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New show: Ja Ja Ja w/ Sansa + Maribel + Reptile Youth

By on April 23, 2012 in Forthcoming Events

Ja Ja Ja presents
Sansa
Maribel
Reptile Youth
with Project Fresh Socks DJs
7:30pm ’til late
Thursday May 31, 2012. The Lexington, London N1 9JB
Tickets £5 adv.

Ja Ja Ja returns to The Lexington for the last time before our summer break, but don’t worry; we’re back in September.

Opening proceedings is Sansa. This Finnish songwriter – awarded Live Debutant of The Year by the Helsinki Festival in 2010 – has supported everyone from Martha Wainwright to Robert Plant in her homeland. Schooled at the capital’s Pop & Jazz Conservatory and courted by major labels around Europe, she’s steadfastly stuck to her creative calling, exploring a love of sound and film at Helsinki University. Her debut album Savior showcases a voice of delicacy and purity, while her music toys with folk, pop, electronica and the occasional ode to disco.

Next up are the Oslo-based quartet Maribel, whose critically-acclaimed, shoegazing debut album Aesthetics in 2009 blended established their ability to “soundtrack the most hallucinogenic dream or hellish nightmare at the flick of a switch” (Drowned in Sound). Their follow-up on Splendour took inspiration from classic film scores by Barry, Mancini and Morricone, revealing dark, slow-burning, atmospheric dream-pop.

Closing the evening are Denmark’s Reptile Youth, who’re gaining quite the reputation for party-bringing, crowd-surfing, partial-nudity and the like. This trio’s super-infectious post/synth-pop/rock has had all manner of media outlets righteously salivating.

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New show: Ja Ja Ja w/ Útidúr + Freja Loeb + Manna

By on March 1, 2012 in Forthcoming Events

Ja Ja Ja presents
Útidúr
Freja Loeb
Manna

with Project Fresh Socks DJs

7:30pm ’til late

Thursday March 29, 2012. The Lexington, London N1 9JB

Tickets £5 adv.

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Ja Ja Ja is (secretly) a little pleased with itself. Two years on, it’s still going from strength-to-strength, outdoing itself each month with its consistently brilliant line-ups and sold-out club nights. Not one to rest on our laurels however, and always aiming to improve and evolve, last year we brought you the one-of-a-kind Nordic music love-in that is www.jajajamusic.com, a big two year birthday bash and a retrospective download album. Now Ja Ja Ja would like to announce that its club night is going bi-monthly. Don’t be sad – it means we’ll will be bigger, better and badder every-other-month – and it also means Ja Ja Ja will be bringing you some extra special nights very soon. Watch this space for details.

If you’ve been addictively lapping up the return of Mark Lanegan, than you may have come across Manna guesting on ‘Wishing Well’ – or seen her debut album Songs of Hope and Desire praised across the UK music press. Manna’s music combines psychedelic bluesy rock and dreamy folk to beautiful pop melodies, creating a unique and powerful sound. Live, Manna is not to be missed.

On a poppier tip comes Denmark’s Freja Loeb. Her debut album Odyssey is a catchy beast, but tinged with a new-wave atmosphere and influences from The Cure and David Bowie. Freja Loeb has played Roskilde Festival, Start! Festival, SPOT, Vegas Selected and Sounds Festival honing her new sound to perfection.

Two female solo artists down, and now time for something a little bigger. Útidúr (pronounced: ooh! – detour) are a twelve-piece group comprising players on double bass, drums, trumpet, violins, a second guitar and an accordion. They play joyous and ambitious chamber-pop with a dramatic streak – think Angelo Badalamenti, Beirut, Calexico and Ennio Morricone. Útidúr has honed their craft for a while and began playing at various venues in downtown Reykjavík in late summer of 2009. On seeing them live for the first time, The Line of Best Fit declared them “just incredible. Music to fall in love and get your heart broken to.” Útidúr’s debut album This Mess We’ve Made is out now and was recorded at the Sigur Rós recording studio ‘Sundlaugin’ in the summer of 2010.

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New show: Ja Ja Ja w/ Giana Factory + Philco Fiction + Mirel Wagner

By on December 19, 2011 in Past Events

Ja Ja Ja
GIANA FACTORY (DK)
PHILCO FICTION (NO)
MIREL WAGNER (FI)

FEATURING DJ SETS FROM
JA JA JA DJS + PROJECT FRESH SOCKS

7:30pm ’til late

January 26, 2011. The Lexington, London N1 9JB

Tickets £5 adv.

As the last Ja Ja Ja was a massive two year anniversary celebration with – as per always – incredible music, and due to us having a month off for Christmas, January’s Ja Ja Ja had to be a pretty special come-back affair.

So as well as bringing you three acts that are brilliant and renowned in their Nordic homelands, we’ve brought you three that are blowing people away internationally and in a world of their own. Mirel Wagner makes stripped down blues of such fragility and beauty, words simply do not do her justice. Philco Fiction have had both Record of the Day and ourselves at TLOBF foaming at the mouth with their bold use of instrumentation and songwriting skills, whilst Giana Factory create their own blend of noir-pop that has won them international adoration from their first EP release onwards.

Who says January is for staying in?

Tickets here.

