Category: Music
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Live: Barns Courtney w/Will & The People – Wardrobe, Leeds
Accompanying the release of sophomore record 404, Barns Courtney is currently touring across the UK and Europe taking his new tracks on the road for the first time since supporting The Hunna in April. Opening the show in Leeds, was Will and the People. Having never heard of the band,…
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Sauce release new track Sister Brother
SAUCE RELEASE NEW SINGLE ‘SISTER BROTHER’, PLUS LYRIC VIDEO, OUT NOW THE MANCHESTER FOUR PIECE WILL PLAY THEIR LARGEST HEADLINE SHOW TO DATE AT YES BASEMENT ON SATURDAY 7TH DECEMBER LISTEN TO ‘SISTER BROTHER’ HERE WATCH THE LYRIC VIDEO HERE “It does seem that Sauce have discovered, and are relishing,…
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Craig Finn releases new single “It’s Never Been A Fair Fight” | Announces instore performance at Rough Trade East on October 18th
CRAIG FINN HERALDS AUTUMN TOUR WITH NEW SINGLE: “IT’S NEVER BEEN A FAIR FIGHT” LIVE PERFORMANCE VIDEO FILMED EARLIER THIS YEAR AT BROOKLYN, NY’S MURMRR THEATRE U.K./EUROPE HEADLINE DATES BEGIN OCTOBER 10TH NEW ALBUM I NEED A NEW WAR AVAILABLE NOW Craig Finn will celebrate his upcoming European and U.S. tour with…
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Review: The Classic Way of Things – Sounds Like a Storm
The year is 2019. Social media is the most beautiful thing in the world, we can communicate freely, link up with friends we never thought we’d se again and share instant news and funny videos with loved ones. It’s also the most powerful tool for manipulators, governments and egotists making…
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Single Review: That’s My Ego – Faux Pas
Faux Pas face up to self-medicated sedation with ‘That’s My Ego’ The York music scene is one that most would describe as “underground” only due to the fact, nobody outside of York really knows it exists. With few quality venues it’s difficult to make a name for yourself outside of…
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Music Review: Dutch Mustard – Drive
Drive is an apt title for this EP from London four-piece Dutch Mustard as all three tracks have a real driving rhythm and force to them. Slowdive and My Bloody Valentine are the obvious comparison but Dutch Mustard are certainly more than a replica or nostalgia band with their songs…
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The Twang join Shed Seven on Winter Tour
The Twang have spent over a decade defying expectation. From their beginnings in their Birmingham home town, vocalist Phil Etheridge, bassist Jon Watkin, guitarist Stu Hartland and drummer Ash Sheehan continue to wow audiences and win new fans with their electric live shows. Having released four studio albums since 2007 they are…
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Festival Review: Made In Manchester – Stalybridge
I think my beloved wasn’t listening, but over the bank holiday weekend I snuck in with her verbal approval another last-minute festival. At £20 each and a short train trip across the border to where people sound like Victoria Wood and Peter Kaye, Made in Manchester made perfect sense. Add…
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Festival Review: Skeleton Coast 2019
I wasn’t going to do a review of Skeleton Coast Festival. I’m off on holiday tomorrow. Hurricane Dorian permitting. But sometimes you’ve got to give a bit back. Skeleton Coast is one of those times. Skeleton Coast Festival is in its fourth year. I am ashamed to say this is…
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roves: that thursday night single review and interview
Those though provoking and sublime roves guys from Reading recently sent me a copy of their then upcoming single that thursday night. I knew immediately what to do; wait til after work on the anointed day, crack open a beer, grab the cat and take my sounds to the garden while the heat…
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Festival Review: Future Yard 2019
I’m a Birkenhead boy, born and bred, so I was delighted to find out we’d got our own festival. We’ve always had great bands, but lack of decent venues has always held back the capital of ‘The Leisure Peninsular’. We probably peaked in the early eighties when Half Man Half…
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Preview: The Night Watch – York Theatre Royal
The Original Theatre Company and York Theatre Royal present The Night Watch from the international number one best-selling author Sarah Waters, adapted by Hattie Naylor (Ivan And The Dogs, Going Dark, As the Crow Flies and Bluebeard). This first revival of the play can be seen at York Theatre Royal…
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GETRZ smash it with new EP Think Of The Future
I’m sure you can imagine our inbox at Halfway 2 Nowhere is pretty busy, so it takes quite something for a track to stand out from the crowd. Released on 23rd August, Swindon’s finest GETRZ hit the spot immediately with intro track Insomniac Waltz. In its scant 90 seconds there’s…
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Festival Review: Indietracks
Indietracks is a very different sort of festival. It isn’t just that it is based at Midland Railway Centre and to get to the festival site you have to get a train. It isn’t the bands they book. It isn’t the owls or the can crusher, although they certainly mark…
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Festival Review: Tramlines 2019
As a Yorkshireman, there’s nothing I look forward to more during the summer festival season than Tramlines Festival in Sheffield. Set in the shadow of Hillsborough Stadium, the festival, now 11 years old, hosts some of the UK’s best talent from yesterday, today and importantly tomorrow. Halfway 2 Nowhere always…
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Festival Review: Deeper Cuts Festival
Deeper Cuts Festival is an eclectic collection of 20+ bands and DJ’s, brought together by Liverpool Music Blog Getintothis and spread out over 3 venues – Phase One, Kazimier Garden and Stockroom, all on Liverpool’s answer to Broadway – Seel Street. The first band of the day however was rather…
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Nos Alive ’19: Primal Scream and Idles
Nos Alive is our summer festival of choice. Not only is it held in our favourite city, Lisbon in sunny Portugal, we don’t have to endure the drunk 4am rendition of Wonderwall at the campsite because we use a hotel up the road. While this year, the quality of the…
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Single Review: Nana White Pepper – Tear The World Apart
Having caught Blackpool’s Nana White Pepper live a couple of times this summer, they have quickly become one of a select group of my must-see live bands. The band have a nice blend of aggressive and punchy guitar music and a strong and thoughtful vocal. If you adore intelligent bouncing…
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Single Release: The Clause – In My Element
Those hardworking feisty Brummy lads The Clause always have an element of surprise and shape shifting in their dna as they deftly swerve from musical genre to genre. This time new track In My Element reminds me of a deliciously melded mix of clean 60’s rock-pop and post Manchester baggy.…
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Single Review: Gold Baby – 500/1
Catching London based band Gold Baby play live was by far the best thing about my recent birthday trip to London (along with having a great early bird meal at the Istanbul bistro attached to Great Portland Street tube). We had pre booked train tickets and hotel to see the…
The Setlist & The Script 