Angélique Kidjo – Live @ The Royal Festival Hall

Friday 14th November, London

Grammy Award winning Angélique Kidjo is an impressive, iconic figure…

As a Beninese singer songwriter and activist, known worldwide, she fuses diverse musical influences such as jazz, soul, gospel, Latin, Afropop, Congolese rumba and Caribbean zouk. … Read More

Underworld – Live @ The Royal Festival Hall

Friday 11th October, London

When the last echo of ‘Born Slippy‘ faded away and Karl Hyde, wearing his distinctive sailor shirt, pronounced the last “thank you” of the night, I eventually tried to … Read More

Joan Baez – Live @ The Royal Festival Hall

Sunday 21st September, London

“An Evening With Joan Baez”, as tonight’s performance was titled, was an evening with the recent history of popular music. It was like travelling through the recent past of folk, to unearth and discover or rediscover … Read More

Jon Hopkins – Live @ The Royal Festival Hall

Friday 19th September, London

I didn’t know what to expect, having never been to see a contemporary performance at The Royal Festival Hall.  It’s fair to say, I was blown away.

Jon Hopkins had an impressive introduction … Read More

Lisa Stansfield – Live @ The Royal Festival Hall

Wednesday 10th September, London

Soul and R&B singer-songwriter Lisa Stansfield had a huge breakthrough with her first solo album Affection. Since then she’s won numerous awards and sold over twenty million albums worldwide. As an actress she … Read More

Ray Davies – Live @ The Royal Festival Hall

Tuesday 9th September, London

Quintessentially English rock musician Ray Davies, former lead singer and songwriter of The Kinks, has been critically acclaimed for half a century. He’s also worked as an actor, director and producer of many … Read More

Trentemøller – Live @ Royal Festival Hall

The Dane’s progression from minimal techno bedroom producer to full-blown rock entity has been covered to death – he was incorrectly pigeonholed as a techno DJ and has always been about full band dynamics, got it? – … Read More

A CHAT WITH: TRENTEMØLLER

Danish electronic music powerhouse Anders Trentemøller is bringing his spectacular, full band live show to the Southbank as part of Meltdown 2014. Across his three studio albums, Trentemøller has effortlessly evolved from noir-ish minimal techno to a hybrid … Read More

A CHAT WITH: MAX RICHTER

German-born composer Max Richter is perhaps best known for his debut solo album, the 2002 masterpiece Memoryhouse – however, he is also one of the world’s most interesting composers of film scores, and there is no doubt that … Read More

A Celebration Of Bert Jansch – Live @ Royal Festival Hall

Tuesday December 3rd, London

Gifted Scottish guitarist Bert Jansch sadly passed away in 2011 after a two-year battle with his health. He was a founding member of Pentangle, a major figure in the folk revival of the … Read More