Black And Blue UMC/POLYDOR

Always a great live band, they’ll be a far better bet close to Christmas than the local pantomime.

London Shepherd’s Bush Empire

Movistar Arena, Madrid, November 4

74-75: Night Life / Fighting UMR

In 1976, the revolutionary singer-songwriter LAURA NYRO returned from self-imposed exile. But her comeback confounded expectations, shifting away from the impassioned intimacies of her early albums to embrace more radical perspectives. Fifty years on, Nyro’s collaborators revisit her striking second act. “She was a hip American from the Bronx,” one friend and producer tells Rob Hughes. “But her soul was old.”