An Experiment On a Bird In the Air Pump Concert History

Named after an 18th Century oil painting, this now defunct all-girl trio (consisting of the enigmatically named C-Bird, D-Bird and X-Bird) from London played lo-fi tribal grunge rock. They were compared with Sonic Youth, The Jesus And Mary Chain, The Ronettes, The Bad Seeds and The Shangri-Las. They released two EPs, These Sins (2008) and Buy A Life (2009).

Date Concert Venue Location
Oct 24, 2009
SWN Festival
"SWN Festival" / The Leisure Society / Lucky Soul / The Pipettes / An Experiment On a Bird In the Air Pump / Mitchell Museum / Zissou / Cat Mouse Cat / Chris T-T
Chapter Arts Centre Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Oct 22, 2009 –
Oct 24, 2009
SWN Festival 2009
Marina / Gold Panda / Wild Beasts / Los Campesinos! / Slow Club / fanfarlo / Girls / Stornoway / Daedelus / The Twilight Sad / The Pipettes / The Leisure Society / Pulled Apart By Horses / Unicorn Kid / Dananananaykroyd / Allo Darlin' / Jonquil / Johnny Foreigner / Three Trapped Tigers / Peggy Sue / Anchorsong / The Broken Family Band / Tom Brosseau / Sky Larkin / Yndi Halda / Bright Light Bright Light / Sweet Baboo / Lucky Soul / The Longcut / Minotaur Shock / Drums of Death / Goldheart Assembly / Tubelord / Talons / Islet / Race Horses / Vito / Gareth Pearson / Sparky Deathcap / Sons of Noel and Adrian / Al Lewis / The Young Republic / The Victorian English Gentlemens Club / Copy Haho / Martin Carr / Munch Munch / Gideon Conn / Tim and Sam's Tim and the Sam Band with Tim and Sam / Internet Forever / Soft Toy Emergency / T.E.E.D / Mary Anne Hobbs / Gentle Friendly / Denuo / Catherine A.D. / Gaggle / Our Brother The Native / Portasound / Exit International / Threatmantics / Mitchell Museum / An Experiment On a Bird In the Air Pump / The Death of her Money / Huw M / Dimbleby & Capper / Not Cool / Wet Dog / Glass Diamond / Supertennis / The Evils / Decimals / Zwolf / Science Bastard / Don't Move / Hail! the Planes / Zissou / Strange News From Another Star / Elephant & Soldier / Y Pencadlys / The Zimmermans / Them Squirrels / Fredrick Stanley Star / Silver Gospel Runners / Cat Mouse Cat / The Irascibles / The Donde Stars / Son Capson / Frederick Stanley Star / John Grindell / Dimbley and Capper / Nos Sadwrn Bach Show all bands
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SWN Festival 2009 Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Show Duplicate for Oct 22, 2009
Sep 09, 2009
A Fistful of Fandango 2009
Herman Düne / Factory Floor / Eugene McGuinness / Neils Children / Gaggle / An Experiment On a Bird In the Air Pump / V.E.G.A.S. Whores
229 London, England, United Kingdom
Sep 07, 2009
The Raveonettes / Major Lazer / An Experiment On a Bird In the Air Pump Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen London, England, United Kingdom
Sep 05, 2009 –
Sep 06, 2009
Offset Festival 2009
The xx / Bombay Bicycle Club / Metronomy / The Jesus and Mary Chain / The Horrors / Gold Panda / Wild Beasts / The Futureheads / Connan Mockasin / Lower Than Atlantis / Danger / Clinic / The Slits / Good Shoes / Maps / Pulled Apart By Horses / Factory Floor / She Keeps Bees / Future of the Left / Dananananaykroyd / Male Bonding / harry james / A Certain Ratio / Your Demise / Arno / S.C.U.M / Turbowolf / Rolo Tomassi / Kap Bambino / Let's Wrestle / Bo Ningen / Mazes / Friendship / Tim Burgess / Fiction / Devil Sold His Soul / D.A.N. / Spectrals / More Than Life / Cheval Sombre / The Ghost of a Thousand / Tubelord / Teeth of the Sea / Gramme / Kong / Sonic Boom / Dead