The lights fall to black inside the Roundhouse and a ripple of anticipation rolls through the crowd. When Cassy Brooking — better known as Cassyette — steps into the shadows, the room shifts. There’s no gentle warm-up, no easing into the night. Instead, she and her...
“Are we having a nice time so far? Are we getting a bit warmer?” Amy Macdonald grins, peering out at a Hammersmith Apollo audience bundled into coats and scarves. It’s a question that becomes a running joke throughout the night — because despite the November chill and the decidedly frugal heating, Macdonald sets about warming the 5,000-capacity venue the only way she knows how: with humour, heart, and a powerhouse performance that leaves no seat unshaken.
On a bitterly cold Wednesday night in Camden, Manchester hard rockers Hot Milk turned London’s Roundhouse into a sweat-soaked pressure cooker of chaos, catharsis, comedy and pure community. Fronted by the unstoppable duo of Han Mee and Jim Shaw, with Tom Paton...
If Sophie Grey’s intention was to bring a dose of retro-futurist electro-pop to the second of Sting’s three-night stand at the Hammersmith Apollo, she certainly committed to the bit. Appearing through laser-like synth pulses, dressed in a silver metallic bodysuit with...
For an artist whose world seems stitched together from silver-screen glamour, smoky jazz clubs and the afterglow of heartbreak, Luvcat – the stage name of Liverpool-born Sophie Morgan Howarth – is every bit as cinematic live as her debut album Vicious Delicious suggests. At KOKO, Camden on Wednesday night, the rising star turned the storied venue into a dreamscape of old Hollywood, haunted romance and camp theatre – a show that was equal parts cabaret, confession and carnival.
Thirty years after Reef hit the charts, they’re back to celebrate the record that cemented them as Britpop stalwarts. After three decades, Replenish stands up as a strong statement, and the way it emerges onstage at the O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire is a slow, realised appreciation of how an album can spread it’s roots over time.
Sixteen years on from Conditions, The Temper Trap proved they can still make a London crowd soar. Returning to the O2 Forum Kentish Town after a long absence from UK stages, the Australian four-piece delivered a set that balanced nostalgia with fresh intent — a love letter to the city that helped them break through and a promise of what’s yet to come.
The lights dim at the Hammersmith Apollo, and the crowd’s gentle chatter fades to a low hum of anticipation. A bass guitar hums through the PA — deep, resonant, unmistakable. Three silhouettes appear on stage: Sting, his longtime guitarist Dominic Miller, and drummer...
An ominous soundscape of chirping crickets and rumbling synths filled the Royal Albert Hall, a bell tolling through the dark as silhouettes began to move through the aisles. From the shadows emerged Queens Of The Stone Age, sharply suited and swaggering, arriving not...
It’s been three decades since Echobelly released ON, the Britpop-era gem that cemented them as one of the most vital and distinctive voices of the mid-90s. On Thursday night at London’s Electric Ballroom, the band — fronted by the magnetic Sonya Madan and founding guitarist Glenn Johansson — returned to Camden to celebrate that legacy, playing the album in full to a sold-out crowd that sang, swayed, and grinned their way through one of the most joyous nostalgia trips of the year.