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: Idle Ross / Red Rum Club / Lucid Dreams, Record Junkee, Sheffield (09/03/19)
Record Junkee’s snug first floor venue is the perfect spot for those bands on the verge of breaking into the big time and for those with loyal fanbases to comfortably…
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Live Review: Sadly Dan, Shakespeare’s, Sheffield (01/03/2019)
Lead singer Dan Storey is full of nervous energy ahead of their headlining slot at Shakespeare’s, Sheffield not just because it’s a big, exciting gig, but because he fears they…
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LIVE: Escape The Fate- This War Is Ours Anniversary Tour, Gorilla Manchester, 25/01/19
A lot of things can change in ten years; relationships, work, opinions, goals- anything really. However one thing that has remained unwavering over the decade since its release is the…
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LIVE: LIVING COLOUR – Brisbane, Australia 20/12/18
There’s a few bands I wish I had seen back in the day, at the height of their creative peak. There is also plenty that I know I have truly…
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Live Review: Idle Ross, Plug, Sheffield (03/11/18)
It’s a messy night at Sheffield’s Plug venue, being a Saturday post football affair. The place is packed with slightly rowdy lads and slightly more demure lasses looking for a…
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Live: The Amity Affliction + Support, Church Leeds, 03/10/18
The nights are getting darker and the leaves are tumbling from the trees so it must mean it’s time for the annual fall tour season. Each year The Amity Affliction…
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Live Review: Braver Than Fiction, WensleyAle, Redmire, 27/05/18
Braver Than Fiction have left their stomping ground of Sheffield to play among the sunny environs of Redmire railway station in North Yorkshire. For four years now the WensleyAle festival…
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