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 !

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

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

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...

[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

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

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!!

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.

'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

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

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

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.

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.

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