Jamie T is one of modern music’s enigmas; seemingly invisible to the everyday pop music consumer, whilst reluctantly possessing a god-like status in the eyes of his hordes of followers. This state of existence has surely never been more prevalent than now, on the second night of his three sold out Brixton shows. The South […]Read More
On Friday night, indie five-piece Blossoms came to Manchester and performed a sold-out show at the Academy. Energetic and enthralling, the Stockport lads cemented their place in the hearts of everyone who managed to get themselves a ticket. Their collection of break-up songs sound familiar, like a record you already own but have forgotten, drawing […]Read More
On a cold and dreary Monday evening at the beginning of October, it’s not always easy to rouse the residents of Brighton from their sofas to venture out into the sea mist and temperamental weather conditions. Nevertheless, rising indie star Oscar managed to rally the troops (and even a member of the Magic Gang) for […]Read More
RATBOY aka Jordan Cardy has been wowing audiences with energetic live performances. Formed after getting the sack from Wetherspoons, he has created a host of indie floor fillers while lyrically observing the struggle of a young Brit trying to get by on no money. He takes influences from The Beastie Boys, and The Libertines, which […]Read More
On the second leg of a pretty huge tour supporting their second album ‘Is The Is Are’, DIIV took a stronghold of Camden’s Electric Ballroom for an evening of shoegazing, krautrocking madness. Opening up with the atmospheric Druun Pt II, DIIV ascended into a complete dream of a set. Following on we were greeted to […]Read More
As the UK indie scene becomes an evermore overlooked industry, due to a rise in illegal downloads making it harder for bands to make ends meet & the rise of other genres, such as grime & house stealing headlines and hearts, it can seem like a lifetime ago that the likes of the Arctic Monkeys, […]Read More
As a Bestival warm up, scuzzy garage heroes The Wytches made their way to Southampton’s Joiners for a quick and utterly annihilating show. The Wytches are no strangers to Southampton after playing there in support of debut album Annabel Dream Reader, as well as dotting themselves about at festivals like Independence & Common People prior […]Read More
Just under a week after the release of his 4th album Trick (read our review here), I headed up to Kingston for a short notice under 18s set from the one and only Jamie T, ahead of an 18+ set the same evening at The Hippodrome. With no support slot, on rolled Treays and his […]Read More
I’ve spent the past day deliberating over how quite to transcribe such a special evening into words, and I’m yet to find a way to do the Jarman brothers justice … but here we go. Not too long ago, Wakefield’s premier mid-fi indie outfit The Cribs announced an ‘Old Skool’ gig at the intimate Oval Space in […]Read More
On the final Saturday of Winterthur Musikfestwochen the weather couldn’t be better. I headed to Steinberggasse, grabbed a drink and waited to see what the evening had in store. While I’d never heard of Elias before finding his name on the festival lineup, a video of his phenomenal performance at the 2016 Grammis really got […]Read More
Truth be told- arriving at The Old Blue Last and chance-glancing the band times for the night, I was somewhat thrown when I saw that the evening’s entertainment would culminate in a performance from a band named ‘Radical Lasagne’. It later transpired this was but a delicious pseudonym; following a swift Google search and a […]Read More
Winterthur Musikfestwochen is what you get when you remove the dirt, queues and drunkenness from the European festival equation. A music festival without these things seems almost paradoxical and yet, for the past 41 years this music, arts and culture event has been a big success. Undoubtedly, there’s lots do in the canton of Zurich […]Read More
Four days into a festival in England, and you’re pretty much done with your drunken escapades and heading home to die in bed for a week, but here at Sziget, day four is merely the Wednesday-on-Saturday of the Island of Freedom. It’s all still in full swing, and, needless to say, after completing a full […]Read More
Everyone begins to flag a little by their third day at a festival, and so the chilled out cultural events that Sziget have on offer are welcomly received. Today we wandered down to the ‘Chill Out Zone’ on Sziget beach where we lounged on huge sausage-like pillows and played board games. There was yoga, dance […]Read More
It’s day two. Groggy, tender and excited for today’s headliners, we spent the first half of our day on the Island of Freedom being crafty. As I have mentioned before, Sziget is not simply a festival for music, but for art, culture, history, food and film as well! To kill time before the major acts […]Read More
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