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DMA’s – O2 Guildhall Southampton
What more can I say about this band from Sydney? Every time I have seen DMA's live they just get better and better with tonight being no exception to that rule!
Truck Festival 2023
Oxford’s finest festival returned last weekend for its 26th edition at Hill Farm to a sold-out crowd of 25,000 revellers! The line-up is always a fine blend of indie, rock and alternative spheres which showcases the best in new and merging music along with established touring bands.
Arctic Monkeys – The Ageas Bowl
Tonight saw Arctic Monkeys drive ‘The Car’ tour into town to play The Ageas Bowl in front of a long sold out crowd. The Monkeys have so far travelled across the country taking in their hometown Sheffield and Manchester to name a few. It was a beautiful summers evening tonight with the sun illuminating the cricket ground perfectly.
DMAs – The Brook, Southampton
The Bank Holiday Bonanza saw DMAs arrive at The Brook in Southampton to play the first of their acoustic gigs in support of their latest album ‘How Many Dreams?’
Hamish Hawk – The Joiners
It had somehow been years since I was last at the Joiners, so a trip out to see…
Florence + The Machine – Bournemouth International Centre
The lights go down and there is a pure beam of white light that begins to emanate from the the back of the stage, blinding to an extent, before Flo entered to pure adulation and screams from the crowd. Florence moves straight into ‘Heaven Is Here’ a single from the ‘Dance Fever’ album, ‘King’ and ‘Ship To Wreck’ - that’s a pretty fine trio to open a show!
Gracie Abrams – The Level Nottingham
Last week, U.K. fans were swept away with dizzying surprise and delight as Gracie Abrams announced an impromptu, limited run of special, intimate acoustic shows in Southampton, London, and Nottingham.
UB40 – Wembley Arena
However UB40, who’ve ploughed very commercial tangents themselves amongst their fifty chart breaking singles, still retain some grit and homespun timbre. Forty three years since Chrissie Hynde spotted them in a Birmingham pub and asked them to support The Pretenders, the band is on its postponed 2021 tour, with its first non-Campbell frontman, Matt Doyle, formerly of Kioko, at the helm.
Black Country, New Road – Bush Hall
On a freezing cold west London night, Mercury-nominated Black Country, New Road took to a sold-out Bush Hall stage decorated in rudimentary and brightly coloured cardboard depictions of country scenes, dressed as humble country folk and to the tune of Dvorak's New World Symphony (aka the Hovis ad to those of a certain age). "Are you feeling pastoral?" Lewis Evans asks the audience.
Pale Waves – 02 Forum Kentish Town
The ripples Pale Waves make may not be especially original, but they create a huge swell and the Forum loves to surf them. This is down to electric, PVC clad front woman and force of nature, Heather Baron-Gracie. She's part Avril Lavagne, part Joan Jett and blonde for now, with the cadence in her voice of an indie Madonna.