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"Fantastic venue.. a cultural hot spot"
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Please note we are a two floor venue!  

Please note, The Cross Kings is an 18+ venue.
We cannot allow admission to anyone who appears to be under 18 years old.

FEBRUARY 2010
...click here for March...


LIVE
JAZZ.BLUES.SOUL  // LIVE ACOUSTIC.INDIE.PUNK.ROCK // COMEDY  // FILM  //  FUNDRAISER  //  ECLECTIC! // WORKSHOP  //  POETRY // DJ

Date
Bar Event Title Start Time Price

MON 1
Main Bar DAN SPANNER BIG BAND – Rehearsal 8pm FREE
  The Dan Spanner Big Band is made up of quality players from around London. They play music from the repertoire of Count Basie, Buddy Rich, Stan Kenton, Maynard Ferguson, Charlie Mingus... and other great big bands, with the aim of entertaining audiences rather than appealing to their intellect. This great music and indeed the appeal of a big band with all that blowey metal and collective swing thing should be celebrated...

TUE 2
Main Bar CROSS FADE : OPEN DECKS - UR the DJ ! 1st Tuesday every month ! 7pm FREE
 

If you have 30 minutes worth of tunes that simply MUST be played out, please bring them along and sign up for your 30 minutes of fame ! that's twice as long as Andy Warhol predicted you'd get...

Admission is free and it's first come first served from 7pm - 11pm... maybe bring an extra 30 mins just in case there's a spare slot later on...
and report to Ceremonial Deck Master Johnny Clash.

2 VINYL TURNTABLES, 2 CD-Js, 1 MIXER, Bring your own Laptop if you want ! We will also consider mp3 players !

   
 
Jester LION’S DEN COMEDY CAR CRASH every Tuesday ! 7pm £4
  New act / new material night
   

WED 3
BOTH ROOMS AVAILABLE FOR HIRE ! contact spoon@thecrosskings.co.uk    

THU 4
Main Bar GIGGLING GIG 7.30pm £5
 


A night of live music and comedy with the latest cutting edge acts that London has to offer. 3 bands and 2 comedy acts entertain you through the evening, leaving you with the feeling of a fun evening of laughter that other moody band nights don’t give you. A friendly night with a good vibe, it’s just what you need to start the weekend with some quality music and laughter.


Kentish Fire (indie dance) + Steve Forbes (random absurd comic) + Sanjuro (explosive/seductive Gypsy-folk)
+ Amir Durgahee (the funniest thing since sliced bread) +
The Quirky - The line between mad and brilliant.

Compere : Gwilum Argos

   
 
Jester AVAILABLE FOR HIRE ! contact spoon@thecrosskings.co.uk  
   

FRI 5
Main Bar GENIN present... Facebook group Facebook event 8pm £5
 


Solar Flares : "serious guitar surgery... rusted hinges and blazing paper lanterns... scratchy seismographs move into evermore tortured shapes, their huge vibrations crashing the camcorder and splashing fossilised colour."

Arficeden : "a bit mathy... syncopated rhythms and drumming around the beat; guitar picking out strange disarrayed arpeggios... moving seamlessly through a selection of musical textures - a bubbling bass-heavy jazz break, a slower widescreen prog wander, stabs of angry distortion... but all the while each piece is a cohesive beast with little recurring themes throughout"- Manchester Music

Tessellators : Think Built to Spill/Captain Beefheart/Battles/The Band/Fugazi but then reach beyond these influences and twist them into a unique fusion of tight, musically titillating sound as beautifully uplifting as it is original.

Djevara : "Brings to mind Refused covering Rage Against The Machine and Tool, whilst an enraged Saul Williams battles Ian McKaye for the mic... rallying the masses with the soundtrack of the revolution." - New Noise

   

 
 
Jester ARE FRIENDS ECLECTIC - THE OFFICIAL LAUNCH ! an eclectic mix of rock, indie. electro and alternative music... 8pm £4 / 3 concs
 
The theme for the launch will be Nekomimi mode - get your cat ears and dress up as a kitty. Those not in costume we still expect to dress up regardless !

Special guest DJs: Sally Sexface (Smash&Grab) + Charlotte Mcmanus + residents: Wasim Rebel Starman + Women Of No Importance + Kissing Girls
Visuals: Shippy (resident Otaku providing visual entertainment) + Hannah Daisy (Official club photographer)

Our glamorous hostesses Hazel, Pearl, Sophia, Alex and Daisy will be greeting everyone and handing out treats and sweets !

