Tag: Gigs

Gigs

Ben Caplan [Live]

19/11/2012

Ben Caplan would help me get over these prejudices, or at least not think about them too much. Partly because he has a beard you could catch a badger in, but most importantly, because he’s...

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Loitered Lens: Nightwish

18/11/2012

‘this gig was really about the new vocalist. Nightwish are the sort of band where the songs are bigger than the singer, but their material can be challenging regardless of who is singing it....

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Stabbing a Dead Horse

14/11/2012

"We have Mellotron! We are Prog again!". Tim Hall reports on the last night of the Stabbing a Dead Horse prog rock tour....

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[Listen] Jessie Ware Remixes

13/11/2012

Remixes of Jessie Ware's 'No To Love' available to stream...

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Loitered Lens: Zulu

11/11/2012

A wall of guitar sound with nods to Sonic Youth style discord, eighties goth type melodies and some fast and furious new wave drumming....

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Nightwish: Brixton Academy [Live]

09/11/2012

Nightwish are the sort of band where the songs are bigger than the singer, but their material can be challenging regardless of who is singing it. Floor Jansen made a very strong impression,...

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Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster: Electric Ballroom [Live]

09/11/2012

As they launch into the second song of the set, the filthy 'Celebrate Your Mother', members of the audience are already flinging themselves around and being dragged, sometimes minus footwear, over...

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Loitered Lens: Jim Jones Revue

04/11/2012

A raucous night of leather-larynxed rock 'n' roll played to a crowd packed with music writers only too delighted to be blown away by a power act deserving of its hype. Jim Jones Revue....

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Loitered Lens: Rival Sons, Electric Ballroom

28/10/2012

Rival Sons, live at Camden's Electric Ballroom, photographs. No wrongness....

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Deftones UK Tour

24/10/2012

The Deftones have nothing left to prove. They have 'the rock' and now they want to share it with you....

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Rival Sons: Electric Ballroom

23/10/2012

It’s not too difficult to understand the appeal of Rival Sons. They do classic rock extremely well. Jay Buchanan is without doubt a charismatic lead vocalist who, despite his relatively small...

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Spinefarm Need Street Team!

21/10/2012

Spinefarm records are looking for street team footsoldiers. Armed with wallpaper paste and a sheaf of flyers, it's the way into the music business that doesn't involve bassplayers sleeping on your...

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Loitered Lens: Death Letters

21/10/2012

On support duty for Anneke Van Giersbergen at the Borderline and a stint opening for Enter Shikari, Death Letters are on a trajectory to shuck off bridesmaid's syndrome. ...

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Dropkick Murphys Announce Album/Tour

18/10/2012

Dropkick Murphys whittle their shillelaghs, sup the cream off the top of a few wee pints o' the black stuff and get set for an album launch and Euro tour starting in, where else? Dublin!...

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Bruce Cockburn: Bush Hall

17/10/2012

Back in Bush Hall, Cockburn preceded one song by saying, “the way to avoid dashed expectations is not to have any.” It was however clear that expectations were high as he took the stage...

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Chris Isaak: Hammersmith Apollo

16/10/2012

Deliver us from surly musicians in jeans and baseball boots. Let us be blinded by mirrored suits and touched inappropriately by covers of seemingly untouchable songs. Chris Isaak Live...

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Loitered Lens: Sleepy Sun

14/10/2012

'All eyes were on Sleepy Sun. They hypnotized, mesmerized, and with a click of a finger they were gone and an almighty surge began for the smoking area.'...

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Stian Westerhus: Cafe OTO

10/10/2012

A chance to catch Westerhus' architectural guitar sounds at Cafe OTO...

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Loitered Lens: The London Punk Festival

09/10/2012

Punk is dead? Well no-one told the mass of sweating, heaving bodies, young, old (some maybe a little too old) who were dancing, sweating, singing and generally having a right old time at...

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Mad Sin: 25 Years ‘Still Mad’

08/10/2012

Personally I’d rather see them live or listen to Burn and Rise, but this is an ideal Halloween present for any hardcore fan with a Mad Sin patch sewn onto their sleeveless denim jacket. And it’s...

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Loitered Lens: Anneke Van Giersbergen

07/10/2012

Anneke Van Giersbergen brings it to London's Borderline. Photoessay....

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Loitered Lens: Howlin’ Rain

01/10/2012

They started firing shots from the guitar like armour piercing rounds, and with that you just knew this was going be jaw-droppingly brilliant. ...

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Dexys [Live]

27/09/2012

Taking to the stage under a cloak of near darkness, a simple piano plays the first bars of ‘Now’ before Rowland’s unmistakable voice cuts through like a razor, steeped in memories of anguish,...

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Loitered Lens: Van Susans

23/09/2012

Strong vocals and elaborate melodies resulted from the groups' ingenious use of electric and acoustic guitars, with a touch of violin played by Holly McLatchie. Olly Andrews carries the whole...

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Festival de Musique Emergente, Quebec

19/09/2012

Held in Rouyn – Noranda and now in its tenth year Festival de Musique Emergente, otherwise known as Emerging Music Festival, itself emerged as an elegant solution to a local problem. Generous,...

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[Listen] The New Union

13/09/2012

Brighton's The New Union combine the better bits of The Macabees and Coldplay in a joyous single 'Without You', out on October 8th (Two Sisters Records). Details of where to catch them live are at...

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2:54 Cover Adamski/Seal

12/09/2012

When ZTT bit the dust, Seal went from being an edgy urban electronica act to something more akin to a one-man Lighthouse Family. That said, 2:54 have channeled the bleak and sterile undertones of...

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Listener [Live]

10/09/2012

Performing a set covering both old and newer material, Listener create an electric, vacuous atmosphere of mystification and strike the crowd near-dumb. The usual glazed, blank looks at the back of...

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Green Man [Festival]

10/09/2012

What with hugging around the Green Man and reading people’s wishes on little mailing labels around the tree, this has been a pleasant valley, bucolic, neo-druidic experience. Thoughts of love, to...

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Lydia Lunch: The Lexington

06/09/2012

Fresh from her performance at the Manchester 'Fat-out' festival, Lydia Lunch relished the part of 'Mistress of Ceremonies', showcasing various friends and new talents that she had cobbled together...

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