Category: Music
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Review: Fight On – The Lathums
Towards the back end of 2019, Halfway 2 Nowhere got a little bit carried away with our praise of a certain indie-rock band from Wigan. With bold statements such as “without doubt, the best 45 minutes of live music I’ve seen in 2019” and “If they’re not the band that…
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Review: Brew-denell Beer Festival 2020
As the editor of a blog that covers local music and beer, there is no better combination possible than a Beer Festival at the best independent music venue in the country, Brudenell Social Club. Heading down to the Brude on the Sunday of Brew-denell is always a risk. If it’s…
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NEWS: Stockton Calling announces first set of artists
Stockton Calling – Teesside’s biggest and best multi-venue music festival – returns to Stockton on Saturday 11 April 2020. Each year, venues across the town host stellar headliners, some of the most exciting national emerging artists, alongside the very best of regional acts. Now in its 11th year, Stockton Calling…
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Review: Stanleys – A Better Life
Back in 2019, there was one band that stood out for me above anyone else on the grassroots circuit. That band were Wigan’s Lathums. And listening to them on track and live I made the prediction that few bands over the next few days could create music like they did…
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Review: Dorothy v. Bands F.C. Exhibition, British Music Experience, Liverpool – 10/1/2020.
Music and football and art have always gone hand-in-hand-in-hand on Merseyside. The stories are plentiful. There’s the apocryphal story of The Teardrop Explodes early 80’s winter tour dates being built around Everton’s away fixture list. There’s the true story of Wirral post-punk icons Half Man Half Biscuit swerving an appearance…
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GRAND OPERA HOUSE, YORK AND CITY OF YORK COUNCIL PARTNER TO OFFER STUDENTS £5* TICKETS FOR ‘ONCE’
Grand Opera House York and City of York Council are offering anyone aged 26 and under £5 tickets to see the acclaimed Broadway and West End production of ONCE. Based on the critically acclaimed and much-loved film, Once tells the uplifting yet yearning story of two lost souls – a Dublin street…
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Alphabet Brewing Company – Manchester
Kicking off a series of Manchester brewery reviews, including Cloudwater and Track, is Alphabet Brewing Company which we recently visited to go on their brewery tour and have a few drinks in the taproom. The brewery, known for its exceptional can artwork and signature core range, has been on my…
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SHED SEVEN – Announce huge YORKSHIRE Summer show
With the roaring crowds of their ‘Shedcember’ UK tour still ringing in their ears, SHED SEVEN are delighted to announce plans for a huge summer show in Yorkshire in 2020. On Saturday 15th August this year, York’s premier Britpop poster boys will be headlining a very special show at Doncaster…
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January event you cannot miss. Beat The Streets – Nottingham
Jake Bugg & many more confirmed for Beat The Streets Festival 2020! Beat The Streets Festival is proud to announce its second wave of artist additions for its 2020 instalment. Chart-topping Nottingham indie-rocker Jake Bugg, award-winning folk singer and activist Grace Petrie and riotous live karaoke band Bamalamasingsong are some…
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Live: Skylights & Dirty Laces – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
What a year 2019 has been for emerging talent. Every gig I’ve seen at Brudenell, The Wardrobe, York’s Fulford Arms (the list goes on) have been brilliant and the future of rock music in this country looks very bright. On 27th December, two of the bands ready to take 2020…
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Interview – The Luka State, Jimmy’s, Liverpool, 13/12/2019
Gigs for me at Jimmy’s in Liverpool are a bit like Merseyside buses. Nothing for ages, then three come at once. Last week was The Mysterines, tomorrow will be The Kairos headlining a set of new, young, local bands, but tonight is a bit different. Tonight, I am sat at…
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Live: The Mysterines – Jimmy’s, Liverpool
I often have to start a review with a little apology. Today I need to say sorry to Jimmy’s. One of Liverpool’s newer live music venues, this small, dark L-shaped cellar, with state-of-the-art sound and lighting systems is an intimate venue. It’s been open since August, and it has taken…
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Live: The Lathums – Belgrave Music Hall, Leeds
On Friday August 30th 2019, I was at Bingley Weekender, and caught a glimpse of the future of indie-rock in the United Kingdom. The band I saw playing to a bumper crowd, I thought, in 4/5 years time would be selling out venues across the country. I was wrong, that…
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Live: The Twang – First Direct Arena, Leeds
From the year 2004 up to 2008, there was a surge in records being produced by artists in the UK that took indie-rock to the next level and paved the way for the industry taking control in the decade we are about to be leaving. One of the artists that…
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Live: Spinn – Riverside, Newcastle
It is a wet miserable Wednesday night and I’m stuck in traffic just outside Newcastle. Things are looking bleak but I have a big smile on my face as I’m on my way to see the energetic, jangly indie of Liverpool band Spinn. I first caught them at Twisterella 2018…
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Review: Feel It – Paint Me In Colour
Paint Me In Colour are a Liverpool based three-piece consisting of Olivia Springer, Matt Johnson and Sam Pierpoint. They formed in 2017, play Indie-pop, and cite their influences as Aretha Franklin and Pink Floyd. Don’t worry if you haven’t heard of them, Feel It is their debut single, and an…
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Sam Fender and Gerry Cinnamon To Headline This Is Tomorrow 2020
Having confirmed its return last month, the North East region’s largest outdoor music festival has confirmed two major arena conquering heavyweight headlining acts as part of a wave of new announcements. After welcoming over 30,000 revellers through its gates last year, This Is Tomorrow will return to Exhibition Park in Newcastle on 22nd-24th May 2020 and plays host to Sam…
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Scrooge The Musical comes to York Grand Opera House
Say goodbye to Bah! Humbug and get into the festive spirit with Pick Me Up’s big winter show of 2019 – Scrooge The Musical. Based on Charles Dickens’ classic Christmas Carol, Scrooge tells the tale of old miser Ebeneezer on the night he’s visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet To…
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Interview: Dirty Laces
There’s not much that would entice me to drive 107 miles, on a Friday night, from one old, shipbuilding town in the north-west to another, but the chance to see The Indica Gallery, Dirty Laces and The Lathums, had me heading from Birkenhead to Barrow-in-Furness. Tonight’s venue, Barrow Underground Society…
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Live: The Cheap Thrills – Liverpool Academy
If you’ve read any of my previous reviews, then you’ll know I like to use the occasional football analogy. Well tonight I’ll be looking at some of the emerging Merseyside talent. The youth teams and the under-23s if you like. If you don’t want to know the score, look away…
The Setlist & The Script 