139. Iggy Pop
ROYAL ALBERT HALL
13 MAY 2016
★★★★★
Grooving with Mani at punk’s founding member
140. Television
ELECTRIC BRIXTON
12 JUNE 2016
★★☆☆☆
Post punk pioneers disappear up their own bottoms
142. Gary Clarke Jr.
O2 ACADEMY BRIXTON
29 JUNE 2016
★★★☆☆
Delta blues king of funky gets dirty in Brixton
144. Lionel Ritchie
THE O2 ARENA
2 JULY 2016
★★★☆☆
Easy like Sunday morning, even on a Saturday night
145. Sleep
THE FORUM
6 JULY 2016
★★★☆☆
Doomlords deliver an hour-long sermon in the key of bong
146. Courtney Barnett
SOMERSET HOUSE
13 JULY 2016
★★★☆☆
Slacker queen lays down her poetic fuzz gospel in a fancy courtyard.
147. Rodriguez
LONDON PALLADIUM
23 JULY 2016
★★★☆☆
How a Detroit nobody became South Africa’s Dylan
148. King Creosote
ROUGH TRADE EAST
7 SEPTEMBER 2016
★★★★☆
Musical therapy with a Fife accent
151. Gary Numan
ELECTRIC BRIXTON
2 OCTOBER 2016
★★★★★
It all comes full circle. Meeting the man himself
152. Jean-Michel Jarré
THE O2 ARENA
7 OCTOBER 2016
★★★★☆
A Frenchman makes Kraftwerk look like slackers
154. Opeth
WEMBLEY ARENA
19 NOVEMBER 2016
★★★☆☆
Like being hugged by a gorilla while someone recites Norse mythology
156. Against Me!
ELECTRIC BALLROOM
8 DECEMBER 2016
★★★☆☆
A night notable for the proposition as much as it was for the music
157. Richard Ashcroft
THE O2 ARENA
9 DECEMBER 2016
★★★★★
Northern gobshite shaman gets an orchestra and owns it
158. Clutch
ROUNDHOUSE
15 DECEMBER 2016
★★★☆☆
Riffs, rock and righteous beards: The rock gospel according to Neil Fallon