Swans / Die! Die! Die! / The Eyes of a Traitor / Bearsuit / John & Jehn / Damo Suzuki / Hatcham Social / Detachments / Blakfish / Wild Palms / Cold Pumas / Panico / Discipline / The Chapman Family / Shrag / A Grave With No Name / The Fables / Official Secrets Act / Hook & The Twin / Blackhole / Outcry Collective / Ipso Facto / Rinoa / Magnus Betnér / The Plight / Wetdog / Death In Plains / Sian Alice Group / No Bra / Maths / Throats / Stupids / Math Head / Azriel / Ali Renault / Ulterior / Brownies / Kasms / Dead Kids / Tortuga / Daniel Savio / Analog / Electricity In Our Homes / The Ruling Class / Rrr / What Would Jesus Drive / The Brides / Holy State / run,WALK! / Shaped By Fate / The Tupolev Ghost / Gyratory System / Crocus / Berlin Brides / Disconcerts / An Experiment On a Bird In the Air Pump / Niyi / Attack! Vipers! / C.R.A / Drum Eyes / ROMANCE (UK) / NewIslands / LR Rockets / Quad Throw Salchow / Ghostcat / London Blackmarket / Artefacts for Space Travel / The Rayographs / Tommi / Josh Caffe / The Duloks / Tulipomania / Ye Nuns / Sunderbans / Whole Sick / Magic & Fur / Advert / Brontosaurus Chorus / Goodnight and I Wish* / K-tron / Death Cigarettes / Dogshow / Speak and the Spells / Cementimental / Nullifier / Stranger Son Of WB / Teen Sheikhs / Chapter Sweetheart / Douglas Hart / Casper Clark / Devil Man / Easy Hips / Buster Bennett / Fonteyn / Methodist Centre / Daniel Simonsen / Koogaphone / Kap Bambino Dj / Cooks Dj / The Beat Djs / Private Trousers / Paul B Davis / Douglas Hart Jesus and Mary Chain Dj Set / Snitch Djs / Chris Flatline / Cheval Sombre Sonic Boom / The Quietus DJs / Hampus Time Dj / David Freedom / Paul St Paul / John and On / Complexxion / miss something / Bob Slayer / Jake Moore / Lekiddo / God Don't Like It Djs / Clash Magazine Djs / K.Wale / Jim Warboy / Smith Tropical / Milan O / Not Shy / Nuke Em All / This Is Music Dj's / SHE SET / Louis Enchante Show all bands
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London, England, United Kingdom
Aug 20, 2009
FM4 Frequency Festival
"FM4 Frequency Festival" / CJ Ramone / Glasvegas / Jet / The Ting Tings / AFI / Eagles of Death Metal / Kasabian / Peter Fox / illScarlett / Enter Shikari / Selig / Anti-Flag / Volbeat / Rise Against / Pendulum / The Neon Empire / A Place To Bury Strangers / An Experiment On a Bird In the Air Pump / Asobi Seksu / The Airborne Toxic Event / Satori / Maestro's Memorial / Noctunes / Pirate Radio Station / Sympathy for Nothing / Petsch Moser / Wred / Philipp Straub / 2Many DJs / Proxy (Russia) / Funkberater / Krooked / Body & Soul / High Contrast / Aphrodite / Snitchbros / Carl Barat / Bloc Party / Boys Noize / Dúné / Editors / Elektrik Kezy Mezy / Kreisky / Mando Diao / MIA / Official Secrets Act / The Prodigy / The Sounds / The Subways Show all bands
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Festival Grounds Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Aug 20, 2009 –
Aug 22, 2009
FM4 Frequency Festival 2009
Radiohead / M.I.A. / Bloc Party / The Prodigy / Rise Against / Crystal Castles / The Ting Tings / Pendulum / Editors / AFI / Eric Prydz / Jet / The Airborne Toxic Event / Volbeat / Boys Noize / MSTRKRFT / Glasvegas / Eagles of Death Metal / The Crystal Method / Little Boots / Enter Shikari / The Subways / The Sounds / Grace Jones / Booka Shade / Mando Diao / Anti-Flag / Kele / Asaf Avidan & The Mojos / Milow / High Contrast / Jarvis Cocker / Carl Cox / Asobi Seksu / Heather Nova / Peter Fox / Dune / Middle Class Rut / Ska-P / Culcha Candela / 2manydjs (DJ Set) / Azzido