The last time I saw Lissie play it was a dreary Tuesday night in Dingwalls some three and half years ago. I was pretty disappointed about a pretty dismal gig. This Tuesday night, also in Camden (but KOKO, a much…
Live | Lissie @ KOKO, London
Category: Reviews
Live | Teenage Fanclub @ The Institute, Birmingham
Twenty-five years ago Teenage Fanclub played this same Digbeth venue, days before the release of their breakthrough album Bandwagonesque. Granted, their fringes were longer and frames looser-limbed but close your eyes and not much has changed. Grunge, Britpop and lesser…
James Bay @ The Slaughtered Lamb, London
On the 25th November 2013, London-based record label and gig promoter Communion put on a gig in the basement of the Slaughtered Lamb pub, Clerkenwell. Headlining for the first time was a young man called James Bay. Tonight, three years…
Live | Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats @ Colston Hall, Bristol
The last time I saw Nathaniel Rateliff it was February the 1st 2014, at the Louisiana. He was touring in support of what would turn out to be his final full length solo release (for now at least) Falling Faster…
Live | Rachael Yamagata @ The Islington, London
I first came across Rachael Yamagata a few years ago, through a Noisetrade sampler. I was into American girls with guitars at the time, so I downloaded. I listened. I deleted. “Vanilla,” I thought – there was nothing there to…
Album | Will Varley – Kingsdown Sundown
There’s a gentle revolution brewing and Will Varley is at the heart of it. With little more than a guitar and a song he’s changing the game and recreating a vocabulary that was going out of style. Kingsdown Sundown is…
Live | This Is The Kit @ Trinity Church, Bristol
The stage is crowded like a primary school nativity play where every kid has necessarily been given a role. It’s the culmination of a celebratory night of revolving cast members and cameos, with This Is The Kit beginning their final…
Live | Loudon Wainwright III @ St George’s Hall, Bristol
Folk royalty, that’s what Loudon Wainwright III is. As the father of musicians Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright and Lucy Wainwright Roche and former husband of the late folksinger Kate McGarrigle, he has musical pedigree. Like Red Rum with a banjo.…
Live | John Carpenter @ Brighton Dome
In that special late October lull when the days gather a brooding scowl, the evenings swell and the landscape outside of town waits with electric expectation for the spectral touch of Halloween, a cold breeze skits the fallen leaves and…
Live | Lisa Hannigan @ Islington Assembly Hall, London
On Monday 24 October, the Islington Assembly Hall welcomed Lisa Hannigan and her band, touring to promote her long-awaited new album At Swim. By 8pm, the hall was already filling up. First on stage was Portland singer/songwriter Heather Woods Broderick,…