Category: Live

Phantom Limb @ Monto Water Rats

By on Feb 03, 2012 in Live
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London, 31st January

Phantom Limb is a great name for a band. The medical sensation it refers to –where a person feels that a missing body part is both still there and functioning – conjures up all sorts of metaphorical possibilities, although I’m not sure it’s quite the appropriate choice for a band that deals in a breezy mixture of soul and country music. It’s a bit like if Fleetwood Mac had been called Alien Hand Syndrome…[1]

Nethertheless, the band have thrived [...]

Cold In Berlin @ Hoxton Bar & Kitchen

By on Feb 01, 2012 in Live

London, 24th January

Fever, Fever are an obnoxious brand of grunge pop that could only be compared to ‘Chicks on Speed’ meets ‘Bis’ in a blender of banter and ‘Dinosaur Jr’ noisy guitars. They have great crowd interaction and run through some songs with cleaver lyrics and catchy tunes which make a good start to the evening which is ruined by the next band on.

 

Purson may be signed to the same label as the amazing Ghost but they are no Ghost [...]

MAMAS GUN feat. BEVERLY KNIGHT @ Jazz Café

By on Jan 22, 2012 in Live

London, 20th January

Mamas Gun, named after an album by Erykah Badu, is a quintet soul, rock and funk band from London. It’s reminiscent of Stevie Wonder, Jamiroquai and Maroon 5.

The five piece group comprises: Andy Platts (vocals), Dave Burnell Oliver (keyboards), Terry Lewis (guitar), Rex Horan (bass) and Jack Pollitt (drums).Their successful debut album Routes To Riches was released in 2010.

Only One is the third single taken from their second studio album The Life and Soul released in July [...]

Enter Shikari @ Kingston Hippodrome

By on Jan 21, 2012 in Live

London, 17th January

As energetic, loud and pathologically insane as Enter Shikari are, their crowds are easily half the reason that they’re currently Britain’s best live band. And the 1000 or so sweaty boys and girls only just over the 14+ plus age limit, celebrating the release of Shikari’s best and most recent album A Flash Flood of Colour, are a pretty typical Shikari crowd. In the sense that they’re as rowdy as a football crowd, half its age, and 100% [...]

The Xcerts @ Borderline

By on Jan 21, 2012 in Live

London, 19th January

The Xcerts seem to be a band easy to admire but difficult to truly love, they have some great songs in their arsenal a well-honed live set and, in Murray MacLeod, a pretty good frontman. That’s entirely the point however, on first glance there doesn’t seem to be a truly defining feature about them, unlike fellow countrymen Biffy Clyro or Twin Atlantic’s utter, blinding sincerity and cellist, respectively. So after seeing them impress during a couple of their [...]

AlterRed – ‘Not New Year’s Eve’ @ Vauxhall Colosseum Club Antichrist

By on Jan 18, 2012 in Live

London, 30th December

It’s New Years Eve in London, No it is not actually it’s ‘Not the New Years!’ the day before in Vauxhall and it’s time to spend a night with one of London’s best up-and-coming bands AlterRed. I arrive in Vauxhall just before 8.00 were the band are about to sound check at London’s top fetish club
Antichrist. I’m greeted at the door by co-promoter Missy and taken to the room where AlterRed will be playing tonight they have already [...]

The Blackout @ O2 Academy

By on Jan 10, 2012 in Live

Oxford 29th December

Save your Breathe are a boring sk8r band that have decided to run through a few out of tune songs for you tonight, they do give away useless presents to the crowd to gain them some cheers but they don’t really have the songs relying on the looks of their guitarist to get them the female vote of tonight’s crowd.
Revoker are of course another Welsh band with every band on the bill being Welsh but have got [...]

