After a quiet start to the year, February sees venues’ diaries finally thawing out and the first hot tickets of 2010 must surely be a twofer by Band of Skulls, at the 100 Club tonight and The Garage later in the week. Support comes from …
We’ve said it before but we’re big fans of the End of the Road festival and record label, promoters of country, folk and Americana. So it’s with festive cheer that they return with this year’s Christmas Shindig at Cargo on Wednesday. The night promises a …
Ok, it’s not the usual way to start a review but tonight was all about shout-outs, so first of all props to the girls on the door at Cargo who were the nicest we’ve come across in London in a while. Right, to business. After …
It was a sad day back in early 2007 when the news came in that Jurassic 5 were splitting after nearly 15 years together. The LA-based rap group were one of the few around who still embraced the conscious hip-hop ethos and as a result …
Folk fans can’t go far wrong seeking out nights like tonight, promoted by purveyors of all things folky The Local and hosted at London’s little slice of Nashville, The Luminaire. First Oh Ruin, Co Meath’s Eoin O’Ruainigh, who sits perched precariously on a stool playing …
Photo credit: Martin Hills The night is book-ended, as unlikely as the line-up might suggest, by Fab Four references. At the start, support comes from excitable Coventry four-piece DON’T MOVE!, who reconstruct classic jangle-pop, leaving it gloriously, dizzyingly askew. With their moptopped singer and spiralling …
If you bought War Child’s Help: A Day In The Life album back in 2005, you may remember a track that was tucked inbetween Magic Numbers and The Coral: “Cler Archel” by the Malian band Tinariwen. While it was little heralded at the time, since …
The name might not be familiar but the voice certainly will be to anyone with a copy of Damien Rice’s O. Lisa Hannigan was a longtime collaborator with Rice and in lending her vocals to that album arguably stole the show. Tonight in the Union …
Across three of the hottest nights of the year, this summer’s inaugural Serpentine Sessions presented three altogether more wintry headliners: New York’s Russian ice queen Regina Spektor, the snow-bound Bon Iver, and tonight Nottingham’s glummest sons, Tindersticks. In support, sunny sounds come from a reformed …
In these tough times, charities are again looking to harness the power of music to raise awareness, and Crisis are lining up a series of ‘Hidden Gigs’ to highlight how people disappear once on the streets. Tonight begins with a pair of songs each from …
