Music Review

Will Varley – Spirit of Minnie Review

Will Varley has something that eludes a lot of acoustic singer-songwriters doing the rounds these…

First Aid Kit – Ruins Review

First Aid Kit are the kind of band whose fame sneaks up on you. The…

The Pleasure Garden Festival Review

The Pleasure Garden in Melbourne, Australia is a one day festival which this year took…

Live Music Review: Childhood at Scala

Childhood’s screwball frontman, Ben Romans-Hopcraft, capers about onstage like a chortling schoolboy from the Beano.…

Live Music Review: Wolf Alice at Alexandra Palace

Wolf Alice are the kind of band that’s easy to mythologise. They look like they…

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Who Built The Moon Review

Who Built the Moon is the third release from Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds and…

Live Music Review: Deep Purple at The O2

Here are some facts about Deep Purple. Their first album came out in 1968, which…

Live Music Review: Imelda May at the Royal Albert Hall

I’m just going to get this out there at the start of the review –…

Frank Turner – Songbook Review

Songbook is a mid-life retrospective from Frank Turner, the punk-folk troubadour who has built a…

Live Music Review: Bad Sounds at Face Bar, Reading

Reading’s Face Bar is a tiny box of a room with a serious ‘school disco’…

Live review: Jungle at Electric Brixton

Jungle are not a band. They’re a machine, an entity, a force. They wear monochrome…

Live review: The War on Drugs at Alexandra Palace

I had no idea that Alexandra Palace was this big, or that The War on…