An enormous eclectic mix of rock, electro, pop, glam, indie, punk, alternative and much more like AC/DC, Arcade Fire, Bat For Lashes, Bikini Kill, Bjork, Beck, Bloc Party, Blondie, Bowie, The Clash, Curtis Mayfield, The Cure, Daisy Chainsaw, The Damned, Dizzee Rascal, The Doors, Dresden Dolls, Florence & the Machine, Friendly Fires, Garbage, Gogol Bordello, G'n’R, Hole, Iggy, Interpol, The Jam, Johnny Cash, Joy Division, Kate Bush, King Adora, The Kinks, Lady Gaga, Ladyhawke, Ladytron, Le Tigre, Living Colour, Maccabees, Madness, Manics, Marilyn Manson, Metronomy, MGMT, Misfits, Muse, Nancy Sinatra, New Order, NY Dolls, Nick Cave, NIN, Nirvana, Numan, Of Montreal, Patrick Wolf, Pixies, Placebo, Prince, Queen, Rachel Stamp, The Rapture, Stones, Roxy, Simian Mobile Disco, Siouxie, Smashing Pumpkins, The Smiths, Soft Cell, Sonic Youth, Stone Temple Pilots, Suede, T-Rex, Talking Heads, Velvets, Violent Femmes and tons more...

   

SAT 6
Both Floors ! DEAD AND BURIED - TWO FLOOR BIRTHDAY SPECIAL flyer 8pm - 2am £6 upstairs / £4 downstairs / £8 both floors
 
London
’s premier death rock club night takes over the whole venue for a Birthday Extravaganza, featuring the usual UNIQUE mix of tunes with DJ Cavey Nik and Cyberpagan [Outsider, DE] - Deathrock, Post Punk, Old School Goth, Gothabilly and Graveyard Garage, Electropunk etc...

[upstairs] LIVE BANDS : Screaming Banshee Aircrew [Gothic, Post Punk, UK] + Object [Post Punk, FR] + In Loving Memory [Darkwave, Gothic, IT]

[basement] "Die Klinik" : Old School EBM, Electro, Minimal, Coldwave etc... with DJs LVR and Unaesthetic

   

SUN 7
Main Bar CROSS KINGS OPEN-MIC Every Sunday ! 7pm FREE
  All welcome, just turn up and play or for more info and possible pre-booking contact James

Please note we have no in-house amps or instruments ! we can however DI guitar/bass/keys into the PA :) Bring your own guitar, drum, backing track etc...
   

MON 8
Main Bar DAN SPANNER BIG BAND – Rehearsal 8pm FREE
  The Dan Spanner Big Band is made up of quality players from around London. They play music from the repertoire of Count Basie, Buddy Rich, Stan Kenton, Maynard Ferguson, Charlie Mingus... and other great big bands, with the aim of entertaining audiences rather than appealing to their intellect. This great music and indeed the appeal of a big band with all that blowey metal and collective swing thing should be celebrated...

TUE 9
Main Bar FORGO FORMALITIES - Live alternative indie ska and punk... and more...   8pm £5 / £3 with flyer
 
Remodel - "Urgent pop dressed as gentlemen but played in a fridge owned by The Stranglers." Winglab Conspiracy
The Shagmonroes - "A cross between Metallica, Blur and The Streets"
Mr. Kamikaze - Sounds like "Devo showing XTC how to play Weezer songs during a Network soundcheck"
Muffx - Italian rock band influenced by the likes of Fu Manchu and Queens Of The Stone Age
   
 
Jester LION’S DEN COMEDY CAR CRASH New act / new material night 7pm £4
   

WED 10
Main Bar NO SWEAT - Benefit for victims of the Haiti Earthquake   7pm £12 from www.wegottickets.com
 


Comedy from Robin Ince, Shappi Khorsandi, Josie Long, Jeremy Hardy, Hils Barker and music from Robyn Hitchcock

   
 
Jester AVAILABLE FOR HIRE ! contact spoon@thecrosskings.co.uk  
   

THU 11
Main Bar TRASHVILLE LOUNGE PRESENTS.... "like living in a David Lynch movie..."   8pm £6/£5 with flyer
 


Boy On The Roof
+ Erin K & Tash + Little B + JD Smith + DJ Grae J. + saucy visuals

Infectious alt-pop from Boy On The Roof, lo-fi strange-folk from the delightful Erin K & Tash, sassy acoustica from Little B and one man bluesabilly explosion JD Smith! DJ Grae J will be spinning a selection of floorfilling country, blues, trash 'n' roll!!

