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The NIA is possibly one of the worse venues to drive to, and given the pre-Christmas traffic slightly worse than normal. The nearby multi-story car-park is also inadequate for the size of the venue, but having located a space the charges are also custom made for punter rip-off. |
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Billed as The Paper Airplane Tour, featuring Jerry Douglas, tonight is the opening date on the UK leg of Alison Krauss and Union Station’s tour. |
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Ballin’ is the word I’d use to describe Cameron Jebril Thomas (better known as Wiz Khalifa), according to urban dictionary this means you are either good at basketball or good at life. |
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Winter has truly got underway in Birmingham and promoters Moseley Folk present their monthly night The Lunar Society that brings singer songwriters to the cosy candlelit second room of the Hare and Hounds. |
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In the 12 years since her debut release, Canadian singer/songwriter, Kathleen Edwards, has been riding a wave of critical acclaim whilst never quite finding the mainstream success many feel she’s worthy of. With three fine albums under her belt and a fourth due in January 2012, Kathleen is currently back on the road opening for Bon Iver. Brum Live’s Steve Gerrard caught up with her backstage at the Manchester Apollo for a chat. |
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It’s an ever touching rite of passage tableau at these sort of gigs where the girls, giving it some serious fashion smolder, persuade their tallest mate to muster up the courage to successfully negotiate id interrogation and purchase a pint. Only to blow it all by gasping at the price and then asking for three straws. |
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Murdoch’s shafted BSkyB bid hubris is a joy to behold and the Parliamentary select committee have reason to believe that Plod’s comedic selective recall is little short of bollocks. Now then, where’s that Red Top witch hiding? There’s a humid moody bad full moon rising over Kings Heath High Street and the Weatherspoons’ bus-shelter’s already heaving with grunting couples: it’s their gesture towards protected sex and goes down well with the clientele - as do the clientele. |
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The West African repertoire of Griot celebrates a centuries old oral/musical tradition of the wandering minstrel rooted in the heritage of the pre-literate ancient lays of Praise Singers (in Ancient Greece they preceded Homer by a millennium). He was a story-teller, political commentator, satirist and, especially welcomed, a bush-telegraph ‘gossip’. |
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A respectfully hushed Hare crowd welcomed seasoned singer/songwriter troubadour Vijay Kishore to open the evening’s muse with a mostly newly-penned set of subtly honed songs of innocence and experience. His immediate signature feature is his higher-register sonorous vocals complimented by his dexterous and imaginative use of open-tuning guitar. |
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Just after this gig our photographer posted on a well-known social networking site that this performance by Kasabian had restored his faith in the band. I know exactly what he means. |
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And so to the second night in succession to see a punk upstart, started off in the 70’s, was done over by Malcolm McClaren, shone supernova brightly, had trials and tribulations, before returning after a decade and a half hiatus. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the return of the dandy highwayman himself, one Stuart Goddard, aka Adam Ant and his new band The Good, The Mad and The Lovely Posse. |
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Symphony Hall is almost full tonight with a mixed age crowd -- everything from 10 year olds in Queen t-shirts to men who look considerably older than Brian May. There's a buzz of excitement in the air. But before we get to the main act, there's Vintage Trouble. |
