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...
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...
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