Continuing their game of London venue bingo, Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott take to the stage of the Royal Albert Hall for the first time in almost two decades. Like the venue itself, the duo have become a national institute,…
Rating: “That rare and thrilling moment when the record you’re working on crosses the threshold into Classic Status #tlsp2”: The Tweet that, perhaps too obviously, announced the return of The Last Shadow Puppets last October. Owen Pallett brought the strings…
There’s something of a cult status to Scandi-synth pop legends a-ha. Mention them to anyone and they’ll be aware of ‘Take On Me’, perhaps the Bond theme and at a push the former’s follow-up, ‘The Sun Always Shines On TV’….
Rating: According to Wikipedia a-ha have recorded ten studio albums and released ten compilations. For a band already in some fans’ bad books for reuniting following 2010’s “final” Ending On A High Note tour, they’re already walking thin ice. In…
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…
Few artists could create such silence by doing so little in a space so grand. As the lights fade to black inside the Royal Albert Hall, Lianne La Havas – armed with a guitar, in a floor length dress, looking…
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…
What the Gigslutz editors are listening to this month: New Order – ‘Singularity (Extended Mix)’ Ahead of a Summer of festivals, Sumner and Co stretch out the third single from Music Complete; a jittery, gothic dance/rock crossover with a foot…
Mere months after their triumphant headlining European tour, Everything Everything take a step forwards towards the arenas but backwards to a supporting slot; so a step sideways, without the spectacular light-show that backdropped their own dates, yet with the tricks…
With no release date set for their upcoming second album, this support slot allows for Jagwar Ma to dust off, shake down and get ready for the part of their career where they step up, just as their fellow Aussie headliners did before them. Often…