Live
Lupe Fiasco at Koko, Camden
His latest concept album will have us believe that ‘cool’ is more than a case of relativity; it’s irrelevant.
el Guincho at White Heat, Soho
What you bear witness to at an el Guincho show is an absolute mind-fuck. Don’t expect to form a separate opinion of each track: you’ll either love him or hate him...
Ian Brown at Razzmatazz, Barcelona
Tonight Ian Brown opens with ‘I Wanna Be Adored’ and encores with ‘I Am The Resurrection’ and ‘F.E.A.R’. That’s all you should need to know about the indie Statesman’s Catalonian stop off.
Green Man Says Go! at Catch, Shoreditch
ShitDisco flirting with The Wombats. Sounds plain awful, doesn’t it? And it would be if it were totally accurate of what this Sheffield trio have to offer.
Bjork at Hammersmith Apollo
Resistant luminary. Unnecessary eccentric. Unfathomable songstress. Or perhaps the most fascinating, awe-inspiring and peerlessly gifted artist ever to open her mouth.
Thomas Tantrum at Kilburn Luminaire
Fronted by a post-scrubbed Courtney Love – who’s just fixed a whatever and coke from the bar and climbed atop the Luminaire stage – Goatee Beach’s Thomas Tantrum are...
Creamfields 2008, Hatton, Warrington
Last weekend, every ligger and swigger, every mover and shaker, every dance head, deck head and wreck head stumbled from their Saturday morning recovery position to converge on a Hatton field and ensure the weekend landed somewhere around Warrington.
The Green Man Festival 2008, Glanusk Park, Wales
With Glastonbury succumbing to the evils of corporate sponsorship and generally failing to capture the imagination, middle England needs a new folly on which to fritter away its disposable income.
Rage Against The Machine at Reading Festival
We’re such a cynical bunch these days that it’s a wonder how any band can be as cliché-heavy as Rage Against The Machine remain, whilst we swallow every word they rant and every statement they make.
Django Django at 93 Feet East, Shoreditch
Hundreds of bands play in London every week and for many of them it's their first gig. There they are, letting it all hang out. The culmination of all that practice, picking the right outfits,the right name and trying to sound like their heroes.
