Live Review: Gin Wigmore @ Dingwalls
Gin Wigmore @ Dingwalls New Zealand singer-songwriter Virginia “Gin” Wigmore played a show at Camden’s Dingwalls venue in North London as part of a short run of European shows in support of her third studio album Blood To Bone. With a distinctive voice often compared...
Live Review: Victor & The Rain Dog @ The Magic Garden
Live Review: Victor & The Rain Dog @ The Magic Garden Following numerous live gigs and festival appearances this year, Victor & The Rain Dog topped off an impressive run with an intimate performance at The Magic Garden in Battersea. London-based Victor &...
Live Review: Sleaford Mods @ The Forum
Sleaford Mods @ The Forum This live music review is brought to you by the character * In March, my mate Rob Davies saw Sleaford Mods at The Bowery District, Reading: capacity 300, it wasn’t full. In June, I photographed them at KOKO, Camden: capacity 1500, sold out....
Live: Rich Robinson @ The Jazz Cafe
Rich Robinson @ The Jazz Cafe. In the early 1990s, no self-respecting fan of good ole’ southern rock would be without a copy of The Black Crowes’ Shake Your Money Maker whizzing away in their CD player. Although the band never quite replicated the dynamic energy of...
Live: Gabrielle Aplin @ Village Underground
Gabrielle Aplin @ Village Underground English singer-songwriter and musician Gabrielle Aplin built up a fan base the new-fashioned way, by posting acoustic covers of hit songs from the likes of Katy Perry and Cee Lo Green on her YouTube channel. She was thrown into...
Live Review: Florence + the Machine @ Alexandra Palace
Florence + the Machine @ Alexandra Palace It’s hard to have missed Florence + the Machine’s meteoric rise to stardom over the past six years. Even before debut studio album Lungs was released back in 2009, the Florence Welch-fronted group was longlisted for BBC’s...
Live Review. Chantel McGregor @ 100 Club
Rock stars can be a grumpy bunch can’t they? So to go along to a gig, where the performer smiles almost as much as the fans in the front row is a really pleasant change. In fact I’d even suggest that after tonight’s album launch gig, at the 100 Club Chantal McGregor...
Live Review: DRINKS at the Lexington.
DRINKS live review at The Lexington Cate Le Bon and Tim Presley’s collaboration DRINKS played at The Lexington in London on 10 September to a sold-out crowd eager to see how the improvised sound of their recently released debut album, Hermits On Holiday, would...
Review: Grillstock 2015. Foot-Stomping, Glorious Gluttony.
Grillstock Festival - Foot-stomping, glorious gluttony When Meat, Music and Mayhem comes to town, and it just so happens to be your home town, there’s no excuse not to partake. Grillstock Festival smacked Walthamstow, East London right round the chops this weekend...
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...
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