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London Afrobeat Collective : Floradita [Gig]

23/02/2013

All of the musicians are superb, they’re tight as hell, and they write and play great songs. And with the number of baritone sax solos on offer, I leave a very happy man. ...

Loitered Lens : Neurotic Mass Movement

17/02/2013

Photographer Carl Batson captures Neurotic Mass Movement onstage....

Blue Coupe : Live

10/02/2013

The new material stands up well alongside the old, and marked them out as something far more than a mere nostalgia act, rather a band who still have something to say....

Patrick Wolf : Live, Teatro Lara, Madrid

05/02/2013

'Sometimes I'm a fuckup', he explains, 'but I kinda think that's what you like about me'....

I do feel like I want to be political but I’m not a super rhetorical political person but I do believe that music can be political, not in the sense that I want to sit down and write a song about a...

Meshuggah and Devin Townsend headline Brixton show.

30/01/2013

Meshuggah and The Devin Townsend Project co - headline show at O2 Academy Brixton 3rd May 2013...

Loitered Lens: Andreya Triana

29/01/2013

Photos of Andreya Triana supporting Macy Gray at KOKO, December 2012...

Loitered Lens: Reptile Youth

20/01/2013

Fired up, quite possibly by a pre-gig interview with Trebuchet's Sarah Corbett (in which they talked about the Arab Spring and the London riots) Reptile Youth went on to cane Hoxton silly(er)....

Django Django: Shepherds Bush Empire [Live]

06/01/2013

The world outside could’ve been on fire for all we knew, no one cared though, we were sweating inside. So was the band. So were the walls. Django Django: Shepherds Bush Empire....

Steve Harley: HMV Forum [Live]

02/01/2013

His songs were moderately touching but not heart stopping. The middle-aged faithful in the all-seated audience appreciated the old songs and were quietly appreciative rather than dancing in the...

Loitered Lens: The Damned, Roundhouse

01/01/2013

Described by the photographer as a highlight of the year, the band saw the return of the best-known red beret-wearer this side of Amelie - Captain Sensible. Which, as the t-shirt hoisted aloft...

One Last List: Staff Picks for 2012

31/12/2012

One final list of 2012's highlights. Best events, albums and gigs of the year, as picked by Trebuchet staffers...

2012 Round-Up: Carl Byron Batson

28/12/2012

Each year for me is remembered in pictures, the continual broadening of my musical boundaries, and the unfathomable yeses and nos from band PR and management. Example: Shakin’ Stevens says no, Bill...

Loitered Lens: Steve Harley

23/12/2012

Steve Harley plays London's HMV Forum, December 13th 2012. Photos...

Patrick Wolf: The Sage, Gateshead [Live]

18/12/2012

There is an awe-filled silence throughout, punctuated by increasingly tearful sniffles and admirably contained sobs. ...

Ultraista: Cable Club [live]

13/12/2012

Trouble is, I’d rather see RADIOHEAD instead. And I don’t even like Radiohead....

Splashh, Wolf Alice, Big Deal: 100 Club [Live]

12/12/2012

With the tight jeans and pointed boots bands stagnating and the now middle-aged grebo bands reforming, East London hairdressers may hit hard times as the kids start growing out those crew cuts into...

Loitered Lens: Splashh

09/12/2012

Carl Byron Batson photographs Splashh at the 100 Club, London...

Hoxton (Alco) Hall

05/12/2012

'mysterious ‘Negro delineators’, trapeze artists, jugglers, singers, performing dogs and the like', Hoxton Hall has moved with the times since 1863....

Loitered Lens: The Hickey Underworld

02/12/2012

The Hickey Underworld performed a well-articulated set with some solid beats, great guitar work and a certainty in the vocal that was no doubt helped by the newly trimmed beard....

Loitered Lens: Two Gallants

25/11/2012

Two Gallants, who hail from sunny San Francisco but take their name from a short story in Dubliners by James Joyce, lack the laid-back attitude of the former but have an abundance of the intensity of...

Ben Caplan [Live]

19/11/2012

Ben Caplan would help me get over these prejudices, or at least not think about them too much. Partly because he has a beard you could catch a badger in, but most importantly, because he’s...

Loitered Lens: Nightwish

18/11/2012

‘this gig was really about the new vocalist. Nightwish are the sort of band where the songs are bigger than the singer, but their material can be challenging regardless of who is singing it....

Stabbing a Dead Horse

14/11/2012

"We have Mellotron! We are Prog again!". Tim Hall reports on the last night of the Stabbing a Dead Horse prog rock tour....

Loitered Lens: Zulu

11/11/2012

A wall of guitar sound with nods to Sonic Youth style discord, eighties goth type melodies and some fast and furious new wave drumming....

Nightwish: Brixton Academy [Live]

09/11/2012

Nightwish are the sort of band where the songs are bigger than the singer, but their material can be challenging regardless of who is singing it. Floor Jansen made a very strong impression,...

Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster: Electric Ballroom [Live]

09/11/2012

As they launch into the second song of the set, the filthy 'Celebrate Your Mother', members of the audience are already flinging themselves around and being dragged, sometimes minus footwear, over...

Loitered Lens: Jim Jones Revue

04/11/2012

A raucous night of leather-larynxed rock 'n' roll played to a crowd packed with music writers only too delighted to be blown away by a power act deserving of its hype. Jim Jones Revue....

Loitered Lens: Rival Sons, Electric Ballroom

28/10/2012

Rival Sons, live at Camden's Electric Ballroom, photographs. No wrongness....

Rival Sons: Electric Ballroom

23/10/2012

It’s not too difficult to understand the appeal of Rival Sons. They do classic rock extremely well. Jay Buchanan is without doubt a charismatic lead vocalist who, despite his relatively small...

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