Live: Tedeschi Trucks Band / Jo Harman @ London BluesFest
Live: Tedeschi Trucks Band / Jo Harman @ London BluesFest I’ve never much cared for Robert Elms if I’m honest. Finding him prone to hyperbole, when he appeared under the tent at the O2 Indigo and introduced the Tedeschi Trucks Band as “The best blues band in the...
Live: Buck & Evans @ Half Moon Putney
Buck & Evans Live at Half Moon Putney In the summer, I was lucky enough to take photographs at the Ramblin’ Man Fair festival in Maidstone, Kent. Optimistically scheduled against Blue Öyster Cult in an unassuming mid-afternoon slot on Saturday, the Outlaw Country...
Live: Cadillac Three @ Islington Academy
The Cadillac Three – O2 Islington Academy Singing along at a gig is a strange phenomenon isn’t it? We all pay hard earned cash to go and see a band we like, and rather than listen politely and earnestly to them sing, we stand there and have a go at the songs...
Interview: Buck & Evans. Slow Train Coming.
Buck and Evans Interview. Slow Train Coming. Formed in the valley’s of South Wales, quartet Buck & Evans have been honing their own brand of ‘rock ‘n’ soul’ since forming for what was expected to be a one off gig in London’s Soho in 2013. The ‘Buck’ is Chris Buck,...
Live: Bear’s Den @ Roundhouse
Live Review Bear’s Den @ Roundhouse English alternative folk band Bear’s Den played their biggest headline show to date to a sold-out crowd at London’s 3,300 capacity Roundhouse on the closing their run of shows in support of debut studio album Islands, which was...
Live: Third Eye Blind @ The Forum
Third Eye Blind Live at The Forum. American alt. rockers Third Eye Blind returned to British shores for the first time in five years for two dates, including a headline slot at the newly rebranded O2 Forum Kentish Town, as part of a short European tour supporting...
Live: Steve Hackett @ Birmingham Symphony Hall
Steve Hackett Live Review, Birmingham Symphony Hall. Designed by specialist architects in the 1980s and officially opened in 1991 the Birmingham Symphony Hall was purposely constructed to create acoustics of exceptional sound quality, so unique that Steve Hackett...
Live: Federal Charm @ The Talking Heads
Federal Charm at The Talking Heads I’ve a soft spot for The Talking Heads. It was the place where I took my first concert photograph with anything more sophisticated than a smartphone, and it’s exactly the sort of small(ish) community venue that needs to survive if...
Interview: The Shires. Fish ‘n’ Chips & Country Licks.
Interview: The Shires. It’s hard to have missed the relatively recent upsurge of interest in Country music in the UK. Be that huge American Country music stars touring in the UK more and more and the establishment of the UK’s very own Country music festival, to...
Live: Joanne Shaw Taylor @ Jazz Café.
Joanne Shaw Taylor @ Jazz Café, Camden, London When there’s a queue outside the venue a full 30 minutes before doors opening, you know there’s something good going on. Such was the cache of expectation for Joanne Shaw Taylor’s second night at the Jazz Café, the last...
Live: Half Moon Run @ Koko
Half Moon Run @ Koko Montréal-based indie rock four-piece Half Moon Run brought their newly expanded set to Camden as they headlined Koko in support of sophomore studio album Sun Leans Me On, which was released just last Friday. For a band that came together via a...
Live: The Shires @ Shepherd’s Bush Empire.
The Shires @ Shepherds Bush Empire Hot UK country music duo The Shires lit up Shepherd’s Bush Empire on Saturday evening for the final night of their headline UK tour. The band, comprising singer-songwriters Ben Earle and Crissie Rhodes, met in 2013 through a mutual...
Live: Flight Brigade @ Notting Hill Arts Club
Flight Brigade @ Notting Hill Arts Club Hampshire-raised septet Flight Brigade chose the intimate Notting Hill Art Club’s Nova presents…..Over & Over live music night to host the release party for their new EP Stealing Fire. Offering delicious cupcakes to those...
Live: Squeeze @ O2 Indigo London.
Squeeze at O2 Indigo in London It's hard to believe that the latest Squeeze album is the band's first new work in 17 years. Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford – the songwriting powerhouse of Squeeze – have, of course, done their fair share of writing, recording and...
Live: Darwin Deez @ Wedgewood Rooms Portsmouth.
Darwin Deez at The Wedgewood Rooms Portsmouth “You Up?” proclaims the kick drum belonging to Tim McCoy, skinsman with New York indie pop-rock band Darwin Deez. Tonight’s big crowd at Portsmouth’s Wedgwood Rooms is certainly giving that impression. The band is touring...
Live: Rickie Lee Jones @ Islington Assembly Hall
Rickie Lee Jones @ Islington Assembly Hall "How come I'm not a big shot?" Rickie Lee Jones states in a recent interview. In the 1980s she wrote and performed some of the nations best loved albums from Pirates, The Magazine, Flying Cowboys and the eponymous Rickie Lee...
Live: Editors @ Portsmouth Pyramids
Live Review: Editors @ Portsmouth Pyramid When a band changes musical direction there’s always a risk. Recently Mumford and Son’s ditched the banjo’s and went all electric to generally positive reviews. On the flip side a past master of being a musical chameleon,...
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: 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...
Interview: Nils Lofgren. Powerful, Intimate & Emotional.
Nils Lofgren Interview. Passionate, Intimate & Emotional. Nils Lofgren has flipped in front of 100,000 people supporting The Who, ran joint headline tours with Tom Petty, at eighteen years old he played piano with Neil Young and has been guitar sideman for thirty...
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...
Interview: Victor & The Rain Dog. Nomadic Rock.
Interview: Victor & The Rain Dog - Nomadic Rock. Formed in 2014, Victor & The Rain Dog have a unique style described as ‘Carnival Rock and Urban Storytelling’ with each song telling it’s own fascinating tale and conjuring up beautiful imagery. It’s been quite...
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...
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