Live Review
Live Review: Alex G – Sheffield O2 13.11.15
Of all the reasons I listen to the music that Alex G releases (and have so for a number of years), whether they’re covers or originals, well-written compositions or filled with creative hooks, it’s the honesty in her voice that keeps me listening. After seeing her live show in Sheffield last night, this was the …
Live Review: Ex Hex Live Review – The Scala, 02.11.2015, plus Gallery
Ex Hex tore through a set of rock ‘n’ roll that lifted the gloom of a Monday night in foggy London. As we’re standing outside the Scala on a murky night in Kings Cross Ex Hex drummer Laura Harris comes running towards us, carrying what looks like her cymbals, and is frantically ushered into the …
Live: The Unthanks at Hebden Bridge Trades Club
It took the Unthanks a decade, and many different guises, to produce a masterpiece like this year’s Mount The Air, but this stripped down 10th anniversary tour also showcases gems from their other projects. The Mount The Air Tour featured ten people, but tonight it is just the full time members so its the joyous …
Psych Insight: Live, Carlton Melton, Liverpool PsychFest, 25/09/15
In ‘Out To Sea’ Carlton Melton have produced one of my favourite albums of the year so far. I think that it is their most complete work to date, being more focused than previous outings, yet without losing that looseness and improvisation that marks out their sound for me. It is an album that can …
Say Psych: Live, Hookworms, Liverpool PsychFest, 26.09.15
This was Hookworms third appearance at the Liverpool PsychFest, with the band’s rise up the bill over that time matching it increasing prominence and success elsewhere. Following last year’s excellent Hum album (which made the Psych Insight essential list last year), Hookworms have been on something of a hiatus, with most of the band members …
Say Psych, Live Review: Lumerians, Liverpool PsychFest, 26/09/15
Lumerians has been a Psych Insight favourite for some time. The bands most recent album Transmissions From Planet Telos Vol. 3 made our ‘Essential Psych Albums of 2014‘ list saying “This is one of those albums that takes you both without and within, leaving you covered with space dust and the imprints of the therapist’s couch: …
Live Review: Fatherson and Prides at Leadmill, Sheffield, 7th November 2015
Synth-pop trio Prides performed at the Leadmill, Sheffield, on 7th November, with support from their Scottish pals Fatherson. Although restricted to the smaller room of the venue, both bands stood upon its stage with confidence as they played to a receptive crowd who sang every word back to them with a fierce passion. From the very first …
Live Review: The Space Lady, Secret Gig, Belgium, 27.10.2015
I met a guy in a bar a few months ago, and he spoke of a clandestine venue in the region, invitation only. It was all a bit Twin Peaks, but in the end I gave him my email address and he said he’d put me on the list. Sure enough, occasional mails came in, …
Live Review: Young Guns, Warehouse 23, Wakefield, 22.10.15
While many people in tonight’s crowd are still wondering what one of the leading bands in the UK’s rock contingent are doing in grey old Wakefield, its nonetheless exciting when said city is almost religiously omitted from band’s touring cycles. Vukovi are essentially pop-rock infused with strains of indie- excitably inoffensive, they add a pop …
Say Psych: Live, Bitchin Bajas/Xam/Elizabeth, Wharf Chambers, Leeds, 23.10.15
Brett Savage, eminent guitarist with the utterly marvellous Dead Sea Apes, dons the Psych Insight mantle to report on an excellent gig in Leeds, featuring two very gifted two local musicians and the rather wonderful Bitchin Bajas. The pictures are his too, enjoy… For those of you not already in the know, Bitchin Bajas (pronounced Ba-ha’s as …