Mark Beaumont
Super Furry Animals live: A joyously irrepressible experience
Back for a reunion tour, the Welsh cult heroes easily devour O2 Academy Brixton in their yeti gear
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds at OVO Arena: soul on steroids
All you need for success is a set of Oasis deep cuts and some acoustic ballads
The Streets at Alexandra Palace: charming chaos from garage's everyman
Mike Skinner was on top form for the final show of his UK tour
Eric Cantona at the Bloomsbury Theatre: back of the net? Not quite
Howling footie fans were treated to an hour of anguished singing
King Krule on mental health, fatherhood and a change in identity
Archy Marshall, aka King Krule, has taken the angry, alternative sound of south London to the world. But he’s not quite happy yet, he tells Mark Beaumont — particularly not with his name…
Stop Making Sense: Talking Heads and the greatest concert film ever
That a live show could be at once so energised, joyous and inventive had a major impact on arena performance for decades to come – influencing acts from David Bowie to Billie Eilish
Liam Gallagher at Koko: crowd-pleasers from rock’s parka-clad Rocky
Noel’s rebellious little brother is back from the dead, cocky as ever
Jamie Reid: Sex Pistols collaborator who defined the punk aesthetic
The British artist and designer blazed a trail with his political, contemporary and confrontational work
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds at South Facing: Britpop’s back!
The gig was peppered with the acerbic, deadpan good humour we’ve come to love from Oasis’s elder Gallagher brother
Latitude festival review: eclectic offerings and psychedelic sheep
The Suffolk festival has fine-tuned the tricky art of blending the safe with the seditious
Bruce Springsteen at Hyde Park review: unrelenting rock spectacular
The Boss raced through a whole rock’n’roll lifetime in an epic three-hour plus show
Pulp at Finsbury Park review: ecstatically received
‘It’s just like in the old days,’ Cocker sang, and he wasn’t wrong
Van Morrison, Royal Albert Hall: a silky smooth, generous host
As retro tributes to an artist’s root inspirations go, this was a refined and joyful display
Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64 at the NPG: Beatlemania up close
This recently rediscovered cache of photographs dating from the height of Beatlemania is a once-in-a-generation find
Arctic Monkeys at Emirates Stadium: snarling Vegas glam, via Sheffield
The band’s first stadium tour is a widescreen celebration, unearthing grandeur at every turn
Róisín Murphy at Royal Albert Hall: a very creative comeback
It was impossible not to be swept along with her infectious momentum
The Coronation Concert at Windsor Castle: Gawd bless Queen Katy Perry
A classier affair than recent royal concerts was still quite weird, but had its highlights
Snoop Dogg at the O2 review: a megamix of rap classics
The show featured just one Snoop track released since 2011, while screening an advert and taking a weed break were not exactly what you’d call entertainment
Dizzee Rascal at the O2: overshadowed, but a reminder of his influence
He may struggle to get back to his previous heights after his recent court case, but he wasn’t letting us forget his pioneering origins
Carly Rae Jepsen at Alexandra Palace: a life-affirming pity party
Parts of the show might have been bland, but the Jepsen faithful got what they came for
Chris Brown at the O2: shallow, inconsequential and just a bit queasy
Dancing alway took precedence over singing, and the backing track handled fifty per cent of the vocals