Live Reviews

Live Review: Metronomy

Sitting at home before tonight’s gig and revisiting ‘Nights Out’, Metronomy’s 2008 breakthrough album (of sorts), a thought needled at our mind like an...

Live Review: Mona

These days, the road to being bigger than Bono (Mona’s stated aim) goes through Brooklyn – a place where the dreams of countless wannabe...

Live Review: Jessie J

Jessie J, you may have heard, has got great potential. Not just great, award-winning. Double award-winning, in fact, with both the BBC’s Sound of...

Live Review: Drake

So Aubrey Drake Graham is taking a moment during his first-ever London show. He’s explaining how we might know him from teen drama spin-off...

Live Review: Pulled Apart By Horses

Tonight plays host not only to Yorkshire’s oft-touted saviours of thrash but by far the most insane crowd The Cluny has ever seen, half...

Glasvegas, Concert Hall, Troon

With recent press stories about singing to a bowl of goldfish and posing for pictures wearing ski goggles, you’d be forgiven for thinking that...

Live Reviews: LCD Soundsystem/Hot Chip, Alexandra Palace, London

Like two laser beams conjoining to form a wall-melting death-ray of gawk-dance euphoria, fewer musical combinations make more sense than LCD Soundsystem and Hot...

Live Review: Esben And The Witch, Deaf Institute, Manchester

Standing behind a battered-looking floor tom, Esben And The Witch’s frontlady Rachel Davies needs to finish having a moment before any sort of singing...

Live Review: Liars, Heaven, London

It’s strange to think that Liars and The Hives came to our attention at the same time, opening up a loophole in the space-time...

Live Review: M.I.A., The Warehouse Project, Manchester

Musician, political activist, fashion designer: MIA’s always made a proud point of her multiple personality, of being hard to pin down and even harder...
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