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Live Reviews

Reports from out there - typically gigs, but we might also go to the theatre, or an open-mic. We'll be out and about is what we're saying.

Articles George Bloomfield

Live Review: Fontaines D.C, Ally Pally, 23.11.24

Bloomfield stans hard for the post-punk Dublin lads as they drop the curtain and raise the roof at Ally Pally
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Articles George Bloomfield

Live Review: DEADLETTER, Electric Brixton, 24,11,24

Raucous energy from Deadletter get's everyone sweaty in Brixton. Bloomfield reports from the fray.
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Articles George Bloomfield

Live review: English Teacher, KOKO, 13/11/24

There are no puns in this article about English Teacher schooling other bands on how it's done.
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Articles Tim Hanson

Live review: Christian Lee Hutson, Lafayette, 13/11/24

Folk rock storyteller Christian Lee Hutson treats London to a set that is at times piercing, witty, romantic and disaffected but always engaging.
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Articles George Bloomfield

Live Review: Soft Play, Brixton Academy, 31/10/24

Punk rock duo Soft Play burn it down at Brixton Academy. Our man in the field was there, and has only just got his breath back.
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Articles Tim Hanson

Live review: Peter Perrett, MOTH Club, 19/10/24

Peter Perrett, former frontman of late 70s post punk misfits The Only Ones, returns to the London stage prior to the release of his third solo album, The Cleansing, gracing MOTH Club with a tight set spanning a career full of surprises.
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Articles George Bloomfield

Live review: Crystal Tides at Lafayette, London, 04/10/24

The Conclusion of their 2024 tour, going out in style! A Friday night at Lafayette could not have been a better send off for the boys from Portsmouth who concluded their UK tour in front of a bustling, sold-out crowd. I had heard so much about Crystal Tides over the
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Articles Tim Hanson

Live review: Gemma Rogers, Dash The Henge, 19/09/24

London-based Gemma Rogers and her band introduced the world to her latest EP, No Future, with a performance full of energy, wit, anger, love and mischief, at Dash the Henge in Camberwell.
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Articles Tim Hanson

Live review: The Lemon Twigs, Electric Brixton, 05/09/24

Touring their fifth album, New York duo The Lemon Twigs prove that summer can synaesthise into colours other than lime green. In a set overflowing with generosity, the D’Addario brothers painted the stage in honey
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Articles Tim Hanson

Live review: The Magnetic Fields: 69 Love Songs 25th anniversary tour, Barbican, 31/8-01/9

It’s been 25 years since Boston’s The Magnetic Fields found a breathtaking career peak with 69 Love Songs, and the same ambition that drove the record’s conception in 1999 finds Stephin Merritt and co. playing the album in its entirety across two night sets around the UK and Europe.
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Articles Graham Thomas

Live Review: Hamish Hawk, Englefield Estate, 21/07/24

Hamish Hawk - an utterly alluring cocktail mixing in the biting wit of a pre-dick Morrissey, a turn of phrase to make Neil Hannon swoon and a voice that sounds like Matt Munro making out with Scott Walker. Hawk is the real deal.
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Articles Tim Hanson

Live Review: Dehd at Village Underground, London 02/07/24

During the election and the Euros, Dehd bring the right sound at the right time, restraint and joy hand in hand, like the victories that were to come.
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