Live Reviews

London WC2 Sound Republic

IT TELLS YOU EVERYTHING YOU need to know about 1998 that the release of this album should be cause for celebration. 'The Masterplan' might...

Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall

LAST NOVEMBER IN ROTTERDAM, FOLLOWING an ace curry, Jochen Paap (aka Speedy J) and Mike Paradinas (aka 5-Ziq) headed back to Paap's place to...

London Brixton Academy

A massive guest queue is snaking down Charing Cross Road. Red Snapper, it seems, are the new Roni Size - the dance act that...

London Camden Dingwalls

Chants of "Millwall! Millwall!" ring through a section of headliners Motorhead's audience. Things don't look good for Groop Dogdrill already. And when Pete Spibey,...

London WC2 Astoria

Repetition, we know, can be irritating. When cleverly orchestrated, however, loops, repeated riffs and interminable spirals of indecipherable vocals and surging sound have a...

London WC2 LA2

You might feel down in the ground, you might feel lower than low - hell, you might even feel like the abyss is dragging...

Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms

HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT Alanis? Do you love her? No, but do you really, really love her, in a post-needy, holistic, spiritual and...

Leicester De Montford University

Scientists have called it 'Rinky Dink' Syndrome. It describes the tendency of much post-Britpop to have at least one song in their repertoire that...

Brighton Beach Deck

Bog roll. Potatoes. Pints. Shed Seven. None could be pretentious if they tried. There may be an element of cockiness in Rick Witter's wriggly-arsed...

Portsmouth Guildhall

Jacques Lu Cont, sweat dripping from his neon-red hair, rips his shiny blue top off. Brighton screams. But it's not an oiled six-pack they're...