Da Bass / Rival Schools / Port O'Brien / The Soulsavers / Marc Almond / Proxy / PVT / Jello Biafra / The (International) Noise Conspiracy / The Black Box Revelation / Chrome / Polarkreis 18 / Kettcar / illScarlett / Selig / Wallis Bird / Tomte / Thomas D / Farin Urlaub Racing Team / Auletta / DJ Aphrodite / Mono & Nikitaman / Krooked / Baddies / C.J. Ramone / Official Secrets Act / The Lines / Sebastian Sturm / Candid / Kreisky / Andy Rourke / Petsch Moser / Herbstrock / An Experiment On a Bird In the Air Pump / Philipp Straub / Dn / Pola-Riot / Philip Straub / Elektrik Kezy Mezy / Snitchbros / The Shit Is Coming Home / Dennes Deen / Jello Biafra & Band / Claudio Ricci / Wred / Neon Empire / MC Daxta / Body Movin / Funkberater / Whykriz / A Place to Bury Strangers / Body and Soul / Kasabian Show all bands
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Unknown venue St. Pölten, Lower Austria, Austria
Jul 26, 2009
The 1-2-3-4 Shoreditch Festival 2009
Crystal Fighters / A Place To Bury Strangers / King Charles / Patrick Wolf / The Rakes / Factory Floor / Juliette Lewis / AutoKratz / The Warlocks / Polly Scattergood / S.C.U.M / Kennedy / O. Children / Krazy Baldhead / Tim Burgess / k / Boy Crisis / Flashguns / Sloppy Seconds / Banjo Or Freakout / Hatcham Social / Wild Palms / Joe And Will Ask / Chrome Hoof / A Grave With No Name / Silhouette / Ipso Facto / Ulterior / Kasms / The Relics / The Ruling Class / Video Nasties / Poppy And The Jezebels / Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man / An Experiment On a Bird In the Air Pump / Disco Bloodbath / LR Rockets / Project:KOMAKINO / Televised Crimewave / Not Cool / Disastronaut / Sunderbans / Lion Club / Advert / Micron 63 / Lung, Rotter & Seven / Matthew !WowoW! / Cc-sb / Lovely Jonjo / V.E.G.A.S. Whores / Death to the King / Nuke Em All Show all bands
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Shoreditch Park London, England, United Kingdom
May 21, 2009
Stag & Dagger Festival 2009
The xx / Cold War Kids / Marina / Rusko / Wavves / The Joy Formidable / Wild Beasts / White Denim / Dan Black / Girls / Wintersleep / The Twilight Sad / Vivian Girls / We Have Band / James Yuill / Maps / Casiokids / Dananananaykroyd / Evan Dando / Speech Debelle / Micachu & The Shapes / Telepathe / Andrew Weatherall / Lovefoxxx / Let's Wrestle / Dan Smith / Abe Vigoda / The Phantom Band / Thunderheist / High Rankin / The Mae Shi / Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson / Filthy Dukes / Tubelord / Blue Roses / Duchess Says / Beth Jeans Houghton / N-Type / Exlovers / Young Turks / Your Twenties / Plugs / Stag / Dag för Dag / Pens / Navvy / Cage & Aviary / Kill Em All / Soy Un Caballo / Tomb Crew / Virgin Passages / Maximillion / An Experiment On a Bird In the Air Pump / Dagger / arch m / Moodie / Arthur Delaney / Baby Venom / Pure Groove / Young And Lost / Blue Bambinos / Trash Tracys / DJ Slugz / Capser C Show all bands
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London, England, United Kingdom
May 14, 2009 –
May 16, 2009
The Great Escape 2009
