On Saturday May 18th,

The Old Blue Last & Desperados Present

NEPOTISM,YAY!
A Great Escape closing party, starring:

DZ Deathrays Live
Parquet Courts Live
TRAAMS Live
20jazzfunkgreats DJ
D’Antimo Beats ft. MCPC DJs
@edlilo DJ

@ The Loft
10 Ship Street, Brighton, BN11AD

Entry: FREE (no wristband required)
Doors: 11pm-LATE
Event Page

We’re teaming up with our favourite tequila flavoured beer to bring some of our favourite bands & DJs for a BIG FUN CELEBRATION coinciding with the end of this year’s Great Escape and because we’re GENEROUS the whole shebang is free entry, regardless of your ticket status or the speediness of your RSVP. That’s right:

On Monday April 15th,

THE OLD BLUE LAST PRESENTS

Nadine Shah Live
+ Malpas Live
+ Palace Live

@ The Old Blue Last
38 Great Eastern Street, London, EC2A 3ES

Entry: FREE
Doors: 8pm-12am
RSVP here.

Shah is of Norwegian and Pakistani parentage from a small coastal town called Whitburn, but she could just as easily be the result of a steamy union between Polly Harvey and Nick Cave. That’s the lineage to which her dark tales of lust and loss, revenge and regret belong, although she also cites as influences everyone from Philip Larkin and Frida Kahlo to Black Flag and Arthur Russell as well as the religious Sufi songs that her father would play during car rides and the ghazals he sang in Urdu around the house. Think also Marianne Faithfull, not the prim young creature courted by Mick Jagger in the mid-60′s, but the ravaged, battle-worn survivor who re-emerged with Broken English in the late 70′s.
Shah owns a management company promoting other Newcastle musicians and has recently completed her debut album “Love Your Dumb and Mad” with producer Ben Hiller.