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Placebo: LA2, London

Live Review by Dave Simpson, Melody Maker, 4 January 1997

BRIAN GIGS ...

John Scofield, Punk-Funk All Stars: Punk-Funk All Stars/Trio Beyond: Barbican, London

Live Review by Mark Pringle, Rock's Backpages, 17 July 2006

GIG OF THE YEAR, without a doubt. To see a stage-full of musicians embrace the possibility of total chaos, of absolute failure is, in these ...

Status Quo: Whisky A Go Go, Los Angeles

Live Review by Harold Bronson, Melody Maker, 16 February 1974

LOS ANGELES – Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Rory Gallagher, and Manfred Mann's Earthband all graced the Whisky opening night to welcome Status Quo's second Los ...

Iggy Pop: Roseland, New York, NY

Live Review by Carol Cooper, Newsday, 11 April 1996

In 1967, when The Doors released their first LP, a young ex-drummer named James Osterberg formed the Psychedelic Stooges to voice the primal urges of ...

Beck: Wembley Arena, London ****

Live Review by Tom Cox, The Guardian, 25 March 2000

Chameleon colours ...

ABC: Moonlight Club, London

Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 16 May 1981

ABRACADABRA! ABC show up in London. Another banal crew of slight white boys clumsily revising their dance style for the sake of summer attention? A ...

Cousteau: Village Underground, New York

Live Review by Devon Powers, PopMatters, 23 May 2001

IN THIS ERA of the cult-status rockstar who can elicit bewilderment and terror just with facsimiles of his/her likeness, there's something to be said for ...

Cherry Vanilla, Iggy Pop, Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Wayne County & The Electric Chairs: Iggy Pop: Friar's, Aylesbury; Cherry Vanilla, Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers, Wayne Country, Siousxsie & The Banshees: The Roxy, London

Live Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 12 March 1977

Run with the pack as ace reporter Joe Varnish checks out Iggy Pop, The Heartbreakers, Cherry Vanilla, Wayne County and one or two local boys ...

Suede: Paradise, Boston MA

Live Review by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 5 June 1993

Hip, retro Suede: the no-grunge alternative ...

Cherry Vanilla: Studio One, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 1976

Cherry Vanilla's Act Moves West ...

Lewis Taylor: Ronnie Scott's, London

Live Review by Paul Sexton, The Times, 19 March 1997

Saving our soul ...

Depeche Mode, Fad Gadget: Ace Cinema, Brixton

Live Review by Mat Snow, New Musical Express, 8 January 1983

SOME OF the many moods of Mute were on show tonight. Label mates Depeche Mode and Fad Gadget would appear to be polar opposites, but ...

Daniel Johnston: The Devil and Daniel Johnston: Barbican, London

Live Review by Tim Cooper, The Independent, 18 April 2006

IT HAS TAKEN 25 years, almost as many albums and a lifetime of loneliness and pain, but Daniel Johnston is finally emerging from underground cult ...

Terence Trent D'Arby: Hammersmith Odeon, London

Live Review by Hugh Fielder, Sounds, 1 August 1987

LIP UP, TERRY! ...

Morrissey: Meltdown Festival at Royal Festival Hall, London 

Live Review by Robert Sandall, Daily Telegraph, 14 June 2004

WITH MORRISSEY booking the acts on this year's programme – as well as performing three shows himself, including this, the opening night – the Meltdown ...

Janelle Monáe: The Institute, Birmingham

Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 9 May 2014

"JANELLE! MON-ÁE!" yells the Birmingham crowd as the singer is pushed on in a wheelchair, wearing a straitjacket. She leaps up, throwing off the garment ...

D:Ream: Metropolitan University, Leeds

Live Review by Simon Warner, The Guardian, 5 February 1994

THE EARLY weeks of this year have seen D:Ream catapulted from the lower reaches of the Top 30 to the pinnacle of the charts with ...

Iggy Pop: The Factory, Manchester

Live Review by Jon Savage, Melody Maker, 28 April 1979

THE RETURN of the simian from oblivion: a club tour, much heralded by local media, ensures a leisure factory stretched to the limit of its ...

XTC: Music Machine

Live Review by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 16 July 1977

ONLY A FEW NIGHTS EARLIER there'd been a brawl in the Music Machine involving the Boom Town [sic] Rats, but in the cold atmosphere while ...

Kraftwerk: Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 1 August 1981

WHEN KRAFTWERK played the Santa Monica Civic in 1975, the German quartet's electronic music seemed like an academic aberration from the rock norm, and the ...


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