Ben Tipple

DIY Magazine • 7th September 2021

Live Review: Slam Dunk 2021

With the sun shining for the first time since 2020 (don’t fact check us here) and having survived the unavoidable COVID-forced line-up changes, there’s something truly special about being back at Hatfield House.

DIY Magazine • 27th July 2021

Live Review: Latitude Festival 2021

In its three main days and nights, Latitude cements the bubbling undercurrent of great British music, a vital snapshot of the strength and resilience of the UK scene.

DIY Magazine • 25th March 2021

Live Review: Julien Baker, Virtual Gig, Nashville

As has become common place at a Julien Baker live show, in those moments of silence between songs, there’s a communal exhale. In her music she captures her demons, in her live show she embodies their release.

DIY Magazine • 3rd November 2020

Live Review: Salem, New Cross Inn, London

Delivered with an unrelenting passion across all four members of the band, they easily confirm themselves as far more than a side-project. This is masterful punk’n’roll with a gloriously dark heart.

DIY Magazine • 9th March 2020

Live Review: Christine and the Queens, MOTH Club, London

Throughout her career playing with the notions of femininity and power, with identity and sexuality, tonight cements Christine as a truly empowering voice. Among the brilliant songs lies a personable, relatable and self-assured individual, one who...

DIY Magazine • 26th February 2020

Live Review: PVRIS, Electric Brixton, London

The crowd, who have waited two years for this moment, don’t hold back, and nor do PVRIS – who remain at the very top of their game.

DIY Magazine • 26th February 2020

Live Review: The 1975, O2 Arena, London

Matty Healy is angry. As he leans into the crowd during ‘I Like America & America Likes Me’, he spits with a visceral venom that lifts the song to a previously unheard level.

Ticketmaster UK • 17th February 2020

Live Review: Sigrid takes to London ahead of the BRITs

Omeara is turned into one of London’s biggest and best parties of the weekend – and that’s with Tommy Hilfiger’s Fashion Week party a stone’s throw away.

Ticketmaster UK • 5th February 2020

Live Review: Sleep Token deliver a powerhouse performance

They blur the line between melody and force, between heavy guitar riffs and tangible pain.

Ticketmaster UK • 31st January 2020

Live Review: While She Sleeps ascend to Brixton headliners

As all five brim with pride looking over the sea of entranced fans, the closing number feels particularly apt. You are we, and we are you.

Ticketmaster UK • 16th January 2020

Live Review: Cirque Du Soleil's LUZIA stuns in London

Cirque Du Soleil add another powerful string to an already solid bow, one that thrives on its vibrant interpretation of culture, tradition and imagination.

Ticketmaster UK • 11th December 2019

Live Review: Sam Fender wows at O2 Academy Brixton, London

Sam Fender may have travelled far in 2019, but the journey has only just begun.

DIY Magazine • 4th November 2019

Live Review: Creeper, 229, London

To say Creeper’s return is triumphant is an understatement. This is a rebirth.

Ticketmaster UK • 21st October 2019

Live Review: Cher celebrates her acclaimed career on UK tour

Cher effortlessly remains the outright star of the show; funny, quick, confident, note-perfect and simply stunning.

Ticketmaster UK • 27th September 2019

Live Review: SASAMI brings unique indie-rock to London's MOTH Club

This unfiltered assuredness runs throughout the sound, one as gentle as it is powerful.

Ticketmaster UK • 25th July 2019

Live Review: Here’s what happened at Latitude Festival ’19

In an industry crying out for gender equality, women steal the show at Latitude 2019.

Ticketmaster UK • 1st July 2019

Live Review: P!nk crowned pop royalty at Wembley Stadium

With her second-to-none showwomanship, the empowered connection with her fans and her catalogue of undisputed bangers, P!nk is nothing short of a queen in her own right.

Ticketmaster UK • 21st June 2019

Live Review: Laura Stevenson strips it back for UK live dates

Ten years ahead of the game, perhaps now even more than ever she is not one to be frozen out.

25th March 2019

Live Review: Self Esteem, Village Underground, London

Sipping on a pint of tequila and lemonade, the show cements her step from cult indie stalwart to pop powerhouse.

DIY Magazine • 7th February 2019

Live Review: Hayley Kiyoko, Forum, London

Finding early fame as part of the sickly-sweet Nickelodeon and Disney family, Hayley has shaken off early associations to be crowned the ‘lesbian Jesus’ by an army of online stans.