Live Review: Public Image Limited @ Shepherds Bush.
Shepherd’s Bush Empire is packed out with fans young and old on this Monday night as Public Image Limited take to the stage. Opening with ‘Deeper Water’, the band stampede through a set that includes the classic ‘This Is Not A Love Song’ (thrown in early), ‘Warrior’...
Live Review: The Selecter @ Shepherds Bush.
The Selecter is an interesting choice to support Public Image Limited at Shepherd’s Bush Empire. The obvious link is that John Lydon was first coming to prominence at the forefront of London punk in the 1970s when Coventry’s 2 Tone ska act The Selecter were also...
Live Review: Joseph Arthur @ Heath Street Church.
It’s a rainy Friday night in north London and tucked away behind Hampstead tube station there is a church filling up with expectant faces and hushed voices. The congregation are not here to pray, however, but to worship the musical poetry of one Joseph Arthur. Adorned...
Stevie Nicks In Your Dreams Premiere.
Fleetwood Mac may be the very definition of rock royalty and astounding longevity. Just prior to the band embarking on a UK arena tour this month (a full 46 years into their career), frontwoman Stevie Nicks had reason for a London fanfare of her own. In Your Dreams, a...
Live Review: Jello Biafra @ Dingwalls
Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine at Dingwalls, London on 12 August 2013. As the appointed hour of 9.30pm slips by, the tiny, crowded Dingwalls venue in north London begins to swirl with an agitated air and calls for Jello Biafra to take to the stage....
Live Review: Joe Satriani @ Civic Hall. Wolverhampton.
Orange lights flash, Scottish mists arise, as an opening drum solo shakes the floor of the Wolverhampton Civic. This is the same venue which spawned the likes of Robert Plant, who with his Band of Joy, featuring his best pal and drummer John ‘Bonzo’ Bonham literally...
Live: Todd Rundgren @ Shepherds Bush Empire London.
The electronic pioneer returns. With help from guitar maestro, journalist and educator Jesse Gresse and The Tubes drummer Prairie Prince, Todd Rundgren blew our minds with a perfectly choreographed live DJ performance. Synchronising his Reason 7, iPad and Rack...
Live: Todd Rundgren Official State Visit
Todd Rundgren is my all-time favourite artist, musician and talker. He bought his State show to London and Shepherds Bush Empire to a less than sell out crowd but put on a fantastic performance full of energy and theatre that belied his 65 years. The set was dominated...
Live: Thomas Dolby @ Kings Place.
Thomas Dolby arrived on stage at Kings Place, London, looking like a worldly traveller with hat, jacket and satchel. The Gatsby look! After taking the applause he sat at his piano and started the soundtrack to the film The Invisible Lighthouse. A short 32 minute film...
Review: Eric Johnson. Up Close-Another Look.
April 1st is globally known as April Fool’s Day, when practical jokes and hoaxes are played on friends, the story line behind the bluff sets up a stage for pranks and merriment. Consequently it is with brave commitment that Eric Johnson chooses this day as his release...
Live Review: Emmanuel & Taylor @ The Robin 2.
In 1910 a boy was born to a family of nomadic gypsies camped outside the village of Liberchies in Belgium. By the time of his death, only 42 years later in 1952, this boy, Jean Reinhardt, had become world famous as “Django”, possibly the greatest of jazz...
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