Live Reviews
by Andy Baber
Time can be a cruel mistress, especially when it comes to music. While anniversary tours often sound like a good idea on the surface, the…
Who wears tartan shorts in England in December? Nic Offer, he of New York punk funk inspired disco iconoclasts !!! (Chk Chk Chk), does and...
A decade ago, Victoria Hesketh had all stars aligned and was set to join them. Little Boots’ monster single Stuck On Repeat announced her arrival,...
It has been another stellar year for The Chemical Brothers. On the 20th anniversary of one of their best and most enduring albums Surrender, they...
2019 has been significant for Scottish post-punkers The Twilight Sad. Having released their fifth album It Won/t Be Like This All The Time, their first...
When former Talk Talk frontman Mark Hollis died in February earlier this year there was a public outpouring of love for his music despite it...
Omni are, as always, present and potent. They don’t say much between numbers to the Brighton crowd, certainly nothing of note, instead preferring to hurtle...
As always, the EFG London Jazz Festival offers up such a range of exciting and challenging music that negotiating its contours can be quite demanding....
These are hard times to live in for progressive, liberal types and it’s a state of affairs not lost on Billy Bragg. This run of...
During the course of 2019, Scotland’s Kathryn Joseph has been on the road a great deal, in support of her album From When I Wake...
Performing on an array of traditional Korean instruments, composer and performer Park Jiha revels in the creation of mood, texture and atmosphere through acoustic sound....
TR/ST is the beat-drenched, dungeon-dwelling electrogoth secret brought to cultish consciousness by charismatic Canadian Robert Alfons, with occasional assistance from Austra associate Maya Postepski. Over...
The London Jazz Festival has a long history of bringing artists together for collaborations, and one of the standout events in this year’s line up...
“So”, says Stewart Lee, “they’re not Mods and they’re not from Sleaford.” Cue the veil being lifted. Cue 4,000 people seeing the truth. 4,000 people...
It begins with the most simple of introductions; tonight’s being unusually fast as the band is a power trio once more. In a tone soft...
Maybe they were not as confrontational as The Slits, or as snide as Bush Tetras, but The Raincoats were real and their 1979 debut album...
Irony is a hard act to sustain. Initially it emphasises a certain sense of intellectual superiority to that which is being mocked, yet sustained exposure...
Deerhunter and Cate Le Bon have had a lot of fun together over the past couple of years. Le Bon spent the summer of last...
“It’s like playing in your front room!” exclaims Ian Broudie, looking out over the London Palladium stalls. “A pretty big front room though”, he laughs....
Since the release of Titanic Rising by Weyes Blood earlier in the year much of the writing about it has focused on comparing Natalie Mering’s...
Pick up any issue of the monthly Classic Rock slash Americana magazines on British shelves, and you’ll find at least two lengthy rehashed stories, about...
