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We're moving.

2011-02-02T13:46:00.002Z

We are officially moving the blog over to our new tumblr page!

so come join us there! We will bringing you all different updates, tricks and musical treats!

to have a look go here - http://the-macbeth.tumblr.com

Interview with Thomas Tantrum

2011-01-27T14:55:00.005Z

Next thursday (3rd Feb) it's time for another 'Offset Festival Presents...' here at the Macbeth.

In the past few months we've seen Bo Ningen, Teeth and The Neat (and many many more), and this month we are proud to present the live return of Thomas Tantrum.

Megan of the band was kind enough to answer us some questions about their new record:

1) It's been 3 years since the release of your debut LP. Fill us in on what has been going on in those 3 years.

Hello! Well it's actually just been a little over 2 but it does seem like longer. After the touring of the first album finished, our drummer unfortunately decided to go on to pastures new. Finding a new drummer who was right for us took quite a while, but we were lucky enough to find a winner in Dave Wade Brown! Having a new band member means a whole new influence on songwriting, so a lot of trial and error tunes were experimented with before we started writing material we felt was right for our second album. I guess this is why it has been a long time coming! We've had a lot of fun though and still been playing shows including a tour with the lovely Band Of Skulls and some summer festivals. Everything is coming into place for our second album now though so it's getting really exciting again.

2) The Cure circa 'Wish' seems to be an obvious influence on your new EP 'Birdsong'. What other bands have you been inspired by more recently?

Ha. Yeah, the cure was a huge inspiration for the 'face the music' track off the ep. I think there is more coming from that direction because it really works. I wouldn't say I was particularly influenced by any other bands during the writing of the album. In fact, i tried to stay away from listening to other bands too much because I think that strategy can make for the purest of music. You don't want to latch on to what's popular, you just have to do your own thing. Obviously I am only one quarter of the band though and we all vary quite drastically in our musical tastes. I would say the second album is possibly more mature and melancholic yet still retaining an enthusiastic pop sensibility.

3) Have you guys started working on album no 2 yet? Can we expect a new Thomas Tantrum full-length in 2011?

Album number 2 is all finished and ready to go. We don't have an official release date yet but the single should be coming out late March and the album somewhen after that. The problem with having such a big gap between records is that we have too much material, it's tough deciding which tracks will go on the record.

4) Got any new band tips for 2011?

There's quite a few good bands emerging from down our way actually. There's Montage Populaire, Oresteia, Suicide Party, Haunted Stereo, Maths and the Moon and Wolfe. Southampton seems to be properly on it at the moment. All worth checking out.

Thomas Tantrum will be playing our free-entry 'Offset Festival Presents...' on Thursday, 3rd Feb.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=183579721664625

Legends profile #1: Half Japanese

2011-01-20T09:31:00.002Z

Half Japanese were formed by brothers Jad and David Fair around 1975. Famed for Jad's notorious out-of-tune guitar playing, the brothers' DIY approach was a huge influence on fellow noise-mongers Sonic Youth and a certain Mr.Courtney Love (AKA Kurt Cobain), who even counted their album 'We Are They Who Ache With Amorous Love' (released in 1990) amongst his 50 all-time favourite records.

Half Japanese will be coming to the UK in spring 2011 - meanwhile you should check out this mini-doc on youtube:

Dan

Our Tips for 2011

2011-01-17T15:49:00.005Z

Two weeks into the new year and finally fully recovered from our Cherry Cola New Year's Eve Extravaganza, we thought we'd present you our very own list of artists we think might or might not make it in 2011.

Here goes:

1. Cloud Boat

http://www.myspace.com/cloudboat

Minimal internet presence and only musical output being a 49sec long youtube video, Cloud Boat have just popped their live cherry with a prestigious support slot at James Blake's Plan B show last friday.

2. Lapalux

http://soundcloud.com/lapalux

Aka Essex-bred Stuart Howard played the Macbeth only recently in support of Ghostpoet and we'll have him back on the 26th Jan alongside Porcelain Raft (see below).

Operate by Lapalux

3. Zoo Kid

http://www.myspace.com/zookid

Debut release 'Out Getting Ribs' dropped on House Anxiety Records last month. Reminiscent of early Wild Beasts; pre-sexual frustration.

4. Vondelpark

http://www.viceland.com/music/2010/08/vondelpark-has-no-myspace-so-you-can-only-learn-about-him-here/

Minimal 2-step beats set to an ambient backdrop, Peckham-based Vondelpark is on everyone's lips at the moment. Legendary belgian dance label R&S Records-released EP 'Sauna' was only a taster of what's (hopefully) to come in 2011.

5. James Blake

http://www.myspace.com/jamesblakeproduction

Duh.

To celebrate this, we have invited Porcelain Raft and Lapalux to play the Macbeth on the 26th January with DJ sets from No Pain In Pop, Simon Is Tropical and yours truly.

It's FREE entry so no excuses, kapishe?

Here's the facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=186749344676328&ref=ts

Dan.

TONIGHT! TAST w/ Magnetix, Black Manila & Kap Bambino DJ set!

2011-01-12T17:26:00.004Z

So Tonight we have Black Manila and Magnetix come grace us with their presence tonight at TAST.

Find the usual links and ting to the band so you can have a listen, and get you in the mod for tonight!

Doors are open from 8pm until Late!

The door tax is three squids.

Black Manila are fresh from their successful Tour of France with LSD and are playing their first London show back of 2011 with Magnetix one of France's biggest and best Garage Punk bands from the Parisian label Born Bad.

MAGNETIX
Big beat / Drogue Electrique
http://www.myspace.com/themagnetix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkcCIEcPIek

BLACK MANILA
Garage/Psychedelic/Punk
http://www.myspace.com/sniffinflowers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCvpbf9Y1Gs

DJ'S

DE TOMASO PANTERA
Twist

CAROLINE FRANCE (Kap Bambino)
Twist

Tonight - KnickerRocker Glory don't forget, and tomorrow we see Offset Festival and Dancing Bear!

2011-01-05T15:04:00.005Z

Offset Festival and Dancing Bear kick off Thursday with its series of monthly Free Entry Parties!

-LIVE-

+ ICE SEA DEAD PEOPLE (Live)

With Their Debut Album 'Teeth Union' out now, Ice Sea Dead People are ones to watch for 2011, come and see them before they go sky high.
- A Mind-Bendingly Glorious Primal Racket - NME

+ DüD (Live)

Düd might be a band. Members of Düd might have been in other bands before but they can’t remember. Düd could possibly be the brainchild of multi-instrumentalist Jon Jackson. Düd may or may not have been influenced by Dinosaur Jr. Düd don’t have a myspace. Düd do play live.

+ SECOND HEAD (Live)

Second head combine post punk and future pop to create a monster of a supergroup! With two EPs already out in the public domain who knows what this group of talented art punks will come up with in 2011. Greatness we presume.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/SECOND-HEAD/107530965960459

- DJs -

+ ROLO TOMASSI

+ TURBOGEIST

+ CONRAD BLACK MANILA

Remember guys its FREE ENTRY all night, things kick off around 8pm and go on til around 2am! It's gonna be ace, so make sure you come on down!

The Macbeth
70 Hoxton Street
Shoreditch

N1 6LP

Tomorrow night! KNICKERROCKER GLORY!

2011-01-04T15:45:00.003Z

Boutique Promotions London present. . .

KNICKERROCKER GLORY Launch party!

Happy New Year!

2011-01-04T14:03:00.003Z

We hope you had a fabulous New Years Eve, and brought it in with a boom!

It was absolutely mental here at The Macbeth. Cherry Cola gave us quite a party indeed!

Carl Barat (from the Libertines for those of you that have been living under a rock for the last 13 or so years) turned up to play us a little solo set. It was blinding, you should of been there, if you were, hats off to you!

The music and drinking didn't stop til around 6am sometime, a great start to the New Year indeed.

So to carry on from an epic night, we have the likes of KnickerRocker Glory, Streets of Beige, Offset Festival and Dancing Bear and Tribute hosting some fun-filled Parties for us.

Expect to see/hear:

Blizzard Of Ozz (live)

ICE SEA DEAD PEOPLE (live)

One Man Destruction Show (live)

The Pins (live)

Ghost Poet (live)

& more!

DJ sets from -

Rolo Tomassi

Skill Wizard

Caroline France (Kap Bambino)

& more!

Watch this space to find out when and where you can find all this beauties at The Macbeth!

Tonight! Wham Bamm Xmas Special!

2010-12-21T14:01:00.003Z

WHAM BAMM is back and this time its Christmas Special, with a festive fun party for all you lovely people!

On the bill this evening is;

GET PEOPLE (LIVE)

HARES (LIVE)

NIGHTMARE AND THE CAT (LIVE)

RED ROOM (LIVE)

DJ sets from:

MYSTERY JETS

AUNT AGONY

S/L/A/T/S

and as always a FREE Wham Bar on arrival.
£3 entry

8pm til Late!

come enjoy one big ass party before you have to be locked away somewhere in scotland where they're ain't no parties, no get people, no wham bars, no hares, no mystery jets, no red room NOTHING but TURKEY!

Tonight at The Macbeth! The Other Side Christmas Party!

2010-12-15T13:15:00.004Z

The Other Side Christmas party takes place tonight at The Macbeth in Shoreditch. This is a party NOT to be missed:

Chad Valley (live)

Amazing electronic, reverb drenched, dance pop from Oxford.

Trophy Wife (live)

Oxford's very own "ambitionless office disco".

Othello Woolf (live)

London's new fantastic neo-soul visionary.

PLUS

DJ Joey Remote

Super Receptor DJ's

DJ Kate Bones

Young Ornithologists (DJ's)

Anorak DJ's

Videopia DJ's

Yes Brian! you Look Terrific DJ's

Tickets £4 adv - £5 on the door

For tickets go to http://bit.ly/TOSXMAS

***FREE CIDER AND BBQ FOR THE FIRST 100 PEOPLE IN***

Expect also: Christmas jumpers, mince pies, hot cider, mistletoe.

Tonight at The Macbeth! TAST

2010-12-14T15:52:00.003Z

TAST // 1

DJs

Caroline France (Kap bambino)

Mikyla (She Set)

Ricky Haley (Liars Club)

TWISTED MIND

TWISTED EARS

TWISTED BODY

TWISTED EYES

TWISTED BASS

TWISTED NOISE

TWISTED SPITS

TWISTED WILD

TWISTED DISTORTION

\\ 8pm - 1am //

FREE ENTRY

Tomorrow Night, Offset Festival and Dancing Bear Presents....

2010-12-08T12:58:00.005Z

Offset Festival & Dancing Bear are proud to present another instalment in this successful series of nights that continue to up hold the unique philosophy of Offset Festival.

Live Acts for your enjoyment -

The Neat (Live)

The Neat are one of the most exciting live bands in the UK. Capturing the essence of early Joy Division with the aggression and confidence of Public Image Ltd. or Gang of Four''
Subba Cultcha.com

Age of Consent (Live)

London-based two-piece comprised of ex-Shitdisco members.

Djs -

Late of the Pier Soundsystem

Django Django

Dan Djan (Fiction)

Conrad Black Manila

It's Free Entry all night, all kicks off at 8pm til 2am!

Bangers & Mash Industry Night at The Macbeth this Wednesday!

2010-12-07T14:26:00.002Z

One of London's steps into our lovely home here at The Macbeth. This is the start of a new monthly midweek night from Bangers & Mash!

Likes Pharaohs (LIVE)
Back from their sell out tour Like Pharaohs play Pop Punk.

Bareface (LIVE)
Electro Grime Indie Punk band.

Heart Kill Giant (LIVE)

DJs
Orlando Boom
Marcus Harris
Sam Diamond
playing Electro, Grime Indie and Punk

guestlist £5 via emily@bangersandmashme.com
8pm - 1am

FICTION BIG THINGS SINGLE LAUNCH!

2010-11-30T14:30:00.004Z

Tomorrow night sees a homecoming of sorts as Fiction return to the Macbeth after being on tour with The Klaxons and War Paint. We will be celebrating the release of our second single 'Big Things'.

LIVE

--- DJs ---

___________________________________________________________

/// STAGE TIMES ///

Beaty Heart 8.15-8.45

Fiction 9.30-10.15

___________________________________________________________

It's Free Entry all night, and this is one great band not to miss out on! See you at the bar!

You can purchase 'Big Things' From -

Pre-order the limited edition 7":

http://www.roughtrade.com/site/shop_detail.lasso?sea rch_type=sku&sku=334004

Download on iTunes:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/big-things/id404564 094?i=404564107&ign-mpt=uo %3D4

Tomorrow Night at The Macbeth!

2010-11-24T17:08:00.003Z

KAIJU Invades!

With Live sets from monstrous Japanese noise-makers

PROBABLY CHARLIE -First Show!- (Live)

New Side Project from Taigen Kawabe frontman of Bo Ningen and Koichi front man of Screaming Tea Party, with Hiroki from STP of Drums.
Going to be amazing!

DEVILMAN ( Drum Eyes, Bo Ningen, Dokkebi Q, Dj Scotch Egg)

DEAD FADER (Brighton 2012)

Plus Monster DJs

Gigan (Turbogeist)
King Ghidorah (Off Modern)
Mecha Godzilla (God Don't Like it!)
Negadon (Rumble)
Mel Yonggary (S.C.U.M)
Queen Kumonga (Thrush Metal)
The Giant Claw & Gyaos (Helen & Mel)

FREE ENTRY

Free shot if you come dressed as a Japanese monster (Kaiju) !

List of Kaiju Monster for the less inspired:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_kaiju

Kaiju films projected throughout.
Write down names on the wall to be entered into the STREETFIGHTER xbox tournament.