Mumford & Sons / The xx / Cage The Elephant / The Temper Trap / Kasabian / Metric / Bombay Bicycle Club / Marina / Peter Bjorn and John / Metronomy / Citizen Cope / Noah & The Whale / Crystal Fighters / The Maccabees / Django Django / Chairlift / Wavves / The Joy Formidable / Black Lips / LIGHTS / Blind Pilot / Fink / Everything Everything / Dan Auerbach / Enter Shikari / CSS / The Charlatans / Villagers / Mystery Jets / Little Boots / William Fitzsimmons / The Pains of Being Pure at Heart / The Big Pink / Mr Hudson / White Denim / Ane Brun / The Boxer Rebellion / We Were Promised Jetpacks / Just Jack / Asaf Avidan & The Mojos / Heartless Bastards / Slow Club / fanfarlo / Ben Kweller / Gang Of Four / Wolf Gang / Dan Black / Johnny Flynn / British Sea Power / School of Seven Bells / Little Comets / Connan Mockasin / Girls / Cloud Control / The Low Anthem / Datarock / Cursive / Arkells / V.V. Brown / Idlewild / Titus Andronicus / Beast / Hockey / Patrick Wolf / Bell X1 / Holy Fuck / The Handsome Family / The Veils / Wintersleep / Dan Mangan / Triggerfinger / British India / The Soft Pack / Cocoon / Racoon / The Twilight Sad / We Have Band / James Yuill / Hey Rosetta! / Vivian Girls / We Are the Ocean / Emmy the Great / The Hundred In the Hands / Teenagers / And So I Watch You from Afar / The Invisible / I Blame Coco / Jesca Hoop / The King Blues / The Rumble Strips / Thomas Dybdahl / Moriarty / Frankmusik / Lightspeed Champion / Maps / Soap&Skin / Teitur / The Pipettes / Chew Lips / Liam Finn / Sophie Hunger / TTNG / The Acorn / Neil Halstead / Casiokids / The Leisure Society / Evil Nine / Bashy / Pulled Apart By Horses / Crystal Antlers / Future of the Left / Marnie Stern / Sharks / De Staat / Times New Viking / Futurecop! / Leona Naess / Dananananaykroyd / Juliette Lewis / Naive New Beaters / Evan Dando / Black Box Revelation / Dinosaur Pile-Up / Polly Scattergood / Rainbow Arabia / Speech Debelle / General Fiasco / Telepathe / Manel / Johnny Foreigner / Micachu & The Shapes / Freeland / S.C.U.M / Trailer Trash Tracys / Smoke Fairies / Solid Gold / Gran Ronde / Peggy Sue / Riz MC / Turbowolf / Three Trapped Tigers / Lawrence Arabia / Golden Silvers / Let's Wrestle / Abe Vigoda / Kap Bambino / The Phantom Band / Hanne Hukkelberg / Brakes / Broken Records / Fight Like Apes / Iain Archer / Kissy Sell Out / Sky Larkin / Dan Smith / Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu / Esser / Lay Low / DM Stith / Amazing Baby / Yves Klein Blue / The Apples / Engine-EarZ Experiment / Woodpigeon / Hjaltalín / The Mae Shi / The John Steel Singers / I LIKE TRAINS / The Gay Blades / Ohbijou / Zach Hill / Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson / The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble / Karkwa / Filthy Dukes / We Are Wolves / Phantom / 80Kidz / Friendship / Mirrors / The Answering Machine / Theodore (UK) / Grasscut / The Bewitched Hands / The Shining / Pure Reason Revolution / Colourmusic / Alan Pownall / Cocknbullkid / The Ghost of a Thousand / Miranda Lee Richards / The Miserable Rich / Post War Years / Flashguns / The Deer Tracks / Kid British / Blue Roses / The Computers / zZz / Thomas Tantrum / Duchess Says / My Latest Novel / Mika Miko / Melissa McClelland / Shapes / Aziz / Beth Jeans Houghton / Banjo Or Freakout / My Tiger My Timing / Ocelot / Fan Death / Die! Die! Die! / I Was A King / Luke Doucet / The New Wine / Bearsuit / Hatcham Social / Dark Horses / Found / Exlovers / My Sad Captains / Mutiny On the Bounty / Grammatics / The Week That Was / The Rogues / Spires / I Heart Hiroshima / Heartbreak / Trip / Race Horses / Blakfish / The Boy Who Trapped the Sun / Harrys Gym / Sweethead / Skint & Demoralised / Medusa / LoveLikeFire / Fever Fever / Your Twenties / Mongrel / The Voluntary Butler Scheme / The Chapman Family / Phantom Limb / Baddies / It Hugs Back / Advaita / Mechanical Bride / A Grave With No Name / Sad Day for Puppets / Mpho / Mike Bones / Official Secrets Act / Yes Giantess / Hot Leg / Tonight Is Goodbye / DE DE MOUSE / Dag för Dag / Gable / Betty and The Werewolves / The Brute Chorus / Slaves to Gravity / Bang Bang Eche / Thomas Truax / SJ Esau / Crave / Ipso Facto / Kurran and the Wolfnotes / Magic Magic / Invasion / Brian Borcherdt / Soft Toy Emergency / Joe Gideon & The Shark / Rebekah Higgs / Calories / The Alexandria Quartet / Hexes / Elle Bandita / Males / Indigo Children / Throats / Gentle Friendly / Cuchillo / Roses Kings Castles / Ou Est Le Swimming Pool / Swarathma / Tommy Tokyo & Starving For My Gravy / Perfect People / Absent Elk / Gloria Cycles / Mothlite / Kasms / Catherine A.D. / Rosie & The Goldbug / Ulterior / Adam Heldring / The River Phoenix / Fanzine / Koko Von Napoo / Screaming Tea Party / Gold Teeth / Swanton Bombs / The Locarnos / Hospital Bombers / This City / Planet Earth / Christopher Rees / Jaakko & Jay / Video Nasties / Tucker / Me My Head / The Mark Inside / Hoodlums / Citadels / Telegraphs / Panama Kings / The Last Republic / To the Bones / Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man / Electric City / Come On Gang! / Our Fold / Betty Steeles / Riddim Saunter / Birdengine / Threatmantics / Lyrebirds / Kaputt / An Experiment On a Bird In the Air Pump / Dirty Stop Out / Tom Allalone & The 78s / TV Off / Mean Poppa Lean / Kids Love Lies / Ruby Jean & the Thoughtful Bees / Giantess / 4 or 5 Magicians / Emily Baker / The Moi non Plus / The She Creatures / Lightsgoblue. / Artefacts for Space Travel / London Blackmarket / Superfuzz / Youves / The Balky Mule / Barringtone / Charlie Ash / Televised Crimewave / Dimbleby & Capper / You Animals / The Shiny Brights / Nathan FLutebox Lee / Ultimate Power Duo / Juliette and the New Romantiques / Lion Club / Kate Rogers Band / Arthur Delaney / The Great Shakes / valerie francis / Joe Rose / Rory McVicar / Hot Silk Pockets / Natccu / Pocket Lips / PUNCH & THE APOSTLES / Luke Doucet & Melissa Mcclelland / ANGEL PIER / Cubrik / The Rouges / Girl In A Thunderbolt / Snish / Bonne Aparte / Lonely Ghosts / Battletorn / Last Mango in Paris / tin can telephone / Charlie Calleja / Little Lost David / Rodney Fisher / Ezra Bang & Hot Machine / Nullifier / Rgbs / Meme Love / Baby Venom / i!AMYOU / DJ Pdex / Astro Firs / Hunting the Minotaur / Geometri / Butcherd Beats / The Electric Flowers / This Tawdry Affair / Cassie & The Cassettes / The Train Chronicles / ROCK i.D. / Northernxposure / Riot Lights Show all bands
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Brighton, England, United Kingdom
Show Duplicate for May 14, 2009
Apr 25, 2009
Camden Crawl
"Camden Crawl" / Datarock / Alessi's Ark / Chew Lips / The Count & Sinden / Dan Black / Fight Like Apes / Flashguns / General Fiasco / GoldieLocks / James Yuill / Kasms / Man Like Me / Marina / Plugs / Sportsday Megaphone / The Big Pink / The Computers / Cordelier / The Invisible / The Joy Formidable / The King Blues / The xx / Three Trapped Tigers / Tommy Sparks / V V / 808 state / Alan Pownall / An Experiment On a Bird In the Air Pump / Banjo Or Freakout / Billy Bragg / BLK JKS / Broadcast 2000 / Cherbourg / Die! Die! Die! / Elviin / Eugene McGuinness / Everything Everything / Frankmusik / Gold Teeth / The Golden Silvers / Heartbreak / Hexes / Hot Leg / Innerpartysystem / Ipso Facto (UK) / Josh weller / Kasabian / King Creosote / Lion Club / Little Boots / Newham Generals / Ou Est Le Swimming Pool / Shitty Limits / Televised Crimewave / The Dead Formats / The Fall / The Laurel Collective / The Maccabees / The View / Threatmantics / Toddla T Show all bands
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