Mumford & Sons Bring Delta To London’s O2 Arena
Four voices. One guitar. One banjo. One microphone. Turns out that's all it takes to silence 20,000 screaming voices. As Mumford & Sons perform a spare, spellbinding rendition of Timshel, London's largest indoor venue suddenly becomes its most intimate. But this...
Israel Nash Live @ Scala Kings Cross
Thanksgiving seems like the perfect day to see the Texan country sensation Israel Nash playing live at Scala in Kings Cross and the show is pretty much sold out helping to create a good atmosphere. I got in while opening act Brent Cowles was playing as a duo with...
Larkin Poe Storm Islington’s Assembly Hall
Larkin Poe are not a household name in the UK. They don’t have any albums or singles in the UK charts and haven’t visited our shores for over two years. Yet as I walk past the Islington Assembly Hall on North London’s famous Upper Street a good half hour before their...
The Sheepdogs Live: Rounding Up The Borderline Faithful
It’s kind of weird when an artist that is massive on one side of the Atlantic is relatively unknown on the other. Show a North American a Blur, Stereophonics or Kasabian CD and you’ll likely get confused shrugs. Conversely, an (ironically English) band such as The...
Holy Moly And The Crackers Bring The Circus To Cambridge Junction
This was a show that I had been looking forward to since early Spring, so I was more than excited to catch up with Holy Moly And The Crackers on the third date of their UK Headline Tour. Southampton and London had been rocked to the core by Boombastic Folksters and...
Public Service Broadcasting Live At The Royal Albert Hall
It must be great being in Public Service Broadcasting. You’re sufficiently anonymous that you can walk about without being bothered by the general public. You make and perform music entirely on your terms. This means, in moves that would make the average record...
Reel Big Fish Skanking On Halloween @ Forum, Kentish Town
Halloween, the night where witches, ghosts and other ghouls come out of their caves to celebrate the darkest and coldest months to come... But wait! In London, a bunch of friends from sunny California and Florida came to fight the evil spirits. Rockshot Magazine went...
Counting Crows Celebrate 25 Years And Counting At BluesFest
There are only two types of musicians. There are those who believe that, once it's recorded, a song’s finished. And there are those who believe that a song’s never done. Bob Dylan, for one, has spent the past 50 years out on the road reimagining his back catalogue to...
Van Morrison & Robert Plant Shift Time & Space @ BluesFest 2018
Blues Fest has been building reputation as a musical calendar fixture for a few years. A four-night festival of musicians who either play in blues style or who have adapted blues songs in a fusion of styles. Tonight’s pairing of co-headliners have, across their...
Sarah Vista Live Black Heart Camden Album Launch
This show at the Black Heart in Camden is the launch show for Sarah Vista’s new album Killing Fever that is out now on 8-track, Cassette, Vinyl, Cd and download on Gallow Romantic Records so you have no excuses not to buy it unless you only listen to reel to reel or...
Freya Ridings Brings Songwriting Soul To Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
There are a select few artists in any music fan’s life that can capture something within them, so immediately and ardently, that the listener becomes hooked before the end of that very first song. I had listened to all of one verse of Lost Without You before I...
Lord Huron Breach The Astral Plane At The Roundhouse
Originally conceived as a solo moniker for frontman and band principle Ben Schneider, Lord Huron – named after Lake Huron, one of the great lakes that provides a grand shoreline along Schneider’s home state of Michigan – evolved into their current four-piece formation...
Perfect In Their Simplicity – Editors @ Brixton Academy
One could be forgiven for thinking there was a stadium act in town tonight. As endless queues of people waded into the Brixton Academy, sounds of heaving bass lines and overly excitable fans beckoned from the interior. Editors have become somewhat of an icon in the...
An Intimate Feel On A Grand Scale: U2 At O2 Arena, London
There’s always something to be said about the grandeur of a U2 show. They’ve had everything from a giant claw, stadium-length runways, floor-to-roof mega screens and even a floating glass spaceship. But it is their taste for spectacle that has become the essence of...
Jeff Lynne’s ELO: Shining A Little Love Under Clear Blue Skies
Jeff Lynne’s ELO might require a contractually compromised moniker these days and aside from the frontman himself, might not contain a single member of the 1970s supergroup, but they play his music with a precision and authenticity that is nothing short of amazing....
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