Category: Live

Playing their seminal album IV in full, the German pioneers produced a sermon-like show of mesmerising sound collages, the kind that crowned them as the improvisational krautrock icons in the first place.

Seamless and in sync, Stereolab’s Roundhouse performance exhibited their art rock influence with characteristic ease.

Metronomy bring every shade of joy to London’s Colour Factory with a set of ‘indietronica’ greatest hits and more at their prismatic album launch show.

Providing sanctuary from the London gloom, Black Marble soundtracked – what felt like – an 80s coming-of-age romance movie in real time.

Bringing his signature dance-psych sound to Mayfield Depot midweek, Dan Snaith and co. succeeded in hypnotising the renowned rave.

Marling’s unaccompanied voice permeated every inch of the Roundhouse on Friday night, which felt more striking by having been absent from the space for so long.

Meatraffle’s show at Headrow House was an invitation into their haphazard world of politics that evades the seriousness and sneering of most other bands around right now, and had an unpredictable nature that all gigs should have.

Pound-for-pound, Dot To Dot is definitely one of the best day fests in the country, and its tightly-packed lineup of the UK’s most promising new bands made up for all the gigs we’ve missed out on in recent times.

Filling every nook and cranny of Printworks’ cacophonous venue, the Brighton prog-punks made the space their own as they transformed the nightclub into an immersive oddball rave.

As well as the obvious joy in being able to perform live again during his “rare, stripped-back” show, there is a particular gratitude John Grant displays in playing to a country that has embraced him so readily. At Bexhill’s De La Warr Pavilion, the gratitude was mutual.