Live music listings: August 2008

Doors 7.30
£13 via WeGotTickets

To coincide with the UK release of his latest solo album, The Luxury of Hysteria, Australian rock 'n' roll icon Tim Rogers is set to return to London for the first time since You Am I's sold out Islington Academy show of October 2006.

Tim is a regular visitor to these shores, and has played countless sold out shows in venues across London town. Since the release of You Am I's seventh studio album, Convicts, Tim has toured the USA several times with the band, and played many sold out, rapturously-received shows across Australia, to keep his homeland fans happy.

Last August, Tim entered the studio to commence work on The Luxury of Hysteria, arguably his finest solo work to date. Recorded with his other band, The Temperance Union, and a host of classically-trained musicians, The Luxury of Hysteria sees a wide variety of strings and brass instruments accompanying some of the boy Rogers' finest lyrics thus far. Opening with the melodic A Quiet Night In, the album follows Tim through a range of moods, finishing epically with the masterful James The Second.

The album was released in Australia last October, to much public and critical acclaim, and the accompanying tour launch included two sold out shows at the iconic Sydney Opera House, both of which garnered the boy from Kalgoorlie standing ovations. Never one to rest on his laurels, Tim and You Am I commenced preproduction on a new album during April, with recording slated to begin in June, and proposed release in late 2008 or the new year.

Expect to hear old You Am I and Temperance Union favourites plus newly-minted classics from The Luxury of Hysteria at Tim's Luminaire show plus possibly a sneak preview of his next record!

Holly Throsby recorded her first two albums (2004’s On Night and 2006’s ARIA nominated Under the Town) in a farmhouse on a mountain on the Australian south coast, and has just released her third, A Loud Call, on Spunk Records. Both were critically acclaimed, locally and abroad. She has toured Australia many times and has played on various tours in the UK, Europe, America & Canada. She has toured on her own, with her band, and in support of artists such as Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Joanna Newsom, Bill Callahan, David Pajo, The Eels, Micah P. Hinson, Mark Kozelek, M. Ward, Devendra Banhart and Low. More recently Holly has appeared on In Field & Town, the new album by Hayden, and has joined Andrew Bird, New Buffalo and Oscar-winning songwriter Glen Hansard (The Frames) for live duets at various shows in Australia. She also wrote and illustrated two limited-edition comic books, which she now sells at shows.

The Sonic Reducer Tag Team hosted their own, incredibly popular and massively rockin' night in London for four years, which attracted such guest DJs as Michael Davis (MC5), Chris Bailey (The Saints), Tim Rogers (You Am I) and Ben Ayres (Cornershop). The Sonic Reducer Tag Team also served as The Detroit Cobras' tour DJs, and enlivened gigs by the likes of Big Star, DKT-MC5, Arthur Lee & Love, Radio Birdman, The Soundtrack Of Our Lives, The Vines, Andre Williams, You Am I, and Panther Burns. Sonic Reducer even attracted Ray Davies as a paying customer – TWICE – and had the pleasure of watching The Kinks' linchpin jig around to Lazy Lester 45s, proudly claiming "I covered this!" Expect an all-killer, no filler heap of serious punk, funk, R&B, soul, folk and other mutant junk when The Sonic Reducer Tag Team take to the decks!

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