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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…

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Live Review: Chvrches / High School – Brixton Academy, London 16.03.2022

On the 16th of March, Scottish alt-pop trio CHVRCHES returned to London’s Brixton Academy for a long-awaited celebration of their fourth studio album, Screen Violence, released in 2021. The audience were…

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Live Review: Tom Walker – Omeara, London 24.03.2022

So this was my third time seeing Tom Walker live, the first being at Brixton Academy in 2019 where I classed him as the best breakthrough artist of that year…

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Live Review: Altered Images – 229 Great Portland Street, London 18.03.2022

Blame the internet. Time is warped. Everything is now….and everything then…is now too. Without the internet, the hunger and desire to see bands from “back in the day” may not…

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Live Review: Curved Air – The 100 Club, London 16.03.2022

The sun has never set for some of those veterans from the dawning of the age of Aquarius. The hippy dream may have died as many of those flower children…

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Live Review: Kosheen – The Garage, London 12.03.2022

Really, all that’s missing are the glow sticks. Kosheen started the party back in 2001 and it feels like they’re still sound-tracking that noughties all-nighter. Sian Evans commands Kosheen much…

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Live Review: Nilüfer Yanya / Léa Sen – Electric Brixton, London 16.03.2022

By Cath Dupuy Nilüfer Yanya played her last show of her UK tour at the historic Electric Brixton, London to a packed, rapturous audience. Following on from her acclaimed first…

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Live Review: Black Doldrums – The Victoria, London 10.03.2022

Shoegazing? Nope. I can assure you, nobody is looking at the floor tonight. Everyone is transfixed by the concentrated stare of Black Doldrums drummer Sophie Landers. The self-proclaimed goth and…

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Live Review: Dana Gavanski – The Lexington, London 08.03.2022

I’m afraid the mosh-pit has been cancelled. To the uninitiated the London gig scene may seem hip, cool and above all – dominated by the young and open-minded. Tonight that…

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Live Review: Puma Blue / Lucy Lu & Uma / Harvey Dweller / Chartreuse – Amsterdam, Bristol, London

Jacob Allen better known as Puma Blue is currently on his North American and EU/UK tour. Backseat Mafia’s Cath Dupuy caught Allen at his Amsterdam, Bristol and London gigs. Lucy…

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