Billy Joel Is The The Giver Of Dreams At BST Hyde Park 2023
Hyde Park is baking. The turf beneath the 130,000 feet of the crowd is bleached and brittle as a thrice-peroxided perm, and snippets of dry grass wisp through the air like God’s dandruff. A guy to my left hands his hat to staff refilling water bottles; asks them to...
Liam Gallagher Oozes More Power At Koko
Liam Gallagher doesn’t need any introduction. The younger of the two Manchester-hailing Gallagher brothers that fronted Britpop frontrunners Oasis from the mid 1990s through to the group’s famous implosion in 2009, is famous as much for music as for his bristly...
Vintage Trouble Get Heavy And Hymnal At Electric Brixton
Vintage Trouble have a new album out. It's called Heavy Hymnal and they're rightly proud of it. So proud, in fact, that Ty Taylor pulls out a copy during their London gig to show off the coloured vinyl. "It's bronze, but when you play it, it makes you feel like gold,"...
No Pyro, No Party – KISS Sign Off In Typically Overblown Style At The O2
They say growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional. The long-serving members of KISS may well want to Rock And Roll All Nite but even for these most age-defying of rockers, the sands of time are inevitable. After 50 years as one of rock music’s most...
Bruce Springsteen Is Still The Boss Of London’s Hyde Park
On 6 and 8 July 2023 the American singer and songwriter delivered a nostalgic rock’n’roll spectacular in London for British Summer Time Hyde Park. On the second of those dates, writer Nicola Greenbrook were there to witness a legend in action. [gallery type='flickr'...
King Princess Finds Safety At Koko
Mikaela Straus takes a break in their set to pay homage to Koko, or rather the people inside the iconic Camden venue at this very moment. “When I see the people in this audience I see safety” they say, speaking to the diverse audience that have assembled to enjoy...
Iggy Pop Wants To Be Your Dog At Dog Day Afternoon In Crystal Palace Park
Iggy Pop headlines a curated summer day festival for London which brilliantly represents the musical roots of punk in the UK and New York in the ‘70s. Opening act Lambrini Girls show how the spirit of punk lives on shouting through songs of the modern-day perils of...
Interpol Turn On the Bright Lights For Summer Series At Somerset House
I mean, wow! The first time I saw Interpol was at Ally Pally in 2007, having just released their third album Our Love To Admire and Paul Banks had a ridiculous fringe. To this day, still one of the best gigs I’ve been to, from what I can remember of the extremely...
Beabadoobee Delivers For Summer Series At Somerset House
Filipino-English, singer, songwriter and guitarist Bea Kristi – more widely known as Beabadoobee – is just 23 years of age. But that hasn’t stopped her putting out two studio LPs and five EPs since the age 18 on Dirty Hit (think The 1975, Wolf Alice, Rina Sawayama,...
Hollywood Vampires Pay Homage To The Dead At The O2
Formed in 2012, Hollywood Vampires are an American rock supergroup currently consisting of Alice Cooper, Joe Perry, Johnny Depp, and Tommy Henriksen. Cooper regales how the band takes its name from a drinking club consisting of mainly himself, late The Who...
Alison Goldfrapp Shines Among Equals At Somerset House
Tonight, on day four of the Somerset House Summer Series we have an appointment with a Queen of trip hop electronica, Alison Goldfrapp.
Crystal Palace Park Crowd Soaked To The Rag ‘n’ Bone Man
This Crystal Palace crowd are well and truly warmed up by the time Rory Charles Graham – AKA Rag 'n' Bone Man – and his band causally saunter out onto the stage causing quite the stir with the gig goers, the 38-year-old East Sussex man tonight's main support for...
Elton John Brings The Curtain Down On Glastonbury 2023 And His Career With Joyous Elegance
From the moment Elton John announced he would be playing Glastonbury Festival for the first (and last) time, closing out the 2023 festival with a Sunday Night Pyramid Stage headline set back in December 2022, everything about this year's edition of the 50+...
Despite The Storm, The Lumineers Show Crystal Palace Park The Brightside
There’s no dampening this crowd’s spirits as the rains came down on a muggy summer's evening in London, even after a somewhat false start where a short pause between songs over the speakers led the crowd to believe The Lumineers were about to don the stage but didn’t....
Take That Deliver A Joyful Journey Through The Eras At BST Hyde Park 2023
The lineup for the Saturday session at British Summer Time all but promises to be a nostalgic return to eras past. A journey through songs some of us sang into hairbrushes, and others danced to in flared corduroy. [gallery type='flickr' view='photo'...
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