Tuesday, Oct 13, 2026
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WINTER It’s a cold and frosty winter evening as thousands of fans make their way to Wembley Arena to see Kahan take the stage. (In reality, it was an unseasonably warm 16 degrees in London in February but it reads better if you pretend.) He’s aware of the emotions his songs evok
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Well, here we are sports fans. Another crisp evening for tonight’s game at the prestigious Electric Ballroom. And boy what a treat we’re in for. The crowd are already well-oiled. Yelling away at that pre-match tunes in a raucous, flat tone that people do when they want to sing a
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Lambrini Girls. It sounds like a new TikTok era bringing back a very distinct way of living. And it’s coming in hot. So fucking hot it set the stage on fire (more on that later…). We’ll call this era, Lambrini Girl Spring. It’s one of pure, deep rooted, unhinged, feral chaos. It
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“Don’t ask him that.” “I’m going to ask him that.” The final words spoken between my partner and I as we approached Willie for a post-gig interview. But more about that later. Back from supporting Arctic Monkeys on their new album release tour, I was curious to see how it may ha
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Last night was one of those rare winter nights. The kind that’s so cold, the warmth of travel feels like an adventure. And it was. Our journey took us to Dingwalls, a cosy little venue tucked below Camden Market. A venue that’s seen the last of Brooke Combe, I’m sure. She’s got b
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Amidst the backdrop of the historic Royal Albert Hall, Little Dragon closed out their European tour last week in a stunning portrait of the power of collaboration. They were on the road with DC-based duo April + VISTA (see images here) for both the North American and European sti
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Lowertown’s performance at Brighton’s ratty Green Door Store was kind of like finding the soundtrack to accompany that perfectly dated defining Halloween moment that you see a lot in 80s movies. The Dirty Hit signed duo, Olivia O. and Avsha, were joined by their band for a night
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From doing Jaeger Bombs on stage and getting the crowd to chant ‘fuck it’ at a minor hiccup along with him at Glastonbury, I was intrigued to see what was in store at the Royal Albert Hall. Never in a million years did I think that Rick Astley would be such a prominent object on
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I’ve got an ear infection, and the only prescription is more Stone. It’s not really and this was probably a terrible decision, but no regrets. The last time I saw them was Omeara, where the crowd turned into a bubbling cauldron. So asking them to play in between rows or fragile r
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It’s been a long burning fuse leading up to the dynamite you’ll soon know as Bunny . Tiger Woods , the introductory track of the album, was released on 29th July last year. Somewhat a reflection of Willie J. Healey’s ten years in the game; eager to share, but in no rush for dead
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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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This is becoming a bit of a series, isn't it? Or at least I hope it is. 48 hours in a city that’s over 5,000 miles away to watch Arctic Monkeys (our last was in Mexico at Corona Capital ), only to remember snippets of it because we went hard on the bevs. It’s amazing how far from
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Cigarettes, the main character of You Said Strange’s new music video premiered here today for (Song For A) Wasted Land. A picture of endless consumption yet a simple source of comfort in a story of a disaster. However, (Song For A) Wasted Land is a strangely optimistic depiction
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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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“ Poet first and everything else second ” is the well-known motto of Variety’s 2021 Decade Award winner, Lana Del Rey. Hearing the words ‘alternative’ and ‘music’ next to each other doesn’t typically trigger a hazy vintage-Americana dream-world of Del Ray. So how did she manage t
