Josh Rouse might not be a well-known name, but he fills the Shepherd’s Bush Empire with ease tonight. In fact everything seems to come naturally to him, from the relaxed shuffle onstage to his casually turned-out country-pop gems. Opening the bill is Sweden’s Jens Lekman, …
To be honest the rain and coldness is kind of making us not want to go to gigs at the moment, preferring instead to wrap ourselves up warmly at home. But if we did, this is what we’d be bouncing at. Monday: The biggie tomorrow …
Shh! We don’t want to jinx things, but apparently the O2 is set to become the busiest and bestest venue in the world. (Well, bestest is perhaps subject to opinion: the Shepherd’s Bush Empire is pretty hard to beat if you ask us.) Anyway, all …
Tonight start the week by going to see massive Swedish popstar Marit Bergman at Hoxton Bar & Grill. She’s playing a one off UK gig in an attempt to get signed in the UK. (£6, here. Former Hefner frontman Darren Hayman teams up with fledgling …
For such a large venue David Ford’s gig at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire on Saturday was a dreamily intimate affair. Playing songs largely drawn from his second album, Songs for the Road, the balladeer and musician’s musician enticed warm applause from the ‘incredibly cool’ London …
Editors start a three night residency at Brixton Academy on Monday (17.50, here) but the real treat has to be Reading’s squelchy electro boys Does It Offend You Yeah? shuffling their stuff at Barfly. Campy London trio Palladium are at Madame JoJos (£7, here and …
Cult canadian star Feist is back in the UK playing a sold out date at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire on Monday night. Now “1, 2, 3, 4″ is all over an advert it might be tricky to find tix but we reckon the ever reliable …
As a wise man once said, “Bloody hell, it’s Soft Cell!” Well, actually, it’s not Soft Cell. It’s just Marc Almond solo. And the man wasn’t all that wise. It was Alan Partridge. Either way, though, Monday gives you a chance to see Marc Almond …
A fair few new tours on sale today at 9am. Kaiser chiefs play Earls Court for their biggest show to date. They come to town on Friday 14th December. Rufus Wainwright tours again, playing the Hammersmith Apollo on Tuesday 30th October. Following their amazing Glastonbury …
Shepherd’s Bush Empire, 23rd January Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan’s album, Ballad of the Broken Seas, tells timeless tales of love, regret, betrayal and heartache borne of long-suffering distance. So it is perhaps unsurprising that their performance at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire a couple of …
Watch Giddy Stratospheres: here Screw the Arctic Monkeys – those of us unblinded by intense hype have been well aware that the best band to come out of Sheffield after 1978 is the dazzlingly glamourous Long Blondes. Taking much inspiration from Pulp themselves, the LBs …
