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Art Ensemble of Chicago: Roundhouse, London

Live Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 17 March 1982

IT MAY BE impossible for the outsider to decode the arcane rituals which accompany a performance by the Art Ensemble of Chicago, and which the ...

Lenny Kravitz: Roundhouse, London

Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 30 September 2014

LENNY KRAVITZ's iTunes Festival show, a packed and sweltering affair, was effectively the launch party for his new album Strut, which is big on raunchy ...

Mansun: Brighton Beach, Leeds

Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 12 March 1997

ONCE UPON a time, modernists (ha!) fought running battles with rockers along the seafront at Brighton; now their descendants congregate at Brighton Beach in, um, ...

Mull Historical Society: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London

Live Review by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 7 April 2003

ALTHOUGH COLIN MACINTYRE claims that there are no record shops on the isle of Mull, that doesn't appear to have prevented him from squeezing a ...

Nik Kershaw, Kim Wilde, Drum Theatre, Belouis Some: Nik Kershaw, Kim Wilde, Belouis Some, Drum Theatre: Royal Albert Hall, London

Live Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 23 April 1986

Yielding to the star machine ...

Lykke Li: Village Underground, EC2

Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 13 May 2014

IN LYKKE LI's poetically gloomy world view, love is a dark rainbow of despair with a big pot of bitter disappointment at the end. At ...

Icehouse: Arena, Rotterdam

Live Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 19 March 1983

Oz is forgiven ...

Iggy Pop: Royal Albert Hall, London

Live Review by Julian Marszalek, The Quietus, 16 May 2016

Iggy Pop is bloodied but unbowed when he leaves the stage of the RAH says Julian Marszalek. ...

Steeleye Span: St. George's, Bristol

Live Review by Stephen Dalton, loudersound.com, 27 January 2016

The masters of English folk rock keep moving forward ...

Winkies, The: The Winkies: Kings Road Theatre, London

Live Review by Ed Jones, Melody Maker, 1 February 1975

BY FAR THE MOST SUCCESSFUL MOMENTS of The Winkies' concert at the King's Road Theatre, London, on Sunday night came during the performances of two ...

Steve Harley at the Hammersmith Odeon

Live Review by Max Bell, NME, 19 April 1975

INSIDE THE HALL you could tell it would be one of those nights. Row upon row of bowler-hatted disciples clutched onto their Harley scarves in ...

Be-Bop Deluxe at Aylesbury

Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 9 August 1975

THE FIRST THING that hits you when you see Be-Bop Deluxe in their current incarnation (or, for that matter, listen to said incarnation's Futurama album ...

The Police: Nottingham City Hall

Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, NME, 7 January 1984

RICHARD COOK’S extraordinary vision of The Police (NME, 2nd Dec.) prompts one to reconsider the profound difference between The Police – those awful sing-a-long-a-suicides ‘So ...

Defunkt: Embassy Club, London

Live Review by Ian Penman, NME, 6 June 1981

Make my funk the D-funkt ...

Mott The Hoople, New York Dolls: Felt Forum, New York NY

Live Review by Dan Nooger, The Village Voice, 9 August 1973

MOTT THE Hoople is a British all-rock band, 'All the Young Dudes' of course. But they're about to break really big, with 'Honaloochie Boogie' already ...

Psychedelic Furs, The: Psychedelic Furs: The Ritz, New York NY

Live Review by J.D. Considine, Musician, March 1983

RICHARD BUTLER stalks to his microphone, a vision in beige. While the other six Psychedelic Furs take their places decked out in the standard postpunk ...

Morrissey in Manchester

Live Review by Rob Hughes, Daily Telegraph, 21 August 2016

THESE ARE CURIOUS TIMES for Morrissey watchers. Last year's List Of The Lost was an excruciating attempt at a first novel, while his recent declaration ...

Ian Hunter, Mick Ronson: Hunter Ronson at Hammersmith Odeon

Live Review by Chris Salewicz, NME, 12 April 1975

SHUCKS. TO THINK it's well over a year now since I last saw Ian Hunter and the whole Hoople caboodle in this very same theatre ...

Generation X: Lyceum, London

Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 3 March 1979

MEDALS FOR bravery should be struck for Billy Idol and his mates in Generation X. Would you, dear reader, like to stand on a stage, ...

The Jayhawks: Riviera Theatre, Chicago

Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, September 1997

DESPITE SERIOUS competition from an important Chicago Bulls game, the gilded relic that is the Riviera is close to packed tonight for a double-header by ...


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