An extensive global tour, performances over two consecutive years at Glastonbury, appearances on Jools Holland and 6 Music firmly placed The Zombies on everyone’s Spotify playlists last year; with young and old, newcomers and fans alike celebrating a musical British…
Psychedelia as a label/term has constantly mutated and (trans)morphed since its 1966 -1968 flowering, today’s smorgasboard of technicolour deriving its influences from 50 years of cultural happenings (music/art/film/lit) artefacts that still permeate and infect/infuse: from sound to style, the aesthetic…
Name: 1-2-3-4 Festival Where: Three Mills Island, London When: Saturday 3rd September Headliners: The Cribs, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Carl Barat and The Jackals Also featuring: Spector, TOY, The Wytches, Telegram, Thomas Cohen, Bo Ningen, Milk Teeth, No Joy, Claw Marks A…
It’s unlikely that ‘Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Tower’ would ever open a Manic Street Preachers show, but this situation that sees album track listings and live set lists mirrored is the beauty of a tour focusing on one record; In this case, Everything…
A 60-year old, Italian classical composer might not be your usual Gigslutz artist, but when fans include Iggy Pop and Shane Meadows (and The Beatles and Eminem are cited as influences) there’s clearly something worth investigating. If you’re not already…
Take a right out of Brixton station and you’ll find yourself at live music favourite Brixton Academy. Turn left, however, and you’ll find Electric Brixton; a much lesser known spot, with a third of the capacity, but equally stunning inside…
Following a couple of years of festival spots and support slots, Adam French‘s debut headline tour is off to an impressive start with a sold out night at London’s The Social. While it’s one of the city’s more intimate venues, there’s…
In the words of Ronan Keating, life really is like a rollercoaster. 2015 has had it’s ups, (I’m looking at you New Order, Blur, Wolf Alice) and by goodness me it’s had it’s downs (basically the list below and beyond),…
Few bands do highs and lows as extreme and as frequently as Duran Duran. For every Rio and reunion tour (five sold out nights at Wembley Arena when the “fab five” reunited in the early ‘00s) there’s a questionable covers…
We all have that one record that we come to later in life, stopping us dead in our tracks, making you question everything you thought about music up until that point. For Gigslutz contributor and all round girl wonder, Kate…