Live Review: Leeds Festival 2013 – Saturday

With Reading and Leeds being the end of the summer and the end of the touring schedules for many bands it is the perfect place for them to have fun and put in one last brilliant set and make some good memories for themselves and the fans. And though I only attended for a day …

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Tramlines 2013 Review

Tramlines Festival 2013 was yet another success with over 70,000 people visiting the Steel City over the course of the weekend to catch plenty of acts from lots of different genres, from big acts to small bands there was something for everyone. I only managed to make it down to the festival on the Sunday …

Live Review: Beyonce at MEN Arena.

Beyonce is a woman who has built up such a successful career in music over the years that when she is onstage she demands attention and attention was what she received from the sold out Manchester Arena crowd tonight. The lucky ones who managed to get tickets for tonight’s outing of The Mrs Carter Show …

Live Review: PEACE at The Leadmill, Sheffield.

PEACE, SuperfoodThe Leadmill, Sheffield.19th April 2013.Tonight’s only support act Superfood had a very PEACE vibe going on and went down very well those who arrived early to see them. References to a lot of early 90’s alt/UK guitar bands with one song sounding very much like Garbage. Slow, drawn out vocals, layers of interesting guitar …

Live Review: Bastille at The Leadmill, Sheffield. 19th March 2013.

Bastille and To Kill A King.The Leadmill, Sheffield.19th March 2013.To Kill A King played a relatively short set featuring new single ‘Funeral’ which went down well with tonight’s crowd. Dan Smith from Bastille joined the band onstage to play ‘Choices’ a highlight of their set especially for big fans of To Kill A King and …

Live Review: Foals at Leeds MET Student Union, 9th March 2013.

FoalsLeeds MET Student Union9th March 2013After releasing a brilliant 3rd album last month charting at number 2, this ‘Holy Fire’ UK tour has been greeted with even more excitement and anticipation than usual from a band that always put on such a good live show. The lights go down and the intro music plays triggering …

Live Review: Foals at Queens Social Club, Sheffield. 28th November 2012.

Foals.Queens Social Club, Sheffield.28th November 2012.After quite a long delay caused by a power cut to the stage, Foals finally took to the stage half an hour later than planned but the wait was more than worth it. Starting off with a bit of medley entitled ‘Pavlov’ to get the crowd going but as soon …

Live Review: Tame Impala at Leadmill, Sheffield. 2nd November 2012.

Tame Impala, Young Dreams.The Leadmill, Sheffield.2nd November 2012, 8pm.The first act to take to the stage tonight sounded like a pared down Tame Impala crossed with early days Vampire Weekend. Young Dreams played around 8 songs and seemed quite humbled by the reaction of the crowd by the end of their set. For a pretty …

Live Review: Bastille at HMV Institute, Birmingham. 17th October 2012.

Bastille, Swiss Lips and Jay Brown.HMV Institute, Birmingham.17th October 2012, 6:30pm.First act, Jay Brown, was quite good but the quiet acoustic nature of the songs was a little bit lost through the technical issues troubling the beginning of their set. When Bastille lead singer Dan Smith joined them onstage for one song the crowd's attention …

Live Review: Leeds Festival 2012 – Sunday.

Festival Republic StageTheme Park were on quite early but they got this Sunday early afternoon crowd moving to their songs. Their indie dance sound capitalising on the current move away from traditional guitar bands to something with more rhythm to dance along to.London band Citizens! have done their tour of the festivals this summer and …