pop
Live Review: Aurora / Metteson – 3Olympia, Dublin 31.03.2022
On the 31 st of March Norwegian pop artist Aurora performed a sold-out 3Olympia show in Dublin with support from fellow Norwegian artist Metteson. Matteson graced the stage watering a massive pink starfish hat in an explosion of energy. His catchy popdriven songs and infectious enthusiasm for what he was doing had the crowd bopping …
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 transported back in time to the 1980s with the band’s distinctive synth-pop tunes, VHS tape motifs projected onto the back of the stage, lead singer …
Track: Guise drop new single and announce release of debut Album
London quartet Guise drop new track and announce release of debut album and UK tour.
Live Review: Self Esteem – The Octagon, Sheffield 25.03.2022
AT 53, I’ve seen a lot of gigs, some really great ones, and this was the best I’ve ever seen, relegating the previous best, also Self Esteem at Heaven last November, into second place. Self Esteem are more than a band now – they are a movement. Every gig is bigger, every audience is more …
Track: Christchurch band There’s A Tuesday unveil the delightfully dreamy and fey anthemic track ‘Baby Blue’.
There’s A Tuesday add to the burgeoning dream pop scene emanating from New Zealand with the absolutely delightful new single ‘Baby Blue’. A track filled with a sense of whimsy and sparkle, ‘Baby Blue’ is a catchy anthemic tune imbued with a sense of yearning, depicting the exquisite pain of love and missed opportunities: Baby …
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 along with Lewis Capaldi. The second time in 2020 at this same venue (Omeara) for Brits Week where he played an intimate gig with a …
Live Review: James Arthur – City Hall, Sheffield 25.03.2022
A trip to Sheffield City Hall this week to see 2012 X Factor winner James Arthur. James seems to have done what few former singing competition winners have managed and that is to last the test of time and more importantly remain credible. Based on tonight’s performance I can understand why as he has an …
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 exist outside the mind of some aspic-encrusted nostalgia radio geek. All hail the global jukebox. Nobody in 1983 said “I’m just popping out, I’ve got …
Live Review: Courtney Barnett lets us into her room
Courtney Barnett delivers blissful set at the Enmore Theatre
Tracks: Static Phantoms – Ghostwalk
The Kansas City duo of Dedric Moore and Krysztof Nemeth (Monta at Odds, The Republic Tigers, Emmaline Twist)took the downtime during the pandemic to create a studio project to pass the time and get creative by exploring the music and themes of a different age of anxiety-driven pop: the New Wave music of the 1980s. …