Live review
LIVE REVIEW: TEKE::TEKE/islandman – Manchester, 08.05.2022
Two exceptional, unmissable psych exports play Manchester’s YES
Live Review: Joesef – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds 10.07.22
Glasgow’s Joesef brings his tour to Leeds tonight, playing to a sold out Brudenell Social Club. The Scot’s alternative indie vibe seemed to find new ways to connect with people over the last couple of years. After smashing a sold out gig in the famous King Tut’s in his hometown, before even releasing a song, …
Live Review: Jason Sharp – The Rose Hill, Brighton 3.05.22
Even before the live music began there was a sense that something extraordinary was about to happen in the snug confines of the artsy Rose Hill pub on Tuesday night. The stage was set, dismembered guitar, clamps and vintage vox amp to the left, a yawning cabinet to the right, sprawling with leads that buried …
Live Review: Anna Meredith and the LCO – Barbican, London 30.4.22
Anna Meredith’s electronic pop music has always been orchestral in scale, layered, interconnected, harmonically complex and structured like a tight stack of circuit boards, wired for glorious sound. So the notion of performing her Mercury Award nominated second album FIBS with the London Contemporary Orchestra seemed more than a natural step to take, a drift …
Live Review : Efterklang – Temple Bar, Athens 30.04.22
I’ve waited a long , long time to re-join the Athens scene , so to speak. Not just as a musician myself, having made the grand exodus to London to live the dream like most of us in Athens have. So i decided to pave my way back with my journalists hat on, and , …
Live Review: Mae Muller – The Wardrobe, Leeds 27.04.22
Mae Muller opens her Leeds show in a style that would translate well to a much bigger venue. Already hyped by the excellent Cat Burns and a pre-set playlist that included Harry Styles, Britney and Dua Lipa, Muller’s band take the stage and slowly build on the anticipation. The opening chords of Nails So Long …
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: Declan O’Rourke + Dani Larkin – The Watergate Theatre, Kilkenny 05.03.2022
Declan was in Kilkenny for the second night of his thirteen night Arrivals Irish tour with Dani Larkin in support tonight, some might remember I reviewed Dani’s album launch back in December ( https://www.backseatmafia.com/live-review-dani-larkin-brona-keogh-upstairs-whelans-dublin-5-12-2021/ ) again tonight she was playing songs from that album and it looked like she has won over a number of …
Live Review: Lucy Dacus/Indigo de Souza – The Stone Pony, Asbury Park 26.2.2022
Musicians are really doing whatever it takes to stay on the road in 2022. Scrambling for substitute band members or crew when positive tests arrive to anything else thrown their way. When singer/songwriter Lucy Dacus started suffering from herniated spinal discs, she took to her couch – on stage. These early 2022 shows have now …
Live Review: Snapped Ankles – Huddersfield
Snapped Ankles’ first gig at Huddersfield’s Parish not only brought the group’s viscerally energetic heat to the cold West Yorkshire streets, but also featured literal usage of their environment in homage to their latest album (the sublimely melodic ‘Forest of Your Problems’); an enthralling audience-enveloped sermon during the title track of said album; as well …