Hello everyone! We’re excited to be hosting three great bands this May! We’re at The Victoria, in-between Mile End station and Victoria park. Our last night there had a great atmosphere and was loads of fun, so we’re back again! It’s a charming pub and does great American Diner style food. So why not head straight there after work to get yourself a good seat and a burger before the bands start!
This time, we’re very excited to be able to present the following three brilliant acts for the night.
Ghosts You Echo are a London based 3 piece, that utilise an ensemble of sounds ranging from keyboard to violin.
‘Taught, dark, percussive songs filtered through this one woman band’s unique musical vision. Her DIY approach, using vintage drum machines and battered guitars, is generating a lot of airplay. And with her stellar set at last year’s Emerging Proms Festival, the future is looking bright for Ghosts You Echo’ Roundhouse.org.uk
One Man Destruction Show is Adam Harmer, a rock and roll playing one man band. He’s got all the percussion an act could ever need.
‘Within seconds of him starting, the curious crowd are grinning in disbelief at one man making such a wonderful racket’
http://www.i94bar.com
Tender Objects are an Anglo-Swedish indiepop band, with jangling 12-string electric guitars and male-female vocals, whose debut release is a split CD EP on Dufflecoat Records.
‘Tender Objects are the next big thing!’
Anorakcitypop podcast
FB event: http://www.facebook.com/events/327866670620659/
Last FM event: http://www.last.fm/event/3287981+Librarians+Wanted
Timings to follow shortly!
Rupert, David and Silja LWxx
Yay! We’re very excited to announce the second Librarians Wanted gig this year! This time we’re at a lovely east end boozer called The Victoria, located in-between Mile End station and Victoria park. This pub effuses charm and does great American Diner style food. So why not head straight there after work to get yourself a good seat and a burger before the bands start!
Speaking of the bands, we’re so excited to be able to present the following three brilliant acts for the night.
Just Handshakes (We’re British) are a four-piece from Leeds, formed on a dingy industrial estate and bonded over their shared love of gin and Swedish pop.
“Their dynamic blend of bright vocals, jangly guitars and casio adoration, could add colour to the gloomiest of lyrics.” Drowned In Sound
Alto45 are a lab-coat wearing diy-fi pop trio from Norwich. They’ve recently released their second album. They sing songs about the sea, the moon and robots planning world domination.
“Casio-esque interstellar synth-fi to slow, lulling indie-scapes” Drowned In Sound
Hoshal Patrick is a London-based musical duo consisting of Alex & James. They make eccentric pop music involving giants out at sea, birds flying through space, nonsensical rhyme in 7/8, references to Rosemary’s Baby and the occasional soul-singing robot.
“A bit like MGMT mixed with a dollop of Adam and Joe”
Somehow I think Alto45 and Hoshal Patrick will get on!
And did we mention it’s free….?
Rupert, David and Silja LW xx
Pretty girls, pretty boys have you ever heard your mummy scream, noise annoys!!!
We sure have - Big Pink Cake and Librarians Wanted are very very excited about presenting a noisy noisy noisy time with THE BLANCHE HUDSON WEEKEND - rising from the ashes of The Manhattan Love Suicides, charming us with their sonic sound scapes and hypnotic pop… gorgeousness, immediacy and noise straight to the heart.
HOROWITZ - Fuzz, fuzz and more fuzz brilliance from tools you can trust, honest to goodness stuff, our indie pop hard core heroes!
THE FIREWORKS - Snap, crackle… P!O!P!, noise, noise and then ooh its gone all quiet… then ouch… me earholes… eeeeee!!!
PLUS PLUS PLUS those amazing we can’t wait to go berserk on the dancefloor SPIRAL SCRATCH DJs… YIPEEEEEEE!!!!!! indie pop sugary sweetness. Free cakes provided…sugar rush indie POP party people… losing IT!!!! £5 on door or wegottickets!
I just uploaded “Librarians Wanted popcast no.4” to www.mixcloud.com - listen now!
Time to dust off those bookshelves and get ready to dance!
Us librarians were so, so happy-exhausted after a year of 13 LWs and a birthday party that totally rocked our socks (and not to mention party hats) off. More about that and the last six months soon (it’s been so much fun, and so hectic we haven’t had time to sit down and blog about it). But we just wanted to share some great events that we’ve been invited to take part in, as they are coming up very soon!
Evans the Death rocked our 1st birthday.
First of all, it’s An Evening With A Little Orchestra, courtesy of How Does It Feel to be Loved. That’s on Thursday 26th of January at the Buffalo Bar which is right next to Highbury and Islington Station, which again is on the super fast(?!) Victoria Line. So we want no excuses like it being a school night or it being too far out!
A Little Orchestra’s performance was one of our Indietracks favourites in 2011, and we hope to host them at some point this year too. On Thursday’s, the wonderful Haiku Salut (who we have partied with at Indietracks and swam with in lakes in Sweden, and who have also, and very beautifully so, played our night) will be joining them, as will our friends Matt and Sharon from the excellent A Fine Day For Sailing. The Madrigals who have also played LW and are just fantastic will also be playing, as will Shirley Lee, who we haven’t heard live but we think will be great. So do come along! Doors open at 8pm and we’ll be playing tunes from then.
