Librarians Wanted turns two years old this December - and what an incredible two years it’s been for us hosting our favourite bands!

Within those two years we’ve all grown up a little, we’re drinking a little less Jaeger, we are living in two different countries, (three if you count Cambridge as a country) but we are still three friends who love dancing and fistpumping to the music we adore.

(We’ve been slacking off on the cupcake baking lately though, we blame it on leaving that magical measuring cup behind in Bethnal Green)

So come join us for our very special birthday celebrations at The Victoria, Mile End. It’s all for free of course, and we will provide the birthday hats too.

And our dear, dear friends Stars in Coma are joining us all the way from Sweden! It will be pretty spectacular judging on their first LW performance in May 2011 back at the Dogstar, and their recent Indiepopdays Berlin gig where they looked and sounded like superstars, no less.

When Stars in Coma played Librarians Wanted for the first time, in May 2011.

Stars in Coma have a special place in our hearts as Librarians Wanted met during their gig at Indietracks in 2010. And so Peacebloom and these people can be thanked for a lot of things in our lives, the club night and people we have gotten to know. It was our big aim to book them after that festival, and so we did a year and a half ago. Now they’re making a very welcome return and we hope you’ll be there to dance!



Roo LW tattooed Stars in Coma’s name (in marker pen) on his arm the last time they played…

Oh, and they are not the only indiepop darlings coming over from one of our favourite countries, oh no! We’ve got more!

Lost Summer Kitten, sweeter than Swedish apple pie with vanilla ice cream, will be sharing their beautiful melodies with us. We dare say they are better (looking, too) than First Aid Kit? Come listen and judge for yourself!

And then… Let’s not forget Electrophönvintage! This must be London’s indiepop supergroup, consisting of so many of our favourite musicians. its members have played LW in a variety of bands; Pocketbooks and The Sunny Street —- and Electrophönvintage…. as Remi played solo two songs at our last birthday. But now they are playing a whole set as a full band. (with or without a drummer - but we do like handclaps too!)

Oh, and we have one more treat for you… The Choo Choo Trains! These girls could be compared to other lovelies such as Haiku Salut and The Middle Ones, but they’ve got their own London swagger to it, if that word can be used about indiepop. We fell in love with their songs and hope they will play the one about Oslo, as 2 of 3 LWs have a connection to this awesome city.

And then there will be dancing, a bunch of lovely people, and it is all for FREE. Our birthday present for ourselves and you.

Happy birthday to us, happy birthday, everyone.

Rupert, David and Silja LWxx

(Facebook event here)

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We’ve been asked to DJ at the lovely Hangover Lounge at The Lexington, Angel, this Sunday (21st of October) and are mega excited! Especially as it’s a bookswap edition, which means you bring a book you’ve read and take someone else’s with you! If we remember we’ll bring a few Librarians Wanted badges! (not as nice as the real librarian badge our pal Roger demonstrates above, but LW ones)

We wish we could part with our copy of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close or To Kill A Mockingbird - or How to be a Graphic Designer without Losing your Soul (we fear we lost ours shortly after graduation!) - but these are too dear to us… However, owning two copies of the wonderful The Little Prince we could possibly bear to get rid of one!

We’ll also be preparing some of our fave songs to play while you’re enjoying your Sunday roast/hangover! We’ll be on early, at 2.30pm +/-, so come along to fistpum with an ale in one hand and a book in the other!

LWxx 

We are so so happy to be DJing at Indietracks this summer, the festival where the three of us met in 2010 and decided to start our club night, where we’ve met so many other friends that have made us have the best time. Indietracks every year until we die. ♥ ♥ ♥ Forever and ever.



We’ll be playing our favourite tunes (and of course dancing like crazy too) in the tram shed after the bands on the Saturday night - and we’re wondering - is there such a thing as a twee rave?

(without drugs and dodgy, spiky haircuts, but with cardigans, and happy, dancy people)!

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The summer of 2010 Rupert and Silja ventured to their very first Indietracks with the cheapest and probably least waterproof tents from the Argos stock. At a gig we met David - who introduced himself by asking, “Are you Swedish?” and none of us were. And so the story of the three Librarians Wanted began. (and ironically we’ve hosted a lot of Swedish bands since…)

Someone at the festival joked that we should form a band, but with limited musical talents, maybe DJing would be our thing instead. We all had a past (and a present) of making romantic/depressive/hopeful mixtapes for long lost or potential or totally unfulfilled loves.

Before we left Indietracks for London we’d toasted to starting our own club night and to learn how to DJ and bake. We had our first show in December 2010 with Evans the Death headlining and since then we’ve hosted lots of our favourite bands, always with (more or less deformed) cupcakes and a library card discount.

The only rule for Librarians Wanted is that we love the music we choose. The DJ sets and the bands - we don’t care about what is cool and what is right and what is indiepop, only, really, what is love (“Baby, don’t hurt me”). Yes, it should be a little bit like falling in love, hearing a song or a band for the first time and knowing in that instant it’s your new favourite. And it should be about meeting new friends you can leave alongside, smiling, when the evening is over, even if you entered the room a little bit shy and awkward and on your own.

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) 

DOORS: 7.30PM

BAND TIMES:

Amor De Días 8.30pm
Would-be-goods 9.30pm
Help Stamp Out Loneliness 10.30pm


Librarians Wanted are extremely happy to present some true indiepop legends - some of our absolute favourite bands; Help Stamp Out Loneliness, Would-be-goods and Amor de Días. This time our venue is the Bull & Gate, a two-minute walk from Kentish Town Station.

Help Stamp Out Loneliness were the best act we’ve seen at London Popfest, and that made sense when we heard they had members from Language of Flowers, one of our alltime favourites - that must be why we loved them so instantly! Split Infinitives for example, is a song you will love love love! HSOL will make you feel like dancing too, so we hope you will join us in front of the stage to jump up and down and do some out-of-control fistpumping!

The wonderful Would-be-goods are almost always featured in the LW DJ sets and on the iPod when we are heartbroken or in love, or just daydreaming about meeting someone special - and again we can’t hide our excitement of having them playing. The band is in itself legendary, so not really a need to reference.. live they are just magical and you just want to dance/sway the night away. But, to namedrop a few, its members have also played in Heavenly, Talulah Gosh, Marine Research, Scarlet’s Well, The Monochrome Set, Thee Headcoatees and Adam and the Ants. (makes us dizzy just thinking about it!)

And last but definitely not least: Amor de Días! The amazing ‘new’ band that consists of our heroes Lupe Núñez-Fernández (Pipas) and Alasdair MacLean (The Clientele)! Lupe has actually played in Would-be-goods, so this will be an extra-special evening… Friends who have attended Amor de Días’ gigs this summer can’t stop raving about their live performance so we are sure you’ll love them too!

Inbetween the bands and after there will be DJ sets by Librarians Wanted, playing loud indiepop, 60s soul, 80s and post-punk - so do stay and go mad on the dancefloor! (we will)

And of course there will be free cake. Always!

TICKETS HERE
£7 adv, £8 on the door (£7 with a valid library card)


David, Roo and Silja LW xx