Articles Posted in the Live Category

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    Alabama Shakes, HMV Institute, Birmingham 11/05/12

    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.

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    Tribes, O2 Academy 2, Birmingham 09/05/12

    ‘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.

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    Slow Club, Hare & Hounds, Birmingham 10/05/12

    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.

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    A Place To Bury Strangers, Hare & Hounds, Birmingham 09/05/12

    The packed crowd were doing more than just nodding along; the bodies were cascading around like the Hare & Hounds was experiencing a bomb disaster.

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    Tellison, The Rainbow, Birmingham 08/05/12

    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.

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    Zulu Winter, Hare & Hounds, Birmingham 07/05/12

    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.

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    We Are Augustines, Hare & Hounds, Birmingham 06/05/12

    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.

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    The Lines, O2 Academy 2, Birmingham 05/05/12

    Midlands-based band The Lines gave Birmingham a visit on Saturday night and what a night it was.

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    Blood Red Shoes, HMV Institute, Birmingham 04/05/12

    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.

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    Weird Dreams, The Victoria, Birmingham 04/05/12

    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.