   
 
Jester AVAILABLE FOR HIRE ! contact spoon@thecrosskings.co.uk  
   

FRI 12
Main Bar HOMOS IN HISTORY 7pm £7
 
Rebecca Steele, Daniel Dresner and Paul Chapman recite a collection of poetry and prose dealing with the expression of same sex desire, from Ancient Greece to modern Times.
   
Jester POP TIL YOU DROP 8pm Donation entry !
  Put on your dancing shoes for a night full of top tunes. From brand new songs to good old classics, from the biggest chart hits to unknown gems, from indie killers to electro anthems. If we don't play it, it's simply not good enough !
   

SAT 13
Main Bar BEST OF UK SKA 3pm £8 tbc
  9 great ska & ska-punk bands !

The JB Conspiracy + Dirty Revolution + Tyrannosaurus Alan + The Junk + Beat The Red Light + The Extinguishers + Resolution 242 + True Beat + Torn Out
         
 
Jester PSP (Pre-Slimelight Party) flyer 8pm - 2am FREE
 
To fight off your winter depression PSP invites you into the Cross Kings for a free club night, bringing together some great DJs to play you a beguiling and seductive mix of tracks from the EBM, Industrial and Goth scenes. Fight off the cold and dark of another London Winter, come in, forget the stress of reality and just enjoy the music....
   

SUN 14
Main Bar CROSS KINGS OPEN-MIC Every Sunday ! 7pm FREE
  All welcome, just turn up and play or for more info and possible pre-booking contact James

Please note we have no in-house amps or instruments ! we can however DI guitar/bass/keys into the PA :) Bring your own guitar, drum, backing track etc...
   

MON 15
Main Bar

DAN SPANNER BIG BAND – Rehearsal

8pm FREE
  The Dan Spanner Big Band is made up of quality players from around London. They play music from the repertoire of Count Basie, Buddy Rich, Stan Kenton, Maynard Ferguson, Charlie Mingus... and other great big bands, with the aim of entertaining audiences rather than appealing to their intellect. This great music and indeed the appeal of a big band with all that blowey metal and collective swing thing should be celebrated...
   

TUE 16
Main Bar AVAILABLE FOR HIRE ! contact spoon@thecrosskings.co.uk      
   
 
Jester LION’S DEN COMEDY CAR CRASH New act / new material night 7pm £4
   

WED 17
Main Bar AVAILABLE FOR HIRE ! contact spoon@thecrosskings.co.uk      
   
 
Jester The Really Lovely Comedy Company present : THE REALLY LOVELY NEW ACT NIGHT 7.30pm £2
 


Giving the best performers on the new act circuit the space and time they deserve to show an audience just what they can do. Every show features a boutique selection of six excellent comedians, served up to you on a leafy bed of stage.

Michel Grobelny + Matt Thomas + Harry Carr + Elena Procopiu + Robert Kommisky + Matt Highton

Compere: Paul Duncan McGarrity

The Really Lovely Comedy Company (RLC) have established a reputation as quality comedy promoters with their other nights The Really Lovely Comedy Show and The Really Lovely Comedy Tea Party. Previous acts include Josie Long, Will Andrews & Idiots of Ants.

   

THU 18
Main Bar UTTER ! Spoken Word 7pm £5 b4 7.30pm, £10 after !
 


'Utter!' is London's liveliest spoken word night, presenting poetry with a good sense of humour, and comedy with a poetic sensibility.

Hosted by Richard Tyrone Jones : 'Often witty, sometimes unsettling and always smart' - Edinburgh comedy award winner Tim Key. more info

   
 
Jester AVAILABLE FOR HIRE ! contact spoon@thecrosskings.co.uk  
   

FRI 19
Main Bar CIRQUE DE CREME ANGLAIS 7.30pm £5  
 
CalatrilloZ : Brainchild of Brazilian opera singer Mr Z, whose starting point was not to write songs but to dream up a back story, their show is a maelstrom of make-up, masks, gothic pomp, burlesque and rock opera.
‘A meeting of Led Zeppelin, Queen and a night at the theatre followed by a trip to the circus' - Fat Talent

