Islington Assembly Hall

Josh Rouse

Categories, Pop and rock

• Critics' choice

Nashville-based Nebraskan singer-songwriter/ guitarist Rouse, much admired by Lambchop’s Kurt Wagner and other alt folk tastemakers, returns to the UK. He’s playing from his acclaimed tenth studio album, ‘The Happiness Waltz’.

Ultrasound

Categories, Pop and rock

Late '90s artful indie band, fronted by Andrew 'Tiny' Wood, play material from their latest album, 'Play for Today'. In 2011 they reformed for a benefit concert and released their first new single, 'Welfare State/Sovereign', in 11 years.

Islington Giving Week: Charity Quiz

Things to do

Islington Giving – a campaign for Islington, run by Islington folk – aims to raise £3m for their borough, the fifth most deprived in London, with the help of volunteers and events such as Islington Giving Week. Tonight locals (and Islington boffs) are...

Travis

Britpop

Fran Healy and his post-Britpop boys – who, funnily enough, originally had a member called Chris Martyn – play the safe, pleasant and intensely nice sounds of their five-album discography. The sixth, 'Where You Stand', is their first record in five years...

Charles Bradley And His Extraordinaires

Categories, Pop and rock

This Daptones-signed, Floridian soul singer was born in 1948, and ploughs a '60s/'70s funk and soul furrow. A lost star from the era? Kind of – but his recording career only started in 2002, after decades of bad luck which included his first band all...

KT Tunstall

Country, Folk, Singer-songwriter

• Critics' choice

She's a Brit and Ivor Novello award-winner, a singer-songwriter and guitarist who somehow has both underground cred (working with Oi Va Voi and members of Fence Collective) and millions of sales. Now KT Tunstall returns with a new album, 'Invisible Empire/Crescent...

Duke Special

Categories, Pop and rock

The dreadlocked, eyelinered troubadour from Belfast delivers his impassioned honky-tonk songs on a wide range of instruments, including gramophone, fiddle and harmonium. He'll be playing his album 'Songs from the Deep Forest' in full with his band.

Ed Kowalczyk

Alternative rock

Formerly the lead singer and songwriter for American post-grunge group Live, Kowalczyk quit the group in 2009 after controversy over his apparently claiming a 'lead singer bonus' of $100,000 when Live played at a festival. Since then he's been making...