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Endlessly inventive … Margo Price. Photograph: Alysse Gafkjen
Margo Price
It says something pretty damning about Nashville’s music industry that a country artist as great as
Margo Price exists out of its sight, forced to make her way through non-country channels. Not that
it seems to have hindered her. She is a fantastic singer-songwriter, her music endlessly inventive.
These live shows should be a treat.
UK tour begins 26 January, Gorilla, Manchester
The Last Dinner Party – Prelude to Ecstasy
The most hotly tipped alternative rock band of 2023 – theatrical; given to encouraging fans to
wear fancy dress to gigs; possessed of a striking frontwoman in Abigail Morris; a little indebted to
Kate Bush and Sparks amid the distorted guitars; four rapturously received singles to date –
release their much anticipated, James Ford-produced debut album.
2 February
Slowdive
The return of Slowdive is an example of how reputation can shift: derided in the early 90s as wispy
latecomers to the shoegazing genre, their impressively experimental oeuvre has been burnished by
time, their reformation has been greeted with something approaching rapture, and the audiences
at their gigs are now bigger than in their heyday.
UK tour begins 16 February, Brighton Dome
L’Rain
