Live Review
Live Review and Gallery: Wolf Alice/ Just Mustard, 3Olympia Theatre, 29.08.2022
2022 BRIT award winners Wolf Alice finally brought their rescheduled world tour to Dublin’s 3Olympia Theatre for the first of 2 nights on Monday. They brought a fantastic performance and great showmanship to a very excited sold-out crowd. Dundalk natives Just Mustard were on support for the night and handled it with the polish and …
LIVE: CLAMM / Velvet – The Flying Duck, Glasgow 29.08.2022
On August Bank Holiday Monday Melbourne punks CLAMM played at Glasgow’s basement venue The Flying Duck. They released their excellent second album CARE earlier this month, and to be perfectly frank this reviewer was buzzing to be seeing CLAMM live. Patience is a virtue, however and first onstage was local band Velvet. What immediately struck …
Bauhaus – Brixton Academy Fri 19th Aug 2022
Bauhaus gigs are like Goth buses. Wait patiently for ages for something to appear out of the darkness, and then 2 come swooping along at once, in less than a year, lighting the way before slinking off into the night, leaving you pondering if you’ll ever see their like again. Ok, a little melodramatic I …
Live Review: Dope Lemon – The National Stadium, Dublin 27,08,2022
Angus Stone brought his latest band Dope Lemon to Dublin for the first time for a fantastic show at The National Stadium. Nine twenty rolls in and an intro comes over the speakers and the band walk out , lights are low and backlit setting a perfect mood for the night. Angus walks on stage …
Live Review: Passenger/ Luke Sital Singh, Vicar Street, 24/08/2022
Tonight Mike Rosenberg aka Passenger started his 2022 worldwide tour with a visit to Dublin Prestigious Vicar Street with support from Luke Sital Singh and it was a fantastic display of singer songwriters at their best. Like Sital Singh was a fantastic support act for Passenger. He took the stage, just him and his guitars …
Live Review: Twenty One Pilots – UBS Arena, Elmont, NY 24.08.2022
A self-starter indie band reaching global stardom at an accelerated rate can be both a blessing and a curse. Several years in, Twenty One Pilots are still putting on an exceptional large-scale show to a broad, dedicated fan base. The BBC Radio 1 tent at Reading Festival 2016 was my first exposure to Twenty One …
Live Review: alt-J / Just Mustard – Collins Barracks The National Museum of Ireland, Dublin 25.08.2022
Words: Max Falvey // Pictures: Ian Mc Donnell After selling out Dublin’s 3Olympia Theatre twice at the beginning of the summer, the quirky and ever-mesmerising Alt-J promptly returned to fair city last night to kick off the first ever Wider Than Pictures concert series at Collins Barracks. For an all seated show in a venue …
Live Review: Covet / Colossal Squid – The Asylum, Birmingham 22.08.2022
Words and photos by Maxine Adams 1 man band Adam Betts from Colossal squid kicked off the Covet gig on a Sunday evening in Birmingham. A fan yelled ‘the best drummer in the world’ as he walked onto the stage, and after seeing what followed it was easy to see why he was praised so …
Live Review: Bauhaus – Brixton Academy, London 19.08.2022
There’s soaring inflation, public sector strikes and a cost of living crisis and somewhere in Northamptonshire the band Bauhaus are taking that angst and discontent and creating a goth classic. Bauhaus – or Bauhaus 1919 (as they were initially called) recorded their classic Bela Lugosi’s Dead amidst the industrial strife and political instability of Britain …
Live Review: Fever 333 – The Academy, Dublin 23,08,2022
Fever 333 ( the 333 represents the three core principles that the members view the band to stand for: community, charity and change.) doing their thing at Dublin’s Academy and do it they did, ok numbers in attendance might have been a little low, but as its the bands first time in Ireland that’s expected and …