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Tag Archives: concerts
Wide Awake Festival, 28 May 2022
Not quite summer yet, but the festival season has begun. Wide Awake festival takes place in Brockwell Park, Brixton. Nearest station is Herne Hill. It made its debut in September 2021, delayed by the pandemic. In this, its second year, … Continue reading
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Tagged concerts, music, Primal Scream, Wide Awake festival
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Mabe Fratti at King’s Place, 21 April 2021
Mabe Fratti is a Guatemalan cellist and composer, based in Mexico. Last year she released a wonderful, entrancing album called Sera Que Ahora Podremos Entendernos. I first heard tracks from it, of course, on BBC 6 Music: Mary Anne Hobbs, … Continue reading
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King Hannah at Oslo, Hackney, 20 April 2022
King Hannah are a four piece band featuring, on vocals and rhythm guitar, Hannah Merrick; and on lead guitar and occasional vocals, Guy Whittle. They are Liverpool-based, though Hannah is from Wales. Theirs is not the typical Liverpool indie sound … Continue reading
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Tagged concerts, King Hannah, music, Oslo Hackney
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This is the Kit at the Royal Albert Hall, 8 March 2022
This is the Kit is a band that plays what you might call alternative folk. It’s the vehicle of the multi-talented Kate Stables, who sings and plays guitars and banjo, with core members Rozi Plain on bass, Neil Smith … Continue reading
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Tagged concerts, music, Royal Albert Hall, This Is The Kit
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Concert catch up: Wolf Alice, Big Thief, Butch Kassidy/Legss, Echo and the Bunnymen
With the senseless, barbaric invasion of Ukraine by Russia dominating our thoughts, one sometimes wonders what the point of writing about pop music is. But I guess that while we are lucky and privileged enough to do so, it remains … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Thief, Butch Kassidy, concerts, Echo and the Bunnymen, Legss, music, Wolf Alice
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Turnstile and Chubby and the Gang at the Roundhouse, 1 February 2022
Straight up: this was one of the greatest nights of live rock’n’roll I have ever had the pleasure to witness. And I very nearly didn’t go. No-one else I usually go to concerts with wanted to go. There was an … Continue reading
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Tagged Chubby and the Gang, concerts, London Roundhouse, music, Turnstile
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Goat Girl at the Roundhouse, 18 January 2022
Last week I went up to the Roundhouse with friends Shane and Tony to see Goat Girl play in the round, one of a short programme of concerts which are all-seated, forming the best part of a circle around the … Continue reading
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