Category: Live

Death Valley Scars – Live @ London Lexington

By aaamusic on May 17, 2013 in Featured, Live

Sunday 12th May

The most shocking Shock Rock show London has seen in a while!!!

Death Valley Scars are a Cult Industrial Shock Rock band from London England and this is their first show in their home city. The band that contains Dan Devour (Vocals), Chris Parker (Ex-Cryogenica) on (Bass), Amedeus (Guitar) and for this show Ays Kura (Die Kur) on (Keyboards). Ays produced their new and debut album ‘Suicide, Sex and Suffering’ which full version will be avaliable to download shortly. Tonight they are hitting the London Lexington as support to William Control the (Ex-Aiden) frontman and the venue is packed with anticipation for the bands [...]

Emmyou Harris & Rodney Crowell – Live @ Hammersmith Apollo, London

By aaamusic on May 12, 2013 in Live

Thursday 9th May

Legendary American singer-songwriter and musician Emmylou Harris has released 25 albums and won 12 Grammys. With her country soprano voice she recently reunited to sing in harmony with Rodney Crowell, the soft Texan who helped her solo career forty years ago. Their recent album Old Yellow Moon is a collection of their country duets.

A fast honky tonk beat in Luxury Liner contrasted with Tulsa Queen, a sad tale of loss, and Bluebird Wine, the song that first united [...]

Mesh – Live @ Islington o2 Academy

By aaamusic on May 11, 2013 in Live

Sunday 21st April

I have always been really into Mesh’s music and new album ‘Automation Baby’ is one of their best yet. I love how every track in tonight’s set is announced with the album it comes off and the what track number it is like on the old iPod’s the ones you had when they first came out. This is a great start to set the setting for a modern day futuristic sounding set, that really depicts the time we live in.

Opening with ‘Adjust your Set’ off this [...]

Thea Gilmore – Live @ The Queen Elizabeth Hall

By aaamusic on May 09, 2013 in Live

Wednesday 8th May

It’s sometimes said that critically acclaimed Thea Gilmore is one of the few British world class female singer-songwriters. She took a break after the birth of her second son, in the summer of 2011, but remains a determined and committed workaholic.

This evening she was supported by talented Welsh artist Al Lewis and mainly sang songs from her new album Regardless, that she jokingly referred to as ‘that difficult 14th album’.

Thea’s beautiful Love Came Looking For Me, released in [...]

XXYYXX, Blackbird Blackbird, Slow Magic, Giraffage – Live @ KOKO

By aaamusic on May 07, 2013 in Featured, Live

Saturday May 7th

Premier culture platform The Playground is pretty renowned for its meticulous event curation and promotion, but nothing could have prepared me for the sublime KOKO takeover on Saturday night. Although it was the immense lineup (courtesy of the UK leg of the Europe-wide ‘Set It Off’ tour) that was, naturally, the key source of the success, it was complemented by perfect sound, seamless artist changeovers, added visuals, and even polite and professional security, plus a baying, excitable crowd [...]

Tom Paxton – Live @ The Union Chapel, Islington

By aaamusic on Apr 29, 2013 in Live

Friday 26th April, London

American singer-songwriter Tom Paxton has been writing, recording and performing folk music since the sixties and this particular evening he was helped by the inventive and intimate Celtic artist Robin Bullock who began with two numbers from his latest album Majesty and Magic.

Your Shoes, My Shoes, nominated in the 2003 Grammy Awards for Best Musical Album For Children, took the audience on a civil rights journey with Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks. [...]

Clark + Daedelus + Kelpe + Anchorsong – Live @ KOKO

By aaamusic on Apr 23, 2013 in Live

Saturday, April 20th

Tonight isn’t just AAAmusic’s second Soundcrash event at KOKO this week. With Hidden Orchestra having to regretfully bail last minute due to illness (was so looking forward to seeing them again), Soundcrash have drafted in Tokyo-born Anchorsong, an act who I had the pleasure of seeing for the first time supporting Portico Quartet a few days ago. Anchorsong (London-based Masaaki Yoshida) respectfully acknowledges that Hidden Orchestra are M.I.A. before launching into his fusion of bleepy Krautrock and bass-heavy [...]

Skid Row – Live @ HRH AOR Festival

By aaamusic on Apr 22, 2013 in Festivals, Live

Rotherham, April 6th

Opening with ’Slave to the Grind’ you think you would be instantly impressed but it falls a little flat and ’Big Guns’ is much better with singer Johnny Solinger not having the vocal range to hit all the notes, but don’t think this is a bad set by Skid Row because it isn’t they pick up the pace and get better and better as the set goes on.

The bass kicks in and Scott Hill blasts you with the opening riffs of ‘New Generation’ a newer track in the bands artilary [...]

Tesseract – Live @ HRH Prog Festival

By aaamusic on Apr 22, 2013 in Festivals, Live

Rotherham, April 6th

Tesseract are very different from most bands you would find at a Prog festival, for a start most people would classify them as Metal. I think Tesseract are much more than aMetal band they mix up Progressive Rock and Metal riffs that might come from bands such as King Crimson and Tool. Yes this band take a lot of influences from Tool but they do mix it up with their own style and brand of contemporary Metal.

The band have struggled with finding a vocalist that wants to stay with the band or fits in with [...]

Tesla – Live @ HRH AOR Festival

By aaamusic on Apr 22, 2013 in Festivals, Live

Rotherham, April 6th

Legends Tesla tear shreds out of Rotherham!

Tesla love or hate them Tesla really gave it their all today and were just the right band for the job in Rotherham. I am not a massive fan myself but I have friends that are, and after today’s performance I can see why. They really put their heart and soul and full energy into their performances.

Opening the set with the great ’I wanna Live’ singer Jeff Keith moves round the stage like a cross between Iggy Pop and Steven Tyler (Aerosmith), this [...]