Category: Live

Despite news of a second lockdown bringing on further anxiety about the fate of the live music industry the day prior, Juanita Stein’s beautifully emotive, earthy, soul-warping world offered some brief respite during her livestream set on Sunday night.

With an unrivalled sense of empathy in a time of crisis, Richard Dawson made a detached livestream set from the belly of the Barbican feel comfortingly intimate.

With gorgeous visuals accompanying the band’s aloof performance, this felt like a step above the typical livestream set as the Oxford psych-pop group fully lean into the peculiar tendencies they’re known for.

On a damp night at the edge of lockdown, St. Pancras Old Church was a fitting venue for deathcrash’s hypnogogic wall of drone.

Bopping about on a bare, Robot Wars-resembling set, the still atmosphere throughout emphasised the need for Octavian’s melodic bars and often instrumental-focused tunes to be bounced off of a baying crowd with a huge sound system.

Anne Müller, Hatis Noit and Daniel Thorpe came together for a special performance as part of the eclectic billing of the EFG London Jazz Festival.

In a year where we’ve spent the majority of which confined to our bedrooms, Parks’ brand of intimate lo-fi bedroom pop has projected her to the fore of indie music. Her recent livestream for Dummy Mag demonstrated that where she feels at home.

Putting Working Mens Club to a room of people sitting in chairs seems like a satirical music video from the bands they were influenced by, but their socially distanced show was the most Rock ‘n’ Roll thing we’ve seen this year. Hands down.

Socially distanced, strangely civilised, but reminiscent of Anglo-French indie pioneers Stereolab in their spacey energy, The Orielles brought a scorching chemistry to Leeds’ Belgrave Music Hall across two individual shows.

Embracing the atmospheric darkness of a theatre performance, Perfume Genius’ intricate live set offers some breathtaking cinematic moments, reaching new emotional heights in what is the first faithful performance of his recent album Set My Heart On Fire Immediately.