SECRET GARDEN PARTY 2013 – Live Review

How secretive is Secret Garden Party? Looking around the 30,000 hipster-wannabe-hippies, the majority of which have perfected that bizarre, British festivalite ability to look both glamorously trendy and impossibly wrecked, it’s blatant that the secret has been … Read More

DOUR FESTIVAL 2013 – Live Review (Part 2)

…Dour Festival 2013 Review Continued. Click here for Thursday & Friday (Part 1).

Saturday

Today was always going to be a blast, with the quality of the schedule beyond outstanding, and especially with Gilles Peterson’s Wordlwide buddy – Belgium’s … Read More

DOUR FESTIVAL 2013 – Live Review (Part 1)

The problem with the European festival industry, in my opinion, is that they so often end up catering for and relying on the British festival goer. When a small, independent European festival decides it wants to step … Read More

WIN: A Pair of tickets to see Dave McPherson in London

For your chance to win a pair of tickets to see Dave McPherson (InMe) at the Camden Barfly this week (June 6th), plus Danny Cavanagh of Anathema, just email our editor: clive@aaamusic.co.uk, with the subject line ‘DAVE MCPHERSON’, plus your names … Read More

Ghostpoet – Live @ Village Underground

Thursday May 30th, London

The first time I saw Ghostpoet – aka Obaro Ejimiwe – was at a shambolic little day festival in East London in 2011 called Streetfest, where music was secondary to the main events of street … Read More

Charlie Straight – Live @ Mother Bar 333

Saturday 25th May, London

The lower floor of the Mother Bar 333 looks like one of those old basements present in most of the old music stories and where everything starts: “Once upon time, in the basement … Read More

Mesh – Live @ Islington o2 Academy

Sunday 21st April

I have always been really into Mesh’s music and new album ‘Automation Baby’ is one of their best yet. I love how every track in tonight’s set is announced with the album it comes off and the what track number … 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

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