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Elviin The latest soul sensation to hit the airwaves, Elviin looks set to become one of 2009′s success stories. Inspired by his St Lucian parents’ Caribbean records, he counts Jack Penate as one of his friends and has been on tour supporting Gary Go and …

Described by the Guardian as a “four-piece jerky-pop-rock band”, Official Secrets Act have been making waves around the country as they bring their witty and eccentric tunes to the masses. We sat down with their charismatic bassist Lawrence, who intrdouced the band and gave us …

Official Secrets Act live at the Borderline Sometimes it’s good to catch a band with next to no prior knowledge or expectations. You can be blown away by their amazingness, or just enjoy them with no prior hype. That’s just what we did last night …

Another week, another string of gigs around London. This week’s big ones include Tina Turner at the O2 on Wednesday, and Franz Ferdinand at the HMV Hammersmith Apollo on Monday night. Surprisingly, there are still tickets left for Tina Turner (priced at £50 – £100 …

The big gigs of this week are undoubtably Tina Turner‘s two night stand at the O2 on Tuesday and Wednesday evening. Both shows have some seats left at (a rather expensive) £75 to £100 each. However, if that’s not your sort of thing, or you …

The Killers The Killers come into town to start their UK Tour on Monday night with two consecutive sold out nights at the O2, whilst Fleet Foxes have two similarly sold out nights at the Roundhouse. Meanwhile, after the NME tour finished at Brixton Academy …

A mixed bag musically this week – not many huge acts playing (well, unless you are fortunate enough to have Brits tickets for Wednesday night), but plenty of quality other acts a bit down the scale. Ra Ra Riot Chicago punk rockers Alkaline Trio play …

Keane’s Tom Chaplin at London’s O2 “Music for Bedwetters” the legendary Alan McGee christened Keane. The Creation Records founder is usually right about most things, however he seems to have got Keane’s audience completely wrong. At the first of two sold out nights at London’s …

Pretty much an average week musically this week, with lots of quality stuff to be found. Keane Of the big gigs, The Cribs play Heaven and The Fray play Scala on Tuesday, whilst The View play Koko. Tickets are sold out for Cribs and Fray, …

A bit of a strange week coming up musically in London. Plenty going on, however they’re all at the smaller end of the market, so making good suggestions is very much down to personal taste. Here’s what we’d get up to this week. The Veils …