Rating: Having bursted onto the Retro-Pop scene just a little too late behind the likes of Duffy and Amy Winehouse in 2010, Rumer’s intimate first single ‘Slow’ took a less-than-deserved 16th place in the charts and sank from there –…
For the second time I’m to see the wonderful Miss Mvula this year, I’m making my way to Electric Brixton and I’ve left it too late to get anywhere near the front – I can’t even find the entrance to the…
When somebody told me just before the gig about NME’s 0/10 rating of Tom Odell’s first album, Long Way Down, I was shocked. Now I’m standing inside Brixton Academy, according to my companion “twice as packed as the last gig…
This time marks the third that I’m watching Lake Street Dive walk on stage, the second having been only a few months back. You’d think that this would lessen the anticipation, but a quick poll of the audience by lead…
I’d normally start a review with a grand statement encapsulating the artist’s performance in essence, but I’m simply going to start with an apology: KT Tunstall, I’m so, so sorry that I ever doubted you. As a long term fan…
There are few times when I genuinely feel that a recording of an inspirational speech (overlaid with ambient sounds and peppered with percussion) as an intro isn’t just an attempt at instant gravitas – but as Laura Mvula saunters onto…