TONIGHT! DIRTY HANDS FREE LAUNCH PARTY!

2010-11-17T15:19:00.003Z

Dirty Hands is a brand new, free entry rock'n'roll party at The Macbeth.

We're kicking off in style with an amazing line-up - including a headline slot from garage rock sensations French Kissing. Guest DJs will play the launch party out with the best old and new rock'n'roll, garage, surf and rockabilly releases, while special drinks deals and free spiced cider will ensure you forget the icy weather outside.

Things kick off at 8 going on to the early hours of the morn. And its free entry all night!

THE BANDS

FRENCH KISSING

Fresh from support slots with Black Lips, French Kissing are heading to east London to kick off the Dirty Hands club night. Its their last gig of 2010 and the best chance you've got of catching this hotly tipped band for free anytime soon!

JOHNNY & THE MEDICINE SHOW

"The Strokes meets The Shangri Las" - The Independent

Tough 50s rock'n'roll - full of James Dean swagger and the Strokes' dirty soul.

PRIS

A car crash Blondie, hoping to stick in your head like chewing gum in your tresses. A mixture of high heels, hotpants and eyeliner. Come, see, and dance, and you're sure to get lucky.

The Centrifuge Midweek Sessions Tonight! 8pm til late!

2010-11-16T17:11:00.005Z

The Centrifuge returns to its occasional midweek residency at The Macbeth for an diverse evening of live electronic music.

MONSTER X

Professional radio / tv sound designer by day, electro-breakcore mentalist by night, this smiling misfit has caused so much recent mayhem in his hometown of Grenoble (France), that only London could take him. Since arriving here, he’s already torn up all four corners of the city and events all across Europe. Remember his show-stopping performance at Glade 2009? If not, check this - it was the highlight of our weekend!

http://agency.thecentrifuge.co.uk/monster-x/

DEAD FADER

Dead Fader make heavy electronic bass/noise music, specializing in nasty sounds and nasty distortion. Currently signed to Cloaks label 3BY3, they released their debut album, Corrupt My Examiner, in April 2010 to critical acclaim. They are one of the few acts to successfully merge dubstep with heavy industrial sounds and make it work on the dancefloor. They never fail to impress when performing live and are possibly the loudest electronic live act ever known!

http://agency.thecentrifuge.co.uk/dead-fader/

RIVAL CONSOLES

With his highly anticipated debut album IO released on Erased Tapes Records in 2009, West crafted an electronic record to transcend the discerning and flirt a little with the club culture. With rave reviews from XLR8R, NME, DJ Mag, The Milk Factory, Musikexpress the arrival of a new talent on the scene was heralded, and the buzz has been building yet more. Now primed to deliver his second studio opus this Winter, his sound has taken on another dimension as the cutting edge marries with his pop sensibilities.

http://agency.thecentrifuge.co.uk/rival-consoles/

GARETH CLARKE

The word 'genius' has been used to describe Gareth Clarke a few too many times for it to be simply hyperbole. Taking his cue from lush textural melodic electronics and the intensity of post-DSP drill'n'bass his heady mix of intricate sonics provide the perfect pleasure amalgam for body and brain. Stay tuned for new album announcement soon...

http://agency.thecentrifuge.co.uk/gareth-clarke/

VOLITUNE

Sweet acid, funk basslines and live instrumentation all feature in Volitune's live sets. Get down early to enjoy!

http://www.myspace.com/volitune

MISSAW

Resident miscreant.

http://agency.thecentrifuge.co.uk/missaw

Around the web:
http://www.thecentrifuge.co.uk/
http://www.facebook.com/thecentrifuge
http://www.myspace.com/centrifugeuk
http://www.twitter.com/thecentrifuge

Tonight! Rumble with Eat Skull, Bad for Lazarus and The Fabulous Penetrators!

2010-11-10T16:48:00.003Z

We are very excited to announce that EAT SKULL will be playing with Bad for Lazarus and The Fabulous Penetrators TONIGHT.

EAT SKULL will be kicking the night off at 9.30pm so get do

wn early!

Its free entry too, life just can't get any sweeter can it?

8pm til late.

See you at the bar!

TOMORROW NIGHT! Rumble Presents - EAT SKULL JUST CONFIRMED!

2010-11-09T17:28:00.006Z

Rumble returns to The Macbeth with a twist and goes back to its rock n roll roots with the sinister, self styled gangster Rockabilly sensation that is The Fabulous Penetrators, support comes from the dark doo-wopers Bad for Lazarus who are the gateway between Buddy Holly and Slayer, fresh from a tour with Eighties matchbox B-line Disaster.
DJs from Big Dirty Engine, Black Manila and the Resident Rumble Squad will keep you moving and shaking to the best of old and new Rock n Roll, Rockabilly, Garage Punk, Surf and Psychedelia.

The Fabulous Penetrators

Rock n Roll like this is an unstoppable fire burning the souls of your feet when experienced live, The Fabulous Penetrators are one of the most hard rocking bands East London has ever produced, now you can see them for... Free?

Bad For Lazarus

Bad for Lazarus exist in the ungodly realm somewhere between Buddy Holly and Slayer, their sound straddles a wealth of punk, hardcore, Motown and doo-wop influences whilst maintaining a self defined mission to write simple yet brilliant songs.

***JUST CONFIRMED**

EAT SKULL!

Having recently come to the UK to tour with Ganglians, EAT SKULL are a beautiful mash of Lo-Fi Rock n Roll.

The band will be on at 9.30pm, so make sure your down early not to miss out!

Also DJs playing throughout the night -

Big Dirty Engine

Black Manila

Rumble DJs

REMEMBER ITS FREE ENTRY! 8pm TIL LATE!!

Tonight! CLUB.THE.MAMMOTH Presents... Sunderbans Free Download Party w/ Special Guests!

2010-11-09T15:00:00.008Z

In anticipation of their second single release early next year, Sunderbans announce a free download through Young and Lost Club Records / Holiday Club Recordings on Monday 8th November.

Holed away in a barn in the Welsh hills, the band recorded Death Stalks The Forest with friend, Toby Kidd of Hatcham Social.

Sunderbans

Younghusband

Psychadelic-French-Pop-Grunge with a lo-fi attitude.

special guest DJs
Playing Disco, Electro Clash, Garage, House, Indie, New Wave, Northern Soul, Post Punk, Psyche, Rocksteady, Techno and Tropical

Free Entry

Tonight

8pm - 1am.

Last.fm presents Offset Festival This Thursday!

2010-11-03T12:34:00.007Z

Two critically acclaimed giants of the forward thinking music world combine forces to bring you Last.fm Presents Offset Festival at The Macbeth. Last.fm & Offset proudly present TEETH & PEEPHOLES- two of the most exciting and innovative bands to come out of East London in recent times.

TEETH

PEEPHOLES

DJs

IS TROPICAL
FICTION
BLACK MANILA
OFFSET.CIRCLES & THE LAST.FM DJ TEAM

It's £3 on the Door all night long.

Open from 8 til 2am, so come on down and start your weekend early with these two incredible bands and DJ'!

Fatter Lane Presents Tonight at The Macbeth!

2010-11-02T15:00:00.001Z

A great night of up and coming bands with a BBQ on the roof terrace.

It is £5 entry all night, things kick off at 7.30pm til late.

The Line Up is as follows:

JOEY ARNOLD

SOPHIE ROSE BAND

PETE HICKMAN

So come on down and

TAKE THE FATTER LANE...

BLINDS... Live: Invasion + Laser From Atlantis

2010-10-26T13:34:00.001+01:00

The always busy Blinds night returns to the Macbeth for a Halloween Special! Wizard metal band Invasion play live with support from one of the most talented young bands to come out this year - Lasers From Atlantis. An all girl DJ crew will guide you to an early grave with anything from Slayer to Talking Heads.

Invasion

"This unlikely trio of Londoners have turned in what may well be the most original and inspired metal record of the year."- Music OMH

Lasers from Atlantis

Four London mystics make space flavored psychedelics.

Lion Child

Special Guest DJ's

Scarlett Valentine

Dundee Cake

Valerie A Tyden Divu

Untamed Youth

This wonderful little treat is also FREE ENTRY. Starts at 8pm til late.

Come down early for special Halloween tricks and treats (that means free goodies!)

Tonight! NOT COOL - Rugged Raw Album Launch at The Macbeth!|

2010-10-20T12:20:00.001+01:00

Tonight we see NOT COOL's album launch of Rugged Raw at The Macbeth presented by Sleep All Day.

NOT COOL

"There is something about Not Cool that makes them more than just a typical hipster band. Sure, the sound is there, the "wooos" harmonizing in between lyrics, and the warm, fuzzy guitars, but the musical output is dynamic and multifaceted. On their first release, Rugged Raw, which is either a long running EP (eat your heart out Sufjan Stevens) or a short running LP, no two songs sound the same. Touching on influences like Fugazi, The Replacements, Blur, and Pavement, as well as a pretty ironic and blunt name and 'gutter pop' self proclamation, Not Cool are born of a strong indie rock pedigree." - Treble Magazine.

With support from -

COLOURS

WEIRD DREAMS

With DJ Sets from -

Tough Love Records

Hurl Jam!

Home.Under.Ground Records

John Uberstompf

8pm - Late!

and its Free Entry all night!

TONIGHT! WALLOP! with Chapter 24, Yer Beauties and Extradition Order

2010-10-19T13:37:00.001+01:00

So tonight sees WALLOP! come do a lovely FREE ENTRY show of some excellent bands. Opening at 8pm til late.

CHAPTER 24

'Really there's so many ideas on display here the little bastards should be taxed or something.' NME magazine

'Channeling the best of The Slits and The Clash from the punk fraternity and nodding towards Vampire Weekend with their spikey Afro-punk guitar riffs, their music is infectious, fresh and wholly danceable.' Ruth Barnes (The Other Woman/BBC 6 Music)

YER BEAUTIES

"Watching Yer Beauties belt through 'kids a go go' live reminds you of that brilliant feeling you had just after your first delicate adventure with a member of the opposite sex." NME

EXTRADITION ORDER

Playing with the likes of Darwin Deez, Jeffrey Lewis and Stanley Brinks. They were once cheery, anarchic Northerners, but then stuff happened and now they're like serial killers. They have just finished their second record but won't bring it out until the Spring as they are out of town over the Winter. They won't be playing shows after October. Not until the New Year, so get them before they turn their back on you!

Also DJ's Slinky Winfield, Marcus Tezcan and a very special guest!

See you tonight!

TONIGHT!

2010-10-12T12:38:00.001+01:00

Tonight Dancing Bear Presents;
IS TROPICAL (Live)

MARIA & THE MIRRORS (Live)

FILTHY BOY (Live)

With DJ sets from -
FICTION
VALERIE A TYDEN DIVU
RUMBLE

Looks set to be a busy one. Is Tropical are on at 10, so get down early to avoid disappointment!

Did we mention its free?

Offset Festival vs. Rumble w/ The Patent Saints (Bo Ningen, S.C.U.M, Selfish Cunt) TONIGHT!

2010-10-07T11:03:00.000+01:00

The critically acclaimed Offset Festival are hosting a series of nights at the Macbeth on the first Thursday of every month. Last Month saw the now legendary Bo Ningen tear up the stage with support from Black Manila (Live) and Mystery Jets DJs. This month we are proud to announce the first Free Entry showing for the God like super group made up of members of Bo Ningen, S.C.U.M and Selfish Cunt - The Patent Saints.

Live

PATENT SAINTS (Live)
(Bo Ningen, S.C.U.M, Selfish Cunt)

No recordings exist as of yet for one of the most exciting super groups to emerge from London in recent years, you need to be there to hear it, in the mean time have a look at the line up and let your imagination run wild!

HOCUS TOCUS (Live)
http://www.myspace.com/hocustocus

Lo-fi surfers from Brighton.

Djs

FICTION

IS TROPICAL

RUMBLE DJs

BLACK MANILA

CLUB.THE.MAMMOTH

THISAINTNODISCO

OFFSET.CIRCLES

Free Entry too!

8pm - 2am.

See you at the front.

Dancing Bear Presents - IS TROPICAL w/ Maria and the Mirrors & Filthy Boy!

2010-10-06T14:45:00.000+01:00

TUESDAY 12TH OCTOBER!

Dancing Bear presents IS TROPICAL (Live) newly signed to French Label 'Kitsune' at The Macbeth on Hoxton Street.

Soon to go on tour with the Mystery Jets, LCD Sound System to name but a few, this is probably one of the last chances for a while to see Is Tropical on a free entry show in a venue like The Macbeth which has been their spiritual home on their rapid rise to success.
Catch them while you can, stage time 10 so get down early.

Also, its FREE ENTRY!

IS TROPICAL (Live)
http://www.myspace.com/istropical

Maria And The Mirrors (Live)

http://www.myspace.com/mariamirrors

FILTHY BOY (Live)
http://www.myspace.com/filthyboymusic

FICTION (Dj)

VALERIE A TYDEN DIVU

RUMBLE DJs

Looks set to be a lot of fun! check out the facebook event page here!

Dancing Bear Promotions Collective

2010-09-29T14:29:00.000+01:00

Dancing Bear is our new in-house promotions collective, that will provide a gateway into the future sound underground musical world.

Our aim is to make going to see live music an interesting experience again for both audience and performer alike. Dancing Bear will showcase all kinds of Live Acts and DJ’s, the more inventive and diverse, the better. We will be playing host to some of the most spine-tingling musical talent that the world has to offer.

Join our Facebook Page here to be the first in the know of future shows, offers and information!

Friday 1st October - Cherry Cola Returns!

