A really interesting programming of music. Four different styles of music but somehow the evening worked. The first band, Let’s
Category: Live Reviews
Bully are a band from Nashville playing with a 90s grunge sound. I’d seen them at the Great Escape but
I’m one of those miserable sods who don’t like Halloween and the whole ‘Americanisation’ of the evening. I don’t know
Love and Other Crimes: The Song of Lee Halewood was a celebration of the work of Lee Hazlewood. He’s not
Bit of a random gig. I was in London during the day, so thought I’d find a gig in the
One of those nights were you hope the support bands stay and watch headline act, because the headline act is
Half Man Half Biscuit are like a fine whisky. You drink it in small sips and savour the flavour. Half
Several people had told me that The Big Moon were a band worth catching. As they were playing with VANT,
Now I’m not a snob. I don’t stay in posh hotels. When traveling, Travelodges are my mainstay and as a
The Vaulted Skies are a friend’s band. They play music inspired by gothy 80s bands like the Cure. So it
Girl Band are just getting better and better. Tonight at a sold out 100 Club, they put in another impressive
Sexwitch appears from nowhere. The lead singer of Bat for Lashes, basically fronting Toy. Initial reviews were positive and the
I’d seen the Picturebooks, a German duo, at the Great Escape. They play simple thunderous garage rock. Tonight I caught
Today was the 200th Daylight Music. To celebrate they had decided to hold a mini photo exhibition with photographs by
There still a few months to go. But at the moment Torres is my artist of the year. On the
I’d heard Gwenno’s single on the radio and although it’s sung in Welsh and electronica, I really enjoyed it. The
Some weeks promise to be good weeks this week was one of them. Four gigs that promised different styles from
As a fan of Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer, I thought I’d head over to Hitchin to see his fellow
I’ve not been enthralled by the main Proms this year. But I have in the main enjoyed the Saturday afternoon
A return for Daylight Music and a clash with a Saturday afternoon Prom. So a bit of a flying visit.
Girl Band have really grown on me. Earlier in the year, I really enjoyed their performance at the Roundhouse. Their
I didn’t expect to find myself in a cemetery in East London on a rainy Sunday evening. But such is
Heading off after the Lucy Rose gig at Rough Trade, I quickly walked down to the Southbank were PSB were