London Gigs Diary: 3-9 September

by Helen Clarke

The iTunes festival began its annual 30-day residency at Camden’s Roundhouse on Saturday, with Usher playing the opening night. This week sees Olly Murs, Plan…



London Gigs Diary: 13-19 August 2012

by Helen Clarke

Earlier this year The Afghan Whigs reunited to headline one night of ATP’s London I’ll Be Your Mirror event. We were impressed – describing them...

London Gigs Diary: 6-12 August 2012

by Helen Clarke

Monday sees Antony’s Meltdown festival enter its second week, arguably offering some of the most anticipated shows of the event. None more so will this...

London Gigs Diary: 30 July – 5 August 2012

by Helen Clarke

In a year where summer in London has been dominated by the Jubilee celebrations and the run up to the Olympics you couldn’t have blamed...

London Gig Diary: 16-23 July 2012

by Helen Clarke

This week sees the conclusion of this year’s Somerset House Summer Series with arguably three of the highest profile shows of the 2012 event. Charlotte...

London Gigs Diary: 9 – 16 July

by Helen Clarke

This week sees the Somerset House Summer Series get properly underway, with shows taking place in the historic surroundings of the courtyard on each night....

NEWS: Blur unveil new songs The Puritan and Und...

by Steven Johnson

Last night, ahead of their Olympics closing ceremony gig on 12th August at Hyde Park and its attendant warm-up events in Wolverhampton, Plymouth and Margate,...

London Gigs Diary: 2-8 July

by Steven Johnson

The announcement of the BLOC festival earlier this year was one of the most striking and ambitious of 2012. It takes place over Friday and...

London Gigs Diary: 25 June – 1 July

by Steven Johnson

It’s a slightly quieter week in terms of gigs in London but there is the Back2Black festival which takes place over the weekend at Billingsgate...

London Gigs Diary: 18-24 June 2012

by Steven Johnson

London will be treated to something of a rare occurrence this week – namely three female artists who will each play on three occasions in...

London Gigs Diary: 11-17 June 2012

by Steven Johnson

It’s a case of another week, another festival this week in London as Lovebox returns to Victoria Park (to celebrate its 10th anniversary, no less)....

London Gigs Diary: 4-10 June 2012

by Steven Johnson

It’s another week in London that has a lot to offer on the gig front – not least on Wednesday which boasts an impressive pair...

London Gigs Diary: 28 May – 3 June 2012

by Steven Johnson

This week is again dominated by larger events happening at the weekend, namely Field Day and The Apple Cart, which both take place at Victoria...

London Gigs Diary: 21-27 May 2012

by Steven Johnson

This week of gigs in London is dominated by the looming presence of the ATP I’ll Be Your Mirror event that takes place from Friday...

London Gigs Diary: 14-20 May 2012

by Steven Johnson

In terms of albums, one of the under-the-radar successes last year was Past Life Martyred Saints by EMA (South Dakotan singer Erika M Anderson). It...

Classical News: First day of BBC Proms booking ...

by Melanie Eskenazi

Booking for the 2012 Proms opened on May 12th, and 97,000 tickets were sold in just one day — with a whopping 80,000 of those...

London Gigs Diary: 7-13 May 2012

by Steven Johnson

It’s fair to say that one of the acts of 2012 so far has been Grimes. Canadian artist Claire Boucher released her third album Visions...