2010-09-29T12:38:00.000+01:00

CHERRY COLA returns to The Macbeth on Friday October 1st. After the last night they had there, we have decided to give them a later licence. It's set to be a smashing night and one not to be missed!
To get a feel of what the night is about you can see the photos from the last event they held here.

Details: Doors open at 8pm, FREE before 10pm and only 5 quid after.

Expect to hear:
The Smiths
Rolling Stones
The Cure
The Beatles
Libertines
The Kinks
The Doors
David Bowie
Motown hits
etc...

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Trannie Olympics

2010-08-25T12:44:00.000+01:00

11th August RUMBLE.. w/ Screaming Tea Party & Taigen Kawabe (Bo Ningen)

2010-08-04T13:34:00.000+01:00

The sixth Rumble to rock the Macbeth looks to be one of the biggest and best yet, with Black Manila Beach Parade's good friend's Screaming Tea Party taking center stage and Screaming Tea Party's good friend Taigen Kawabe - front man of the increadible Bo Ningen doing a psychedelic improvised solo set.

FREE ENTRY

Live

SCREAMING TEA PARTY (Live)

One of Stolen Recordings finest acts from the far east, Screaming Tea Party are now legends of the London music scene.
http://www.myspace.com/screamingteaparty

TAIGEN KAWABE (BO NINGEN) (Live)

Front man of the great Bo Ningen performs live improvised psychedelic influenced songs from the fragile corners of his mind.
http://www.myspace.com/taigenkawabe
http://www.myspace.com/boningen

Djs

Black Manila Beach Parade & Friends
http://www.myspace.com/blackmanilabeachparade

Los Greasy Phantom
http://www.myspace.com/losgreasyphantom

Djs spin all your favourite Rock n Roll, Garage Punk, Surf, Psycho Billy tunes plus a few you didn't know about.

Free entry as always, free music as always, free people as always.

TRANNY OLYMPICS

2010-07-27T13:59:00.000+01:00

YALL KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS!

SATURDAY 21ST AUGUST
(THE REAL) TRANNY OLYMPICS 2010!!!
8PM - 2AM

@ The Macbeth,
Hoxton StreetShoreditchN1 6LP
myspace.com/themacbethuk

This years games will see and special opening ceremony by the host Community Babes, The SWEDISH VOGUE CHAMPIONS and DJsets from New York City's finest MERKIN MUFFLEY and JOSH CHERAMIE (zombie a go-go), the mother of the house of Tranny Olympics, PRINCESS JULIA, and not to forget Patty's number one t-girlfriendz – the infamous SVETLANA & LE BABES!

As always tranny's (kings & queens) get in free & a glass of bubbly at the door! (while stocks last) All Others £6 before 9.30pm - £8 after.

WARNING: ARRIVE EARLY AS IT’S A LIMITED CAPACITY EVENT!!! (Trannys are guaranteed Q-jump and free entry!!!)

YOU OWE IT TO THE GIRLS.

- - - - - - - - - - - -- >
!BERLIN DIVAS!
SATURDAY
18TH SEPTEMBER 2010
TRANNY OLYMPICS BERLIN 2010 @ MONSTER RONSONS!

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=137592429593900&ref=mf

An Interview with Guy from The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster..

2010-07-21T15:54:00.001+01:00

Macbeth: What’s your favourite album you’ve produced so far?

Guy: Blood and Fire, our present one.

Not you’re first or second one?

Nah, im bored shitless of them now!

Noo! They’re amazing! I remember coming to your gig on Halloween it was amazing.

Bollocks.

What would you say the best year for music has been?

What ever?

Yeah..

It would have to 1967

Its when the Jimi Hendrix experience album came out, the first doors album, 13th floor elevators Easter Everywhere (they’re second album) came out, the first velvet underground album came out and its Loves 3rd album forever changes came out

What’s the last gig you went to?

I really can’t remember! I don’t really go and see live music

Last festival?

The last gig I’m sure that I enjoyed was a band called Pink Narcissus

If you could choose anyone to be in a band together who would it be?

Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, Marlon Brando and Napoleon.

So, I got told actually, im not sure if this it’s true this is a gig for your new album?

Yeah

So, what do you plan to do with it in the future? Are you going to play any festivals or go on tour?

Yeah, we’ve got 27 dates this year, and we’ve got a single out called Love Turns To Hate, and our album out called Blood are Fire I think I would like to record a song with. Actually im not going to say incase someone steals my idea!

Ok, Nelly Furtardo yeah??

No, ha maybe actually Amy Winehouse

Well I’m really glad that your making music again!

Scarlett Valentine

Staff Profile

2010-07-21T14:45:00.000+01:00

Louie

Name: Louie
Favorite Song: Buddah Monk At The Opera
Least favorite artist: Spice Girls
Whats the last thing you bought: Pizza
Favorite Drink: Mountain Dew
Best Macbeth Memory: Seeing the Gallows playing, they were awesome.
Person you've been most excited to meet? : No Body, i don't get starstruck.
Have you ever stalked anyone? or been stalked?: Yes i actually have, by a cat. It follows me everywhere!
What are you most looking forward to this week?: My birthday on saturday and seeing F***** U*

Staff Profile

2010-07-15T13:47:00.000+01:00

Name- Dan Djan
Nickname- Danny Debt / Denial Djan / Theodore
Who have you been most excited to see at the Macbeth? Joey Phone Numbers
What's your favourite drink?- Whatever you want to buy me.
What's your favourite Macbeth memory? - The time Amy threw her shoes at me and told me to fuck off.

Favourite artist? - La Shark
Favourite song? - Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot

Thanks Dan!

GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS

2010-06-30T13:28:00.000+01:00

TRIBUTE is a night where we worship the Gods of Metal and bow down to those who have dedicated their lives to being their heroes. Next up is MOTLEY CREW, Europe's No.1 CRUE tribute act

Come and get so wasted you believe that you are on the Sunset Strip in 1987.

GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS
SHOUT AT THE DEVIL
HOME SWEET HOME
SMOKING IN THE BOYS ROOM
DR FEELGOOD
LIVE WIRE
TOO FAST FOR LOVE
WILDSIDE

What do you want to hear?

DJing on the night are LIGERS N' DREAMS and SKILL WIZARD

YOUR MAKE-UP IS GOING TO GET SMUDGED
YOU WILL LAUGH

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=105888792796705&ref=ts

Saturday 10th July
£4 entry
8pm - 2am

World Cup 2010 at The Macbeth

2010-06-09T16:06:00.000+01:00

We'll be showing every England and major world cup match at The Macbeth this summer. We'll have lovely, huge screens and a projector, one of which will be on our tropical roof terrace with the barbecue and the booze and that.

This Weekends matches are...

Friday 11th
15:00 South Africa vs Mexico
19:30 Uruguay vs France

Satyrday 12th
12:30 Korea Republic vs Greece
15:00 Argentina vs Nigeria
19:30 ***England vs United States***

Then after we can have a few games of our own in the streets like these kids. Boys vs girls, bagsy not in goal.

RUMBLE w/ The Spivs, Thrush Metal & One Man Destruction Show

2010-06-09T15:14:00.000+01:00

After a debauched Warehouse party with the Bad Seed boys that will go down in the annuals of Rock 'n' Roll history Black Manila Beach Parade & Los Greasy Phantom's FREE entry Rock 'n' Roll party returns to the Macbeth in Hoxton.

This time we have tearing it up LIVE:

THE SPIVS (fucking Live!)
Garage Punks.
http://www.myspace.com/thespivsonline

THRUSH METAL (Live)
Violent Femmes.
http://www.myspace.com/thrushmetal87

ONE MAN DESTRUCTION SHOW (Live)
Bleeding Gums.
http://www.myspace.com/omds

and spinning the best in Rock 'n' Roll, Garage Punk, Psychedelic, Surf, Freakbeat, R&B, and other pyschosexual sounds

BLACK MANILA BEACH PARADE

LOS GREASY PHANTOM

& FRIENDS...

... Dirty

FREE ENTRY for FREE PEOPLE

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=125552410798464&ref=mf

http://www.myspace.com/blackmanilabeachparade

Mark and Melanie up a tree, M-A-R-R-I-E-D

2010-06-01T12:42:00.000+01:00

They got married; we had a big party. All was well in Lovesville...

Swiss Family Robinson

The younger the guest, the more terrified by the bouquet...

Flamingoes, cakes, cocktails and the archway of love; back at the Macbeth the party got loved-up. The Fabulous Penetrators, Ryan Oh Ryan, Benji, Scarlett, Dylan and Deano made sure it stayed that way with their sweet rock 'n' roll wedding sounds. When people weren't dancing they were enjoying the luxury barbecue on the sun-dappled terrace, all the usual scruffians dolled up in suits and dresses. We partied in to the wee hours and toasted Mark and Mel many, many times...

Superstar Sibling DJs

Congratulations Mark and Melanie

BLINDS... 26- 05 -10

2010-05-25T17:23:00.000+01:00

LIVE
Lizzie And The Yes Men
http://www.myspace.com/lizzieandtheyesmen

Chapter Sweetheart
http://www.myspace.com/chaptersweetheart

Lion Child
http://www.myspace.com/thelionchild

DJ'S
Fiction
Ollie Eals
Scarlett Valentine
Valerie A Tyden Divu
Col. Mustard

FREE ENTRY
FREE BBQ

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DUMMY AND P- ROCK!

2010-04-28T14:56:00.000+01:00

So, we have an extra special weekend lined up for bank holiday. Celebrating two our favorite nights first birthdays. On friday we have DUMMY then Saturday we have P-ROCK!

Amazing, no?

So come down and celebrate with us plus saturday is on until 4am!

Friday 30th April

Dummy 1st Birthday...
Bringing you the finest acts and DJs.

Hudson Mohawke (LIVE)
Electronic genius.

Egyptian Hip Hop (LIVE)
Play melodic jams.

DJs
Fnord
Stopmakingme
Dollop
Dummy
playing House, Hip Hop, Disco and Techno

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=354972058467&ref=ts

£10 on the door or £7 advance from www.gigantic.com
8pm - 2am

Saturday 1st May

P Rock 1 Year Birthday...
Celebrate our first Birthday wit us at The Macbeth.

Callum Reed (LIVE)
Callum will be belting out his Pop Punk classics.

special gust DJs
playing Pop Punk

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=106183672737510&ref=ts

free entry
8pm - 4am

xxx

Staff Profile

2010-04-13T16:38:00.000+01:00

Brenda

Nickname: B

Favourite Bar Snack: I eat SWEETS

Favourite Party Drink: Sailor Jerrys and coke

Who have you been most excited to see at the Macbeth?: Bo Ningen, their style and music was so good, I had to go see them again.

What do you love most about working at the Macbeth? : Its very down to earth and friendly, it's just not like other bars

If you could throw one massive theme night here, what would it be? : Bouncy Castles, trampolines, and everything else you would need for fun mayhem.

And finally...

Do you think Madonna is introducing her daughter Lourdes into the limelight at too early an age?: Fuck knows.

The Gallery Bar gets a face lift, interview with Mike Ballard

2010-04-13T16:00:00.000+01:00

For a long time now The Gallery Bar (first floor) has been not much more than a pathway to the smokers terrace, and a spot for Kirstie’s stalkers and fans to skulk. We decided that it was worth much more than this, and an opportunity was being missed. A makeover was due, but this wasn’t going to be some sub-changing rooms style lame lick of paint, no this is the Macbeth, and a makeover is a chance to try something new. So with this ethos in mind we decided to bring in the unparalleled talents of renowned graffiti writer and just artist in his own right Mike Ballard. With a free reign on the space he decided to create what could be described as The Macbeths own contemporary Sistine Chapel. It really is something to behold.

To celebrate the unveiling of The Gallery Bars rebirth, we held a private view of Mikes work and the work of Art Wars, with DJs Pierre Hangover (Real Gold), Ruby Doobey, and Mellé Modé and a free BBQ followed by an after party till 1am.

In between finishing a few last touches on the Gallery and tattooing a Storm Trooper we got to sit down with Mike for a minute and I ask him about the piece and himself.

The Macbeth: Hello there Mike, how are you today.

Mike Ballard: Good, busy finishing this storm trooper.

TM: OK let’s get started. What was the inspiration for the piece?

MB: Well first off, I haven’t used animals in my designs before, and I wanted to take it further than my last piece, create a new energy. Animals incorporated with space, galaxies, the cosmos. Then there is also lots of inspiration from Rubens drawings, pop art and the Mexican pavilion for the Olympics where they painted a whole room in parallel black and white lines. Bringing it all together.

TM: What other artists do you admire? That inspire your work?

MB: Well a lot of the 60s/70s comic book artists, a lot of graffiti writers, in fact the whole graffiti movement really and then more contemporary artists like Diann Bauer and Chris Ofili. Also all the classic renaissance, baroque period painters. With someone like Caravaggio its less that my work is influenced by him, more I admire his technique, his skill. I love how over-the-top the Baroque period was, how ornate. Lots of imagery going on at one moment.

TM: So how did you get started?

MB: I started drawing from a young age, maybe 9 or 10, and then when I was about 12 I got really into heavy metal, and started drawing heavy metal band logos. Copying the album artwork of late 70s early 80s heavy metal bands like Black Sabbath, Judas Priest and White Snake, so from that I was already into drawing letters. Imitating the gothic styles of the logos and motifs. Then I was introduced to a book called Subway Art, which was a book on New York graffiti and saw that it was all about letters. These people with their own code names, and styles, so I decided not to draw anybody else’s artwork anymore and create my own fantasy alter ego, that I would paint everywhere.

