Tag: live review

LIVE: The End Festival, Crouch End 23.11.14

The End festival is an annual event that brings new music to Crouch End, taking underground bands a bit further north than their usual Shoreditch and Camden haunts for a change of scenery. With gigs held in make-do local venues…

Dexters LIVE @ Absolute Radio 4.11.14

Just days after returning from Germany and they day before they head to Liverpool for the start of a UK tour, East-London band Dexters managed to squeeze in an Stubhub session at Absolute Radio. Swiftly equipped with cocktails and earplugs,…

Kate Miller-Heidke LIVE @ Scala, London 11.09.14

Rating: Australian darling Kate Miller-Heidke is known and loved as much for her extraordinary talent and incredible presence onstage as for her down to earth, easily accessible pop songs which reflect her overall appearance. That very combination is what has…

FRONT BOTTOMS LIVE @ THE GARAGE, LONDON 5.9.14

Rating: ‘This is reservoir, and I want you all to go ape-shit!‘ This was a pointless request because the crowd were already in full crowd-surfing motion. I usually find with support acts that the crowd just bops along politely while…

Vampire Weekend LIVE @ Reading Festival 22.8.14

Vampire Weekend are a band like no other; infusing Indie Pop with Afrobeat they create a light and energetic sound that is pretty much guaranteed to get a crowd going. After a momentous year following 2013 album ‘Modern Vampires of…

AK/DK LIVE @ The Lexington, London, 08.08.14

Rating: Hailing from Brighton, AK/DK is a two piece outfit that use pinpoint percussion and a myriad of 8-bit noises with a healthy dose of improvisation  to create high energy synthpunk. The title of their first full length LP, Synths +…

Tame Impala LIVE @ The Albert Hall, Manchester 12.7.14

Rating: More cynically-minded Tame Impala fans might’ve walked out of the Manchester Albert Hall last night wondering what the point of all that was. More than a year and a half after second album Lonerism was released, the Australian psych-rock…