STOP PRESS: New bands added to our gig! So here’s the final line-up for the first monthly Going Deaf For A Living night at the Kentish Town Bull & Gate on Thursday (July 29).

We are very pleased to announce that along with our headliners THE HEARTBREAKS who’ll be launching their new single ‘I Didn’t Think It Would Hurt To Think Of You’, we’ll be joined by recent Rough Trade signings WILDER and Special Guests SILVERY.

Wilder (pictured), from Bristol, were first mentioned here some months ago, but they’re just about to release their excellent debut single ‘Girls Vs Boys’ and were terrifically engaging guests on the 6Music show earlier this week.

I like the slight aloofness of their music, the way it flicks at your ears, but then withdraws to a distance (‘Girls Vs Boys’ has a huge striding chorus with a hint of cockiness. It’s a proper tease).

Silvery meanwhile, unleash ‘The Naked & The Dead’ next week from their forthcoming second album ‘Railway Architecture’. If you’ve not come across them before, think British Sea Power, War Of The Worlds and XTC offshoot Dukes Of Stratosphear (only with an angular and jerky edge to it).

Roughly, it’ll run like this:

10pm: THE HEARTBREAKS

9.15: WILDER

8.30: SILVERY

For more information head to our partner’s website

Not sure J-TP is around, but I’ll definitely be on duty, flitting between playing music and downing vodka. Hope to see some of you there.

Wilder by Andy Wilshire