There may have been raised eyebrows when the OVO Hydro, Glasgow, and the London O2 were announced as the UK venues for The Waterboys’ Fisherman’s Blues Revue tour dates. With a combined venue capacity of 32,000, a gentle scratch of the head may have been warranted for a band who normally play theatre venues. While not completely selling out thi…
In typical fashion the UK rail system almost put an end to the start but in typical Welsh fashion it worked out alright in the end. Clwb Ifor Bach was the venue for tonight’s (Friday 4th September) jaunt – The Now, yet another band from the rich mineral filled lands of South Wales which has produced a plethora amount of bands.
Van’s men played London Emerald Theatre on Victoria Embankment on 1 September, as Paul Davies reports
Van Morrison’s music has a regular place on the London stage now, even when the man himself isn’t around. The Van Morrison Alumni Band features a dozen-plus musicians and singers who have recorded and performed with him over the decades – and some of whom still do. On 1 September, they launched an astonishing residency at London’s riverside…
After 16 years away, AFI brought their post-punk darkness to Birmingham O2 Institute on 24 August, as Emmie MacNevin bears witness
The US rockers stormed Cardiff Castle on 15 August with an anniversary celebration of noughties nostalgia, as Emmie MacNevin reports
For locals unwilling to pay $300 and up to see Bob Dylan mumble incomprehensibly for three hours later in the month, all roads led to Ringo, when the venerable Beatle arrived with his ever-reliable All-Starr Band at the Kiva for a great variety of hits old and young. One sensed in his audience’s greetings that there may have been a little something…
It’s not dark yet, but one never knows with the elder Mr Tambourine Man, so the faithful turned up in droves after a monstrous afternoon monsoon to see his Bobness – hunched over keyboard and flatteringly dressed in a black “slept in the park last night” hoodie – perform his peculiar alchemy once again. The drums and bass of Anton Fig and Tony Garn…
The friend I was supposed to attend the festival with had been knocked over by a cyclist and was on her way to hospital. Thankfully, she was able to message me, but my chances of having company for the day had suddenly disappeared.
Michelle Shocked played the Gilded Balloon Patter House on 6 August, and James Masterson took in her troubled tales