TM: Apart from the Gallery Bar, you’ve done two other big installation pieces, covering the walls, ceilings and floors of expansive rooms like his all encompassing takeover of The Arts Gallery (University of the Arts). Do you prefer doing big pieces?

MB: To be honest it’s just one element of what I do. I like doing collage, which is very different because it’s using existing photographs and found footage, which I then make my own using digital imagery. I also like to make a lot of music, sound installation and video. I do love painting big though, like when painting graffiti, you’re not constrained to a piece of paper, there are less limitations.

TM: What is your position on public graffiti?

MB: The way I see it as long as pieces aren’t affecting individuals property, costing people money, like homes its fine. As far as I’m concerned the advertising industry and corporations has been imposing itself around the city, and cities all around the world for hundreds of years. Why should a company be able to push images on us when an individual can’t?

TM: Over the last decade street art has really entered the public conscience, becoming far more mainstream and maybe the idea of what it is has gotten a bit confused. You refer to yourself as a Graffiti writer, for those who wouldn’t know what is the difference?

MB: I come completely from the Graffiti world, when I started in 1986 this idea of what street art is wasn’t around. People were using stencils, it was a very punk thing at the time, but amongst the true graffiti writers fraternity, its completely seen as cheating. Its pre-planned. The defining difference is the culture that goes along with graffiti, free hand spray painted graffiti. It’s all about the letters, people might draw characters around the letters, but they are purely to attract attention.

The Gallery Bar is always open on the first floor of The Macbeth, 70 Hoxton St, be sure to come down and see it.

Manager Profile

2010-04-12T19:02:00.000+01:00

Nickname: Mama Jo (never big momma Jo, or you'll get a slap)

Favourite Bar Snack: Peanuts, unsalted

Favourite Party Drink: Tuaca shots, always

Who have you been most excited to see at the Macbeth?: When Mel DJs, and Metronomy were pretty good

What do you love most about working at the Macbeth?: Being able to see great live music for free

If you could throw one massive theme night here, what would it be? : A hot man wet tshirt night, with the Glee soundtrack playing in the background.

And finally...

How on earth would you fix Lindsay Lohans life?: Thats a hard one, i'd let her know that she is loved, to not try so hard and go on a holiday.

TRIBUTE 10.04.10

2010-04-07T16:35:00.000+01:00

TRIBUTE

TRIBUTE IS A NIGHT WHERE WE NOT ONLY COME TO WORSHIP THE GODS OF METAL BUT WHERE WE ALSO BOW DOWN TO THOSE WHO HAVE DEDICATED THEIR LIVES TO BEING THEIR HEROES.

AT THE MACBETH ON APRIL 10 WE HAVE GUNS 4 HIRE. THE BEST GUNS N ROSES TRIBUTE ACT IN THE UK. COSTUME CHANGES, INSANE GUITAR SOLOS, THE WHOLE LOT.

Scarlett: Tell us abit about your nights.

Mike: the night is about hedonistic ritual. Getting drunk to screaming guitars and drums that sound like armies of orcs attacking your forest. It's a metal night and it's also very sexy

S: What gave you the idea for your night?

M: From a point of elevation all becomes lucid. For ideas you should scale mountains or read old copies of Metal Hammer. It's a no brainer. Heavy metal, heavy drinking and gnarly Tribute ban

S: I went to the Sack Sabbath gig at bardens, it was amazing, do you think GUNS 4 HIRE will be able to top that act?

M: I think guns for hire are obviously very charming in their own way. It's not a competition. Ozzy Asbeen was a great Ozzy and the crowd went fucking crazy but I'm confident once songs like Its So Easy and Paradise City kick in that we will all be sweating utter delirium

S: Who would be your dream tribute band to play?

M: My dream tribute band are coming in august. Iron maiden. IRON ON MAIDEN. There is also MEGADETH UK next month

S: If you could describe your night in 5 words what would it be?

M: Appetite for destruction mother fucker

S: Is this going to become a regular night at The Macbeth?

M: It's booked monthly all the way til December when guess what? Sack Sabbath Christmas Party

TRIBUTE
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=371130038996&ref=ts
SATURDAY 10TH APRIL
£4 ENTRY
8PM- 2AM

Manager Profile

2010-03-30T15:59:00.000+01:00

Teresa/Tee

Nickname: Dreddy, Queeny Teenie Bejini

Favourite Bar Snack: Two Bananas

Favourite Party Drink: Cafe Patron

Who have you been most excited to see at the Macbeth? : Spektrum, they were amazing.

What do you love most about working at the Macbeth? : I work here to be close to Harvey

If you could throw one massive theme night here, what would it be? : A Naked girls covered in Guinness night, dancing to some fast music, something jiggly.

and finally

Will Jennifer Aniston ever find love? : Ahhh Yes, maybe at my Naked Girls Guinness night.

FUCK THE WHITE BOARD w/INVASION

2010-03-23T13:06:00.000Z

Friday 26th March

live -
INVASION
D.T.
DIK OOZ
WOUNDS

DJs -
TEEN SYMMETRY
SAM DIAMOND
REEKIE
QUEENS OF BOYZ

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=389163166840&ref=ts

£5/£3 cheap list
8pm- 2am

ADULTS FREE WEDNESDAYS

2010-03-10T12:58:00.000Z

Wednesday 12th March

BMBP host ADULTS
BLACK MANILA BEACH PARADE & LOS GREASY PHANTOM host a night of New and Old

A free weekly night put on by bands featuring up and coming bands. This week is hosted by Black Manila Beach Parade and Los Greasy.

Parties In Belgrade (LIVE)
Spacey Rock'n'Roll.

One Fathom Down (LIVE)
Ultra talented psycho surf three piece.

Hour Hands (LIVE)
Brighton band play lo- fi melodies

DJs
Black Manila Beach Parade
Los Greasy Phantom
playing Psychedelic Rock'n'Roll

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=337305646418&ref=ts

free entry
8pm- 1am

Wednesday 17th March

Adults Club Presents...The Million Dollar Bash
Celebrate St Patricks night with a knees up.

The Good News (LIVE)
Feel good extrovert Pop to dance to.

Th' Parish (LIVE)
Melodramatic theatrical orchestral Pop.

Mables Tables (LIVE)
Ethnic dance-workout expect first gig madness.

Nick Hart (LIVE)
Late night stomping Folk session.

DJs
Trash & Beth
Nick & Dante Guthrie
playing old school classics and dirty Electro beats

free entry
8pm - 1am

Wednesday 24th March

ADULTS vs. CLUB.THE.MAMMOTH

RED DRAPES (live)
http://www.myspace.com/reddrapes

JUMPING SHIPS (live)
http://www.myspace.com/jumpingships

COLD IN BERLIN (live)
http://www.myspace.com/coldinberlin

DJS
C.T.M.
DICE CLUB

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=353322250717&ref=ts

free entry
8pm - 1am

Manager Profile

2010-03-05T17:07:00.000Z

Harvey

What does your name mean- Everything

Favorite Night – Moda.

Best Memory – Serving Guinness to guy Richie whilst he was filming rock n Rolla, I sat on the bar for my entire shift and got paid to serve 2 pints.

Favorite Drink - Tuaca

Favorite Artist/ Artists- The Invisible, Golden Silvers, Hot Head show…

Favorite Song – Arrows Of Eros

We are Auto Crouton

2010-02-24T16:32:00.000Z

I happened upon Beiger-then-Beige, a founding member of Auto Crouton, at a conference last Tuesday. Dressed in a velvet suit and bow tie, he sat me down and told me about the band who fell into the collective consciousness just last week when they hit the Macbeth stage like a meteorite shower...

Auto Crouton females

Macbeth: What is Auto Crouton?

Beiger-then-Beige: It's a system.

M: Like a system of belief?

B: No, just a system.

M: That's not really an adequate explanation, are you trying to baffle people with Auto Crouton?

B: No. Alright, it's a special system designed to form acts of pure emotional stress.

M: Really?

B: Yeah. The idea came to me on the way back home from my job when i looked at a empty metal thing, what do you call it, like a bread thing.

M: A bread bin?

B: A grilled box and it had bread in it still. I remember a fellow member of the group, code name Spacehater, tried to pull the bread out, which didn't really work, but i figured if you pulled the bread through the grate you'd get croutons, automatically, hence Auto Crouton. And then i had to put on a night at this pub...

M: At THIS pub? [ie The Macbeth]

B: Yeah, and as usual as I'm so permanently transfixed on such unbelievably fascinating creative exploits, the line up I had in my mind were never contacted, by anybody. And upon phoning them only a week in advance I found myself only able to book one of the acts, who dropped out on the day due to the drummers poorly stomach or upset tummy, one or the other. Then i phoned up everybody i knew who i thought could bring light into the world and asked them if they wanted to join what is of course now, widely, internationally recognised as Auto Crouton. The rest is history.

M: How many members does Auto Crouton currently have?

B: 6 billion

M: That sounds like a lot for our stage here at the macbeth

B: We believe in the ancient code.

M: Hmm, ok...

B: Or actually we only have 16 active members, and 4 auxilliary members, thery're secret.

M: What's your favourite colour?

B: Beige

M: Whats the music like then?

B: It's like Funkadelic meets Frank Zappa meets Royal Trux meets Velvet Underground meets Boyoyo Boys meets Leonard Cohen meets Philip Glass...

M: That sounds like an interesting collection of people, er, meeting each other. it's also quite a high standard of influences.

B: Are you joking?

M: No. That's a lot to live up to, i mean.

B: Our policy is aim high, fall... moderatly high.

Auto Crouton males

M: Have Auto Crouton ever considered being influenced by a shower?

B: It's funny that you say that, certain factions within the group, namely the trio of rather delicate and hygenic girl choir singers, have brought this question to the fore on several occasions, as has one of the drummers girlfriends and the synth player... We don't think it's in the public interest. We shower when we can but are too busy penning hit songs or walking around in the heat of the city in an inexplicable and reoccuring depression.

M: Cool. Where can people find out a bit more about Auto Crouton, if they're interested?

B: We're not online in any way, shape or form. We only formed 9 days ago, and have, as of yet, established no regular contact with the outside world. However, you can call me, Beiger-then-beige, on 07789 187 639 and we will be putting on another spectacular show, this time full length, somewhere int this terrible city in the next 36 days. We will post ads for this on very popular peoples facebook pages and also on the tube. Inshallah.

M: Inshallah Beiger-then-beige, it has been wonderful to meet you.

B: It's cool. What you doing later, would you like to grab a coffee?

M: I'll go anywhere with you Beiger-then-beige.

B: Even though your going out with that big-nose Tuareg cunt from the saudis?

M: He's dead to me.

B: Cool.

M: Cool.

A crouton

Manager Profile

2010-02-23T13:48:00.000Z

Zahra

Favorite night -Bronze club/ hot boys night/ or any night when R Pattz decides to bob in.

Best Memory -most recently Benjeoke. Can I have a worst Macbeth memory as well? well I've got one; Pauline beating me at pool was pretty much a low point in my Macbeth career.

Favorite drink -G & T

Favorite Artist/ Artists- Vivian Girls, TLC, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Distillers

Favorite song - At the moment Health, Die Slow

FUCK THE WHITE BOARD 1ST BIRTHDAY PARTY

2010-02-17T13:14:00.000Z

FRIDAY 26TH FEBRUARY

LIVE -
JAMMER
SECRET SPECIAL GUESTS
THE CAULFIELD BEATS
HERPES (berlin)
THE BREAKS

DJS -
PARIAH
SECRET SPECIAL GUEST
LOVVERS
COCK'N'BULL KID
ACTION JACKSON
DOLLOP
FREDDIE VON BEHR
RUSS TANNEN
AL HARLEY

DOORS: 8 TILL 4
ENTRY: £5/3 cheap list

THE MACBETH,
HOXTON STREET
Closest Tube - Old Street

BIRTHDAY CAKE / PARTY HATS / CRAP PRESENTS

Fuck the White Board is 1 year old! The past year has seen guests such as La Shark, Islet, The Spivs, The Saudis, Filthy Boy, O Children (DJ), Hatcham Social (DJ), Esser (DJ), Two Door Cinema Club (DJ), Mystery Jets (DJ) as well as the first ever Tek One gig and the last ever gig from The Metros, (and a memorable 'performance' from The MOB Girls)...

Now its time to celebrate with our biggest ever line up and a 4am licence to match. As eclectic as ever, and with a few surprise acts on the night, this looks set to be a birthday party to remember (if you can).

As well as a surprise set from one of our favorite guests of the last year, live music comes in the form of Hackney's young pop-rock hopefuls THE BREAKS, the dirty scuzz-punk of HERPES (who are coming over from Berlin for the show), a special live set from hottly tipped producer THE CAULFIELD BEATS and a headline set from everyones favourite party starter, Big Dadda signing and grime MC + producer extrodonaire, JAMMER.

Topping the DJ line up is one of London's most highly-regarded young producers PARIAH, the XX's remixer-of-choice and the blog worlds favorite starlet, we welcome him back with open arms! Also selecting tunes to keep the party rolling will be the mighty Lovvers, the amazing Cock'n'Bull Kid, Brighton's finest young electro DJ Action Jackson, the handsome young men behind Dollop and Metros-drummer-turned-excellent-DJ Freddie Von Behr. If that wasn't enough there will be a surprise set from one half of east London's most-loved tech producers, and some early song choices from FTWB residents Russ Tannen and Al Harley.

There will also be free birthday cake and party hats for all AND some rubbish presents of some kind for those arriving early!

We'll also be doing white board photos for the blog (which is how this chaos started), so get thinking about your birthday messages!

