Category: Live Reviews
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Gallery: Thumper, Bridget, Pure Trash – Three Wise Monkeys, 25/08/2022
Some excellent music from Thumper as they warm up for Reading and Leeds festivals. I hadn’t given them much of a listen before the gig but they sound incredible live. Despite the energetic performance they somehow manage to maintain stunning four part vocal harmonies at times.
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Roy Ayres Ubiquity – Colchester Arts Centre, 16/08/2022
A sold out night at Colchester Arts Centre – incredible musicianship and an excellent crowd for it!
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Gallery: The Meffs, Fashoda Crisis, Ecto Peach and Dead Caress – Colchester Arts Centre, 22/07/2022
A lively first time headlining Colchester Arts Centre for The Meffs, a huge crowd, a couple of giant footballs and a heat to rival last Tuesday.
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Review/Gallery: Tigran Hamasyan – The Barbican, 14/07/2022
Tigran Hamasyan is, in my personal view, a genius. He’s a master in both melody and rythmn, creating pieces of music that are both interesting in terms of the direction and the scales used while quite often using patterns and timing that would be more akin to a technical metal band than a pianist. There’s…
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Glastonbury 2022: Saturday
Saturday certainly has the potential to be the longest day of the festival – there isn’t much time to sleep given that, for me, Friday’s late finish meant getting to bed around 3:30am and the first band of the day starts at 11:30 (that doesn’t sound too bad but that means getting out of bed…
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Glastonbury 2022: Friday
There’s always a band who’s trajectory seems to shoot directly upwards, who festival organisers think will be at a particular level when booking the lineup but end up far surpassing that, with crowds on a scale that no one expected six months ago. That band this year may well be Wet Leg. Getting to The…
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Glastonbury 2022: Wednesday/Thursday
While there were obviously much more pressing issues in the world, Glastonbury haven’t really had the best of luck in celebrating their 50th anniversary. In 2020 they were one of the first festivals to cancel (donating their barn full of hand sanitiser and other medical supplies already purchased to the NHS in the process –…
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Review: William Basinski – Colchester Arts Centre – 15th June 2022
I’ll be honest, until the day before this gig I wasn’t aware of the music of William Basinski. I was recommended to this gig by local musician bÖsch, which I can be certain means it’s going to be an interesting night of music. For an ambient musician I was sort of surprised by the way…
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Review/Gallery: Musicircus Colchester
I’d love to be able to write reviews about the artists performing at Musicircus but I have two problems stopping me. One: there wasn’t really anything that said who each artist was and Two: it was really difficult to hear a lot of it. To it’s merit, Musicircus showed just how much music there is…
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