Live Review
Live Review: As Everything Unfolds / Delaire The Liar / Insurgent – The Flapper, Birmingham 24.04.2022
By Claire Hodgkins Insurgent Delaire The Liar As Everything Unfolds
LIVE REVIEW: Sparks – Ancienne Belgique, Brussels 22/04/2022
After over twenty albums and fifty years in the business, the Mael brothers have weathered everything from adulation to ridicule and indifference, yet resolutely ploughed their own idiosyncratic furrow. Long ago realising that trying to play to the fickle tastes of the public was a risky and ultimately futile endeavour, they simply did their uniquely …
Live Review: Grandaddy And The Lost Machine Orchestra At De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea 25.04.2022
By Cath Dupuy Grandaddy are currently on a mini UK tour visiting Bexhill-On-Sea, London, Manchester and Glasgow with Irish singer Malojian as support. Grandaddy’s Jason Lytle joins a newly assembled cast of French musicians to form The Lost Machine Orchestra to play ‘The Sophtware Slump’ in its entirety and many other gems.
Live Review: Kenny Thomas / Acantha Lang -O2 Academy, Sheffield 22.04.2022
A trip to Sheffield O2 Academy last Friday, I wasn’t sure what to expect as I hadn’t seen Kenny perform for a long time, suffice to say that I was not disappointed. Up first was Acantha Lang, hailing from London but originally from stateside New Orleans, Acantha performed a semi-acoustic set of soulful originals. With …
Live Review: Jordan Rakei / Ruti And Olivia Dean – O2 Brixton Academy, London
By Cath Dupuy Jordan Rakei’s final date of his European/UK tour at 02 Brixton Academy was predestined to be memorable. His finely tuned and exceptionally talented band was augmented with a string quartet, 5 backing singers and extra percussion! Support was from 2 excellent singer-songwriters Ruti and Olivia Dean, both already with big fanbases.Jordan frequently brings …
Live Review: Lucy Dacus / SOAK – 3Olympia Theatre, Dublin 25.04.2022
Lucy Dacus played an almost sold out Olympia Theatre on the 25th of April. The show had been upgraded twice and more recently reschedule due to COVID, so it was great that it could finally happen in such a beautiful room. Support on the night came from Derry based artist SOAK. SOAK was fantastic on …
Live Review: Stockton Calling Festival – Stockton 16.04.2022
By Ian Allcock Samantha Durnan at Ku First up for me, in my day of jogging around the venues in town for Stockton Calling on Saturday, was the Samantha Durnan Band, including Steph Hooton and Louise Radford at KU Stockton. A great set in an excellent venue Elizabeth Liddle at The Vault I settled down …
Live Review: William DuVall – The Academy Greenroom, Dublin 25.04.2022
Words by Max Falvey. “This is a song that I wrote so that I could cry into my beer with my own song.” After going over two years without performing in front of a live audience, Alice In Chains’ frontman William Duvall took to The Green Room in Dublin’s Academy last night to (finally) kick …
Live Review: Red Rum Club / Fever / El Rey- Leadmill, Sheffield 26.04.2022
Tuesday night and a trip to the iconic Leadmill for what promised to be a fantastic evening. First up was El Ray hailing from Manchester but very obviously originally from Ireland (can’t fake that accent!), performing a solo acoustic set of his latest tracks. El Ray has a distinctive voice and judging by the crowd …
Live Review: Teenage Fanclub / The Crayon Set – The Academy, Dublin 21.04.2022
Teenage Fanclub played The Academy Dublin in support of their latest record Endless Arcade. Dublin being the end of a string of UK & Irish dates.Tonight support differs to that on the UK dates and that being Dublin-based The Crayon Set an alternative pop band with three albums under their belt, the last being in …