Punk rock

A legend of post-punk and new wave, Britain's The Cure returns to Greece as the headline act of the Ejekt Festival on Athens's southern coast, with a single show on June 17 that is part of the band's 2019 world tour.

Riotous gypsy punk act The Great Malarkey travels from London to Athens for a gig at the Greek capital's Gazarte roof stage, a year after the release of its second album, "The Doghouse." The band will be joined on this energy-packed night by The Speakeasies, an act from Thessaloniki that has become a favorite on the Athens live music circuit.

THREE people were injured in a drive-by shooting outside a tube station last night in another evening of violence in Lawless London.

Horrified witnesses described hearing blood-curdling screams as shots rang out on a busy street at about 9.45pm.

A woman, 30, and two men - aged 18 and 24 - were rushed to hospital with gun shot wounds.

THE UNDERGROUND YOUTH to play Sofia for the first time on 17th of March at club Live&Loud. Tickets go on sale via Epaygo priced 20 bgn & 25 bgn on the day of the show.

The Underground Youth has been around since 2008, delivering a discography of 8 LP albums, couple of EPs, compilations and live session recordings with FuzzClub being their label after the DIY period. 

Canadian punk-rock act Comeback Kid will be shaking things up at Gagarin 205 as part of its European tour to promote their highly anticipated new album, "Outsider." Door open at 9 p.m. and tickets cost 20 euros (18 euros in advance at www.viva.gr or tel 11876).

The Gimme Shelter festival of films about musicians and the broader music industry hosted by Gagarin 205 comes to an end on Monday, December 11, with a screening followed by a concert.

YouTube is full of priceless moments of TV reporters failing live on air. Well, you can add another gem to that large “treasure haul”. Greek state broadcaster ERT was covering last Sunday’s Authentic Marathon from the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens live, when a reporter can be clearly heard asking where the toilette was (at 0.7-0.15 seconds). But it gets even better.

The Onassis Cultural Center has put together a music documentary festival, running from Saturday, November 4, to Tuesday, November 7, and comprising 17 recent productions that run the gamut from Nick Cave and Iranian DJs, the Rolling Stones and James Lavelle, to virtuoso jazz musicians and veterans of the London punk scene.

American guitarist and composer Marc Ribot is coming to Athens on Friday, October 20, with the Young Philadelphians band for a concert of "punk, funk, soul, noise and post-punk vibrations" at the Onassis Cultural Center.

It took a bit of help from a stranger and a 20-gig tour in the US for La Femme to get people to notice the French psych-punk band back home, but notice they did, and now the act is heading to Athens with two albums under its belt, 2013's "Psycho Tropical Berlin" and its latest, "Mystere," for what promises to be an energy-packed show at Technopolis on Saturday, September 2.