Live: The Japanese House @ Dingwalls
Singer, producer and guitarist Amber Bain – aka The Japanese House – had an incredible 2015. From hooking up with drummer George Daniel and frontman Matt Healy from chart-topping alt. rockers The 1975 to produce her music to releasing well-received first EP Pools To...
Live: Turin Brakes @ The Brook, Southampton.
Situated on the edge of a trading estate, The Brook is one of the more eclectically situated venues in the south of England and not one where you’d necessarily expect a Mercury nominated band to play. However the lack of local parking spaces, and a steady stream of...
Live: Coldplay @ The IndigO2
They played the Super Bowl 50 halftime show in Santa Clara, California at the start of the month alongside Beyoncé, Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson to a televised audience of some 200 million. They won the NME Godlike Genius Award at last week’s NME awards and played a...
Live Review: Hinds @ KOKO Camden
Live: Hinds @ KOKO Camden They can’t sing, can barely play, and their debut album Leave Me Alone sounds like it was recorded down a phone line. And yet, Madrid based all female four-piece Hinds, are currently darlings of the mainstream music press and were nominated...
Live: Jess Glynne @ Brixton Academy
English soul-influenced popstress Jess Glynne played the second of two sold-out shows at London’s Brixton Academy in support of her debut album I Laugh When I Cry, both 5,000-strong shows reassuringly sold out. Bursting onto the scene in 2014 with hit single Right...
Live: Kula Shaker @ The Roundhouse
Live: Kula Shaker @ The Roundhouse Kula Shaker were to the nineties what Franz Ferdinand became in the noughties: a band with a wildly successful debut album followed by over-saturated press coverage followed by descent into obscurity - whilst everybody wondered...
Live: Poliça @ Village Underground
Poliça Live Review @ Village Underground American band Poliça are back with their third studio album United Crushers due out next month. And to ease themselves back into the live circuit, they hit up Shoreditch venue Village Underground for their only announced UK...
Live Review: Cage The Elephant @ The Forum
I last saw Cage The Elephant stampede through a London venue in 2011. That time it was at The Garage. My lingering memory of this monstrously energetic show is that of singer Matt Shultz’s frenetic, wild abandon in crowd-surfing, at one point returning to the stage...
Live Review: Highly Suspect @ Our Black Heart
So a band that’s just been nominated for two Grammy Awards are playing in London. What’s your first guess on where they’re going to play? The Forum, Shepherd’s Bush Empire, or maybe Brixton? Well that’s not the Highly Suspect way of doing things, so instead they’re...
Live Review: Hozier @ Portsmouth Guildhall.
Live: Hozier @ Portsmouth Guildhall Listen to Hozier’s eponymously titled debut album a few times and you soon appreciate there’s a lot more to the 25 year-old from County Wicklow than a song that takes a pop at the Catholic Church. Andrew Hozier-Byrne is a truly...
Live: Black Stone Cherry @ Wembley Arena
US touring hard rock mini festival Carnival of Madness made its way to the UK, including a stop at London’s Wembley Arena. With the event offering a line-up of Brooklyn-based trio Highly Suspect, the Lzzy Hale-led four-piece Halestorm and Jacksonville rockers...
Feature: Anoushka Lucas. Multi-Talented Exhibitionist.
Feature on Anoushka Lucas a Multi-Talented Exhibitionist. Nicola Greenbrook went underground to the 606 Club in Chelsea, London to meet singer-songwriter Anoushka Lucas, hear about her upcoming album and watch her heat up the stage. Photography by Kalpesh Patel. The...
Live: Hunck, Life and Phobophobes @ The Old Fire Station.
Hunck, Life and Phobophobes @ The Old Fire Station. It’s a very rainy windy night in Bournemouth for the Launch gig of Hunck’s short tour to promote their new EP Never had a Dream at the Old Fire Station. This gig is also part of Independent Venue Week, a 7 day...
Live: The Temperance Movement @ Forum, London.
Live: The Temperance Movement @ The O2 Forum Kentish Town I’ve been lucky enough to have been experiencing one of Britain’s most promising new rock acts The Temperance Movement since the days when their beautiful ballad Chinese Lanterns was performed from in front of...
Live: The Libertines, O2 Arena, London.
The Libertines, O2 Arena, London. The word “great” is bestowed on a lot of bands these days, sometimes merited sometimes not. It’s certainly a word that’s been pushed in the direction of the The Libertines, although for me there’s sometimes been a sense of the...
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