Was the hype from my preview of Dolomite Minor to be justified? Of course it was, and in fact the gig was even better than I had anticipated, with a great range of support acts to enjoy. The Joiners venue consistently delivers high quality sound, so it’s a brilliant place to go and see bands…
Jessie J performed in Camden on Saturday, at a free concert sponsored by Vitamin Water. After queuing for over an hour (couldn’t complain, I had won the tickets), we went into the Roundhouse to find ourselves inside a fantastically intimate venue, colourfully backlit from VIP, above the semi-circular standing area. Supporting acts were a four-man…
My expectations for this year’s 15th Truck Festival were fairly high, so I went along to see what all the fuss was about. I was certainly not to be disappointed. The festival had a brilliant, packed line-up (including Mystery Jets, Tim Minchin and The Temper Trap), was an ideal size, a fantastic location and newly…
It is a freezing cold and blizzard like scene as I step out of Wood Green Underground station, my Converse shoes which have holes in were probably not the best option as they become soaked within seconds. All this on top of a 1 and a half hour journey from my house; a journey I…
Pure Love have faced quite a bit of stick since they formed last year, with lead singer Frank Carter leaving Gallows behind him to create the band. To go from hardcore to pop rock is quite a feat but they seem to be pulling it off very very well. Clwb Ifor Bach, one of Cardiff’s…
“Mother, I can never come home again ‘cos I seem to have left a very important part of my brain somewhere… somewhere in a field in Hampshire.” These words, famously uttered by Jarvis Cocker in Pulp’s ‘Sorted out for E’s & Wizz’, are the most accurate way I can summarise the 2007 UK Festival Awards’…
Saturday saw me hanging around the main stage again for most of the day, kicking off at one o’clock with Big Country. Their inoffensive brand of 80s stadium-rock was the perfect cure for my birthday hangover from the previous day, the band storming through a catalogue of their greatest hits and seeming like they were…
I entered the festival innocent, naïve, clean. I left a man. Isle of Wight was the first festival I had ever gone to, and it confirmed every perception I had of what festivals were like: the overflowing toilets, the mud, the post-GCSE’s teenagers just discovering alcohol (and similarly, vomit). But bodily fluids and unsanitary conditions aside,…
The original back garden festival goes into its seventh year and proves to be a great success.
The Royal Albert Hall’s grandiose and atmosphere is perhaps one of the best settings to see a gig in London. On July 2nd it was host to opening act Only Son, and – the reason that everyone was there – Regina Spektor. Only Son, real name Jack Dishel, took to the stage a little late…
Playing two consecutive days at the O2, the atmosphere was one of the most intense I have ever experienced. During both support slots chants for Blink 182 were rife, with most having little regard for the mediocre bands that preluded them. There is something incredibly nostalgic about seeing a band that was so important when I was a…
The Concept: The biggest hip-hop stars in the world Jay-Z and Kanye West come together to perform all their greatest hits as well as tracks from their collaborative album Watch The Throne. The Reality: One of the greatest music experiences imaginable. It is hard to describe just how amazing this gig was. As a massive…
Set in the heart of Hackney Marshes in north-east London, Hackney Weekend was already looking like it was going to be the festival of the summer from the star-studded line up and it definitely lived up to expectations. After stringent security checks and several people examining my ticket I entered the site which would be music’s…
Over the past few weeks Radio1 have well and truly dominated Hackney. With the Olympics just around the corner, Radio1’s Hackney Weekend kicked off the London Festival with more than a bang. As well as this, behind the scenes ambassadors such as Plan B, Labrinth and Leona Lewis have been running ‘The Hackney Academy’ for…