Jo Hill & Friends – Secret Show – at The Duck & Drake on 1 December
When you are a young woman in the early stages of your career within the music industry and through no fault of your own find you’ve been chewed up and spat out by the major label you were signed to, prior to even hitting your 20th birthday, it leaves you at a pretty major crossroads, […]
Peter Hook & The Light.. at 02 Academy on 29 November
A founding member of Joy Division and New Order, Peter Hook more recently produced Stone Roses. It seemed all the more fitting that tonight’s gig was dedicated to Stone Roses’ Mani – Gary Mounfield – who died only nine days earlier. The set began with New Order’s Get Ready album, now twenty-four years old. Hook tells us he’s enjoyed playing […]
The Horrors + Man of Moon – at Project House, Leeds on 26 November 2025
I did worry as I walked up to Project House for the gig that it had been an overly ambitious booking for The Horrors to be playing this venue. Project House is a 1,000-capacity warehouse style space a steep step up from the 300-capacity Belgrave Music Hall that had taken a while to sell out […]
The Fergus McCreadie Trio.. at Howard Assembly Room on 16 November
Enthralled is the only way to describe the audience who listened to the Fergus McCreadie Trio at the Howard Assembly Room. Whilst jazz audiences are usually attentive, this went beyond the norm, with the applause after the first composition, entitled Wayfarer, continuing as long as that usually experienced at the end of a set. Fergus […]
Live at Leeds in The City 15 November 2025
Three years ago, I was invited to check out what the hoopla was about when it came to Live at Leeds: In The City. A line-up with a massive variety of lesser known or unsigned talents, all of which I didn’t know for the most part, it turned out to be a warm spell in […]
