Gig Reviews
After the broadly weak day of Friday, Saturday was the big day of Best Kept Secret Festival, at least as far as names are concerned it, with Death Cab For Cutie, The Vaccines, Ride and A$AP Rocky as “supporting’s” of Noel Gallagher High Flying Birds, big headliner of this edition. The early hours that acted
This weekend, in the idyllic forest of Beekse Bergen near the town of Hilvarenbeek, held the third edition of Best Kept Secret Festival, which bringed Arctic Monkeys, Sigur Rós, Franz Ferdinand or Pixies as headliners on past editions, and this year it had The Libertines, Noel Gallagher High Flying Birds and Alt-J as great attractions.
Jacco Gardner is not cool..He is so cool!! 22:45 of any Thursday in the city of Valencia. The sixties city scene meets in Loco Club to enjoy the songs of the new album by Jacco Gardner Hypnophobia, as well as his previous and acclaimed LP Cabinet of Curiosities. Almost 10% of the audience are elite of
Last Saturday 7th March, the zaal the Oude Melkweg's Zaal in Amsterdam was full to receive one of the icons of Italian music in recent decades, the versatile Franco Battiato, author of some of the most recognisable songs of culture of the transalpine country and came to the Dutch capital on tour to promote his alter ego "Joe
This Saturday, just over five months after their successful performance at the London Calling October 2014, Californians Saint Motel returned to the small room of Paradiso in Amsterdam, this time for a longer concert and supported by the international recognition which have given their hit "My Type". With their usual LED lights hanging microphones and
Last Tuesday, Bitterzoet room in Amsterdam received the Scottish band Idlewild because of the presentation tour of their latest studio album Everything Ever Written, the first after about 6 years without releasing new material, also time in which the band itself announced an indefinite hiatus that allowed some members to focus on their solo careers.
Last Wednesday, the music appointment with Dutch winter arrived with one of the most special festivals of the year, the Cross-Linx Festival, which this year moved to Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ to display its usual fusion of classical music with elements like rock and electronics. With the stellar presence of Mark Lanegan, Squarepusher and Bryce
Talk about Le Guess Who? is talk of a consolidated and recognised festival under the flag of the quality and diversity, that allows in 4 days to enjoy diverse proposals as Einstürzende Neubauten, voodoo jazz of Dr. John, the main stage of one day managed by the very Swans or a unforgettable weekend ending party
After the first day somewhat watered, it was the time of so-called heavyweight performances by the veterans Spoon and Sebadoh, and the gig of expected Australian Josef Salvat, one of the great revelations of the 2014. Sebadoh were responsible for opening the big stage on the second day and the concert can only be described
As every year with the coming of autumn, the London Calling festival came back to the two rooms of Paradiso in Amsterdam to show some new names to follow (as happened in the last edition in May where we could enjoy previously the massive success the shows of Royal Blood or Jungle), accompanied this time
