Stepping out onto the Brudenell stage Martin Frawley surveys the scene before him. What had already been a fairly thin...
Whilst there’s no doubt that her self-titled debut and its follow up, One Breath, were excellent records, last year’s long-awaited...
What is there left to say about multi-million selling disco king Nile Rodgers? More than you’d think, as it happens....
It’s a filthy, ‘orrible Tuesday night in Leeds, of that make no mistake. And torrential downpours, flash flooding and hazardous...
Yes, eagle eyed readers, I KNOW The Murder Capital were the headliners here but we’ve covered a show by them...
Sex and death. Death and sex. At least one of these is an absolute certainty in life. And they are...
Before Neneh Cherry makes her debut at the Edinburgh International Festival (EIF), the warm-up DJ is none other than Joseph...
“Good evening, I’m Peter Lorimer”. By way of introduction, so speaks the man with the microphone in his hand. “And...
There were times when I wondered if Olympia (Olivia Bartley) has a secondary career as a comedian, as she trotted...
Unit 5 in the Great Northern Warehouse is something utterly unexpected. Despite the glitz of its surroundings, Unit 5 itself...
Visions Festival is one of the stalwarts in the London gig calendar. Every August venues in Hackney open their doors...
It had been a rather hot, sweaty day, and the city of Edinburgh had swelled to twice its normal size,...
Picture a completed jigsaw puzzle laid out before you. It depicts a landscape of music. A river of rock and...
An instant ‘good’ atmosphere – full of music and life – is always suspicious. There’s no build-up or warm-up, just...
There’s a bloke down the front that I swear looks like a cross between Ross Noble and the Muppet, Rowlf...