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Music review / 5 May 2025
Twin Peaks-lite and a tad countrified
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
Destined to either soar or implode
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
Top of the Poppies
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
Preaching revolution, solidarity, change and equality
5 December 2022
Into A Circle on stage in Oslo
Live Music Review / 6 November 2022
Lost in time?
6 November 2022
Punk rock attitude
Music Review / 13 October 2022
Ribald rock ‘n’ roll
13 October 2022
Music Reviews / 4 September 2022
Album reviews with Mik Sabiers
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
The night that kind of fizzled out
15 July 2022
A round of applause for Lydon at the end of the night
Live Music Review / 20 June 2022
No blanks in Lydon’s reloaded pistols
20 June 2022
Political, personal, punchy and right in your face
Live Music Review / 3 June 2022
Aussie brand of punk rock not to be sniffed at
3 June 2022
Culture / 18 April 2022
Album reviews with Mik Sabiers: April 19, 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
Risk-taking urgently required
3 April 2022
Skating Polly in full swing at The Lexington, London
Music Review / 30 March 2022
Polly skate on with infectious abandon
30 March 2022
Cassyette, tipped as one to watch
Music Review / 20 February 2022
Cassyette about to break out into the wider world
20 February 2022
Cody Frost
Live Music Review / 6 February 2022
New acts show promise and resolve
6 February 2022
NEARLY THERE: Ropes are being installed to secure and contou
Art in the Open / 14 December 2021
A ‘revelation through concealment’
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
Architecture and art: Controversy on the banks of the Spree
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
A veritable trip to the 1980s Grebo scene
22 November 2021
Live GIRLI is in your face and intense
Gig Review / 21 November 2021
All about mental health, the music industry and being yourself
21 November 2021
IRREPRESSIBLE: Heaven 17 in action
Music Review / 8 September 2021
Memorable communion with audience
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
Yungblud tour blasts off
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
Copper Lady: Life in the Met and Lords
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
Hipsterdom takes a hit
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
A global tourist trap
10 March 2021
An exploration of the downside to mass travel is engaging but not wholly satisfying, says MIK SABIERS
Album reviews with Mik Sabiers: January 17
MUSIC / 15 January 2021
Album reviews
15 January 2021
Latest releases from Micko & the Mellotronics, Billie Joe Armstrong and Paul McCartney
MUSIC / 16 August 2020
Album reviews with Mik Sabiers: August 18, 2020
16 August 2020
Latest releases from Taylor Swift, david newton andStephen EvEns
'BROKEN GARGOYLES': Images from Plastic Surgery of the Face
PERFORMANCE ONLINE / 26 July 2020
Broken Gargoyles, Fridman Gallery, New York
26 July 2020
WWI horrors the focus of haunting lockdown show from Diamanda Galas
SENSING THE SPIRITUAL: Aruba Red
MUSIC / 13 March 2020
Aruba Red, St Pancras Old Church London
13 March 2020
Soulful set with the accent on transformation and healing
ROCK’N’ROLL AT ITS RAWEST: Daddy Long Legs
MUSIC / 1 March 2020
Daddy Long Legs, Paper Dress Vintage London
1 March 2020
Storming set from New York blues rockers
Damo Suzuki
Music / 18 February 2020
Sowing musical chaos in the nicest possible way
18 February 2020
Celebrant: Little Boots
Music / 26 November 2019
Little Boots, The Garage London
26 November 2019
Hands-on magic from diminutive diva
Mermaidens
Live Music Review / 29 September 2019
Mermaidens, The Old Blue Last, London
29 September 2019
Siren calls from inventive New Zealanders
Live Music Review / 23 September 2019
The Sisters of Mercy, The Roundhouse, London
23 September 2019
Curmudgeon-in-chief Andrew Eldritch is as ever the charismatic focus of the goth-rock veterans
Music / 13 August 2019
A rapturous finale saves Marr’s bacon
13 August 2019
Culture / 13 August 2019
A night that puts a spring in your step
13 August 2019
MIK SABIERS sees the former Eurythmics front man’s set bring the house down prompting a euphoric response from the audience
Musical Review / 6 August 2019
Rodgers, the ringmaster, has them dancing in the aisles
6 August 2019
MIK SABIERS just soaks up the atmosphere of joyous abandon
Culture / 1 August 2019
Meltdown of the most desirable kind
1 August 2019
Rocking out: Zuzu
Music Review / 5 July 2019
Zuzu, The Brewpub, Shoreditch
5 July 2019
Mersey sound of a sonic boom makes Zuzu one to watch
Enhanced reputation: Taylor Swift
Culture / 5 December 2018
Best of 2018: Live Music
5 December 2018
by MIK SABIERS
MASTERFUL: Piroshka
Music / 29 November 2018
Piroshka promise much on assured debut
29 November 2018
Music / 16 November 2018
Heavenly night watching Psychic TV
16 November 2018
Music Review / 6 November 2018
Ladytron make a more than welcome return
6 November 2018
Live Music Review / 1 October 2018
Potential but little pop power from Pale Waves
1 October 2018
Angry Brigade: Artificially Yours
Interview / 21 August 2018
'The hardest thing is to stay angry'
21 August 2018
Artificially Yours lead protagonist and vocalist CHAT talks to Mik Sabiers about music, politics, technology and challenging convention before the release of their new EP The Merger
The Primitives' lead singer Tracy Tracy
Music Review / 4 July 2018
Primitive pleasures from the past
4 July 2018
Music Review / 25 June 2018
Swift lives up to her reputation
25 June 2018
MIK SABIERS sees the electropop princess take Wembley by storm
MEMORABLE: The Psychedelic Furs
Music Review / 18 June 2018
Robert Smith's memorable Meltdown
18 June 2018
The Cure legend is in charge of this year's festival and it got off to a very impressive start, says MIK SABIERS
Music Review / 25 March 2018
Pearls in a rock oyster
25 March 2018
MIK SABIERS sees a dynamic duo in blistering form