Concert Reviews
The Boston Music Room, Tufnell Park, London Saturday 13th February 2016 Four acts, over three and a half hours of progressive sounds proudly presented by Bad Elephant Music. Their signed acts jh, We Are Kin (performing an acoustic set with…
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O2 Academy, Oxford Wednesday 10th February 2016 Reunited with front man Daniel Tompkins and promoting their new album Polaris, TesseracT are coming to the end of the U.K. leg of an extensive tour which has already traversed North America before…
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The Borderline, London Wednesday 10th February 2016 Into the darkness of The Borderline, following a brief chat with the security staff who had determined that at 5’5” I pose no threat – have they not read my Ninja reviews? Still…
View More The Room / Doris Brendel
An Evening with Steven Wilson Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith, London Wednesday 27th January 2016 Sometimes we possibly try too hard to make sense of things when in fact what we should probably do is just sit back and enjoy them. Yet…
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Lunchtime Recital and Workshop – St.Paul’s Hall, Huddersfield University Thursday, 28th January 2016 When is a musician a technician and when can a technician be a musician? Richard Barbieri, late of Japan and Porcupine Tree, made a lunchtime appearance at…
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With a massive Thank You to Mike Evans for the use of his images. The Bierkeller, Bristol Thursday, 17th December 2015 Is it really coming up to two years since The Aristocrats and Godsticks dismantled Bristol’s The Fleece in an…
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Shaw Library, LSE, London Thursday 5th November 2015 Perhaps inspired by the recent ‘Daylight’ concert I attended at the Union Chapel, under the intriguing title of “A Triple Bill Of Bills“, I decided to try another lunchtime concert this time…
View More The Sirkis Bialas International Quartet
O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London Wednesday, 2nd December 2015 What better thing to do on a crisp Autumnal evening in ‘That London’ than to stroll – on foot, mind – to Ye Olde Sheherd’s Bush Empire (it’ll never be an…
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O2 Academy, Bristol 3rd December 2015 We now live in a post-Bataclan world in which airport security measures screen gig goers. Nevertheless, Bristol O2 Academy was sold out as Fish kicked off his latest U.K. tour, celebrating the 30th anniversary…
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Union Chapel, Islington, London Saturday, 17th October 2015 I have never attended one of the ‘Daylight Music’ concerts held at the Union Chapel before, so I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from these rather unique Saturday performances, held between…
View More A Triple Bill of Bills – Bill Botting, Bill Pritchard & William D. Drake