend You, Yeah? + Kissy Sell Out + Man Like Me at The Coronet
Fri 19 Mar - Speak And The Spells at Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes
Fri 19 Mar - Totall Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs + The Correspondents at Tooting Tram And Social
Fri 19 Mar - Animal Kingdom + Kurran And The Wolfnotes at Koko
Fri 19 Mar - Ivan And The Wolves + White City Gamblers + Square Go + The Blue Screen Of Death at Luminaire
Fri 19 Mar - Marble Fairy at Prince Albert
Sat 20 Mar - Times New Viking at Dome
Sat 20 Mar - King Kurt + Demented Are Go + Bogus Gasman at Garage
Sat 20 Mar - Patti Smith at Royal Festival Hall
Sat 20 Mar - Part Chimp + Hag + Mutlings at The Crypt
Sat 20 Mar - Scarlet's Well + The Fallen Leaves at Inn On The Green
Sat 20 Mar - Television Personalities + Of Arrowe Hill + The Pony Collaboration + The Rebel at Herne Hill Half Moon
Sat 20 Mar - Cud + Will And The People at Hootananny
Sat 20 Mar - Alan Tyler + Simon Stanley-Ward + Andy Hank Dog + Wendy Bennet at Sun And Doves
Sat 20 Mar - How Does It Feel To Be Loved? at the Phoenix
Sun 21 Mar - The Sundae Klips + Couple + Dylan Walsh at Stag's Head
Sun 21 Mar - Patti Smith at Union Chapel
Sun 21 Mar - New Secret Weapon + Hassle Merchants + Absolutely Curtains + Mescalito at Windmill
Mon 22 Mar - The Magnetic Fields at Barbican Centre
Mon 22 Mar - Wild Beasts + Everything Everything + Esben And The Witch at Koko
Mon 22 Mar - Them Crooked Vultures + Little Fish at Albert Hall
Mon 22 Mar - Joel Owen + Alice Gold + Lemoncurd Kid + Harry Crampton at Slaughtered Lamb
Tues 23 Mar - Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra at Electric Ballroom
Tues 23 Mar - Laura Marling at Barfly
Tues 23 Mar - Damo Suzuki at Hoxton Bar & Kitchen
Tues 23 Mar - The Album Leaf at Bush Hall
Tues 23 Mar - Dan Le Sac V Scroobius Pip at Koko
Tues 23 Mar - Mamer + David Thomas Broughton at Luminaire
Tues 23 Mar - Taxi! Taxi! + The Candle Thieves + Rokhsan at Upstairs At The Garage
Tues 23 Mar - Polar Beat at Purcell Rooms
Weds 24 Mar - Editors at Brixton Academy
Weds 24 Mar - Hidden Cameras at Hoxton Bar & Grill
Weds 24 Mar - Tindersticks + Villagers at Shepherds Bush Empire
Thurs 25 Mar - The Loves + Mai 68s + King And The Olive Fields + Funsize Lions at Jamm
Thurs 25 Mar - The Dentists + The Claim at Dingwalls
Thurs 25 Mar - Babybird at Scala
Thurs 25 Mar - Tunng at Garage
Thurs 25 Mar - The Reverend Horton Heat at Electric Ballroom
Thurs 25 Mar - Editors at Brixton Academy
Thurs 25 Mar - Hush Arbors + El Goodo + The See See at Bardens Boudoir
Thurs 25 Mar - Nedry + Toodar + Youth In Colour at The Rest Is Noise
Fri 26 Mar - The Four Tops + The Temptations at O2
Fri 26 Mar - Dakota + Brassphemy + Karn8 + No More Navigators at King William IV
Sat 27 Mar - The School + Allo Darlin at Bush Hall
Mon 29 Mar - Therapy? at Water Rats
Mon 29 Mar - Ice Black Birds + Babeshadow + Beaty Heart at The Old Queen's Head
Tues 30 Mar - Thereapy? at Water Rats
Tues 30 Mar - Steve Carlson + Columbus Giant at Hoxton Underbelly
Weds 31 Mar - Steve Appleton at Bush Hall
Fri 2 Apr - Daniel Johnston at Troxy
Sat 3 Apr - Life In Film + Whales In Cubicles + Patrick Hamilton at The Enterprise
Tues 6 Apr - Mt Eerie at Scala
Tues 6 Apr - AFI at Brixton Academy
