"How good are they LIVE?" in the last 12 months on 100 (as of 3/11/24)
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Real Live Certified
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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)
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