Jake Shears live in concert.
ON TOUR

Jake Shears

11
critic concert reviews
electronic

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

76
%
Based on 
11
critic concert
reviews
Last 12 Months Rating  
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Based on 
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Critic Consensus

Based on 11 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Jake Shears is rated as an entertaining live performer, with many notable strengths.

ON TOUR

Seaclose Park, Newport, United Kingdom (June 20); AFAS Live, Amsterdam, Netherlands (August 3);

Latest Release

I Used To Be in Love (YAME & Le Chev Remixes) (August 30, 2023)

Artist Info

Genre
electronic
Origin
Bio
Jake Shears (born Jason Sellards on October 3, 1977 in Arizona) is the vocalist for the American alternative music group the Scissor Sisters. Sellards attended Occidental College in Los Angeles.
Has Performed With

Critic Concert Reviews

The Upcoming (UK)

June 3, 2023
100
%
Jake Shears at Village Underground

The Independent (UK)

April 23, 2023
60
%
Jake Shears Live in Concert In the UK

The Telegraph (UK)

April 22, 2023
60
%
The Southbank Centre’s concert celebrating the glam rock album 50 years on made you miss the star’s extraordinary voice and charisma

The Upcoming (UK)

September 22, 2019
100
%
The pace was sustained throughout, never faltering, with Shears clearly having fun on stage. He seems to be in a happy place and it was a pleasure to be invited into his world, even if it was just for one night.

GetIntoThis (UK)

August 23, 2018
%
Certainly their early sound – like hedonistic single Filthy/Gorgeous – seemed like a faithful distillation of New York gay culture onto record.

The Times (UK)

August 17, 2018
60
%
When Scissor Sisters burst on to the international stage in 2003 they were a revelation, a band forged on New York’s gay nightclub scene who took 1970s rock and 1980s pop and infused them with a much-needed dose of humour and sparkle.

The Arts Desk (UK)

August 17, 2018
60
%
He is wearing a grey top hat, a white tail-jacket with glittered lapel-edging, silver glittery trousers, a tight black sequinned vest top, and a bow tie on his bare neck.

Past critic reviews published in

The Arts Desk (UK), Evening Standard (UK), musicOMH (UK)

Image Credit

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