GoGo Penguin live in concert.
ON TOUR

GoGo Penguin

34
critic concert reviews
jazz

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

74
%
Based on 
34
critic concert
reviews
LAST 12 MONTHS RATING  
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Critic Consensus

Based on 34 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that GoGo Penguin is rated as an enjoyable live performer, though not exceptional overall. GoGo Penguin concert reviews describe live shows and performances as unforgettable, artful, eclectic, energetic, inspiring, and thunderous.

ON TOUR

Bristol Beacon, Bristol, United Kingdom (May 18); Klub Studio, Kraków, Poland (June 4)

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Latest release

Everything Is Going to Be OK (April 14, 2023)

artist info

GENRE
jazz
ORIGIN
Manchester, United Kingdom (2009 - present)
BIO
GoGo Penguin is a British jazz band from Manchester, UK, featuring pianist Chris Illingworth, bassist Nick Blacka, and drummer Rob Turner. The band is an exhilarating live act, drawing on a heady brew of influences from Aphex Twin to Brian Eno, Debussy to Shostakovich and Massive Attack to EST.
HAS PERFORMED with
Jaimeo Brown

CRITIC concert REVIEWS

Gigwise (UK)

February 16, 2022
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The Barbican Hall stage is lit in a russet warmth and Gogo Penguin, like the rest of us, are gratefully drinking in the return to normality. Perhaps more than any other contemporary British act, the trio capture the urgency of contemporary and urban life that received an abrupt fracture through the pandemic

God Is In The TV Zine (UK)

October 29, 2019
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I thought it best to let this performance sink in for a day before writing about it, for it is unlike any other.

Buzz Magazine (UK)

November 19, 2018
80
%
Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff, UK on November 16, 2018

Bristol In Stereo (UK)

November 17, 2018
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SWX, Bristol, UK on November 14, 2018

GIGsoup (UK)

November 14, 2018
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Royal Albert Hall, London, UK on November 13, 2018

De Morgen (Belgium)

August 18, 2018
60
%
Brussels, Belgium

Humo (Belgium)

August 18, 2018
60
%
Pukkelpop Festival, Belgium

Past critic reviews published in

de Volkskrant (Netherlands), Knack Focus (Belgium), Rhythm Passport (UK), Brighton's Finest (UK), Panic Manual (Canada) and more

IMAGE CREDIT

Robert Wetzlmayr [CC BY-SA 4.0] via Wikimedia Commons