PJ Harvey

We review one of ‘National treasure’ PJ Harvey’s two shows at East London’s Troxy.

Encased in a Victorian style, full length white dress complete with puff sleeves, high neck and crayon black scrawls, hair all crazy curls and mad bag lady styling, PJ Harvey revealed an endearingly warm and ditzy personality behind her astonishing set list at this very …

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 …

1940 St. Paul’s is hit by bombs. One myth of the Battle of Britain was that St Paul’s Cathedral remained untouched (Churchill had insisted on it). However, the cathedral was hit on this day in 1940 (and again on April 17th 1941) and the Choir …

Right, time to catch up on a couple of gigs from last week. The Duke Spirit – The Portland Arms, Cambridge That’s right, Cambridge. 45 minutes out of King’s Cross lies one of London’s quainter suburbs and for this evening at least, home to The …

This weekend see the start of another ‘popular culture’ exhibition at the Proud Gallery in Camden (the other one is on the Strand). Sometimes the Proud’s exhibition schedule can maybe look a little ‘fluffy’ against some of the capital’s more heavyweight contenders. But popular culture …

In a reversal of the usual pessimist’s view that the sun only shines once you’re back at work, this weekend was full of sunsheeeeine but the view from the tiny little air hole provided for us in Londonist Dungeons shows a distinctly gloomy Monday. It’s …

As surely as A&R people follow a bandwagon, an album follows a remember-us-we’re-back single. And so Doves follow up their relatively upbeat single Black and White Town with the album it comes from: Some Cities. Kitty Empire at The Observer is equivocal. She dismantles the …