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Oasis, Supergrass: Wembley Arena, London

Live Review by Robin Bresnark, Melody Maker, 3 January 1998

DURACELL-ING THEMSELVES SHORT? ...

Bernard Butler: Upstairs At The Garage, London

Live Review by Robin Bresnark, Melody Maker, 24 January 1998

BERNARD'S GOT a reputation. Grumpy, petulant sod, chip on his shoulder big enough to end a potato famine. But, in the Suede heyday, he used ...

Beck, Verve, The: The Verve, Beck: Haigh Hall, Wigan

Live Review by Dave Simpson, Melody Maker, May 1998

HAIGH DUDE! ...

Gomez: Dingwalls, London

Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 2 May 1998

Bodysnatchers play the blues ...

Shirley Bassey: A Real Big Splendour — Shirley Bassey: Royal Festival Hall, London

Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 13 June 1998

Only one woman can out-oomph Diana Ross. Caroline Sullivan salutes Shirley Bassey ...

Oasis: First Union Center, Philadelphia

Live Review by Lucy O'Brien, Q, February 2000

Oasis's American concerts provided tantalising glimpses of their sprightlier, less bald new direction. Lucy O’Brien was there. ...

Rickie Lee Jones at the Jazz Cafe

Live Review by Ian Penman, The Guardian, 10 February 2001

RICKIE LEE JONES is something of an anomaly. Her latest album, It's Like This, has just been nominated for a Grammy – but how many ...

Paul Weller: Royal Albert Hall, London

Live Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, February 2002

HE COMES on jaunty, with a skip in his step, looking cool, refreshed, dapper, an upbeat northern soul soundtrack still ringing round the hall. He ...

Josh Rouse: Bush Hall, London

Live Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, May 2004

ROUSE CLOSES the first of two nights here with a version of Neil Young's 'For The Turnstiles' so intense and intimate that when he sings ...

Amp Fiddler, Pete Doherty, Cazals, Simon Bookish: Amp Fiddler: Jazz Café, London; Pete Doherty, Cazalz, Simon Bookish: Stunners International, Great Eastern Hotel, London

Live Review by Simon Price, Independent on Sunday, 9 January 2005

I'd rather be funky than a junkie ...

Paul Westerberg: Controlled Chaos

Live Review by Bill Holdship, LA CityBeat, 3 March 2005

At Paul Westerberg’s show, rock energy and stage entropy wrestle to a draw ...

Arctic Monkeys: Magna Centre, Rotherham

Live Review by Pete Paphides, The Times, 24 April 2006

SPEND AN hour in the company of Britain's hottest young band and an inescapable irony heaves into view. How is it that a frontman with ...

Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham: The Grey Eagle, Asheville, NC

Live Review by Fred Mills, Harp, 30 April 2006

"THIS IS rock 'n' roll for the older set – we're all sitting down, reading the lyrics..." ...

Steve Winwood: Scala, London

Live Review by John L. Walters, The Guardian, 23 May 2008

A QUIET LEGEND before he was even out of his teens, Steve Winwood is one of a handful of musicians who shaped the way rock ...

Muse: Royal Albert Hall, London ****

Live Review by Paul Elliott, Q, June 2008

Euphoric fundraiser. Big organ included. ...

Kate Nash: Village Underground, London

Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 23 April 2010

Growing up and away from Lily ...

Rihanna: LG Arena, Birmingham

Live Review by Pete Paphides, The Times, 10 May 2010

IF 2008 WAS the year in which Rihanna consolidated her status as a global pop phenomenon and 2009 the year that she came back stronger ...

Paul Weller: Royal Albert Hall, London

Live Review by Pete Paphides, The Times, 26 May 2010

WITH WILD WOOD, in 1993, Paul Weller rediscovered his mojo just in time to soak up a few plaudits as Britpop's tribal elder. In snobbier ...

Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck: Jeff Beck/Eric Clapton: Madison Square Garden, NYC

Live Review by Kris DiLorenzo, Rock's Backpages, 29 June 2010

I DON'T KNOW who started that "Clapton is God" business. God is clearly Jeff Beck. ...

Adele: Academy, Leeds

Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 15 April 2011

EVEN IF Adele Adkins's record-breaking 11 weeks at the top of the album chart ends on Sunday – and it looks like the Foo Fighters ...