The XS Noize team review the latest live shows from bands/artists on tour.
The Shacklewell Arms is a tricky pub to find, but as tonight they play host to Du Blonde tonight, I made it my prerogative to find it! The venue is a tiny dance hall at […]
Tonight, Hackney’s Olso plays host to psychedelic legend Anton Newcombe and the smouldering vocals of Ontario’s Tess Parks. The tour marks the release of I Declare Nothing, Newcombe and Parks collaborative LP which was released […]
Mogwai, Scottish Post-Rock pioneers, are currently on a tour of shows celebrating their 20th anniversary of being a band. As part of this tour the band came back to the Olympia Theatre in Dublin for […]
Swans are notorious for being one of the loudest and most brutal live acts ever and while they have greatly differentiated and softened up over the past thirty years, they show absolutely no sign of […]
Manchester’s Gigantic Indie All Dayer brought generations of Indie music to the stage in a day of musical mayhem, combined with a real ale and cider festival in the afternoon with a sizeable range of […]
Tonight, an unimposing London pub on an obscure Islington side street play host to Gothenburg’s finest – Pale Honey. When I arrive, there’s lots of chatter in the bar, Tuva and Nelly are still in […]
Northern Ireland’s Indie Prog-Rock quartet, And So I Watch You From Afar play a sold out Islington Assembly Rooms in London on 1st May. Verdict? Utterly Awesome! Suitably warmed up and ready to rock, the […]
Debuting tracks from his Arizona LP, Henry Kohen AKA Mylets lays waste to the Victorian one man band at London’s Islington Assembly Rooms, in support of And So I Watch You From Afar. A skinny, […]
Before this gig, I’d never had the chance to see Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds live, so I was part over excited, part intrigued about the prospect of a Cave solo show. The show […]
The top of the stage is draped with a curtain like fabric giving the impression that Courtney Barnett and her support acts, Fraser A Gorman and Spring King are playing from their living room. Fraser […]
AN EVENING WITH A GOON – Tobias Jesso Jr. plays The Bootleg Theater in Los Angeles – Easter 2015 The last show on a tour can sometimes yield an evening of surprises. It’s an opportunity for […]
Warwickshire’s Lucy Rose returns to Cambridge in style to debut material from her forthcoming album Work it Out. Waiting for support act, The Half Earth to take to the stage, I hear one punter ask […]
America has experienced multiple waves of British Invasions since the 1960’s blitzkrieg that gave us The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, The Who, The Animals, and so many more. Since that time, each decade […]