Live
Nina Nastasia at The Roundhouse, Camden
Nina Nastasia has long floated on the periphery of our musical consciousness, quietly producing album after album of superb alternative folk.
Summer Sundae at De Montfort Hall, Leicester
Screaming toddlers scamper between comatose mounds of twentysomethings, sun-bathing parents cast a half-baked eye to track their careering kids - the other firmly planted on their pint of hearty real ale...
Jamie T at V Festial '08, Chelmsford
Don't ask how, but I've somehow ended up at the V Festival, Chemlsford. It's a wretched place where hairdressers cackle about seeing T4's Dave Berry on a golf cart...
Health at The Scala, Kings Cross
Before we spoke to Health for issue 2 of Loud And Quiet, we presumed they were something of chancers.
Secret Garden Party, secret location, Cambridgeshire
Secret Garden Party will change your life. It will change the way you see the world, the people in it and more importantly all other music festivals.
O Children at Dirty Bingo Vs Loud And Quiet, The Macbeth
It's like a flash-mob version of What's The Time, Mr Wolf. We turn one way and note that most of the Macbeth contingent must be on the roof terrace, doing their lungs no good, turn stage-ward to welcome the impeccably dressed O Children, and gulp! IT'S DINNER TIME!
Benicassim, Spain
'Fuck it! I’m gonna have a party!’ So they didn’t open this year’s Benicassim but Nada Surf frontman, Matthew Caws, captures the mood perfectly, and why not?
Glass Candy at Cargo, Shoreditch
Doll-faced songstress Ida No daintily kicks off her heels. Johnny, with his collar popped, outfitted like a Brooklynite from 1981, joins her. Portland duo Glass Candy have arrived.
Magik Markers at Cargo, Shorrditch
From behind the curtain separating the live venue from the rest of the bar, a four-note guitar riff rings out, pulling punters into the room almost magnetically.
Justice at Somerset House, London
Somerset House was once home to the Inland Revenue. Back then, maybe a taxman or two would whistle in time to the click-clacking of his typewriter, but that'd only be if no one was watching.