Haiku Salut played LW in May 2011, stunning, like a soundtrack to Amelie II.
The Madrigals’ beautiful melodies at the Dogstar. (Photo by Johnny Raper)
Sharon and Matt when AFDFS charmed the audience at the LW birthday.
Then the evening after, Friday 27th of Jan, (after lots of coffees in the daytime) we’ll be DJing at Big Pink Cake and Spiral Scratch’s The Sunny Street album launch party. 
The Sunny Street at LW back in July 2011. (Photo by Johnny Raper)
We are big fans of the band and the people who organise it, and also excited to hear The Fireworks and The Give It Ups again. This time we’ll be at The Betsey Trotwood in Farringdon and after the bands the DJ sets will go on until 1am. As this is not a school night you definitely don’t have that excuse to not come out in case you DID use it on Thursday. We’ll be going straight from there to So Tough! So Cute! at the Drop in Stoke Newington to do some more dancing, hopefully to a bit of Broder Daniel. 
The Fireworks with their heartshaped guitar played our birthday too.
Finally, we’ve been invited by the awesome Playhouse girls Natalie and Lauren to join them on the decks Saturday 11 Feb. Their nights are always complete pop (and rap and Rihanna and you name it) mayhem, pure fun and no-one taking themselves too seriously; never seen such cool dance moves. We’re excited about both guest DJing and dancing when Nat and Lauren are playing their tunes, so we really hope you’ll be on the dancefloor that night. Again, at the Drop in Stoke Newington, which has the best vibe about it and those dangerous Jaegers. 
Ready to rock the party at the Drop. (Flyer by Playhouse)
And after that we can’t wait to dance, dance, dance at Popfest and for the next LW club night which will soon be announced. Should any bands be interested in playing we’re planning line-ups now, so feel free to email us on librarians.wanted@gmail.com or visit our Facebook page.
David, Roo and Silja LW xx
LW can’t wait to kickstart the new year. (Photo by Johnny Raper)
When Librarians Wanted first met, Indietracks 2010.
(James, honourary librarian, second left)
Band timings for our birthday on Sat 10th announced - be there for 7.30 to catch the very special 2-song sets by some of our favourite bands - and to sample a birthday cupcake!
All-star special birthday guests (listed below main bands in the order they’ll appear on stage) from 7.45 (doors 7.30)
T.O.Y.S 9.10-9.40
Evans the Death 9.50-10.20
Wake the President 10.30-11ish
+ DJs Lisa Bouvier & AJ Miller & Librarians Wanted 11-3am/inbetween bands
2-song bands playing in this order between 7.45 & 9pm:
1. Tiny Birds
2. Mason
3. King of Cats
4. Owl + Mouse
5. A Fine Day for Christmas
6. The Understudies
7. Electrophönvintage
8. Fountains
9. The Fireworks
10. Erin K & Tash
11. Lisa Bouvier
Our very first LW, 4 December 2010, different haircuts and our very first batch
of cupcakes. Our friend Mason (L) will be playing two songs this Saturday.
Party hats ON!
Roo, David & Silja bday librarians xx
For more info, please see the event page or the blog post below.
Tickets, £6 advance from Wegottickets, £7 door, £6 with a valid library card. 
Photo by Ian Watson. Guest DJing at HDIF in January 2011. David seems
to have gotten more hair since then! And we love STRIPES.
The very first library kid drawings and logo suggestion, sketched on post-it notes.
Our LW baby turns 1, and we want to celebrate with you on Saturday 10th of December! *And Wake the President’s Erik and Bjorn are turning 26, so it’s a joint celebration (= more cake!)
In the last year we’ve had some incredible times fistpumping the night away to our favourite bands, making waffles for Jens, camping and seeing our friend James climb a very long pole at Indietracks, going to Sweden to go nightswimming, DJ and do a spot of bartending, learning how to tweet and blog and bake, we’ve taken great pleasure in playing the Cribs amongst twee songs, we’ve had a few too many Jaegers, danced until the morning light many a night- and met such wonderful new friends..
So we want to invite you all (and new friends) to our birthday party!
There will be birthday cake, there will be party hats, and there will be not only three, but many more, of our favourite bands!
Our very first Librarians Wanted was early last December. It was meant to be a one-off, a project in doing something we didn’t have a clue about how to do (organising gigs and DJing). But on an eve the Victoria Line was down and London was disrupted due to snow, a lovely crowd turned up and the bands were fantastic. It was such a heartwarming feeling. We just had to continue doing things we don’t know how to do for a bit longer…
EVANS THE DEATH headlined that first gig, and we’ll never ever forget them playing I’m So Unclean. They totally kicked *ss, nothing less, the coolest kids in London town - but also the nicest ones. And we are so happy to host them again, a year after - all grown-up - signed by Fortuna POP! and being well on their way to indiepop stardom! It will be very special to see them play again at our birthday.
