For those of you that have never been to one of Sexbeat’s nights… where have you been?!! Lynchpins of Shoreditch nightlife for the last few years, they’ve now compiled some of the bands that have played or been played into one beautifully hand-crafted CD.

Their music policy has always been eclectic – their name sums it up well: a Gun Club track that was covered by Andrew Weatherall’s ‘Two Lone Swordsmen’ – and tends to take in anything (punk/rap/hardcore/psychobilly/metal/industrial) with a dark-edge and a bit of a kick to it.

More after the jump…

Warning: Contains a very naked man.

Naked Wizard Tased By Reality from Tracy Anderson on Vimeo.

Friday 24th and Saturday 25th April will see Camden once again become one giant party with the arrival of this year’s Camden Crawl. For those that have never been the premise is simple – one tickets gets you access to over 40 Camden venues and over 30 hours of live music, comedy, spoken word, theatre and much more…

If anyone fancies flying us all out to Atlanta, we’ll willingly accept.

One of our very favourite festivals has sadly taken the decision to cancel this years event, citing poor ticket sales as one of the primary reasons.

Blissfields, much like our very own Offset, was a festival that stuck to the original idea of festivals without trying to stick a logo on everything that moved and kept ticket prices low. It’s sad to see their omission from this years festival calendar and we really hope that we see them back for 2009. A press release follows after the jump.

A new event from the team behind Dot to Dot is launching in Shoreditch this summer. Hox to Dot will be taking over Catch, Electricity Showrooms, Hoxton Bar and Kitchen, The Macbeth and Old Blue Last on 22nd May.

Bands confirmed so far include Chrome Hoof, Dan Deacon, Cutting Pink With Knives and The Ghost Frequency. Read on for a full-list of those confirmed so far.

The lineup for this years Camden Crawl has now been released, and it looks to be a pretty special year. Below is a full list of all bookings.

Both days:
The Answering Machine
Bobby Cook
Bombay Bicycle Club
Cage The Elephant
Cat The Dog
Thecocknbullkid
The Creepy Morons
Does It Offend You, Yeah?
Elle s’appelle

^ Obligatory mud/idiot pic

Emily Eavis, the daughter and co-organiser of Michael Eavis’ Glastonbury Festival has raised doubts about the future of the world’s biggest music festival.

Orange World (either a fruit-based publication or something to do with the phone company) have reported that she and her father discussed the festival’s shelf-life at Christmas, and has admitted the festival does have a

Some would say we were mad plugging other events but it is festivals like Truck & Blissfields who carry the same ethic as ourselves… put the best bands out there without worrying about profit from piss poor lager or mobile phone networks and for that we love them! Mini rant aside, the lovely people at Blissfields have now put tickets on sale for this years event. Being held 4-6 July at the Matterley Bowl, Winchester the line up is already looking immense with The Wonderstuff, Chris TT, Abdoujaparov & Dead!Dead!Dead! already confirmed. And best bit… it is only £60 for all 3 days. Brucie bargain baby!

Head over to the official site to check it out for yourself and tell them that Offset sent you!