Category: live music
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Festivals Galore: Our August Bank Holiday Weekend
As we seep back into our communal weeks of working gathering enough strength to take us through the day, we relieve some of the best moments that took place across the UK for our live music festival scene. With it being at the end of summer and the extended day off, August bank holiday weekend…
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Kings & Bears – Live 30/07 Review – music for the soul
The scene was set. Extended weekend at long-lost former home of Lincoln, Lincolnshire, UK. Setting the sights on the eclectic reggae-funk triage of Kings and Bears for a music reunion of sorts, it was a night to behold. There is a reason they have such a tightly-lipped reputation for their live shows.. no one else…
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Elbow and Easy Life announced for Glastonbury’s Pilton Party
Elbow and Easy Life have been announced as headliners for this year’s Glastonbury Pilton Party. Both acts will perform at the Worthy Farm bash, which will be held for the first time since 2019, on September 2. They also appeared on the Pyramid Stage during the summer. Every September, a few bands return to Worthy Farm for the annual bash, which is…
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Now THIS was a gig!
That’s right, folks. I went to a gig over the weekend. Peggy’s Skylight, Nottingham: Me and Mrs Jones, 24/07. A sunday afternoon jazz gig, no less. I had the absolute pleasure of witnessing a real power jazz trio produce some magnificent work at Nottingham’s very own convivial jazz club Peggy’s Skylight – all the while…
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have we lost our punk?
Revisiting the life and times of Pistols and Clash and their whole ‘scene’ got me thinking about where we are now with it all. Being punk now in 2022 is starkly different to what it meant to being punk in the 1970s. Of course, that will come naturally over time as music preferences bend and…
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