Tag: Gigs

Gigs

Two Joans, good grace & strong cider. Cambridge Folk Festival 2015

Blessed by great weather the festival was a sold out success with myth making performances from The Proclaimers, Joan Baez, Wilko Johnson, Joan Armatrading and The Unthanks....

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The Fall, Clapham Grand, November 2015

Characterised by an abrasive guitar-driven sound and frequent use of repetition, The Fall are always underpinned by Smith's distinctive vocals and often cryptic lyrics....

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Loitered Lens : Cortes

Cortes delivered the spoils to an eager London audience....

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Sunrise Celebration at Boomtown Fair

BoomTown Fair is a 49,999 capacity theatrical festival that creates a totally immersive environment with ambitious themed stage sets and winding streets, complete with interactive venues transporting...

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Loitered Lens : Reverend Horton Heat

Preaching to the converted, as ever the Reverend gave the assembled beer holders a most satisfying selection showing that, unlike other clergy, he hasn’t lost his power to touch his congregation...

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Loitered Lens: Misterwives

Pinned between the pre pubescent girls, horny dads and the PA system, Carl Byron Batson frames Misterwives at Islington O2...

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Loitered Lens : Primus live at Brixton Academy

Primus wanted to remind you that they’ve always been a band looking forward, reminding us that the old stuff was just that....

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Reverend Horton Heat, Islington Academy.

During a dusty warm front in old London town, Reverend Horton Heat and his punkabilly ensemble took to the stage at Islington Academy...

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Loitered Lens : Magenta

Magenta play dense and complex music with a heavy and unapologetic influence of 70s Yes. ...

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Sweet dreams: Primus ’ Wonka ends on a winsome note.

Backed by mesmerising animations of an elephant bouncing on a trampoline, no one can deny that Primus put on a great show...

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Loitered Lens : The Movielife

Proving time hasn’t dampened the punk rock spirit or the sheer energy of The Movielife....

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Let’s carry on from where we left off (The Movielife)

For a band who most thought would never reunite (including the band themselves) this return to the stage was grasped with relish....

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Bringing Brutal Deathgrind to a Bucolic Britain (Brujeria)

It is said that this unit of banditos is made up of Satanic drug lords who came together to make music on Brujerizmo - their own brand of brutal 'machete metal'....

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A Horror-rockin Hallowee’n. Alice Cooper UK Dates

The Alice Cooper show returns to the UK for two special nights at Plymouth Pavilions (Oct 29) and Swindon Oasis (Oct 30) with blood, guts, gore and some of the greatest rock and roll music in...

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Sex, fireflies and audiotape: ‘Anima’ purrs (Francesca Belmonte)

The moon is apparently moving away from us by four centimetres every year, Francesca Belmonte may just have thrown a lasso and dragged it back towards us a fraction...

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Loitered Lens : Tav Falco at Oslo, Hackney

Lithe and lean, Tav Falco plays up to the calls, draws the crowd in deeper and deeper....

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Foot-stomping hip-swivelling rockabilly country-blues (Tav Falco)

This crowd love Falco and Falco loves them back. He poses and postures, treats the audience to some fancy tango moves, and writhes on his back as if possessed. Tav Falco live. ...

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Loitered Lens : Sleaford Mods

Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn bring it on....

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Looking good and rocking hard [LTNT]

Diverse personalities they may be, but musically they have honed what they do to a level of classical precision....

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Rock now, Rock the Night! Loitered Lens [Europe]

Joey Tempest banging out some ultra weird shapes...

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A saxophone short, but mesmerising nonetheless [Knifeworld]

Psychedelic grooves, Zappa-style horn arrangements, intertwining guitar and bassoon lines, and layered vocal harmonies....

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Showing the depth of the songbook at Bury Met [Mostly Autumn]

Shaking up the setlist in such a radical way was a bold move, but a very welcome one...

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Amenra and Sólstafir Join Damnation Festival 2015

Sólstafir will be the first band in Damnation history to play the festival in two consecutive years...

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Loitered Lens : Theory of a Deadman

So much rock awesomeness on the stage, it almost spilled outside...

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June Gigs, London [Thunder on the Left]

Makes you want to jump behind the wheel of the Mustang and hit the road on a prolonged killing spree. ...

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Loitered Lens : Beasts [Beasts]

Beasts soften the discordant minor melodies and double bass drum pedals of doom with catchy guitar riffs and shoegazer style vocals....

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Grunged Up and Greasy, Beast of Eden [Beasts]

Beasts have the discordant minor melodies and double bass drum pedals of doom softened by catchy guitar riffs and shoegazer style vocals....

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Loitered Lens : Marc Almond

Joined by guitarist Neal X, formerly of Sigue Sigue Sputnik, it was as if the past 30 years had just been a bad dream' Marc Almond...

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Undiminished Diva [Marc Almond]

His ability to produce the heartbroken diva performance is undiminished....

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A Solid day of Metal Misbehaviour : Impericon Festival

If you aren’t familiar with Manchester Academy, it’s like a music-y Hogwarts… every time you visit, it’s sprouted a few new performance spaces and the butterbeer’s gone up another six quid....

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