Oasis: 10 things we learned from the band’s triumphant Edinburgh show
They're selling Stoke Roses t-shirts in Primark. The Oasis industry has overtaken Edinburgh for the band’s three shows at the city’s Murrayfield stadium. If you forgot to book for the official Oasis 25...
View ArticleKendrick Lamar and SZA: a scintillating spectacle from two 21st century...
The last time Kendrick Lamar was in London – back in 2022 with The Big Steppers Tour – he came on like no one so much as David Bowie in his Thin White Duke era, bringing a stark, expressionist theatre...
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Neil Young, Yusuf/Cat Stevens, Van Morrison – BST Hyde Park, London, July 11,...
“What a world we got, folks,” says Neil Young, before crashing into “Throw Your Hatred Down”, a 1995 anti-war song he surely hoped wouldn’t still be so horribly relevant today. Young doesn’t say much...
View ArticleBlack Sabbath: Back To The Beginning, Villa Park, July 5, 2025
Those lucky enough to see Black Sabbath on their then-final The End tour back in 2016/17 (without original drummer Bill Ward) would have gone away happy knowing that this was three quarters of a band...
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Oasis, Principality Stadium, Cardiff, July 4, 2025
Long prior to the roar that greets their arrival onstage at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium, the noise around the return of Oasis has been deafening. Long prior to the roar that greets their arrival...
View ArticleBill Callahan – Earth Theatre, London, July 2
The worst of the heatwave has passed through London by the time Bill Callahan rolls into town, but it’s still sweltering in Earth’s cavernous art deco theatre. It’s packed in here, too: 720 people...
View ArticleFive of the best live sets we saw at Glastonbury 2025
Pulp(Pyramid Stage, Saturday) It’s been precisely thirty years and four days, Jarvis Cocker informs us, since Pulp walked onto the Pyramid Stage in 1995 to replace The Stone Roses as headliners, a...
View ArticleQuadrophenia: A Mod Ballet, Sadler’s Wells, London, June 26, 2025
Pete Townshend’s major rock operas – Tommy, Lifehouse and Quadrophenia – are a personal legacy he continues to wrestle with, repeatedly reviving and retranslating them into new forms. Quadrophenia...
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Lana Del Rey opens 2025 UK tour in Cardiff
Lana Del Rey opened her British tour in Cardiff last night, June 23, 2025. Here are our pick of five great moments from the show. Lana Del Rey opened her British tour in Cardiff last night, June 23,...
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Neil Young And The Chrome Hearts, Tiøren, Copenhagen, June 22, 2025
It’s 8pm on the button when Neil Young ambles on stage wearing a grey baseball cap, Maple Leaf t-shirt, check shirt and jeans, straps on his acoustic guitar and harmonica rig to deliver the first...
View ArticleWilco – Royal Albert Hall, London, June 22
On a night that Jeff Tweedy proclaims to be one of the best of his life, Wilco deliver a triumphant one-night stand at the Royal Albert Hall that confirms they are one of the most versatile and...
View ArticleBobby Weir & The Wolf Bros, Royal Albert Hall, London, June 21, 2025
The Deadheads have gathered in Hyde Park under the perfect blue skies of the Summer Solstice, a propitious prelude to Bobby Weir’s first UK gig in 22 years. While Weir and drummer Mickey Hart usually...
View ArticleReviewed! Pulp, The O2, London, June 13, 2025
Tonight, Jarvis Cocker tells the audience, is a “high pressure evening”. It’s Pulp’s first time playing The O2 – capacity: 20,000 – and the third night of their arena tour in support of new album More;...
View ArticleBob Dylan and Willie Nelson, Outlaw Music Festival, Hollywood Bowl, May 16
On a mild night in Hollywood, Bob Dylan is still not ready for his close-up. When the 83-year-old strikes up his band, stationed behind his upright piano and working his way through his Oscar-winning...
View ArticleBruce Springsteen And The E Street Band, Co-Op Live, Manchester, May 14, 2025
Bruce Springsteen has spoken recently about the responsibility of the artist in a turbulent world and he wastes no time putting those words into action tonight. He opens with an extraordinary monologue...
View ArticleFather John Misty, Royal Albert Hall, London, April 15, 2025
This is Josh Tillman’s debut at the Royal Albert Hall – or, as he tells the audience, the first time he’s ever even been in a room this distinguished – but it feels like the venue that Father John...
View ArticleSpiritualized, Barbican Hall, London, March 27, 2025
Things were very different in early 1995 when Spiritualized’s magnificent second album Pure Phase came out at the height of Britpop, reaching number 20 in the charts. But as Jason Pierce shows this...
View ArticleThe Who, Royal Albert Hall, London, March 27, 2025
It says a lot about Roger Daltrey’s support for the Teenage Cancer Trust that when The Who take the stage at the Royal Albert Hall it is the band’s first show for almost exactly a year – in fact, it’s...
View ArticleSex Pistols, Royal Albert Hall, London, March 24, 2025
Moments before the Sex Pistols launch into a scathing version of “Problems”, frontman Frank Carter tells the massed punks in the Royal Albert Hall that is the first time Steve Jones has ever visited...
View ArticleKim Deal, Barbican Hall, London, March 1, 2025
As one deal falls apart spectacularly in the Oval Office, a very different kind of Deal is bringing it all together across that big, beautiful ocean. US indie slacker heroine Kim Deal has taken over...
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