The Pretty Things live in concert.
ON TOUR

The Pretty Things

20
critic concert reviews
metal

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

85
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LAST 12 MONTHS RATING  
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Real Live Certified  

Real Live Certified badge for artists with consistent, high quality live performances and broad critical acclaim.

Critic Consensus

The Pretty Things is 'Real Live Certified' and is in the top 5% of all live performers. Based on 20 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that The Pretty Things is rated as an excellent live performer, with many notable strengths. The Pretty Things concert reviews describe live shows and performances as psychedelic, incendiary, stunning, sophisticated, and breathtaking.

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Copenhagen Beat Festival 1972 (September 9, 2023)

artist info

GENRE
metal
ORIGIN
London, United Kingdom (1963 - present)
BIO
The Pretty Things was an English rock band formed in September 1963 in Sidcup, Kent, with their name from Willie Dixon's 1955 song "Pretty Thing".
HAS PERFORMED with
The Malchicks

CRITIC concert REVIEWS

National Rock Review

December 24, 2018
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Ain’t gonna quit ya, get the picture? sings an on song Phil May and, billed as the final Pretty Things electric show, we can take it that this isn’t the end of the line for these legends from the Dartford Delta.

Mondo Sonoro (Spain)

November 26, 2018
80
%
Auditorio de Baranain /Navarra, Spain

100 Percent Rock Magazine (Australia)

October 18, 2018
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Cult R&B legends The Pretty Things made their first and last visit to Perth on their final world tour with support from local boogie merchants Datura4 and The Rockin’ Hendys.

X-Press Magazine (Australia)

October 18, 2018
90
%
The Pretty Things are one of the most important acts of the original British R&B scene from the 1960s.

Music-News.com (UK)

June 21, 2016
80
%
On the other hand there are bands who have become legendary through constantly playing and recording and building with small changes in personnel.

Record Collector Magazine (UK)

February 11, 2016
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The band, in black suits, remain powerful, strutting, blasting out everything from early-60s favourites (Don’t Bring Me Down), to excerpts from their concept masterpiece, SF Sorrow, and breathtaking tracks from today.

Record Collector Magazine (UK)

July 31, 2014
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But there was no need to worry when Phil May, Dick Taylor and pals launched into a stunning show at the packed Cabbage Patch upstairs room.

Past critic reviews published in

Mancunian Matters (UK), Devilution (Denmark), The Independent (UK)

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