Andrew Perry

3 weeks ago | standard.co.uk | Andrew Perry

With the news that The Who’s microphone-swinging singer Roger Daltrey, now 81, has handed over the reins of curating the annual week of Teenage Cancer Trust gigs at the Royal Albert Hall to the The Cure’s Robert Smith, there was a worrying sense that perhaps, to borrow a line from their old muckers in mid-’60s beat-pop, The Rolling Stones, this could be the last time – was tonight The Who’s final hurrah?

3 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Andrew Perry |Poppie Platt

Following a winning streak of three consecutive US chart-topping albums (and two in the UK), Marcus Mumford's folk-rock giants sit only behind Coldplay as Britain's biggest post-millennial band. It's been seven long years since their last outing: in the interim, country & western has helpfully come back into fashion, but that aside there's sufficient ammo on this fifth long-player to keep their band up top.

3 weeks ago | mojo4music.com | Andrew Perry

Now into their 80s, The Who’s core duo are in incendiary form as they step down from Teenage Cancer Trust patronage in style. The WhoAs Roger Daltrey steps down as curator of Teenage Cancer Trust’s annual week-long residency at the Royal Albert Hall, what does this mean for The Who moving forward? The band’s charitable mouthpiece, now 81, has always given them this benevolent purpose to reconvene at least once a year – and, indeed, their two appearances this week are their first since TCT24.

1 month ago | msn.com | Andrew Perry

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1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Andrew Perry

Even after turning 83 earlier this month, Welsh-born rocker John Cale showed no signs of relaxing his high-art principles in a rare London appearance at the Royal Festival Hall. From a background in classical and avant-garde minimalism, Cale helped revolutionise pop music in the late 1960s in The Velvet Underground, the radical New York City ensemble bankrolled by Pop Artist Andy Warhol, where he wrought sonic havoc on the songs of Lou Reed with his droning viola and uncompromising aesthetics.