Review: Beyond the Road: Journeys in Space and Sound

“Once you have walked the road, Every­thing becomes clear” So begins The Road: Part II, James Lavelle (UNKLE)‘s enig­mat­ic lat­est album, the sec­ond of a tril­o­gy. And spring­ing from this work is Beyond the Road, a mul­ti-sen­­so­ry exhi­bi­tion tak­ing place at the Saatchi Gallery, Lon­don. Through sound, film and visu­al effects you can take that…

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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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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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Womad and the Taste the World stage

Here at Gourmet Gigs tow­ers, we love to hear of music and food com­bos. And at Wom­ad fes­ti­val, the Taste the World stage gives their glob­al music stars the chance to shine in the kitchen and share their favourite recipes and sto­ries. It’s a unique musi­cal and culi­nary fusion. Artists hot-foot­ing it from the main…

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W H Lung, debut album at Oslo, Hackney

W H Lung have tak­en around two years to release their first album Inci­den­tal Music. Even when inter­est in their deep and moody music start­ed to esca­late, the band were quite obvi­ous­ly going to do things in their own time. I first heard them at Blue­dot fes­ti­val in 2017 and had one of those moments…

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Phildel – new album and gigs

Phildel is back. Hav­ing tak­en time out to move to Brighton and raise a young fam­i­ly, the com­pelling and mys­ti­cal vocal­ist and com­pos­er has been nev­er­the­less work­ing away behind the scenes. She has an upcom­ing gig at the Pur­cell Room on March 20 and will play songs from her new album Wave Your Flags. She…

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Steve Mason: About the Light at Rough Trade

Steve Mason aired his new album About the Light at Rough Trade Steve Mason is back – with a beau­ti­ful and con­fi­dent new album to start off 2019 on a pos­i­tive note. About The Light dropped this week and he start­ed pro­mot­ing it with an appear­ance at Rough Trade East: I love these lit­tle gigs in…

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Sea Change 2019 line-up

Metron­o­my, The Comet is Com­ing, Stew­art Lee and Bag­puss are all con­firmed for Sea Change 2019. The Totnes-based event, found­ed by Tot­nes’s Drift Record Shop, has moved from its for­mer end-of-sum­mer posi­tion to May Bank Hol­i­day. The Qui­etus presents Gazelle Twin, with full line-up to fol­low. Han­nah Peel and Will Burns, and Dutch 4‑piece Pip…

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Independent Venue Week gathers pace

Hav­ing put on a few gigs myself at a local venue, a par­tic­u­lar­ly atmos­pher­ic and beau­ti­ful space, which was sub­se­quent­ly sold off to be trans­formed into flats and a hotel, Inde­pen­dent Venue Week is a much-need­ed ven­ture. Run­ning from Mon­day 28th Jan­u­ary to Sun­day 3rd Feb­ru­ary 19, for IVW19 there are near­ly 190 venues signed up…

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