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Artrocker Awards Live Show: The Computers, Gruff Rhys and Jim Jones Revue,...
Having had to be sensible and adhere to day job commitments, your humble scribe did not make the inaugural awards show but by all reports it was a fun and raucous affair, but there’s plenty of...
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The Kinks in Mono Boxset
Following on from the remastered double CDs of classic Kinks albums that have been released recently, Sanctuary Records have put out the first seven albums (Kinks, Kinda Kinks, The Kink Kontroversy,...
View ArticleSomerset Series @ Somerset House gigs on sale featuring M83, Tindersticks &...
Tickets are now on sale for this year’s Summer Series at London’s beautiful Somerset House throughout July. The programme includes flamboyant songstress Paloma Faith, musical comedian Tim Minchin and...
View ArticleMilk Maid Album Launch, Shacklewell Arms, Dalston 28.06.12
It’s a rare, balmy night in this summer of rain and the residents of Dalston are taking full advantage of the clement weather by gathering in the garden area. Unfortunately for the Mancunian lo –fi...
View ArticleM83 @ Summer Series, Somerset House, London 16.07.12
The summer of constant downpour is mercifully reprieved for tonight; although the beautiful venue is shrouded in apocalyptic cloud and my raincoat is at the ready. Support comes from Norweigan...
View ArticleWoodpecker Wooliams – Gull
Brighton-based folkstress and beekeeper (fun fact – I was a childhood beekeper. More power to the beekeepers) Woodpecker Wooliams (born Gemma Williams) releases the single Gull on November 26th on...
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[Live Review] Hot Chip and Django Django, O2 Academy Bristol, October 15, 2012
Hot Chip at the O2 Academy Bristol Django Django are firmly established as KV favourites – I think this is the third time we’ve seen them in Bristol, and fifth time anywhere. The double denim look...
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[Live Review] Wet Nuns, The Croft, Bristol – 3rd March 2013
(Eds note – this review by Geoffery Crescent) Wet Nuns, as drawn by Owen Watts Seal Club kicked the night off with a blend of fuzzy riffs and noise rock style tunes that didn’t quite gel, but brimmed...
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[Live Review] Mark Eitzel & Woodpigeon, The Fleece, Bristol
Woodpigeon at the Fleece The last time KV caught Woodpigeon, after the cancellation of last year’s Junip support slot, was at the End of the Road festival way back in 2010, where he was in full band...
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[Live review] Yo La Tengo @ Barbican, London, 20/03/13
Image courtesy of Jeffrey James There a few greater privileges in a music fan’s life than getting to review one of their favourite ever bands. That does however mean objectivity is a little more...
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[Live Review ] Ghost Poet @ Hackney Empire 24/10/2013
Shining brightly, Ghostpoet at Hackney Empire The stage is awash with dreamy blue hues, and powerful laser beam lights as the artist known as Ghostpoet (better known to his Mum, who is in tonight...
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[Live Review] Pokey LaFarge and Nicki Bluhm & The Gramblers, the Fleece,...
Pokey LaFarge. Photo by Matt Law It’s a full house tonight at the Fleece, with a few people adopting a thirties/ forties retro look to match that of Pokey LaFarge (and few more, almost but not quite...
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[Live Review] Connan Mockasin, Shepherd’s Bush Empire 28th January 2014
Warhol-haired, Kiwi musician and singer Connan Mockasin may be a slight figure, but he’s quite a formidable presence. Opening song It’s Your Body envelopes the place with a sound that is a heady...
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[Live Review] Devendra Banhart / Rokia Traoré , Barbican, London, 2nd May 2014
Tonight’s double-header kicks off a month long celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Nonesuch Records at the Barbican. This is a fitting place for a label with such a rich and varied cultural history...
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[Live Review] Courtney Barnett + Big Scary @ The Forum, London 25.11.15
It’s a Melbourne rock ‘n’ roll residency as http://beavercourie.com/legal-support-and-administrative-staff/sarahi-rodriguez-accountant broker vergleich binäre optionen forex Courtney Barnett brings...
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Robocobra Quartet/ Steve Strong, The Stag & Hounds, Bristol 13/11/2016
(Three of) Robocobra Quartet. A bad photo. The front room of the Stag & Hounds is well known as a punk venue in Bristol, but apparently they sometimes run gigs concurrently in a tiny upstairs room....
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Serengeti, Hy-Brasil Music Club, Bristol 20/11/16
Serengeti. A study in green Alone on stage, and bathed in green light, Chicago rapper Serengeti drinks red wine and steps up to the mike. In an engaging and witty set, we are treated to a number of...
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Air Waves, The Crofter’s Rights, Bristol, February 1st 2019
There’s an awkward point where Air Waves‘s first visit to Bristol looks to be inauspicious. A venue that was packed for support act Katy J Pearson has emptied out to the bar beyond, and as Nicole...
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[Live Review] The Lemonheads, SWX, Bristol 18th February 2019
Midway through his set, Evan Dando mumbles something about liking Bristol and having played at Thekla, and then announces ‘this is a song from 1987’, before bursting into ‘Clang Bang Clang‘ (or ‘Left...
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[Live Review] Drahla, The Lousiana, Bristol, May 10th, 2019
Drahla – ‘Stimulus for Living’ This month saw the release of Drahla‘s debit album Useless Coordinates on Captured Tracks, to widespread warm reviews hailing their mastery of a jagged post-punk sound....
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