With the worst of the weather now-departed -Â Bluedot welcomes Kraftwerk and Jarvis Cocker to the festivities. Day 2 of Bluedot featured performances from Kraftwerk, Jarvis Cocker, 808 State, DJ Peach, TVAM & Scalping
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Live: Bluedot Festival 2019 – Day One
Rain and raves at Bluedot Festival as Hot Chip and Kate Tempest turn up the energy. Local festivals like Parklife and Creamfields don a dance music legacy that kicked off in this part of the country not that long ago.
Live: Mumford & Sons, Dizzee Rascal, The Staves and Rosie Lowe @ All Points East
Mumford & Sons curate a beautiful day of music at All Points East featuring The Staves, Rosie Lowe, Dizzee Rascal and of course, Mumford & Sons.
Live: Bring Me The Horizon, Run The Jewels, Idles and more @ All Points East
London’s Victoria Park welcomes a brand new set of bands and fans alike to kickstart All Points East’s second weekend of music in the capital. All Points East is a 10 day festival of music & entertainment in East London’s Victoria Park featuring 6 headline shows & 4 days of free activities.
Live: YES FEST @ Yes, Manchester
Not yet a year old, Manchester’s best bar-cum-venue, YES, have the self-belief to invite some of indie’s biggest to help throw an all-day party YES FEST.
London Gigs and Events | wc May 13th
The Buzz Roundup: your guide to the London gigs to check out this week, featuring Alaskalaska, Art Brut, Club Kuru, The Specials, All Tvvins, Lola Kirke, W.H Lung, Hælos, Manic Street Preachers, Ten Tonnes, Eric Clapton and more.
London Gigs and Events | wc May 6th
The Buzz Roundup: your guide to the London gigs to check out this week, featuring The Horrors, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Ross From Friends, Four Tet, Richard Hawley, Frank Carter, Take That, Wu-Tang Klan, Peter Doherty and more.
Live: Crows @ YES, Manchester
UK punk is having a bit of a moment. Bands such as Idles, Goat Girl and Fontaines DC are riding waves of interest and angst made by young, answer-searching listeners in these testing times. Hot on their heels is Crows, born in London and tonight blessing Manchester’s freshman venue YES for a wholly hectic affair.
Live: Khartoum @ Laylow, London
Descending into the basement of Laylow, London’s new proclaimed hotspot, one could tell this was not your normal gig; the door people were too stylish, the stairway smell is too sweet and the bar specialised in cocktails. Furthermore, it was past 9.30pm and the first band had not yet graced the stage; this all filled me with trepidation and unhinged my doors of perception. I think, in hindsight, this is the MO of Khartoum, an up and coming band who skillfully moonlight as curators of high-quality music nights. Luckily, we were not teased much past 9.30pm, instead, we were thoroughly seduced by Fluxxx, a marriage of two conceptual music artists, namely Evelyn Drach and Roman Knows. This is a successful marriage and we saw it get consummated on stage with meaningful vocals stretched over …
Live: Idles @ Albert Hall, Manchester
Not many bands would have had as good an eighteen months as IDLES. Heralded as one of the artists of 2018 by the likes of KEXP and 6 Music, the success of second album Joy as an Act of Resistance has carried on into 2019, with a tour stop in Manchester’s Albert Hall tonight. They’re the punk band that can boast having some of Britain’s best choruses and most raucous performances, as well as the best album opener from last year. ‘Colossus’ rightly kicks things off; with its rim shots and bass shudders, the warning signs are there that things will get rowdy. When the clenching build-up finally falls into the frantic breakdown of “ah-ah-ah”-s and “yeah-yeah-yeah”-s, it releases an energy that lasts the rest of the night. They follow straight up with ‘Mother’, which has…