Gig review: Lewis Capaldi
Metro, January 2023 There has always been the sense that you don’t go to a Lewis Capaldi show purely for the arena-filling torch songs. You go as much for the stand-up comedy, the brilliantly industrial language, or, […]
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Paolo Nutini at Victoria Warehouse
Metro, October 2022 Google Paolo Nutini and the top question is, somewhat tellingly, “what’s happened to Paolo Nutini”. On the evidence of his first major tour in over seven years, it’s a conundrum his fans […]
George Ezra live review
Metro, September 2022. M&S Bank Arena, Liverpool The fascinating personal backdrop to this largely happy-go-lucky, amiable evening of supercharged, easygoing pop singalongs is that for all the world, George Ezra has been at pains to […]
A Film About Studio Electrophonique
Some written down thoughts expanding on what I said on Front Row this week Sheffield songwriter James Leesley records under the moniker Studio Electrophonique – named after a little known, makeshift studio in a suburban […]
Anger Management at a Rage Room
Metro, June 22 As my sledgehammer smashes through the side of an ancient printer, all those ‘error, paper jam’ messages finally get their rage-fuelled comeuppance. An exposed chip-board shatters into smithereens, bouncing off the far […]