All in black Luca Santucci paces across the stage, restlessly rubbing his face and hands together, in what can only be interpreted as nerve induced behaviour. “Excited is not the word” he tells us, smiling at familiar faces in the…
Having insisted on playing reggae in the office all day on Monday (which may have worn thin with some) I was in the zone when I set off to North Greenwich, though it did feel slightly incongruous arriving at the…
On the final stop of what has been a packed summer of dates, The Duckworth Lewis Method brought their unique brand of cricket-themed, ‘70s-tinged rock to a cheerful audience at the Glee Club in Birmingham. The group is made up…
After a temporary rift (3 years is short compared to a Gallagher bust-up) the familial Followill clan are back with their sixth album “Mechanical Bull”. It’s a return to Kings of Leon form with lashings of Country Rock, gutsy ballads,…
It’s a Monday night and we arrive in the Northern Quarter in Manchester. Car parked precariously on some double yellow lines we queue to get in to Band On The Wall, an alluring historically rich art deco building run by…
With a prolonging walk towards the doors of my local music hotspot, Electric Circus in Edinburgh, I wasn’t really sure what I should be gearing up for. I was on my way to see Honningbarna. The information I have is…
This was the last gig of the Summer 2013 Ibiza Rocks season, with Foals and support from Jagwar Ma, and it promised to be a good one. Australian’s Jagwar Ma, aka Gabriel Winterfield and Jono Ma with the addition of…
Wednesday night. That no-man’s-land of an evening between weekends. But not tonight. It’s only 8pm and the Electric Ballroom is filling up fast, with an eclectic crowd that ranges from bright-eyed kids to dreadlocked crusties, sharp-collared mods to balding over-50s….
I dunno if it was the half bottle of whiskey smuggled in in my pants and demolished half way into the set that made me as always, in awe of the Scream. They are simply, for me, the most perfect…
We’ve missed Yuck. There’s been a shoegaze shaped hole vacant in the scene since their last gig two years ago and it’s a hole only they can fit. Although a relatively small venue, Hoxton’s Macbeth boasts a full house tonight,…