FRIDAY 26TH FEBRUARY

THE MACBETH
Hoxton Street

Doors: 8pm till 4am
Entry: £5/£3 cheap list (NAMES ON THE WALL)

http://fuckthewhiteboard.blogspot.com

Staff Profiles

2010-02-10T13:10:00.000Z

Melanie - P.R Press Agent

Name- Melanie

Favorite Night- Any nights thats busy and everyones having a good time.

Favorite Drink- Jager Bomb

Favorite Memory- The time we all turned up to the macbeth after a night celebrating JoJos birthday, we drank the bar dry danced with strangers, i told everyone i loved them then it took Mark 2 hours to get us to leave , then the whole family were sick and ill for 2 days.

Favorite Artist- Pulp

Favorite Song- See emily play

Positive Sensory Overload - An interview with Ben and Gabriel of Pig Pen.

2010-02-08T13:41:00.000Z

Pig Pen is one of the most interesting nights I'm aware of anywhere right now. Gabriel, who is on the autistic spectrum, curates the night, using his yes/ no device to select or veto acts suggested to perform. Ben organises the event alongside him, and gives out his comics for free. Their nights are becoming more and more successful as people become familiar with the atmosphere of individuality and expressive freedom they've created. The night is eclectic, involves all sorts of artists doing all sorts of things and is never dull. It's a diamond in our Macbeth skull, so we had them come down and tell us some more...

Gabriel on the left, Ben on the right

Macbeth: I just want to ask you a few questions about your night, how it came about. Does Pig Pen mean anything?

Ben: I used to run a night in Stoke Newington, long time ago, that revolved around free comic books and indie pop called Good Grief, after Peanuts and Charlie Brown and then I started hanging out with Gabriel and working as his personal assistant and you [Gabriel] started coming along to the nights. You weren't sure if you'd like them or not and you loved it, then we got the idea to do one ourselves and let you choose the acts, and because of your cool hair we thought you looked like the character Pig Pen out of Peanuts. So that's where the name comes from.

M: So you use the yes / no device to choose the bands that play, how does that work?

B: I'm doing all the talking, chip in with your comments if you want Gabriel.

Gabriel: Yes, yes.

B: We get a group of mates together,

G: Yes

B: Usually you know, like, guys that DJ,

G: Yes.

B: Pig Pen, your cousin Alex, just a few mates that all help out. We all get together, go on the internet, people reccomend stuff they've seen recently or they've heard, and it gets the verdict from you really Gabriel. If you like it I'll get in touch and see if they're interested.

M: So Gabriel - you have the final say in who plays Pig Pen?

G: Yes

B: You're the boss Gabriel, well I suppose we co-curate it. Maybe not actually, you curate it, but we co-organise it.

G: Yes, yes

M: Can you tell me about the Pig Pen Cabaret? What does that involve?

B: Yeah well, that was a new idea that we did at Christmas. We're going to sound like traitors here, but we did a party at The Troy bar down the road...

M: Never!

B: But it wasn't because we chose to, it's because we were invited to! We love The Macbeth much more than the Troy bar!

G: Yes.

M: I'll edit all that out!

B: No, what it was was the national autistic society, we do a lot of campaigning with them - like, Gabriels been invited to the House of Commons about four times now - and they asked us to do their christmas party and that happened to be where it was and we thought we'd put on a small cabaret show.

G: No.

B: Well, yeah, that was my idea, you wanted Tim Ten Yen and all the rest of it .

G: Yes.

B: But everyone seemed to be booked up so I thought lets do a cabaret show. We got a few performance artists and some poets together, and then we thought it worked so we did the same thing at the proper Pig Pen at the Macbeth.

G: Yes, yes.

M: Do you know who you've got coming up to play? Or have you yet to decide?

B: Well, we're attempting to get some top secret guests, wether it will come about or not we don't know, but we think we've got a good enough night to try and tempt some top acts. And we've got a kind of family of Pig Pen bands and artists, some people that play regularly. They're kind of part of the community I guess. Tim Ten Yen, Trabant (formerly KayaKing) - they're one of our personal favourites I think. And who else do we always put on? Electricity in our homes, they've played a couple of times, it'll be good to get them in again.

Electricity in Our Homes

G: Yes.

B: King Salami and the Cumberland Three, they're a kind of rockabilly outfit, they're on the Dirty Water record label. We've got our regulars but we always try and put something new on as well.

M: Yeah it's a good way to run the night.

B: Yeah to get a sort of cultural community around Pig Pen and The Macbeth

G: Yes.

M: Does being on the autistic spectrum effect or change the way people listen to live music, or experience music at all?

B: That's a question for you really Gabriel. Has being on the autism spectrum changed the way that you experience music? I don't know if you can answer that, because you don't know what it's like for someone who's neurotypical.

M: Yeah of course, none of us have both persepectives.

B: But you do seem to react differently to music. Would you say that Gabriel?

G: No.

B: I suppose you just rock out like everyone else.

G: Yes, yes.

B: You do do this thing called snizzing...

G: Yes.

B: ...which has entered our vocabulary.

M: What's snizzing?

B: I always ask you to give a demonstration Gabriel but you never do it on demand!

G: Yes.

B: Only when you feel like it. It's kind of like a positive sensory overload reaction.

G: Yes.

B: People on the autism spectrum have that kind of heightened sensory awareness, sound, lights, music, noise...

G: Yes.

B: ...visuals, patterns... And it's kind of like you don't have filters to it all, or you let the filters go down and well, for you, your personal snizzing is kind of screwing up your face and making a bit of noise and moving your body rhythmically, but its a rhythm that you couldn't quite mimic. It's very unique to you and who you are.

G: No.

B: No? Do you think other people on the autism spectrum snizz?

G: Yes.

B: Oh ok, ok.

M: So it's maybe a shared experience?

B: Yeah, i suppose our friend Robin, she has Aspergers, which is also on the autism spectrum - she helps out with the night and she played as part of the cabaret - and she does this thing called flapping, which is her kind of sensory reaction.

G: Yes.

B: She flaps, you snizz. That's what Pig Pen's about really - is whoever you are you can come and be and you can react to culture however you want to react to it.

Artwork by Ben

G: Yes.

M: Yeah I think it does give an opportunity for everyone to be individualistic in their response to things, it's a welcoming atmosphere.

B: Yeah that's what we hope

G: No, Yes, No.

B: Well that's what I hope.

G: Yes, No.

B: Yes and No? Do you want it to still be a bit cool as well, have a bit of an edge to it?

G: Yes.

B: Well maybe it can be both.

M: So speaking about that, do you think it's important to have somewhere that's not solely for people on the autistic spectrum, but you know, very welcoming?

G: Yes.

B: Yeah, I agree with you there Gabriel, I think it is. I think culture's really something that, you know, I'm an artist and people who get up on stage, and musicians - it creates a community. And people like yourself on the autism spectrum with really big life challenges...

G: Yes.

B: ...are very marginalised and I think that culture becomes like a kind of members card and it gives people access to the community that don't otherwise have access to the community. So we think it's really important that people on the autism spectrum do get to mix with neurotypical people but that it's not seen as a charity night and it's not seen as a disability night. Which is why we don't tout it as either of those, it's not exactly what we're about.

M: There's a raffle, isn't there?

B: Christine Binnie, who runs the raffle, she's just the best person at running a raffle I've ever known.

G: Yes, yes.

B: She raises quite a lot of money [for Gabriels Angels] through that - hopefully the prizes are stuff that people really want to win.

M: Tell me about the comics as well.

B: Well I make comics, mostly about the sort of political adventures we get up to, because Gabriel, you've become a real kind of spokesperson for people on the autism spectrum, you get invited to the house of commons to meet MPs.

G: Yes.

B: To give them your perspective and opinion on things.

G: Yes.

B: So I kind of wanted to communicate that.

G: Yes.

B: I'm actually a sculptor by training, but i think that comics are a good way to promote the message and get the story across and i think we've got a good story. And giving out free comics at a music night seems like a really good arena to do that in.

G: Yes

The next Pig Pen is on the 9th of March, more details will follow here and at themacbethuk.co.uk

If you'd like to keep up with Ben and Gabriel you can follow their blog here.

Do you believe in Ghosts?

2010-02-03T13:17:00.001Z

Many days of working in the macbeth office can lead to boredom and sometimes hearing noises, but i have recently discovered i don't hear the noise's out of my mind drifting away or the damage i have caused to my ears from loud music.
We actually have a ghost!!!
I have sometimes seen things out of the corner of my eye or thought someone else was in the room when there wasn't, but i thought this was just due to my paranoia.
So, what u have been told there is a lady ghost who floats around the gallery bar and the tops of the stairs and watches over us.
A few people have claimed to have felt her or to have seen her standing at the top of the stairs, this gives me chills down my spine.

Anyways, we have decided to start to investigate.
Gonna go do some ghostbustin'

Macbeth flyers, old and new...

2010-02-02T16:44:00.000Z

We feel we should highlight the varied and delightful styles of graphic design our coterie of promoters have used to entice people down to The Macbeth over the last few years, so I draw your attention to the flyers page on our website. An all-to-often unsung work of art, flyers are an inescapable element of the visual landscape, so thank god someone does them well. Have a look here: http://www.themacbethuk.co.uk/index.php/flyers/

Owners Profile

2010-01-26T15:46:00.000Z

Mark Robinson

Name- Mark Robinson

Favourite Night- Any busy night.

Favourite Macbeth memory-The time Dan slipped Ross a Viagra and became a raging sex pest

Favourite artist- David Bowie

Favourite song- Fashion

Free mp3 - Pretty Lights - Fly Away Another Day

2010-01-26T15:18:00.000Z

PRETTY LIGHTS
"Fly Away Another Day"

Pretty Lights is the musical vision of Colorado based producer Derek Vincent Smith, accompanied in the live setting by drummer Cory Eberhard.

Pretty Lights' first two albums, Taking Up Your Precious Time and Filling Up The City Skies have been downloaded over 300,000 times from his website, which equates to over 6.15 million track downloads.

Fly Away Another Day revisits Pretty Lights' sound, with an ethereal piano setting the tone before a wild glitchy rasping bass kicks in with rapid hats and soulful trumpet samples.

Pretty Lights returns with his new album Passing By Behind Your Eyes which is available as a free download here. The album is energetic with futuristic synthesis and dirty broken beats juxtaposed with collages and soulful vintage samples.

Pretty Lights is embarking on a UK tour in February - dates below.

Fri Feb 12 - O2 Oxford Academy
Sat Feb 13 - Petrol Antwerp, Belgium
Sun Feb 14 - Oceana, Nottingham
Mon Feb 15 - Ministry of Sound, London
Wed Feb 17 - Batchwood Hall, Hertfordshire
Thu Feb 18 - Gatecrasher, Birmingham
Sat Feb 20 - Melkweg, Amsterdam

Check out Pretty Lights on RCRD LBL and a live performance. See our last post about Pretty Lights here. You can get Pretty Lights merchandise here.

Right Click here - MP3: http://www.outpostmedia.co.uk/mp3/prettylights/prettylights_flyawayanotherday.mp3

ADULTS THIS WEDNESDAY+++

2010-01-19T16:56:00.000Z

A new free weekly night held at The Macbeth, hosted by bands bringing you the best new music.

FILTHY BOY (live)
http://www.myspace.com/filthyboyswithfilthytoys

PANDA OBSCURA (live)
http://www.myspace.com/pandaobscura

HOT HEAD SHOW (live)
http://www.myspace.com/hotthedd

Beth & Tash (dj)

Flat 5 (dj)

The Hetros (dj)

**FREE ENTRY**

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=254004750834&ref=ts

Pig Pen: Comics, Noise, Indie Pop, Autism...

2010-01-12T16:24:00.000Z

Have you heard about Pig Pen yet? It's a night we put on down here at The Macbeth, run by Ben and Gabriel. Gabriel is on the autistic scale and chooses the acts with his yes / no device. I'm going to meet Ben and find out what that actually means later, but in the meantime I've found some ridiculously glowing reviews of Tim Ten Yen who's playing tonight, and below is some advice from Lecool recommending you come and see him. Read it here (below), or read it there - http://lecool.com/cities/london/newsletters/current.html

All the acts tonight are...

Niall Spooner-Harvey
poetry and host for the evening

Tim Ten Yen (LIVE)
Indie Pop sensation

Trabant (LIVE)
Noise musician

Bearcraft (LIVE)
Spectral synths and electro beats with English Folk themes

Pig Pen cabaret

DJ
Brian Turner
spinning vinyl from the 60s, Soul and Funk

free BBQ and comic books

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=384798670290&ref=ts

Tim Ten Yen, from www.Lecool.com

"My highlight from our first ever le cool party last year was encountering a seemingly clockwork man singing to a frisky pop backing tape and occasionally wielding a frazzled-looking mechanical cat. I felt the kind of instant affection only one absolute weirdo can feel for another. Having sufficiently recovered from that Tim Ten Yen set, I’m ready for more, this time as part of Pig Pen, at the Macbeth. Come and see what I mean. Citing influences such as ‘Chris de Burgh live at Wembley Arena Sunday 20th November 1988’, ‘Sony Walkman’ and ‘Mr. Harris (my music teacher)’, Tim Ten Yen might well be expected to produce rather a bizarre breed of noise; indeed, it’s an intriguing blast of slightly dancey 80s-style pop, replete with playful bouncey keyboards, and topped with talk of forests and bears. I do hope the cat will attend. / Lara Kavanagh"

Staff Profile

2010-01-12T11:56:00.000Z

Amy

Name- Amy
Favourite Night- I actually like early weeknights when random touring acts pass through. Tune-yards for example.
Favourite Macbeth memory- Maybe creating a FREE THE CULLEN ONE banner in the middle of Adults to welcome my squatmate Darren back from a harrowing one day term in prison for stealing electricity to feed our radiator habit. Or maybe playing a god-addled Mary in the Koran Koran Nativity play (pictured).
Favourite artist- I keep listening to really old Neil Young songs but Beef Sandal are my all time favourite band.
Favourite song- Southern Man / Only Love Can Break Your Heart

New Miike Snow / Vampire Weekend / Netsky / Caspa mixes

2010-01-07T11:14:00.000Z

2009 has been a fantastic year for both Vampire Weekend, Caspa and Miike Snow.

