The Garage
Highbury
What's on at The Garage
Mac DeMarco
Categories, Pop and rock
- Critics' choice
The fantastic guitar-toting Canadian soft-rocker comes to London. His debut album, '2', is full of wearily romantic, chorus-heavy jams, all tied together by his disaffected drawl and hazy lyrics.
- Tue May 21
- The Garage 20-22 Highbury Corner, N5 1RD
Mic Righteous + Dot Rotten
Categories, Pop and rock
Born in Margate, with Iranian heritage, Mic earned his rhyming stripes in Brixton collective The Kraftsmen and now spits dark lines solo, in a hostile Devlin style, but with less urgency. Plus fast-rising, slickly dressed and steady rhyming Stockwell...
- Fri May 24
- The Garage 20-22 Highbury Corner, N5 1RD
- £10
The Doctor's Orders
Soul, funk and rap, Hip hop, Clubs
- Critics' choice
A once underground hip hop night, but less so these days as the Docs push on with unbridled success, that always attracts huge names from the golden age of NYC hip hop and beyond.
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Fri May 24
– Sun May 26 - The Garage 20-22 Highbury Corner, N5 1RD
Bloodshake
Alternative rock, Indie rock, Clubs, Britpop
- Critics' choice
Shake it up at this north London weekly, which plays the best of indie throughout the decades. From Pulp to Parquet Courts, The Strokes to Splashh and more. Also featuring guest DJ sets from hotly tipped acts.
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Fri May 24
– Sat May 25 - The Garage 20-22 Highbury Corner, England, N5 1RD
- £5
The Cuban Brothers
Categories, Pop and rock
This riotous and obscenely funky Cuban party quartet are less well known for their music as for their formidable breakdancing skills and handlebar moustaches. Tonight they play tracks from their most recent album ‘Yo Bonita’ with a full live band.
- Sat May 25
- The Garage 20-22 Highbury Corner, N5 1RD
- £14.50
The Besnard Lakes
Categories, Pop and rock
Intriguingly beautiful, but often dark and disturbing mix of The Beach Boys, Pink Floyd and MBV from the well-regarded headlining husband-and-wife duo, who hail from Montreal.
- Tue May 28
- The Garage 20-22 Highbury Corner, England, N5 1RD
- £14
Sophie Hunger
Categories, Pop and rock
Swiss singer-songwriter Hunger performs in the style of Feist or PJ Harvey.
- Wed May 29
- The Garage 20-22 Highbury Corner, N5 1RD
Brian Nutter
Pop and rock, Country
If you can see past his amusing name, Nutter's alright. He plays infectiously upbeat pop-rock, with some impressive guitar work and a strong country and western feel – mind the banjo – that shows why he was picked as a touring rhythm guitarist by Keith...
- Thu May 30
- The Garage 20-22 Highbury Corner, N5 1RD
Meursault
Categories, Pop and rock
- Critics' choice
Edinburgh's Meursault – named after the protagonist of Albert Camus's 'The Stranger' – veer between beautifully stripped-down, uke-driven alt.folk and synth-strafed electro. It's weird, but it works a treat.
- Fri May 31
- The Garage 20-22 Highbury Corner, N5 1RD
Bloodshake
Alternative rock, Indie rock, Clubs, Britpop
- Critics' choice
Shake it up at this north London weekly, which plays the best of indie throughout the decades. From Pulp to Parquet Courts, The Strokes to Splashh and more. Also featuring guest DJ sets from hotly tipped acts.
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Fri May 31
– Sat Jun 1 - The Garage 20-22 Highbury Corner, England, N5 1RD
- £5
- Sat Jun 1
- The Garage 20-22 Highbury Corner, N5 1RD
- £6
The Chapman Family
Indie rock
Although they used to sound a lot like fellow Teeside indie groups Maxïmo Park and The Futureheads, Stockton rockers The Chapman Family have moved on from their jittery post-punk past. Nowadays they're rather fond of massive, reverb-heavy guitars and...
- Mon Jun 3
- The Garage 20-22 Highbury Corner, N5 1RD
Marnie Stern
Categories, Pop and rock
- Critics' choice
Imagine Karen O as a finger-tapping guitarist with an experimental bent and a whiff of riot-grrrl angst and you're coming close to New Yorker Stern's incredible sound.
