Unthought of, though, somehow

Quietly chuffed with this shot I managed to capture from my front row seat  Overall, 2022 has been a pretty quiet year for me on the live mu...

Kimberley and Robyn on stage in Cambridge last week I've just finished a lengthy uninterrupted run of holiday cover shifts. There have b...

Sid Griffin onstage in Cambridge, as seen through the lens of yours truly. Quite proud of this one. Between 1985 and 1987 me and my reg...

Kimberly, Robyn, Ruby and Morris onstage at the Union Chapel (Photo by yours truly) Sometimes, we can take our favourite artists for g...

Yer humble author hanging out with Robyn after the show I know he's already had a lot of love from these pages in recent weeks, but...

2018 has been a pitiful year for me in terms of live gigs - I barely scraped into double figures. A pathetic effort, easily my worst annu...

Marisa Anderson onstage at the Colchester Arts Centre My days of making regular 100+ mile round trips for gigs are largely a thing of ...

I felt every one of my 58 years earlier this week, when telling a couple of work colleagues the name of the artist I was going to see i...

Neil Innes on stage in Ipswich Neil Innes, Urban Spaceman, seventh Python, friend of the Fabs and the nicest man in showbiz, walked tow...

I caught Richard Thompson's solo acoustic tour on Saturday evening and watching him perform from just a few feet away was, as always,...

                  Last year I was privileged to witness Rozi Plain perform an intimate show at the visitor's centre of a nature reser...

(Photo taken by Andi of Outline magazine) The doors had only been open for 30 minutes on Tuesday evening and many people were still fil...

In all the times I've seen King Creosote perform since 2005, no two shows have been remotely similar in repertoire or musical accompa...

In April 2010, 11 years after David McComb's tragic early death, the surviving members of The Triffids reconvened for a concert at Th...

'I'm post-laughter' says Stewart Lee. Expanding on this statement, he imagines an audience member's conversation the morn...

After a short mid-season break, I was back on the gig circuit just before the weekend to see Bristol based musicians Rachael Dadd and Wil...

  Almost exactly 12 months on from his first visit, Ryley Walker last night returned to the Norwich Arts Centre to promote his imminent t...

Rachel Horwood and Rozi Plain at Cley Before we went inside, Mrs S & I watched skylarks performing vertical pirouettes in the far d...

Too many times already this year, not least the past few days, it's been difficult to find a ready excuse to smile. So to leave a gig on...

Apparently, it's been 20 years since I last saw Tindersticks in concert. Blimey. Sometimes I really do struggle with this passage of ...