The Lexington
96-98 Pentonville Rd
Lexington © Lee Goldup
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Address:
The Lexington 96-98 Pentonville Rd
N1 9JB
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The Lexington
- 96-98 Pentonville Rd
N1 9JB - www.thelexington.co.uk
- 51.531705,-0.111880
- 96-98 Pentonville Rd
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The Lexington
- Categories:
Dance. Music. Pop and rock. Dance. Blues, roots and country. Shopping. Comedy. Cabaret. Books and poetry. Food and drink. Clubs
- Facilities:
Eating and drinking facilities. Food served
What's on at The Lexington
Cayucas
Categories, Music
- Critics' choice
Surf’s up! Cayucas are the new California boys making sunny, breezy surfer-dude pop that recalls The Shins and The Beach Boys. Their album ‘Bigfoot’ is just over half an hour of musical sunshine.
- Until Tue May 21
- The Lexington 96-98 Pentonville Rd, N1 9JB
The Jezabels
Categories, Pop and rock
Aussie quartet who sound a bit like Cold War Kids, but with a female singer who can reach far higher notes than Nathan Willett.
- Wed May 22
- The Lexington 96-98 Pentonville Rd, N1 9JB
- £12 adv
Dexters
Categories, Pop and rock
Dexters ply inoffensive indie-rock that bears a heavy debt to The Strokes.
- Thu May 23
- The Lexington 96-98 Pentonville Rd, N1 9JB
- £8, £6 before 9pm, £5 adv
Zombie Rockin'
Things to do
If two of your favourite things happen to be zombies and rockabilly, then boy do we have the perfect way for you to spend your bank holiday. At this Zombie Rockin' all-dayer, you can get your 'vintage zombie' hair and make-up done in the tea room with...
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Mon May 27
– Tue May 28 - The Lexington 96-98 Pentonville Rd, N1 9JB
- £18, £15 adv, free for 12 and under
The Dunwells
Categories, Music
Mumford alert: this Yorkshire group make a heady blend of English rock and rootsy Americana.
- Tue May 28
- The Lexington 96-98 Pentonville Rd, N1 9JB
- £8 adv
- Wed May 29
- The Lexington 96-98 Pentonville Rd, N1 9JB
- £5.50
Rangleklods
Categories, Music
They sound like a delicious treat for Roald Dahl's Big Friendly Giant but rest assured this Danish electro outfit are very much human. Support comes from The Snozzcumbers. Just kidding.
- Thu May 30
- The Lexington 96-98 Pentonville Rd, N1 9JB
- £6, £5 adv
Layabouts
Categories, Pop and rock
Fast, melodic post-rock from Madrid with widdly riffs and smooth vocals.
- Sat Jun 1
- The Lexington 96-98 Pentonville Rd, N1 9JB
- £8
Gaggle Workshops: Live Sound for Girls
Things to do
The Gaggle collective present a sound engineering workshop for girls.
- Sun Jun 2
- The Lexington 96-98 Pentonville Rd, N1 9JB
- £40
- Sun Jun 2
- The Lexington 96-98 Pentonville Rd, N1 9JB
- £5
Lescop
Categories, Pop and rock
- Free
The Eighties-toned pop of chiselled Frenchman Lescop is recorded and put out by DJ duo John and Jehn and their Pop Noire label (Jehn is also the lead singer of Savages). Lescop will come over très bien to any fans of French pop legend Étienne Daho, although...
- Mon Jun 3
- The Lexington 96-98 Pentonville Rd, N1 9JB
- £7.50
Wolf Alice
Categories, Pop and rock
Gaze at your shoes and prepare to nod your head to some heavily-hyped lashings of reverb and '90s girl-grunge vocals.
- Tue Jun 4
- The Lexington 96-98 Pentonville Rd, N1 9JB
Jacco Gardner
Psych and garage rock
As a child, Dutch psych-pop dude Gardner learned to play six instruments. All that early promise now manifests itself as a period-perfect take on ’60s baroque pop, with Gardner playing almost all the instrumentation in the studio, although he'll probably...
