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20 Years Of Transgressive Records at Regents Park Open Air Theatre with Arlo Parks and Marika Hackman 15.07.2024 – Backseat Mafia
By Victoria Wai “Thank you for being with me on this rainy adventure. I feel like this is going to be one of those unforgettable gigs,” and Arlo Parks wasn’t wrong as she headlined this stormy Regents Park Open Air Theatre night. I’ve admired The Open Air Theatre from afar so with a double bill of Arlo Parks and Marika Hackman it was time to be there, we just hoped the weather was wrong as it had been but walking to the venue many raincoats and umbrellas were in sight coming to celebrate 20 years of Transgressive Records, who Parks notes as the label of, “such pure love of music…
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Amigo The Devil / Nate Bergman – The Wardrobe, Leeds 15.07.2024 – Backseat Mafia
Nate Bergman is a man of many voices. Just listen to his album, and you get some raspy folk, country rock god, and even a spot of gospel mixed with a burst of soul. Tonight, Bargman stripped back to just him and a guitar—two guitars, in fact, as he swapped between acoustic and electric for the selection of tracks he played tonight, some taken from that album. Tattooed and dressed in black, his explosive opening with the track ‘War On The Working Class’ got the audience’s attention, and he kept them enraptured throughout the 45-minute set he was allowed. Just his third solo gig supporting Amigo The Devil, he undoubtedly…