If you haven’t been to the Harrison in London Kings Cross before, it’s one of the warmest, most intimate venues in London, as well as being one of the more versatile. The perfect setting for unplugged nights, whether musical, spoken…
I can’t remember who first put me on to Sarah MacDougall (I know it was quite a while after the release of her wonderful second album The Greatest Ones Alive about five years ago), but I owe them thanks, especially…
Frankie Cosmos deserve so more than a Monday evening London audience. Which is not to say that the crowd isn’t fully on board with Greta Kline’s awesome indie-pop. We are. We sway and we nod. We grin and clap and whoop…
I think you could be forgiven if you haven’t heard of Frances. She first hit my radar when she made the longlist of the BBC’s “Sound of 2016” in December, and despite ultimately not featuring in the top five, has…
“Women prefer a menagerie of clowns,” sings Adam Green, at Bristol’s Thekla, a floating boat of a venue in Bristol’s East Mud Dock. Judging by the reaction of the women and, indeed, men in the crowd, he’s spot on. Green…
I had a sneaking suspicion that the evening, set in the basement of a secluded private members club in Shoreditch, The Kings Head, was going to be a showcase of great music, for two reasons. Firstly, curated by Mahogany,…
Sarah Howells goes by a few names, but the one she is currently making use of is “Bryde”. Best known as half of pop/folk duo Paper Aeroplanes, Howells is taking a break from the band which regularly populated BBC Radio…
In any case, The Accidentals are a band that has seen exponential growth since their inception. Beginning as a project between two self-proclaimed “orch dorks” in the midst of a shared high school class, Savannah Buist and Katie Larson have…
St. Pancras Old Church, intimate and grand at the same time, is the perfect setting for Laetitia Sadier and her stripped-down, warm but otherworldly performance. Stereolab’s singer and chief lyricist has been going it alone with several solo albums in…
Held over the second Bank Holiday Weekend in May (29th May 2016), Dot to Dot Festival returns for the 11th time to the city of Nottingham, the third and final stop of a three day party, encompassing the cities of…