‘One of the finest songwriters – or storytellers, for that matter – around at the minute’, we review Andy Shauf live at London’s Bush Hall.

We review the ‘absolutely flawless’ LISS, live at London’s Moth Club.

On what may well be their final stand at London’s Royal Albert Hall, we review the Manic Street Preachers, as they revisit Everything Must Go.

An evening ‘gravely lacking in vocal diversity’, we review the live début of Minor Victories at London’s Village Underground.

‘From the sublime to the ridiculously minuscule’, we review Explosions In the Sky at both the Royal Albert Hall and Rough Trade East.

‘An out-and-out triumph’, we review Animal Collective, live at London’s Troxy.