Young & Lost Club set for 5th Anniversary compilation and party

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.

YOUNG AND LOST CLUB
COMPILATION TRACKLISTING

1. 'Blue Boy' - Vincent Vincent and the Villains
2. ‘The Boy Who Killed Time’ – Vincent Vincent and the Villains
3. 'Small Town Girl' - Good Shoes
4. 'Six Queens' - Larrikin Love
5. 'Stendahl' - Action Plan
'6. ‘Go Rebel Go' - New Moscow
7. 'I'm Alive' - Vincent Vincent and the Villains
8. 'Comfortable Silence' - Cazals
9. 'Routemaster' - Fear of Flying
10. 'Animator' - Pull Tiger Tail
11. 'Nightime' - Stylofone
12. 'Tickle Me Pink' - Johnny Flynn
13. ‘The End of Loneliness' - Friends of the Bride
14. ‘Lucio Starts Fires’ – Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong
15. 'Five Years Time'- Noah and the Whale
16. '2 Bodies 1 Heart' - Noah and the Whale
17. 'If You Find Love' - Naked and the Boys
18. 'Odd Situation' - Semifinalists
19. 'Mary Jane' - Pull Tiger Tail'
20. 'Arrows of Eros' - Golden Silvers
21. 'Evening / Morning' - Bombay Bicycle Club
22. 'Mareado' - Lord Auch
23. ‘Blue Skies’ – Noah and the Whale
24 ‘Shoot The Pig’ - Loverman
25. ‘What More Can We Do’ – Planet Earth
26. 'Darling' - Arthur Delaney
27. 'Photo Booth' - Exlovers
28. Oh Minnows – TRACK TBC
29. 'Black Magic’ - Magic Wands
30. 'The Others' - Alan Pownall
31. 'Dance The Way I Feel' - Ou Est Le Swimming Pool
32. 'MY KYZ, UR BF' - Everything Everything
33. ‘Misfits’ – Lunar Youth
34. ‘Stand’ – Othello Woolf

www.youngandlostclub.com

To aid the celebrations, Young & Lost Club will also host a birthday party on 1st September. Full details below...

Noah & The Whale live!
Exlovers live!
Alan Pownall live!
Planet Earth live!

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

On Wednesday 1st September
At Village Underground - London EC2A 3PQ
Doors 7.30 till 12
Advance Tickets £11, available from www.wegottickets.com