The Furbelows : Both elegant and shambolic, a casserole of humorous pop frippery, guitar explosions and ancient blues and gospel howls.
‘As much fun as a Playboy Playmate and twice as pleasant to listen to’ -- A New Band A Day
‘They sound like an Emile Zola novel, and that’s not a sound you hear every day’ - Tourdates

The Baron and the General : Describing themselves, not too helpfully, as sounding like ‘a nylon forest whistling funerals for the dead of night’ they are better summed up thus: ‘Imagine that Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Jack the Ripper and Charles Darwin met one night in a Limehouse opium den, were handed instruments and told to produce a psychedelic garage/zouk act’ - Callum McCarthy

Uke Attack! Uke Attack! : Three men, three mics, three ukuleles and a number of tunes you thought you knew--Whole Lotta Love, Itchycoo Park, Voodoo Chile all make sense at last when heard this way.

DJ MC Fruity will be reclining in his art deco den, dropping everything from 78s on his wind-up gramophone to 1980s punk to film soundtracks.

As usual there will be a free limited-edition badge for each guest and free custard creams all night.

   
Jester TWISTED FUDGE - Comedy ! 8pm £4
 


TWISTED FUDGE returns with more sketches and dirt and this time they've bought some stand ups too.

Join us for the first Twisted Fudge residency at The Cross Kings. For your entertainment we have award-winning worthy stand up from:

CIARAN MURPHY + KEVIN HAMPSON + RUPI JOHAL + BILLY HILL and many, many sketches from TWISTED FUDGE.

All for £4. Fudging lovely!

“There were no fucking canapés” – Vanessa Feltz
“There were too many canapés” – Karen Carpenter
“Comedians?...I thought they were cunts” – The Archbishop of Canterbury

   

SAT 20
Main Bar The Trashville Lounge Presents.... TRAILER TRASH ORCHESTRA ALBUM LAUNCH   8pm £
 


The Voodoo Pins
+ The Trailer Trash Orchestra + Long Bone Trio + The Astronauts + Niall Quinn + Jude Cowan + DJ Grae J. + saucy visuals


Psychotic trash-blues from The Voodoo Pins, Hertfordshire's premier country-trash outfit The Trailer Trash Orchestra touting their new Shakin' The Dead album, cool scuzzy garageabilly from Long Bone Trio, legendary anarchic folk-punk from The Astronauts, gorgeous acoustic country n folk from Niall Quinn (and Katie Harnett) and quirky anti-folk n chanson from Jude Cowan ! DJ Grae J will be spinning a selection of floorfilling country, blues, trash 'n' roll!!

 
Jester KING KOOL'S ALBUM LAUNCH PARTY
  8pm £TBC
 


Dirty fuzzy feedback drenched 2-piece guitar and drums garage duo launch their new album...

King Kool : the sound of your radio finally getting fed up with vomiting out crap year after year and taking the law into its own hands. It¹s every gangfight between crack-crazed bikers and acid-addled nerds. It¹s the future of the past and the present of the future.

"pure, balls-out feral garage-punk greatness, Goddamn!!" Joe Lindsay BBC Radio Ulster
"the most utterly fearsome garage punk new wave, no wave, tidal wave music you have ever heard" David Quantick


The Second Line
: a band with a sound and purpose that sets them a million miles away from todays indie scene. These boys play a unique brand of alternative rock that is steeped in both poetry and sentiment. By engaging the imagery of the human condition, with the rock 'n' roll traditions of the 1970s they invoke a romance of suggestion and an industry of mind that is perhaps accounted for by their love of post-punk legends Fugazi and early Manic Street Preachers.

³We sing stinging rhymes about passion and the decay of powers, the promise of seduction and defeat² - Laurie Lee, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning


Here's a bootleg from King Kool's gig here last year : http://www.youtube.com/user/thedan60#p/u/4/xN4mGD15alM

King Kool's latest promo vid : http://www.youtube.com/user/thedan60#p/a/u/0/ptYRK6mJ7mI

   

SUN 21
Main Bar CROSS KINGS OPEN-MIC Every Sunday ! 7pm FREE
  All welcome, just turn up and play or for more info and possible pre-booking contact James

Please note we have no in-house amps or instruments ! we can however DI guitar/bass/keys into the PA :) Bring your own guitar, drum, backing track etc...
   

