Desertfest London 2014
The Black Heart, The Underworld, The Electric Ballroom London 26-27 April 2014 Desertfest is an event that takes place over three venues in three days. It is a sprawling monster that is there to...
View ArticleSleaford Mods / Steve Ignorant’s Slice Of Life (live at The Electric Ballroom)
London 30 January 2015 The day didn’t start well. A blocked drain, forgetting the keys to work and having to go back and fetch them and then a slip on rainy plastic, a mid-air semi-cartwheel...
View ArticleLaibach (live at the Electric Ballroom)
London 2 April 2015 A spectre is haunting Camden, and that spectre is the spectre of Spectre, Laibach‘s most recent and sublimely poppy album. On the face of it, you’d think Laibach’s “foregrounding...
View ArticleGeorge Clinton & Funkadelic (live at The Electric Ballroom)
London 7 August 2015 It’s a balmy Friday night in old London Town, and the Mothership has just landed on Camden’s Electric Ballroom, bringing its message of light, love and lavatory humour in the form...
View ArticleDesertfest London 2016
London 29 April – 1 May 2016 Desertfest is the place where the stoned immaculate of Britain (and several other countries) meet in one of London’s coolest areas, watch some of the heaviest (and out...
View ArticleBoris / The Broken Oak Duet (live at The Electric Ballroom)
London 13 December 2016 Boris are back! One of Japan’s finest rock bands are back in town to celebrate the tenth anniversary of their crossover hit album Pink, by… well, by playing it, obviously! But...
View ArticleMayhem / Dragged Into Sunlight (live at the Electric Ballroom)
London 29 March 2017 In the early ’90s, the Norwegian metal scene was a scary place to be. Church burnings, murders, violent assaults and a total refusal to take metal’s Hammer movie schtick as...
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London 28-30 April 2017 Friday GP: It’s the one date on my calendar that I look forward to each year. Three days of having my ears pummelled by some of the heaviest bands around and a chance to see...
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London 4-6 May 2018 Friday: Justin It’s a sunny Friday in Olde London Towne, and the weather’s predicted to be a strictly non-traditional scorcher of a May Bank Holiday weekend. What better time to...
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London 3-5 May 2019 Friday: Gary The May bank holiday is normally a time for the revival of pagan customs in Britain. These can be found from local village morris dancers to the crowning of the May...
View ArticleNew Model Army / Yur Mum (live at the Electric Ballroom)
London 14 November 2019 It’s weird being at the Electric Ballroom. Not that it’s a particularly weird venue in and of itself; I mean, it’s actually a good one. No, what’s weird about being at the...
View ArticleDesertfest London 2023
London 5-7 May 2023 Photo: Tim Bugbee Friday Click! Brrrrzzzzz! Crunch! Fuzz! Clang! Crash! It’s Friday and the beginning of a bank holiday weekend and the sounds above can mean only one thing, that...
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