Category: Gigs

Mar 9

One Day, After School new release

Out today is the impres­sive new release by One Day, After School enti­tled Are You Awake? It’s a melan­cholic track in which the vocals, left low in the mix, act like an anchor in the mul­ti-lay­ered com­po­si­tion. It starts from a soli­tary piano note through to a nervy clock tick­ing sound before the track starts…

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Anna Calvi
Jan 15

Independent Venue Week 2020

Inde­pen­dent Venue Week lights up the end of Jan­u­ary with a fab­u­lous roll-call of musi­cians at venues around the coun­try. It’s the sev­enth IVW 2020, and it’s hap­pen­ing Mon­day 27th Jan­u­ary to Sun­day 2 Feb­ru­ary. This year cel­e­bra­tions include inti­mate live shows and tours, a fea­ture doc­u­men­tary and a new live record release – details…

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Jan 9

Special Phildel gig at St Pancras Old Church

Phildel will be return­ing to the atmos­pher­ic and inti­mate St Pan­cras Old Church for a spe­cial gig on Fri­day, Feb­ru­ary 21st where she’ll be per­form­ing songs from The Dis­ap­pear­ance of the Girl and Wave your Flags but as you’ve nev­er heard them before, with the accom­pa­ni­ment of strings and choir. St Pan­cras Old Church was Phildel’s choice…

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Bliss play I hear you call
Nov 16

Interview: Bliss are back with a tour and re-release

Bliss are back. First there was the stun­ning per­for­mance at Nam­buc­ca in north Lon­don ear­li­er this year, with for­mer mem­bers Rachel Mor­ri­son and Tom E Mor­ri­son on top form – along with their new Brazil­ian band. Fired up with enthu­si­asm after such a great response, the cou­ple have been hard at work mak­ing things happen.…

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Nov 1

Review: Lamb at Union Chapel

This was Lam­b’s first seat­ed gig, so they tell us. Good going for the duo who have been in exis­tence since 1996. They did, how­ev­er, exhort us to get up on our feet for a dancey num­ber after which no one seemed much inclined to sit down again. The duo released a new album this year,…

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Aug 21

Colours: a new gig space and bar in Hackney

Colours is a new and wel­come addi­tion to Lon­don’s ever-shrink­ing ros­ter of music venues. The team behind much-loved Lon­don venues Queen of Hox­ton, The Book Club and Brighton’s Pat­terns are open­ing a brand new mul­ti-arts-bar and club called Colours in Hox­ton Square, East Lon­don in Sep­tem­ber. There will be a pro­gramme of music, art and…

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Jul 11

Parkour and dance show ‘On Edge’ highlights modern slavery

A col­lab­o­ra­tive park­our dance the­atre pro­duc­tion called ‘On Edge’ is cur­rent­ly play­ing at fes­ti­vals and the­atres around the coun­try. The idea was the cre­ation of vision­ary artis­tic direc­tor Anja Mein­hardt, direc­tor of the­atre com­pa­ny Jus­tice in Motion. On Edge brings togeth­er mem­bers of the Park­our, slack­line, dance and the­atre com­mu­ni­ty. The aim of the production…

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Jun 13

Review: Bliss at Nambucca, north London

When the ele­ments come togeth­er and the stars per­fect­ly align, you have to take full advan­tage of the moment. Such is the sit­u­a­tion Rachel Mor­ri­son and Tom Mor­ri­son found them­selves in ear­li­er this year: a chance encounter with a group of Brazil­ian musi­cians pro­vid­ed the ide­al com­bi­na­tion to rein­vent Bliss, the band that she so…

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