Psychedelic Furs @ Highbury Garage
Psychedelic Furs “When did you first see them live?” -“1986” -“Sometime in the ’70s” -“At Glastonbury about twenty years ago” Tonight’s crowd at the Highbury Garage has been around a bit – watching the...
View ArticlePaul Simon’s Graceland 25th anniversary concert @ Hard Rock Calling
Paul Simon at Hard Rock Calling. Credit: Andy Sturmey The big news is that it didn’t rain on Sunday. That the previous days and weeks had seen torrential downpours that required hundreds of tons of...
View ArticlePalma Violets @ The Boston Arms
Palma Violets This energetic South London four-piece’s reputation saw them on tour supporting Savages, 2012′s most hyped Joy Division impersonators, then get signed to Rough Trade without so much as a...
View ArticleMoulettes @ The Roundhouse
Moulettes are the most precision instru-mentalists you’ll find wielding bassoon, autoharp, harmonium, cello, violin, double bass, guitar, glockenspiel and drum. They bring the dark crypt-like confines...
View ArticleFIDLAR @ The Garage, Highbury
FIDLAR are recent cousins in a family of West Coast hardcore bands that stretches back through Black Flag and the Circle Jerks to The Germs. Unlike the social commentary, paranoid conspiracies,...
View ArticleBlack Rebel Motorcycle Club @ Brixton Academy
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club at Brixton Academy, April 2013. Photo: Rosie Wadey The opening drumbeats of ‘Let The Day Begin‘ are joined by growling chords that emerge thick and juicy like steak. Black...
View ArticlePhotos of Chvrches @ Village Underground
Tonight Chvrches face the challenge of a room full of hipsters in this brick Shoreditch temple. The rites begin with the kickdrums of ‘Lies‘, foreboding bass tones that recall early Gary Numan, spiky...
View ArticleEnd of the Road Festival 2013
End of the Road Festival… I’d half hoped it might be at the foot of the A303, but sadly it’s nearer Wiltshire. That’s about the only disappointment though, and it’s a trivial one. Three and a bit days...
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