Category: Review

May 29

Review: Bearded Theory 2019

Fes­ti­val sea­son kicks off again with Beard­ed The­o­ry at Cat­ton Hall. As always it’s a musi­cal­ly diverse, friend­ly and spir­it­ed event

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W H lung perform at Oslo, Hackney
May 20

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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Sep 28

Gilles Peterson talks to Will Ashon and Dave Haslam

As part of the Safaplace men­tal health char­i­ty pop-up called Look Up, run by Stoke New­ing­ton School, Gilles Peter­son inter­viewed Will Ashon and Dave Haslam. Aside from the week-long series of events, Gilles also curat­ed the record and book shop. Both Will Ashon and Dave Haslam have been involved in the music busi­ness and made…

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Aug 24

Green Man festival review 2018

Some­thing was def­i­nite­ly miss­ing from Green Man fes­ti­val 2018 – that wet stuff falling from the sky which churns the Bre­con Bea­cons mud to a smelly mush. Instead, this year’s fes­ti­val was blessed by sun and waft­ing clouds; so it was off with the cagoules and on with the fan­cy dress… and the fine weather…

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Jul 27

The Chemical Brothers and Crazy P at Bluedot festival

The Chem­i­cal Broth­ers set ends Blue­dot fes­ti­val 2018 on a high note, and the hordes pack out the Lovell stage to hear the god­fa­thers of the electronic/dance scene; the sound so colos­sal and lasers so far-reach­ing you would think they were com­pet­ing with the Jodrell Bank tele­scope itself 

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Jul 25

Bluedot 2018: out of this world music and science mashup

Blue­dot fes­ti­val moves into its third year with its unique brand of music, sci­ence and space mashup. There is prob­a­bly no oth­er fes­ti­val like it: music fans can take their fill of sev­er­al stages and sci­ence geeks have a wealth talks and work­shops with experts, although its fair to say most fes­ti­val goers dip into…

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Mar 17

Turin Brakes live at the London Palladium: review

Turin Brakes know how to make the Lon­don Pal­la­di­um feel as inti­mate as a rough-and-ready base­ment pub venue. They start by intro­duc­ing songs from their brand new album. Over the next cou­ple of hours or so, the band take us on a jour­ney back and forth over the past 18 years, many mem­bers of the…

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Dec 11

Lost Map: Pictish Trail Daylight Music at Union Chapel

The Day­light Music ses­sions at Union Chapel in Isling­ton are gen­tle, pay-what-you-like lunchtime con­certs with tea and cake. There are around 30 ses­sions per year. This Sat­ur­day was the turn of artists on the Lost Map record label run from the remote Hebridean island of Eigg by John­ny Lynch, who per­forms as Pic­tish Trail. Lynch and…

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