- Wed Jun 5
- The Lexington 96-98 Pentonville Rd, N1 9JB
- £7.50
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Sat Jun 8
– Sun Jun 9 - The Lexington 96-98 Pentonville Rd, N1 9JB
- £3
Raiders of the Last Tube
Pop and rock, Clubs
- Critics' choice
The Secret Garden Party team join forces with Early Doors Disco to bring you another exciting party that'll ensure you're tucked up by midnight (or at least early enough to have you feeling fresh come Friday morning). Not to mention, it's the perfect...
- Thu Jun 13
- The Lexington 96-98 Pentonville Rd, N1 9JB
- £5
Teleman
Categories, Pop and rock
This great new outfit, featuring former members of Pete And The Pirates, fuse classic psychedelic songwriting in the Syd Barrett vein with tasteful synths and sparse guitar.
- Fri Jun 14
- The Lexington 96-98 Pentonville Rd, N1 9JB
Fair Ohs
Electronica, Punk and hardcore, Synthpop, Psych and garage rock
- Critics' choice
Hard-gigging tropico-garage punks Fair Ohs headline to celebrate the release of their second album ‘Jungle Cats’ (May 28) – and the arrival of the summer, which is the perfect season for their African-influenced guitars.
- Tue Jun 18
- The Lexington 96-98 Pentonville Rd, N1 9JB
The Silver Seas
Categories, Pop and rock
Formerly known as The Bees, this pop-rock group from Nashville were forced to change their name because a band from the Isle of Wight were already using the name. The British Bees, meanwhile, were forced to perform as A Band Of Bees in the USA. Names...
- Wed Jul 3
- The Lexington 96-98 Pentonville Rd, N1 9JB
Tunng
Indie rock, Folk
Blending electronica and acoustica, Tunng are experts at crafting skewed but solid folk-pop melodies. They're due to release their sixth album this year, so ask for your money back if there's no new material played tonight.
- Mon Jul 8
- The Lexington 96-98 Pentonville Rd, N1 9JB
- Sold Out
Tunng
Indie rock, Folk
Blending electronica and acoustica, Tunng are experts at crafting skewed but solid folk-pop melodies. They're due to release their sixth album this year, so ask for your money back if there's no new material played tonight.
- Tue Jul 9
- The Lexington 96-98 Pentonville Rd, N1 9JB
- Sold Out
Raiders of the Last Tube
Pop and rock, Clubs
- Critics' choice
The Secret Garden Party team join forces with Early Doors Disco to bring you another exciting party that'll ensure you're tucked up by midnight (or at least early enough to have you feeling fresh come Friday morning). Not to mention, it's the perfect...
- Thu Jul 11
- The Lexington 96-98 Pentonville Rd, N1 9JB
- £5
Generationals
Indie rock
'Heza', the new album by indie duo Generationals, is an odd mix of scratchy indie pop, ’90s slacker rock, electronica and the blues of their hometown New Orleans. It shouldn't work, but luckily Ted Joyner and Grant Widmer have the songwriting chops to...
- Mon Aug 5
- The Lexington 96-98 Pentonville Rd, N1 9JB
- £7.50
Mark Mulcahy
Singer-songwriter
- Critics' choice
American singer-songwriter Mulcahy's new album is called 'Dear Mark J Mulcahy, I Love You', and he's bringing his tongue-in-cheek self-celebration to London. He's a veteran of US alt rock, having fronted the college rock band Miracle Legion from 1983...
- Wed Aug 28
- The Lexington 96-98 Pentonville Rd, N1 9JB
- £11.50
Mark Mulcahy
Categories, Pop and rock
Former Miracle Legion singer-songwriter Mulcahy – an acknowledged influence on Thom Yorke – delivers vulnerable (yet serene and good-humoured) vignettes, backing up his vocal gymnastics with consistently strong melodies.
- Wed Aug 28
- The Lexington 96-98 Pentonville Rd, N1 9JB
- £15
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