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  Almost five years to this exact day I set foot in the o2 Academy for the first time as a clueless teenager in the full throttles of my Brand New obsession. Jesse Lacey...

It's going to be hard to find the sweet spots for sound. We're in the main arch tonight for Roots Manuva, and it's busy. The Arches is literally a series of railway arches...

Hope Sandoval will grace us at Field Day in June and only this week Gwen Stefani was all smiles in studio photos, flanked by the rest of No Doubt. So if 2012 is the year of not...

Stepping into The Shacky's icy cold room (or 'dance hall' as they affectionately call it, in reference to its former glory) at the start of the evening, it was little wonder that...

Tennis began life as one of many boy-girl duos making lo-fi pop music, but on the day that they release their more mature sophomore album Young & Old they show up at the...

There are some bands on this earth that as good as they are and as many great songs as they release will always remain under the radar buoyed by blogs and criminally underrated....

The Dropkick Murphys have a reputation as the hardest hitting purveyors of Celtic Punk around, and on their return to London after an absence of a couple of years they more than...

'Support Act: TBC' – This arrangement of 13 individually-innocuous letters is enough for one to get bleary-eyed and start hearing Bernard Herrmann's strident violins from the...

It's a funny old thing, gig reviewing. Very often there is a feel of the same old, same old, with a few mediocre supports and a headliner trotting out the same set they've played...

As venues and performers go, the combination of Soho's legendary Jazz bar, Ronnie Scott's, mixed with the vivacity of the now 70 year-old Martha Reeves, is about as good as it...

After 103 live performances in the UK, Wednesday night saw Norway's finest, the Casiokids, finally pop their Cambridge cherry. For a band that had previously described...

It was near on impossible for Lanterns On The Lake to make a theatrical entrance to match the J2 theatre stage this evening. The reason being the Newcastle six-piece had spent...

The Social might be operated by Heavenly Recordings, but tonight's show is a City Slang double bill, with labelmates Dear Reader and Laura Gibson getting together to launch their...

I've never really been one for rituals – or at least not conscious ones – as they're, for me, inextricably linked with the confessed put-on-left-sock-first mindlessness of...

It's a Thursday night in Dalston. The Vortex. The musicians arrive, after everyone else. The gig was supposed to start at 8.30, it's 9pm. It's jazz. So far, so good. The crowd is...