Review: Adele, Someone Like You
So here is what I think about the new single from Adele. In one word – wow!!!
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Alkaline Trio: Live Review, Nottingham Rock City, 2 June 2010
Is it a sign of old age when the coolest thing at a gig is the awesome air-con? Nottingham Rock City wasn’t packed out tonight, but the noise could have come from a crowd twice its size. Relentless energy from two support acts didn’t stop the venue from erupting when Matt Skiba, resplendent in a shirt and bow tie, reached the stage with his bandmates, kickstarting a night of massive singalongs and moshpits.
MGMT: Congratulations, 12 April 2010
Ok so it’s probably a tad pointless reviewing this album after its well-documented internet leak over a month ago, but some of us are keen to remain professional and for a potential new prog album, I’m always happy to oblige. Except it’s not really prog, is it? I’d sum it up as a reckless, phantasmagorical journey into psychedelic rock,
Plan B: Live Review, Birmingham Academy, Saturday 10 April 2010
Woah, thanks to our chums at Atlantic Records I’m hanging at Birmingham Academy to catch Plan B on his current sold out UK tour. Now that’s the stuff! Just before he hits the stage, a random guy called SFX comes on looking mega sharp in a suit and shirt.
Plan B: The Defamation Of Strickland Banks
Plan B, or Ben Drew, is a star. You might not have heard of him before, but let me assure you of one thing without any doubt whatsoever – this guy’s name will be well and truly etched upon the dark recesses of your musical memory well before 2010 is over and out.
Miike Snow: Live Review, Nottingham Rescue Rooms, 10 February 2010
I walk into Nottingham’s Rescue Rooms secretly thinking that nothing will be able to top The Horrors gig here last year. But not only do Sweden’s finest gang of musicians and uber producers Miike Snow hurl egg on my face, they leave me thinking that there must be a God somewhere who’s hell-bent on shovelling glorious music down my ears.
Frank Turner: Live Review, Nottingham Rock City, 18 October 2009
It’s Sunday bloody Sunday at Nottingham Rock City and, judging from the horribly sticky floor, it’s most definitely the night after the night before. After a somewhat bizarre double-whammy consisting of Shane Macgowan-esque vocal stylings of the absurdly-named Beans On Toast and the sometimes pedestrian indie-rock leanings of Fake Problems, there’s only one thing that’ll even start to placate tonight’s massive turnout – and that’s Frank Turner.
Frightened Rabbit: Live Review, Nottingham Bodega Social, 11 November 2009
Never mind Frightened Rabbit; Lucy and I are stunned when, upon entering Nottingham’s Bodega Social, we’re met by a solid wall of tall, sweaty men. The venue is totally packed but we somehow manage to claw our way to the front. Big props go out to the motley crew of tree surgeons, a personal trainer, an astrophysicist and, err, a student, who let Lucy stand in front of them to take pics. Yes, there is a God – for tonight at least.
Calvin Harris: Live Review, Nottingham Rock City, 25 October 2009
The crowd at Nottingham Rock City can – and do – reach newer lows every week. Take tonight for example: I thought I was being harsh taking bets on which idiot would decide to stand right in front of the girl in the wheelchair at the side of the stage, but when a crowd of morons turned up to do exactly that, even I was amazed.
FEATURED REVIEW: The Horrors at Nottingham Rescue Rooms
A lot can happen in two years. Things evolve, people change, even wars can start and end. For me, the roots of NG Magazine will always start with The Horrors, being the first act we covered at the end of March 2007. Back then, even though they’d sold out Nottingham’s Rescue Rooms like tonight, large sectors of the music press still regarded them with distaste, mainly because their hair was excessively large and faces overly made up in a neo-Goth stylee.