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Michael Shannon & Jason Narducy, The Garage, London, 23 August 2025
At best, Iāve got an ambivalent attitude to tribute bands. I have to admit that is has evolved over the years. For me to buy into them, they need to fulfill a few criteria. The original music needs to mean something to me beyond being presented with a facsimile. Iām not looking for pale imitations. The original music needs to be honoured, not in a verbatim note for note methodology but more inā¦
Hope and Positivity with The Everlasting Yeah's Staying Cool Staying Free
After an eight year wait, there's a new album by the Everlasting Yeah, ex of That Petrol Emotion. It's well worth a listen.
Where were we? Itās May 2016. Covid 19 sounds like the name of an Aphex Twin track, Brexit could be Autechreās new album and youād expect to hear Article 50 playing from a converted double-decker bus in a field in Somerset at 2am. As Gladys Knight and the Wu-Tang Clan said ā how could it be so simple then? Itās been over eight years since weāve heard collectively from the Everlasting Yeah. Theā¦
The Necks - CafƩ Oto, London, 4 April 2024
Itās possible that there is not a band that is more CafĆ© Oto than the Necks. The Australian three piece have been around since 1987, initially happily improvising together in Sydney. Keyboard player Chris Abrahams and bassist Lloyd Swanton still live within 100km of their original base but drummer Tony Buck has lived in Berlin for over 20 years. Pre-pandemic, theyād get together in Australia toā¦
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The Smile - Alexandra Palace, London, 23 March 2023
The Smile have been getting people exercised, more so than one would expect. Thereās the usual crew who donāt get Radiohead. I can understand that ā the bandās music can be obtuse and challenging, Thom Yorkeās vocals have their idiosyncrasies. As one of my friends might say ā itās not for everyone. Then thereās the Radiohead fans who seem to worry about how the Smile should be approached andā¦
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Dilla Time - How Detroit changed popular music (again)
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Enji - Cafe Oto, Hackney, 11 February 2024
A wonderful of evening of jazz at Cafe Oto with Mongolian singer Enji - yes, really...
Living in London, youāre often reminded just how many people from unexpected places around the world live in the city. Cafe Oto is a magnet for these sorts of diasporas, offering a night out for the geographically displaced. Last year I enjoyed Malian band LāEtran De LāAir, a fantastic night of African guitar pop. This time round, it is the turn of Enji, a jazz singer from Mongolia, now based inā¦
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Ryuichi Sakamoto - Kagami
It's the final weekend of Ryuichi Sakamoto's Kagami at the Roundhouse in London. Try and make it if you can.
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Fingers Crossed - Miki Berenyi
I think Iāve probably spent more time reading Miki Berenyiās book than I have listening to her music. It demonstrates the power of the critics and word of mouth, a recurrent theme in this account of her life and her time in Lush. The bandās relative prime was in the early nineties. They were signed to 4AD, home to the Cocteau Twins, Pixies and Throwing Muses. Iād probably heard a couple ofā¦
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Top Ten Gigs of 2023
In the time-honoured fashion of better late than never, hereās my top ten gigs of 2023. A spoiler alert ā Cafe Oto could feature quite significantly. I make no apologies for this. It is driven by a few factors. Firstly, economics ā the cost of greed/living crisis combined with putting my daughter through university means that Iāve got less disposable income to hand. Secondly ā we didnāt getā¦
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Hiroshi Sugimoto - The Hayward Gallery, London, 4 January 2024
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Lucrecia Dalt - Studio 9294, Hackney, London 7 November 2023
I thought I had missed the chance to see Lucrecia Dalt tour the !Ay! album. She played Kings Place in swanky redeveloped King Cross earlier in the year. And yet here I am at a canal-side warehouse in Hackney on a chilly November evening for some Columbian electronic bolero music. !Ay! was one of the most acclaimed non-mainstream albums of last year. It won best album in the Wire Magazine and yetā¦
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Etran De LāAir - Cafe Oto, London 14 August 2023
This was alchemy. How do you create a stomping joyous rhythmic explosion out of the old rockānāroll ingredients? Two guitars, a bass and drums. Etran De LāAir got here in the nick of time. Their flight was delayed. We got constant updates (āTheyāre at Kingās Cross!ā āHurrayā). They piled out of their van, tuned up and were up and running ten minutes later. No Lana Del Ray timekeeping histrionicsā¦
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Alva Noto & s t a r g a z e - The Barbican, London 26 April 2023
Itās been a couple of weeks since I saw Alva Noto reproduce his Xerrox works with the small classical ensemble s t a r g a z e. The idea for the four volumes of the Xerrox series came initially to Noto in Japan. Some recordings that heād made became electronically corrupted and rather than hit ādeleteā, he decided to embrace the glitches. He copied the files over and over, hence the portmanteauā¦
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Big Thief - Hammersmith Apollo, London, 11 April 2023
The phrase Imperial Phase gets kicked around. That's where Big Thief are at. Read about a brave and confident first night at the Hammersmith Apollo here...
What do I love about Big Thief? Iāve been thinking about this in the days that have passed since the first of two shows at the London Apollo.Ā I think itās their confidence and bravery. I get a kick out of seeing bands who are taking risks, changing things on the hoof. This manifests itself in a number of ways. They start with an unreleased low key soulful number called Ruined, Itās quietlyā¦
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Lucinda Williams - the Barbican, London, 21 January 2023
Defiance. Lucinda Williams is not slowing down despite her recovery from a recent stroke. Great to see the band back together again.
Where were we with Lucinda Williams and the Barbican? We last saw her in 2019. She was railing against Trump. Now her ire is directed toward the US Supreme Court, in the wake of the reversal of Roe vs Wade. Sheās released the slightly one dimensional Good Souls, Better Angels plus a series of jukebox cover albums, recorded during the course of the pandemic.Ā Lu front and centre And sheās hadā¦
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Alexander Hawkins and Roberto Ottaviano - Cafe Oto, Hackney, 20 January 2023
Another fantastic evening at @Cafeoto with @hawkinsmusic and Roberto Ottaviano. My birthday present membership is the gift that keeps giving. Read about the evening here:
The beauty of having been gifted a membership to Cafe Oto is that it reduces ticket prices to such a ridiculously cheap level that I am minded to take a chance on things Iām unfamiliar with.Ā Itās a chilly Friday night in the middle of January, and Iāve paid Ā£8 to watch Alexander Hawkins and Roberto Ottaviano perform together. Roberto Ottoviano (left) and Alexander Hawkins (right) What piquedā¦
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For Just One Moment In Time - The breaking of Simple Minds
Graeme Thomson's brilliant book about Simple Minds, Themes For Great Cities. answers the questions us fans wanted to ask. Read about it here:
When I mentioned to a couple of muso-mates that I was reading Graeme Thomsonās superb biography of Simple Minds, their questions were pretty much identical ā āI wonder if it will answer why they became so bad?ā The moment that this perceived negative transition can be probably pinpointed in my mateās eyes to a place and time ā Wembley in November 1984 when they recorded Donāt You (Forget Aboutā¦
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