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**SPARKLING (Germany)**

SPARKLING from Cologne, Germany was formed by brothers Leon and Levin Krasel start playing music together at an early age. They were joined later by Luca Schüten on bass.

Whilst studying at University and Art School, the group focussed their spare time on creating a distinctly unique sound and playing small sweaty clubs all across Europe. After living in London in 2015, visiting or playing gigs on a daily basis while working menial daytime jobs, Sparkling released their debut EP 'This is not the paradise they told us we would live in', produced by Moses Schneider, in 2016 and brought them praise across many German and international blogs and radios.

Shows in Paris, as well as others in France followed and brought them to write a multilingual debut album, produced in Düsseldorf and London with Andy Ramsay from Stereolab.

Sparkling are no product of a regional scene. This is the preeminent blueprint of a truly European band. Witness what it really means to be part of an open Europe, at a concert or listening to a record. As of now all of this can be heard on their first full-length album "I Want to See Everything", which was released on August 23rd.

https://www.facebook.com/Sparklingofficial/


**SHOW BOY**

London-based Alt-pop

https://www.facebook.com/showboyworld/


**ENJOYABLE LISTENS**

https://www.facebook.com/enjoyablelistens/

https://soundcloud.com/enjoyablelistens/drowning-in-the-reef?fbclid=IwAR0k5ilnsg-qhP3IefQSvJ7cteaeH6P6Vdz9Okw3xaFrbEHgvLxYWuCQ9aA



Plus....SHAME DJ set

https://www.facebook.com/shamebanduk/

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Independent live music venue in south London. The 3rd best venue in all of London according to TIME OUT readers. Home of Roof Dog.

We didn’t set out to be a venue as such but live music at the Windmill Brixton, just kinda evolved. Late night sessions at this bar revealed that the regulars carried a wealth of experience in musicianship, sound engineering and promoting, and since we drank there anyway we decided that we should get a good band down now and again to listen to.

Brixton Windmill logo

The bands came. They loved the informality and the fact that we bothered to pay them, and, some five years later the Windmill is known far beyond the backstreet in Brixton where it’s situated.

Although we’re just a little backstreet place, Windmill Brixton has gotten a glowing “Ace Place” review in Time Out, was called “your new favourite venue” by Drownedinsound.com and has been name-checked over the airwaves by the likes of XFM’s John Kennedy and Radios 1’s Steve Lamacq. Gigs have been reviewed in NME, Kerrang! and other mags and The Independent newspaper named us one of the TOP TEN VENUES IN THE UK (the only other London venues to make the cut were Brixton Academy and Cargo).

We feel we get these accolades for a number of reasons. Entry is cheap. Beer at pub prices. There’s a nice candlelit atmosphere, friendly staff and (less friendly) dogs on the roof. But most important of all is the quality of music – it’s no good telling us that you’ll ran the place with your mates; if your music sucks we aren’t interested.

We book and cheerlead bands we like and many have played several times.

Well that’s more or less the history, cos we’re more concerned about the great bands that will be playing in the future.

22 Blenheim Gardens,

Brixton,

Greater London,

England,

SW2 5BZ.

020 8671 0700