Live Reviews

Adam Green - Adam Green - Live at Scala, London
He lounges casually on a park bench set on the stage under a Victorian gas street lamp and invites the most vocal and drunken fan to join him, wrapping her with a loving embrace before dancing a two-step.

Amsterdam - Live at The Life Cafe - Manchester
...everything is totally worthwhile, when you can recognise that life is often shit, that it is more than likely going to be a battle, but that it is a battle worth fighting and winning.

Ballboy - A Game OfTwo Halves
Her mind is filled with a images of a house in Dundee, of washing dishes, and the first time she had heard this song and she finds it hard to equate these people on stage with the band she first heard on a portable CD player

Belle & Sebastian - If she doesnt smile it will rain

And for while, for that moment you were busy watching him sing that and singing along, the phrase kids like you made sense; and you could even say it out loud - sing it - and no one would think of laughing at you.

Belle and Sebastian - Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister, Live at The Barbican
Sunday night’s concert was an almost formal affair and a far-cry from the last time I saw Belle and Sebastian, a year and a half ago in a tent at the Oxygen festival in County Kildare. They were one of the last acts of the night, so the tent was full of t

Beth Orton - Beth Orton - Live at Warwick Arts Centre
Beth cut a fragile figure on stage, with her very slight frame and fringe down just over her eyes. She didn't speak too much inbetween songs, despite saying how nice it was to be in Warwick.

Clayhill - Live at the Manchester Life Cafe
Then he opened his mouth and out fell that deep gravely Sunhouse voice. The music filled the room and the audience stood transfixed, slowly melting into the gentle music.

Decoration - Live at the Cuba Cafe - Manchester
here is a band that are poised on the edge of something, it can go one of many ways, it could be deserved greatness, it could be cruel obscurity, it could be simple inertia; but if you ask me I would, without exception tell you that this band should go di

Money Cant Buy Music - Money Can't Buy Music - Live at Nottingham Rescue Rooms
The show started with a song about hangovers, men wearing women's knickers and why you should always look both ways whenever crossing the road.

The Blue Aeroplanes - The Blue Aeroplanes - Live at Leicester Charlotte
Gerard is older these days of course, but he still has all the moves.

The Boyfriends - Live at Manchester Night and Day Cafe
The crashing, opening to ‘I Love You’ is supplemented with a squeal of feedback from Richards 335 and a steely stare from Martin. The song settles quickly and those present immediately know that this is something special.

The Donnas - Live at Manchester Academy
Whilst reclaiming some of their integrity The Donnas still make this sound something like the soundtrack to Meatloaf’s roller disco. It’s almost becoming a pale parody of what they have committed to tape, it’s what a loner teenager would hear whilst ridin

Undercut - Live at Manchester Night and Day Cafe
I often wonder just how much I have missed, just by not being in the right place at the right time, or even in the right place for a long enough time; but Undercut I did not miss