Mat Lee, Journalist

"Tune-Yards are an acquired taste but sometimes you just gotta relax and have a dance"

According to the Bard, a ‘puddinghead’ may be one who fumbles the most basic tasks, but Ball Park prove a balanced and centred approach suits them just fine.

White Deer Park is surely a fan favourite, but equipped with certain gems, it also has the potential to move anyone who has experienced life’s mishaps.

The intimacy of the space was occasionally lost but this is no fault of either act and both rose to the occasion.

A play of three scenes, it’s the final exchange between Tommy and Donna’s father that lets out the bottled electricity accumulating throughout the production, launches actors into full flight and sees Pontaks’ direction at its peak.

2013 saw Mat Lee won over by Villagers.

The band have been voted #1 touring act in the world three times in the last five years, an honour that seems appropriate for the act we saw in the concert’s second half.

Gaga desperately claws back in the album’s final stages, Dope showing some truth, but it’s probably too little, too late.

While the production of Harvest Of Gold’s pop contingent is to be commended, surely nothing can compare to the symphonic beauty of Pulse, its boisterous orchestral styling fronted by Croome’s intimate and innocent storytelling.

Tribute’s homage to music’s legends is almost cringe-worthy, but John Newman’s advertisers-dream anthems will have him howling all the way to the bank.