Best Live Show Today - Wednesday 21st November

One choice tonight: and thats because I’m going! It’s Sons & Daughters playing at the Islington Academy. It’s this superb quartet’s second appearance as ‘Best Live Show Toady’ in just three weeks! Should be great and judging by the reaction my ‘Gilt Complex‘ mp3 has had, a lot of you share my views! They are [...]

Best Live Show Today…Monday 19th November

Today’s Best Live Show is surely the comeback of all comebacks in the form of former Orange Juice frontman Mr Edwyn Collins. The owner of one of the most easily-identifiable voices in all popular music, Collins suffered a cerebral hemorrhage in 2005. The record he was finishing before his illness has been recently released, entitled Home [...]

Best Live Show Today…Sunday 18th November

Today is a Sunday, so London can be forgiven for being thin on the ground gig-wise today. The big kahuna is Arcade Fire / Clinic up at Alexandra Palace. Everyone knows everything about Arcade Fire so I will instead focus on their Liverpudlian nutcase support act Clinic. They have four albums under their belt, but [...]

Best Live Show Today…Thursday 8th November

After the glut of super gigs yesterday, there is a slight lull in quality today. The National continue their stint at the Empire in Shepherd’s Bush, but tonight the honour goes to Foals, whose great debut 12″, “Live” contained that Skins-trailer hyped “Hummer“. Yes, they are an incredibly hype-y band, but they do have a [...]

The Best Live Show Today…Wednesday 7th November

Today is another huge chunk of aceness across London as sixteen-legged punk-funk wigout meisters !!! (Chk Chk Chk) hit Koko, indie critic darlings The National play Shepherds Bushs’ Empire and The Shins entertain the Apollo crowd in Hammersmith.
Beating all of these to the coveted ‘Best Live Show Today‘ title is Franco-German electro specialists Stereo Total [...]