Archives Subscribe to the RSS Feed Next Page » The Archives for Thursday 11 July 2024 Crosses †††, Vowws @ O2 Forum Kentish Town LIVE: Crosses †††/ VOWWS @ O2 Forum Kentish Town After what was frankly a pretty miserable start to June, the season seemed to change rather suddenly with a mini-heatwave thrusting London into the familiar stickiness of British summertime in the city. Thankfully the notoriously hot O2 Forum Kentish Town feels just about bearable as the house lights dim Thursday 14 March 2024 The Blackout @ O2 Forum Kentish Town Tuesday 05 March 2024 LIVE: Thrice / Palm Reader @ O2 Forum Kentish Town, London Palm Reader have been kings of the underground heavy music scene for many years, and tonight they prove why they deserve that title, with all seven current members throwing themselves wholeheartedly into their support slot for post-hardcore legends Thrice. Opening with the powerful ‘Hold/Release’, Josh McKeown’s voice cuts through the Wednesday 28 February 2024 LIVE: Tesseract / Unprocessed / The Callous Daoboys @ Kentish Town Forum, London Bounding onto the stage to the sound of Cascada’s ‘Every Time We Touch’, Atlanta sextet The Callous Daoboys aren’t necessarily who you would expect to see supporting prog metal giants Tesseract. As the electro dance beat gives way to the opening drums of ‘Star Baby’, discordant guitars, violin and TesseracT, Unprocessed, The Callous Daoboys @ o2 Forum Kentish Town, London Thursday 21 December 2023 LIVE: The Front Bottoms’ Champagne Jam @ O2 Forum Kentish Town While outside the streets fill with tinsel clad revellers, the Front Bottoms are throwing their own Christmas party. The final-ish night of their UK tour (they added an extra date after tonight’s show sold out) had been declared Champagne Jam: the British incarnation of one day festival curated by Sunday 17 December 2023 LIVE: The Used / The Home Team / Honey Revenge @ O2 Forum Kentish Town Outside the Forum, teenagers in face paint huddle together like baby penguins, hoods and occasionally plastic bags on their heads to protect their neon hair from the stinging winter rain. While The Used are ambivalent about being labelled an emo band (they’ve insisted on interviews that they’re just “a Friday 08 December 2023 LIVE: Hot Milk @ Kentish Town Forum Hot Milk have gathered their tribe around them and descended upon North London. In the hundred metres or so between the station and the venue, every pedestrian you spot sports a beanie, post-emo piercings and inventive eyeliner highlighting wide-eyed anticipation. Do Han Mee and Jim Shaw deserve this level Wednesday 01 November 2023 LIVE: Those Damn Crows @ O2 Forum, Kentish Town Those Damn Crows, welsh rockers who add a twist of Black Stone Cherry to their cocktail of vintage interpretation, faced two challenges before they even got a chance to go on stage. Firstly, the crowd was static and had no desire to dance at all. Maybe it was because