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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 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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Articles Graham Thomas

Live Review: Bat For Lashes at The Barbican 24/06/24

Natasha Kahn AKA Bat For Lashes casts her spell over us at The Barbican. Performing songs from her new album The Dream of Delphi, alongside familiar devotional songs of the past.
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