Death In June @ Underworld

By on Jan 10, 2012 in Live

London, 23rd December

There is a massive police presence outside the venue tonight and protesters that tried to get tonight’s show banned but after a statement made by the band on the London Underworld website that they, are not a Neo Nazi band and that Neo-Folk was just about the music and that they used Nazi Imagery; but were not actually – Nazi’s the venue let the show go ahead. The evening begins with a delightful piano renditions of the band’s [...]

Go West @ O2 Academy

By on Jan 10, 2012 in Live

Oxford, 20th December

It’s the testament to some bands determination that see’s Go West Triumph tonight. Yes, the tour has sold really badly and yes they have been moved upstairs rather than the big downstairs room and yes they are even doing two for one tickets the week of the show, but Go West come out with real determination running through some great new songs which make you wonder why you haven’t been aware of this material before. Their version of [...]

ACOUSTIC ALCHEMY @ Pizza Express

By on Jan 08, 2012 in Live

London, 22nd December

Over 25 years Acoustic Alchemy have become well established with a huge worldwide audience that tends to unite both adult and indie followers. Eclectically and creatively they fuse jazz, rock, funk, world, country and reggae.

 

Their line up is presently founder member Greg Carmichael (acoustic guitar), Miles Gilderdale (steel guitar), Greg Grainger (drums), Gary Grainger (bass guitar) and Fred White (keyboard).

A journey through past numbers like No Messin’, Ariane and The Beautiful Game gives a feel for the [...]

Pandamonium Day 4: Krakatoa, Hawk Eyes, Sissy & The Blisters @ The Bull & Gate

By on Jan 08, 2012 in Live
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London, 6th January 2012

The other day I was in Denmark Street, that haven of guitar shops, and I overheard a man at the counter bemoaning the death of rock n roll in the face of a lazy music business and a fashion for electro and techno. And although I agree that the mainstream music business has been sliding into apathy for as long as I’ve been part of the London rock scene’s furniture, I would strongly disagree with any suggestion [...]

Arch Enemy @ Shepherds Bush Empire

By on Dec 18, 2011 in Live

London, 6th December

Chthonic have a very short set tonight and use their time very well opening there set with fan favourite ‘Forty-Nine theurgy Chains’ and continue it with a selection of songs from their new album ‘Takasago Army’ and as they get in the swing of things with Freddie and Doris going nuts they have to stop which is a real shame.

Warbringer are thrash by numbers and don’t really bring anything new to the mix and really aren’t my [...]

United Cube @ Brixton Academy

By on Dec 18, 2011 in Live

London, 5th December

K-Pop extravaganza hits London with a media frenzy and screaming fans, who have been waiting for this night for a long time: and it’s no surprise  with the cream of the Korean pop industry present tonight.
United Cube have really put on a spread tonight sigh loads of complimentary items, photos with cartoon creatures and competitions.
Tonight’s highlights were female vocalist ‘GNA,’ who runs through a set of X-Factor style pop and Korea’s equivalent to the Saturdays ’4′Minute,’ who tell all the [...]

Exit_International & Antlered Man @ The Macbeth

By on Dec 12, 2011 in Live
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London, 6th December

On a chilly December evening, in the charmingly scuzzy Macbeth in Hoxton, two of the best live acts (and indeed best bands in general if you ask me) in the new UK rock scene joined forces again to shake the populace up and cause sonic havoc.

 

Exit_International powered through the opening slot, justifying with a vengeance exactly why they’ve become the (somewhat unlikely) poster boys for Squier guitars, and found themselves on this year’s Ginger & Friends tour. Incendiary, [...]

Alter-Red / Mechanical Cabaret @ Egg Club

By on Dec 12, 2011 in Live
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London, 9th December

Ok, tonight’s show was meant to be at the Purple Turtle and 80′s darlings Blue Zoo where meant to play, but due to complete stupidity by the venue they have managed to double book it, so we find ourselves later on in the night at the Egg Club in Kings Cross – Blue Zoo. You’d think this would have put a downer on the evening but it doesn’t: everyone has come out tonight to have a good time [...]

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