RUUUUDE BOY, RUUUUUDE BOY bellow the crowd in anticipation of the arrival of their ska heroes as sweat drips off the ridiculously high ceilings in the grand old venue that is the criminally underused Olympia. Although the place is rough…
A drummer’s drummer was Fela Kuti; that’s fair to say. He was also a renegade of the purest form. A whirlwind of fire with lava in his bone marrow. The sort of character whose stories and reports would have surely…
Having earlier in the evening played an impromptu acoustic show in Heebie Jeebies, a hundred yards down the road the Zanzibar is packed to the rafters to watch MILES KANE in the smallest venue he will have played in years….
With Victoria Hesketh, aka Little Boots musical abilities fluctuating from singing and keyboard playing to mastering instruments such as synthesizers, Stylophones and a Japanese electronic instrument called Tenori-on it’s no wonder that her 2009 debut album, ‘Hands’, reached number five…
I had the absolute pleasure of being invited to an intimate session with Frank Turner, folk, rock, singer songwriter and formerly of punk band Million Dead. The former Eton boy, no stranger to negative press attention, performed with Matt Nasir,…
So Primal Scream are back and what a relief it is. It’s been over 3 decades in since Bobby Gillespie rounded up his merry gang of space cadets, yet excitement for a new release is still high as ever. How many…
With over 300 acts squeezed into 3 days, Liverpool Sound City is the king of metropolitan festivals. This was Gigslutz first visit to Sound City and we have to admit to being slightly apprehensive going into it. All our fears…
Maidstone on a sort of Sunny Saturday. The place was upbeat and had a real buzz about it thanks to the Fringe Festival. I’d had the front of my hair permed just in case someone had misinformed me but alas,…
As BIG DADDY KANE’S DJ warms the crowd with shout outs of “let me hear you” and “Liverpool, are you in the house” some pre gig enthusiasm starts to slip away. This pre planned nonsense which will happen regardless of…
The Wonder Stuff take the stage. Miles Hunt smiling as ever, wearing a black shirt with a red necktie, guitar slung just about as low as possible, with violinist Erica Nockalls wearing a stunning red dress. Bassist Mick McCarthy looks…