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Live Review: Placebo / Cruel Hearts Club – 02 Academy Brixton, London 26.11.2022
It’s been a long time in coming ‘Placebo’ finally on tour playing two dates at Brixton Academy. A venue that has had many iconic artists playing there over the last decades. The latest’s ‘Never Let Me Go’ Tour is a showcase for the latest album which was released in March this year and after extensive …
Album Review: Pie Eye Collective – ‘Tangential City’ : a fresh, forward thinking soundtrack for today’s metropolis.
The city of today inspires so much music. For many musicians it brings on the panoramic, where a wide-eyed trip over the urban landscape gets imagined in sweeping soundtracks. But some are less in in awe of the enormity; they zone in closer, moved by the meshed lives of the people, the crossing paths, the …
Live Review: TV Priest / Modern Woman / Fraulein – Scala, London 10.11.2022
By Henry Regan Having been on tour round Europe and the UK for the past two weeks, TV Priest were back in London, for a very special hometown show. Although there were tube strikes, this did not stop people coming in their masses to Scala. The King’s Cross venue known for hosting a number of …
Live Review: The Wannadies – Islington Assembly Hall, London 03.11.2022
The 1990s felt like the Swedish decade. Scandinavian style social democracy dominated politics whilst bands like The Cardigans and The Wannadies provided the songs for the CDs we so neatly stacked in all those IKEA shelf units. The Wannadies, led by cheeky, curly-haired scamp Pär Wiksten provided one of the ready assembled, rom-com songs of …
Album Review: Edrix Puzzle – ‘Coming Of The Moon Dogs’: Cosmic jazz that reaches further.
From Basement Jaxx to Sir Elton, Kano to Brian Ferry, Nathan ‘Tugg’ Curran defines the ‘go-to’ drummer but that’s only one dimension of this restless spirited musician. Beyond the world of an exemplary sticks-man, Curran has over the last couple of years used space to energise his own music, calling on his deep rooted jazz …
Live Review: DMA’S / Pacific Avenue – Roundhouse, London 29.10.2022
Packed with singalong anthems The DMA’s Perform an electrifying show at the Roundhouse and this is their first major UK show since upping the notch and playing the iconic Alexandra Palace back at the tail end of 2021 with a large production value. The three piece band formed in Sydney in 2012 and are composed …
Live Review: Carm Supporting Bon Iver – Wembley Arena, London 25.10.2022
Opening the show for Bon Iver is a huge honour and no mean feat for any artist. However, CJ Camerieri has worked with Justin Vernon before as a member of Bon Iver and has his own impressive list of collaborators; Paul Simon, Sufjan Stevens, The National, John Legend and co-founder of the classical ensemble yMusic, …
Say Psych: Album Review: Girls In Synthesis – The Rest Is Distraction
Experimental post-punk outfit Girls In Synthesis recently released their eagerly anticipated follow-up to 2020’s incendiary debut, Now Here’s An Echo From Your Future. The Rest Is Distraction is out now via the band’s own label Own It Records. Formed in 2016, the trio released a double a-sided debut single ‘The Mound’/’Disappear’ in the early part …
Live Review: Billy Idol / Killing Joke / Toyah – Wembley Arena, London 19.10.2022
Finally, Billy Idol and his Roadside show were able to come to these shores and bring with them new songs and some old classics. Along for the ride came is long time Guitarist Steve Stevens’. These were his first tour since 2018 and the shows were delayed because of the pandemic. Alongside he brings with …
Live Review: Billy Idol – Wembley Arena, London 19.10.2022
Words by Aidrian Peel Photos by Diego Zuñiga After support from Toyah and Killing Joke (the former I missed and the latter I wasn’t too impressed by, despite two or three good tracks), the stage was set for the return of London-born rock icon Billy Idol, who first made his name as a frontman in the 70s with the punk rock …