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.

‘Majorly impressive for the most part’, we review the London début proper of Casper Clausen’s Liima, live at Rich Mix.

We review the London return of Brighton’s Fear of Men, live at the ‘greige hive of irrelevance’ that is The Victoria, Dalston.