T.O.Y.S played Librarians Wanted last summer, and their music has since been played in every LW DJ set. (Especially at Cosy Den in Stockholm the audience kept asking for more of their song ‘Doll’, when they were not asking for Shoreline, of course) Something in the vein of Joy Division - or New Order (only at NO’s best though!). T.O.Y.S are stars in our universe!
This is a LW first for WAKE THE PRESIDENT - they are a band we’ve been dreaming of putting on for quite a while now -they are pure awesomeness. They are coming down from Scotland to play, so let’s hope there are no trains stuck in the snow! NME says “each track glimmers with all the existential angst of an art student with a nasty hangover” - sounds perfect, right? We will be beaming and dancing around to this for sure! And apparently they hold their guitars very high, can anyone confirm this? We have yet to see them live! (a birthday wish come true)
+ DJs: LISA BOUVIER (Awesome Swedish songstress) + AJ MILLER (that tall sunglasses-wearing one outta T.O.Y.S) + us librarians if we haven’t overdosed on cake.
+ VERY SPECIAL BIRTHDAY GUESTS who will kickstart the party with a (not so) open-mic set!
A Fine Day for Christmas
Electrophönvintage
Erin K & Tash
Fountains
King of Cats
Lisa Bouvier
Mason
Owl + Mouse
The Fireworks
The Understudies
Tiny Birds
♥
+ there are a couple of more bands TBA!
These are all among our favourite musicians/people, and will be playing us a couple of songs each! Get ready for some swift on/off stage moves!
Tickets: £6 advance. £7 door/£6 with a valid library card. FREE after 11pm.
Venue: Zigfrid von Underbelly, 11 Hoxton Square, London N1 6NU. 19.30-03.00.
FB event here.
/// free birthday cake and party hats ///
Roo, Silja and David LW (b’day library kids) xx
PS. Who wants to play pass the parcel with us…? 0_=
In the last few weeks music bloggers and press have been raving about 16-year-old Amanda Mair. This shining new star is playing her very first UK gig at Librarians Wanted & Cosy Den this Friday.
Amanda Mair. Photo: Labrador Records.
And then there are all these other fantastic Swedes playing too - with the gig being headlined by our UK heroes The Proctors. What an evening it will be…
And here are the band times for Friday:
Paddington DC 7.45-8.15
Amanda Mair 8.25-8.55
Friday Bridge 9.05-9.35
De Montevert 9.45-10.15
The Proctors 10.25-11
DJs inbetween and after (Mattias Jansson from Cosy Den + LW) - until 3am!
Remember your library card for a £1 discount… (Venue, Zigfrid von Underbelly, Hoxton Square)
Librarians Wanted are collaborating with our viking friends at Cosy Den to put together a fab Anglo-Swedish line-up here in London.
We had a great time DJing at Cosy Den in Stockholm in August, and we loved the bands Mattias Jansson picked for his festival. Our guests from abroad really are the top of the crop - and they are joined by a legendary UK band too - The Proctors!
The Swedes are: de Montevert, Friday Bridge, Paddington DC and Amanda Mair!
THE PROCTORS… when you hear their music it’s easy to think of our favourite The Pains of Being Pure at Heart. But it rather feels like Pains and other ‘new’ bands have found inspiration in the Proctors, not the other way around. When you go to a Proctors gig you drift away into swaying melancholia, and smiling - at the same time! This legendary band was formed in 1993, and after a break from the late 90s until quite recently we hope they’ll keep on playing forever!
DE MONTEVERT is getting a lot of radio time in Sweden at the moment for her single ‘Skyll på mig’, and she’s got a new single out 17 Oct. Ellinor Nilsson’s tunes are so catchy we’re singing them in the shower from first listen. And for those of you who, Swedish or not, tend to shout ‘Spela Shoreline!’ at indiepop discos, she may just play her lovely Broder Daniel cover!
FRIDAY BRIDGE is modern electronic pop mixed with pop music of the ’80s – sometimes with references to classical music. The duo describe themselves as: “Pop music de luxe: hummable tunes, danceable beats, quotable lyrics” and we very much agree! Someone said they had a touch of ABBA and something royal about them too. Exciting!
PADDINGTON DISTORTION COMBO is Calle Olsson from the awesome indie band The Bear Quartet (and also Blissful/Paper/Fireside). We heard him play the piano and sing at Cosy Den in the summer, and it was so beautiful we agains drifted into happy and sad daydreams. However, with Calle, you never quite know what’s going to happen. Except it’s going to be ace!
AMANDA MAIR brings ideas of a what a young, Swedish Dusty Springfield produced by Kate Bush might have sounded like if she arrived today. With melodies lit by sunlight and a voice that goes straight to the heart this is nothing less than pure magic. She has just released the single Doubt on legendary Labrador Records, and this is only the start…
And then Mr Cosy Den himself, Mattias Jansson, will be DJing alongside us librarians! And there will be free cake. And lots and lots of smiles and dancing!
See you 11 November!
David, Roo and Silja LW and Mattias CD xx
TICKETS £7 advance here, £8 on the door - £7 with a valid library card!
Venue: Zigfrid von Underbelly, Friday 11 Nov 2011, from 7pm.
I just uploaded “Librarians Wanted popcast no.3” to www.mixcloud.com - listen now!
