As the weekend fans filled the campground, fans present for the intimate sessions at Barn on the Farm were emerging from their tents. Weary from a day or two of music, the energy was revived as the newcomers bounded in jovially. As the sun beat down, persistent in its punishment of heat, the stages opened […]
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Tremonti + The Fallen State @ o2 Institute, 30 June 2018
Acting as support across the whole of this UK tour, The Fallen State had a large crowd to play to on Friday evening at the O2 Institute in Birmingham. And boy did they grasp it with both hands. Alongside some fantastic songs, the band certainly had the performance nailed down and led without caution at […]
Travis @ Symphony Hall 25th June, 2018
“So, did everybody get our new record, ‘The Man Who’? It’s like a time machine. You’re all nineteen again”. Travis frontman, Fran Healey’s, playful address is greeted with a mildly nervous chuckle from tonight’s audience. Contained within the joke is the uneasy truth around time, and how much of it has passed since we bared […]
Waxahatchee @Hare and Hounds, 15th June 2018
As we walk into the main room at the Hare and Hounds tonight, the opening song by Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield is being played; acoustic, solo, stark and heartfelt, and the striking thing is that the audience is silent and transfixed. By silent I mean…. totally silent. Pin dropped clatteringly loud silent. My companion for the […]
NOFX @ o2 Institute, 14 June 2018
During the walk into Digbeth this evening, it seemed The Kerryman had changed from an Irish pub to a punk bar with punters donning leather jackets and multi coloured Mohicans. The reason for this is that NOFX were in town at the O2 Institute as part of their European tour. First up at the show […]
Jack Carty + Maz O’Connor @ The Kitchen Garden Café, 7th June 2018
Nestled in amongst the crowded shopfronts along Kings Heath’s York Road, you will happen upon an unassuming gated alleyway that by day, leads to a quaint cafe that offers any visitor a welcome sanctuary from the reliably bustling high street. By night, the location is turned into a one of the finest endeavours the city […]
DMA’S @ 02 Institute, 25 May 2018
It was a hot night here in Birmingham, and DMAs alongside their support band Planet helped turn up the heat a few notches at the O2 Institute with one of the most memorable gigs I have ever been to. If Carlsberg made perfect bank holiday weekends, then this was probably the best start to one. […]
Jesus Jones @ Portland Arms, Cambridge 23rd May, 2018
Jesus Jones are definitely back – although arguably they never went away. Almost 30 years after the alternative dance-rock band’s first album Liquidizer hit the charts, April 2018 saw the release of their sixth long play release and a new bunch of live dates announced. I first saw the re-energised Jesus Jones back in 2016 […]
Gaz Coombes + Piney Gir @ O2 Institute 2, 21st May 2018
The critical acclaim that greeted Gaz Coombes’ previous solo album — 2015s ‘Matador’ — culminated in a Mercury Music nomination and cajoled the ex-Supergrasss frontman into touring the record around the globe for almost two years. Its been over three years since that release and, particularly where the music industry is concerned, an awful lot […]
The Waterboys @ Warwick Arts Centre, 13th May 2018
Last time I saw The Waterboys at Warwick Arts Centre it was a standing gig, whereas tonight is seated and makes it all the more sedate which is a shame as the band come out with an arresting couple of hits; Medicine Bow and All The Things She Gave Me. The drum roll introduction, courtesy […]
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