MON 22
Main Bar DAN SPANNER BIG BAND 8pm FREE
  The Dan Spanner Big Band is made up of quality players from around London. They play music from the repertoire of Count Basie, Buddy Rich, Stan Kenton, Maynard Ferguson, Charlie Mingus... and other great big bands, with the aim of entertaining audiences rather than appealing to their intellect. This great music and indeed the appeal of a big band with all that blowey metal and collective swing thing should be celebrated...
   
 
Jester DUKE MITCHEL FILM APPRECIATION CLUB 8pm FREE
  The only FREE cult film night in London ! http://www.myspace.com/thedukefilm read the Time Out article  

TUE 23
Main Bar PARTY FOR LOVE - Jazz 7.30pm £3
 
A celebration of love in all its various forms, with live music, dancing and free smiles for all !

Music: Live Jazz from Sextetera, plus residents DJs Axletree and Rabael
   
 
Jester LION’S DEN COMEDY CAR CRASH New act / new material night 7pm £4
   

WED 24
Main Bar THE LEN ARULIAH QUARTET 8pm £5
 


Len Aruliah - saxes / David Frankel - keyboards / Julie Walkington - bass / Gregg Brennan - drums

with special guest from Vancouver, Canada : Jared Burrows - guitar

Saxophonist Len Aruliah brings his unique sound and informed writing to London at last with an exciting new jazz group.
The quartet plays a dynamic mix of his original compositions and those by his long-time collaborator Jared Burrows. A contemporary blend of strong melodies, rich harmonies and powerful grooves create an enjoyable sound influenced by the music of Kenny Wheeler and Dave Holland.

   
 
Jester AVAILABLE FOR HIRE ! contact spoon@thecrosskings.co.uk  
   

THU 25
Main Bar CLUB FABULOUS 8pm £5
 
Lost Gravity
(Rock/Metal/Alternative)
Battles Of Winter (alt rock)
The Interventions (indie pop)
Gabi Garbutt (acoustic indie folk blues)
Rosie (acoustic singer songwriter)
   
 
Jester AVAILABLE FOR HIRE ! contact spoon@thecrosskings.co.uk  
   

FRI 26
Main Bar AVAILABLE FOR HIRE ! 8  
   
Jester PBH Free Fringe presents… STONY BROKE FRIDAYS 8pm £5
  A brand new comedy night with special guests... 8 Acts. 5 pounds. You do the maths!
 

James Ross hosts this monthly night of stand-up, sketch and character comedy, showcasing several talented performers from the Edinburgh Fringe. This month features Ben Target, Catherine Semark, Flip the Bird, Matt Whistler, Nicola Bolsover, Punch Bowl, and Tom Bell.

   

SAT 27
Main Bar CHARITY ROCKS ! - MSRC BENEFIT 8pm £10 / £7 adv
 
The Elrics
: A 4 piece Rock N Roll Band from Oxford, England. First gig supporting The Subways at the O2 in Oxford to a sold out 1000 capacity crowd. Selected for the final stages of the Jack Daniels and Red Stripe unsigned competitions, they have since been in the studio recording demos under the guidance of producer John Halliday (Candyskins, The Young Knives) and played 2009's Cornbury Festival supporting The Pretenders and The Magic Numbers.
Taking Rock 'n Roll song writing to the next level, The Elrics create pop tunes that appeal to all generations - a band not to be missed.

We Used To Make Things : a London eight piece known for causing musical merriment and outbreaks of all-night wiggling up and down the land. Their
brassy pop sounds have been compared to the Kinks, the Beatles and, er, The Muppets.

Jehnniel a female acoustic artist who decribes her sound as mixed music artistry as sweet as pastry, enjoy the sound of uplifted positivity!

MSRC is a national charity who offer much needed support to suffers of multiple sclerosis. For more information see their website.

   
 
Jester END OF RADIO 8pm £3tbc
 
Progressive punk/post hardcore,
alt-rock mood sculptors and instrumental post-rock with a progressive edge...

Plus DJs playing an eclectic selection of Rock, Indie, Breaks, DnB and Hip Hop.

   

SUN 28
Main Bar CROSS KINGS OPEN-MIC Every Sunday ! 7pm FREE
  All welcome, just turn up and play or for more info and possible pre-booking contact James

Please note we have no in-house amps or instruments ! we can however DI guitar/bass/keys into the PA :) Bring your own guitar, drum, backing track etc...
   

 
     
    ...click here for March...
 

 




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