LUCID FRENZY JUNIOR

LANKUM Barbican, London Thurs 4th May If your idea of Irish folk is professionally genial types trilling “fiddle-de-i-de-o” in plastic Paddy...

Jazz Cafe, London Tues 18th April With Faust it’s not even you’re never sure what you’re going to get. Since the revival there’s been differ...

NINA NASTASIA Komedia Studio Theatre, Brighton Monday 3rd April Nina Nastasia is a New York singer-songwriter and longstanding John Peel fav...

FUCKED UP Patterns, Brighton Fri 17th March Recent releases from Canadian punk band Fucked Up have been, respectively, a long and involved m...

BURD ELLEN The Brunswick, Hove Fri 10th March I came across Burd Ellen the same way I did Fern Maddie, from the Guardian’s ten best folk al...

Cafe Oto, London Tues 21st Feb The first time… the only other time I saw Zoviet France was way back in the Nineties. At one of those DIY ar...

Apologies for the lack of a post last week. I was brought down by the left-wing economic establishment. Oh alright then, it was flu... THE R...

THE DELGADOS Concorde 2, Brighton Fri 20th Jan “Where you been?” someone shouts as they take the stage. He gets back a deadpan answer about ...

Concorde 2, Brighton, Thurs 18th Nov Shortly after the sad death of Nik Turner seemed just the right time to attend an Old Hippies Reunited...

MICHAEL ROTHER + FRIENDS CELEBRATE 50 YEARS OF NEU! Clapham Grand, London, Thurs 3rd Nov As I may have given away by now I’m something of ...

GILLA BAND Chalk, Brighton, Sun 23rd Oct I last wrote about Dublin-based noise rock outfit Gilla Band after they appeared in this very venue...