Cat Power
From her formative days at the frontier of lo-fi 00s guitar rock, to recent excursions into electronica and activism, Chan Marshall is an artist who is constantly evolving. She returns to the UK and Ireland for a run of soul-scorching spring dates.
London, 12 & 15 March; Brighton, 14 March; Dublin, 16 March
Superfood
Their debut arrived amid a boom in B-Town groups such as Peace and Swim Deep. But Birmingham outfit Superfood have since shed their Britpop navel-gazing and signed to the 1975’s home, Dirty Hit, taking a new approach that veers more towards Gorillaz than the Gallaghers.
O2 Academy 2, Oxford, 17 March; touring to 29 April
Craig David
Considering he spent the last decade living in a hotel complex in pop purgatory, not even David himself could have anticipated the extent of his comeback. After the success of last year’s Following My Intuition, which went to No 1, and a best male solo artist Brits nomination, the former poster boy of garage pop and promiscuous sexual exploits brings his revival to the masses.
Motorpoint Arena Cardiff, 16 March; touring to 9 April
Loudon Wainwright III
The Grammy-winning folk songwriter performs Surviving Twin, a posthumous collaboration with his late father, the columnist Loudon Wainwright Jr. It sees the younger Wainwright explore everything from birth to loss, parenthood to pet ownership, interspersing songs from his own catalogue with a selection of his father’s writings.
Leicester Square Theatre, WC2, 11 & 12 March
Tove Lo
The Swedish star’s recent second record, Lady Wood, celebrated female sexuality via Sticky Fingers parody artwork and liberated lyrics. Her live performance is part riot grrrl in its passion, but full Euro synthpop spectacle in its sound.
O2 Ritz, Manchester, 15 March; O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, W12, 17 March
