Category: Live

Deep in the recesses of a Brooklyn’s St. Ann & The Holy Trinity Church, Robin Pecknold of Fleet Foxes delivers a live set so good, ‘godlike’ is the only apt description.

The live power of OSees’ oeuvre lent itself to the roughness and rawness of this livestreamed set, and held enough of that live music feeling to really make you long to be back at something in-person and sweaty again.

Creating a palpable chemistry between herself and Melbourne’s Royal Exhibition Building, Barnett’s livestream performance blended warmth and grandeur, something maybe even a live performance couldn’t even deliver.

In aid of food banks local to Manchester, the bard of Salford greeted an online audience to a greatest-hits set of poetry, rekindling works which have, over time, become national treasures. Just like the man himself.

Taking to the River Thames with Paul Arthurs aka Bonehead in tow, LG’s livestream performance mixed his iconic braggadocio with a sprinkling of festive magic as he soared on a barge backed by an impressive setlist.

Despite the obvious emptiness, the band’s usual energy and excitement brought some brightness to Calder Valley, putting Trades Club on the map and making it feel more homely than ever.

The label founder’s Mixcloud Live set speaks further to the idea that the musicians featured on FlyLo’s projects and on Brainfeeder’s extensive discography, ostensibly disparate yet unmistakably interconnected, are more than just colleagues. They are family.

Capping off her blockbuster year with a whirlwind livestream performance of Future Nostalgia, Studio 2054, packed with choreography, collaboration and consummate professionalism, is the night out (well, in) we all needed.

Finding a meeting place between jazz and classical is not as easy as the formal elements might suggest, but in this one-off collaboration for EFG London Jazz Festival, Hutchings and Britten Sinfonia created a real accessibility to a performance which might otherwise have felt somewhat like another world.

While this may have been a celebration of his 50th birthday, Benson still possesses the carefree coolness of his youth as he appeared on stage with wild hair, rolled-up slacks and a vagabond swag.