Here's three remixes with Caspa taking the darker end of Miike Snows Black and Blue and Netsky, dnb's new boy on the block, making the song into a big, main room style, High Contrast style banger. The third is Miike Snow flexing their remix muscles on Vampire Weekends The Kids Don't Stand a Chance.
All three fantastic tunes from fantastic artists who we're sure will do big things this year.

http://hypem.com/#/track/999506/Miike+Snow+-+Black+Blue+Caspa+Remix+

http://hypem.com/#/track/1005970/Mike+Snow+-+Black+Blue+Netsky+Remix+

http://hypem.com/#/track/1004049/Vampire+Weekend+-+The+Kids+Don+t+Stand+A+Chance+Miike+Snow+remix+

We wish all these talented gentlemen a lot of success in 2010.

Staff Profiles

2010-01-05T16:13:00.000Z

Kirstie

Name- Kirstie
Favourite Night- ADULTS
Favourite macbeth memory- If i was to tell i think it would jeapordise the job of a co-worker you know who you are!, baring that Shaffer being 7 balled in a pool competition.
Favourite artist- La Bionda
Favourite song- I wanna be your lover

Photographer profile - Phoebe Arnstein

2009-12-29T13:21:00.001Z

Who inspired you to start taking photographs and who do you look up to in the industry?

I guess a combination of a complete infatuation with Testino’s work and being surrounded by a very beautiful group of friends made me realise the potential of photography in the ‘fashion’ sense.
I think Tim Walkers’ work is remarkable and impossible to replicate which indicates the pure brilliance of his ideas.

Other artists who inspire you?

Marlene Dumas and Arnulf Rainer both inspire me with their alluring, yet disturbing work. However, photographers who have had the most profound effect on me in the past are Franscesca Woodman (she produced the majority of her work in her early teens which is incredible really considering its troubling concept) and Desiree Dolron, who develops photographs in such a way to make them look very much like oil paintings.
Currently, however, Boogie has a photography collection that blows me away every time.

Favourite night?

Forward @ Plastic People

Aspirations?

Director of Photography.

Cheese preference?

Manchego!

www.phoebearnstein.com

Interview with Dave Okumu from The Invisible

2009-12-29T10:29:00.000Z

Its been a great year for the Invisible and we've been incredibly lucky here at the Macbeth to have had the boys in a number of times in 2009.
I caught up with Dave Okumu (middle) from the band on his feelings on the year.

So dave, its been a mad year for you guys, what have been the
highlights and the lowlights?

Highlights have included our album launch with Golden Silvers, Micachu and Hot Chip and Foals dj sets, our Mercury nomination, iTunes album of the year, In The Woods festival, hearing Connan Mockasin's forthcoming record, touring with Micachu, Matthew Herbert, Doves, Foals, some raging gigs round Europe, UK, Moscow and New York, having John Snow attend my birthday party, dj sets with Gwil Gold, and the best meal of my life at EN japanese brasserie in NYC.

My lowest point was being called King Kong by a transvestite prostitute on the streets of Zurich. Not too bad in the grand scheme of things.

Got any plans for anything new?been recording etc?

We always try and keep things moving creatively so we've got a ton of sketches for the next record. We're currently in writing mode, trying to extract the pearl from the oyster.

What are your influences, old and new?

I try and stay open to everything. Even if you hate something, it can exert a positive influence on you cos it helps you define what you don't want to do. I'm influenced massively by my peers and consider myself very fortunate to be surrounded by so many voraciously creative people. There's Eska and Matthew Herbert, Alice Cool Dude, Golden Silvers, Anna Calvi, Finn Peters, Sefa Steer, We Fell To Earth and many more. Connan's record is blowing my mind at the moment. Touring with Micachu has had a real impact on me because they are all so inspiring. Beyond that it's just about anything with heart and honesty.

Favourite gig of the year and favourite moment of the year?

Def Langoustine at Coronary Crumpage. That was one of the hippest gigs I've ever seen. My favourite was probably sharing the meal I mentioned earlier with the loved ones.

Cheese preference?

Quincy Wareham. It's not really a cheese. It's actually the name of my friend's son. But it should be the name of a particularly pungent, sophisticated english cheese.

Who is the sexiest member of the Macbeth staff?

The Macbeth staff ooze sex appeal from every conceivable orifice but, when push comes to shove, Mark wins hands down. You can't mess with that degree of swagger, nor can you challenge a man who can pull off the cowboy boots, jeans, suit jacket look with such aplomb.

Christmas at The Macbeth...

2009-12-23T13:21:00.001Z

So far is the past week weve had ADULTS which was amazing, Elfred and the Uber Peas and
Lion Child child playing live, then a nativity play with members of The Saudis, The Metros and The Good News. It was so funny and made me feel incredibly christmassy. The music in it also was so good, like normal Christmas songs that suddenly went all punky and made you want to dance. Not sure if anyone filmed it yet, but if they did then i will post it up.

On the thursday we had Philthy Collins & The Crystal Balls playing live, unfortanatly i was not there to see this but apparantly was a really good night, a cabret band playing 70's and 80's covers. what more could you want?

Friday we had one of our favorite monthly nights Bronze Club held by The Golden Silvers, they had The The Invisible and Othello Woolf playing live, both i would highly recomend seeing or listening to if you haven't already. Such a good night!

Then Saturday we had the one and only Har Mar Superstar playing! Amazing, no?
The night was called Hands of Glory with other acts such as Sicknote and Benji Boko..

Then Monday we had the Slam City Christmas Party, we haven't had a slam night at the pub so it was hightly anticipated was defiantly worth waiting for with Danny Sargent playing live and loads of dj's spinning good tunes, was a good night all around and defiantly something to put you into the Christmas mood. People dancing crazily and rolling around on the stage.

Cant wait for new years now!
Gonna be amazing..

It a night called Spunk with Happy Bunny and Bo Ningen playing live.
DJ's Spider Webb
Tom Furse
Coffin Joe (The Horrors)
Oliver Blitz
Quite The Kills

check out the facebook group for more details
http://www.facebook.com/#/event.php?eid=159896845854&ref=ts

Staff Profiles

2009-12-20T23:59:00.000Z

Benji

Name- Benji
Favourite Night- mostly the nights i have off, actually the night i got my nose broken before work was a whale of a time, adults normally gets quite messy after wards but ill probly have to say the slam nights cos its full of friends and alot of wu-tang gets played, even though they are no more
Favourite Drink- a coffe from present on shoreditch high street then a take it to work and stick a shot of jamesons in it
Favourite macbeth memory- theres a few good ones and plenty a bad ones (ive been working here to long now) seeing bjork in the pub having a drink was prety amazing, i saw something well disturbing once though i walked down into the basement and hoey was getting done up the arse by zahra wearing a strap-on, i heard he got the job initally by licking out schaffers bum hole after he had disentry
Favourite artist- the beastie boys
Favourite song- police story black flag

Macbeth Photographer Profile

2009-12-15T17:04:00.000Z

Holly

Who inspired you to start taking photographs?
Lee Miller. She was just the archetypal dude/hot model babe. RAZOR sharp wit, travelled all over the world taking pictures, got with a load of amazing artists, worked in-house for vogue and as a US WWII coverage correspondent for Condé Nast with David Scherman. There's these amazing pictures they took of eachother galavanting around in Hitler's apartment after the fall of Nazi Germany - SUCH an amazing cheeky 'fuck you'.

Who do you look up to in the industry?
I'm a shortarse so I basically look up to everyone.

Other artists that inspire you:
SO MANY. Ellen Von Unwerth, Weegee, Matt Irwin, Sarah Lucas, Waterhouse paintings...A whole bunch of cinematographers - Herzog, Fellini...

Favourite night:
Whatever Happened to P-rock. Pop punk F-U-N.

Aspirations:
To make awkward nerds love me.

Cheese Preference:
Some dubious pictures of my more-than-ample ass-ets in the Macbeth loos have made me want to lay off the solidified animal fat for a little while.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/themacbethhoxton
http://hollyevalydialucas.blogspot.com

Christmas Week At The Macbeth!

2009-12-15T16:44:00.001Z

Tuesday 15th December

***ADULTS Christmas Bonanza***
Koran Koran (live) Elfred and the Uber Peas (live) Lion Child (live)

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=info&ref=ts&gid=4821784931#/event.php?eid=227090995658&ref=ts

FREE ENTRY
8pm- 1am

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Wednesday 16th

Deadly People+This Is Music LTD+Sup Magazine XMAS Knees UP!

FREE ENTRY
8pm- 1am

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Thursday 17th

Philthy Collins & The Crystal Balls...
Philthy Collins & The Crystal Balls (LIVE)

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=162809648322&ref=ts

entry £8
8pm - 2am

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Friday 18th

Bronze Club Christmas Party presents..
The Invisible (LIVE) Othello Woolf (LIVE)

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=info&ref=ts&gid=4821784931#/event.php?eid=239772776000&ref=ts

entry £5
8pm - 2am

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Saturday 19th

Hand Of Glory's Holiday Hullabaloo...
Har Mar Superstar (LIVE) Sicknote (LIVE) Benji Boko (LIVE)

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=info&ref=ts&gid=4821784931#/event.php?eid=215153756240&ref=ts

entry £10 on the door or in advance from www.theticketsellers.co.uk
8pm - 2am

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Monday 21st

Slam City Christmas Party... Danny Sargent (LIVE)

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=info&ref=ts&gid=4821784931#/event.php?eid=212491410352&ref=ts

free entry
8pm - 2am

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Tuesday 22nd

This Is My Costume...Yungun & Mr. Thing. W/ Special guests & DJ Set.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=174246579851&ref=ts

£5 ADVANCE TICKETS (limited availability)
£6.50 OTD.
£8 AFTER 11.
8pm- 1am

looks like its gonna be a good week...

Har Mar Superstar anyone?

2009-12-09T15:53:00.000Z

There are recesses of my brain I imagine I would have been using to store dark memories of childhood perversion had they not all been used up by thoughts of Har Mar Superstar, wriggling his limbs all over the place and making me feel sort of weird - so I'm a little worried to discover he's actually back in the collective consciousness, having just released an album, Dark Touches, in November.

Although my presiding memory of Mr Mar is more of his writhing body somewhat defying expectations of pop star beauty, I seem to have managed to forget the fact that he's actually really good. Beyond the thrilling stage routine and costume changes/ removal there's a solid base of heartening electro fibre, channeling Midnight Vultures era Beck, which in turn channels Prince, which in turn makes me want to put on my old figure-skating sequined leotard and wriggle around in a dancing fashion as near to the stage as I can get.

Lucky as I am, I won't have to travel far as he will be gracing the stage not 20 metres from where I write. Sharing it with him on Saturday 19th December are Sicknote, heard of them? They're from Wales and have clearly been chosen to give the headliner a run for his money in terms of mischievous, maybe twisted stage presence. Plus Benji Boko, a mad mix of comedy, trip hop and what the fuck, in a good way.

All this and you get to raise money for charity, as if you weren't doing the world enough good just by being that happy in the first place...

Staff Profile

2009-12-09T13:37:00.000Z

Justin

Name- Justin
Favourite Night- Adults
Favoruite Drink- Jaegerbomb
Favourite Macbeth Memory- When i caught Hoey rimming one of the bouncers
Favourite Artist- Conway Twitty
Favourite Song- Cosmonaut

December at The Macbeth

2009-12-08T15:55:00.000Z

Is Tropical Interview

2009-12-07T13:44:00.000Z

Is Tropical

Macbeth: How did Egyptian Hip Hop and Shitdisco come to remix your releases?

Is Tropical: We’ve known Darren from Shitdisco for about three years now, ever since he moved in to the toilet factory, where we lived at the time. We’ve always wanted Darren to do a remix of one of our tracks because we all big fans of his remix’s. We met Egyptian Hip Hop when playing Manchester; we were both on the same bill supporting Jo Lean And The Jing Jang Jong. We are both releasing singles on the same label Hit Club, plus going on tour for two weeks in January with each other. One night they asked if they could do a remix of our track, we sent them the stems that night and we got the remix back in the morning. It was their first remix too.

M: Have you been remixing anybody yourself?

I: We did a remix of Crystal Fighters second release I Love London and also New Islands debut single, and we have a lot more planned.

M: Who else who you like to do some remix’s of?

I: We’d like to do remix’s of the Mystery Jets third album, because they’re all lovely talented lads, and Fiction because they’re making really interesting new music.

M: How about Collaborations?

I: We have done guest vocals on a Japanese track that will be released on an album in the New Year. Which was strange but fun. We have plans to go into the studio with an old friend Luke from Montague Populaire. Its always good to work with different minds, it keeps things fresh.

M: What’s been the best gig you’ve played so far?

I: Defiantly the first ADULTS night we played, because its our night and full of all our friends, and other bands we like.

M: Why do you wear masks?

I: Because we hate to see our faces in photos, we’d rather have a look at nice pattern on a mask.

M: What was the idea behind your music video When O When?

I: The songs about a really bad history lesson, we wanted to use stock footage that was at first going to be projected over us. In the end we ended up using a layering process in the editing, it was all made on a £100 budget with a friend Gareth Phillips.

