Australia
Aussie band The Rubens bring amazing ‘Hoops Tour’ and unique sound to London
Australia’s The Rubens came up from down under for a sold-out show at The Dome in London. […]
Articles by Chris Patmore
UK
Camden Rocks, this Saturday
Camden Rocks Festival hits north London this Saturday, with over 200 bands playing across 20 venues. […]
Live Review
This Was, and still is, Mick Abrahams
Jethro Tull’s original guitarist celebrated 50 years of music with a group of his friends at The Borderline, London on 9 May 2016. […]
Live Review
Broken Witt Rebels bring their blues-soul inflected ‘Southern rock’ to The Water Rats
By Chris Patmore and Amanda Cunningham, Rock At Night London Correspondents Venue: The Water Rats, London-April 2, 2016–Broken Witt Rebels, Naropa, Liberty Ship, and Bright Young People Since the Sixties, British bands such as The […]
Live Review
Girls doing it for themselves
By Chris Patmore, Rock At Night London Correspondent VENUE: The Finsbury, London—March 17, 2016—The Franklys with Clever Thing and The Sly Persuaders Women have always been an integral part of popular music, primarily as singers […]
Live Review
Psych rock festival Cosmosis: groovin’ Millennial style
By Chris Patmore, Rock At Night London Correspondent Cosmosis: Psych in Salford–Saturday 12 March 2016, Manchester England. Psychedelic music has come a long way from its roots in the Californian counterculture of the sixties. Over […]
Live Review
Punk’s not dead. It’s old and having fun.
By Chris Patmore, Rock At Night London Correspondent VENUE: Roundhouse, London—February 11, 2016—Bowling for Soup with The Dollyrots The general consensus is that punk rock was a reaction to the perceived overblown pomposity of prog […]
Other Genres
The Lone Bellow breathe life into London audience
By Chris Patmore, Rock At Night London Correspondent Venue: Islington Assembly Hall, London-January 29, 2016 (No) thanks to Amazon Prime and its streaming of the TV drama series Nashville, I have a new appreciation of […]
Canada
More movement, less Temperance
By Chris Patmore, Rock At Night London Correspondent VENUE: The Forum, London–January 27, 2016–Temperance Movement with The Sheepdogs The legendary Kentish Town music venue The Forum, now branded with the increasingly ubiquitous O2 prefix, was […]
UK
Up close with the new scream queen of rock–Queen Kwong
By Chris Patmore, Rock At Night London Correspondent Venue: Barfly-Camden, London-December 11, 2015–Queen Kwong and Loom band King Kong, Fay Wray, Queen Kwong. Carre Callaway is bringing a whole new meaning, and riot grrrl credentials, […]
