Live Review: Liam Finn Mumuration @ The Lexington.
Liam Finn is a force to be reckoned with. In the first of his 4 Murmuration residency shows at the Lexington, he brings his crew of old friends, new band mates The Dream Team including his brother Elroy on drums and longtime collaborator singer Eliza Jane Barnes to...
Interview: Liam Finn. 67 Varieties Of Cool.
Rachel Lipsitz caught up with Liam Finn ahead of his 4 week Murmuration residency at The Lexington in London beginning 1 Sept. Thirty year-old Finn plays 67 (!!!) instruments on his recently released, third album, The Nihilist. His gentle voice belies the sheer fun...
Live Review: Green Man 2014
The dramatic and picturesque Brecon Beacons makes Green Man one of the most striking music festival settings. The undulant landscape on all sides makes a mind-blowing backdrop for the rich offering of music and activities on offer for the 20,000 capacity crowd. It’s...
Interview: Vic Ruggiero. Tidings From The Road.
It’s the final night of The Slackers' European tour and I’m speeding down the autobahn towards Cologne in a car with Vic Ruggiero. A perfect setting, it would seem, to talk about life on the road. The Slackers have played a show every night for a month across the...
Live Review: Guilfest 2014.
It was great to see Guilfest back in 2014, the crowd and performers seemed to be so ready for it, I had never attended but had heard how much fun the Festival was so I was looking forward to be there. As soon as I arrived I felt welcomed and everything was running...
Interview: Steve Hackett. The Future.
In the third and final part of his interview Steve Hackett talks with Tim Price about the future beyond Genesis reunions or revisited and lets us know about his love of George Harrison and other guitar heroes and remembers a TV show with Eamonn Andrews. Revealing...
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: Sick Puppies @ The Garage.
The LA based Australian band Sick Puppies are used to playing in large arena's and venues such as the House of Blues, in the USA. So coming along to The Garage at Islington, London might be a little surprise. Not so much for the venue but for the noticeable lack of a...
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...
Interview: Dar Williams. A Witness And A Mechanic.
Dar Williams casts her eye over the plush scarlet sofa and mirrored walls of the bar at the back of Bush Hall, where we’re to do our interview and photographs. “It’s kind of Electric Ladyland!” she chuckles, as we sit down to discuss her latest tour of the UK - which...
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...
Live Review: Ronnie Spector @ WOW.
Southbank Centre’s ‘WOW - Women of the World Festival’ played host to Ronnie Spector and her ‘Beyond The Beehive’ night of singing, talking, laughing and crying. Like a woman creating the documentary of her life before your very eyes, the show switched between live...
Live Review: Dar Williams @ Bush Hall.
The elegant Bush Hall venue in west London is adorned with red velvet curtains and glistening chandeliers, an ornately carved ceiling overhead and a soft carpet underfoot. So, what would it take to dwarf such grandeur? The answer, it transpires, is the songs and...
Live Review: Me First And The Gimme Gimmes
“This one’s a cover...”, drawls singer Spike Slawson in a serious tone as he looks out across a packed theatre and introduces the next song. This makes me laugh each time he says it - which is often, tonight - since Me First And The Gimme Gimmes is nothing but a...
Interview: Garland Jeffreys. Truth In Between.
Garland Jeffreys is on a UK tour and stopped off at the Hotel California in Bloomsbury to talk to me about life on the road, truth, families and sleeping in. He went to the same school as Lou Reed in Syracuse, they were friends for 50 years. He studied Renaissance art...
Live Review: Brody Dalle @ Hoxton Bar & Kitchen.
The singer from The Distillers and Spinerette, Brody Dalle has started touring to present her debut solo album. She played an intimate show for a few people at Hoxton Bar & Kitchen last night in London. The concert was set to start at 21:30 and with just a few...
Live Review: Family @ Shepherds Bush Empire.
Underestimated by the mainstream but largely adored by those in the know Family caused euphoric joy when they reformed for two special shows last year at this very venue.Initially for a one off experience Family are rightly back doing it again exactly one year on...
Live Review: Kodo @ Lighthouse.
Comprising a breath-taking combination of athletic and electrifying drumming, exquisite musicianship, stunning visuals and pure theatre, Kodo – the legendary taiko drumming ensemble – returned to the UK for the first time since 2010 with their most ambitious...
Interview: Sarah Jarosz – Lone Star in London.
It’s Sarah Jarosz’s last day in London. She doesn’t seem at all tour-weary as she meets me in the cafe of her hotel for a chat. The Texan singer songwriter has just completed a run of concerts as part of the Transatlantic Sessions, alongside established country/folk...
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