Reviews
Stars Of Aviation (2003)
Snow on Snow
Gorgeous sublime alternative rock from the much acclaimed Stars of Aviation, who have returned after two years away
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Interviews
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Interview
Sophie Ellis-Bextor tells Nick Dent-Robinson where her Kitchen Disco inspiration came from and where it's going next.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Interview
Sophie Ellis-Bextor tells Nick Dent-Robinson why she started doing her superb lockdown kitchen discos, and how she plans to bow out.
Live
Bear in Heaven
Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen, London, 16/5/2012
Sarah Mwangi watches Brooklyn-based electronica act Bear in Heaven struggle with sound problems at a show at the Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen in London
Darren Hayman
Lexington, London, 5/3/2009
Anthony Dhanendran watches former Hefner singer Darren Hayman, at the London Lexington to promote his new album with his current band the Secondary Modern, play a set of witty, but memorable kitchen sink pop
Dodos
Hoxton Bar and Kitchen, London, 4/11/2013
Gillian Fish watches San Francisco folk blues duo the Dodos play a haunting and captivating show at the Hoxton Bar and Kitchen in London
Dodos
Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen, London, 2/6/2008
Chris O' Toole finds that, in contrast to their reserved and controlled studio recordings, sundrenched avant-garde American group the Dodos are a loose, faintly shambolic, but ultimately revelatory experience at a show at the Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen in London
Frightened Rabbit
Hoxton Bar and Kitchen, London,2/10/2008
At a gig at the Hoxton Bar and Kitchen as part of the Concrete and Glass festival, Anthony Middleton finds Scottish band's Frightened Rabbit's passionate, desperate and often foul mouthed tales of inadequacy having a lot to offer, but largely lost on an unresponsive crowd
F**ked Up
Hoxton Bar and Kitchen, London, 9/8/2010
Chris O' Toole at the Hoxton Bar and Kitchen in London watches a celebratory, yet terrifying set peformance from Canadain hardcore outfit F**ked Up
I Am Kloot
Deaf Institute, Manchester, 17/9/2009
At the second of four sell out gigs in their home town of Manchester, Dixie Ernill watches the still under-rated I Am Kloot play an extended set of their kitchen sink pop gems
Joel Gion
(and the Primary Colours) Hoxton Bar and Kitchen, London, 29/9/2014
Ben Howarth watches Brian Jonestown Massacre member Joel Gion play an erratic set at the Hoxton Bar and Kitchen in London
Slowdive
Hoxton Bar and Kitchen, London, 18/5/2014
Anthony Strutt watches seminal shoegazing band Slowdive play a stunning comeback show in their first gig in twenty years at the Hoxton Bar and Kitchen in London
James McCartney
Hoxton Bar and Kitchen, London, 9/3/2010
The son of Paul McCartney, James McCartney recently played two nights at the Hoxton Bar and Kitchen in London, Anthony Strutt watches him play a solid set of largely alternative rock and finds him to be a solid performer who deserves his own audience
Photography
Francois and the Atlas Mountains
Photoscapes
Marie Hazelwood photographs French alt. pop group Francois and the Atlas Mountains at the Soup Kitchen in Manchester