Category: Review

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 2

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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Jul 23

Ealing Blues Festival 2019: Nick Lowe

Eal­ing Blues fes­ti­val was giv­en the thumbs up – and it man­aged to escape the rain. I was unable to go as I was at Blue­dot fes­ti­val (review to come) but I was sent these pho­tos by a big Nick Lowe fan. He played an engag­ing acoustic set, and left his fans absolute­ly delight­ed. Here…

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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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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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