SIC & TLOBF.COM
present

ILL FIT II: Exile On Old Street

a FREE party at London’s premier sweatbox, Old Blue Last, on Monday November 17th

Dear ol’ dirty ol’ rock’n'roll this time. 
So, tight trousers, laser rainbows and unreasonably high spirits all round 
 
Livemusics from:
 
DISCOVERY ZONE
www.myspace.com/discoveryzoneband
The UK debut of Hollywood’s Gonzoid Rock slash Bionic Pop wunderkids.
Imagine, if you are able, dear reader, a titanic and somewhat lethal blend of The Melvins and The Beach Boys.
 
INNER CITY PIRATES
www.myspace.com/innercitypirates
From the valleys, a perkily deranged, and NME/Zane approved, garage band take on partay music.  
Y’all do like to party, doncha?   

RUBELLA
www.myspace.com/catchrubella
All grrrl 3piece, playing their 3rd ever show, and joining the dots tween YYYs and Babes In Toyland.
Going hell for leather to entertain you and drain you.

+ DJ SETS from SIC Unsoundsystem + Team TLOBF
Whom, you may safely assume, will be bringing the motherfucking noise and all the sleazy glamour you can swallow.

and there is yet more:
free Jager shots for hands with studded wristbands   
free stuff
free CDs
free shots
free entry
free bird*
free dog night*
All right now?

Doors will open at 8pm and it runs til 12 or something. 

And do remember that entry is free. 
As a bird.

There is no guest list so do come early if you want in because as you may or may not know the room is no bigger than your very own bedroom and it will fill up pretty damn swiftly.

Old Blue Last
38 Gt Eastern St, corner of Curtain Rd
Hoxditch
EC2A 3ES

ILL FIT will return 
on
Monday December 8th.
With Loney, dear + very very special fucking Xmas guests

*subject to availabililty

For a country that’s five times smaller than Blighty, Sweden’s recent output of pretty-pink pop pickers is remarkable. Escaping the mainstream banality of - the hyperbolically bloated - ABBA, gorgeous tunesmiths like Jens Lekman, The Concretes and  Peter, Bjorn & John have filtered into the hearts of both snot-nosed musos and tune-hugging mainstreamites with their clutterless, pursed lip  melodics.

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Bit of an exclusive here folks. The Swedish production duo Air France have just inked a deal with our good friends over at Something In Construction (home to Loney Dear, Christian Silva and Other Passengers). The deal is so fresh in fact, that the contract was only signed yesterday (!). The duo, from Gothenberg have previously released two EP’s; On Trade Winds from 2007 and the recent No Way Down which, if you care about such things, received a whopping 8.6 rating from Pitchfork. Must be good then eh? Well, yes - it bloody well is.

Air France create intelligent, dreamy dance music at its very best - filled with lusicous samples, tropicala beats, gorgeous vocals and an seemingly effortless pop sensibility. What is it with Swedish folk and their abbility to carve out pop classics? I swear they put something in the water over there..

Aggressive Henrik and Gentleandhumble Joel (best stage names ever?) will be over in the UK for some DJ dates at some point in the Autumn - more details when we get them. The two EP’s will be repackaged as an album which is due out in September.

The duo are currently working on a remix for ex-Concretes singer Victoria Bergsman alter-ego Taken By Trees.

Incidentally, an exclusive track from the No Way Down EP will appear on this Friday’s mixtape. So look out for it. It is, in a word, GENIUS.

In case you didn’t know already - TLOBF are hosting a free mixtape called Building with Strings from the folks down at Something In Construction records. It’s actually frigging excellent and anybody who’s anybody has already downloaded it, so you might want to get your act together and get it yourself before someone brings it up at a party and you embarrass yourself by being the only person there not cool enough to know who’s on it. Anyway, the launch for it was at The Old Blue Last – an e-mail tipping me off about some free tequila and a free gig had me scurrying down there like the freeloading, music-loving boozehound before I could finish reading it, I can only assume that TLOBF intended for me to write something about the night also… Continue Reading

Loney, Dear

You know that kick ass mix tape that you’ve all been downloading the past week or so? Well, the label behind it Something In Construction want to give you, dear reader a special treat. They are offering one lucky, lucky person the chance to win their entire back catalogue of albums and, in their own words “whatever else we can find lying around”. Heres whats up for grabs:

69CORP - Our Present To The Future
The Silent League - The Orchestra, Sadly, Has Refused
Lazurus - Like Trees
Kid Casanova - Heart Attacks & Subway Maps
Damn Arms - Test Pattern
Akira The Don - When We Were Young
Loney, Dear - Sologne
Other Passengers - We Are All
The Silent League - Of Stars & Other Somebodies
Christian Silva - Onward!
++ the label samplers: Appetite For Construction, Construction Time Again and Building WIth Strings

To win this fabulous booty. Simply answer the following question.

The Silent Leagues’ Justin Russo used to be a member of which influential US band?

Send your answers to competition@thelineofbestfit.com with the subject header I WANT FREE CD’S NOW. Competition closes 23rd April. Remember to include your name and postal address. The winner will be notified by email. Good luck chumps!

You’ve probably already guessed by now but we, at TLOBF love new music. A lot. That familiar feeling of sheer joy when you stumble across a brilliant new band? The tingles in your stomach, the need to tell everyone who’ll listen about them? That’s what drives us and is the very reason that this site exists. Which is why, we’re thrilled to be hosting this exclusive FREE mix by the fine, fine people at Something In Construction records. They know a thing about new music too, you know. The nineteen tracks contained on ‘Building With Strings’ all present something new, fresh and very exciting. Allow SiC head honcho David Laurie to take your hand and guide you through the mix.

Established in 2005, Something In Construction has released all kinds of music from the UK, US, Sweden and Australia. Folk to disco, rock to hip hop. Depends what moves us on the day, we don’t have a plan, we don’t have a type. We know what we are doing and we are goddamn proud of all our bands.

We like surprises. Mainly we like pop music. LCD Soundsystem, Duran Duran, Operator Please, Black Angels, Subtle, Husker Du, Emmy The Great. They’re all pop music to us.

We like surprises and we like songs. We like things that are beautiful and strange. We might like you. To be fair to you, if you are reading this here, then we will probably have something to talk about. Write to us, buy us a beer, tell us something. We like hearing from people. People are fun. Mental but fun. We also really like Chinese food. Don’t you? We like to just order lots of starters. Really though. You hungry?

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The rather excellent London based label Something In Construction have unleashed their brand spanking new website onto the public today. It features a whole bevvy of information on their current roster plus up to date news, shop and a rather nice links section that says rather nice things about this very site. Check it out here.

Also currently available to download for free is the most recent Something In Construction label sampler which features a whole host of TLOBF favourties.

Download the sampler below and, whilst your waiting for it to find its way to your hard drive you can read interviews we did with numerous SiC acts such as Loney, dear / Other Passengers / Blackstrap.

Something In Construction: Appetite For Construction
Blackstrap - Winning Speech >> DOWNLOAD
Loney Dear - The City The Airport (C.S.S. remix) >> DOWNLOAD
Damn Arms - Homewrecker >> DOWNLOAD
Other Passengers - Sick Sick >> DOWNLOAD
The Jealous Girlfriends - Hieroglyphic >> DOWNLOAD
Christiansilva - The Chopping Board >> DOWNLOAD
Susu - Steal My Air >> DOWNLOAD
Akira The Don - Hypocrite >> DOWNLOAD
Kid Casanova - Tearing You Apart >> DOWNLOAD
The Leisure Society - A Richer Dust >> DOWNLOAD