The Temperance Movement Live Are A Deeper Cut Above The Rest
I was lucky enough a few weeks before Christmas to see The Temperance Movement during their ‘Small Rooms New Tunes’ tour – you can read about that here. The small room was Soho institution The Borderline. The new tunes were first public outings for tracks that would...
Jamie Lenman Is A Bright White Blaze Live @ Academy Islington
It is a rare musician who can escape being labelled. There is no simple description for an artist like Jamie Lenman. He has created whole albums of folk and blues, of hardcore (especially with his former band Reuben) and, most recently electro-pop. What kind of...
The Amazons Conjour Up Black Magic At Cambridge Junction
The Amazons have had a busy 2017, releasing their debut album, being included in the BBC Sound of 2017 and MTV Brand New 2017 lists, and being named a band to listen to in 2017 by NME, The Independent, and Radio 1. 2018 looks just as busy, they're in the middle of a...
Natalie Imbruglia Delights Union Chapel
When a 22-year-old Natalie Imbruglia broke onto the music scene in 1997 following her departure from hit Australian daytime soap Neighbours, the UK set their expectations firmly in the Kylie camp. But as big a hit as her debut single Torn was, Imbruglia’s style was...
Jim Jones & The Righteous Mind Rise Above The Chaos @ Dingwalls
I don’t like to start any review by moaning about things outside the bands control but sometimes it can’t be helped and this gig was one of those occasions due to the venue not handling the swap over between the early and late gig they had on at all well. Also Camden...
Dirty Sister Stir Up Water Rats
Showcase nights that throw together different groups of musicians spanning a mix of styles are always fun to go along to, opening your ears to a range of talent. And so tonight we bounced from the rocking tones of Doctor Da Vinci to the growling screams of metalers...
Tyler Childers Is A Burning Ember On A Cold Night Live @Omeara
If you are fortunate enough to catch this Kentuckian singer songwriter during his pass through the UK, you are ahead of the curve. As is typical of this brilliant South East London venue Omeara are championing new talent on verge of a big break. Tyler Childers is a...
This Is The Kit Are Engagingly Enigmatic At Shepherd’s Bush Empire
There aren’t enough songs with whistling. Maybe that’s because most end up sounding either cloying (Bobby McFerrin’s Don’t Worry Be Happy) or downright irritating (The Scorpions’ Winds Of Change). So when somebody does get it right, the effect is spellbinding. Like...
Laurence Jones Reveals The Truth At Borderline
Laurence Jones is 25, which makes him just an infant in Blues years. But he plays with the talent and conviction of a veteran. Turns out, he is. He first picked up the guitar at 8, discovered Eric Clapton at 12, and released his debut album at 20. Over the course of...
Steel Panther Bring The Bombast To Shepherd’s Bush Empire
Steel Panther have done for music what Donald Trump has for America: make it great again. With rocket-fuel party anthems, they’ve not just restored widdly-widdly guitar solos, anthemic keyboard melodies, and booming drums to their rightful place in the rock pantheon,...
King King Let Love In At Shepherd’s Bush Empire
“I love what I do,” King King front man Alan Nimmo told me a few months ago, “and I want the audience to love it with me.” The clearly thrilled singer and guitarist achieves exactly that at the band’s biggest London headline show to date. As soon as the quartet hit...
Starcrawler “They Will Kill You” Live @ Omeara, London
Across their social media comes a strong message from young band Starcrawler, “We will kill you”. A notice hangs on the wall of the entranceway of bijoux South East venue Omeara, ‘Warning: Tonight there will be a potentially disturbing immersive performance’, now...
Black Country Communion Sway Into Hammersmith
Black Country Communion may, as Glenn Hughes says more than once tonight, be a band built on friendship. But they’re also a band built on supreme talent. Best known for his time with Dream Theater, the six-packed Derek Sherinian is one of those players who can...
Fallen Angels Offer Smoke Signals to the Ancient Gods: Fields of the Nephilim Live
With few commercial releases in the last decade Fields of the Nephilim have relied on their status as one of the original and most influential British goth rock bands to maintain their fan base. From their musical style to their carefully cultivated look, they set a...
Five Finger Death Punch Knock Out Wembley Arena
Metal is all about volume and intensity. Which is exactly what Of Mice And Men supply as they kick off a night of guttural vocals, guitar riffs of sledgehammer subtlety, soul-shaking drum fills, chest thumping, and sweaty, screaming, moshing fans at Wembley...
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