Shepherd’s Bush Empire always takes me a bit by surprise. Not just because it’s so pretty – although it is – but because I always forget just how intimate gigs here can feel. If you turn around on the ground…
Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen is the epitome of East London: dark and dingy but undeniably cool. The EP plugging was shameless, but no doubt effective, being greeted with a table full of EPs before I’d barely stepped through the door….
The predicament Ella Eyre finds herself in is a strange but successful one. Despite the fact that she is yet to release her debut album (and won’t be for a good few months) dates on her first solo tour have…
Arriving in early March, a week after Blur’s ‘Girls & Boys’ gave the nascent Britpop scene its first defining single, Vauxhall & I entered the charts at number one. Fans were quick to recognise the album as a career high, as were…
Since forming The Little Flames a decade ago, Miles Kane has gone on to work on a number of projects with various degrees of success. When they split three years later (with an album recorded but unreleased) he formed The…
When Buzzcocks’ Pete Shelley sang ‘I always used to dream of the past, but, like they say yesterday never comes’ from 1978’s ‘Nostalgia’, nights like these that spring to mind. A prevalent argument is that if the past is not…
Not much happens in Bridport… I should know – my parents moved there after I left home, escaped to the country and all that. An unpretentious, South West, coastal town, home to Billy Bragg, Palmers beer and some stunning pastoral…
Little matador is the brainchild and newest project of Snow Patrol ‘s lead guitarist, Nathan Connolly. Somewhat of an Irish supergroup, Little Matador, is made up of musicians from the aforementioned Snow Patrol as well as Idlewild, Bell X1 and…
The Union Chapel on Upper Street is one of North London’s survivors. Twenty-odd years ago it was just a slightly dilapidated church on a busy road, in need of a bit of love. Following extensive restoration and the attentions of…
It’s not every Monday that I find myself crammed into the O2 academy, being splashed with beer from overexcited youths. However, it was only a matter of time before I had joined them, cider in hand. Queen of Afros, Kimberly…