Stornoway live in concert.
ON TOUR

Stornoway

32
critic concert reviews
rock

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

81
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Based on 
32
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Last 12 Months Rating  
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Real Live Certified  

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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.

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Latest Release

Best of Unplucked (29 November 2024)

Artist Info

Genre
rock
Origin
Oxford, United Kingdom (2006 - 2017)
Bio
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.
Has Performed With

Critic Concert Reviews

The Independent (UK)

March 16, 2017
100
%
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.

The Guardian (UK)

March 7, 2017
80
%
Stornoway: Beachcomber's Windowsill Read more The folk-pop four-piece were barely out of school and university when the surprise success of their 2010 debut album Beachcomber’s Windowsill saw them take flight.

The Guardian (UK)

April 30, 2015
100
%
The Junction Cambridge, Cambridge

The Telegraph (UK)

April 24, 2015
80
%
The Oxford quartet have discovered the more menacing side of mother nature in this fan-funded release.

The Independent (UK)

August 15, 2014
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London Roundhouse, London, UK

GoldenPlec (Ireland)

December 7, 2013
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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 Independent (UK)

March 28, 2013
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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.

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Andy Fairbairn via Wikimedia Commons