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Kings of Leon, Carling Apollo, Manchester
09 December 2004
Angelic good looks and old fashioned rock'n'roll find a willing audience

Khaled, Shepherds Bush Empire, London
09 December 2004
The Shepherds Bush Empire had never seen anything like it.

Steven Osborne, Wigmore Hall, London
09 December 2004
No doubt those who had already heard Steven Osborne's much-praised recording on the Hyperion label of Olivier Messiaen's gigantic two-hour solo piano cycle 20 Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus, approached the Wigmore Hall with high expectations.

Europa Riconosciuta, La Scala, Milan
08 December 2004
Stars out for a night at restored home of opera

ATP: The Nightmare Before Christmas, Camber Sands, Sussex
08 December 2004
An assault on the senses

The Pirates of Penzance, Coliseum, London
08 December 2004
Ever since Broadway reclaimed The Pirates of Penzance as one of its own back in the 1980s (Joseph Papp's rambunctious production had commercial success in New York and London), we've required that extra degree of pep from our Gilbert and Sullivan.

Ash, Astoria, London
08 December 2004
This was one of a series of shows sponsored by Rizla (Rizla, Ash - geddit?) and Kerrang! magazine.

The Prodigy, Academy, Birmingham
07 December 2004
When this year's Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned finally emerged, The Prodigy's followers had been parched of product for far too long.

The Compact Collection
06 December 2004
Rob Cowan on this week's releases

WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne/Bychkov/Shoji, Royal Festival Hall, London
06 December 2004
The Westdeutsche Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra of Cologne is scarcely in the top league of German bands.

Micah P Hinson, Islington Academy Bar, London
06 December 2004
Micah P Hinson's 22 years have already blazed with a level of incident that would have broken a lesser man.

The Beastie Boys, SECC, Glasgow
06 December 2004
The New York group that can't, won't, don't stop

The Magic Numbers, Borderline, London
The Bravery, Roadhouse, Manchester
05 December 2004
The softies are back - fancy a cuddle?

kd lang: Waterfront Hall, Belfast
05 December 2004
She's got the voice, the songs - now all kd needs is a super furry animal.

Don Pasquale, Royal Opera House, London
Academy of Ancient Music, St John's Smith Square, London
WDR Symphony Orchestra/ Bychkov, Royal Festival Hall, London
05 December 2004
Miller? He gives me a great big pain in the neck

The Prodigy, The Academy, Birmingham
03 December 2004
Power, pounding beats and brutal diversity bring the fans alive

Album: Nas
03 December 2004
Street's Disciple, COLUMBIA

Album: Rich Robinson
03 December 2004
Paper, COMPADRE

Album: The Pretty Things
03 December 2004
Still Unrepentant, SNAPPER

Album: Steve Earle
03 December 2004
Live From Austin TX, NEW WEST

Album: Sheila Ferguson
03 December 2004
A New Kind of Medicine, D-GROUP

Album: Ja Rule
03 December 2004
R.U.L.E., DEF JAM M Ward, Bush Hall, London
03 December 2004
Matt Ward once attributed his fascination with John Fahey to the folk legend being part historian, part innovator.

Parliament Choir/Southbank Sinfonia, Westminster Cathedral, London
03 December 2004
A senior frontbench Liberal spokesman (tenor); a Rural Affairs minister at odds with the foxhunting lobby (tenor); a Tory ex-minister with a rural constituency and diametrically opposite view (baritone); plus a similarly deep-throated basso colleague.

The Darkness, SECC, Glasgow
02 December 2004
Lycra-clad motley fools