Union Chapel London reviews by real event-goers
Reviews of Union Chapel in London
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Review of LCV Choir with Jesca Hoop, Káryyn, Deepa Nair-Rasiya and act tba
Very enjoyable night. The music was eclectic, but perhaps a little too disjointed with the narrative of female composers and writers not providing enough of a thread to tie together acts of 2-3 songs. The result was some moments of extraordinary power and beauty but periods where the night draggrd. Overall though I'd definitely reccommend people see LCV
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Review of LCV Choir with Jesca Hoop, Káryyn, Deepa Nair-Rasiya and act tba
Absolutely outstanding show, with such an amazing variety of guest performers and material. Their live rendition of ‘Nightcall’ by London Grammar blew me away.
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Review of Mario Biondi
Great evening out. Never been to Union Chapel before but it was a special venue with friendly staff and the sound was brilliant. As this was our first visit, we weren't prepared to play "towels on sunloungers" to get a seat, but we still managed to get a decent enough pew and totally enjoyed Mario's crooning. Intimate atmosphere and would definitely return.
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Review of This Is The Kit ,The Fantasy Orchestra and the Rachael Dadd Combo!
What a show … What support … which meandered seamlessly all the way through the three acts. An ensemble like the Fantasy Orchestra shouldn’t really work, at times the strings were slightly lost so something for the mixing desk to think about, perhaps turn them up to 11, but they (with their strings, horns, wind, choir and folk band combo) would still have done the Arcade Fire proud as they delivered a time traveling worldwide folky soundscape!
Rachael Dadd herself was captivating, at times bringing back memories of Harold Budd’s subliminal “Moon and the Melodies” collaboration with the Cocteau Twins, I believe I also heard the essence of my other 4AD staple “Dead Can Dance”. I now have to track down her radio 4 jingle, as an "all round" mathematician it should be much more fun than avoiding "The Archers".
The main act along displayed the “Horniness” of Polica’s outstanding “Dark Star” through various songs rather than just compressed into the end of that fabulous track, as banjo's and guitars were swapped and keys changed we were treated to a blissful array of folkitude! The layered lead guitar in the last few songs brought back memories of The Doves unexpected opener “Firesuite”.
And through it all, each act was their own and yet somehow, even better as they combined. The orchestration throughout painted a larger vivid canvas of sound emphasised by the venue, the only vague comparison I can think of is how Elbow something similar with their choir and big band at that Abbey Road gig!
Invited by a long-standing university friend (we graduated in the 90’s well 1990 actually), I hadn’t taken the time to pre-listen. I’m not sure how to describe their genres, probably Post Rock & Folk combined with something new and unique, but it was really very VERY good, Iceland you are in for something special.
This is a band to do Portishead and all of the other West Country geniuses proud. Tried to say this is a tweet but was, as one might expect, rather lost for characters!
Have a safe trip back west, all of you and please please come back soon!
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