Category: Gigs

Live | Tom Brosseau @ The Albion Beatnik, Oxford

Space, place, and time clearly matter to Tom Brosseau. That is why the Albion Beatnik was a fitting space for his thoughtful and gentle performance on the 22nd of October. The Oxford bookstore describes itself as “enthusiastic” and “eclectic”, and…

Live | The Divine Comedy @ St George’s Hall, Bristol

Tonight’s performance from The Divine Comedy is one of two halves or, at least, two costumes. The first outfit that Neil Hannon sports is the bowler-hatted businessman, complete with folded umbrella and starched white shirt. Consistent with the outfit Hannon…

Live | Stars Of The Lid @ The Lantern, Bristol

As a green 17-year-old I attended an interview for a place at university. Noting Maths and English were among my A levels the interviewer asked, “Have you found any common ground between science and art?” Had I been aware of…

Live | Oro Valley Music Festival, Day 2 (2016)

This year at the Oro Valley Music Festival, rain may have fallen, but it wasn’t to the detriment of concert-goers. In some ways, it added to the experience, never growing harsh enough to shut down any sets and adding an…

Live | Mogwai @ Coventry Cathedral

Although June’s show in Hiroshima perhaps pipped it, filmmaker Mark Cousins and Mogwai couldn’t have chosen a better setting for the screening of Atomic, Living In Dread And Promise than Coventry Cathedral, which was decimated by Nazi airstrikes in 1940…

Live | For Folk’s Sake @ #Blogtober Preview

The good people at Lost In The Manor are running a month-long festival under the banner #Blogtober. This will feature live music every night in October at The Finsbury in London, with each night curated by a different music blog…

Live | Dan Owen @ St. Pancras Old Church, London

On a warm September evening we entered the beautiful and intimate confines of St Pancras Old Church. Here we were greeted by Irish singer-songwriter Eve Belle who kicked off the night with her lyrically driven whispy tones, alongside the gentle…

Live | Sineater Festival 2016

As you climb the alpine track of the Long Mynde with its dizzying falls and narrow necks and descend into the soft dripping vale where nestles the parish of Rattlinghope, time rests its feet in slumber and the days turn…

Live | AnnenMayKantereit @ Spandau, Berlin

Allow me to introduce the band… AnnenMayKantereit is a young German rock band, THE hope of German music perhaps. The band is already very popular, in no small part due to the singer Mr. Henning May’s distinctively rough vocals, and…