The Clash, Mark Stewart, Chimaira

The Clash are loved by Londoners

The Clash's 1977 show at the Rainbow has been voted London's best ever gig.

In a poll for Time Out, the punks' legendary performance beat gigs by Stevie Wonder, Brian Wilson, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones.

Time Out editor Gordon Thomson said: "The Clash gig [was] the greatest London band, in their prime, at the moment when punk rock spilled out of the clubs and into the major venues."

The top ten best London gigs are as follows:

1. The Clash at the Rainbow, May 9 1977
2. Brian Wilson at Royal Festival Hall, February 20 2004
3. Stevie Wonder at the Rainbow, February 24 1974
4. The Rolling Stones at the Crawdaddy Club, April 28 1963
5. Duke Ellington at the Palladium, June 12 1933
6. N*E*R*D with Justin Timberlake at Brixton Academy, November 9 2003
7. Bob Marley at the Lyceum Ballroom, July 17 1975
8. The Smiths at Jubilee Gardens, June 10 1984
9. The White Stripes at Dingwalls, July 30 2001
10. The Beatles at The Pigalle, April 21 1963

The full top 100 gigs are in this week's edition of Time Out.
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Mark Stewart & The Maffia - rare gig worth seeing!

Mark Stewart & The Maffia (featuring Keith Le Blanc, Skip MacDonald, Doug Wimbush and Adrian Sherwood) play a rare London live show on 02 June 2005 at Easy To Swallow, an evening curated by the artist Russell Haswell and presented by All Tomorrow’s Parties.

Mark Stewart was the lead vocalist and revolutionary sloganeer behind the Pop Group, now cited as one of the most influential post-punk bands. In the 1980s and through the 1990s he went on to form Mark Stewart and the Maffia releasing a range of heavily politicised, boundary-pushing albums fusing electronic, dub, twisted disco, and industrial-strength hip-hop into a unique ground-breaking sound.

ATP presents Easy To Swallow

with

Aphex Twin
Mark Stewart & The Maffia (featuring Keith Le Blanc, Skip MacDonald, Doug Wimbush and Adrian Sherwood)
Whitehouse
Surgeon
Regis presenting... British Murder Boys
Carl Michael Hausswolf
Yasunao Tone/Hecker

Thursday, 02 June 2005

SEone Club, Weston Street, off Tooley Street, London Bridge SE1

Tickets cost £15 and can be purchased from www.seetickets.com (0871-2200260), www.stargreen.com (0207 734 8932) and Rough Trade Records in Covent Garden.
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Chimaira new disc

Chimaira are mixing their third, self-titled album in London with knob-twiddler extraordinaire, Colin Richardson. The band, who play on the Saturday (11 June) at the Download Festival (www.downloadfestival.co.uk), have also lined up a few low-key club shows to try out their new material upfront of release.

While ‘Chimaira’ is pencilled for 01 August release, the boys play London Underworld on 14 June, Zodiac, Oxford, on 15 and Colchester Arts Centre, Colchester on 16.

Support comes from labelmates, Betzefer; the Israeli outfit - a free new MP3, ‘Fuckin’ Rock n’ Roll’ for download [Link 1] and a video also [L2], have their debut album 'Down Low' issued on 06 June by Roadrunner.