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Pearl Jam: Warfield Theatre, San Francisco

Live Review by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 9 December 1993

THERE WAS NOTHING pedestrian about the first show of the Pearl Jam tour. ...

Belly: Garage, London

Live Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 4 February 1995

TUMMY GUNS ...

Rage Against The Machine: Roseland Ballroom, New York NY

Live Review by Evelyn McDonnell, Rolling Stone, 3 October 1996

AT ABOUT the same time Bob Dole was accepting the GOP's presidential nomination some 3,000 miles away, Rage Against the Machine drop-kicked 'People of the ...

Michael Jackson: The Starman Who Fell To Earth: Michael Jackson: Don Valley Stadium, Sheffield *****

Live Review by Paul Lester, Uncut, September 1997

THE MOST FAMOUS performer on Earth has just been introduced, as per protocol, as "the King Of Pop", by the Chief Barker of the Variety ...

Mark Owen: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London

Live Review by Robin Bresnark, Melody Maker, 22 November 1997

BOOM, BAH-kaddah, boom-kaddah-dakka-dah, screeee!!! ...

Sleater-Kinney: Cockpit, Leeds

Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 26 July 2000

IT’S HARD ENOUGH being a 21st-century, radical feminist post-punk band, but Sleater-Kinney have a further enemy in the sound system. "This is our fourth member," ...

Melanie C: St George's Hall, Bradford

Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 19 September 2000

OF THE MANY routes to solo stardom open to a Spice Girl, being a rock chick is not one of them. Just ask Mel C. ...

Dictators, The: The Dictators: live at El Sol, Madrid 24th November

Live Review by Lindsay Hutton, Rock's Backpages, 15 December 2001

HEY ANDY SHERNOFF! You tell us that your generation ain't the salvation of this R'n'R beastie but I beg to differ. ...

Queens of the Stone Age: Mean Fiddler, London

Live Review by Ian Winwood, Kerrang!, 6 July 2002

THERE ARE people everywhere. Crowded at the front of the stage, clogging the bar, hanging on the stair rails, queuing for the toilets. The room ...

Aerosmith: Starwood Amphitheatre, Tennessee

Live Review by Holly Gleason, Rock's Backpages, October 2002

"EVERY DAY, I LOOK in the mirror/ All these lines in my face gettin' clearer/ The past is gone..." It is a benediction, an acceptance, ...

Hayseed Dixie: Borderline, London

Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, The Guardian, 12 August 2004

"I'M HERE TO TESTIFY", says front man Barley Scotch in one of many beer-fuelled, between-song spiels, "that Hank Williams' 'Lost Highway' and AC/DC's 'Highway to ...

LeAnn Rimes: Birmingham NIA

Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 16 September 2004

GENERATIONS OF HAPLESS YOUNG MEN have been attracted by the archetypal "girl next door" on the grounds that beneath that innocent exterior lurks some undiscovered ...

Orson: Metropolitan University, Leeds

Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 5 June 2006

THE HOME OFFICE has more to worry about than escaped prisoners trying to attack us in our beds. Our communities are being invaded by floppy-haired, ...

Pavement, Flight of the Conchords: Flight of the Conchords: NIA, Birmingham/Pavement: Brixton Academy, London

Live Review by Simon Price, The Independent, 16 May 2010

Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie's anti-folk television duo are superstars of comic pastiche, now the Conchords show they're also top flight on stage. ...

Who, The: The Who: Barclays Centre, Brooklyn

Live Review by Ira Robbins, Rock's Backpages, 15 November 2012

I'VE BEEN AFFECTED in many ways by the thousand-plus rock concerts I've attended over the years. Not all of my reactions have been pleasant, and ...