Between listening to Deicide and Emperor this week I’ve been going mental for The National’s new album High Violet. I’ve had 4 favourite tracks already from this slow burning masterpiece! Last week I was lucky enough to see them twice, both at Camden’s Electric Ballroom and Royal Albert Hall.
Wandering the dark backstreets of Camden is not something I’d normally recommend to anyone but it is the only way you’ll find tonight’s venue. The Black Heart has proved itself to be a hidden gem of Camden Town by simply walking around the corner to find a giant black heart swinging from the wall. It’s the black cherry on the cake that stripped down ranchy blues rock duo She Keeps Bees are joining us tonight courtesy of The Allotment.
Friday night and I’m looking forward to a evening of brap and ‘money grabbing’ . I’m standing waiting for Hip Hop legends Dead Prez to come on stage. To my very pleasant surpise our own ‘ackney wide boy and one of my favourite UK MC’s Klashnekoff is providing us with some very quick little uk [...]
Been waiting a long time to see the groove laiden kings of blues rock Clutch. Bad luck has prevented me getting around to see them live for nye on 6 years. So tonight I’m excited to be shooting them at my second home KOKO. I’m not just treated to Clutch tonight though oh no. Kylesa, [...]
I’m at Club NME’s very own Halloween event at the KOKO tonight. I’m still in my civies and I’m clearly not out to party, I’ve got a face like slapped arse. I missed the first 3 songs of Invasion after being accosted by women who “worked for Saatchi and Saatchi” who needed money for a cab home/crack. I [...]
Tonight Max Richter is playing at London’s Union Chapel as part of the Marginalised festival. The festival has been lucky enough to have such artists as Gavin Bryars and Michael Nyman. The Marginalised festival is in its second year supporting the charity Margins, a charity based right here in the Union Chapel. Margins helps the [...]
It’s the morning after and I’m still in shock. Gore metal Legend’s put on a show which can only be described as biblical last night. With mosh pits like paintings depicting hell and the relentless brutality of Cannibal Corpse’s riffage, I feel aurally destroyed . The Photo pit was like the plunge pool at the end [...]
What keeps me going to watch and photograph HEALTH is pretty much the same as makes people peer through their fingers when watching horror movies. HEALTH are so loud they make you feel like your ears are bleeding. Their unique blend of noise, dance and airy psychedelic vocals has every hipster in town out for [...]
Fresh from this summer’s Big Chill Festival, Keith Kenniff has hit London’s shores at Islington’s Union Chapel, a functioning church on Highbury Corner. With its church acoustics it is very much a quirky venue for this evening’s event, put on by Arctic Circle radio in association with our very own homegrown Type Records.
The atmosphere in [...]