Chilly Gonzales
NO sooner was this column prepped to detail the various slowly resuming festive gigs and events coming up over the next few weeks than London was plunged into Tier 3 again. Venues are resigned to cancelling carefully planned gigs and rescheduling dates that may well be further postponed down the line. So, this week we’re focusing on more tangible/intangible elements, such as live streams, virtual experiences and Christmas releases.
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Fill the gap left by the absence of live music, or fork out for an affordable Christmas gift, with Anoint My Head – How I Failed To Make It As A Britpop Indie-Rockstar, a new memoir set in pre-Britpop Camden. Written by Andy Macleod, who set up Club Fandango with Fierce Panda’s Simon Williams, putting on early gigs for Coldplay, Arctic Monkeys and many more in some of our most beloved small venues, the book charts band The Pointy Birds’ bid for success against a backdrop of other British Britpop bands reaching levels of succ