Antony and The Johnsons live in concert.
ON TOUR

Antony and The Johnsons

49
critic concert reviews
rock

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

81
%
Based on 
49
critic concert
reviews
Last 12 Months Rating  
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Real Live Certified  

Real Live Certified badge for artists with consistent, high quality live performances and broad critical acclaim.

Critic Consensus

Antony and The Johnsons is 'Real Live Certified' and is in the top 10% of all live performers. Based on 49 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Antony and The Johnsons is rated as a remarkable live performer, with impressive shows that are worth watching. Antony and The Johnsons concert reviews describe live shows and performances as operatic, noisy, extraordinary, stylish, and magical.

ON TOUR

BAM Howard Gilman Opera House; BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, Brooklyn, NY, United States; Brooklyn, NY, United States (October 18; Oct 18)

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Latest Release

Knockin' On Heaven's Door (14 April 2019)

Artist Info

Genre
rock
Origin
New York, United States (1995 - present)
Bio
Antony and the Johnsons are a Mercury Prize-winning music act from New York City, New York, United States. The band is fronted by Anohni.
Has Performed With

Critic Concert Reviews

The Independent (UK)

July 30, 2013
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There can’t be many winners of the Mercury Music Prize who could play London’s Royal Opera House and finish the show with the entire audience on their feet shouting Bravo! as if the curtains had just come down on La Boheme.

musicOMH (UK)

July 29, 2013
80
%
Antony Hegarty’s Swanlights show originally commissioned by New York’s Museum of Modern Art aspires to be more than merely a gig.

The Guardian (UK)

July 26, 2013
100
%
To a low hum and dance beats she flaps her extended limbs with increasing urgency her desperate attempt to take flight marking the unsettling start of Swanlights a much-anticipated gig by a truly unconventional star Antony Hegarty.

musicOMH (UK)

July 3, 2009
90
%
Opera House Manchester, Manchester on July 3, 2009

musicOMH (UK)

May 27, 2009
80
%
Johanna Constantine whose artwork is featured on the headliners’ new album The Crying Light glides menacingly onto the stage draped in a gauze fabric and covered in what looks like blood.

Birmingham Live (UK)

May 22, 2009
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Birmingham Symphony Hall, Birmingham, UK

Spectrum Culture (USA)

April 2, 2009
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Maybe someone gasped but only that epithet lingered on the air, slicing apart the crystalline reverie the band had spent half the show creating, its mundane harshness bursting the magical balloon of song in which we all had floated.

Past critic reviews published in

The Upcoming (UK), Country Standard Time (USA), Gaffa (Denmark), Gaffa (Denmark), Parklife DC (USA) and more

Image Credit

Fred von Lohmann [CC BY-2.0] via Wikimedia Commons