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Loitered Lens : Wolf Alice

16/06/2013

While some bands seem swamped by the occasion as they graduate to larger venues, Wolf Alice greedily grasped the opportunity like a terrier’s jaw clamped onto a bone...

Loitered Lens: Tribes

09/06/2013

Photos of Tribes at the Roundhouse where damp gussets and hormone-saturated sweat....

Loitered Lens : Duke Garwood

02/06/2013

As Garwood complained of being, “blinded by his own sweat”, the room was soaked in swampy tales....

Reverend Elvis Interview [Part 2]

23/05/2013

I don't follow any religion or political ideology or whatever. I can think by myself....

Reverend Elvis : Interview

16/05/2013

'For getting drunk and angry: Psychobilly and Punk is still the best music in the world!'...

His apology for the newer songs being under rehearsed was unnecessary - their rawness captured the essence of the songs in a more stripped down and tenderly passionate manner than the album versions....

Loitered Lens: Link Wray

08/05/2013

I said, “Let me give you a hand” and proceeded to walk arm in arm with Link Wray, dodging the traffic, across Camden High Street...

Reverend Elvis : Desperation

24/04/2013

Think Death/Psycho/Gospel/Blues/Country Billy and then some. Everything Psychobilly should be, but isn’t. ...

And then she was gone

18/04/2013

Perhaps some of the cheers were from people glad she was gone, who knows?...

Loitered Lens : Charlie Boyer and the Voyeurs

07/04/2013

Porcelain features, vintage Fender guitars (with broken strings) and an album produced by Edwyn Collins. The Lexington expects.......

Loitered Lens : OHO

31/03/2013

Aha! The evocatively-named OHO play Hoxton Bar and Kitchen, Loitered Lens captures the photos....

Loitered Lens : Apples & Eve

24/03/2013

Sweeping folk, wheezing accordion, and grand chanson stage theatrics. Apples & Eve at the Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen. Photos....

Kid Congo Powers and the Pink Monkey Birds [Tour]

21/03/2013

Cancel all other plans and get your tickets for this, if you don’t people will continue to laugh and point at you in the street. Order the album whilst you are about it....

Hank Ray and The Raymen : Sinister Funtime.

06/03/2013

Sinister Funtime is twisted and wretched. The whole album is a crazed booze-fuelled sex-beat for delinquents everywhere. ...

Loitered Lens : Roy Lichtenstein

24/02/2013

Arty photos of artworks by an artist making art about art....

Loitered Lens : Neurotic Mass Movement

17/02/2013

Photographer Carl Batson captures Neurotic Mass Movement onstage....

Tav Falco : Live in London

05/02/2013

Tav Falco releases Live in London, a vinyl-only recording, on Stag-O-Lee records...

Loitered Lens: Andreya Triana

29/01/2013

Photos of Andreya Triana supporting Macy Gray at KOKO, December 2012...

Loitered Lens: Reptile Youth

20/01/2013

Fired up, quite possibly by a pre-gig interview with Trebuchet's Sarah Corbett (in which they talked about the Arab Spring and the London riots) Reptile Youth went on to cane Hoxton silly(er)....

Loitered Lens: Macy Gray

13/01/2013

A throatful of gravel and a bag of class, Macy Gray rules the pink feather boa onstage at Koko, London...

2012 Round-Up: Carl Byron Batson

28/12/2012

Each year for me is remembered in pictures, the continual broadening of my musical boundaries, and the unfathomable yeses and nos from band PR and management. Example: Shakin’ Stevens says no, Bill...

Loitered Lens: Steve Harley

23/12/2012

Steve Harley plays London's HMV Forum, December 13th 2012. Photos...

Touched by Sir Jimmy

12/12/2012

I looked nostalgically at the picture of Jimmy’s face and noticed he’d even put a little smiley on there for me. Yes, Jimmy Savile touched me back in ’93...

Loitered Lens: Splashh

09/12/2012

Carl Byron Batson photographs Splashh at the 100 Club, London...

Shoot! Existential Photography

06/12/2012

An exhibition tracing the history of a fascinating fairground sideshow that sprung up following World War 1: the photographic shooting gallery. ...

Childhood Break Through

04/12/2012

Last month’s inclusion in the popular music press and a very favourable review in The Guardian have finally put these guys on the radar and are all good indications that Childhood may now be...

Loitered Lens: The Hickey Underworld

02/12/2012

The Hickey Underworld performed a well-articulated set with some solid beats, great guitar work and a certainty in the vocal that was no doubt helped by the newly trimmed beard....

House of Burlesque: Shipwrecked [Review]

22/11/2012

The questions here are, is Burlesque exploitative? Does it reinforce cultural and sexual attitudes that are complicit in sexual harassment or is this just a great medium of feminist expression and a...