Want to worship at the altar of Taylor? You’ll need to move Swiftly!

Posted 9th October 2024

She is such a force that she can single-handedly lift the financial fortunes of a country. Imagine that. She is Taylor Swift (like you didn’t know) and as the UK continues its recovery after Swifto-mania last month, a trip to the Swiftogeddon Club Night might help fans with their transition back to normality.

This is a night dedicated to worshipping at the altar of the pop Princess – with deep cuts, extended mixes, fan favourites and all the hits.
Feeling glum? Prepare to erm, Shake It Off and have lots of fun at The Craufurd Arms on October 5.

Once you’ve had your pop fill, you’ll want to follow that with some twitchy, socially minded, acerbic post-punk, won’t you? Luckily for you that purveyors of the aforementioned, Eyesore & The Jinx (Oct 9) will bring that via songs that often involve ugly narratives centred around vile fictional characters…

American goth and doom deliverers Type O Negative reached its end following frontman and founder Pete Steele’s untimely passing in the spring of 2010.

Dark albums like Slow, Deep and Hard, The Origin of the Feces and October Rust found their forever homes in our collection, and, fresh from welcoming the Rob Zombie tribute to their stage, the Wolverton venue presents Type Of Negative (see what they did there?!) to play tribute to Steele and co on October 11.

Ariel Posen is influenced by heartland rock and roll and electrified Americana, and that’s just some of it. Genre-defying guitar rock will be the name of the game when he stops by (Oct 16).

Devon’s Andras Droppa doesn’t do things by half measure – his Painted Ladies tour, which brings him to see us on October 17, is a 49 date long trek of UK and Ireland venues. Not bad for a debut trek.

A virtuosic ‘tour-de force’ of in-your-face guitar driven music, he’ll amp it up, and then some.
Being the frontman of the Levellers has kept Mark Chadwick (Oct 18) busy for three decades or so, and in that time he has put his skills to perfect use – co-writing 20 chart singles and six Top 40 albums.

He also finds the time to sate his appetite to do the solo thing, and has issued the albums All the Pieces, and Moment.
Mark’s visit to the Craufurd Arms is solo and acoustic, but he’s not going to begrudge you a sprinkling of Levellers aces in his set of plenty. It’s a seated performance too, so your legs won’t need to take the strain!

Levellers fella Mark Chadwick – acoustic and chilled

Another chance to get your tribute thing on arrives (Oct 19) with Biffy McClyro promising anthem after anthem by one of the UK’s biggest rock mobs around.

Hands-up who remembers the real Biffy playing at The Pitz to an audience of 40 people? And did you know the boys recorded their first two albums here in Milton Keynes, at Linford Manor Studio.

Back to the listings, and there are lots more for you, including a visit from Toronto’s F*cked Up, the quixotically diverse punks with ‘a weird, heavy catalogue of music that stubbornly sticks in your brain and your heart.’

Popestars recreate all of the dark and theatrics of masked rockers Ghost and they’ll deliver a different sort of chill on October 25.
Calling all vinyl junkies, tape worms and CD fans: if you are looking to pick up music by any of the aforementioned, a trip to the next Craufurd Arms Record Fair (Oct 27) is the place to go. A midday start for another four hours of rummaging. Entry is free.

Gothic-pop chanteuse Freya Beer has been busy in 2024; she’s pulled in new listeners playing a string of festival shows, released the EP, Tatianna, and more recently supported punk poet Dr John Cooper- Clarke on his spoken word tour, which gave Freya the chance to cut loose her own poetry at London’s famous Palladium.

Now though, the striking looking lady is stepping out in her own right, and comes to see us on October 27 as part of a 22 date UK tour. She’s putting the graft in, so you can afford to ditch the sofa for one night to go see her, surely?

The singer-songwriter from West London is inspired by art, literature, alternative fashion and music, and distils her disparate influences through a gothic soul and devil-may-care spirit that dares to dream in the darkness.

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