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There are many things that Leeds covets as a city – cheap beers, being the birthplace of M&S – but perhaps its most precious asset is its thudding music scene, and with it, the annual Live At Leeds Festival. Kicking off my day at 3pm were the floppy-haired rockers Drenge at O2 Academy, who wryly […]Read More
In 2018, there are not too many moments in pop-punk that carry as much weight as those seminal late 90’s / mid 00’s acts that helped shape the genre. But, as Neck Deep jumped out on stage for State Champs’s encore, it was a defining moment for this current era of pop-punk. Now, it wasn’t […]Read More
In Henri Lefebvre’s book, the Critique of Everyday Life, there is a chapter entitled Notes Written One Sunday in the French Countryside. Here, he details the idea of ‘festival’ in medieval French peasant culture. He identifies a Bacchic celebration and release of pent-up emotion over the course of a few days, ending with an orgy […]Read More
The Xcerts triumphed in Manchester as they served up their new album ‘Hold On To Your Heart’. The Scottish trio, for some bizarre reason, have always had difficult times in Manchester but were welcomed on a bitterly cold evening to the cosy and intimate Deaf Institute by a packed out crowd. Despite the turnout, however, […]Read More
The Barrowlands: one of the better music venues to exist. The renovated ballroom recently hosted a weekend’s worth of Wolf Alice, with a sold-out Saturday show and a less crowded Remembrance Sunday slot. The London band visited Scotland and told us they love it up here, intricately weaving EPs and albums, complete with breaks and […]Read More
Southampton’s newest venue Heartbreakers has already secured some high class talent to take to its stage but tonight it was the turn of Southampton’s very own mystery trio Mystic Peach, who played a hometown show in support of London’s Yowl and Bristol’s Lice. The mysterious trio, who have just released their debut single ‘Downtown’ via […]Read More
It’s been a mighty rise for South London boy Loyle Carner in the past year having sold out shows across the UK and Europe, playing huge festival slots at Latitude, Reading and Leeds and Glastonbury as well as scoring a prestigious Mercury Award nomination for his debut album Yesterday’s Gone, named after a song on […]Read More
The period before a band release their debut album can always be one of the most difficult times in their careers, they are having to tour the new material that people have probably never heard while trying hard not to give too much away and this is exactly where we find London 4 piece Flyte […]Read More
Rou Reynolds, frontman of Enter Shikari asks, “Are you all feeling suitably nostalgic?”. While the Main Stage crowd roars back, the affirmation feels something like a simple answer because actually, no, as they rattle through their decade-old debut album ‘Take To The Skies’ it actually feels more relevant than ever before. With the lights and […]Read More
A bank holiday always has the making of a good weekend, it’s a 3 day weekend, of course it’s gonna be good. Well how about I add a beautiful city, some top class venues and a whole heap of awesome bands to the mix, yep the mouth waters just thinking about it. Well this weekend […]Read More
Mid noughties indie bands don’t tend to have the best track records in consistency, most of them have produced a couple of decent records then faded into obscurity however British Sea Power aren’t your average indie fodder. What the band have been able to do since the release of their incredible debut album The Decline […]Read More
Under the proverbial radar for over a year now, Black Honey have been tugged through the sticky sludge of grunge and have somehow came out sounding flawless. It would be a simple slip-up to envision the Brighton bunch with a lot more than a few EPs under their belt. Fronted by this generation’s answer to […]Read More
All Time Low are a band who have had continual success and popularity despite being together for over 14 years. Before the release of their 7th studio album, Last Young Renegade, in June 2017, the band returned to the UK for a nationwide tour. The Sheffield date of the tour was the first to sell […]Read More
As part of their current UK tour Marsicans last night took to the stage at The Platform, an intimate venue in the heart of Lincoln’s Student Union. Supporting the Leeds indie-pop outfit were local bands The Ultraviolet and Albany. Marsicans, who have made it to Spotify’s The Indie List, and been featured on YouTube alternative […]Read More
