LIVE: Slaves – Scala, London 06.05.15
“Our band name relates to people not being in control of their day to day lives. Slaves was our way of getting off the paths we didn’t want to walk down anymore. The music we make is motivational and aimed at…
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LIVE: The Zombies @ Union Chapel, Islington 01.05.15
Fresh from a series of triumphant shows at the recent SXSW show in the US, and with a current recording of a new album set for a September release, 60’s rock and roll legends The Zombies took to the stage…
LIVE: BRONCHO – Oval Space, London 01.05.15
For me, US Indie band BRONCHO are one of those bands that I sometimes stumble across while browsing YouTube playlists, and for the next month or so their songs get played so much on my phone that it nearly catches…
LIVE: The Skints @ O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, 21.04.15
What better end to another sunny Spring evening than skanking along to some soulful reggae…? I arrive at Shepherd’s Bush Empire just in time to catch the majority of the ever luminous Hollie Cook’s uplifting set. It really is a…
LIVE: Superfood- Heaven, London 09.04.15
We can all admit that some things are best left in the 90’s where they belong, (yes I’m looking at you Take That) but Birmingham based four-piece Superfood are reviving the greatest part of the not long forgotten era. With…
LIVE: Placebo – London Hammersmith Apollo 25.03.15
Wednesday night’s gig at Hammersmith Apollo was Placebo’s second sold-out date in the venue, and was also the final show of the UK leg of their massive Loud Like Love tour, which has been going on for nearly two years….
LIVE: Stoneghost – The Garage, Islington 20.03.15
Last night (20th) was the night of Stoneghost’s upcoming album launch party, and the Bromley metalheads sure launched it with fireworks. Even as I arrived at Islington’s The Garage, just in time for the start of the gig, I could…
LIVE: Coves – Corsica Studios, London 12.03.15
There are these moments that are so short that they end before you realise they are happening, but so intense that they leave your body shivering, gasping for breath and utterly confused but longing for more. Coves’ Thursday night gig…
LIVE: The Orb – Oslo Hackney, London 13.03.05
On Friday night, crammed into a darkened upstairs room in the intimate venue of London’s Oslo, both older Gen X’s and fresher faced millennials combined to loose themselves in appreciation for the original underground sound. Prior to the release of their already-acclaimed ‘History of The…
LIVE: Pete Shelley – The Club at Cafe Royal, London 11.03.15
I’ve never seen Buzzcocks live and, even more unfortunate, is that I was born a little too late to see them in their heyday, when they were at the front-lines of the British punk-rock revolution. And, even though it’s been…