Watching Johnny Flynn live is a lot like spending the afternoon with your grandma. Take, for example, his confusion when playing a brand new song to ‘more than three people’ for the first time. Upon beginning, a man at the…
Mumford and Sons launched their debut album Sigh No More in a barn in the home counties. Of COURSE they did. The highlight of the evening was this performance of Dolly Parton’s Jolene, featuring Marcus Mumford’s then girlfriend Laura Marling.
Rebecca Taylor, one half of Slow Club, tweeted this morning to indicate in really rather strong terms that the band will be playing Notting Hill Arts Club this evening. Say if we played at 9.15 tonight at Notting Hill Arts…
Followers of the New Bands Panel will be familiar with Cornwall-based experimentalist Minko and her Songs Series. Her latest EP, Songs 5-8 (Creature), is out now and takes its name from this track. A little moodier and broodier than some…
Landshapes (formerly Lulu and the Lampshades) are a foursome most well-known for playing on cups in their kitchen. They are raucously fun to see live, playing a dizzying array of instruments (especially percussive ones), and Rambutan is rhythmically and musically…
Whilst writing The Violence, last year’s dazzling musical chronicle of the Essex witch-hunts, Darren Hayman researched and adapted a repertoire of folk songs from the civil war period. On Bugbears he has kitted them out and sent them to march,…