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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 Tim Foley

Mic Nightlife: Rough Drafts, The Glitch, Lower Marsh, London

Mic Nightlife is a photography, poetry and storytelling series celebrating the places in which people share words.
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Poetry Tim Foley

Mic Nightlife: Poems not Bombs, Walthamstow Trades Hall

There’s something really special about this venue and night. Upstairs it feels like we are holed away planning a revolution while downstairs is alive with comedy, cabaret, line dancing, music. The kind of place that can start a movement and change the world and the kind of place I
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Articles DC Thomas

Review: Titus Andronicus, Progress Theatre, Reading

A Halloween Reimagining of Shakespeare's brutal and bonkers gorefest We attended Titan Andronicus on Halloween night at Progress Theatre in Reading, and the timing couldn’t have been more fitting. What unfolded was a confident, inventive reworking of Titus Andronicus that leaned into the play’s inherent brutality
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Articles Tim Foley

Mic Nightlife: Home Poetry, TBC, Shoreditch

Mic Nightlife is a photography, poetry and storytelling series celebrating the places in which people share words.
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Live Reviews Tim Foley

Report: The Language of Roses, Etcetera Theatre, 30.05.25

We take in a new live collaboration from Tifany MarSah and Solomon Prempeh in Camden. A beautiful evening of spoken word, performance and an unforgettable journey.
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Live Reviews Tim Hanson

Live Review: Sharon Van Etten, Royal Albert Hall, 10.03.25

Sharon Van Etten brings her London-inspired new album to brilliant life as she takes over the Royal Albert Hall with new band The Attachment Theory. Pulsating rhythms, vibrant synths and waves of chorused guitar locate a hypnotic set of songs very much in the city they were written.
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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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