To round off TLOBF’s week-long obsession with Brainlove Records back in September, Lauren Down trotted off to City Road and the line-up bursting with talent there-in.

BRNLV Tour Week Interview // Mat Riviere vs Matthew Gregory (Poet)
BRNLV Tour Week ends with Mat Riverie having a chat with the Suffolk born poet Matthew Gregory.

Mat Riviere – Follow Your Heart
If Ian Curtis punched the guy from Casiotone for the Painfully alone in his doughy, bearded face, then Mat Riviere, if watching, would later be able to do a pretty convincing impression of the whole fiasco all by himself.

Mat Riviere announces new “Evening Drive EP”
Containing a stunning orchestral reworking of live favourite ‘The Give In’ by Bleeding Heart Narrative, and two reworkings of the title track by electronica wizard Levyashin and post-rock stalwarts The Monroe Transfer.

ILL FIT 19.1 w/ Memory Tapes, Mat Riviere and Lisa Milberg (The Concretes)
If you miss this show, you’ll be kicking yourself all the way into 2011… Fact. Details of our latest club night inside.

Mat Riviere announces single, new video and tour dates!
‘FYH’ will be available for free, with a sweet download bundle containing a Napoleon IIIrd remix, a Dreamtrak remix, a live version from Iceland Airwaves 2009, and a brand new b-side. Tidy!

Brainlove Festival – Brixton Windmill, London 30/05/09 [Photos]
If there’s one thing London label Brainlove Records could never be accused of, it’s being predictable. The label’s annual one-day festival held at Brixton Windmill featured a prismatic cross-section of amazing bands.
HEADLINES
- Best Coast announce UK headline tour, new album due in Spring
- Timber Timbre announced as support for Laura Marling tour
- Clarence Clemons’ nephew Jake Clemons joins the E Street Band
- Barack Obama drops campaign mixtape
- Cate Le Bon announces UK tour
- Kanye West and Jay-Z rumoured to be appearing in Shoreditch today
- The Flaming Lips, Friends and Tom Vek amongst those confirmed for The Parklife Weekender 2012
- Hot Chip, Mount Kimbie, Metronomy and more to play Sónar 2012
- Josh T. Pearson, Beth Jeans Houghton and Gilles Peterson added to The Apple Cart line-up
- Sigur Rós, The xx, The Horrors and more added to Bestival line-up
Videos
Latest Reviews
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- Amanda Mair – Amanda Mair
- Karen Dalton – 1966
- Gotye – Making Mirrors
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- Thomas Truax – Monthly Journal
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