- Wed Jun 5
- The Garage 20-22 Highbury Corner, N5 1RD
- £11
- Thu Jun 6
- The Garage 20-22 Highbury Corner, N5 1RD
- £6.50
- Thu Jun 6
- The Garage 20-22 Highbury Corner, N5 1RD
- Sold Out
KRS-One
Categories, Pop and rock
- Critics' choice
A headline set from Lawrence Krisna Parker, the conscious, anti-gangster hip hop pioneer (and occasional university lecturer) behind Boogie Down Productions. Expect all the big 'uns, including 'Sound of da Police' and 'MCs Act Like They Don't Know', as...
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Fri Jun 7
– Sat Jun 8 - The Garage 20-22 Highbury Corner, N5 1RD
Bloodshake
Alternative rock, Indie rock, Clubs, Britpop
- Critics' choice
Shake it up at this north London weekly, which plays the best of indie throughout the decades. From Pulp to Parquet Courts, The Strokes to Splashh and more. Also featuring guest DJ sets from hotly tipped acts.
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Fri Jun 7
– Sat Jun 8 - The Garage 20-22 Highbury Corner, England, N5 1RD
- £5
Frankie And The Heartstrings
Categories, Pop and rock
Sunderland's sharply-dressed, super-jaunty indie-poppers, Frankie and co bring their Dexys-meets-'50s-styled swagger to town.
- Thu Jun 13
- The Garage 20-22 Highbury Corner, N5 1RD
Bloodshake
Alternative rock, Indie rock, Clubs, Britpop
- Critics' choice
Shake it up at this north London weekly, which plays the best of indie throughout the decades. From Pulp to Parquet Courts, The Strokes to Splashh and more. Also featuring guest DJ sets from hotly tipped acts.
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Fri Jun 14
– Sat Jun 15 - The Garage 20-22 Highbury Corner, England, N5 1RD
- £5
Nine Below Zero + Eddie And The Hot Rods
Classic rock, Punk and hardcore
Dennis Greaves’s hard-edged and smokin’ groove-merchants NBZ, favourites of London's post-punk R&B scene and one-time stars of 'The Young Ones', are joined by Southend pub-rockers The Hot Rods, who've retained one original member since their late-'70s...
- Fri Jun 21
- The Garage 20-22 Highbury Corner, N5 1RD
- £17.50
Bloodshake
Alternative rock, Indie rock, Clubs, Britpop
- Critics' choice
Shake it up at this north London weekly, which plays the best of indie throughout the decades. From Pulp to Parquet Courts, The Strokes to Splashh and more. Also featuring guest DJ sets from hotly tipped acts.
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Fri Jun 21
– Sat Jun 22 - The Garage 20-22 Highbury Corner, England, N5 1RD
- £5
The Pharcyde
Categories, Pop and rock
Loose-limbed and witty hip hop with a conscious edge from the brilliant LA crew, best known for their freewheeling mid-'90s anthem, 'Drop.' Tonight they'll be playing their debut album, 'Bizarre Ride II', in full.
- Fri Jun 28
- The Garage 20-22 Highbury Corner, N5 1RD
Bloodshake
Alternative rock, Indie rock, Clubs, Britpop
- Critics' choice
Shake it up at this north London weekly, which plays the best of indie throughout the decades. From Pulp to Parquet Courts, The Strokes to Splashh and more. Also featuring guest DJ sets from hotly tipped acts.
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Fri Jun 28
– Sat Jun 29 - The Garage 20-22 Highbury Corner, England, N5 1RD
- £5
Mission Of Burma
Punk and hardcore
- Critics' choice
This ia an exciting (and intimate) show by the seminal '80s post-punkers from Boston, MA. Aside from original tape-fiddler and live engineer Martin Swope – who's replaced by Bob Weston of Shellac – it's the original Mission line-up, with a set that'll...
- Sun Jun 30
- The Garage 20-22 Highbury Corner, N5 1RD
- Sold Out
Blue King Brown
Categories, Pop and rock
Australia's premiere reggae roots act BKB bring their big-bass, nine-piece conscious dub.
- Mon Jul 1
- The Garage 20-22 Highbury Corner, N5 1RD
- adv £10
















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