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The Skints

Categories, Pop and rock

Walthamstow's ska punks The Skints roll on with album number two, 'Part and Parcel'.

  1. Until Wed May 22
  2. Koko 1a Camden High St, NW1 7JE
  3. £11
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Crystal Fighters

Categories, Pop and rock

  • Critics' choice

The talented bunch from London and Navarre, Spain who know how to provide a good groove, offer raved-up folktronica and minimal electro-pop, veering from Fischerspooner-style euphoria to Animal Collective-toned delicacy and eight-bit techno. Tonight they...

  1. Thu May 23
  2. Koko 1a Camden High St, NW1 7JE
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The Undertones

Categories, Pop and rock

Head Undertone Feargal Sharkey was replaced by Paul McLoone in 1999, and has since spent time hanging out with David Cameron and representing the UK music industry in the fight against internet piracy. Meanwhile, his reunited bandmates keep slogging away...

  1. Fri May 24
  2. Koko 1a Camden High St, NW1 7JE
  3. £20
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In The Valley Below

Categories, Music

Los Angeles residents Jeffrey Jacob and Angela Gail create sultry, synthetic atmospherics with dual male-female harmonies, all delivered with a slightly menacing air. If you think that sounds a bit like a goth Fleetwood Mac… you're right.

  1. Fri May 24
  2. Koko 1a Camden High St, NW1 7JE
  3. £5
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Club NME

Pop and rock, Clubs

  • Critics' choice

A guitar-rockin' and electro session that attracts a huge studenty crowd, with live sets each week.

Club NME
  1. Fri May 24
  2. Koko 1a Camden High St, NW1 7JE
  3. £7, £5 before 11pm, NUS £4 before 12midn...
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Guilty Pleasures

Classic rock, Clubs, Chart pop

  • Critics' choice

Abba. Junk food. Watching Jeremy Kyle just so you can shout at the TV and throw frozen oven chips at him. We've all got our guilty pleasures, and this hugely fun night celebrates the musical side of them. It's a high-quality but ultimately cheesy party...

  1. Sat May 25
    – Sun May 26
  2. Koko 1a Camden High St, NW1 7JE
  3. £10 adv
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Haim

Categories, Pop and rock

  • Critics' choice

The three Haim sisters (plus a drummer, no relation) bring their brilliant and breezy West Coast harmonies and epic, R&B-influenced pop – as much Wilson Phillips as Fleetwood Mac – to the UK. They're already big news, having won the BBC Sound of 2013...

  1. Tue May 28
    – Thu May 30
  2. Koko 1a Camden High St, NW1 7JE
  3. £12
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Ondatrópica

Categories, Jazz and experimental

  • Critics' choice

New all-star Colombian band from Frente Cumbiero's Mario Galeano and Will 'Quantic' Holland, uniting the old and new Colombian generations on a tropical album. The band features notable Colombian musicians such as Aníbal Velasquez, Michi Sarmiento, Wilson...

  1. Fri May 31
  2. Koko 1a Camden High St, NW1 7JE
  3. £17.50
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Ondatrópica

Categories, Jazz and experimental

A new all-star Colombian band from Frente Cumbiero's Mario Galeano and Will 'Quantic' Holland, Ondatrópica unites the old and new Colombian generations on a tropical album. The band features notable Colombian musicians including Aníbal Velasquez, Michi...

  1. Fri May 31
  2. Koko 1a Camden High St, NW1 7JE
  3. £17.50
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Club NME

Pop and rock, Clubs

  • Critics' choice

A guitar-rockin' and electro session that attracts a huge studenty crowd, with live sets each week.

Club NME
  1. Fri May 31
  2. Koko 1a Camden High St, NW1 7JE
  3. £7, £5 before 11pm, NUS £4 before 12midn...
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Toro Y Moi

Categories, Pop and rock

Toro Y Moi is South Carolina's 23-year-old Chas Bundick. He crafts inventive and uplifting fractured psychedelic pop that recalls Animal Collective and Ariel Pink, but also flashes his fondness for funky synth and freak folk styles.

  1. Tue Jun 4
  2. Koko 1a Camden High St, NW1 7JE
  3. £12.50
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A Day To Remember

Categories, Pop and rock

Godzilla-strength, punk-pop-edged hardcore.

  1. Wed Jun 5
  2. Koko 1a Camden High St, NW1 7JE
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Action Bronson

Categories, Pop and rock

The Queens-raised rapper – and former gourmet chef – featured on Wu-Tang's 2011 album 'Legendary Weapons' and has been likened to Ghostface Killah. Tonight he plays from his two LPs 'Dr Lecter' and 'Well-Done', and forthcoming record 'Mr Wonderful'.

  1. Fri Jun 7
  2. Koko 1a Camden High St, NW1 7JE
  3. £16.50
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Parachute Youth

Categories, Music

  • Free

After meeting at a rubbish house party, this Aussie duo headed home immediately to work on some seriously grooveworthy tunes that would get people dancing like the party didn’t. Look forward to some shimmering synth-fuelled electro-pop tonight.

  1. Fri Jun 7
  2. Koko 1a Camden High St, NW1 7JE
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Parachute Youth

Pop and rock, Clubs

  • Critics' choice

A guitar-rockin' and electro session that attracts a huge studenty crowd, with live sets each week.

