Category: Music
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FREDDIE HALKON | Leeds Beckett University | 21.02.26
There’s a particular kind of electricity that only exists at sold-out shows where the room already knows every word. Leeds Beckett University on Saturday night was crackling with it. Freddie Halkon, one of the most compelling young singer-songwriters to emerge from this corner of England in years, brought the Shoulders…
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Ellur – “At Home in my Mind” ★★★★☆
There’s a particular alchemy that happens when a young artist stops trying to be everything and starts being honest. Halifax’s Ellur has found it on At Home In My Mind, a debut album that feels both achingly personal and generous enough to invite the rest of us in. This isn’t…
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Day Fever Brings the Party Back to Yorkshire – And You’ll Still Make It Home for Tea
The daytime disco phenomenon returns to Leeds, Sheffield and York this spring with a movement that’s rewriting the rules of going out There’s something gloriously liberating about dancing to Britpop bangers at 4pm on a Saturday afternoon. No queuing in the cold at midnight, no navigating dodgy taxi ranks at…
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Preview: A Little Night Music at Theatre@41, York
If you’ve only ever experienced musical theatre in York from the stalls of the Grand Opera House or Theatre Royal, Theatre@41 on Monkgate offers something altogether more intoxicating: intimacy. With just 100 seats, there’s no distance between you and the performers – you’ll catch every raised eyebrow, every loaded pause,…
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Wot Gorilla? – ‘Clowns’ ★★★★☆
Fifteen years is a long time to be away. Long enough for entire scenes to bloom and die, for math-rock to go from underground obsession to festival circuit staple and back again. But Halifax’s Wot Gorilla? haven’t returned to play catch-up. ‘Clowns’, the second single from their first album since…
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Preview: Leeds Festival 2025
Leeds and Reading Festival is built on its big names, the poster-filling giants, the jaw-drop booking announcements, the generational singalongs that echo across Bramham Park and Richfield Avenue. But the real magic? That happens away from the headline slots. It’s in the sweatbox tents at midday, the stumbling-across-something moments on…
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This Feeling By The Sea | Saturday Preview
If Friday was the warm-up, Saturday at Bridlington Spa is the knockout punch. This Feeling By The Sea’s third year keeps raising the stakes, and day two is where the grit, sweat, and swagger of the UK’s new wave of indie collide head-on. It’s a bill stacked with bands who’ve…
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This Feeling By The Sea | Friday Preview
If you thought you had your finger on the pulse of UK indie in 2025, this Friday at Bridlington Spa is here to challenge that. This Feeling By The Sea’s third year brings a lineup that’s equal parts tested and on-the-cusp, a masterclass in balancing breakthrough buzz with hard-earned credibility.…
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The Front Row Presents: 250 Artists That Will Break Out By 2028 – The Letter H
Welcome back to our ongoing 250 Artists That Will Break Out by 2028 series. This time we’re diving into the letter H, shining a spotlight on ten artists whose sounds and stories demand attention right now. From the gritty post-hardcore intensity of Hidden Mothers to the surf-pop charm of Hunny…
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Single Review | Stainless Steel | Kid Kapichi
Kid Kapichi have never been ones to hold back, politically-charged, punk-leaning, and proudly loud. But on ‘Stainless Steel’, there’s a very different kind of weight. It’s not a track that lashes out. It lingers. Brooding, stripped-back, and brutally personal, this is the sound of a band reckoning with change, both…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Songs from the Spine | The Royston Club
I’ve sat with this album for weeks. Drafted and scrapped and redrafted again. Not because the record was hard to write about — the opposite. It’s because this one means something. And when something means this much, the words have to do it justice. Songs From The Spine isn’t just…
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Kendal Calling 20th Birthday Review
When Kendal Calling first set up shop in 2006 with a 900-capacity crowd and a £15 ticket headlined by British Sea Power, few could have predicted just how far it would come. Fast forward 20 years and 40,000 of us descended on the stunning fields of Lowther Deer Park for…
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Tramlines Festival | Day Three Review
Sunday Send-Offs, Sheffield Heroes and a Crowd Still Nursing Saturday’s Hangover Let’s be real, Sunday was always going to have a mountain to climb. After the euphoric chaos of Saturday’s Reytons homecoming, topped with a headline slot that turned Hillsborough Park into a sea of green, white and purple, the…
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Tramlines Festival | Day Two Review | The Reytons
If Day One brought the sunshine and the legacy with Pulp, Day Two was the storm, the electric, sweat-soaked, bass-thudding, trench-foot-stamping festival storm that blows everything wide open and leaves you questioning what on earth just hit you. Day Two of Tramlines 2025 was, in no uncertain terms, a day…
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LIVE: Pulp at Tramlines Festival 2025
If Friday was your only day at Tramlines this year, you picked the right one. There’s no denying it: Day One of the 2025 edition belonged entirely to Pulp. Hillsborough Park was a furnace by mid-afternoon. Sunburns bloomed, lagers disappeared by the crate, and bucket hats reigned supreme. While a…
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EP Review | Katie Nicholas | Chemistry
Some records arrive quietly but end up feeling like they were inevitable. Katie Nicholas’ Chemistry EP is one of them: a four-track collection that dusts off the songs she wrote as a teenager and reimagines them with the clear-eyed focus of a musician who’s had to fight to reclaim her…
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Single Review | Mayflower | Are You With Me
There’s something about Manchester bands that always feels a bit like a warm pint in a familiar pub: instantly recognisable, comforting, and shot through with a touch of swagger. Mayflower’s latest single, Are You With Me, fits squarely into that lineage, leaning hard into late-90s Britpop nostalgia while brushing against…
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Single Review | Keyside | If You Don’t Try
Liverpool has never been short of jangling guitars and brutally honest lyricists, but Keyside are staking a claim to be the next band in that lineage worth taking seriously. If You Don’t Try, their fresh-out-the-box single, doesn’t just hint at ambition, it’s practically waving a flare from the rooftops. Released…
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Single Review | Niall Logue | From the Heart
Niall Logue’s latest single, From the Heart, feels exactly like its title promises: a candid, unvarnished glimpse into the messy corners of the mind and the quiet moments where doubt and hope collide. It’s a track that doesn’t try to be clever for clever’s sake or dress its vulnerability up…
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The Front Row Presents: 250 Artists That Will Break Out By 2028 – The Letter G
We’re back with another 10 names you need on your radar, this time diving into the letter G as we continue our journey through 250 breakout artists by 2028. From genre-bending genre-defiers to big-hook indie bands and country-pop underdogs, this is one of our most eclectic lists yet. Whether you’re…
The Setlist & The Script 