Here's two new remixes from the boys exclusively for us here at the Macbeth (nd you lot too).

Firstly, Here's the Ehh remix of Seasick mutiny followed by the Shit Disco remix of the epic When O When.

Enjoy

http://www.zshare.net/audio/69747853aa8cc3f4/

http://www.zshare.net/audio/69747967db397ce0/

Staff Profile

2009-12-02T16:25:00.000Z

Scarlett

Name- Scarlett
Favourite Night- ADULTS
Favoruite Drink- Jager Bomb
Favourite Macbeth Memory- Stag and Dagger festival 08’ Operator Please and The Mike Strutter group played it was amazing.
Favourite Artist- Sonic Youth
Favourite Song- Death Valley '69

Dagger Brothers Interview

2009-12-01T15:30:00.000Z

The Dagger Brothers on stage at The Macbeth

The Dagger Brothers are Sam and Oliver, or Heath and Cliff if you believe their MySpace. They played Adults last Wednesday and we were treated to their warm-hearted onslaught of electro-pop ridicule. Sam sings lead and Oliver does a sort of exciting (their word) dance around the stage. If you missed it have a look at their MySpace, http://www.myspace.com/thedaggerbrothers, where you'll find a video that might illustrate it better for you.

After their performance we had a wee conversation on the ins and outs of Brotherhood...

Macbeth: I liked your gig, a lot of people seemed to like it a lot, is that something you find?

Oliver: Generally, when they don't it really bums us out 'cause generally they do. We've got a real cross section of people, the real arty people like it and.. er, morons like it as well. Simple folk like it.

Sam: We played to a load of beer boys, a load of rugby boys and they really liked it.

M: Did they chant something?

S: Yeah, they just loved do you remember the 80's, they were, "Aw, yes i REMEMBER the 80's, aw yes"

O:A lot of the new John and Edward stuff we're very much inspired by, especially the clothes and dress sense and attitude really.

S:Yeah, John and Edward have really got an attitude and so do we.

M: So the Saudis are running this night, where'd they find you? Or where'd you find them?

O: We do like a million gigs and people hear us through one thing and you know, it's completely sort of crazy. We played the Tate Modern and the guy, the promoter saw us from that and liked us so you know...

M: I was hoping you'd say, "They found us in a party full of multi-coloured balloons and we were taking ecstasy and riding imaginary camels," or something...

S: That's not what happened.

O: I'll tell you something exciting though, we're going to be on the new series of Skins.

M: Really? You two or just your music?

O: Our music and us performing, so.. that's going to be pretty exciting.

M: Do you know what the scene is going to be?

O: Um, I think it's a club, they go to a fucking club and we're singing...

M: Well your not singing, you're pretending to sing...

S: (Laughs) No, Ollie's singing you know!

M: You are singing?

S: Yeah they wanted Ollie to be the main singer.

O: He wasn't good looking enough. They gave me an opportunity so I'm just going to go for it.

S: I'm just playing bass in the background.

M: So it's not even real, it's a fake interpretation of your band?

O: I can't wait, we always wanted to break in to popular culture (laughing) and we've managed that.

M: So, your matching outfits....

O: yeah, we shop a lot in Primark.

S: And Peacocks.

M: I imagine it's quite the opposite to most girls when they go out, you turn up and go, "Oh my god, we didn't wear the same thing!"

laughter

M: Does that happen ever?

S: Well, actually no, but we've worn outfits where we've been out with girls who've been wearing those outfits.

Ollie laughs

O: We were wearing skirts once and i gave it to an ex- girlfriend. She just thought it was quite nice.

S: It's a crossover, we wear things because we think they're really funny but actually they're really trendy. We would sort of dress, we would wear certain things...

O: ... And they would just become fashionable. Yeah we wear skin tight blue trousers then you walk down brick lane and everyone's wearing them. and we're from bristol and nobody's really wearing them there.

M: I heard this is your side project and you have a main band?

O: Oh yeah, we run a record label called Void of Ovals. We put out our own music under various aliases.

S: Don't tell them that, that's not meant to be known!

We've got so many different projects and our other band's called Eftus Spectun and we've been doing that for about ten years. And it sounds, just, well, it's got incredibly difficult, and it's got so difficult that not many people like it. It used to be quite popular but it's got so weird...

M: Is this the future of dagger brothers, you like us now but give us ten years...

S: No, because the two things used to be combined, we used to be quite funny and really weird, like a band, with instruments, and then the two things split off into two different things and now we make pop music and incredibly avant garde music. It's more like modern classical composition than anything else really, nothing ever repeats.

M: Is it a bit grating that your side project is more succesful?

S: It's pretty horrible. Most people don't have the musical knowledge to really appreciate something that's really bonkers like that, so it's always gonna be a handful of people that appreciate something that's that avant garde.

O: The people who really dig our other band is American bands who're touring and they hear us and they're like, oh, actually it's really different from all the other music, they actually dig it - the audience pretty much hate it. But with Dagger Brothers it's like...

S: Yeah, go!

O: ...everyone loves it!

S: That's because Americans appreciate technicality

M: Do they?

S: English people are all about style and fashion and Americans just like, they can really appreciate someone who's really good at their instrument. Yeah, the Americans are like 'Wow, he can really play his instrument,' and English people are like 'Wow, look at his hair-do, it looks so cool'

laughter

O: Americans really like Emerson, Lake and Palmer, you see...

S: I really hate Emerson, Lake and Palmer... Don't link us to that at all.

O: I link the Dagger Brothers to Wham meets King Crimson, what do you think we sound like? (to Sam)

S: I don't know, I don't really think about it.

O: We're a bit like the Big Breakfast meets the generation game.

S: We're Eric Bristow meets Jimmy White...

O: A bit like Bulls Eye meets Big Break meets Blind Date.

S: We've been compared to the Mario Brothers before...

O: We're a bit like Dalziel and Pascoe, a bit like that as well.

M: Are you actually singing on stage when you're jumping around or do you just mime?

O: No, no, it's like, you know when you're in a club and you're dancing about to the music, this is great music, imagine if you'd written the music, that's what it's like for me every night. Dancing to my own music.

S: Ollie's a great dancer. We made a video recently and all the moves I do are very subtle but if you look at what Ollies doing it's very exciting.

O: I think the biggest mistake of my career was, my mum was like, 'I think your a great dancer,' from a young age, 'I should send you to dance school!' but she never did and I think that was a massive mistake.

The rest of our conversation basically consisted of Ollie and Sam trying to discover which of them was my favourite Dagger Brother. I haven't quite decided but if you have a preference you can vote via their fan club on Facebook...

http://pa-in.facebook.com/group.php?gid=4897319978

Also have a look at the very pretty Void of Ovals website, and see if you're weird and difficult enough to enjoy Eftus Spectun...

http://www.voidofovals.com/

Enjoy!

Golden Silvers interview with a freeeeeeee-mix

2009-11-25T16:08:00.000Z

The Golden Silvers have had a great year, dropping their album, playing Glastonbury and all whilst carrying on their fantastic club night at The Macbeth.
We caught up with Gwilym from the band on their European tour in Paris and this is what he had to say:-

Hey, so what have you been up to?

We've just played a few shows in New York and now we're playing a short European tour... Also we've started working on some new recordings

Highlights of the last year/ met anyone great recently?

Thursday night at the Queens Head at Glastonbury felt like a special moment.. probably our best show of the year.. the same night that Micheal Jackson died
Going to see Jerry Lee Lewis tonight in Amsterdam. It would be great to meet him...

You’ve been working with some pretty cool remixers? Any particular favourites?

I've really liked a lot of the remixes... i think a favouite might be Othello Woolf's autotuned version of Please Venus. You can hear it hear... http://www.transparentblog.com/blog/415/oh-please

Any particular gigs stand out in your mind (apart from the Macbeth of course)?

Our most memorable shows are always at The Macbeth!

Who is your favourite member of staff at the Macbeth (you have to answer this.no diplomacy allowed)?

It has to be Ben (Starr) as he always keeps the nutjuice on ice for me!

Whats your favourite song to play?

Although i'm getting a bit bored of playing it now, i can remember playing Arrows of Eros for the first time at the Bronze Club and feeling like the new band had really come together..

Who’s your favourite band member (you may include yourself)?

It has to go to Tommy (not an official band member as such but he's been touring with us doing extra harmonies and keys). He is the master of the pun..

Cheese preference?

Gorgonzola

Staff Profile

2009-11-24T15:12:00.000Z

Hoey

Name- Hoey
Favourite Night- Nights off
Favourite Drink- Zubrowka and Apple
Favourite Macbeth Memory- The time I caught Justin and Benji having sex in the basement
Favourite Artist- Cheryl Cole
Favourite Song- Cobwebs and Strange By The Who

Is Tropical single release

2009-11-19T17:13:00.000Z

Our boys Is Tropical are releasing their single on January the 18th, along with a mini tour.

‘When O’ When’, produced and Mixed by Al O'Connell (Klaxons/Big Pink) at Beethoven Street London, comes backed with ‘Seasick Mutiny’ and is released on limited edition seven inch vinyl and as a digital download. Uniquely varied and disjointed, 'When O’ When’ rattles through so many different rhythms and styles in a way unlike any other typical 3-and-a-half minute pop formula around right now.

LIVE DATES:

NOV 25TH THE MACBETH - LONDON

NOV 27TH GOLDSMITH UNIVERSITY- LONDON

DEC 12TH CARNIVALE (WHITECHAPEL) - LONDON

myspace.com/istropical

Micheal Jackson Mixtape by Chris Read

2009-11-19T13:06:00.000Z

Our friend Chris Read (of The Diary Mixtape fame) wasn't happy with the amount of terrible Michael Jackson mixtapes that flooded the market, so he came up with this.
Here's what he had to say about it:-

"THE LEGACY: World's Greatest Jackson Tribute Mix! is a 60 minute mix comprising 45 tracks, featuring a selection of Michael Jackson and The Jackson 5's original works, edits, acapellas and demos accompanied by records that have sampled them, cover versions, tributes and remixes from the likes of Dwele, Dilla, DJ Spinna and Ian Brown amongst others. All that laced with original interviews and some heavy edits. It was a labour of love to compile, but certainly worth it. After the Diary Megamix, this has been my most popular mixtape to date."

http://rapidshare.com/files/252851839/Chris_Read_MICHAEL_JACKSON_THE_LEGACY_MIX.mp3

(For tracklist) http://www.zshare.net/download/68680749fd666fd0/

Cheers Chris!

Interview with James and Freddie from Underground Rebel Bingo!

2009-11-18T20:11:00.002Z

Where did the idea of rebel bingo come from?
We used to run parties in a disused church hall... the after party was always in the basement, you know one of those basements where it's a bit under the pavement and you can see and hear people on the street. The old grannies had a bingo wheel down there and we started fucking around with it in the early hours of the morning with all these crazy people, like Luki and Anita and Ryan and Charlie. Soon people started to treat that as the main party and call it the underground rebel bingo club. because it was underground, because we somewhere we shouldn't be, because we were playing a new form of bingo, and because it is a secret club.

Who comes up with the prizes?
We are given stuff by a website. I don't know whey they give it to us... but we keep getting cheekier and seeing how far we can push our luck. The best prizes are things that you would never expect, like an umbrella that lights up in the dark, or a machine that shoots air across the room so it feels like a ghost is touching you... but we have given away motorbikes before, we get them all from www.iwantoneofthose.com - i think the people who run it just like being involved. They are nice guys and they give us free shit!

If i haven't been, what can i expect?
You can expect loud music, laughing and drawing on people's faces... and a lot of dancing, and the prospect of waking up with a bingover. A bingover is like a hangover but with the addition of pen on your face.

I want people to start using this word more! BINGOVER.

Have you had any trouble with the law?
We are always one step ahead of the law. I don't want to talk about it. Maybe.

You and Freddie are apparently long term friends. When the door shuts at the end of the night do you secretly hate each other?
We have known each other since we were in play school, less than a mile from the Macbeth, but we are very different people. We have the exact opposite views on everything and we are very sensitive... it is true that we have had some really aggressive fights, but they are usually over things like... well, types of bingo pens or whether you should put the prize of Patrick the Polar Bear before or after a horsey hopper, so we usually end up laughing. We laugh more than we fight. But we laugh a LOT.

It’s been a crazy year for you guys. Apart from the Macbeth obviously, what have been the highlights of 2009?
We have been offered to play venues in Los Angeles and New York to put rebel Bingo in. We all saved up and me and Luki and Anita all went to LA together to look at them... we hit up strip bars, Tattoo parlours, beach houses in Malibu, parties in the Hollywood Hills - it was rad... we will be going back for sure as we forgot to do any rebel bingo. Watch out LA. Watch out world.

To win free tickets to Underground Rebel Bingo at a secret location (see blog title for clue) then just answer the easy question below:

What is a bingover?
a) A robot that can identify suicidal intent in pets and livestock
b) A gun-holster used by cowboys to represent the size of their nuts
c) A specialist type of hangover that is defined by the addition of pen drawings on your back, face and inner thigh
d) A sexual position involving 8 or more people

Answers to Ben.starr@themacbeth.co.uk

Good luck!!

Flickr

2009-11-18T19:32:00.001Z

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

2009-11-17T17:32:00.000Z

I took Fiction upstairs after their inaugural hosting of Macbeth's new Adults night last Wednesday to ask them some questions and clear up all the lies I've been spreading about them through shoddy research...

Fiction

Macbeth: I had to write something about you guys without having heard you live for the Macbeth promotion and it got edited down to absolute nonsense, can you make a better stab at it?

