Concert Reviews – Page 44

Elbow

Plymouth Pavilions, Plymouth 9th March, 2017 Ain’t music a strange thing. You can be in a room with 2,000 people and a song starts to play and suddenly you are in a completely different world with your heart broken… again,…

Mike and the Mechanics – Let Me Fly Tour

New Theatre, Oxford Sunday, 6th March 2017 The New Theatre in Oxford is an impressive statement of the sophistication and glamour of the Art Deco period. The expansive stage is framed by an ornate, towering archway which allows perfect visibility…

Tiger Moth Tales / Dec Burke Band / Red Bazar

Boston Music Room, Tufnell Park, London 26th February 2017 Dearly Beloved – we are gathered together for a ‘Prog on a Sunday’ service led by the promoter and ‘Very Reverend’ Jon ‘Twang’ Patrick, with worship convened at the Boston Music…

Tail Feather

The Louisiana, Bristol 19th October 2016 From Reading, Tail Feather are a progressive psychedelic rock band with harmony vocals. They are rather good. The ticket for this show at the Louisiana came bundled with a download of their Mother Nature…

The Pineapple Thief / Godsticks

Islington Assembly Hall, London 11th February 2017 On a night when The Pineapple Thief played to an enthusiastic sold out Islington Assembly Hall at the end of triumphant European tour, it seems appropriate to note that pineapples used to be…

Steve Hogarth

100 Club, Oxford Street, London 12th February 2017 In a turbulent time when we have leaders preaching exclusion and hate, and we are exposed to the nonsense of ‘Alternative Facts’, it is surely more important than ever that our artists…

Magma avec le Metalïk Orkestraah

L’Olympia Bruno Coquatrix, Paris 2nd February 2017 While briefly communicating with the Earthlings present at the Magma Café OTO gig in London last year, Stella Vander informed us supplicants of a gathering of the tribes to be held at the…

The Steve Rothery Band / The Dave Foster Band

Islington Assembly Hall, London Friday, 13th January 2017 The Islington Assembly Hall is a magnificent venue. Built in 1929 it is an eloquent testament to the confidence, exuberance and elegance of the art deco period, even though its formidable scale…

Marillion

The Tramshed, Cardiff 3rd December 2016 It is a truly wonderful thing to see a band more than 30 years after you first saw them, a band that never split up and then reformed for the inevitable nostalgia trail but…

Lazuli

The Fleece, Bristol Sunday 27thNovember 2016 What does this band actually have to do to increase its profile? Seriously, they play stunning show after stunning show to rapturous receptions, supported Fish in packed houses for a long string of dates…

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