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Live Review: Tenderlonious, London Jazz Festival: Shoreditch Town Hall, November 22nd

So the last night of the London Jazz festival and you can imagine what might have been in the unrestricted freedom of pre-COVID times. Tenderlonious and chums playing a selection…

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Live Review: Binker Golding, London Jazz Festival, King’s Place – 21.11.20

Even before saxophonist Binker Golding’s streamed show at King’s Place on Saturday night, we knew we were in for something a little bit out – there. The pre-show blurb had…

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Live Review: Dinosaur – London Jazz Festival, Kings Place 15.11.20

It’s amazing when you realise that trumpet player and composer Laura Jurd and her Dinosaur buddies, Elliott Galvin (keys), Corrie Dick (drums) and Conor Chaplin (bass) have been making music…

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Live Review: SEED Ensemble & Guests- Celebrating Pharoah Sanders 14 /11/20 London Barbican

‘Jazz is cool’ must have been the mantra that the London Jazz Festival organisers offered up many times over the past few turbulent months as they tried maintain calm and…

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LIVE REVIEW: Richard Dawson, The Barbican, London

YOU HAVE to take your hat off to everyone at the Barbican – and, as we were told by Erland Cooper in the very first of these sessions – a…

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LIVE REVIEW: The Divine Comedy, Barbican, London

TWO GIGS in one calendar week in 2020; this is unprecedented. Both live streams, maybe, but that’s just fine by me in a world which looks to have decided its…

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LIVE REVIEW: Erland Cooper, The Barbican, London: bringing the soul of Orkney to the heart of the capital

TO THE Barbican, that beautiful, brutalist residential and cultural hub in London EC2: for a gig. A gig! Livestream or not, it’s a red letter day in 2020. Ah ……

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LIVE: OSees whirl up a sandstorm in the Californian desert for The Levitation Sessions

A FRIDGE full of beers; pizza and chips in the oven, and a spread of crisps laid out: this is the ‘new normal’ for the live show experience during the…

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Live Review: IDLES – Lock-In Sessions, 29/30.08.2020

This live stream performance from Abbey Road studios consisted of three sets; two on Saturday night at 9pm and 11:45pm (BST) and a third on Sunday at 12pm. There’s a…

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Gallery: The Last Gigs Before Lockdown – Phil Roberts

In celebration of the recent government news of a rescue package for the future of Britain’s museums, galleries, theatres, independent cinemas, heritage sites and importantly music venues we have a…

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