Archives for the ‘Live Reviews’ Category

Jay Reatard’s Last Rockin’ Blast in London

By Craig Smith • Feb 15th, 2010 • Category: Live Reviews

Musicians die. Sometimes quite unexpectedly, most before their time, but not often enough for your brain to idle between song, between string changes or tunings to wonder “will this be the last time?”. You don’t, because you’re too busy enjoying the moment. Having witnessed Jay Reatard play what would be his last ever show in London, he was anything but the vision of a man kicking out the last of his jams.



Where The Wild Beasts Are

By Craig Smith • Oct 27th, 2009 • Category: Live Reviews

Having given us one of the most lurid and arresting albums all year in Two Dancers, the Leeds-based Wild Beasts are let loose on London and give us such a performance that we (as they say) still got the taste dancin’ on our tongues.



The Raveonettes – Out of Control in London

By Craig Smith • Sep 11th, 2009 • Category: Live Reviews

Pretty in black and pretty and back, The Raveonettes rolled into London this week to play a one-off gig showcasing their forthcoming album In and Out of Control. It wasn’t all rape, guns, suicide and stealing cars, but it was near enough.



Decoder Ring, Bridezilla – Brisbane – 22 August 2009

By Garry Thomson • Aug 31st, 2009 • Category: Live Reviews

Two of Sydney’s finest epic rock bands; one (Bridezilla) favouring a dark brand of folk and the other (Decoder Ring) post-rock electronica, strut their wares in Brisbane.



Way Out West – Part 1 – 13/14 August 2009

By Craig Smith • Aug 24th, 2009 • Category: Live Reviews

Once again Sweden’s WoW proved to be worthy of its acronym and Webcuts was there to cover all three days. We (re) acquaint ourselves with the likes of Glasvegas, Grizzly Bear, Florence & The Machine, Echo & The Bunnymen, Wilco, Vivian Girls, Bon Iver and My Bloody Valentine, to name but a few.



Way Out West – Part 2 – 15 Aug 2009

By Lisa Hallquist • Aug 23rd, 2009 • Category: Live Reviews

The third day of Sweden’s 2009 Way Out West is a quieter affair but we still manage to squeeze in Patrick Wolf, Jenny Wilson, Vampire Weekend, Wolfmother, Lily Allen, My Bloody Valentine and Deerhunter.



Splendour in the Grass – Part 1 – 25 July 2009

By Garry Thomson • Aug 5th, 2009 • Category: Live Reviews

We give an in-depth rundown on 2009’s Splendour in the Grass festival including the good – The Flaming Lips, Happy Mondays, Bloc Party, Doves, Sarah Blasko, Specials, You Am I, MGMT and the frankly rather appalling – Kram, Grinspoon.



Splendour in the Grass – Part 2 – 26 July 2009

By Guest • Aug 5th, 2009 • Category: Live Reviews

The second splendid day of Splendour in the Grass 2009. We catch Kram, Jack Ladder, Bob Evans, The Gutter Twins, White Lies, The Doves, The Flaming Lips and er, Grinspoon.



Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks – Los Angeles – 25 July 2009

By Molly Dorfman • Jul 30th, 2009 • Category: Live Reviews

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks played to an audience brimming with the intoxicating scent of bearded, checked-shirt sporting aging rock dudes. Vanessa From Queens was missing but the gang was all there.



HTRK, Ipso Facto, ROMANCE – London – 24 July 2009

By Craig Smith • Jul 25th, 2009 • Category: Live Reviews

Ipso Facto recently trimmed the fat, excising keyboardist Cherish Kaya in favour of the perfect rock triangle. The sound is now suitably streamlined, focussed and finessed — the girls now move a like well-oiled, well-coiled machine.