Category: Live Reviews
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Review/Gallery: Brighten The Corners – Ipswich, 9/10th June 2023
Brighten The Corners, previously known as Ipswich Sound City, sees the town centre of Ipswich full of music for a Friday and Saturday across four indoor venues and an ourdoor stage. The first few hours of music is exclusively outside on the Cornhill stage which, with it’s Adnams beer truck and deck chairs, couldn’t have…
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Review/Gallery: Be Your Own Pet, Alien Chicks – Moth Club, 6/6/2023
Back in March last year Be Your Own Pet announced their reunion after fourteen years I was equal parts shocked and excited. I missed out on seeing the energetic four piece the first time around and the hope that they’d be playing more shows than just the initial announcement of two Jack White support slots,…
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Jo Quail, Dead Space Chamber Music – 11th May 2023, Colchester Arts Centre
When you walk into Colchester Arts Centre and see the beautiful stained glass window at the back of the stage you just know the evening’s music is going to have a real atmosphere to it. It’s a seated show but it’s pretty busy for a mid-week gig and perhaps not the audience that you’d expect…
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Watch: Geoff Lawrence – Similar Life, Live at Three Wise Monkeys
Backed by Polly Haynes live band and with an ensemble of other guest musicians, Geoff Lawrence took to the stage at Three Wise Monkeys on April 1st to play through his 2022 record, Similar Life. There’s a wonderful delicacy to the record itself, something that the band were able to recreate well live. If you…
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Review/Gallery: Yourcodenameis:milo, Kkett – The Cluny, 07/04/2023
“No chance that’ll happen…I’ll get a ticket just incase” were the first words from a friend when the unexpected reunion of yourcodenameis:milo was announced back in 2020. The reformation was announced during the early days of the 2020 pandemic when venues like The Cluny, arguably the most important location in the band’s history, were at…
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Live Review: Empire State Bastard, Grub Nap – Underworld, 28/03/2023
I don’t remember the last time that I was this stressed out getting tickets to a gig when the band hadn’t released a minute of music. Empire State Bastard, a new band created by Mike Vennart of Oceansize and Simon Neil of Biffy Clyro, playing the relatively small Underworld in Camden, joined by Dave Lombardo…
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Review/Gallery: Wonk Unit, Greebo, Junodef – Three Wise Monkeys, 17th March 2023
Every so often Three Wise Monkeys take a risk on a really interesting lineup with bands from out of town. Sometimes they end up being busy and sometimes they’re a bit quieter but usually you get to watch something a bit different. Tonight is certainly no different. Junodef, from Sweden, open the night, the one…
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Gallery: Ghosts of Men, Grim Tales – Coda, 17/03/2023
There’s one big advantage to Coda and Three Wise Monkeys being so close to each other is that, when you have a night like tonight with two excellent gigs, it’s possible to run between the two. Unfortunately that doesn’t always quite line up and I was unable to see BIG big SKY. Opening the night…
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Review: Clown Core, DJ Driver – Bimhuis, 04/03/2023
Watching some of Clown Core‘s somewhat weird music videos a few years back they really came across as a band that would never end up performing live – they’re almost as much a theatrical act as they are a musical act and, frankly, I have no idea how anyone could consistently perform music as crazy…
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Gallery: Myopia, Ecto Peach, The Rezidents – Three Wise Monkeys, 10/03/2023
A lively night of music on a Friday night with music from Myopia, who at times sound like a young Arcane Roots, Ecto Peach, who are as energetic as usual and The Rezidents, who brought a set of well known and well loved tracks to the top floor of Three Wise.
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