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

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

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.