Upon discovering the line-up of 90’s icon Tim Burgess’ solo venture, little persuasion was needed to venture down to the revamped basement of Newcastle University on an excessively cold Wednesday night. A backline containing Charlatans guitarist Mark Collins and Primal…
Doors 7.30pm, early doors drinks specials (£2 pints etc). Live stream broadcast 8pm to midnight, after party until Saturday morning. £6 on the door. 18+ event. The Purple Turtle, 65 Crowndale Road, London NW1 1NT (Mornington Crescent/Camden Town tubes, 24…
I think I’ve just got Hot Chip. Since they became mainstream with the 2006 album ‘The warning’ I always had them down as some sort of also rans without anything really to back it up. My notions were completely incorrect…
Converse have been putting on a load of free competition gigs over the last few months and we were lucky enough to invited down to the legendary 100 club to see Sunderland’s finest Frankie & The Heartstrings. This was the…
The Smoke Fairies have been making some pretty good mates lately. They recently became the first UK band to release a record on Jack Whites new label. Jack was into them that much he ended up producing their single and also jumping…
I suppose I’ll have to admit to being a bit of a bandwagon jumper when it comes to Richard Hawley. He had previously slipped under my radar until is latest, and most successful, Mercury nominated record was released, the brilliant…
Fred Perry celebrated 60 years as an icon of fashion with a special gig at The Garage in London to mark the anniversary. A line up Terry Hall, Don Letts, Norman Jay and the mighty Charlatans got Gigslutz juices nice…
Before their recent London headline gig, hotly tipped Birmingham mob The Carpels let us into their tiny changing room for a quick chat to tell us more about their their tour, plans for the future and other important things such…
Before his recent gig at the Half Moon in Putney, the legend that is Steve Craddock (OCS, Weller) let us into his dressing room to pinch some of his beer and have a quick chat.
Oxjam has been up and running and gaining momentum since 2004. Now in its 8th year it has gone from a one off event, to having over 3000 gigs taking place and over 750,000 people attending. All the events are…