EASY LIFE: easily one of British indie’s best live acts
With their brilliant stage presence and unique sound, Easy Life have cemented themselves as one of the most exciting acts in the current UK scene.
With their brilliant stage presence and unique sound, Easy Life have cemented themselves as one of the most exciting acts in the current UK scene.
I walked out of the venue temporarily deaf and fully content with this. For Mogwai, music speaks much louder than words, in a very real sense.
What Lissie does with absolute ease and conviction is give you a no-bullshit performance: storytelling that connects with the audience with its every rasping breath.
Packaged with Franceschi’s infectious energy, You Me At Six had Cardiff dancing all the way to curfew.
Occasionally, an artist comes along who is so fresh and unique that they bowl me over with substance and style. Austrian musician Manu Delago is definitely in the first category.
Rozi Plain is out on the road - including for Independent Venue Week - touring her new album around the UK and France, and what a prize it is.
Belinda Carlisle brings a touch of much-needed California sunshine with her to Cardiff – showcasing the best of a career five decades in the making.
Temples have clearly had as much fun last Monday in Cardiff as those in attendance. Hopefully, it won’t be another decade before they come back to Wales.
Lewis Capaldi had quite the meteoric rise pre-COVID, scoring multiple number-one singles and a number-one album that sold so well, he’s playing a sold-out UK arena tour before his second album has even released.
Danko Jones, The Darkness and Black Stone Cherry brought their A-game to CIA and it was impossible not to have fun: arena rock done properly.
There’s something for everybody to enjoy at a Dropkick Murphys gig, and if they announced a gig in Cardiff next week, I’d wager most people in attendance would happily pay again.
Playing to a packed-out CIA on Monday night (and again on Tuesday), the stage for The 1975’s At Their Very Best tour is striking.