Tuesday, Oct 13, 2026
Documenting the madness
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The kempt courtyard of Strand’s neoclassical art gallery- Somerset House- was just a complimentary accessory for French psych-punk rock band La Femme. At 21:00 on a random Thursday night in central London, the superchic quintet performed twenty of their most prominent worldly war
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What the fuck; I feel dirty. Why? Because I’ve just witnessed a filthy set of ear-splitting crunchy guitars, demonic frontman energy and 100 kg weighted blanket of underground techno beats infused to keep you in the small main room of Omeara. Beavertown presented an assault as pa
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It’s a familiar vision of the 80s. Whether you’ve lived through it or not, Nation of Language will instil an echo-soaked feeling of nostalgia. It was clear that many people in the audience were there for that exact sentimentality. With fashion senses not evolving much past it, so
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For a psychedelic-pop concert, Kurt Vile’s appearance at Camden’s Koko pulled in a particularly irate crowd. I can hardly attribute it to the songs about Waking on a Sunny Day , but even the skinniest of blokes having under-boob patches suggest it may have been the sweltering he
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I think every Aussie in London was lost last night because we found their meeting place; O2 Forum Kentish Town, where Lime Cordiale concluded their UK tour, but do not fret, they’ll be back in exactly the same place again on 1st Sept. All the way up to the venue I promised myself
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The almost religious experience with DEADLETTER at Lafayette tonight has certainly put a glow on the evening as I skip toward the dirty tube back to Balham, colourful lights and mosh pits still flash-printed in my vision. Let’s go from the start. It was a noticeably stylish crowd
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Madchester isn’t dead. It’s just injured. As with any past cultural phenomenon, there are those who are nostalgic, those who were born after it and recreate it with a halo tint based on stories and footage of the glory days, and those who just never left it. And last night, they
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I saw the most unapologetically grateful band in the world, STONE, last night at Omeara for their second night on the bounce there. I arrive too early and find myself parked with the couples that had fallen out on the way to the show. To make matters worse, after 15 minutes of fi
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The Cat Empire are back touring the UK. And like many others at tonight's gig at Bristols Marble Factory, I was looking forward to it, but I was a little apprehensive at the same time... As most Cat Empire fans will be aware, the band's last tour in the UK had to be cut short bac
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If I hadn’t seen the time, I'd have thought we arrived halfway through Spacey Jane 's set on Friday. The upper tier was grooving, pockets of excitement were bouncing throughout the crowd like a pan of water on the cusp of boiling and this was the opening song. There was no time
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On arrival at Bristol's O2 Academy, the small queue outside gave little indication that tonight's Joey Bada$$ show was a sell-out. By the time I got inside it was clear to see, as the main room was packed out and already bouncing to the bars of Nyck Caution (who is also a Pro Era
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I'll never be able to sit down and think as I used to after what can only be described as the most magically serendipitous weekend in Mexico City for the Corona Capital festival. I'd say I don't usually describe my life as a ferocious whirlwind, but I do. However, it's often in r
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The first time I saw Still Woozy was in January 2019 at the Rock & Roll Hotel in Washington, DC. After a wavy hour of his trademark psychedelic bedroom-pop and a few Mac Demarco covers, he stopped and said to the crowd: “Well, that’s all the songs I’ve got…. Which one do you want
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Tonight's Marlowe gig was on The Thekla, I say “on” because Thekla is in fact a boat. And the converted German cargo ship, which is moored up in the heart of Bristol has become somewhat of an iconic venue. As soon as I walked in I felt this was going to be my kind of place, dark
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There’s a funny thing about indie gigs. All day you’ll be telling your friends about this cool new band you’re seeing in a nice intimate venue and they’ll ask who it is. “ Lime Garden ” you reply to be received with a blank-faced “ah, cool”. But once you’ve battled the punching w
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Like a seven-year-old grasping desperately onto Christmas, Sorry have extended spooky season with their headline show at Electric Brixton. For the conclusion of their UK headline tour, crowds of misfits in their fingerless gloves, berets and mullets joined forces for one final (m
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It was one of those nights. The venue seemed full already, yet groups of people still filtered into the crowd like water into sand. As such, I was forced to pitch up by the back bar (definitely forced, promise) which, to be fair, allowed me to overhear everyone eagerly guessing w
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There’s an energy in the air tonight. Y’know, that buzz that comes around when a collective of indie kids discover a DIY indie band from the states and want it to be their secret. But it’s no secret when hundreds of them pack into the Omeara and the body heat has you questioning
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It’s Christmas Day. You’ve woken up at 12 pm to a flashback reel of being obliterated and stealing baubles from the tree at your hometown pub, much to the disgust of your old school friends you’ve not seen since the same time last year sat quietly in the corner likely discussing
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Taking Sam’s advice and writing this en route to Budapest. Although not quite 37,000 feet in the air, instead stranded on a runway delayed for two hours in Ryanair’s finest seems like the perfect place to think back to happier times…All Points East!! The sun is shining, the peopl
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When the video intro to Tame Impala melts into a chaotic, perpetually reverberating feedback and you question if it’s your brain- you know you’ve pushed it too far. Our second day at All Points East was another success. I’ve said it already and I’ll say it again, this year’s over
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*Time freezes* It’s been a while since I’ve been drenched in beer. Some might say too long, most will say it should have never happened again, but here I am in the middle of a raging mosh pit about to shove an innocent lad over. *Time resumes rapidly* A lot has happened in lif
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“Give it up for the future” yells Miles Kane speaking of Brooke Combe following their rendition of Tina Turner's Nutbush City Limits after she opened his show in Roundhouse Camden - and he’s not wrong. Combe packed a wrecking-ball-dropped-from-the-top-of-the-Shard energy from the
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I’ve had a strange dislike for Miles Kane for no real reason at all. An old quote of his from 2016 or something, “I really wanted to be a frontman at that time. I hadn't been a frontman. I had a hard-on for that” stuck with me and I dismissed him as self-centered. After last nigh
