Live Reviews

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...

London WC2 12 Bar Club

"Help me if you can I'm feeling down..." Something bizarre and vaguely significant is happening here. Noel Gallagher is plodding through a 'wistful', painfully...

London Camden Underworld, Dingwalls, Dublin Castle

In the hip-hop slops tray of late-'90s retro dumbo brat beat something flexes its trigger finger. Dub Pistols have had a hard time shooting...

Dublin Mean Fiddler

SHUT UP & DANCE Got 'Em Locked (Shut Up & Dance) If anyone has a claim to the crown of absolute godfathers...

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...

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...