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Feeling Gloomy v Old School Indie

Clubs

Feeling Gloomy and Old School Indie come together tonight in a union of melancholy pop and indie club classics (think Blondie to Blur, The Smiths to Scissor Sisters). Plus, early on in the night, The Smyths will be performing a special tribute set of...

SCARED TO GET HAPPY: The Primitives + BMX Bandits + more

Indie rock, Pop

C86 fans, rejoice. The British indie pop boom of the 1980s is getting a 'Nuggets'-style box set this year: 'Scared to Get Happy', a five-disc box set put together by the Cherry Red label. To celebrate its release, ten of the surviving bands featured on...

Scritti Politti

Synthpop, New wave and post-punk

• Critics' choice

Whether they're creating claustrophobic Marxist post-punk or exquisitive, deconstructive ’80s synth-pop, Green Gartside and the various incarnations of his Scritti Politti project have been consistently fascinating since they became one of the first bands...