Live: Larry Miller @The Borderline.
Larry Miller once played guitar in my front room. Around 20 years ago, he answered an ad in Melody Maker (for anybody under the age of 30, an ‘ad in Melody Maker’ was something that existed before the Internet) for a guitar I was selling and had come round to check it...
Live: Skinny Lister @ Academy Islington
English folk/pop/punk outfit Skinny Lister released their second album Down On Deptford Broadway in late April. The band, who are a staple ingredient at a number of UK festivals and who have picked up airplay on both 6Music and XFM, have been touring the UK in support...
Live: Beth Hart @ The Barbican.
I have arrived a bit late to the phenomenon of Beth Hart. For me, that’s a shame because after tonight, I'm hooked and I feel like I've missed out. Tonight's performance felt like a proper journey through life experiences, heartaches, families, love won, love lost and...
Live: King King @ Jazz Cafe
Glasgow based King King released their third album Reaching For The Light on 4th May. If a bulging trophy cabinet were their only measure of success, you’d be forgiven for wondering why they bothered. With best band, best album (for 2013’s Standing In The Shadows),...
Live: Social Distortion @ Empire Shepherds Bush.
Al Capone is in town.... No, wait a minute, its Social Distortion, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the 1990’s self-titled album, on the last day of their European tour. The night promised a revival for those who lived in the nineties, mohawks, jackets and beaten...
Live: Wilko Johnson @ Shepherds Bush Empire
I first saw Wilko Johnson play guitar when I was 16 years old. He was guest on a BBC show called *Rockschool that taught impressionable teenagers such as myself how to play in a band. The programme aired in the mid 1980s – long after the peak of interest had waned in...
Live: Dan Patlansky @ The Borderline.
South African born blues guitarist Dan Patlansky is comparatively unknown in the UK, although he has an extensive back catalogue of material and has certainly attracted the attention of music critics worldwide. His latest recording Dear Silence Thieves was voted...
Live: Brooke Fraser @ Dingwalls.
Kiwi singer-songwriter Brooke Fraser played the only UK date of the European leg of her Brutal Romantic tour at Camden’s Dingwalls venue in support of her fourth studio album of the same name. And while her music has been touted as New Zealand pop, that’s where any...
Live: The Wombats @ Brixton Academy.
The Wombats released their long-awaited new album Glitterbug on 13 April. To celebrate they held a party in Brixton and invited 5000 people to it. The band, who met at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, might not be particularly prolific writers (Glitterbug...
Live: Kenny Wayne Shepherd @ The Empire.
It’s a balmy, unseasonably warm night in west London. Shirtsleeves abound on Shepherds Bush Green but at the O2 Shepherds Bush Empire across the street, the temperature outside won’t match that in the auditorium. The Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band is in town and headlining...
Live: Sweet Billy Pilgrim @ Hoxton Bar & Kitchen.
Coming from the roots of a self-starting band, experimental folk-rockers Sweet Billy Pilgrim didn’t begin recording in studios until third album Crown and Treaty in 2012, with everything preceding that famously recorded in a garden shed, including 2009 Mercury...
Live: Daniel Lanois @ Islington Assembly Hall
Whilst Daniel Lanois is an accomplished musician in his own right, he is certainly best known for his music production credits. Lanois has collaborated extensively with Brian Eno and has produced albums for artists as disparate as Bob Dylan, Peter Gabriel, U2 and...
Live: Courtney Barnett @ Electric Ballroom
“Sorry about that, I just needed a lie down” Courtney Barnett declares after playing the end of a song lying on her back for a couple minutes. Tonight is the second of two headline shows at Electric Ballroom, a considerable feat for a musician that just became known...
Live: Ian Siegal @ The Jazz Cafe.
Ian Siegal could well be the most accomplished blues musician you might possibly have never heard of. Born in Fareham in 1971, it’s been said that if Siegal had been performing and recording in the 1960s, his name would likely now resonate alongside such luminaries as...
Live: Lucy Rose @ Dingwalls.
Just over two years on from releasing her well-received debut album Like I Used To, Warwickshire folkster Lucy Rose Parton is back with follow up Work It Out, due out in July. In anticipation of her forthcoming release, Rose and her band have hit the road this month...
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