Tag: Gigs

Gigs

Loitered Lens : Magenta

Magenta play dense and complex music with a heavy and unapologetic influence of 70s Yes. ...

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Sweet dreams: Primus ’ Wonka ends on a winsome note.

Backed by mesmerising animations of an elephant bouncing on a trampoline, no one can deny that Primus put on a great show...

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Loitered Lens : The Movielife

Proving time hasn’t dampened the punk rock spirit or the sheer energy of The Movielife....

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Let’s carry on from where we left off (The Movielife)

For a band who most thought would never reunite (including the band themselves) this return to the stage was grasped with relish....

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Bringing Brutal Deathgrind to a Bucolic Britain (Brujeria)

It is said that this unit of banditos is made up of Satanic drug lords who came together to make music on Brujerizmo - their own brand of brutal 'machete metal'....

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A Horror-rockin Hallowee’n. Alice Cooper UK Dates

The Alice Cooper show returns to the UK for two special nights at Plymouth Pavilions (Oct 29) and Swindon Oasis (Oct 30) with blood, guts, gore and some of the greatest rock and roll music in...

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Sex, fireflies and audiotape: ‘Anima’ purrs (Francesca Belmonte)

The moon is apparently moving away from us by four centimetres every year, Francesca Belmonte may just have thrown a lasso and dragged it back towards us a fraction...

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Loitered Lens : Tav Falco at Oslo, Hackney

Lithe and lean, Tav Falco plays up to the calls, draws the crowd in deeper and deeper....

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Foot-stomping hip-swivelling rockabilly country-blues (Tav Falco)

This crowd love Falco and Falco loves them back. He poses and postures, treats the audience to some fancy tango moves, and writhes on his back as if possessed. Tav Falco live. ...

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Loitered Lens : Sleaford Mods

Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn bring it on....

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Looking good and rocking hard [LTNT]

Diverse personalities they may be, but musically they have honed what they do to a level of classical precision....

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Rock now, Rock the Night! Loitered Lens [Europe]

Joey Tempest banging out some ultra weird shapes...

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A saxophone short, but mesmerising nonetheless [Knifeworld]

Psychedelic grooves, Zappa-style horn arrangements, intertwining guitar and bassoon lines, and layered vocal harmonies....

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Showing the depth of the songbook at Bury Met [Mostly Autumn]

Shaking up the setlist in such a radical way was a bold move, but a very welcome one...

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Amenra and Sólstafir Join Damnation Festival 2015

Sólstafir will be the first band in Damnation history to play the festival in two consecutive years...

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Loitered Lens : Theory of a Deadman

So much rock awesomeness on the stage, it almost spilled outside...

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June Gigs, London [Thunder on the Left]

Makes you want to jump behind the wheel of the Mustang and hit the road on a prolonged killing spree. ...

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Loitered Lens : Beasts [Beasts]

Beasts soften the discordant minor melodies and double bass drum pedals of doom with catchy guitar riffs and shoegazer style vocals....

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Grunged Up and Greasy, Beast of Eden [Beasts]

Beasts have the discordant minor melodies and double bass drum pedals of doom softened by catchy guitar riffs and shoegazer style vocals....

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Loitered Lens : Marc Almond

Joined by guitarist Neal X, formerly of Sigue Sigue Sputnik, it was as if the past 30 years had just been a bad dream' Marc Almond...

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Undiminished Diva [Marc Almond]

His ability to produce the heartbroken diva performance is undiminished....

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A Solid day of Metal Misbehaviour : Impericon Festival

If you aren’t familiar with Manchester Academy, it’s like a music-y Hogwarts… every time you visit, it’s sprouted a few new performance spaces and the butterbeer’s gone up another six quid....

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Autechre live, Ticket Presale

SOUNDCRASH PRESENTS AUTECHRE LIVE + SPECIAL GUESTS - OBJEKT, POWELL, RUSELL_HOWELL + ROB_HALL...

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Taking the Tablets, Popping the Blues [Blues Pills]

Psychedelic riffs chimed out and drifted over the O2 like clouds of incense then metamorphasised into groovy guitar solos...

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Don’t Blame Bonamassa : Tours, Tickets and Touts

PR and marketing people know full well how to get their talent to the right audience but while much of this can be done for free, more often than not someone, somewhere, sometime will have to sign a...

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van Giersbergen Gently Storms The Garage [The Gentle Storm]

Her charisma and remarkable voice dominated the stage throughout...

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Girls can growl! [Devilskin]

Hugs were had, drinks spilled and firm handshakes shook....

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His Hobo Cabaret [Seasick Steve]

The downhome drawl, the dungarees, the hobo stories, the homemade instruments. Seasick Steve Live @ Eventim Apollo, London. April 14th 2015....

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Courtney Barnett likes chairs

Courtney Barnett's songs are like diary entries, written to be sung to a captivated audience...

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Essence of old school rock [The Amorettes]

Over all too soon, leaving just telltale scuff marks, a ringing in the ears and the faint smell of perfume ...

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