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David Sylvian: Royal Festival Hall, London

Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, January 1996

ACOUSTIC GUITAR, DHOTI, sensible shoes. Who'd have thought it, back in the techno tailor's dummy days of lipstick, peroxide and synthesizers? ...

Phish: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London

Live Review by Max Bell, MOJO, April 1997

BECAUSE OF THEIR FOLLOWING, THE FACT that they laugh in the face of set-lists and encourage bootlegging, these Burlington blues boys are often compared to ...

Hall & Oates: White Hopes On Funk

Live Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 29 May 1976

Hall & Oates: Fairfield Hall, Croydon ...

Bob Marley & the Wailers: Hammersmith Odeon, London

Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 26 June 1976

RIOTS LAST NIGHT they said, marauding hordes of smart, mean kids swarming around getting illegal all over the place with property and the concession stands ...

Metallica: Creeping To The Cross: Metallica: Wembley Arena, London

Live Review by Paul Elliott, Sounds, 2 June 1990

'CREEPING DEATH'. Thrash 'n' roll. A Biblical tale of infanticide, spat like blood. In anyone else's language, this is apocalypse. For Metallica it is only ...

Mike Flowers Pops, The: The Mike Flowers Pops: Anson Rooms, Bristol University

Live Review by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 24 February 1996

TOUPEE AWAY! ...

Pet Shop Boys: Radio City Music Hall, New York NY

Live Review by Rob Tannenbaum, Rolling Stone, 30 May 1991

UNLESS ELVIS Presley reappears in Las Vegas, the curiosity and expectations that preceded the Pet Shop Boys' first American tour are unlikely to be equaled ...

Geordie, Sweet: Sweet, Geordie: Rainbow Theatre, London

Live Review by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 7 April 1973

Bitter Sweet ...

Hatfield And The North, Return to Forever: Return To Forever, Hatfield and the North: Rainbow Theatre, London

Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 23 March 1974

STRANGE THING about the Return To Forever gig at the Rainbow, and that was that the place seemed fuller than I've ever seen it before. ...

U2: Wembley Stadium, London

Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 23 August 1997

Bono and Co go big, only to come up with a lemon ...

Brinsley Schwarz, Gnidrolog, Lou Reed: Lou Reed, Brinsley Schwartz, Gnidrolog: King's Cross Cinema, London

Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 22 July 1972

THIS WAS one of the few gigs I can remember where all the acts deserved a full-length review to themselves. The teaming of Reed, Gnidrolog ...