Photo credit: O2 Academy, Brixton The xx presents Night + Day, Various venues, Brixton, London It started by announcing three homecoming … More

  “We all have appointments with the past.” – W.G. Sebald While watching Lost in France recently, my mind wandered back … More

Until Friday night, I hadn’t seen Girl Band play their own headline show, and despite briefer encounters at festivals, I … More

The xx, Alsterdorfer Sporthalle, Hamburg, Germany When I last saw the xx, they were performing two spellbinding Christmas shows in … More

Prepare to feel old. UNKLE are 25 years young this year. To mark the occasion, UNKLE’s maverick lynchpin James Lavelle … More

Roísín Murphy – ‘Ten Miles High’  This self-directed eye-popping masterpiece is one my favourite videos of recent years, and makes … More

This is an unpublished interview with Robert Wyatt, perhaps best known for his cover of ‘Shipbuilding’ by Elvis Costello and … More