Music Park: Parklife DC Top 10 Concerts of 2017 by Mickey

Posted on 12/21/2017 by Mickey McCarter in Live Review and tagged 9:30 Club, Adam Ant, Alison Moyet, Black Cat, Book of Love, Capital One Arena, Colin Hay, Depeche Mode, disco, Duran Duran, Earth Wind & Fire, Emily Haines, folk, Gary Numan, industrial, MGM National Harbor, Modern English, new wave, post-punk, punk, punk cabaret, Rock and Roll Hotel, Saint Etienne, Sixth & I, sophistipop, Squeeze, synthpop, The Birchmere, The Dresden Dolls, The Lincoln Theatre, The Regrettes, top 10, U Street Music Hall, Yelle.

Martin Gore performs with Depeche Mode at Capital One Arena on Sept. 7, 2017. (Photo by Ben Eisendrath /Instagram+Twitter: ConspiracyCaptures/GrillworksBen)

The year 2017 was a good year for revisiting old friends as they returned to remind us that they truly still “got it.” In the past year, Parklife DC reviewed a great deal of musicians and bands, and the performances that really distinguished themselves often came as something of a pleasant surprise.

Music Park: Alison Moyet @ Sixth and I — 9/11/17

Posted on 09/14/2017 by Mickey McCarter in Live Review and tagged Alison Moyet, England, Historic Synagogue, new wave, R&B, Sixth & I, synthpop, Yaz, Yazoo.

Alison Moyet performs at The Sixth & I Historic Synagogue on Sept. 11, 2017.

At one point during her show, Alison Moyet shared memories of her mother to a sold-out house at the Historic Synagogue at Sixth and I on Monday night. The British chanteuse misses her mother dearly, she intimated, but she could never escape the matron’s fierce protection of proper grammar.

“I would write her letters and send a red pen because I knew she would mark them up anyway,” Alison said with a sly smile.

Maternal perfection and remembrances combined in Alison’s lush new song “The English U” from her terrific new album Other, the release of which in June via Cooking Vinyl inspired a world tour — the North American leg of which launched in Washington, DC, on Sept. 11.

Don’t Miss: Alison Moyet @ Sixth & I, 9/11/17

Posted on 05/15/2017 by Mickey McCarter in Live Review and tagged Alison Moyet, England, Sixth & I, synthpop.

Alison Moyet (Photo by Steve Gullick)

Alison Moyet will release her new studio album, Other, on June 16 via Cooking Vinyl. Not long after, she will launch a North American tour, starting at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue on Monday, Sept. 11.