The The 2018 Comeback Special Tour
“You have to find your way back to creativity”, said Matt Johnson in last year’s documentary The Inertia Variations, in light of having finally completed and performed (for a live radio broadcast) his first The The song in some 15 years. The extraordinary film,...
Angélique Kidjo Renews Remain In Light Live @ Royal Festival Hall
Angélique Kidjo has taken the Talking Heads album Remain In Light and given it a new lease of life and meaning. The album deemed as ground-breaking and innovative when it was released in the 1980s used many different layered rhythms from around the world, relying on...
Camden Rocks 2018 Festival Review & Photo Story
Camden Rocks is back once more to showcase the best Indie music the festivals organizer Chris McCormackcan find. The festival is the current version of what used to be The Camden Crawl only with far better organization than the Crawl used to have. We got to Camden...
Patti Smith & Nick Cave Live At All Points East Festival
On the final day of the 12 day long festival that is All Points East we were treated to a celebrated mass with the high priestess, Patti Smith and gothic minister, Nick Cave preaching to an almighty choir and congregation. With the heat of the day still burning off...
Mighty Hoopla – Sunshine, Glitter And All Things Pop-tastic
https://flic.kr/p/2nzdtae It’s the first weekend in June, obviously the unofficial start to the summer and with the sun high in the sky, where else would you be but Brockwell Park in South London for the Mighty Hoopla festival along with 15,999 others. You could be...
Slam Dunk South 2018 Live Review
The weather told me to expect thunderstorms, so I wrapped up expecting to get wet. That was my first mistake of the day. I had to carry around my rain coat and walking around for the day in jeans and boots with glorious sunshine beaming down. It ended up being the...
All Round Fantastic Negrito Live @ Dingwalls
It’s difficult to summarise an evening so impressionable that every part of the experience lingers with you for days on end. Characterised by an energy so emphatic you could feel it moving through you - it was a night where this relatively unknown artist truly lived...
Lo Moon Rises At Omeara
Listen to Lo Moon’s suave debut album and it's easy to imagine the trio in polo necks and impeccably tailored suits, two hunched over their instruments as the vocalist sways gently at the mic stand. Reality’s a little different. Admittedly guitarist Samuel Stewart is...
CHVRCHES Declare Love Is Dead At House Of Vans
“Well, this is new,” observes Lauren Mayberry, pointing out the drummer seated behind her. But, while he brings a visceral power and hyperkinetic energy to the CHVRCHES live sound, adding Johnny Scott to their touring line-up certainly isn’t all that’s new tonight....
U.S. Girls Electrify The Stereo In Glasgow
U.S. Girls, the project started up by Canadian-American Meghan Remy, is currently on their In A Poem Unlimited tour around Europe, named after their latest album. They visited Scotland on the last leg of their tour and played The Stereo in Glasgow. Accompanying Remy...
The Rolling Stones Still Greatest Rock ‘n’ Roll Band Live @ London Stadium
“It’s all a bit embarrassing now” said several of my friends when I told them I was going to see The Rolling Stones in London. This appears a popular notion - mainly from people who have never fully witnessed the band live. The consummate music rebels from the sixties...
Everybody Wants A Peace Of The Action
What’s in a name? Not much, it turns out, for Peace; their gigs are anything but. Possessed of an audience every bit as energetic as most of their songs, the band’s Kentish Town Forum show is loud, brash, sweaty, tireless, visceral, and totally invigorating. With a...
Delta Lady Rita Coolidge Melts Hearts @ Boisdale Jazz Blues & Soul Club
There aren’t many of the original 70s blues and soul ladies left that are actively performing around the world, so when a chance comes up to witness at close range the warm and tender vocals of Rita Coolidge, I’m not hesitating. So I travelled over 200 miles from...
Nickelback Have You All Figured Out At The O2
“Are we having fun yet?” is the most important line of How You Remind Me, Nickelback’s most important song. And by the time Chad Kroeger belts it out during the band’s 2001 breakout hit, the answer’s pretty clear. Exhibit A: the volume of the London audience shouting...
Dreadzone Mix It Up At Tunbridge Wells Forum
An unseasonably warm and sunny April evening set the scene perfectly for Dreadzone to play the intimate Forum in Tunbridge Wells. This Dub-reggae based group fuse all sorts of genres from dub to dance through to folk and rock with a sprinkle of classical thrown in....
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