Field Day Sunday music festival: The art of “fucking up perfect”
Highlights: Bras, bread and watermelon donations from the crowd to Mac De Marco, crowd surfing that nearly took Mac to America and a glorious set by Patti Smith and her band.
Who the hell is Oscar?
Oscar spelled his charm on London on a sweet evening of May.
Hinds: The band that makes people lose their bras
Majestic, raw power performance from Spanish ladies ends on a high-with an encore, stage invasion and underwear thrown on stage. Rock’n’roll is back.
Top 5 cheesiest love songs ever
It’s this time of the year again….Horribly cheesy pink hearts are everywhere, in the chocolate section of the supermarket (normally your favourite spot), on bus adverts, on the TV toothpaste ad (!!). You can’t really avoid it…You really want to avoid it… But but Valentine Day is on a Saturday this year! Damn it! Now…
Hinds, a breath of fresh air to rock’n’roll
I stumbled across the band Hinds (formerly Deers) a couple of months ago. It took me by surprise, like a brisk fresh wave in the sea. The band started with Madrid-based Ana and Carlotta before adding to their line-up drummer Ámber and bassist Ade. Their music is fresh, raw, funny. It is everything that is missing to rock’n’roll today. Hinds goes…
Adonis, a band on the brink of ruling Middle-East arabic pop
It all started in September 2010. Anthony Khoury and his friends got together to form a band. They practiced in a storage facility turned to a music room in the small Mount-Lebanon town of Brummana. They gave their first concert in December 2010 in a restaurant in Beirut. Since then, they’ve never looked back. They played in music…
You may, might, should see Ought live
When you go to big bands concerts, you often forget where all these artists start. You assume any artist would have a crew that goes on stage before the concert to prepare the equipment while the band is enjoying champagne in the backstage. Not true. Ought is a relatively new band that formed in Montreal.…
Damon Albarn and the Heavy Seas at the Royal Albert Hall: The best gig of 2014? Definitely maybe.
This show was being recorded. Nothing against any performer and performance, but playing a recorded gig at the Royal Albert Hall means you need to be spot on. You fucking need to give it all. And Daman Albarn & the Heavy Seas didn’t miss a note. They managed to ignite a crowd that was mostly 30…
The LondonY 