Van Morrison’s music has a regular place on the London stage now, even when the man himself isn’t around. The Van Morrison Alumni Band features a dozen-plus musicians and singers who have recorded and performed with him over the decades – and some of whom still do. On 1 September, they launched an astonishing residency at London’s riverside…
After 16 years away, AFI brought their post-punk darkness to Birmingham O2 Institute on 24 August, as Emmie MacNevin bears witness
The US rockers stormed Cardiff Castle on 15 August with an anniversary celebration of noughties nostalgia, as Emmie MacNevin reports
For locals unwilling to pay $300 and up to see Bob Dylan mumble incomprehensibly for three hours later in the month, all roads led to Ringo, when the venerable Beatle arrived with his ever-reliable All-Starr Band at the Kiva for a great variety of hits old and young. One sensed in his audience’s greetings that there may have been a little something…
It’s not dark yet, but one never knows with the elder Mr Tambourine Man, so the faithful turned up in droves after a monstrous afternoon monsoon to see his Bobness – hunched over keyboard and flatteringly dressed in a black “slept in the park last night” hoodie – perform his peculiar alchemy once again. The drums and bass of Anton Fig and Tony Garn…
The friend I was supposed to attend the festival with had been knocked over by a cyclist and was on her way to hospital. Thankfully, she was able to message me, but my chances of having company for the day had suddenly disappeared.
Michelle Shocked played the Gilded Balloon Patter House on 6 August, and James Masterson took in her troubled tales
Nick Allan took in this year’s 2000 Trees Festival for RC, and here he presents the highlights from 10-11 July
An evening celebrating God Bless America: Best Of Thirsty saw Paul Davies partake in the rock spirit at London’s Soho Spice Of Life on 30 July
‘But it’s just karaoke without Rotten’ is often what you will hear from those lucky enough to catch the Sex Pistols first time around. Never Mind The Bollocks turns fifty years old this year and what better way to celebrate a global phenomenon? You tour it. In Full.