Fiction: Best phrase we've had was actually yesterday, 'perfect anarchic pop'.
- The nicest one was actually at Offset when someone walked past and said we were surprisingly good in passing. Didn't have enough time to check it out, but in passing - good walking music.
- Someone once said we sounded good through a wall.

M: Where did you build up your following? Where are you from?

F: Dan is a massive bum-licker. Basically anyone thats anyone, Dan will go up and talk to them. We invented a word for it as well, it's a butt-job, Dan invented the butt-job.
- We're all from Southeast / East London and Dan's from Germany. So South East/ East Germany, the New Cross of Germany, New Krauts.

M: How did you get involved in Adults?

F: We played the Macbeth a couple of months ago and someone suggested us to Simon (Is Tropical) and Simon got in touch.
- We played a night at the Macbeth that Simon was DJing at and he saw us and asked us to do the night.
- I thought we'd known Simon for ages?
- ... We'd known Simon for ages.
- It seemed like a good idea so we thought we'd do it.

M: What kind of criteria are you using to choose the bands who play your night?

F: From a lot of nights we've been to and been playing we want to get bands who fit really well together.
- So many times you play gigs with some promoter whose got no idea what they're doing and just book really random bands.
- For bands that haven't got a following yet it's very difficult to get on a night that's got any direction with a type of music.
- We also really want to support bands that we really like, and hope other people will like too.
- I really genuinely believe in these bands too, i really enjoy listening to them and watching them play.

M: Yeah, I think you can tell that by the different bands that are playing the different nights, that they're specifically, personally chosen.

F: Yeah, exactly.

M: When I was reading your reviews I got the impression it was all about the drum kit that you'd made yourself out of bits and pieces?

F: That's a lie, we haven't made anything.
- We bought everything.
- It was more about stripping back because we didn't have a drummer
- We can't really play the drums that well.
- If you put us in front of a drum kit and asked us to play it we wouldn't be that great

M: That's great that out of your inability this mythology has been invented!

F: It's an important thing for us that we don't really like virtuosity, none of us are extremely technically good musicians. The thing is, I think if you have boundaries you find new ways of doing stuff, and if you're not technically proficient you find shortcuts and it's within those shortcuts that you find the good stuff.
- That's what music's all about, it's about your ideas.

A Fleetwood Mac song comes drifting up the stairs from the bar and the whole band stop talking.

F: This song! We're being followed by this song! At the last 6 gigs this Fleetwood Mac song has been played by the DJ...

M: It's obviously zeitgeist, do you believe in zeitgeist?

F: I used to work in a pub called Zeitgeist
- I think someone suggested Zeitgeist as a name for the night actually...

M: Yeah, weren't there some truly awful names suggested? Like 'Swamp'?

F: That was James' idea

M: Oh right, sorry... Apparently Dan (Fiction's bassist) has the best laugh ever, can i hear it?

Dan: Thankyou very much, yeah i do.

Some jokes are attempted but dan's uberlaugh remains silent.

F: This is the way to make dan laugh, Dan, look at me and try not to laugh...

Silence

Dan: I just feel sorry for you. I'm a diva, i don't laugh on demand.

Fiction's next slot hosting Adults is on the 9th of December, between now and then Is Tropical and The Saudis will be taking care of things. Come.

Staff Profiles

2009-11-17T17:15:00.000Z

So, we have decided that maybe you would all like to get to know our staff abit better...
we will updating this weekly with a new member...

Cat

Name - Cat
Favourite Night - Adults
Favourite Drink- Grey Russian
Favourite Macbeth memory - doing a backflip off the stage into a heaving gallows crowd
Favourite Artist - Bowie
Favourite Song - All the young dudes

New Boys Toilets..

2009-11-17T14:23:00.000Z

So, we now finally have boys toilets, which i am sure will come as much of a relief to you all.

Here's some pictures of it in progress...

An Interview with Adrian Storry..

2009-11-11T16:46:00.000Z

An interview with Adrian Storry, the promoter of What ever Happened to P-Rock? and Eclectic Like Whoopi...

The Macbeth - Tell us about your new night?

Adrian Storry - The new night is basically a night where people can play whatever they want. I got sick of going to nights where the music policy is just one thing. My music taste has always been eclectic and I’ve kind of always liked every type of music and not stuck to one type and I thought other people might enjoy that too. Dunno if it will work or not but fingers crossed.

TM - Wanna tell us about the other stuff you do, P-rock etc?

AS - When I was growing up as a kid I really love punk rock music and all the stuff that’s coming out recently is based on fashion and they’ve kinda lost the whole punk rock imagery so I wanted to go back to how it used to be and kind of play the songs that everyone used to love. Everyone from my generation always had so much heart in it and it seems the kids these days don’t really understand the punk rock genre.

TM - What’s your favourite Whoopi move and why?

AS - I really want to say sister act cos it really is my favourite movie but jumping jack flash is another big favourite of mine, I think that’s amazing. Also really like ghost. She’s amazing in ghost.

TM - Favourite ice cream and why?

AS - I used to love tutti fruity ice cream. I don’t think they even make it anymore. Its just something I used to have as a kid in random sea side resorts. Absolutely amazing. They had those little sweets but they weren’t the same.

TM - Oh you mean the ones with the bubble gum inside. What did happen to them?

TM - If you were a member of blink 182 who would you be and why?

AS - Back in the day I would have said Tom and then he did the whole Angels and airwaves thing and it made me think he’s a bit of a cock, but I have to say mark now as he is the other coolest member.
Obviously Travis is cool but he’s not got the same wit as the others.

TM - Aaaand, you were thrown out of the Macbeth a few weeks ago. Why don’t u tell us a bit about that?

AS - Well, I have this problem with falling asleep in clubs. It’s when I get too drunk, I just end up falling asleep in the corner. As long as I stand up its fine, but as soon as I sit down it’s all over. The thing is that the minute I wake up I’m fine, which is why I had an argument with the bouncers.

TM - Well thankyou very much Adrian and we will see you this Saturday for ‘Eclectic Like Whoopi’

Loverman and Sharks at Gash this Friday

2009-11-03T17:06:00.000Z

The ever-popular Gash returns with Loverman and Sharks live and a host of DJs to boot.

Here's some really beautiful artwork I found for Loverman's EP. Apparently Myspace took it down, philistines.

Also don't miss Sharks before they go on tour with The Gallows and remember to come down early for that all-important free vodka to kick things off.

Fiesta and Urban Nerds presents Haunted House Of Horrors Halloween Weekender

2009-10-27T15:06:00.000Z

An interview with Fiesta Promoter Jeff Leach for this Halloween..

Macbeth: How do you usually ward off evil spirits at this time of year?

Jeff: I believe in meeting fire with fire. I haunt the evil spirits and beat them to the mark.

M: What's your favourite halloween costume ever?

J: Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice.

M: What will you be wearing at the weekend?

J: I will be transformed into the Ghost of Macbeth, personifying the Shakespearean King famed for his evil deeds and eventual madness and demise.

M: There's always a lot of good stuff happening at Halloween, what makes your night stand out?

J: We're the only night fusing together two incredible nights to form one giant weekender special like this. Not only are our djs, burlesque dancers, tattooists, hairdressers and actors all housed under one roof, we've gone all out on the 3 floors of film-set quality decor.

M: Tell us a little about Urban Nerds who you're doing the night with.

J: The Nerds are one of the most successful up and coming dubstep, grime and funky nights in London. They used to host my second room when Fiesta first started and the boys have grown immensely, hosting parties at Fabric, Matter and representing at festivals like Snowbombing and more. They bring an urban edge to the proceedings but with a happy and positive vibe. Aggro is not welcome here.

M: Is there a specific theme or is it just halloweeny?

J: The top floor will be a haunted attic, covered in cobwebs and the charred remains of children's toys. The middle floor is the pyschotic doctor's laboratory/butcher's den. Sheet plastic, no light except UV, blood, brains, gore and the photographic evidence of his female prey. The bottom floor will have a lighter feel to it, blacked out, full of dancing skeletons, a few hung souls and plenty of ghoulish spirit.

M: What's the scariest film you've ever seen?

J: This Japanese film about a secretary who falls madly in love with her boss and horrendously murders him, his children and her deformed brother... can't remember the name but that's probably for the best.

M: Are you scared of the dark?

J: I used to be until at least 15 or so, was well embarassing. But now I embrace it a little too fiercely.

M: Do you believe in ghosts?

J: Come saturday I will be one, so I had better do so!

So, this Friday and Saturday will become Fiesta and Urban Nerds haunted house of horrors, going to be really good come down!!!

Alexander Nut mix and Oneness at The Macbeth

2009-10-21T16:11:00.000+01:00

Here's a link to a mix from Alexander Nut, to warm you up in preparation for Oneness at The Macbeth on Thursday 29th October.

ALEXANDER NUT 'CRAZYLEGS MINI MIX'

TRACKLISTING
Shortstuff & Heytal - Ice Cream
Mount Kimbe - Sketch On Glass
SRC - Goomba
Next Hype - Plastician Remix instrumental
Shadz - Summer Rain
Joker - 80's
Plastician - Missing
Dizzee - Respect instrumental
The Bug ft Flowdan - Skeng
Jahdan Blakkamore - General (Noah D Remix)
NY & Badness - No One Every Cared
Meleka - Its Over Boy (EL-B -Ghost Remix)
Heartbreaker Brackles remix
Donaeo - Watching Her Move

http://www.sendspace.com/file/10t3qg

A night of Hip Hop, Soul and Dubstep featuring some of the scenes leading lights and future stars.
Live performers come courtesy of :

L.As Ras G and London vocalist Shuanise

DJs
Alexander Nut (Rinse FM)
Illum Sphere (Hoya Hoya)
paying Soul, Hip Hop and Dubstep

Thursday 29th October
£5 entry
8pm - 2am

Free Weekly Wednesdays at The Macbeth!

2009-09-30T11:29:00.000+01:00

From the 28th of October The Macbeth will be having free entry wednesdays, these nights will be held by three bands, Is Tropical, The Saudis and The Fiction. Every week there will be bands and DJ's. I interviewed The Saudis and Is Tropical to find out abit more about them and the nights....

Simon- Is Tropical

Where did your name come from?
A dream

What happened in your dream?
An embarrassing celebrity told me
Which celebrity?
Not saying
What celebrity?
An amalgamation of all celebrity’s.
What did the celebrity tell you?
That the band should be called Is Tropical.

What’s the main influence for your music?
Whatever we happen to be listening to around the time of making the songs, even if its stuff we don’t like.

Who takes your photographs? They really stand out, unlike normal press shots that bands have.
Ellis Scott he’s a really good photographer and friend. He has a good studio in North London. We are shooting our music video there on Saturday.

How come you decided to start doing the free Wednesdays at The Macbeth?
Because cover charge’s are a ball ache, and you shouldn’t have pay for band you haven’t seen before, and

How did you meet the other bands?
We first met the Saudis when Nathan was trying to beat up the guitarist of our old band. Ever since that we’ve hung around with each other. The Fiction, we met after Gaolers daughter suggested them for one of our nights. And they blew us away…

Why The Macbeth?
Because the Macbeth has great sound and it’s off the main road. So it doesn’t attract that many tooches.

The Saudis

Is it true you’re from the Saudi soda family?
Yes. Our cousins from Kabylle in Algeria run a small soda pop factory for whom we penned the radio jingle "saudi soda time"...
'get some sunshine in your soda, its saudi soda time
when you hear that magic sound (pop!), and everything turns to glass
its a rainbow in a bottle, all you have to do is ask'

Where is your accent from?
Its an intracit blend, mainly from being just too damn saucy

I heard your planning a future tour of Algeria, do you think the future or music is there?
Algeria needs some music cause the people like it out there. theres little terms of stardom out there. which is much better than having a band or singer who thinks they are a demi god

Every time I see you play live you have more and more members, how many people would you like ideally in your band?
A guitarist for each note on the guitar. 144. plus bassists (for each individual note), 100. singers containg the 8 octaves = 100(individual note). 1 drummer

Where does the inspiration for your music come from?
Sexual problems

How did you meet the other bands that are part of the weekly Wednesdays at the Macbeth?
Down the pub

How many times have you been thrown out of the Macbeth? And how do you persuade the owners to let you back in?
Collectively we have been thrown out of the pub probably about 15 times. We are always readmitted on account of our incredible talent.

Is blood thicker than Saudi soda?

….

Macbeth by day...

2009-09-16T15:04:00.000+01:00

the daily on goings of the macbeth....

John doing work on the gallery....

View from the window overlooking the alleyway. One of the guy from victors doing a crossword. Yesterday he was unblocking/ disturbing the drains with a plank of wood, it smelt like eggs. Maybe i should have taken a photo of that.

Numatic doing some hovering..

Mark and Jack doing some work..

The locals across the road, they seem pretty nice. They're always up surprisingly early as i see them on my way to work everyday.

anyways, this is mainly what happens in the macbeth during the daytime, i guess the night time is alot more fun, but perhaps when all the work on the inside of the pub is done it will be cooler to come up in the daytimes...

xxx

I heart Underground Rebel Bingo!

2009-08-25T14:15:00.000+01:00

The Underground Rebel Bingo Club at The Macbeth. It is held every two weeks, and could possibly be the best night i have been to in a while. The night consists of loud music, a few games of bingo, where you can win things such as a liter of gin or a inflatable fat suit, drunken people drawing on each other with bingo markers and the numbers are called out by two incredibly hot girls.

check out their website for updates on nights
http://www.rebelbingo.com/
xx

Macbeth

2009-08-25T13:39:00.000+01:00

Macbeth Pub sign, artwork by Andy James Jones
Check out his website, its amazing.
http://www.stolenideas.com