Lisa Wright

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Freelance journalist, editor and podcast host: The London Standard, The Observer, DIY, Time Out, Wallpaper etc https://t.co/SNo424nV6P

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One to watch: Annahstasia | The Observer

1 month ago | observer.co.uk | Lisa Wright

Years after being discovered in her teens, the American singer-songwriter’s strikingly rich voice has finally found its true expression You can trace a sonic lineage from Annahstasia Enuke back to the humanity of Tracy Chapman, or perhaps the smoothness of Sade, but the Los Angeles-born singer-songwriter, 30, has fought to craft something entirely her own.
Welly, Chloe Qisha, The Itch and more: DIY’s best sets of The Great Escape 2025

1 month ago | diymag.com | Daisy Carter |Sarah Jamieson |Lisa Wright

The Brighton showcase fest once again delivered a weekend packed full of future stars (as well as few familiar faves for good measure). If there’s one thing that’s guaranteed to get us in the Summer spirit, it’s a weekend spent down in Brighton at The Great Escape, lapping up the very best that the wonderful world of new music has to offer (and hopefully, catching some rays while we’re at it).
Viagra Boys at Brixton Academy review: high-functioning chaos

1 month ago | standard.co.uk | Lisa Wright

Culture | MusicYour nan might not approve of the tattoos and sleazy tales of drugs, but no one is doing it like this Swedish punk bandSwedish punk band Viagra BoysFredrik BengtssonLisa Wright2 minutes ago“There I was, smoking methamphetamine, and now here I am on this big stage with my stupid friends,” grinned Viagra Boys’ frontman Sebastian Murphy to a sold out Brixton Academy: the Swedish punk band’s largest UK headline show of their ten year career to date.
‘To de-platform them is dangerous’ - Why Kneecap should play Glastonbury

1 month ago | independent.ie | Lisa Wright

‘To de-platform them is dangerous’ – Why Kneecap should play GlastonburyIn their relatively short tenure in the public eye, Irish language rap trio Kneecap have become possibly the most controversial, establishment-riling, genuinely disruptive musical group since the Sex Pistols.
Why Kneecap should play Glastonbury: 'to deplatform them is dangerous'

1 month ago | standard.co.uk | Lisa Wright

Culture | MusicKneecap are at the centre of a media storm but - as the bands Sleaford Mods, SOFT PLAY and The Horrors tell us, if they are removed from the bill at Glastonbury, that will set a precedent for creative self-censorship Lisa Wright1 minute agoIn their relatively short tenure in the public eye, Irish language rap trio Kneecap have become possibly the most controversial, establishment-riling, genuinely disruptive musical group since the Sex Pistols.
‘We haven’t woken up on a chandelier yet’: Bono’s son Elijah Hewson on why his pop band Inhaler don't party like rock stars

Feb 14, 2025 | independent.ie | Lisa Wright

As Dublin’s Inhaler unveil their huge new album, will the wild times finally come? Dublin quartet Inhaler may have already clocked up a UK chart topper in their 2021 debut ‘It Won’t Always Be Like This’ and a silver podium place with its follow-up, 2023’s ‘Cuts & Bruises’, but in more personal ways, says 25-year-old frontman Elijah Hewson, this month’s third act, ‘Open Wide’, feels like a new beginning. “I think there was definitely a lot of anxiety on the first two albums. It was so stressful.
Feminism, freedom and Björk: inside Reykjavik's interdisciplinary modern art scene

Feb 14, 2025 | wallpaper.com | Lisa Wright

Situated on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, almost equidistant between the UK and America, it is easy to picture Iceland – with its epic, rugged geology and tales of elves and magic – as something of a utopian bubble. Of course, the country has its own struggles, but politically it is a world away from its neighbours.
Charly Bliss: Forever review – alt-rockers put pop first - NewsBreak

Aug 9, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Lisa Wright

‘High-stakes emotion’: Charly Bliss. Photograph: Milan Dileo On their first two albums – 2017’s Guppy and 2019’s Young Enough – Brooklyn’s Charly Bliss traded in various combinations of sonic sweet and savoury. Pop-punk, bubblegum-grunge, powerpop: whatever the pairing, the takeaway was of an alternative outfit with pop sensibilities, always in that order.
Sophie May - Deep Sea Creatures

Jul 24, 2024 | diymag.com | Lisa Wright

5 StarsSophie May is doing everything differently and everything right. Released: 26th July 2024Label: self-releasedSometimes, a lyric will bite the bullet in a way that you can’t help but admire for ‘going there’. Sometimes, as on the gently-cooed ‘Tiny Dictator’, the ‘there’ that they’ve gone to is a place so eye-poppingly, what-did-you-just-say bananas that it’s a toss up between giving the author a standing ovation and an intervention.
Lava La Rue - Starface

Jul 17, 2024 | diymag.com | Lisa Wright

4-5 StarsA window into the multitudes of an artist who’s evidently brimming with them. Released: 19th July 2024Label: Dirty HitA sprawling, 17-track concept album about a queer alien who comes to earth, in the wrong hands ‘Starface’ could have been an exercise in overblown bombast. Few records, if we’re being honest, can clock in at such length and keep the standard up throughout; ‘Starface’, however, can.