**UNDER COVER** There is a House in New Orleans

**CLUB NIGHT** Fanny Pack- Adventures in Neon

ohSHITlondon presents... Fanny Pack | Adventures in Neon

FANNY PACK IS BACK for more adventures in 90s neon!

We'll be kicking it at our new home, THE WAITING ROOM, (formerly The Drop) on Stoke Newington High Street - a 5 minute bus ride from Dalston.

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On the decks, giving you eargasms all night:

** DJs B-Low and G-Child **

(the girls are, Girl Germs, spit., She Runs With Wolves, Ladyfest Ten, Now That's What I Call A Clubnight)

More DJs TBA.

Visual delights played out by our amazing VJ **Luvmeat**

We'll be shaking our moneymakers to:

Salt N Pepa - Arrested Development - Hole - Pulp - Ace of Base - House of Pain - Elastica - L7 - Bikini Kill - Michael Jackson - Coolio - Nirvana - Blur - Skee Lo - Deee Lite - Smashing Pumpkins - Placebo - 2 Unlimited - Aqua - Breeders - Prodigy - Garbage - The Fugees - No Doubt - Lush - Luniz - Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince - MC Hammer - Babylon Zoo - The Shamen - Scatman John - Baby D - TLC - Snap! - Vanilla Ice - and much more...

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Date: Friday 13th April
Door: £3 before 11, £4 after 11
Time: 10pm - 4
Venue: The Waiting Room, 175 Stoke Newington High Street, N16 0LH

Ladyfest Manchester 2012

Ladyfest Manchester 2012 have put call for donations to help raise funds for the festival.

The organisers are looking for £550 to cover venue hire, promotional materials, travel expenses for artists, insurance and refreshments.

Ladyfest Manchester says: "Ladyfest is a global festival which promotes & celebrates women in arts and music. It's an opportunity for anyone - regardless of age, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, background or ability - to become involved in a safe, fun, supportive and inclusive non-profit, non-hierarchical event."

Ladyfest Manchester 2012 is set to take place in August 2012.

The female-focused arts and culture festival that is run solely by volunteers.

To donate and find out more information about Ladyfest Manchester 2012 follow this link.

Gaggle Announce New Album

The all girl, diy choir, Gaggle, have announced the release of their debut album From the Mouth of the Cave.

The album will be released on June 4 on Transgressive Records and will be preceded by the single 'Army of Birds' on May 21, which you can catch a snippet of below.

Gaggle is led by Deborah Coughlin who has written the album with Simon Dempsey.

Last year Gaggle took on the enormous task of reworking the 1969 opera The Brilliant and the Dark at the Royal Albert Hall.

Gaggle are set to announce live shows for this year soon.

Tracklisting:
From the Mouth of the Cave
Army of Birds
Power of Money
5/4
Gaslight
Liar, Interlude. Congo
Bang on the Drum
Crows
Lullaby
Hello Spider
Leave The City

**GOLDEN OLDIES** Lijadu Sisters

As a connoisseur of this grand old art called music I generally think I've heard pretty much every genre going. So you could guess when I heard about this band that were making, what the writer described as,  'afro-beat soul' I was pretty intrigued.

The band in question are The Lijadu Sisters, identical twin sisters Taiwo and Kehinde Lijadu, who decided to make forward thinking, funk, post-punk music in 1970s Nigeria, which, as you could imagine, was not an easy task. The sisters had to fight for their right to be heard and remembered, they have recently released a collection of their greatest hits, in an industry and decade that didn't want to hear women sounding anything other than 'nice'.

As you'd expect their sound could be described as many things but never 'nice'. They sing the same thing at the same time throughout all their songs, which takes a while to get used to at first. Jagged guitars and nagging synths constantly weave themselves in and out of songs that are based around an steady, afrobeat rhythm. I know. It's a lot to get you're head around. Too many genres, too much to think about but stay with me here.

Not only is their music interesting but their lyrics show that the sisters were more than just two pretty faces. 'Danger' documents a turbulent relationship with, what we are to assume is a violent lover, as the sisters sing that he "came into my life and dispersed danger". 'Cashing In' is a cynical take on the consumerist world, which sees the sisters shout in unison "We're cashing in, prostitution, yeah, we're cashing in, revolution yeah / Poverty is still a common sight." It's that kind of social commentary that you would expect to hear from The Clash or X-Ray Spex, which makes the Lijadu Sisters so intriguing. 

There are a few interviews with the sisters here and there but not enough. I wish there were more out there about them that I could find but short of going on a trip to Nigeria and asking them myself some questions may have to remain unanswered. In the meantime I'll be listening to their recently released best of album and then finding someone who looks slightly like me to sing in unison with. I think it's a good plan.

**SONG OF THE MONTH** Trailer Trash Tracys

I heard about the Trailer Trash Tracys a while ago, back in the day when I was interning at Plan B magazine. My task for the day was to find out more about a of couple of up and coming bands at the time, one of them being Trailer Trash Tracys.

I thought it would be an easy task but after hours and hours of searching all I could find about them on the internet was one extremely sparse Last FM page. Not very useful to me at all. Fast forward three years later and TTTs are everywhere and they're only going to get bigger.

The main reason I love this band also is because when I hear their name I think of an old time country band with banjos and homely looking women screaming their lungs out.

TTTs are obviously nothing like that. Their brand of spaced out, electro fuzz is perfect for those who want to reminise about the good old days when bands like My Bloody Valentine, Jesus and Mary Chain and Mazzy Star ruled the indie world. They're essentially the 80s in smaller, cooler, better dressed nutshell. Now I don't know about you but, I, for one, am excited about that whole idea.

www.trailertrashtracys.com