ARTS & CULTURE

O2 Academy, Bristol

7.00pm

Tuesday 23rd February 2010 

Hot Chip with support from Casiokids

With only two acts on tonight’s line up, ‘Casiokids’ had giant boots to fill opening for the UK’s royalty of electro-pop: ‘Hot Chip’.

Although the most part of the crowd, of which 50% seemed to be parents accompanying their teenage ‘scene’ kids, decided not to show up for the support, Casiokids were not phased and provided an energy filled set which delighted those who turned up early.

Sunday 14th February 2010 7.00pm

02 Academy Bristol, Frogmore Street, Bristol.

With a line up that can open with 2010’s vital breathe of fresh air, The Drums, this is a show not to miss out on.

Fresh from their 2009 success from album ‘Wall of Arms’, The Maccabees stand tall as headliners of what is set to be one of the principal tours of 2010, hitting many major cities across the UK.

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Another decade reaches its zenith and predictably NME have produced another list decreeing what you should have heard or what discs the ‘Topman’ shirt-wearing indie crew should be telling their best mates about. The full list offers a diverse list of choices including Relationship of Command by At the Drive-In - never would I think that a magazine like NME would offer kudos to post-hardcore – and other smaller bands like Wilco and Sufjan Stephens. Here is a run down of the Top Ten (cue Top of the Pops music...)

As X-factor enters the final stages of hysteria, two bothers with moronic hairstyles divide the country into three groups: the ‘Love’ group, consisting of fourteen to sixteen year old girls; the ‘Worried’ group, the boy friends of fourteen to sixteen year old girls, and the ‘Recently purchased a Gun’ group. Also known as ‘us’.