Live Reviews

• The NME Awards Tour 2010 (Leeds)

  Given the NME's long-held liking for and endorsement of white male guitar bands, it's hardly surprising to find that the bill for this tour is made up of four white male indie guitar bands, in the form of The Drums, The Big Pink, Bombay Bicycle Club and The Maccabees.

   
• Codeine Velvet Club (Manchester)

  Ruby Lounge is packed tonight as news has spread that a Fratelli is in town.

   
• Arctic Monkeys (Manchester)

  Having recorded the fastest-selling British debut album of all time and followed this with a second effort which topped the charts, Arctic Monkeys have performed in various festivals around the world including a massive gig at Old Trafford Cricket ground.

   
• Ash (Hastings)

  Somewhere in the sleeve notes to their debut mini album 'Trailer', Ash give a shout out to a ‘dive’ they used to play in Belfast.

   
• Nerina Pallot (London)

  It starts with a drum and it begins. Exuberantly. Her band bedecked in sharp black suits, Nerina Pallot strides onto the stage in a blue frock, fishnets and massive heels.

   
• The Irrepressibles (London)

  About an hour before his performance, Jamie McDermott greets me warmly and excuses himself and the rest of The Irrepressibles as they go off somewhere private to plan their set list.

   
• Nerina Pallot (Buxton)

  There’s something of the 1960s about Nerina Pallot. Following her unsuccessful debut album ‘Dear Frustrated Superstar’, she reintroduced herself to the music scene with protest single ‘Everybody’s Gone To War’ in 2006.

   
• Rock Sound Magazine / Club Fandango Xmas Show: Haunts

  Club Fandango is almost an institution in Camden for avid gig-goers, showcasing some of the best and sadly some of the most unremarkable indie bands around at the smelly Dublin Castle.

   
• Levi’s One To Watch: Bombay Bicycle Club + Flashguns

  Some great bands have featured on this denim-clad tour in the past, though tonight it’s more like a showcase for ‘ones to avoid’.

   
• Drowned In Sound Shred Yr Face Tour: Los Campesinos! + No Age + Times New Viking (Brighton)

  Ohio’s Times New Viking have been saddled with the odd tag ‘shitcore’ by some lazy members of the press. This is more than a bit odd, considering how great this band can be. Tonight, they open this Drowned In Sound night in typically strong style.

   

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