This month featuring, among others: my over-excited Gary Numan nostalgia, Nik Kershaw’s possibly menopause-inducing audience, potentially generational talent Love Spells at the lovely but endangered Moth Club and Jarvis Cocker teasing the end of Pulp. Marc Almond, Crystal Palace Bowl,…
This month featuring: populist pigs, duovision disaster, sexy fried chimken and Wile E Coyote finally gets his day in court. Animal Farm (2025), Andy Serkis – One of my kids showed some interest in this, so I went along with…
It has been a while since the last m-orchestra shows, but I shall be breaking my 2026 duck at Ye Olde Rose & Crown Theatre Pub on Hoe Street in Walthamstow over the August Bank Holiday weekend, as part of…
This month featuring: animated Minion slapstick, the profound sadness of Blue Heron, bleak Welsh decision-making and a Soviet drag-crone Baba Yaga (among others). Minions & Monsters (2026), Pierre Coffin and Patrick Delage – Perfectly cromulent non-stop action and slapstick that…
Gosh. I went to a lot of gigs in July, including a three-day residency at Alexandra Palace wearing all the hats that annoy my partner with impunity, a gull supervising a legend in Margate, and Kylie Minogue showing up with…
I was struck by a sudden fear of never seeing David Byrne play songs by Talking Heads again, and so made an ill-advised last-minute Twickets purchase to go to the Latitude Festival for the day on the Friday. It was…
A strange thing happened to me a little while ago. I was waiting for a verification code for a 2FA login, and it hadn’t arrived, so by chance I looked in the spam folder of my work email. About ten…
I know, I know — it is mid-July and I am fashionably late with June’s gig reviews, but it turns out when you spend the entire month running around venues across the country, it takes a moment to recover. This…
This month featuring: spooky basements, cursed wishes, alien conspiracy and plenty of John Waters and Divine (plus one of the queerest sci-fi cartoons in history). Repo Man (1984), Alex Cox – Bar Trash at Beer Merchant’s Tap, Hackney Wick –…
At the weekend I spent a couple of hours at the lovely Walthamstow Trades Hall for the 17th Walthamstow International Film Festival, which was showing some 80-odd short movies over the course of a few hours. One of the things…