What, one asked oneself, is modern classical music (Fabrizio Paterlini’s forte) in relation to that which is deemed merely classical? The evening threw the question into sharp relief, shaped unexpectedly from the reverberative storm of piano chords sent roofward by…
When Robert Howard and I first met on a warm Soho night in what feels now like a lifetime ago, we spoke of how he began in music. “I was shy when I was young,” he told me then, “and…
London, published by FUEL, 3 September 2020 Distributed by Thames & Hudson / D.A.P., is Patrick Keiller’s highly imaginative psychogeographic journey through (and history of) London, as undertaken by an unnamed narrator and his companion, Robinson. The unseen pair complete…
“I’ve been gigging here there and everywhere, all over the country, mainly solo,” says Alex Lipinski, perched on a stool in the subterranean sanctum of Clerkenwell’s Betsey Trotwood pub. Down here we’re both content to leave the ghosts of the…
From the Mayor of London’s office come dubious missives promising a halt to the capital’s cultural drain, but that the office continues to oversee the closure of live venues across central London means that all musicians – and that means…
Radio 1 DJ, festival-founder and all-round cool girl, Annie Mac, has announced that Annie Mac Presents: Collected shall return to London this Autumn. AMP Collected 2018 shall take place at Camden’s Jazz Café on November 15 2018. The event is…
Since the callous demon of gentrification has swept across England like a bad smell, its capital and the venues that make it one of the best clubbing cities in Europe has faced the rough and tumble. However, it is not…
Suffolk-based singer/songwriter Kristin Caswell – known professionally as Caswell – says she writes most when she has “an emotional reaction to something when something is on my conscience.”. This certainly shows in her music. Imagine a more electronic-sounding Kate Bush with shades of…
Time for a quick sketch. Time to rethink Dr Johnson’s maxim and face the music. Or not, as the case may be. London, 2040. A fast forward into the future. To the visitor from the past, everything looks the same….
Nicholas Allbrook – who had jaunted and thrashed around as if in the midst of a seizure – had perfectly encapsulated the mad hatter on amphetamine at his show at The Social, London, on April 26, 2018. It was a…