Live Reviews
From pubs to festivals to arenas, out and about with tQ
Live Reviews
Still Echoing Round The Streets Of Tilburg: Incubate 2014 Reviewed
After returning to Blighty with suitcases full of ripped and bloody clothes, grit infested knees and an infected toe, John Doran, Laurie Tuffrey, Sophie Coletta and Richard James Foster look back at a joyous week in Tilburg
Live Reviews
No Class: Frank Turner Live In Barnsley
Like many towns in the UK, Barnsley is all-too-often left off the tour itinerary of most groups. Ian Winwood saw a chance to rectify this during a drunken evening with Frank Turner, and asked the singer songwriter to play for the price of his train fare. Here's what happened next
Live Reviews
Everything But The Gig: The Fat White Family, The Future Of Rock & Gaza
The conversation that takes place around rock & roll is often so engrossing that there's barely enough space or time to discuss the actual music, as John Doran found out after attending The Fat Whites' Slide In For Palestine gig in Brixton last week. All pictures Lou Smith
Live Reviews
Charisma & Alienation: James Lavelle’s Meltdown Festival Reviewed
This year, Southbank Centre asked Mo'Wax founder James Lavelle to curate their annual Meltdown festival. As has become Quietus custom, we sent a crack team of reviewers to report back on some of the most intriguing and exciting events. Words by Julian Marszalek, Colm McAuliffe, Chad Parkhill, Jack Losh, Andy Thomas and Paul Tucker
Live Reviews
Pleasurable Delirium: Things The Quietus Learned At Sónar 2014
Last week, the Quietus relocated to Barcelona for Sónar Festival, one of the year's major electronic music summits. Angus Finlayson, Luke Turner, Rory Gibb and Ben Cardew report back on some of the life lessons they took home with them
Live Reviews
‘No Pass Outs!’ Things The Quietus Learned At Supersonic Festival
Luke Turner, Rory Gibb, Colm McAuliffe and Laurie Tuffrey report back on a weekend of varied sonic treats at this year's two-day Supersonic festival, featuring Swans, Sleaford Mods, Sly & The Family Drone and plenty of other acts not beginning with 'S'
Live Reviews
Europe After The Rain: J.G. Ballard & Only Connect
What is the word that describes the panicky feeling you get when you realise that literally everything - bar pickled herring - is now Ballardian? John Doran goes to Oslo's Only Connect festival to find the connections between J.G. Ballard and avant garde music
Live Reviews
Battle Lines Of Meaning: These New Puritans’ Field Of Reeds Expanded
These New Puritans bring their Magic Resonator Piano and a host of supporting musicians to The Barbican for Field Of Reeds Expanded. Tim Burrows examines their quest to find "the elegiac and the sublime in the horrors and scars of southeast England ". Photo by Andy Wilshire
Live Reviews
No More Coals From Newcastle: Test Dept At AV Festival
Luke Turner travels to the AV Festival in Newcastle and sees Test Dept make a powerful, moving statement about the end of the coal industry and Miners' Strike with a gigantic installation at Dunston Staithes on the River Tyne. Photographs by Colin Davison, Mark Savage
