Following her band’s small introduction, Lennon Stella walks on to the stage with nothing but her guitar and an infectious smile. With such a strong stage presence, it’s hard to believe that the singer/songwriter is only 20 years old. Whilst opening the set with new track ‘Black Light‘ might seem an unusual choice, it was […]Read More
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
James Reynolds reviews The Blaze at the Roundhouse in London.Read More
Elly Bailey gives us her thoughts on Miles Kane's gig at Hackney's The Moth Club on 29th May.Read More
Walking into Manchester Arena as the band head to the stage, you would think you have arrived at a ‘menimist’ convention with the stage donning a large mars symbol and a fluorescent cowboy figure, an ideology quickly opposed as Flowers strolls on stage with his flamboyant poses and masculinity camouflaged. 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
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
Despite it being a 10th anniversary tour of ‘Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever’ it was a night of firsts at the Leeds First Direct arena this past Saturday. It was the first time that The Cribs had headlined an arena; it was the first time in the UK that Lee Ranaldo graced the stage for […]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
From the crowd reaction to both support bands INHEAVEN and The Magic Gang, which is thunderous from the already packed out venue, it’s immediately obvious how well headline act Circa Waves are going to go down tonight. Already six dates into the tour, they’re on ruthless live form and leave no time for the fans […]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
The Dirty Hit tour that Superfood are about a quarter of the way through is immensely important to them as a band – perhaps the most important tour that they’ve ever had to do. Calling it their “comeback” tour may seem clichéd, but that’s really what it is. Years of silence and no new music […]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
Benjamin Coyle-Larner, under the moniker Loyle Carner, dropped undoubtedly one of the hottest releases of 2017 last month in the form of his debut LP, Yesterday’s Gone. An album taking influence from old-school hip hop and to an extent the present grime scene, Loyle Carner’s first offering has gained him unreal notoriety, with his current […]Read More
February Second brought a little Celt band ‘Matthew and the Atlas’ to Islington, London to play a venue they’d wanted to for a while. One of the hidden gems in London is the ‘Union Chapel’ which is exactly as it sounds, it is literally a chapel. The audience sit in the pews in a beautiful […]Read More
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