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Tag: Live Review

Kris James Live @ LeeStock Festival 2022

June 16, 2022

Now that everyone is allowed out and about again, it is hard to pick and choose from the overwhelming amount of live shows, festivals, and pub gigs. During the Bank Holiday weekend, it seemed like everywhere you looked, there was an event in full swing. 

LIVE REVIEW: LeeStock Festival 2022

June 9, 2022

With the Jubilee weekend, people have been scattered everywhere but at home. The sunny, not-so-usual British weather let us enjoy a pint or two, whether it was in the streets of England waving a British flag or at a local pub catching up with friends enjoying days off work.

Stephen Jones Babybird live at the 100 Club November 2019

GOOD GOOD NIGHT – Babybird Live And Hilarious At London’s 100 Club

December 10, 2019

A first proper album in 21 years, deserves a proper tour and so EP’s Matt Catchpole (Words) and Sam Wells (Pictures) find themselves in…

President Street Bring Something New To The Bedford At Their Intimate Acoustic Gig Last Night

November 27, 2019

We were lucky enough to catch the genre-defying President Street at their live acoustic set at The Bedford last night!

Live Review: Kate Lomas, The Grace, London, 02/10/19

October 16, 2019

Closing off 2019 in style, indie inspired electro-pop artist Kate Lomas put on a dazzling performance at The Grace in London, off the back of releasing her dreamy summer bop ‘Happy Like This’ alongside accompanying party-popping visual.

HERE COMES SICKNESS – Mudhoney Bring Their 30th Anniversary Tour To London’s Camden Electric Ballroom

December 20, 2018

A little over a decade after punk kicked over the traces with its back to basics approach, a gaggle of lumberjack-shirted miscreants from Seattle picked up the baton and ran with it.
Reared on diet of hardcore, MC5 and The Stooges, Mudhoney were at the vanguard of the grunge revolution and their debut mini-album Superfuzz Bigmuff remains a defining document of the times.

UP ON THE STAND – MC50 Kick Out The Jams At The Shepherd’s Bush Empire

November 23, 2018

Anniversary tours are always tricky, especially for a band with the cachet of the MC5.
Reputations can be destroyed, legacies tarnished and there’s always the risk of being accused of “selling out”. Wayne Kramer has faced such a backlash before having previously reformed the band for a one-off show in 2003 with two surviving members as part of a Levi’s ad campaign.

MONSTER MASH – Jon Spencer and The Melvins Haunt The Camden KOKO Over Halloween

November 11, 2018

The suitably vampiric surroundings of Camden’s KOKO provides the perfect ambience for a diabolical double header, with Jon Spencer and The Melvins ghosting in for Halloween. Up…

THE DAMNED UNITED – Scabies and Gray Back On Stage Together As Professor And The Madman Rock The 100 Club

August 19, 2018

What better venue than London’s 100 Club for the on stage revival of what many regard as the The Damned’s best ever rhythm section.

Picture by Sam Wells

NEAT NEAT NEAT – Punk Legends The Damned Summon Their Evil Spirits To Smash It Up At London’s Camden KOKO

February 26, 2018

The Damned’s place in history is secured as one of the triumvirate of London bands that kick-started the punk rock revolution. And yet despite being…

Picture by Sam Wells

WHEN LOVE RUNS HIGH – Zombies In Triumphant 50th Anniversary Performance of Odessey and Oracle

October 5, 2017

  In June 1967 five musicians went into London’s Abbey Road studios to record The Zombies‘ second album Odessey and Oracle. Though not a…

NICE TO SEE YER! – Sleaford Mods Tie The O2 Academy Brixton Up In Nottz

September 25, 2017

For some the thought of spending 90 minutes in the company of two middle-aged blokes, armed only with a laptop and a microphone, would…

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