Live Reviews

LIVE: Fontaines D.C @ Leeds O2 Academy 08.11.22

Rating: Not since the early days of the Arctic Monkeys has the excitement around a band reached such a fever pitch the way it has with Dublin rockers Fontaines DC, with them changing the course of popular music seemingly overnight….

LIVE: DMA’S Manchester Acadamy 30.10.22

Review and Photography by Jonathan Taylor Instagram: jonathantaylorphotography Following the announcement of DMA’S fourth studio album ‘How Many dreams?’ due for release 31st March 2023, to be accompanied by a 13 date UK tour in April, the Sydney based outfit…

LIVE: The Snuts @ Rock City, Nottingham 21.10.22

Review and Photography by Jonathan Taylor Instagram: jonathantaylorphotography Following the release of their critically acclaimed number 1 debut album ‘WL’ in 2021 and after locking horns with their record label Parlophone to successfully bring forward the release of their second…

LIVE: Richard Ashcroft @ AO Arena Manchester 14.10.22

Review and photography by Jonathan Taylor Instagram: jonathantaylorphotography With just two October live dates announced for the back end of 2022 in Manchester and then Brighton, The Verve’s iconic front man Richard Ashcroft takes to the stage at the AO…

This Feeling Track of the Day : STR^NGE ‘Masquerade’

Liverpool newcomers reveal an enchanting first glimpse into their cosmic new world. For fans of Bowie, Talking Heads, Pulp, Walt Disco, FEET, Dead Freights Photo: Luke Blake Live: Oct 14 (tonight!) Liverpool EBGBs w/ San Quentin, The Lags & Sample…

LIVE: The Lemonheads – Leeds University Stylus

Rating: In the near 40 years since the inception of The Lemonheads, Evan Dando has carved himself out as one of the enigmatic and captivating frontmen in rock. Since the release of their first album, ‘Hate Your Friends’ he has…

REVIEW: Ian Brown Nottingham Rock City 6.10.22

REVIEW: Ian Brown Nottingham Rock City 6.10.22

‘Karaoke!?’, ‘don’t waste your money?!’, ‘everyone walked out?!’, ‘the guys a fraud?!’ all these judgements and many many more have been made all over social media at the long awaited return to a live setting of The Stone Roses front…

LIVE: Fabrizio Paterlini @ Conway Hall, London, 15.09.22

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…

LIVE: Boomtown Fair Chapter One: The Gathering 2022

Boomtown Fair Chapter One: The Gathering reopened its city gates after three years to 66,000 people into Matterley Bowl in the South Downs National Park, for a music and theatrical festival that showcased over 500 artists from across the world….