Stuart WadsworthFeb 54 minOMD: Room For ManoeuvreMessages and Souvenir – the latter sung by co-founder Paul Humphreys, stepping out from behind his keyboard – are electronic symphonies almo
Stuart WadsworthJul 4, 20184 minGod Is An Astronaut: Stellar Kwadrat, Krakow, 16/5/10 What is post-rock? In essence, it seems, and this is by no means a definitive explanation, it is music which uti...
Stuart WadsworthJun 19, 20184 minFucked Up: This is HardcoreLoch Ness, Krakow, 30/11/09 For a minute tonight, I thought I had entered a zoo. A zoo with a rampant and bloodthirsty (though rotund) wi...
Stuart WadsworthJun 17, 20183 minArms & Sleepers: Academic DreamersForty Kleparż, Krakow, 10/5/10. There is a new venue in Krakow, and it’s slowly but surely starting to put on some acts which are gaining...
Stuart WadsworthJun 16, 20185 minDepeche Mode: Spirited Tauron Arena, Krakow, 7/2/18 It's a strange fascination that eastern Europeans have with Depeche Mode. Much like The Cure, there is somet...
Stuart WadsworthJun 14, 20184 minSelector: Festival ReviewPark Loników, Krakow, 4-5/6/10 The second Selector Festival in Krakow, an electronic/dance event, took place over the first weekend of th...
Stuart WadsworthJun 13, 20184 minThe Residents: Welcome to the House of FunŁażnia Nowa, Krakow, 5/5/10 Trudging through the rain, a particularly grim introduction to summer 2010; an obscure theatre in Nowa Huta, ...
Stuart WadsworthJun 13, 20184 minThe Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble: Like Tears In Rain Rotunda, Krakow, 8/11/09 Rotunda was not exactly packed to the rafters for this evening’s niche performers, an eclectic and terribly seri...
Stuart WadsworthJun 8, 20184 minThe Editors: On This Night and In This City Studio Club, Krakow, 29/11/09 The Editors, it seems, have no sense of doubt in what they could achieve. On the release of The Back Room i...
Stuart WadsworthJun 6, 201812 minThe Futureheads: Decent NightFabryka Club, Krakow, 9/11/10 The Futureheads were a post-punk band from Sunderland who existed between 2000-2013. They surfed the wave o...
Stuart WadsworthJun 4, 20184 minGogol Bordello: Purple Patch Rotunda, Krakow, 9/12/09 “This moustache kills fascists” proclaimed the T-shirt of a skinny, excited-looking kid waiting in a very long l...
Stuart WadsworthMay 28, 20184 minTricky: SmokescreenFabryka Club, Krakow, 5/11/10 The musical world has changed radically since Tricky’s stupendously popular, genre-inventing 1995 album Max...
Stuart WadsworthMay 28, 20184 minMorrissey: I Know It's OverStudio Club, Krakow, 22/7/11 Disappointment: a word Morrissey might identify with. Not the kind of disappointment that leaves you feeling...
Stuart WadsworthMay 28, 20184 minThe National: Explaining Everything to the GeeksStudio Club, Krakow, 22/2/11 Only a handful of bands have the ability to sell out venues with minimal advertising or fuss and yet remain ...
Stuart WadsworthMay 24, 20185 minBritish Sea Power: Not Drowning But WavingForty Kleparż, Krakow, 2/10/11 This is a review I wrote seven years ago, and for several reasons I've decided to put it up on my website;...
