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LIVE: Camden Crawl 2012 – Saturday

Marmozets @ Camden Gardens For the first weekend in May, we decided to brave the mean streets of Camden for an entire weekend to experience first hand the madness that is the Camden Crawl. Spread over about 15 venues in Camden, the Crawl is a great showcase for just how

LIVE: Such Gold / Apologies I Have None @ Camden Barfly [01/05/2012]

London is rather busy tonight, with The Hives playing an intimate show at The Borderline, Simple Plan indulging the masses in a spot of nostalgia at The Forum and Such Gold playing at the Barfly it was inevitable that, while the three don’t exactly cross paths in genre, they

Thursday 03 May 2012

LIVE: You Me At Six – Brixton Academy 02/04/2012

Support: Kids In Glass Houses Mayday Parade The Skints Not too many years ago, we watched a young bunch of lads playing in a tiny club who went by the name of You Me At Six. Now, those very same lads have become men and have sold out two consecutive nights at London’s

Wednesday 18 April 2012

Live: Angels and Airwaves at Shepherd’s Bush Empire

It has been a while since Angels and Airwaves have appeared in London, and the sold out Shepherd’s Bush Empire definitely showed them that they have been missed. Before them though, the show was opened by another Californian band, Le Blorr, who were a surprising choice to open and

Tuesday 17 April 2012

LIVE: William Control, Obscure Pleasures and Fearless Vampire Killers – Camden Dingwalls

WILLIAM CONTROL, a.k.a WiL Francis, frontman of the once promising AIDEN, tonight brings his solo show to Camden. With AIDEN’s future slowly looking bleak, maybe building up a reputable solo career is a very wise move indeed. Nevertheless, he has a long way to go up from Camden’s Dingwalls. First

Live: The All American Rejects at the Garage

There was a time when THE ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS were borderline huge, smearing themselves all over the charts and finding themselves being played in bedrooms all around the globe. A fair few years have passed, and the AAR guys want that status back. The only thing is, their new album

Friday 06 April 2012

LIVE: Takedown 2012 Review

Don Broco After a year out, Takedown festival returned to the eyes and ears of music fans in Southampton with a vengeance this March. At 2pm, the Monster Energy stage saw DEAD! Kick off he day, and the local quintet looked perfectly at home playing what was actually only their second

Thursday 15 March 2012

Live: The People The Poet – London Lexington

It’s been a while since TIGER PLEASE last played London. In that time they’ve recorded with Gil Norton, written half an album and more recently announced a complete overhaul, ‘TIGER PLEASE’ are to be no more and as such, tonight’s show is intended as both a farewell to that

Monday 05 March 2012

Live: Norma Jean – Camden Underworld

From the outset, this show was always going to be a face-melter. Last time NORMA JEAN hit up the capital city in support of ARCHITECTS at the legendary Koko, they were dangerously close to upstaging the headliners. When the Atlanta metalcore titans announced

Thursday 06 November 2008

Funeral For A Friend – London Kentish Town Forum

With the imminent closure of the Astoria, it looks like the Kentish Town Forum will be in the running for the title of London’s premier mid-sized gig venue. Tonight is suitably packed, although much of the crowd look disinterested when Attack! Attack! take to the stage. They perform well,