Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Daddy Long Legs, Paper Dress Vintage London
Storming set from New York blues rockers
ROCK’N’ROLL AT ITS RAWEST: Daddy Long Legs
ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
The Star's critics ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA reviews I Am Love, The Penguin Lessons, Freaky Tales, The Thicket
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
JOHN GREEN relishes photography that unfolds a longstanding and poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
NEW YORK’S Daddy Long Legs descended on the depths of Hackney to play two sold-out shows as part of a worldwide tour in a vintage clothing shop by day and a bar-cum-club and general hangout by night.
Daddy Long Legs are right at home in front of a packed house in what’s an unusual venue, with guitarist Murat Akturk, looking like the long-lost brother of Johnny Marr, getting sounds from his guitar that set the scene, while Josh Styles on drums and maracas — sometimes on both at the same time — could’ve walked straight out of the 1960s.
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