Beth Kirkbride

Live Review: Primavera Festival // Barcelona, Spain, 05.06.25 – 08.06.25  Thursday  Photo by Sharon Lopez Primavera was for the spring babies, with Troye Sivan, Chappell Roan’s ba […]

7 acts to catch at Primavera Sound 2025 Barcelona’s biggest music festival Primavera Sound is set to return to Parc del Fòrum from 4th–8th June, brin […]

Live Review: Franc Moody // Jacaranda Baltic, Liverpool, 10.03.25 Dopamine floods the system – a neurotransmitter sparking pleasure, motivation, and movement. Onstage at L […]

Live Review: Tramlines // Hillsborough Park, Sheffield, 26-28.07.24  It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Tramlines Festival 2024, bathed in glorious sunshine and […]

Live Review: Live at Leeds in the Park 2024 As the opening chords of subheadliners Circa Waves’ most popular song ‘T-Shirt Weather’ filled the air, the […]

Live At Leeds to take place this weekend featuring The Kooks, The Cribs and Circa Waves Live At Leeds festival will take place this weekend on Saturday 25th May at Temple Newsam park in […]

Tramlines 2024: Music festival featuring Paolo Nutini, Jamie T and Snow Patrol set to return to Sheffield this July Sheffield’s biggest music festival is set to return to Hillsborough Park from 26th-28th July 2024, with […]

Live Review: The Vaccines // The Octagon, Sheffield, 19.02.24 “All night, all night waiting for you”: At The Octagon in Sheffield on Monday night, an eclectic assembly con […]

Live Review: Spector // Stylus, Leeds University Union, 30.11.23  Spector’s show at Leeds University’s Student Union, Stylus, on Thursday 30th November 2023 was a wild ride tha […]

Album Review: Here Come The Early Nights // Spector Spector’s latest album, Here Come The Early Nights, set for release on Friday 24th November is a mature and […]

Live Review: Vistas // The Leadmill, Sheffield, 15.11.23 Sheffield’s own psychedelic retro-pop outfit Minds Idle set the scene before Birmingham rising stars O […]

Introducing: The Underground Sound Society  Introducing: The Underground Sound Society  Hometown: Sheffield FFO: Everything Everything, Foals, […]

Tramlines Festival highlights 2023  It’s a truth universally acknowledged that the first day of Tramlines festival will always chuck it down. I r […]

Interview: Spector It’s Saturday 22nd July 2023 and I’m backstage at Tramlines festival with Fred Macpherson and Jed Cullen fro […]

Interview: Pale Waves The Indiependent caught up with Pale Waves frontwoman Heather Baron-Gracie ahead of their Friday evening set […]

Live Review: Circa Waves // O2 Academy, Sheffield, 16.06.23 There’s a guy in the centre of the moshpit at Sheffield’s O2 Academy who has taken Circa Waves’ ‘Carry You Hom […]

Tramlines 2023: 5 Acts We're Excited To See Sheffield’s biggest music festival is set to return to Hillsborough Park from 21-23 July, just a month after […]

Live Review: Cate + Maisie Peters // The Leadmill, Sheffield, 18.04.23 I spent a lot of last night thinking of iconic pairings. Gin and tonic. Wine and cheese. Chilli and chocolate. […]

<strong>Live Review: Dehd + Dry Cleaning // The Foundry, Sheffield, 22.02.23 </strong> After an opening slot from Thus Love, American three-piece Dehd took to the stage of Sheffield’s student u […]

After a brief but soporific intro that sounds like it belongs on the soundtrack to Interstellar, Spector’s long-awaited third full-length release Now or Whenever launches into ‘Catch You On The Way Back In’ […]