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Music review / 5 May 2025
5 May 2025

MIK SABIERS savours the first headline solo show of the stalwart of Brighton’s indie-punk outfit Blood Red Shoes

The Itch at The Grace
Music Review / 29 January 2024
29 January 2024
MIK SABIERS leaves The Itch gig rejuvenated and energised
GREBO CLASSICS: Pop Will Eat Itself at the 100 club
Concert review / 23 October 2023
23 October 2023
MIK SABIERS detects a serious message beneath the fun and frenzy of a classic 1980s Grebo scene band
Bob Vylan at the Electric Ballroom
Music Review / 5 December 2022
5 December 2022
Into A Circle on stage in Oslo
Live Music Review / 6 November 2022
6 November 2022
Punk rock attitude
Music Review / 13 October 2022
13 October 2022
Music Reviews / 4 September 2022
4 September 2022
New releases from Hot Milk, Prince and the Revolution and Pales Waves
black midi in action at Somerset House’s Summer Series 202
Music Review / 15 July 2022
15 July 2022
A round of applause for Lydon at the end of the night
Live Music Review / 20 June 2022
20 June 2022
Political, personal, punchy and right in your face
Live Music Review / 3 June 2022
3 June 2022
Culture / 18 April 2022
18 April 2022
New releases from Tears For Fears, Blood Red Shoes, and The Mysterines
GOOD POTENTIAL:The Mysterines
Live Music Review / 3 April 2022
3 April 2022
Skating Polly in full swing at The Lexington, London
Music Review / 30 March 2022
30 March 2022
Cassyette, tipped as one to watch
Music Review / 20 February 2022
20 February 2022
Cody Frost
Live Music Review / 6 February 2022
6 February 2022
NEARLY THERE: Ropes are being installed to secure and contou
Art in the Open / 14 December 2021
14 December 2021
MIK SABIERS enjoys a book that documents the last project of two artists who mesmerised the public on a grand scale but never succumbed to commercialisation
PILLAGE: (L to R) Benin bronzes like this - at the Bode Muse
Opinion / 6 December 2021
6 December 2021
The Humboldt Forum, the newest addition to Berlin’s Museum Island, is as ambivalent architecturally as its content is ethically problematic. MIK SABIERS has the story
Selling their soul to rock ‘n’ roll - Bykers at the 100
Music Review / 22 November 2021
22 November 2021
Live GIRLI is in your face and intense
Gig Review / 21 November 2021
21 November 2021
IRREPRESSIBLE: Heaven 17 in action
Music Review / 8 September 2021
8 September 2021
A worthy trip down a memory lane of musical innovation, principles and messages that still matter in our current austere times, writes MIK SABIERS
Yungblud – aka Dominic Harrison – hurtles on stage
Music review / 16 August 2021
16 August 2021
Digitally savvy, gender fluid, angry, sad – this is music for the masses of the modern age
Jenny Hilton
BOOKS / 3 August 2021
3 August 2021
Plodding plod account of rising through the police ranks
DIRECT ACTION: Mural in Lisbon depicts an elderly woman disr
BOOKS / 28 April 2021
28 April 2021
Think hipsters are harmless uber-trendies who are just a jokey part of modern urban culture? Gregory Pierrot's book will make you think again, says MIK SABIERS
THE WRITING’S ON THE WALL: Unrequited Love in Barcelona
BOOKS / 10 March 2021
10 March 2021
An exploration of the downside to mass travel is engaging but not wholly satisfying, says MIK SABIERS