Category: Live

The Lemonheads roll into the Manchester O2 Ritz on their album anniversary tour, Liam Moody was there at the scene of the crime for our review. Is there a band who time has been kinder to than Big Star? Although barely together as a group for a handful of years, their imprint on the world…

With the legendary De La Soul hitting the Liverpool Exhibition Centre as one of the closing acts of LIMF Festival 2022, Del Pike takes a trip to see if the masters still matter. For those of us old enough to remember, the rise of young hip hop stars of the mid to late 80s was…

The otherworldly festival has finished for another year, after some unforgettable moments and experiences. Here’s our review: Opening up the festival on Thursday for the earlycomers was the soft and somewhat uncertain feelings of newcomer Kathleen Frances, who clearly set the tone for the Thursday of the festival, a meek and beautiful evening. Following on,…

Topping an electric bill at the East Village Arts Club, the impending rock n’ rollers Mexican Dogs try to prove why you should be listening. There’s action on both sides of the water on this Saturday night, but the Arts Club may be the place to be, as current rising rockers Mexican Dogs get to…

The kickass storytelling slacker rocker Courtney Barnett doesn’t do much slacking in her Liverpool return. The Champions League-esque midweek gig-nights in the Docklands of Liverpool are always a welcome one, even with (or especially with) Everton Football Club arriving across the road in a year-or-so, you won’t find an atmosphere like this. Courtney Barnett hasn’t…

The renowned Californian icons the Eagles return to Liverpool for their 50th Anniversary and the final Anfield concert of 2022. It’s been a couple of years, feeling somewhat a lifetime ago, since the Eagles have stepped into the sound city, and on a lovely Monday evening they return to Liverpool to play the final Anfield…

During the final run of his career, the iconic Elton John brought his Goodbye Yellow Brick Road tour to Anfield for the first and final time. The shape of the Anfield Stadium bookings in 2022, compared to the debut year, is a tremendous difference. It’s not very often that the likes of Elton John, the…

The utterly positive provacateur, Peaches, arrived at Liverpool’s alternative home-field the Invisible Wind Factory for the 20th anniversary of The Teaches of Peaches, here’s what we learned.

Historically, pop music has been intrinsically linked with geographics- every few years, a different city will rise to prominence within certain scenes and circles (New York City, Detroit, Manchester, Seattle) and become synonymous with a sound. However over the past decade thanks to the internet, the ability to create and maintain a loose network of…

The first exposure I had to the auditory hallucinogen of Blanck Mass came from a CD sampler, a compilation of featured artists on the Rock Action record label. It was a free CD which caught my eye purely because it contained a couple of Mogwai tracks I’d not heard before (“Drunk And Crazy” and “Special…