XXYYXX, Blackbird Blackbird, Slow Magic, Giraffage – Live @ KOKO

Saturday May 7th

Premier culture platform The Playground is pretty renowned for its meticulous event curation and promotion, but nothing could have prepared me for the sublime KOKO takeover on Saturday night. Although it was the immense lineup (courtesy … Read More

Tom Paxton – Live @ The Union Chapel, Islington

Friday 26th April, London

American singer-songwriter Tom Paxton has been writing, recording and performing folk music since the sixties and this particular evening he was helped by the inventive and intimate Celtic artist Robin Bullock who … Read More

Clark + Daedelus + Kelpe + Anchorsong – Live @ KOKO

Saturday, April 20th

Tonight isn’t just AAAmusic’s second Soundcrash event at KOKO this week. With Hidden Orchestra having to regretfully bail last minute due to illness (was so looking forward to seeing them again), Soundcrash have drafted in Tokyo-born … Read More

Skid Row – Live @ HRH AOR Festival

Rotherham, April 6th

Opening with ‘Slave to the Grind’ you think you would be instantly impressed but it falls a little flat and ‘Big Guns’ is much better with singer Johnny Solinger not having the vocal range to hit all the notes, but don’t think … Read More

Tesseract – Live @ HRH Prog Festival

Rotherham, April 6th

Tesseract are very different from most bands you would find at a Prog festival, for a start most people would classify them as Metal. I think Tesseract are much more than aMetal band they mix up Progressive Rock and Metal riffs that might come from bands such … Read More

Tesla – Live @ HRH AOR Festival

Rotherham, April 6th

Legends Tesla tear shreds out of Rotherham!

Tesla love or hate them Tesla really gave it their all today and were just the right band for the job in Rotherham. I am not a massive fan myself but I have … Read More

Portico Quartet – Live @ London KOKO

London, 17th April.

Portico Quartet’s new ‘Live/Remix’ release – alongside this promotional KOKO show – is the sound of a band establishing itself confidently in the UK electronic music scene. Across three studio albums, including last year’s sublime self-titled … Read More

Civil Twilight – Live @ The Borderline

London, 9th April

Alternative rock band Civil Twilight are a quartet from Cape Town, South Africa. Now Nashville based, they’ve developed their career as a progressive live act and are often compared with U2, Radiohead, and Muse.

Brothers Andrew … Read More

Squarepusher – Live @ London Roundhouse

London, 30th March

Squarepusher’s ‘Ufabulum’ headline show at the Hackney Empire last October felt right; like the culmination of hard touring his AV show at smaller venues and festivals, and a perfectly timed celebration of his best album in … Read More

No Bragging Rights – Live @ London Underworld

London Camden Underworld, March 29th

I’m going to be balls-out honest here, I don’t really like metalcore; I’m probably more than a little biased against it.  I was very sceptical when I was asked to cover this band, but … Read More