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Young And Lost Club Are Five

• 5th Oct 2010

Young & Lost Club celebrate their Fifth birthday this Saturday as a special one-off show at London's XOYO venue.

Saturday 9th October
XOYO, 32 – 37 Cowper Street, London EC2A 4AP
Advance Tickets £11, available from link

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Noah & The Whale
Exlovers
Planet Earth
Othello Woolf

+ Special Guest DJs
White Lies, FNORD (LOTP/DURRR), Gwylim Golden Silvers, Chess Club, Egyptian Hip Hop, Pull Tiger Tail, Joe Lean, Goodbye Mother, Lambrini Girls, Lord Auch, Abeano, Adventure Playground, Semifinalists, Sunderbans, Hit Club and Young & Lost Club.

Few people can claim to have influenced the London indie scene in recent years as much as Nadia Dahlawi and Sara Jade. Few are less likely to be found making these sorts of claims though; the Young & Lost girls aren’t big on own-trumpet-blowing. They are big on helping out all the new bands they have loved and the bands they continue to love. In the process, they’ve got big in the art of putting out the singles that have shaped and shepherded and shaken up the scene. Also, while all that was going on, they’ve put on about a gazillion really fun club nights.

Young & Lost Club was born at the tail end of 2004, with a party to launch Vincent Vincent and the Villains’ debut single ‘Blue Boy,’ at the old Push Bar in Soho. Sara came up with the name. “We were turning twenty, and we didn’t want to leave our teenage years without feeling we’d accomplished something” she says; “A record label felt like the next step. We always wanted it to be like a real club; that people could feel they were a part of, and we wanted to do a good old-fashioned singles club. At the time, there were hardly any small labels around that were doing everything on seven-inch single.”

Nadia and Sara are the only two-girl team of all time to have put out enough singles to sink a two-man blow-up dinghy. Now, at 25, the Young & Lost girls are a little bit older and founder. Not only are Young & Lost Club celebrating their 5th anniversary this summer, they have also now put out a whopping fifty singles, and they’re celebrating by whittling thirty two of them down to a compilation of their greatest hits and misses. What emerges is a clear and diverse and bright and beautiful chronicle of the sound that they have championed all along; angsty, heartbreak-smattered, singalong-melodic guitar bands. It’s the sound, simply, of being young and lost in London.