Live: Roo Panes @ Shepherd’s Bush Empire
Roo Panes @ Shepherd’s Bush Empire Dorset-raised singer-songwriter Roo Panes joined Rae Morris at Shepherds Bush Empire on Thursday evening as the main support for the Blackpool singers' debut album's 12-night UK tour. The classical folk singer, real name Andrew...
Live: PJ Harvey & Seamus Murphy. The Hollow Of The Hand.
PJ Harvey & Seamus Murphy - The Hollow Of The Hand The last time I saw PJ Harvey was through a one way window at Somerset House that allowed visitors to watch and listen to the recording of her new album. It was an unusual and intriguing introduction to her new...
Live: Rae Morris @ Shepherd’s Bush Empire
Rae Morris @ Shepherd’s Bush Empire It’s been a great year for Blackpool-native and sometimes Bombay Bicycle Club collaborator Rachel Anne "Rae" Morris. Following the release of her debut album Unguarded in January, which peaked at #9 in the UK album chart, she hit...
Live: Gaz Coombes @ The Forum
Gaz Coombes @ The Forum In the mid 90’s it was hard to ignore Supergrass. They were everywhere from TFI Friday to TV adverts, and constantly on Radio 1, and underpinning it all was Alright, their worldwide hit from their debut album which introduced their killer...
Live Review: The Lemonheads @ Indigo, London.
The Lemonheads at Indigo 02. There is no pomp or ceremony about Evan Dando and the Lemonheads tonight, they even come on stage when the background music is playing and catch the operator off guard. “Turn the music off” he shouts and then “turn the music back on” he...
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...
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