Category: Live

Live Review: Alela Diane @ Days Off Festival, Paris 5/7/26

I hadn’t planned on going to Paris last weekend. I had seen a while back that Alela Diane and Kevin Morby were playing Paris one day after the other during my summer holiday but a trip to Paris in summer was surely going to be too hot and too expensive. 

And yet as the time drew nearer I felt like it would be more wrong not to go, especially considering these were two of my favourites who’d both released brilliant new albums this year and neither artist were playing Scotland on this tour schedule. The heat looked to be dipping a little back under thirty degrees on the weather forecast (in the end it was stifling) and I got some extra money for work I did in June. So off I went. 

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Live Review: Kaitlin Butts & Meels @ Oran Mor, Glasgow 19/05/26

People are always complaining about the cost of concert tickets but last night Glasgow was treated to a line up with viral country star Kaitlin Butts and one of the most promising new artists of the year in Meels for less than £25 including fees. Here was an affordable, dare I say even underpriced show in this current market, featuring two stellar acts on the rise who were a total joy to spend the evening with. You could have bought merch and still end up having spent less than one ticket to see most artists on an arena or stadium tour. Supporting women in music is easy and cheap if you’re willing to seek out the underrated and up and coming artists. 

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Live Review: Florence and the Machine @ The Hydro, Glasgow 9/2/26

At the start of Season 6 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the main character has to dig herself out of her own grave after being violently brought back from the dead. Afterwards she walks through riot-strewn streets of fire, disorientated and bleeding, asking: ‘Is this hell?’ The rest of the season she spirals into crippling depression, apathy and a self-destructive relationship.

Florence Welch considered calling her last album ‘Season 6’ in honour of that arc, so much did she see herself in Buffy’s struggle. During her last tour Florence suffered a broken foot on stage, before losing her unborn child and nearly dying with complications of that ectopic pregnancy. Hell and back doesn’t even begin to cover it.

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Live Review: Lucinda Williams @ Celtic Connections 1/2/26

Three years after her last triumphant performance at Celtic Connections, Lucinda Williams made a welcome return to Glasgow to celebrate her new album ‘World’s Gone Wrong’. As a younger artist she was always known for taking her time between albums but since her stroke in 2020 she has become hugely prolific – releasing two albums of originals and her various ‘Jukebox’ series of cover albums, alongside a packed touring schedule. On stage she remains a powerful, potent voice, one whose message of peace and love was rapturously received by a packed crowd of fans.

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Live Review: Emmylou Harris @ Celtic Connections, Glasgow 16/01/26

Emmylou Harris last played Glasgow at Country to Country festival in 2018, and since she’s turning 79 in April some thought that was the last time she would play this side of the Atlantic.

Luckily for us she decided to grace us with her divine presence one more time, beginning her European farewell tour with this career- spanning celebratory evening at Celtic Connections festival. 

As many fans have pointed out, this isn’t the end. She still intends to tour America and play dates near her home in Nashville.  When she stepped on the stage last night she looked sprightly on her feet and her voice sounded great, suggesting she can run for a long time yet.

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Live Review: Ashley Monroe & Fancy Hagood @ St Luke’s, Glasgow 25/08/25

In celebration of her new album ‘Tennessee Lightning’ the gorgeous Ashley Monroe returned to play Glasgow, sharing the billing with her friend Fancy Hagood for the evening. With Scotland basking in the late summer sun the talented pairing brought a little Southern charm and positive healing light to the St Luke’s stage. 

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Live Review: Madison Cunningham @ Celtic Connections 17/01/25 

This week Karine Polwart shared a cover version of Madison Cunningham’s ‘Life According to Raechel’ and encouraged her followers to go see the young musician live at this Celtic Connections show.

Before the gig itself began, I spotted no less than three well-known Scottish musicians taking their seats in the stalls.

Later the excellent support act Louis Abbott would ask if there were any musicians in the audience and it seemed like more than half the crowd raised their hand (incidentally Louis confessed he had already bought a ticket for the gig before he was added as support). 

So it seems then that Madison Cunningham is your favourite musician’s favourite musician. 

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