Live Review: Crumb // The Dome, London – 05.12.19
Returning to London merely a year after their 2018 debut in the city, Crumb’s mesmerising psych-rock beguiles audiences in a way that few British bands have proved capable of doing. ‘Jinx’, produce…
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Live Review: Electric Guest // Village Underground – 02.12.19
“We haven’t played this city in three fucking years,” Electric Guest frontman Asa Taccone declares to their East London audience. ‘...So to sell it out as quickly as you did.. We really appreciate it.…
Live Review: The Lumineers // 3Arena, Dublin
Usually the last stop on a European tour for a band, last week’s The Lumineers show in Dublin was no different. A farewell, a finish on a high note. Delivering an electrifying performance to conclude …
Album Review: Johnny Lloyd // Low Fidelity: Vol. 1
Once Johnny Lloyd's Indie four-piece Tribes disbanded in 2013, their demise was met with the overriding feeling that they had been the right band at the wrong time. Formed in 2010, Tribes harked ba…
Live Review: Fontaines D.C. // SWX, Bristol – 30.11.19
It’s not every day you witness the fusion of coming of age youthful exuberance with the intense passion of grey-haired middle-agers re-kindling their youth. But, on a bitterly cold November Saturday, …
Live Review: Ex:Re and the 12 Ensemble // Kings Place, London
Just when you think that Ex:Re, the solo project of Daughter’s Elena Tonra, couldn’t get any better its re-imagined and invigorated with the help of the virtuosic, 12 Ensemble. The cathartic concept a…
Live Review: Liam Gallagher // The O2, London – 29.11.19
Having announced himself as the first Reading and Leeds 2020 headliner earlier on the day, there was only one real question going into Liam Gallagher’s UK tour finale: is he ready to headline festival…
Live Review: Oliver Tree // Heaven, London – 26.11.19
With his signature shiny bowl cut and 90’s pink and purple anorak, indie-rapper Oliver Tree is a fashionable throwback for the Gen-Zers. Walking into Oliver Tree’s show at London’s infamous Heaven w…
Live Review: Rex Orange County // O2 Academy Brixton, London – 26.11.19
“I’m home,” announces a bashful Alex O’Connor, better known as sad-boy singer-songwriter Rex Orange County. After having a year that almost sent him off the edge, the O2 Brixton Academy crowd gave O’C…
Live Review: Willie J Healey // Omeara, London – 21.11.19
When Willie J Healey broke on to the scene in 2015, industry insiders and music nerds alike found his mellow, multifaceted tunes hard to categorise. The artist seems to instinctively blend elements of…
