Welcome…

… to Gourmet Gigs, the most­ly-music web­site. Our focus is on up and com­ing artists. The oth­er big part is fes­ti­vals with reviews and rec­om­mends. Why ‘gourmet’ gigs? Because this site start­ed with food and music, but the music won out. Still an appro­pri­ate name as we love a gig that’s gourmet stan­dard. And we’re still up for fea­tur­ing food!

A note about venues… sad­ly Man­ches­ter’s Night and Day yet again finds its future in the bal­ance. Let’s hope that the coun­cil see sense and find a way to sound­proof the flats next door, built dur­ing the pan­dem­ic. Brix­ton Acad­e­my has its licence sus­pend­ed for three months after the deaths of two after a crowd crush in Decem­ber 2022. I’ve attend­ed count­less gigs, nev­er with a prob­lem. Let’s hope this mat­ter can be resolved because Brix­ton Acad­e­my is a vital part of the Lon­don gig­ging scene. Too many are clos­ing such as Nam­buc­ca in north Lon­don last year… Frank Turn­er played on its final night. He’s a huge sup­port­er of grass­roots venues and as he says: keep going to those venues, folks… 

Our history

Gourmet Gigs began on June 3 2012 with Field Day fes­ti­val in Vic­to­ria Park where I saw the elu­sive Mazzy Star, review here. I’ve had some mem­o­rable moments like see­ing David Bowie in Han­ley, Stafford­shire in the Zig­gy Star­dust days. My first fes­ti­val was Bux­ton in 1972 with John Peel announc­ing the bands. It took place on a freez­ing cold windy moor but I remem­ber absolute­ly lov­ing the whole expe­ri­ence. Peo­ple were shout­ing ‘Wal­ly’ at night… was that the fore­run­ner to ‘Alan’… or was it a call­out for ‘sub­stances’?

Please write for us…

Get in touch if you’d like to rec­om­mend bands, DJs, gigs, new releas­es, fes­ti­vals or venues. And also if you’d like to con­tribute and offer a guest blog piece – the chances are that we’ll say yes. Emails are checked on a dai­ly basis.

You can help Gourmet Gigs too…

The site is man­aged main­ly by me plus occa­sion­al guest writ­ers. We pre­fer to use our own band pho­tog­ra­phy so, PRs please note: we’re grate­ful for oppor­tu­ni­ties for pit access at gigs and festivals. 

Please sup­port the site run­ning costs by tweet­ing, mes­sag­ing, gen­er­al­ly spread­ing the word. 

And… a big thanks to our guest bloggers. 

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