When Shindig!, the leading magazine for 60s and 70s music and culture, meets up with London’s retro-rocking Sweet but Deadly and Dirty Water promoters you know you’re in for a memorable night out. They have made a corner of King’s Cross, the Social Club, their own little subcultural haven, inviting the best band’s and DJs to stoke the sonic fires.

Who is the best garage band in Europe right now? A tough question for some, but for... us it’s not: it’s THE STAGGERS (http://www.myspace.com/staggers), hands down. The Austrian six-piece have a fearsome reputation as a killer live act: they urge their audiences to ‘get dressed up to get messed up!’. Frontman Wild Evel certainly lives up to his name, his suicidal stage antics matching the frenzied, fuzzed-up and trashy beats being played behind him. Currently on the road to promote second album ‘Zombies Of Love’ and dropping in for us, they will make you feel that being a teen delinquent is the only future worth having. Support on the night is from those paisley-decorated dandies from Derby, THE SILVER FACTORY (http://www.myspace.com/24hoursfromheaven).

When the bands have finished wiping your brain from it’s skull you should head for the dance floor and let Phil Istine, Mr. Moon Jelly (The Lysergics) and Gary The Tall (Wildish Slights) get you lurching madly to some prime 60s garage, beat, psych, soul and rock’n’roll.

@ King’s Cross Social Club, 2 Britannia Street, London WC1X 9JE

Nearest station: Kings Cross (5 mins). 8pm-2am

£6 in advance from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/88609

or £8 on the door

we recommend you book tickets, this event will probably sell out!

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