Category: Gigs

Festival Review | Latitude Festival 2017

Henham Park hosted the 12th edition of Festival Republic’s Latitude Festival last weekend, and this writer was fortunate to be there for the 6th consecutive year. I don’t know quite what it is that keeps me coming back year upon…

Live | Darlingside @ Union Chapel, London

After making their international debut at the Cambridge Folk Festival last summer, Darlingside have now played in England more times than anywhere else in the past year, including their hometown of Boston, Massachusetts. This summer’s tour included a quick stop…

Live | Novo Amor @ Hoxton Hall, London

In advance of the release of his second EP Bathing Beach, Novo Amor returned to London’s beautiful Hoxton Hall. Opening the evening was singer-songwriter Blanco White, who wowed the audience with his delicately constructed songs. Having studied the Spanish guitar…

Live | Bob Dylan @ London Palladium

For someone who has been on the same tour since 1988, it seems strange that the London Palladium is a venue that Bob Dylan had never played before these three shows. Even in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Dylan said…

Live | Upcoming Events

Some going out ideas for the next 4 weeks. Michael Baker Thu 18 May    The Plenty    Brighton, England Sat 20 May    Jubilee Gardens    Brighton, England Pokey LaFarge Fri 5 May    The Courtyard Theatre    London…

Live | Hannah Trigwell @ St. Pancras Old Church, London

Hannah Trigwell is a singer-songwriter who has garnered much popularity through YouTube and other social media. Starting out busking on the streets of her home town of Leeds, she began recording cover songs for YouTube and eventually releasing her own…

Live | Laura Marling @ Colston Hall, Bristol

“I had no identity… I was socially bankrupt,” said Laura Marling in a recent interview. The question of identity is an intriguing one in the case of the chameleonic Marling, who has recently released her sixth studio album, Semper Femina,…

Live | Benjamin Francis Leftwich @ Omeara, London

Following the successful release of his debut album, Last Smoke Before the Snowstorm, five years ago, Benjamin Francis Leftwich unexpectedly vacated the spotlight. His sudden departure in 2013 to grieve the devastating loss of his father lasted three tumultuous years.…