Live: Bilbao BBK Live 2016 – Festival Season’s Hidden Gem
For music lovers the world over, festival season is often the best opportunity to catch those elusive acts it is impossible to snap up headline show tickets to while catching the up and comers on their rise. But where some of the world’s big festivals can often leave...
Live: 2Cellos @ Greenwich Music Time
Almost everyone has a bucket list. No matter if you are interested in fashion, music, travel, photography or you want to gain some personal goals. Mine contains mostly bands I want to see live for the first time. 2CELLOS has been on top of that list since a friend of...
Live: The Struts @ Dingwalls
Every so often, a band comes along that the online music photography community opines as a ‘must have’ in the portfolio. Vintage Trouble are one such artist. I’ve snapped them and can confirm that they certainly lived up to the hype. More recently, The Struts have...
Live: Band Of Horses @ Shepherd’s Bush Empire
Seattle-based rockers Band Of Horses released fifth studio album Why Are You OK last month, and following a triumphant John Peel stage performance at this year’s recent Glastonbury Festival, they were back in the UK for a trio of shows, including two stops at London’s...
Live: Santana @ Eventim Hammersmith Apollo
It’s been a really awful few weeks. Brexit, no Government, no opposition, defeat to Iceland, Jo Cox, Caroline Aherne. You’d be forgiven for thinking that tonight’s crowd at the Hammersmith Apollo might have reason to be a little agitated right now. In residence was...
Live: Glastonbury 2016 – Mud, Brexit and All-English Headliners
Described by festival founder Michael Eavis as the muddiest ever Glastonbury, revellers can at least be thankful that the rain was largely kept at bay during the four festival days, although a torrential spell during Friday, a good downpour over that night, and some...
Live: Fold Festival @ Fulham Palace.
Emin, Anne-Marie, CHIC with Nile Rodgers and Beck @ FOLD Festival FOLD Festival or the Freak Out Let's Dance Festival is enjoying its second year, to celebrate curator and creator Nile Rodgers has decided to share it with London. Opening the show was Emin, a...
Live: Ty Segall & The Muggers @ The Forum
Since his last outing in UK touring 2014 album Manipulator, Ty Segall's fan base has grown. The crowd tonight look fresh from a snap shot of a California beach party circa 1973. Hip kids, stoners and surf bums ready to rock out, out of place and out of time. Segall...
Live: Nashville In Concert @ Hammersmith Apollo
Hit US television show Nashville, following the lives of fictional Country musicians living in Tennessee’s Music City, has been a breakthrough hit on both sides of the Atlantic. And while viewing figures may have waivered enough after four seasons for the ABC...
LIVE: Saint Agnes @ Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen
Single or album release events are always one's to remember. Sometimes they are one big disaster, sometimes they turn into the show that redefines everything. There is one thing for certain, they are not to be missed. The party, held at Hoxton Square Bar &...
Live: Ladyhawke @ Scala
New Zealand synth rock artist Pip Brown, better known to the world as Ladyhawke, a stage name taken from a 1985 Richard Donner fantasy film, has had a colourful time of things between her sophomore record, 2012’s Anxiety, and it’s newly-released follow-up Wild Things....
Live: Jane’s Addiction @ The Forum
Jane's Addiction at The Forum in London on 13 June 2016. (Imelda Michalczyk) This show was set to be special, as Jane's Addiction played seminal album Ritual de lo Habitual in full. The title’s literal translation, obvious to even the most linguistically challenged,...
Live: Garbage @ Troxy
“Twenty years we’ve been coming to London and every time we have, I’ve spent the whole day on the toilet, being so neurotic, because I feel like we come from the United Kingdom.” Now that’s some statement from an ever present and seemingly unflappable frontwoman that...
Live: Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown @ Boston Music Rooms
Nashville born heavy rock and blues 4-piece Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown are making significant waves as a support act on AC/DC’s current stadium tour. Tonight, I had the pleasure of seeing them perform in the tiny North London venue that is Boston Music Room....
Live: PiL @ O2 Indigo
If you can forgive those adverts for the butter (and please do - actually they were pretty funny and they did fund new PiL music, so let’s all just get over it, shall we?), John Lydon must surely be one of the most iconic musical artists still occupying a stage....
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