Wilko Johnson’s 70th Birthday Bash: Live @ The Royal Albert Hall
Unless you’re a fan of Game Of Thrones, or else otherwise just ‘of a certain age’, it’s unlikely you’d have heard of Wilko Johnson until 2013 - when it was disclosed he was suffering from terminal pancreatic cancer. This news, or more specifically his reaction to it...
Sigur Rós Mesmerise At Hammersmith Apollo
Young children can be mesmerised by almost anything: ants, mud, the rain, a man in a purple dinosaur costume singing songs. Adults, not so much. Between all the Snapchats, news alerts, and seeing what’s happening everywhere but here, there’s just no time to focus....
Dan Reed: Intimate Performance In St. Pancras Old Church
Dan Reed is one of those rare musicians who's achieved success in a band (as the charismatic lead vocalist of Dan Reed Network, he's sold millions of albums and toured with the Rolling Stones) and as a solo artist. The American rocker recently released his fourth solo...
A Saturday At Bestival 2017, Made It Through The Rain
Bestival 2017 opened at its new home at Lulworth Estate with a promising packed lineup of musical treats and festivities, Nosa Malcolm explores. I arrived late Friday night, the clouds had consumed the sky and the forecast rain came down as I unloaded my car. Getting...
Four Decades of Adolescence: The Psychedelic Furs @ O2 Forum Kentish Town
Gathering together to play a sold-out London show are a band synonymous with American college rock of the 1980s, although they emerged from the UK punk scene in ’77 and grew a post punk fan base across Europe. The Psychedelic Furs are often best remembered for...
Music Makers Festival @ Omnibus Theatre, Clapham
RockShot Mag recently headed out to South London’s Clapham on a sunny weekend for a very special event. Past the famous Common and the drinkers unwinding in the mottled sunlight was The Omnibus Theatre, an elegant host for Music Makers Festival. A two-day independent...
Victorious Festival 2017, Three Days of Southsea Sunshine
I am local to Portsmouth, and I admit that I became slightly concerned before attending my third Victorious Festival. Victorious refuses to stop growing. It engulfs the entire city, with stages on the southernmost coast, and a new campsite on Portsmouth’s northernmost...
X Ambassadors Throw A Political Party @ ULU
Want to front a chart-topping band? You'll need more than a distinct voice. You’ll need to be a cheerleader, inciting the crowd to wave their arms or sing along in unison, like it was their idea in the first place. You’ll need so much energy that standing still is...
Curiosities In The Courtyard, Tori Amos Album Launch
Tori Amos is on the cusp of releasing her 15th album, Native Invader, and she's chosen the intimate setting of The Courtyard Theatre in Hoxton, as her launch pad for the record. The venue, a former library and Grade ll listed building, is a hidden gem, tucked away in...
Amy Macdonald Takes Over Omeara
When Amy Macdonald released debut album This Is the Life some ten years ago now at the tender age of just 19, it was both critically acclaimed and commercially successful in the UK and Europe, landing at number one and winding up three times Platinum in the UK and...
Maddie & Tae Bring Country to Koko in Camden
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Country Music is the new pop music. And over the past few years, people have been starting to look up and take notice not just in the genre’s heartland – the Southern United States – but both across the US and across the...
Tonbridge Calling Festival, A PhotoStory
Hundreds turned out in the glorious sunshine for the second year of Tonbridge Calling Festival on Saturday 12 August. The free, unticketed event was set within an open park and seamlessly run by a team of 40 volunteers. It was set up last year with the vision of...
Live: Star Shaped Festival @ The Forum, Kentish Town
Revival events are nothing new with many bands reforming to play to the nostalgia market years after their heyday. Some acts find a new lease of life after taking extended breathers and continue on while for others, they really are playing to the fans made during...
Live: Y Not Festival 2017
It looks like Y Not festival has finally found its answer and the operative word of the weekend was most definitely mud. Marred with problems from the start, the festival was cancelled on the morning of the final day, seeing only one out of the three main headliners...
Live: Wildwood Kin @ The Islington
Wildwood Kin are on the verge of something very big. They’ve already had a single playlisted on BBC Radio 2, supported Ward Thomas on a national tour, played Glastonbury, headlined their first London shows, and signed to Sony. And that’s just in the past three months....
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