The Black Keys with Band of Skulls
Share 7/2/12 Manchester 02 Apollo Band of Skulls – No nonsense, no crowd-pleasing. No facades or fabrications. No pyrotechnics. Let the music speak for itself. Kings of Leon with a female, quirky addition. Dirty riffs. Grungy guitars. Dark, dingy atmosphere created for an un- reactive crowd. The Black Keys – Flashing lights. Mixing...
Review: Chinawoman – For you I want to be real
Share And let you in on the deal* I went to see Patrick Wolf at one of his last shows in Germany in November 2011. The pre-act was a band called CHINAWOMAN and that was really almost enough to make me be late on purpose. But I was early (coming straight from work), stood in...
James Lavelle (UNKLE) interview
Share DJ giant JAMES LAVELLE steps up to the big pink plate to talk art, DIY record labels and unmasking himself from the UNKLE outfit. With a whole host of records under his belt, and a phone book stretching from Ian Brown and Beck to Lupe Fiasco, Lavelle reflects wisely as a veteran of music....
Saturday Afternoon Tea Dances with Greenwich Dance
Share Greenwich Dance has just embarked on a trial run of three themed tea dances. While Tea Dances have been held every Saturday in the Borough Hall for decades, they have become increasingly popular with younger attendees, and so GDA have responded with a set programme of themed events, with live music, decorations and refreshments...
Louden Swain – ‘Eskimo’ Album Review
Share Ten years is a long time in the music industry. Genres can change and evolve, styles can come and go, and with their upcoming release, Eskimo, Louden Swain are showing the world just how much difference a decade can make. From the opening bars of the first track, it’s clear that this isn’t an...
The Day the Music Died (and they were singing)
Share As Don McLean sings in American Pie, the line becomes title to the new exhibition at Proud Galleries, Camden, on an extended show from 14th December 2011 until 4th March 2012. Suggesting a time when not merely music but mainly a musician has died, this collection plays a tribute to the vast circle of...
Blectum from Blechdom at The Vortex Jazz Club
Share The candlelit, murmuring atmosphere inside Dalston’s Vortex Jazz Club belies its often dexterous, wildcard event programming. Tonight is a case in point, with an extremely rare performance from manic noiseniks Blectum from Blechdom. First up though, are the equally intense Maria & The Mirrors: a Mexican stand-off specialising in chthonic call and response. Twin...
Genuine Magic, Macabre included: ‘Murmurs’.
Share Strolling along Southbank, the magic of Christmas feels somewhat dampened by the obligatory sparkled tat on offer in the faux Germanic market and the sad fact that my friend and I cannot quite justify £5 for a minute serving of mulled wine. The lights of Westminster reflected on the dark Thames and our...
Interview with The Attic Sleepers
Share Band Name: The Attic Sleepers Where are you based and what area do you play in? We are based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Link to your website: www.theatticsleepers.com (coming soon) http://theatticsleepers.bandcamp.com/ http://www.facebook.com/theatticsleepers How many years has your band been together/ have you been performing? We’ve been together for a year and a...
Interview: Odissi Ensemble
Share Interview with Katie Ryan – Odissi Ensemble When did you discover Odissi? I was introduced to Odissi by Sanjeevini Dutta who ran an after-school club at my primary school in Bedford. At that time Kadam were a community dance organisation based in Bedford – now they have moved to the Hat Factory in Luton...
B is for breaks, bass and Bristol
Share Bristol for some may bring to mind the cake topping of Clifton Village, the Suspension Bridge and quaint Georgian buildings, but the city has a dark underside which is reflected in the diverse music scene. The elusive ‘Bristol Sound’ has put the city firmly on the UK’s musical map, and has showcased a darker...
Review of Forced Entertainment’s ‘Void Story’, Contact Theatre, 17/11/2011
Share “I think we need anti-depressants” Forced Entertainment’s latest offering is an innovative, visually stunning experiment in digital collage and sound. The piece is presented as a hybrid of live radio play and a ‘graphic novel come to life’. Richard Lowdon’s minimal recording studio is atmospheric without being distracting. Four voice actors are individually spot-lit...
