For an artist who spent his career constantly reinventing himself, David Bowie remains one of the most instantly recognisable figures in popular culture. His image has become inseparable from his music; from Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane to the Thin White Duke and beyond, Bowie understood the power of photography as instinctively as he understood performance.
Inside the eccentricity of the Colony Room Green, London feels briefly suspended in time. Perched atop a piano rather than commanding centre stage in any conventional sense, Luvcat — Liverpool-born songwriter Sophie Howarth — transforms the intimate West End venue...
“Holy shit, this is insane!” exclaims LØLØ as she stares out across a packed Electric Ballroom. “On my last tour, London was the best show and I can already tell that this is gonna be the best show.” By the end of the night, few inside Camden’s famed venue would argue otherwise.
There’s a moment midway through mgk’s two-hour spectacle at London’s O2 Arena where Colson Baker simply stops. “I know we have a strict 11pm curfew tonight but let me soak this in O2, let me soak this in,” he says, surveying the 17,000-strong crowd stretching from the floor to the nosebleeds. “If you’re in the building tonight this is very special, you only get to sell out The O2 for the first time one time and tonight is that night. This is ours, this one is for us.”
Just two nights after levelling The Academy Dublin and with Manchester’s O2 Ritz in their sights, Foo Fighters storm the O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire for the second of three word-of-mouth, in-person-ticket-only club shows. No pre-sale frenzy. No dynamic pricing warfare. Just queues round the block and 2,000 devotees crammed into the Empire like it’s 1996 again.
White Lies step onto the Roundhouse stage to the chiming of keys, joined by touring keyboardist Tommy Bowen as a vast rectangular lightboxs loom behind them, each member framed by a glowing panel that shifts colour with the mood of the music. It’s an immediate statement of scale and intent, fitting for the second of two sold-out hometown shows for the Ealing-hailing trio.
Better Joy’s upward momentum shows no sign of slowing as Bria Keely brings her shimmering indie-pop project to the vast stage of Hammersmith Apollo on 20th November 2025, opening for Amy Macdonald. It’s a landmark moment for the Manchester-based songwriter, whose journey from intimate rooms to arena-sized crowds has accelerated at remarkable speed over the past eighteen months.
Mumford & Sons often still conjure images of waistcoats, banjos and the folk revival that erupted in 2009, but tonight at The O2 Arena makes it abundantly clear just how far the band have travelled since then. Years of evolution, upheaval and recalibration sit...
As 2025 draws to a close, it’s impossible not to marvel at just how rich, varied and boundary-pushing this year has been for music. From bold reinventions by established heavyweights to fearless debuts and long-awaited returns, artists across genres have stretched...
It’s a homecoming tonight. The Last Dinner Party step onto the stage at O2 Academy Brixton for the first of two sold-out shows, closing out their 2025 tour in the city where much of this story began. Outside, December gloom hangs over Stockwell Road; inside, the room...