The XS Noize team review the latest live shows from bands/artists on tour.
Kasabian came back to Belfast with a bang on Monday night at Customs House Square, after their last-minute cancellation the year before. With rain clouds looming we were all hoping it would not be a […]
This year would have marked Michael Jackson’s sixtieth birthday, so the time feels right to commemorate the King of Pop. To say he was iconic wouldn’t do him justice. With the many creative accomplishments Jackson […]
Radiohead elected to end two years of the intermittent tour for their ninth album, “A Moon Shaped Pool” with a barn-burning two-night stint at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, PA. The band brilliantly wove […]
2018 was always going to be the year where hopes of a triumphant return of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (BRMC) would materialize after all 2018 is the bands twentieth anniversary and the tenth year since […]
XS Noize was invited to City Beerfest 2018, held in Guildhall Yard, London. Whilst for many, beer is an essential festival ingredient; music is an essential ingredient for all. It was pleasing to XS Noize […]
I’m not used to events of this scale. The most recent gig outing prior to this was a relatively small gathering in a small Bristol city centre venue. This evening, I’m on the opposite end […]
Despite not having yet released a full LP; everyone seems to have an opinion about the Black Delta Movement (or at least an interest in their sound). Probably one of the most interesting comments to […]
In 1997, Paul Draper, with his band Mansun, released their debut album, Attack of the Grey Lantern. XS Noize recently reviewed the twenty-first-anniversary re-issue, finding that this Mansun debut had stood the test of time, […]
We Are Scientists are one of those bands who seem to just have the right mix of fun and fantastic music, and they certainly didn’t disappoint once again, as they graced Belfast’s Limelight II and […]
Rock icon Noel Gallagher has been a frequent visitor to Belfast over the past few years, not only from playing live but from spending a wealth of time in Belfast recording his experimental third solo […]
The twentieth-anniversary celebrations of Gomez’s Mercury Award-winning debut album almost never got off the ground. When acclaimed support artist John Smith (having previously supported Richard Hawley) took to the stage, a pleasant folk guitar could […]
Yo La Tengo brings the sounds of their new album There’s A Riot Goin’ On as well as a slew of their greatest hits to Dublin’s Olympia Theatre and make for the most compelling live […]
Just before the Manics took to the stage at Manchester’s Arena last Saturday night large neon words were lit up: “The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul” which led to […]
To mark 100 years since Jazz reached Britain, Two Temple Place reopened to the public with its seventh annual winter exhibition, Rhythm & Reaction: The Age of Jazz in Britain which ran until 22nd April […]
Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman go back a long way, to 1995, where they were part of the “unsung supergroup”, Equation, alongside Seth Lakeman and Kate Rusby. In the early noughties, the couple toured a […]
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. […]