Posts Tagged ‘best gigs of 2025’

A night of industrial psychedelia and profound meaning

No other band has managed to hold the breath of an entire venue in their hands until the night of the third gig of SWANS in London, marking the end of this iteration of the band.

We all participated in a 2½ hr long meditative, industrial, psychedelic, emotional confession. Some of us did not leave our houses with any such expectation or desire…and yet this is exactly what happened to us because this band, with its powerful maestro, instigator, and Seer, managed to get through all of our defences to achieve an unforgettable result.

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Current 93 live at Union Chapel

David Tibet live photo 2025It has been six years since I last saw you perform live, dear David, as Current 93 with Nurse With Wound at the release of ‘The Light Is Leaving Us All’. Many things have changed since then, but the magical energy that David Tibet is enveloped by and emits remains undimmed. I have been following C93 and attending their performance for 22 years, but I will never forget the first gig I attended in Athens, for the duration of which I was in tears. I have changed a lot since then, but the melodies, the lyrics and David’s delivery of them, still cut through all my layers of change.

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