Parachute Youth
  1. Fri Jun 7
  2. Koko 1a Camden High St, NW1 7JE
  3. £7, £5 before 11pm, NUS £4 before 12midn...
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Chromatics

Indie rock, Synthpop

  • Critics' choice

Portland's Chromatics make atmospheric soundtracks for fictional films. Since they formed in 2001 they've evolved (via a near-total line-up change) from a scratchy punk band to heavy synth-users. Their debut album 'Kill For Love', released in 2012, was...

Chromatics
  1. Wed Jun 12
  2. Koko 1a Camden High St, NW1 7JE
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Soundcrash presents The Bug

Drum 'n' bass and dubstep, Clubs

  • Critics' choice

Ready to have your brain wobbled by tidal waves of bass? Course you are, that's why you should catch this essential Soundcrash show, featuring the awesome smoky digital ragga of Kevin Martin's The Bug project – accompanied by sharp rhymes from Flowdan...

  1. Sat Jun 15
    – Sun Jun 16
  2. Koko 1a Camden High St, NW1 7JE
  3. £12.50-£19.50 adv, MOTD
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Jimmy Eat World

Categories, Pop and rock

  • Critics' choice

Mesa, Arizona's premier commercial emocore combo offer their usual catchy mix of upbeat pop-punk and alterno-rock balladry. They'll be belting out new material from 'Damage', their eighth album, and the classics – 'Bleed American', 'Pain' and, of course,...

  1. Sun Jun 16
  2. Koko 1a Camden High St, NW1 7JE
  3. Sold Out
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Matt Corby

Categories, Pop and rock

  • Critics' choice

As a runner-up on 'Australian Idol', you might expect Matt Corby to be a pop belter. Well, he's actually a heart-tugging singer-songwriter with a shedload of affecting vocal melodies, and a recent angling towards blues and soul. And he turned down a deal...

  1. Wed Jun 19
  2. Koko 1a Camden High St, NW1 7JE
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Jaguar Skills

Categories, Pop and rock

  • Critics' choice

This anonymous UK hip hopper favours a jazzy, laid-back, old-school vibe. He's known for 'A Hip Hop Odyssey', his 2006 mixtape of 800 tracks in 45 minutes, which has been downloaded over a million times. Some of his 'amazing friends' perform with him...

  1. Sat Jun 22
  2. Koko 1a Camden High St, NW1 7JE
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Xavier Rudd

Categories, Pop and rock

The gentle and rootsy Canadian-Australian surf popster returns, with a somewhat darker undertow on his newer material.

  1. Mon Jun 24
  2. Koko 1a Camden High St, NW1 7JE
  3. £20
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Guilty Pleasures

Classic rock, Clubs, Chart pop

  • Critics' choice

Abba. Junk food. Watching Jeremy Kyle just so you can shout at the TV and throw frozen oven chips at him. We've all got our guilty pleasures, and this hugely fun night celebrates the musical side of them. It's a high-quality but ultimately cheesy party...

  1. Sat Jun 29
    – Sun Jun 30
  2. Koko 1a Camden High St, NW1 7JE
  3. £10 adv
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The Tragically Hip

Categories, Pop and rock

If you're looking to marry a Canadian, this is the place to come. These veteran rockers, who are essentially the Canuck REM, are massive in their homeland – and, curiously, were a big early influence on the Stereophonics. They play from their hefty back...

  1. Tue Jul 2
  2. Koko 1a Camden High St, NW1 7JE
  3. £25
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Guilty Pleasures

Classic rock, Clubs, Chart pop

  • Critics' choice

Abba. Junk food. Watching Jeremy Kyle just so you can shout at the TV and throw frozen oven chips at him. We've all got our guilty pleasures, and this hugely fun night celebrates the musical side of them. It's a high-quality but ultimately cheesy party...

  1. Sat Jul 27
    – Sun Jul 28
  2. Koko 1a Camden High St, NW1 7JE
  3. £10 adv
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Bad Religion

Punk and hardcore

  • Critics' choice

Long-lived Cali punkers with a social conscience, Bad Religion hit London to play their tuneful old-school hardcore. They've got a new album, 'True North', as well as their fifteen previous records to play from.

  1. Tue Aug 20
  2. Koko 1a Camden High St, NW1 7JE
  3. £17.50
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Rated as: 3/5 (5 ratings)
  • I agree. Not the most welcoming of places. As for the refit?? I used to go there in the mid 90's and I could not tell what they had changed since then?... Sticky carpets, awful toilets and grumpy staff. Regretfully, best avoided.

    Jimmytwigg Sat Sep 22 2012
    Rated as: 1/5
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  • I don't get the idea here. It's a lovely building with an interesting layout, but they treat their customers like cattle. They charge insane prices for a can of appalling bitter emptied lovelessly into a thin plastic glass. Queues 10-deep at the bar. Events where the comperes verbally abuse people for needing the toilet while they're speaking (and I mean abuse, not joke about, Patrick Kielty). It's bad enough that you start to think, 'Well if you really don't want me here I'll leave.' You're just a commodity, being fleeced for as much as they can get away with. It's a shame, as it has so much potential. But it's top of my blacklist nowadays.

    Dazbert Mon Apr 2 2012
    Rated as: 1/5
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