Live Review
Say Psych: Live: Label Mates Festival, London 26.01.2019
Label Mates Festival is back and this year its hosted in Hackney’s finest venues, BSM makes the journey south to see what delights are on offer on Saturday’s line up. We head straight to Oslo early doors, where DIY labels Club AC30, Rocket Recordings and Fuzz Club Records have teamed up to offer forth a …
Live: Conversations with Nick Cave (Odeon Theatre, Hobart)
Many people have two phases in their lives, according to Nick Cave. The first phase represents self-centered assuredness and an even keel: the path they assume they will take that is the fruition of their own choices and desires. This phase can be ‘obliterated’ for some by external events beyond their control. This inevitably, leads …
LIVE: LIVING COLOUR – Brisbane, Australia 20/12/18
There’s a few bands I wish I had seen back in the day, at the height of their creative peak. There is also plenty that I know I have truly missed the boat seeing in a live setting. Up until 3 months ago, NYC Funk-Metal legends ‘Living Colour’ was one of those band that were …
LIVE: Bowling For Soup, Leeds O2 Academy, 3/12/18
How could we possibly get through the year without a Bowling For Soup tour cropping up somewhere? It may be December and dangerously close to the end of 2018, yet here we are catching BFS on a cold Monday night on the Almost Christmas tour they’ve squeezed in right before the ball drops for 2019. …
Say Psych: Live Review: Peter Murphy & David J Celebrate 40 years of Bauhaus with Desert Mountain Tribe @ O2 Ritz, Manchester
When Peter Murphy announced that he was planning a tour to celebrate 40 years of Bauhaus with David J, as well as a vinyl release of The Bela Session, post punk fans Europe wide gave a collective cheer. With many new fans being too young to see Bauhaus live, this is the next best thing …
Live: Sunflower Bean – Art School Glasgow 26.11.2018 Plus Gallery
Sunflower Bean blossom on stage in Glasgow performing tracks from their coming of age album ‘Twentytwo in Blue’. “Alright, enough of this silence” shouts vocalist and bassist Julia Cumming to the hushed crowd as Sunflower Bean take to the stage at Glasgow’s recently reopened Art School venue to kick off another night of their extensive …
Say Psych: Live Review: The Lucid Dream & The Goa Express @ The Golden Lion, Todmorden 23.11.2018
In the heart of Todmorden there is a pub that has become the place that everyone who’s anyone wants to play. The Golden Lion has garnered a reputation as being the best live venue with the best hospitality, beating the large cities every time. Tonight we have Carlisle’s The Lucid Dream who have just released …
Say Psych: Live Review: Kikagaku Moyo @ Gorilla, Manchester 07.11.2018
The Beauty Witch have compiled a treat for those in Manchester this evening, with Gorilla taking centre focus. Opening proceedings, we have local band Inland Taipan, who have a new line up which incorporates additional viola and violin. The ethereal vocals and franctic guitar notes are complimented beautifully by the strings and create an other …
Live Review: Idle Ross, Plug, Sheffield (03/11/18)
It’s a messy night at Sheffield’s Plug venue, being a Saturday post football affair. The place is packed with slightly rowdy lads and slightly more demure lasses looking for a good time. Headlining is The View’s Kyle Falconer and although this reviewer didn’t stay for that part of the evening, it seemed as if he …
Live: Three Queens in Mourning, Bishop’s House Sheffield 22.10.18
The Bishop’s House more usually hosts groups of schoolkids getting a bit of history lesson. But it’s an atmospheric place for an intimate gig celebrating the songs of Will Oldham – the self-styled Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy. First up, Sharron Kraus was terrific. She has a beautiful voice allied to guitar folk tunes adorned with an …