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Everything Everything, Public Service Broadcasting, Ed Harcourt, The Carnabys and more have been confirmed to play the Music Venue Trust’s #FIGHTBACK show at The Roundhouse on 18 October to help raise awareness for the continuous threat of closure to the live music circuit. Read more: Music Venue Trust announce huge line-up for #FIGHTBACK
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Last Friday the Music Venue Trust announced they’ll be holding a gig to support the fight against venue closures around the UK. The venue: London’s Roundhouse. The artists? Not booked. Lighting and sound? Not booked. So why should you buy tickets for this? Let me tell you why: You’ll help save the UK’s live music…
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On Wednesday night The Libertines played London’s O2 Academy Brixton for Unity Rocks and blew the roof of the place with a sweaty and messy, but just as epic, Libs party. A little while ago, Libertines drummer Gary Powell set up Unity Rocks, a music-led charity to support Hope not Hate who have set their…
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After a run of shows and festival appearances with Brian Fallon and The Crowes it was time for Jared Hart to head out on tour all by himself. The Scandals front man released his solo album Past Lives & Pass Lines in November last year and had since been opening for Brian at a few…
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Alex Turner and best pal Miles Kane, aka The Last Shadow Puppets, return from an eight-year hiatus to give us everything we’ve come to expect and more at Alexandra Palace. The second of two massive nights at London’s Ally Pally finish off The Last Shadow Puppet’s UK summer tour celebrating their return to the stage,…
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Remember a few weeks ago when I wrote about this ridiculously talented new band Glass Peaks? It was apparent then, and has only continued, that these guys are headed for great things. They’ve released their first single yesterday – official, on iTunes and all. How exciting is that?? And to celebrate, as they should, they…
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Last night was a little bit special. To celebrate Ben Morse’s photo exhibition of 8 years on the road with Frank Turner at House of Vans, Frank took the stage and the whole shindig ended up being something close to heaven for Frank Turner fans. The lucky ballot winners gathered underneath Waterloo station, in the…
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It’s a warm summer night in Berlin. We’re stood outside the gates of Berlin’s Olympic Stadium waiting for doors to open to do the one thing we never tire of – seeing Bruce Springsteen live. Sunday night, it’s warm and we’re sorted in our Springsteen fan shirts for the night. There’s just nothing better than…
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You know that one band you love because you grew up listening to them? That’s Bruce Springsteen for me. My parents have always listened to them and even went to his only concert in East Germany in 1988 with 300,000 people when I was just two (now you know how old I am, big deal)…
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It was a late and sweaty one at Dingwalls this Wednesday. London had been a scorcher for a few days and the non-existence of air conditioning and proper insulation turns basically all building in the UK into a sauna. In any case, that would be annoying. For a punk gig at Dingwalls it just made…
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High Fives & Stage Dives 