Live Reviews

A sea of Gen-Z girls in cowboy hats, shirts with funny texts (personal favourites include “SEXIEST MAN ALIVE” and “I LOVE TO MAKE BOYS CRY”) and boys with mullets and mustaches filled Brixton’s O2 Academy on November 15th for Role Model’s London stop of the “No Place Like Tour”. The show consisted of Role Model, aka American singer-songwriter Tucker Pillsbury, repeatedly introducing himself as various pop acts but never as himself - such as Ed Sheeran, Maroon 5, Sabrina Carpenter, Charlie Puth, and Ross Lynch - reading fan signs and being confused by British slang (“I’m the PENGEST?”), making sarcastic jokes that may or may not have landed for every member of the audience, a Harry Styles and The 1975 cover (‘Sign Of The Times’ and ‘Somebody Else’), and two guest appearances by Ross MacDonald (bassist of The 1975) and Júnía Jónsdóttir (violin).

A mass of fangirls lined up outside Hammersmith’s Eventim Apollo on September 25th, many already sporting tour merchandise from previous shows of the same band: The Driver Era.


When the support act, almost monday, took to the stage, the Californian trio captivated the crowd in a heartbeat with their infectious indie-pop sound and feel-good vibes. Their sound, reminiscent of MGMT and Dayglow, embodied the essence of late summer, and transported the audience from a rainy evening in London to a...

It was a gloomy spring evening when Ethel Cain and her fanbase took over Camden Town. Thousands of Gen-Zers and Millennials queued to see the American icon, who famously brought Amish dresses right into the limelight of today’s pop culture, live in London for the first time in a long while. Amidst the mix of tourists and locals, the singer’s fanbase appeared almost cult-like – once having set foot out of the tube station, you could spot the fans from a mile away… dark, edgy, modest but modern, g

At London’s Scala, anticipation swelled as the crowd awaited Lola Young, an artist whose authenticity and vibrant music promised an unforgettable night. The crowd continued to fill up Kings Cross venue until 30 minutes before the show when the support act, the band Bug Eyed, took the stage. The night was sold out, the pit full of people in their late teens, some of them blowing flavourful vape smoke into the air without getting caught – cheeky, mischievous behaviour is what the night’s headliner

The queue for Noah Kahan’s first of two sold-out London shows at the famous O2 Kentish Town struck around two blocks, 15 walking minutes from the venue. The audience, predominantly in their early 20s, appeared surprisingly youthful for an American country-folk artist, arriving in groups of friends or alongside their significant others.

The support act, the acoustic threesome Tiny Habits, and their soft harmonies set the mood for the night, while Kahan opened his show with his hymn-like song ‘No

The venue was dark, green spotlights pointing at each member of the young band when people arrived at SOMOH's first time playing at London's famous Islington Assembly Hall. Matching the lights, SOMOH herself, aka Sophia Mohan, was dressed in a green and black ripped knit sweater, a black jeans skirt and boots, and, uncommon for a solo artist, she had placed herself on the very right side of the stage, her bass player in the middle and guitarist on the left.

July 3rd marked the first time Australian pop fairy Peach PRC headlined her own concert in London, and there’s no venue more suitable for the lesbian singer to do so than LGBTQ+ nightclub Heaven. Pride flags were up on either side of the standing pit, where young girls, boys and theys all dressed in 50 shades of pink came together in anticipation and admiration. Once Peach set foot on stage – with her long pink hair, short white glitter costume, massive heels and signature pink glitter fairy win

Imagine you enter a concert venue and walk into what could easily look like a business meeting for under-30-year-olds or a new type of very well-dressed cult. What might seem strange to others, was, in fact, The 1975’s sold-out two-day residency at London’s famous O2 Arena – and it was anything but a business meeting.

The set started with songs from their most recent record ‘Being Funny In A Foreign Language’, which was released in October 2022 and had everyone scream out the lyrics word for wo

Getting off at any station near Kentish Town on the evening of October 28th 2022 made it very obvious that something was happening that night. Masses of colourful people, mainly dressed in Y2K-chic (corduroy pants and oversized band t-shirts, pink fluffy cowboy hats functioning as the cherry on top) with flowers in their hands all stormed towards the music venue with the same name, where the queue already extended around the whole block. But why? Well, British sunny boy Thomas Headon was back in

July 16th marked the day of Harry Styles' first ever solo concert in Austria's capital Vienna. On the arrival in front of the venue, fans - some of them had already been camping there for two days or more - made sure you could already tell who was performing, as not just Styles himself loves to dress up but so does his fandom, with bright colours, big hair, glitter make up, feather boas and fruit patterns everywhere.

After a year of rescheduling due to COVID-19 and having his fans wait in anticipation, 21-year-old indie-pop newcomer Thomas Headon played his first-ever live show in London at the popular, sold-out nightclub Heaven. Prior to his performance, Headon reminisced about his musical beginnings on Instagram and told his followers how he would show up outside music venues with his guitar and play songs for the fans in line for gigs – and that’s exactly what he did for his own gig as well. An hour befor

“Dear patience, can we share a drink and let go of the pressure?”, the lyrics to ‘Dear Patience’ are the opening lines to Niall Horan’s virtual gig, live from the Royal Albert Hall in London. One could say, this particular line portrays the anxiety people feel regarding the second national lockdown and the ongoing COVID crisis in general.

The concert starts without any intro — Horan is already sitting on a chair in the middle of the stage, one single spotlight shining down on him. A very intima