indie live review
Live Review: Wet Leg – Electric Ballroom, London 26.04.2022
Excuse me? That joke isn’t funny anymore, huh? Well, with a debut album hitting the top of the charts packed with infectious songs aplenty and sold out gigs throughout the country – Wet Leg are certainly still laughing. The newly crowned indie disco queens continue to capitalise on the instant hit status of Chaise Long. …
Live Review: Pip Blom / Mt Misery – Independent, Sunderland 29.04.2022
By Adam Littlemore Misery as they first open up the night with their amazing music spinning Lo-fi romantic songs in their live performance with their ambient atmosphere sounds. This was the third time Mt. Misery have played at the Independent, and they are one of my favourite bands. I missed their set when they performed …
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: 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: Walt Disco / Priestgate / Voya – Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff, 13.04.22
The last time I saw Walt Disco live was at a festival at the very beginnings of their career. I had a hole in my timeline and picked their slot on the strength of what was objectively one of the best band names I’d ever heard, with no clue whatsoever of what I was in …
LIVE REVIEW: The Bug Club – The Mash House, Edinburgh 10.04.2022 (with Gallery)
In all honesty I kept looking at The Bug Club all the way through this sold out gig thinking, how the heck are they making this glorious noise with just three band members. Edinburgh gig-goers did not let the fact that this was a Sunday night put them off and this gig was upgraded to …
Live Review: Bright Eyes/Christian Lee Hutson – Capitol Theatre, Portchester, NY 06.04.2022
Choose anyone in the American indie music multiverse and you can easily play a game of Six Degrees of Conor Oberst. Phoebe Bridgers, M Ward, Waxahatchee, Japanese Breakfast, Soccer Mommy and Lucy Dacus are just a few of many direct connections to the Bright Eyes frontman. Christian Lee Hutson, the Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter and opening …
Live Review: Echo And The Bunnymen – O2 Academy, Leeds 05.04.2022
This evening marked the rescheduled gig at Leeds O2 Academy for Echo and the Bunnymen. Formed in 1978, this gig is part of their 40-year anniversary tour – presumably something went a little awry with the calculations there, but with all the Covid postponements of the last few years, I’m not sure anyone in the …
Live Review: Kawala – The Wardrobe, Leeds 07.04.2022
This is something of a homecoming for Kawala who formed in 2014 at Leeds College of Music, literally a stones throw from The Wardrobe where they kicked off their 2022 tour tonight, supporting their first album Better With You. Entering the stage with a bang, frontmen Jim Higson and Daniel McCarthy certainly made an impression. Jim …
Live Review: The Beths – O2 Forum Kentish Town, London 04.04.2022
After being cooped up in Auckland for a couple of years it’s appropriate that The Beths give us a lesson in ornithology halfway through this gig. Keen to promote the less flamboyant fauna of their native New Zealand we hear all about the alpine parrot and how it should really be more loved. Bit like …