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139. Iggy Pop

ROYAL ALBERT HALL

13 MAY 2016

★★★★★

Grooving with Mani at punk’s founding member

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140. Television

ELECTRIC BRIXTON

12 JUNE 2016

★★☆☆☆

Post punk pioneers disappear up their own bottoms

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142. Gary Clarke Jr.

O2 ACADEMY BRIXTON

29 JUNE 2016

★★★☆☆

Delta blues king of funky gets dirty in Brixton

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143. Massive Attack

HYDE PARK

1 JULY 2016

★★★☆☆

Dub, dread and digital damnation

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144. Lionel Ritchie

THE O2 ARENA

2 JULY 2016

★★★☆☆

Easy like Sunday morning, even on a Saturday night

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145. Sleep

THE FORUM

6 JULY 2016

★★★☆☆

Doomlords deliver an hour-long sermon in the key of bong

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146. Courtney Barnett

SOMERSET HOUSE

13 JULY 2016

★★★☆☆

Slacker queen lays down her poetic fuzz gospel in a fancy courtyard.

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147. Rodriguez

LONDON PALLADIUM

23 JULY 2016

★★★☆☆

How a Detroit nobody became South Africa’s Dylan

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148. King Creosote

ROUGH TRADE EAST

7 SEPTEMBER 2016

★★★★☆

Musical therapy with a Fife accent

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149. Gary Numan

LCR NORWICH

23 SEPTEMBER 2016

★★★☆☆

Are friends electric?

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150. Björk

HAMMERSMITH APOLLO

24 SEPTEMBER 2016

★☆☆☆☆

Completely blanked due to the trauma

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151. Gary Numan

ELECTRIC BRIXTON

2 OCTOBER 2016

★★★★★

It all comes full circle. Meeting the man himself

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152. Jean-Michel Jarré

THE O2 ARENA

7 OCTOBER 2016

★★★★☆

A Frenchman makes Kraftwerk look like slackers

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153. ABC

ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL

25 OCTOBER 2016

★★★☆☆

Pop hits, an orchestra and a human disco ball. Fry reminds us why that album was so great

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154. Opeth

WEMBLEY ARENA

19 NOVEMBER 2016

★★★☆☆

Like being hugged by a gorilla while someone recites Norse mythology

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155. The Cure

WEMBLEY ARENA

1 DECEMBER 2016

★★★★☆

A night of goth glory and Mancunian mayhem

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156. Against Me!

ELECTRIC BALLROOM

8 DECEMBER 2016

★★★☆☆

A night notable for the proposition as much as it was for the music

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157. Richard Ashcroft

THE O2 ARENA

9 DECEMBER 2016

★★★★★

Northern gobshite shaman gets an orchestra and owns it

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158. Clutch

ROUNDHOUSE

15 DECEMBER 2016

 ★★★☆☆

Riffs, rock and righteous beards: The rock gospel according to Neil Fallon

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