Alabama Shakes walk on stage as if they are strolling into their local bar on an average night. No nonsense, no fuss. Even though the reception that greets them is anything but.
‘It’s the last night of the Baby tour, let’s have it’ declares Tribes’ frontman Johnny Lloyd, as the Camden four-piece grace the stage of Birmingham’s O2 Academy 2.
Sheffield duo Charles Watson and Rebecca Taylor aka Slow Club brought an end to their national tour tonight, playing new tracks off their forthcoming EP.
The packed crowd were doing more than just nodding along; the bodies were cascading around like the Hare & Hounds was experiencing a bomb disaster.
The Rainbow, in Digbeth, Birmingham, is one of the best venues in the country. I don’t say this because I am a Brummie, but because it not only has a great, intimate feel about it, it also has a magic in the air that brings the best out of bands.
It should be law that all bank holidays should involve live music, with tonight really being the pinnacle of perfect endings to those long weekends we hold so dear.
Coming almost straight off a 40 date tour supporting Band of Skulls, We Are Augustines brought their American indie rock sound to Birmingham with a sell out show at the Hare & Hounds.
Midlands-based band The Lines gave Birmingham a visit on Saturday night and what a night it was.
With two television sets turned on at the back of the stage, I can imagine my father thinking ‘what a total waste’, but this is something you can never throw at Brighton duo Blood Red Shoes.
Three things happen consistently throughout the headline set from Weird Dreams. Doran swishes his hair, highlights from their debut ‘Choreography’ get a good live incarnation and girls swoon.