K.Flay Slays At Electric Brixton
Kristine Flaherty – AKA K.Flay – is unapologetically a weirdo. She spins and flails onstage, and at one point lies on her back and cycles her legs, kicking in time to the music. Flay’s weirdness speaks to her fans directly. “How many people consider themselves to be...
Busted Still Bouncing In The Year 2023
Busted celebrate the 20th anniversary of their debut album with a mammoth UK tour! We're here at a packed AO Arena in Manchester for their second sold-out date at this massive venue! ...
Arlo Parks Devotion Proves She’s Just Too Good At Hammersmith Apollo
Tonight was not just a homecoming of a local artist to an iconic stage but it was the release of so much energy that’s built up over the last three years where her audience was able to sing these vulnerable anthems proudly with their chest out, owning their own, and...
Shawn Colvin Charms At Union Chapel
Shawn Colvin has been to the UK many times. In fact, she regales us with tales of how her early days of playing and touring had her shipped out to London for the final European leg of Suzanne Vega’s 1987 Solitude Standing tour where Colvin’s excitement at learning the...
The Sisters Of Mercy Kick Off UK & European Tour In Tumultuous Style
This was the first of two shows The Sisters Of Mercy were playing at Camden's famous Roundhouse venue at the start of the band's current UK and European tour. As Andrew Eldritch points out, he’s amazed that 42 years after The Sisters Of Mercy played their first show,...
Oh Geno! Dexys Divide The Crowd At The London Palladium
With the promise of a full performance of their first album in seven years, it’s easy to see why the long-standing fans of Dexys were queuing outside the London Palladium in the torrential rain long before doors opened. It would prove to be a phenomenal show by a...
New Black Spiders Tour Blows The Cobwebs Away
Hard rock band Black Spiders have been around for a while. Having formed in 2008, they delivered a brace of well received albums and landed multiple support slots with the likes of Airbourne, Black Stone Cherry and The Wildhearts before disbanding in 2017. Then, three...
The Courettes Close Their UK Tour With A Dynamite Double Header
This show at the 100 club was the last night of The Courettes current UK tour, ahead of their upcoming US leg that begins in a couple of weeks’ time. As Flavia and Martin Couri continue to bring their Danish/Brazilian garage rock to the masses. Opening the show were...
Randall King Brings The Honky-Tonk To Bush Hall
Tonight, Bush Hall’s ambiance transforms. The vintage West London theatre could easily look like a museum or a Georgian living room. However, as wrestling style intro music complete with truck noises transitions into electric guitar, the space becomes alive with the...
Breland Proves Country Music Is For Everyone At The Electric Ballroom
“Country music is for everyone: it’s about telling stories, it’s about community,” grins Daniel Gerard Breland (or Breland as he's known), midway through his set. And he’s right. The self-described ‘Black guy from Jersey’ has taken the hip-hop country fusion that won...
The Strokes And Yeah Yeah Yeahs Bring New York City To All Points East
The documentary Meet Me In The Bathroom, which revisits the early 2000s New York City music scene, is stuffed with clips from the era. In one, Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer Karen O asks: "What's more important? Good sound or a good time?" "Sounding good, having a good...
Jungle Take It Back To Basics At All Points East
You’d be forgiven for thinking summer had never arrived in London. In between two epic thunderstorms and a brief moment to clear waterlogged stages, the famous All Points East festival in Victoria Park resumed its normal Saturday schedule. Despite grey skies, the...
Cat Clyde Gets Mystic At The Old Church Stoke Newington
This show was a rare chance to go and see a concert in London’s only remaining Elizabethan church rebuilt in 1563 on the site of a derelict church and further re-built in the 1940’s after the original church was bombed in The Blitz. The church is extremely atmospheric...
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...
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