Live Reviews

As regular visitors to Ireland, The Stereophonics are well acquainted with Belfast, and up until now, they’ve always appeared to be a little too comfortable in their onstage performance, with it all feeling a little […]

Electro synth pop group Erasure featuring Vince Clarke and Andy Bell returned to Dublin’s Olympia Theatre for the first of three shows after being forced to reschedule Januarys sold-out shows in Dublin’s traditional venue due […]

Last time Brian Fallon visited The Emerald Isle, Belfast wasn’t on the list, and this time the appreciation was wholly evident for The Gaslight Anthem’s charismatic frontman, who was joined in support by Belfast’s own […]

The last time Brian Fallon graced The Olympia with his presence in 2016, he played to a relatively full venue. Just 18 months on, accompanied by the vastly talented Dave and Tim Hause, he sold […]

Black turtlenecks and black t-shirts were the chosen attire for this alternative rock band; though their attire was not what gave The Boxer Rebellion their own justly earned chapter in the modern history of music. […]

In 2017, The Telegraph included The Levellers 1994 Glastonbury performance in the “top 50 best Glastonbury performances ever”. This performance drew the biggest crowd the Pyramid Stage ever saw with up to “300,000 people” seeing […]

Wolf Alice surely can rock. From an appealing ordinary indie rock band to something unconventionally beautiful, this North London band has fed their music wolf with something that provided them with a strong personality, solid […]

The circumstances which resulted in A Peaceful Noise (now in its second year) are tragic. This concert was held to raise money for the Nick Alexander Trust in memory of Nick Alexander who was killed […]

Xs Noize contributor David McElroy’s blog Almost Predictable Almost is running The Global Spirit Tour Project which is featuring a review of every gig on Depeche Mode’s Global Spirit Tour written by fans. For full […]

“London how the devil are you?” Royal Blood frontman Mike Kerr asked the 10,000 strong Alexandra Palace crowd on Monday night. He openly admitted that the duo made up of himself and drummer Ben Thatcher […]

It wouldn’t be fair to say every song is a joke for Mac DeMarco, that he’s crazy or high on a stage, but his shows usually come with a series of events that make every […]

There are 2 types of people – those who love Steps, and those who love Steps and live in staunch denial about it. Since their inception in 1997, Claire, Lisa, H, Faye and Lee have […]

The last time Rock icon Liam Gallagher played in Belfast was 2011 with the now-defunct Beady Eye, and a lot has happened since then. After spending a few years in the Rock N Roll wilderness, […]

Having seen JP Cooper support The Script on their Freedom Child Tour, I knew I was in for something special last night at Camden Roundhouse in London. With his debut album Raised Under Grey Skies […]

There has been a lot of international excitement with Placebo’s “A Place for Us to Dream – 20 Years of Placebo” tour. There was dismay when Placebo cancelled and didn’t reschedule the Perth leg of […]

From Warehouse Live’s Ballroom ceiling, there hung spiralled, candled chandeliers above a packed-house of eager metal-heads, decked out in all varieties of Between the Buried and Me T-shirts from decades past. These progressive-metal giants attracted […]

After an extensive and well-received UK tour earlier this month with The Dears, one would have thought that Murray Lightburn would want to put his feet up. Instead, he embarked upon a solo London show […]

Frontman Murray Lightburn has been compared vocally to both Damon Albarn and Morrissey. Like Morrissey, Murray is not afraid to express himself. Even in the twenty-first century, “the music press won’t ever allow a black […]