Live: Truck Festival 2017
One of the UK’s finest small festivals, Truck, has just had its twentieth birthday – and the site at Hill Farm, near the Oxfordshire village of Steventon celebrated in style with a guest list that belied the ‘small’ festival moniker. Boasting headliners Franz...
LIVE: Blink-182 @ O2 Arena, London. Whats My Age Again?
Recently one of my Facebook friends posted an article about the appropriate age when you should stop clubbing. In wider context the appropriate age when you should abandon the dance floor or concert hall for the benefit of early nights in with kids and pyjamas. The...
Live: Slaves @ Tunbridge Wells Forum
Idly scrolling through my Facebook feed on Monday I saw a notification from local band Lady Bird that they were playing on Thursday night supporting Slaves at The Forum, an intimate 250 capacity venue on the edge of Royal Tunbridge Wells. Ticket was by lottery,...
Live: The Robert Glasper Experience @ Somerset House
‘Our gigs are open air and go ahead come rain or shine’ is a statement on the Somerset House website and the recent heatwave that blessed the UK ended abruptly, bringing the kind of rain that told you it was here to stay. This run of thirteen concerts of the Summer...
Live: bluedot Festival @ Jodrell Bank Observatory
Hosted at the Jodrell Bank Observatory in Macclesfield near the M6 between Manchester and Birmingham, the second incarnation of the bluedot festival took place last weekend and drew crowds from all over the country. Bluedot is a very special festival in that it is as...
Sound Premiere: M1LDL1FE, How You Forget
How You Forget is a new song from the band M1LDL1FE (pronounced Mildlife) about how we treat memories of the people we love. The track is a slow burner where the instrumental parts meet almost David Sylvian-esque vocals. Pulsing to a steady beat, the song is driven...
LIVE: Christina Martin @ The Sound Lounge
Nova Scotia singer and songwriter Christina Martin recently released her new single Lungs Are Burning and toured the UK, visiting ten cities from York and Cheshire to London and Brighton. I was lucky enough to catch her intimate performance in one of London’s smallest...
Live: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers @ BST Hyde Park, London
British Summer Time at Hyde Park reached it crescendo with the 'double header' of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers and special guest Steve Nicks on the final Sunday of the event. The Heartbreakers, once regular visitors in the 70s and 80s, appearing in the UK for...
Live: Damian Marley @ Somerset House
Summer 2017 has brought the heat and American Express have brought their Summer Series to Somerset House with another diverse line-up of artists. It’s the end of the week, the sun is beaming, there's a warm breeze and reggae-riddims are bubbling, music lovers couldn't...
Live: U2 @ Twickenham Stadium
U2 come out swinging. Having warmed up an already expectant crowd with The Waterboys’ guaranteed party starter The Whole Of The Moon as their intro tape, the band launch into a chronological run of eight songs that have anchored their live performances for at least...
Live: Ani DiFranco @The London Palladium
The Palladium is an unusual venue for a gig, particularly for an artist like Ani DiFranco. It is a theatrical seated venue, not conducive to dancing. The crowd is a female heavy mix, as a vocal feminist and as female song writer who has explored politics, the...
Live: Kings Of Leon @ BST Hyde Park
You learn something every day. Today I learned that carrying a step ladder and camera rucksack on the London underground in the rush hour when it’s thirty degrees outside is something to be avoided at all costs. I had the rucksack because I was en route to photograph...
Live: Community Festival @ Finsbury Park
Community Festival has found its home in Finsbury Park and if Saturday was any indication, the inaugural trip to North London has supplanted itself as a festival to watch going forward. Having just two stages, the Main Stage and the N4 Stage, made it pretty easy to...
Live: Midnight Oil @ Hammersmith Apollo
“We spent more time on this setlist than most people did thinking about how to vote on Brexit,” says Midnight Oil frontman Peter Garrett towards the beginning of the band’s first London show in 20 years. Initially it seems like a throwaway joke from the former...
Live: The Hives, Gogol Bordello & Green Day @ BST Hyde Park, London
Celebrating its fifth year British Summer Time Festival (BST) is designed as a showcase of live music grouped by genre into day long programmes throughout July. Kicking off the season was Phil Collins and Blondie, representing retro-pop. To come is classic rock and...
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