Live Music Reviews
by Matt Cotsell
Celebrating International Women’s Day, the final evening of the 2020 BBC 6 Music Festival did the obvious thing and staged five amazing solo women in…
by Matt Cotsell
The histories of punk and dance music are by now inexorably linked. You need only look at how Joy Division, in the face of personal...
by Daniel Paton
At a time when there is plenty of talk of moving functions of government away from the capital and stimulating growth in towns and regions,...
by Steven Johnson
Young guitar bands have enjoyed something of a renaissance over recent years and The Murder Capital are one of the latest acts to find themselves...
by Sam Shepherd
Since the release of their ground breaking album Souvenirs d’un autre monde in 2007, Alcest has consistently made steps across genre boundaries and in doing...
by Matt Cotsell
Much as the worlds of packaging, clothing and illustration have resorted to mid-century tropes and colour schemes, so the world of modern music has resorted...
by Matt Cotsell
The room, hidden as it is down an alleyway beneath the old Victorian train station arches, cavernous in proportion and flooded with darkness on this...
by Matt Cotsell
What’s your guilty pleasure? What perennial favourite do you always fall back on, when you’re feeling worn out? For the legend that is Keith Richards...
by Michael Hubbard
For some two years, a Jarvis Cocker-starring entity known as JARV IS… has been pitching up at caves, offbeat gig venues and the odd festival...
by Matt Cotsell
It seems that Jason Reece, of Austin based prog-metal lifers …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, has momentarily lost his cool...
by Tim Lee
The difference between Nadine Shah the singer and Nadine Shah the between-tracks raconteur is stark. Equally entertaining, but starkly contrasted. For when Shah sings (and...
by Steven Johnson
2019 was undeniably a good year for Big Thief – they released two critically acclaimed albums in UFOF and Two Hands and graduated into a...
by Matt Cotsell
To set the appropriate mood as we wait for the headliners, there are two palm trees taking up centre stage behind the microphone stands, casting...
by Tim Lee
It is 19 years since The Strokes’ debut album. How many pairs of Converse have been bought and destroyed in that time? How many t-shirts...
by Matt Cotsell
Not deterred by the approaching ravages of Storm Dennis, people slowly begin to bundle into the dim recesses of the cavernous Green Door Store, ready...
by Matt Cotsell
Opening with Highway, the girls in Automatic are going to take us on a ride, and whilst it may not be the craziest, and it...
by Matt Cotsell
Life is filled with a monotonous stream of inevitabilities and constants. A cavalcade of unalterable situations and circumstances that play out ad infinitum through history,...
by Steven Johnson
Baltimore musician Dan Deacon has gained a reputation for playing gigs that don’t really follow standard live music norms. Tonight’s show at the Scala in...
by Steven Johnson
Ma, the latest album by Devendra Banhart arrived last year with little in the way of fanfare or noise, appropriate given the hushed, gentle direction...
by Daniel Paton
This superb double performance will remain memorable for many more reasons than its coinciding with the UK leaving the European Union. Now a much more...
by Matt Cotsell
Tonight Algiers are in a combative and performative mood. Front man Franklin James Fisher, normally the focal point due to that voice, risks being overshadowed by...