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New show: Ja Ja Ja w/ French Films + Marit Larsen + Sóley

By on October 31, 2011 in Past Events

Ja Ja Ja *Two Year Anniversary*
FRENCH FILMS
MARIT LARSEN
SÓLEY

FEATURING DJ SETS FROM
JA JA JA DJS + PROJECT FRESH SOCKS

7:30pm ’til late

November 24, 2011. The Lexington, London N1 9JB

Tickets £5 adv / £6 on the door

On 24 November Ja Ja Ja will be celebrating its second birthday. Indeed,  it’s been two whole years since our first show at The Lexington and its fair to say the monthly shindig has gone from strength to strength. With last month’s show being our busiest yet we’re pulling out all of the stops to make November even better with yet another jaw dropping lineup.

French Films – a Finnish five-piece – make the kind of sunny surf rock and new wave that gets tastemakers like Pitchfork swooning. This year they released their first EP Golden Sea, followed by their album Imaginary Future which is full of sunny and cloudy sounds, wide echoes, young energetic drive and escapist vocals.

Escape In The Afternoon by French Films

There was no way we were going to have a two-year anniversary shaped Nordic knees-up without bagging Marit Larsen. The biggest star in Norway (not to mention Germany, Switzerland and Austria). Her debut Under the Surface (2006) went gold in only three weeks and her follow up album The Chase (2008) included the track ‘If A Song Could Get Me You’ which orbited the Norway single chart for twenty-four weeks! Larsen to date has sold over 300k  singles and 250k albums.

Coming Home by Marit Larsen

Sóley may be familiar to some from her role in the hugely respected band Seabear. Solo, her work has been likened to Joanna Newson (minus her harp). Both her debut EP Theatre Island and album We Sink released in September won glowing reviews for their hazy compositions of evolving piano: shimmering to dark and rich. It’s, however, her incredible vocal which cements the music’s captivating intimacy and quirkiness.

Sóley: I’ll Drown by morrmusic

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New show: Ja Ja Ja w/ Battlekat + Johnossi + Karin Park

By on September 30, 2011 in Past Events

Ja Ja Ja
BATTLEKAT
JOHNOSSI
KARIN PARK

 

FEATURING DJ SETS FROM
JA JA JA DJS + PROJECT FRESH SOCKS

 

7:30pm ’til late

 

October 27, 2011. The Lexington, London N1 9JB

Tickets £5 adv.

 

After the re-launch of Ja Ja Ja at Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen, featuring truly outstanding performances from LCMDF, Sykur and Razika it’s about time we do it all over again!

Ja Ja Ja – London’s only Nordic club night – returns on October 27 at The Lexington featuring a headline set from Denmark’s most talked about band in years: Battlekat (formerly Just A Number 05272011). No strangers to The Line Of Best Fit family, the powerhouse electro from the Copenhagen based quartet will surely go down as one of the most talked about shows of October. Adding to an already exciting proposition, we give you Johnossi – recent winners of a Swedish Grammy award for Best Group – this duo are currently making waves with their current album Mavericks. Last but not least we have Karin Park – who will be bringing her new found dark and electronic leanings and subtle pop music to the eyes and ears of London town.

Battlekat – The Pain

Johnossi – What’s The Point

Karin Park – Tiger Dreams

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New show: Ja Ja Ja w/ Razika + LCMDF + Sykur

By on August 16, 2011 in Past Events

Ja Ja Ja presents:
RAZIKA (Norway)
LCMDF (Finland)
SYKUR (Iceland)
+ Ja Ja Ja DJs / Project Fresh Socks DJs

September 29, 2011.Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen, London N1 6NU*

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After our annual summer hiatus, Ja Ja Ja returns with perhaps our finest line-up to date. From Norway, we give you Razika - made up of four 19-year-old girls who blend Riot Girl ethos with post-punk energy and give it a sunnier, poppier make-over; their live set promises to be one BIG summer dance party. Their album Program 91 promises to ‘instantly recall your favorite summer. Your first kiss. The first time you snuck out of the house’ with it’s exhilarating mix of ska, Riot Grrl, ‘60s girl groups, post-punk and upbeat, C86 pop that had the NME hail it as “near perfect” while The Stool Pigeon glowed that “this is music imbued with wonderment and freedom”.

LCMDF are all Technicolour energy, stabbing synths, tropical vibes and pure, unapologetic alt-pop; a sound Notion magazine aptly described as “explosive and maximilist”. Their debut album Love and Nature was Artrocker’s 5 star ‘Album of the Month’, calling the Finnish sister duo “wild, multi-dimensional, a little bit kinky and as fresh and wild as anything on the moon of Pandora” while across the pond NYLON rightly called them “Finland’s finest musical export”.

Starting the evening’s Nordic extravaganza on a high – both visually and musically – will be young electro trio Sykur from Reykjavik, Iceland who’ve already had Dazed Digital urging music lovers and party-goers everywhere to “get in early on these guys; then gorge, dance and brave the incredible rush”. They’ve played with the likes of Peaches and Junior Boys in their hometown and collaborated with Iceland’s fashion designer-to-watch Mundi Vondi. Their 80s electro influenced debut UK single ‘Shed Those Tears’ is out on 12 September and has been posted and heralded by many online, from specialist electronic blogs to the Guardian who describe the track:  “opening with a laser-guided synth riff, bubbling beats and brilliantly detached vocals, it morphs into a wonderfully camp chorus featuring youthful falsetto”.

*please note change of venue for one month only. Ja Ja Ja will return to The Lexington in October.

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