Live: Grace Jones @ Hop Farm Music Festival
It was Hop Farm’s first year without Vince’s Power behind the promoting, but a quirky family orientated approach supplied by Neil Butkeraitis' new organisation and plenty of festival charm and great headliners in Grace Jones, Brian Wilson and Ray Davies. Echo and the...
Live: Black Sabbath @ BST
“This is a rock and roll song,’ croaks Motorhead’s frontman Lemmy. ‘You like rock and roll, don’t you?” It’s one question that hardly needs asking, with today’s British Summer Time day festival themed entirely to appeal to a heavy rock audience. Still, always good to...
Live Review: F**ked Up @ Scala
Fucked Up played the Scala tonight to showcase Glass Boys, their fourth studio album and the follow-up to the critically acclaimed 2011 epic, David Comes To Life. Main support came from trendy Brooklyn punks Cerebral Ballzy, who played a short sharp set of thrashing...
Live Review: Rival Sons @ Scala
The Rival Sons is the kind of band that doesn’t need you to be an extreme fan or for you to have all their albums or know all the lyrics to succumb to their charming rock alchemy, blues, funky & soul. The Californian band has been on the road since 2009, bringing...
Live Review: Awolnation @ Shepherds Bush Empire
With an arm embracing a tattoo with the word Grace on Aaron Bruno the man behind the concept of Awolnation enters the stage with a theatrical silhouette posed against the AN backdrop. Grace is the album by Jeff Buckley that was such an influence on him his...
Live Review: White Denim @ Shepherds Bush Empire
If ever there was a rock band who sucked you in, twisted you into a hypnotic trance and spat you out at the end then it has to be White Denim. Their music encompasses many genres from true progressive styles of early Blodwyn Pig and Wishbone Ash, to Motown to...
Live Review: Drive By Truckers @ The Empire.
I had never seen Georgia based band Drive By Truckers before, and I was extremely excited to photograph and experience a night of live music at Shepherds Bush Empire. The band's music dates back three decades now and I spent the days prior to the show catching up on...
Live Review: Courtney Love @ Shepherds Bush
Only last week, Courtney Love surprised a handful of lucky fans to an intimate show inside a small coffee shop in Clapton, East London. For those who weren’t able to get into this free show, she hung out on the street, chatted with them and posed for photographs. She...
Live Review: Natalie Merchant @ Milton Court Hall
“Are you making a movie or taking a photo?” Natalie Merchant asks a member of the seated audience. “I hope it’s pretty,” she laughs in response to their answer. “I've never seen a photo taken of someone from five feet below them that wasn't worth deleting!” This light...
Live Review: Ben Harper @ The Palladium
The Palladium is best known for hosting musical theatre and televised variety shows, so catching an acoustic show by Ben Harper at the venue feels a little incongruous. He feels the same way, it transpires. A few songs into the show he apologises for wearing denim in...
Live Review: Dum Dum Girls @ Scala
One thing is sure, Dee Dee Penny of Dum Dum Girls has an attitude. She is going to sing and play her songs her way, dress how she pleases and you had better like it or else. Opening with Mine Tonight from the End of Daze it is easy to spot some of her many influences...
Live Review: Record Store Day
Record Store Day 2014 showed off an exciting range of music talent, a group of respected artists are being brought together to celebrate exclusively on Berwick Street in the heart of Soho, London. The main live stage curated by Sister Ray Records. Presenter and...
Live Review: Mike Watt & The Missingmen.
Mike Watt & The Missingmen ended their 56 date European tour in London at The Lexington. Exhausted? Maybe, but their performance refused to show that this was anything but a tight, energetic and entertaining act. Watt’s influential early 80s band Minutemen may be...
Live Review: Imelda May @ the Roundhouse.
The Roundhouse in north London proved its astute scheduling skills by hosting Irish rockabilly singer Imelda May for St. Patrick’s Day. Backed by her full band, a gaffiti-strewn brick wall backdrop, a motorcycle to the side of the stage and a glowing neon clover sign...
Live Review: All Time Low @ Brixton Academy.
Somewhere in between growing hair in some very odd places, and many a violent mood swing; I fell in love with a pop punk band from Maryland, Baltimore. I've gone through a lot of changes since then, and so have All Time Low. Admittedly there are some mixed emotions...
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