The Tragic Death of Whimsy in Tights
Share photo credit: violscraper Few twenty-two year olds could call themselves ballet aficionados. I am not among those few. As a child we had an old family friend, Barbara, whose children were grown up and childless. Lacking grandchildren of her own to spoil, she would take us to a show every Christmas as a...
Plastikman 1.5 at Brixton Academy
Share Richie Hawtin has recently marketed himself as being at the forefront of techno innovation, so his revival last year of Plastikman, his somewhat less suave 1990s pseudonym, came as quite a surprising career-move. Hopes for the bespectacled no-nonsense days of yore were soon dashed, however, with promo pics of the 41-year-old sporting a sleek...
David Lynch’s “Crazy Clown Time”
Share David Lynch delivers a sprawling electronic first album laced with an edgy junkyard backdrop and nightmare undertones. Reminiscent of the soundtrack to one of his films, Crazy Clown Town is a cluttered trudge through a drunken dreamscape. With the sound of clanking tin cans and nightmare echoes haunting the background of a fantastic array...
Colorama: Live at Luigi’s
Share There are certain things you might expect to find in the basement of an Italian restaurant: boxes of packaged spaghetti, some olives, a terrified cat. One thing I did not expect to find was Welsh psychedelic folk group Colorama performing one of the most captivating indie gigs I have seen all year. Though the...
Free download for all readers: Ross and the Wrongen’s Summer Sun
Share Exciting news, today we have a free download for all our readers. Daylight Saving Time has ended, the days are growing shorter, and we’re all yearning for summer again. Ross and the Wrongens are a UK quintet with more than a hint of 60′s Brit pop to their sound, and we’ve got the free download of...
Can you be a good man and a Nazi?: Review of C P Taylor’s ‘Good’
Share “All that is necessary for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing” – Edmund Burke Denial, despair, and moral compromise are the overarching themes of CP Taylor’s Good, “the story of how a ‘good’ man gets caught up in the nightmare of the Third Reich.” Professor Halder (Adrian Rawlins) is a literature...
Glasgow Showcases Seven Nights of Music
Share “Seven Nights in a Row” is an arts project which aims to document seven days and nights of Glasgow music. The blog took to life initially as a fourth year University project a couple of weeks ago. Until the 10th of December, when the project kicks off in full, numerous reviews, previews and interviews...
The Ting Tings: Live at Kings College London
Share The Ting Tings stormed the stage at Kings College London this week to the point where I considered the venue too small for them. The dirty pop urchins were initially subdued while strumming their way through two cracking, rock openers from second album Sounds From Nowheresville. Katie White’s singing and movements were restrained to...
A Hawk & A Hacksaw: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
Share Dashing into those strange but wonderfully comforting concrete arms of the Barbican Centre from the cold rain, I soon discovered that most of the guests at Barbican Centre on this drizzly December evening were in attendance to hear the music of New Mexico duo, A Hawk & A Hacksaw; a uncommon act to be...
Friendly Fires @ Brixton Academy
Share Screw Jagger, I want the moves like Ed MacFarlane. The Friendly Fires frontman can certainly bust a groove; leaping, strutting and jiving around the Brixton Academy stage on Thursday night, MacFarlane’s unique style of ‘sexy-in-an-uncool-way’ bopping was as infectious as his band’s delicious and shiny melodies, bursting unfathomably loud around the Academy like a...
Misty in Roots at The Picket, Jamaica Street, Liverpool
Share Even through the metal slats of The Picket’s musical palisade, it’s plain to see the night is one of promise. The smoking yard is already frothing with skin heads, wizened Rastafarians, and the sensuous overflow of some mind blowing Ragga’s own Caribbean cooking… shabba. The Picket itself seemed to be watching the sand drop...
Musicians and bands – Self-interview yourself for The Flaneur
Share Musicians – if you would like to be featured in our self-interview feature then we would love to hear from you. 1. Copy the following questions. 2. Add your answers after each question. 3. Email your questions and answers along with two images of your work and a photo of you to musicinterview@flaneur.me.uk with...
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