Live Review: Alvvays @ The Empire Shepherds Bush.
A staple of the festival circuit this summer, including stops at Glastonbury Festival’s John Peel stage and the end-of-season Reading and Leeds dual events, Toronto-based Canadian indie-pop troupe Alvvays brought their instantly pleasing brand of jangle-pop to the UK...
Live Review: White Reaper @ Shepherds Bush Empire
Louisville punk-rock quartet White Reaper opened the show at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire on Friday night in support of Canadian indie-pop group Alvvays’ final show of their biggest UK headline tour to date. Storming through eight tracks from their debut full-length...
Live Review: Victorious Festival @ Southsea Seafront.
Southsea’s Victorious Festival is now in it's fourth year and has seen nigh on exponential growth in that time. The site certainly is vast. Although the festival has no less than 10 performance spaces of varying size and scope – much of it showcasing local talent - my...
Live Review: The Libertines @ The Electric Ballroom
You've probably worked out by now (or heard!) that Pete Doherty didn't show up for The Libertines tonight, and the gig never happened. After nearly two hours of waiting the crowd started to get pretty upset and it ended up with cans and bottles being thrown, some...
Live: The Monkees @ The Apollo
The 1960s music/TV phenomenon is back in town. Now reduced to just two members – Mickey Dolenz and Peter Tork – The Monkees are introduced by a series of video clips on a huge screen overhanging the stage of the Apollo. Opening up with Last Train To Clarksville, the...
Live Review: Heartless Bastards @ The Borderline
Austin based band Heartless Bastards brought their own amalgam of Americana influences to London’s Borderline on Tuesday night, promoting their critically acclaimed fifth album, Restless Ones. The place was a sell-out, though any claustrophobics would have been...
Live: The Gaslight Anthem @ Shepherds Bush Empire
“We wanted to let everyone know that we'll all be taking a break from The Gaslight Anthem after this next European tour in August. We're all going to do other projects and stay active in some way or another, both in and out of music, but we'd like to step away from...
Live Review: James Morrison @ Wilton’s Music Hall
I’m sure you’ve all heard those radio competitions to win tickets “for an exclusive intimate live show with…” but like me, you probably never thought you’d actually get to one. Well tonight, for me and few hundred others, we got to witness one such evening courtesy of...
Live: Forgotten Fields Festival Review
First impressions do count and when you walk over the hill and down the dip to see the inaugural Forgotten Fields festival laid out before you it all looks very promising. The site is inviting and has an old time travelling circus feel to it as you enter. Acrobats,...
Live: The Tubes @ Clapham Grand, London.
"A baby's arm holding an apple" shouts back the crowd to Fee Waybill's quiz master question What Do You Want From Life? at The Tubes' 40th anniversary tour concert in the Clapham Grand Theatre. He is impressed that everyone knows the words so well. This gig is...
Live: Ramblin Man Fair @ Mote Park
“We believe there’s a Ramblin’ Man – or Ramblin’ Woman – in all of us, who wants to wander and listen to great music, drink fine beer, eat great food and have the best of times”. So read the tagline for this inaugural Ramblin' Man Fair festival of Classic Rock, Prog,...
Review: Backyard Cinema. Al Fresco Big Screen, Burgers & Beers.
Backyard Cinema has launched their six-week Film Festival hosted by London’s Camden Market from 29th July - 4th September 2015. Nicola Greenbrook grabbed her popcorn and joined the press night for an outdoor movie experience with a difference. Backyard Cinema has...
Live: Rosanne Cash @ Union Chapel
I first heard Rosanne Cash years ago, on a video recording of a show from sometime in the 1990s, featuring Cash with country/folk peers Nanci Griffith and Mary Chapin Carpenter. The three songwriters were sitting around in a semi-circle, each with a guitar, a...
Live: The Drums @ Koko
There was a lot of hype surrounding The Drums a few years ago, but having watched them tonight they are the epitome of New York cool. Even the way they interact on stage has a certain something about it. Frontman Jonny Pierce, every inch the extrovert dressed in a...
Live: Hamilton Loomis @ 100 Club
I really like the 100 Club. I like the history that’s embedded in its DNA. I like that you can practically touch the ceiling. I like that there are tables dotted around the periphery looking less trustworthy under load than the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. I even like there...
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