Interview: AJ Holmes talks to Run Riot about smashing High Life, Palm Wine & Afro Rock



Okay so I did one of these and then proceeded to bugger off out of London for 2 weeks cheffing in Sussex (I used to be a cook, was covering for a mate) but now things
are back to usual and I promise this will once again be a weekly blog!
Think going to do it from Monday to Sunday makes sense.... although this Sunday Im down Old Queens Head for a lovely all dayer, great roasts, bands, drinks, sofa's et al so can recommend that :)
Alright folks! So with the all new Run Riot site we can (much more enthusiastically of course) celebrate the return of my weekly gig recommendation blog!
Alright folks!
Sorry we have been away for a week or two, combination of silliness that resulted in no blog up, but here's the new one!
Haven't been doing nothing though - I have been recording podcasts with my friend Gareth from ‘Bearded Magazine’. Check it out!
Alright! So I'm a bit out of breath after my new excercise thing am working on to counter the size of my ever increasing belly but I think can get it together to recommend some gigs for the week!
Monday:
The gig of the day today has got to be Peggy Sue's album Launch at The Garage with Dan Michaelson & Mariners Children supporting! It may have sold out though so not much good...Apart from that Is Tropical might be worth checking out at Puregroove, it's free entry
So after a relative week off as most folks were away at SXSW I'm back to a usual week again. LOADS of ace shows to go to this week going to be exciting :)
Aaaaaand for the shows:
Monday:
There are a couple of big and great shows tonight but I think they are both sold out. Thats Magnetic Fields at The Barbican & Wild Beasts at Koko but since none of us are going to that unless you already knew about it no point me
This is the new blog that tells you the sweetest London gigs for the next seven days. God don't like it, but we do. Did you come down and see TEAM RUN-RIOT play tunes at the Moonshine Jamboree on Sunday? Chalmers did, a pink cocktail in each hand...
Today I Am forcing myself to do some work after not feeling so hot after Old Queens Head all dayer (discovered that 2 drinks tokens = one cocktail which totally made my day!)
This is the new blog that tells you the sweetest London gigs for the next seven days. God don't like it, but we do. Here's the hippest thing to hit the music scene since Simon Cowell's trousers ...Anthony Chalmers
So after an utterly manic few weeks things are returning to some level on normality and I intend to chill out a bit! ACE day/night at Macbeth last night definitely doing another all dayer there :)
This is the new blog that tells you the sweetest London gigs for the next seven days. God don't like it, but we do. Here's the biggest noise in the music biz since since the knob went to eleven...Anthony Chalmers