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Bat For Lashes to headline Mirrors festival

October 25, 2016

HACKNEY’S Mirrors Festival is returning this weekend after making its first debut last year. This year boasts a strong line-up of artists, with the event taking place this week in East London. The day festi...

Glass reviews the Liverpool International Festival Of Psychedelia

Katrina Mirpuri

October 5, 2016

Feature, Glass LIVE, Music

LIVERPOOL’S International Festival Of Psychedelia (Liverpool Psych Fest) has left a strong footprint on the music calendar since it began in 2012. Despite being fairly small compared to Europe’s other competing...

Pop-Kultur – Glass checks out Berlin’s culture thriving festival

Katrina Mirpuri

September 15, 2016

Feature, Glass LIVE, Music

THIS year marked the two-year anniversary of Berlin’s diverse and upcoming Pop-Kultur festival. Debuting its first year at the famous Berghain club, Pop-Kulture celebrated this year’s festival in the thriving v...

Latitude Festival – 10 stand-out moments

Katrina Mirpuri

August 2, 2016

Culture, Feature, Glass LIVE, Music

SUFFOLK’S Henham Park came alive for yet another year, as Latitude festival hosted a stunning array of arts and musical entertainment. Here are 10 moments we thought were particularly memorable. ...

The Glass Guide to this summer’s UK Music Festivals

Katrina Mirpuri

June 16, 2016

Feature, Glass LIVE, Music

FESTIVAL season is fast approaching, and this summer will host a vast amount of great music across the country. In order to help you decide which festivals to go to, we’ve created a guide of the best musical ev...

The Great Escape festival highlights

Katrina Mirpuri

May 27, 2016

Feature, Glass LIVE, Music

THE Great Escape has a reputation for hosting some of the best new acts emerging on the scene. This year’s festival hosted over 400 acts which presented the new wave of musical talent as well as some familiar a...

Glass talks to Owiny Sigoma Band

Katrina Mirpuri

May 20, 2016

Feature, Glass LIVE, Music

THE genesis of Owiny Sigoma Band is special. It tells the story of three Londoners who travel to Kenya as part of a musical collaboration funded by the Arts Council of England. As a result, we have been gifted ...

Glass reviews Tropicália legends Caetano Veloso & Gilberto Gil at the Barbican

Arjun Sajip

May 17, 2016

Culture, Feature, Glass LIVE, Music

THE MAGIC of Tropicália is simply put: when you listen to it done well, you are convinced no greater music exists in this or any world. It combines the camaraderie, melodic facility and harmonic sophistication ...

Glass catches The Kills at Village Underground, London

Ben Olsen

May 12, 2016

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RETURNING with their first new album in five years next month, garage-rock royalty The Kills treated the crowd at London’s Village Underground to a career-spanning masterclass last week. With Ash &...

Glass reviews Junun at the Barbican, London

Katrina Mirpuri

April 19, 2016

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LAST year we were given the musical collaboration of Junun – consisting of England’s Jonny Greenwood, India’s Rajasthan Express and Israel’s singer songwriter Shye Ben Tzur. Junun recorded their self-titled alb...

Glass reviews – Kurt Vile live at the Roundhouse

Katrina Mirpuri

March 19, 2016

Culture, Glass LIVE, Music, News

WHEN Kurt Vile takes to the stage, he lets us know that he’s moving at his own pace. The Philadelphian’s manner belongs to someone who has all the time in the world, and his stoner rock music suggests the same,...

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Glass gears up for London’s Convergence Festival

Ben Olsen

March 8, 2016

Glass LIVE, Music, News

THIS week sees some of the world’s finest musical minds arrive in London for the start of Convergence festival – a 10-day celebration of music, visual art and tech that kicks off in various venues across the ca...

Glass reviews Hiromi at the Southbank Centre

Arjun Sajip

December 14, 2015

Feature, Glass LIVE, Music

Never before have I attended a concert of two such distinct halves. Before the intermission, the unsavoury, almost relentlessly tasteless fusion jazz gradually begins giving way to more subdued sounds; but afte...

An evening with Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn at the South Bank

Arjun Sajip

November 25, 2015

Culture, Feature, Glass LIVE, Music

Glass heads to the Southbank Centre to see the couple’s banjo magic She hails from North Carolina, and her name’s Becca Stevens. She’s the support act for virtuosic husband-and-wife duo Béla Fleck and Abigail ...

Bringing the Day of the Dead to life in London

Ben Olsen

November 3, 2015

Feature, Food & Drink, Glass LIVE, Music

A riot of colour, culture and cuisine – not to mention its macabre central theme – makes Mexico’s Day of the Dead festival one of the world’s most popular and visually memorable cultural traditions. Celebrating...