"How good are they LIVE?" in the last 12 months on 100 (as of 9/23/24)
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Real Live Certified
Artists are Real Live Certified if their live shows have broad critical acclaim
Critic Consensus
Stornoway is 'Real Live Certified' and is in the top 10% of all live performers. Based on 32 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Stornoway is rated as a remarkable live performer, with impressive shows that are worth watching. Stornoway concert reviews describe live shows and performances as energetic, predictable, poetic, nuanced, stirring, and amazing.
Stornoway was a British alternative indie folk band who formed in 2006 in the Cowley Road area of Oxford, UK. The band consisted of singer and guitarist Brian Briggs, multi-instrumentalists Jon Ouin and Oli Steadman, and the latter's brother Rob Steadman on drums.
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The Independent (UK)
March 16, 2017
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It's been a long road Briggs tells a packed Shepherd’s Bush Empire on the band’s farewell tour - a world away from the tiny Brixton venues they played at the start.
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Bottom of the bill at Marlay Park, they were visibly nervous, sounding solid in reproducing their nuanced, poetic brand of folk-pop, but depressingly lacking in presence on a chunky stage.
The gig opens with a series of projections of glowing moons, and they'll be frothing waves, sea-birds, starry skies and other predictable pastoral delights behind them throughout.