Fri 9 Apr - King Adora at Garage
Sat 10 Apr – Four Tet at Village Underground
Sat 10 Apr - Ennio Morricone at Royal Albert Hall
Mon 12 April - Rain Machine at Village Underground
Mon 12 Apr - Band Of Horses at Koko
Weds 14 Apr - Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings at Koko
Thurs 15 Apr - Luke Haines + The Blazing Zoos at Garage
Sun 18 Apr - Shrinebuilder + Black Math Horseman at The Scala
Mon 19 April - Wooden Shjips at Bush Hall
Tue 20 Apr – Caribou at Corsica Studios
Tue 20 Apr - Crystal Castles at Heaven
Tue 20 Apr - Fuck Buttons + Factory Floor at Koko
Tue 20 Apr - These New Puritans at Garage
Weds 21 Apr - Idlewild at Forum
Weds 21 Apr - Wanda Jackson + Imelda May at Luminaire
Weds 21 Apr - Efterklang + Esben and The Witch + Heather Woods Broderick at Shepherds Bush Empire
Thu 22 Apr - Vadoinmessico + Heart On Fire + Catherine Pockson at The Lock Tavern
Mon 26 Apr - Grace Jones at Albert Hall
Wed 28 Apr – The Temper Trap at Shepherd Bush Empire
Thurs 29 Apr – The Temper Trap at Shepherds Bush Empire
Thus 29 Apr - The Primitives at Scala
Fri 30 Apr – The Temper Trap at Shepherds Bush Empire
Mon 3 May - The Stooges + Suicide at Hammersmith Apollo
Wed 5 May - Coco Rosie at Union Chapel
Wed 5 May - Hole at Brixton Academy
Thu 6 May – Wood Pigeon at Union Chapel
Thu 6 May - Deerhunter at Heaven
Thu 6 May – Erland And The Carnival at Hoxton Square Bar And Kitchen
Thu 6 May - Futureheads at Scala
Fri 7 May - La Roux at Brixton Academy
Fri 7 May - She & Him at Koko
Mon 10 May - Pavement at Brixton Academy
Mon 10 May - Foals at Electric Ballroom
Mon 10 May - Eli Paperboy Reed at Scala
Tues 11 May - Pavement at Brixton Academy
Tues 11 May - Joanna Newsom at Royal Festival Hall
Tue 11 May - Boredoms at The Forum
Weds 12 May - Pavement at Brixton Academy
Weds 12 May - 65daysofstatic at Koko
Weds 12 May - Atari Teenage Riot at Electric Ballroom
Thurs 13 May - Pavement at Brixton Academy
Thurs 13 May - Dum Dum Girls at Luminaire
Fri 14 May - Gotan Project at Brixton Academy
Fri 14 May - The Brian Jonestown Massacre + The See See at Shepherds Bush Empire
Fri 14 May - Band Of Skulls at Electric Ballroom
Fri 14 May - Alabama 3 at The Forum
Mon 17 May - Broken Social Scene at Heaven
Mon 17 May - Boris at The Garage
Tue 18 May - Dinosaur Jr + Built To Spill at Shepherds Bush Empire
Weds 19 May - The New Pornographers at Electric Ballroom
Thurs 20 May - A Sunny Day In Glasgow at Luminaire
Thurs 20 May - Stornoway at ULU
Thurs 20 May - Los Campesinos! at Shepherd's Bush Empire
Thurs 20 May - The Radio Department at Bush Hall
Thurs 20 May - The Raincoats at The Scala
Tues 25 May - The Ruby Suns at Hoxton Bar & Kitchen
Weds 26 May - Jonsi at Forum
Weds 26 May - Dr Dog at Tabernacle
Thu 27 May - Liars at Shepherds Bush Empire
Tue 1 Jun - Beach House at Heaven
Fri 4 Jun - The Damned at Shepherd's Bush Empire
Tues 8 June - The Drums at Heaven
Weds 9 June - Band Of Horses at The Roundhouse
Thurs 10 Jun - Au Revoir Simone at Scala
Tues 15 June - Local Natives at Shepherds Bush Empire
Tues 22 June - The Hold Steady at the Forum
Sat 7 Aug - Tinariwen at Forum
Weds 8 Sept - Fever Ray at Brixton Academy
Thurs 9 Sept - The Mountain Goats at Koko

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