D'Angelo is more than a former tour de force who's been forced to tour and with a nine-piece band honed to perfection, this was no Whitney Houston-style car-crash comeback
Read full review...Some may chide their lack of progress but when Feeder tried to evolve they lost almost everything. Right now, they feel like a band with a weight lifted off their shoulders, revelling in playing to their many strengths
Certainly, the 20-year-old's chutzpah is impossible to fault. For almost two hours he was alone (bar two rapper cameos), strumming his guitar, deploying countless tape loops, stretching himself every which way
It's early days yet - a debut album is due in March - but once they shed their live inhibitions, the world is theirs for the seducing
Hurtling through their shiny pop One Direction produced a somewhat lacklustre show, but having the guts and nous to avoid gloopy ballads, they fared rather well
A sort of end of year indie X Factor, Radio 1's Festive Festival takes a smorgasbord of new bands and gives them 10 minutes of stage time apiece
As Brooklyn singer-songwriter James Levy and the Blood Red Rose (aka Allison Pierce, elder sister of The Pierces) played only the second show of their fledgling career, they made a fascinating bundle of contrasts
Tubular Bells was performed (or, to be exact, Part One of it), but it was only the climax of an evening devoted to minimalism
After the success of the reformed Take That and a stint as X Factor judge, Gary Barlow is in grave danger of being anointed as a national treasure
The Florida grunge titans' current album, ABIII, barely scraped the Top 20 in their homeland and three of the quartet have been forced to re-form their old group Creed, but here ABIII has swept to Number 1
Sinead O'Connor has seemed lost for some time. On the evidence of last night's charity gig for Mencap, she's found herself again. "Extraordinary", writes John Aizlewood
"This," chuckled Chris Martin at the start of the major coup of Mencap's Little Noise Sessions 2011, "is going to be more enthusiastic than professional". He wasn't wrong
Never as transcendentally magical as U-Roy or as poetic as the late I-Roy, Earl "Little Roy" Lowe had Jamaican hits in the Sixties
Whether singing in a voice as near-operatic as it was near-backwoods or playing fiddle as if Rome was burning, Alison Krauss was as mercurial as she was untouchable playing to a captivated Festival Hall
Despite his surface bonhomie, easy comparisons to James Blunt, and the overly-safe housewife appeal, singer-songwriter James Morrison knows how to put in believable and genuine performance
British rap is now pop's dominant force and "Professor Green" Manderson has the nation's best-selling single with the anthemic Read All About It
For all her contrived kookiness, her selective audience and the likelihood that her epitaph will read "not quite as good as Kate Bush", Tori Amos can hypnotise an audience into reverential silence
"Thank you very much. Goodnight." As pre-encore farewells go, it was mundane - proof that at the age of 42, PJ Harvey is never going to get this pop star lark
Britney Spears said little and looked as delighted to be at the O2 as Col Gaddafi was to be found in a drainage pipe
Even with the distraction of TV cameras, this was a bewitching performance. Put your house on Florence And The Machine in 2012
IndigO2
SE10
Apr 8, 7pm
HMV Apollo
W6
Apr 5, 6.30pm
HMV Forum
NW5
Apr 28, 7.30pm
The O2 Arena
SE10
Apr 27, 6.30pm
02 Shepherd's Bush Empire
W12
Feb 18, 7pm
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