Live music listings: July 2006

Doors 8.00
£6 via WeGotTickets

Spearmint are a national treasure. Since 'Sweeping The Nation' was released in 1999, Shirley Lee and his London band have released a stream of glorious pop singles and albums, which have earned them their place as one of the most important Indie bands in Britain. We're very pleased to announce that their first full London show in 18 months will be at The Luminaire.
They'll release three singles (blue, white and red) over the summer in the run-up to their new album 'Paris In A Bottle' due on August 14. The album's narrative spans eleven years, as four strangers who spend one night together live out their lives in Paris and London.
"One of the most life-affirmingly brilliant pop records of recent years." [Drowned In Sound]
"The glamour that elevates our otherwise mundane existence." [Careless Talk Costs Lives]
"If this doesn't put a smile on your face then you should check your pulse. Poptastic." [Flux]
"One day Spearmint will be hailed as Gods." [NME]

Sandra & The Memory Machine are on main support duties and we're always happy to welcome their tiptoeing, eerie lullabies with a stripped-down aesthetic and a hint of early Polly Jean, laced with ukulele, to The Luminaire.

First on are UK States, with an anglicised Americana folk-pop sound, and a menu of songs inhabited by bored summer holiday twenty-something-teens, meandering their suburban lives away. Imagine the Beach Boys subjected to a rainy British summer.