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ALBUM: Jake Bugg ‘On My One’

Rating: Pitchfork branded Jake Bugg‘s third album, On My One, “one of the most baffling collections of music in recent memory”. NME suggested the record worked only “when he play[ed] to his strengths”. Gigslutz reckons there’s still plenty of charm left in the scowl of  this “poor boy from…

9 Great Glastonbury Moments

With just over a week to go until this year’s Glastonbury Festival, we asked our writers to pick their fave moments from Worthy Farm… Happy Mondays, 1990 June 1990 and the Happy Mondays are reaching their plateau. Since the release…

Jake Bugg LIVE @ Edinburgh Corn Exchange 22.2.4

A couple of years back a friend posted a link on Facebook and declared “this guy is gonna be the next big thing”! My initial thought was “heard that one before” but I proceeded to click-on the link and was…

Jake Bugg LIVE @ Royal Albert Hall, 21.02.14

The Royal Albert Hall. Grand, historic, bordering on palatial – there are few other venues that can match it for scale. Playing here also lends a certain sense of durability, of being taken seriously as an artist; let’s face it,…

Jake Bugg ‘Shangri La’ ALBUM REVIEW

Even by modern standards, Jake Bugg has really rocketed to fame. From being a plucky ‘one to watch’ (albeit one signed to a major label), when his single “Lightning Bolt” coincided with the 2012 Olympics and soundtracked Usain Bolt’s every…