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Real Live Certified
Artists are "Real Live Certified" if their live shows have broad critical acclaim
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Will Varley is "Real Live Certified" and is in the top 10% of all live performers. Based on 18 concert reviews, the critics consensus is that Will Varley is rated as a remarkable live performer, with worthwhile shows overall. Will Varley concert reviews describe live shows and performances as poignant and mysterious.
Will Varley (born in Brixton, London, on 7 March 1987) is a British folk singer and co-founder of the arts collective Smugglers Records. Varley spent his teenage years in Kingston playing solo shows and singing in bands.
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The Aquarian Weekly (USA)
February 5, 2025
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No Frills Jamboree with Stephen Kellogg & Will Varley at City Winery NYC / January 29, 2025
As you enter the venue, you are struck at how small and intimate it is. The seats go all the way to the front of a small raised stage, with the front row using the front of the stage as a table for their drinks. The lighting consisted of only four up
It proves to be rather apt; plenty of pints are bought, the loyal audience knows every chorus, and a mysterious burning smell sends The Globe staff into a flurry midway through the set.
It's taken Will Varley nearly 15 years to cross Shepherds Bush Green, from where he used to play at Ginglik (a venue in a converted Edwardian public toilet at the other end of the roundabout) to the Shepherds Bush Empire, a venue he would pass walking home after playing there.
As venues are getting bigger for Will Varley's brand of rough-and-ready blues, tonight sees the singer-songwriter delighted to be in such appreciative company
