February 3, 2012
Maverick Sabre - 'Lonely Are The Brave' Maverick Sabre Tickets
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Maverick Sabre is the “male Amy Winehouse”. Or so his label would have you believe, in a bio that manages to avoid the words “Plan” and “B” altogether. Sabre’s voice has a gritty soulfulness, but where Winehouse dreamed up a musical identity that was more than the sum of its retro parts, Sabre’s debut underwhelms somewhat. ‘Let Me Go’ succeeds only by pilfering the Isaac Hayes sample previously used by Tricky and Portishead, while ‘No One’ is such a flagrant Amy copy you can almost smell the beehive lacquer. The result feels more like a product of urban music’s identity crisis than fruits of Sabre’s own endeavour.
Ben Cardew
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| Date/Time | Venue | Town/City | Seetickets | Viagogo |
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| Jun 16, 2012 14:00 | Chester Racecourse | Chester |
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| Sep 21, 2012 18:30 | O2 Academy Newcastle | Newcastle |
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| Sep 21, 2012 18:30 | O2 Academy Newcastle | Newcastle |
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