“As the curtain comes down on the Warehouse Project’s Store Street residency, where they go from here is anyone’s guess – but one thing that’s guaranteed is that there’ll be a hell of a lot of people following them wherever they end up. Here’s to hoping that Modeselektor and their chums will join them for the ride...”
More / (15.12.11)
“It is always a challenge to give an accurate review of an artist when they play the Union Chapel; it’s simply too gorgeous a venue. The problem is exacerbated in Thurston Moore’s case as the album he’s touring, Demolished Thoughts is just as remarkable as the architecture of the chapel: nuanced yet bombastic, subtle yet blissful...”
More / (13.12.11)
“It’s not every day a genuine piece of indie musical history plays a show, and even rarer a show that rocks as hard as this one...”
More / (12.12.11)
“One minute they sound as melancholy as Sparklehorse, the next as ceremonial as King Crimson...”
More / (06.12.11)
“Do I even need to say that Chic were fantastic? Because they were fantastic...”;
More / (17.11.11)
“There was no trace here of the cocooned self-indulgent minimalist electronica I was hoping for, no warm beats to gently nod and sway my head to, no whispering vocals to fall onto like a feather pillow under my ear...”
More / (17.11.11)
“The seemingly never ending wait for SY's stage time was made worse by having to endure one too many Reggaeton bands, however the crowd would the ease the tension by repeating its mantra of "Soneec Youth" every time there was a break in a bongo solo...”
More / (16.11.11)
“The show had been moved from the traditionally metal Underworld in Camden to the trendy XOYO near Shoreditch, which, alongside the proliferation of short haircuts, flannel shirts and thick-rimmed glasses in the crowd and tote bags at the merch stall, underlines how black metal has spread from the realm of copypasting Nietzsche quotes to monochrome MySpace profiles to that of browsing Pitchfork on a Macbook, soya latte in hand...”
More / (11.11.11)
“A repertoire of songs that pour from an open and healing wound; wounded rhymes both loud and quiet, staged and spontaneous, revealing and contained...”
More / (09.11.11)
“A gig that doesn’t win them any fans, but even-handedly, doesn’t cost them any...”;
More / (27.10.11)
“As a fan and a critic: I like the first album, I hadn’t written it off. So, please play some songs off it...”
More / (26.10.11)
“By the time Plan B is joined by Steve Cropper and the impeccable Warpaint for a version of ‘Soul Man’, you just have to think “I’m in Tennessee watching Plan B, Warpaint and Steve Cropper do ‘Soul Man’ at a whiskey distillery” and enjoy the ridiculousness of the situation to the full...”
More / (20.10.11)