Category: Music
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Festival Review: Live at Leeds 2019
This year’s Live at Leeds Festival lineup was without doubt one of the highlights of this year’s day festival circuit. With major artists to appeal to the masses including Tom Grennan, Sundara Karma and Metronomy, the festival shifted a lot of tickets and all of the venues were healthily attended…
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Live: Able’s Army + Twist Helix, FADS – Parish, Huddersfield
Huddersfield has its music moments, but it can’t really be described to be packed full of top gig experiences (as wonderfully grungy and varied as the Parish bar is). I was thus excited to hear that not only was I scheduled to see our very own local guys Able’s Army…
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Live Review: The Luka State – Fulford Arms, York
The north-west of England has, for as long as anybody can remember, being a hive of musical activity. Some of the greatest artists of all time have come from the area and this trend shows no sign of stopping. It is difficult though, despite this long line of success, to…
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The Luka State – York Show Thursday 2nd May
Hotly-tipped Cheshire four-piece The Luka State, who have just released their brand new single ‘What’s My Problem’ via Salt Town Records/Project Music, will stop at the Fulford Arms in York this week as part of their extensive UK Spring Tour. The Luka State are Conrad Ellis (voice, guitar), Sam Bell…
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Single Review: Kid Kapichi – Glitterati
With new single release Glitterati, I reckon Hastings based band Kid Kapichi have created the biggest stir in the place in the past 953 years. The band told me the local Hastings music scene is truly banging, so that’s no mean feat. When I caught Kid Kapichi play support to…
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Single Review: LOCALS – Talkboy
The theme of LOCALS new song Talkboy is about the social anxiety as you say something wrong and the girl wanders off leaving you in need of a confidence boost. It’s a nice piece of lo-fi punk which vocally, musically and subject matter wise rather reminds me of the recently…
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Festival Review: Stockton Calling 2019
This Easter weekend, over 2000 people descended on Stockton town centre for the 10th anniversary of Stockton Calling. The day festival was fully sold out for the eighth year on the bounce, and saw over 70 artists play across nine stages over ten hours. Here’s the breakdown of our day…
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EP Review: Able’s Army – God Won’t Let Me Stop
Those Huddersfield guitar thrashers Able’s Army have produced a tight, clean and clever EP with God Won’t Let Me Stop. Able’s Army are monsters live with a handy supply of crowd pleasing, tight, clean and heavy tunes. This EP adds to their already impressive roster and places it on recording…
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Single Review: SWEARS – Subliminal
Class heavy and grungy Middlesbrough band SWEARS have released an edgy new video as a perfect accompaniment to their angst ridden recent single Subliminal. Since their inception in 2017 SWEARS have been busy learning their craft as the development in their 5 released tracks amply prove. On this track Subliminal,…
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Tomorrow’s artists today: This Is Tomorrow Preview
Last year, a brand new festival led the way in the North East, and once again the curators of This Is Tomorrow festival have concocted one of the lineups of the summer. Showcasing major headliners Stereophonics, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds and Foals, the festival has the best in big…
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cleopatrick: a brief history
there’s something special about bands that have known each other almost for the entirety of their being. the special relationship and bond that is made, usually makes for exciting, synchronised music that can rarely be topped by artists who get together later in life. it is no surprise to me…
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Barn on the Farm announces further 16 artists!
Barn on the Farm is pleased to announce a further 16 artists confirmed for Saturday and Sunday’s music line-up. They are as follows: Maverick Sabre – Zak Abel (Sat Outdoor Stage Headliner) –Swim Deep – Gabrielle Aplin – Nina Nesbitt – The Japanese House (Sat Wooden Barn Stage Headliner) –Youngr – Sea…
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Album Review: Cherry Pickles – Cherry Pickles Will Harden Your Nipples
If 60’s surf music met Phil Spector while shooting the breeze with Lou Reed and Nico then the end studio result would probably end up something like Birmingham base duo Cherry Pickles’ spiky new debut album Cherry Pickles Will Harden Your Nipples. The band (Brazilian born Priscila B on vocals…
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Live at Leeds: 5 Unmissable Artists
Spring has officially sprung, and the festival season is now so tantalisingly close now you can virtually feel the buzz of the amps being plugged-in for an electric summer of live music ahead. Officially named ‘The Best Festival For Emerging Talent’ at the UK Festival Awards this year, in 2019 Live At…
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Live: Red Rum Club – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
It’s difficult to understate the vitality that those Liverpool trumpet muffins Red Rum Club gave to the room on a dank March evening. I don’t think there was a soul in the place missing a loping easy grin by the end of the band’s tight and punchy performance. Earlier, lead…
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TRUCK FESTIVAL gets even bigger – new names added to bill!
Following on from the first line-up news for the 22nd edition of the festival, which saw Wolf Alice, Foals and Two Door Cinema club announced and 75% of tickets for the festival sold in just a month, Truck Festival has now unveiled even more exciting, big names for 2019. Johnny Marr,…
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Johnny Marr, Lewis Capaldi, Ride and more added to This is Tomorrow Line-up
With tickets selling fast for the eagerly anticipated launch of This is Tomorrow Festival at its new larger site in Exhibition Park, Newcastle, organisers have today revealed that Smiths icon Johnny Marr and the chart-topping Scottish singer-songwriter Lewis Capaldi have been added to the Stereophonics headlined date on Sunday 26th May. Meanwhile, indie legends Ride have also…
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Live: Kid Kapichi – Oporto, Leeds
I’ve always loved music to be dirty, pulsing and prepared to fight in the dust to the death, so when I discovered that Hastings based Kid Kapichi were supporting Calva Louise at that lovely little class Leeds mosh pit Oporto on a Tuesday evening, I decided I’d worry about what…
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Live: The Clause and Callow Youth – Jimmy’s, Manchester
There’s been a lot of buzz about Birmingham based The Clause, and when I found they were playing Manchester Jimmy’s with Callow Youth it had to be done. However their future career may turn out, The Clause will rightly be hugely proud to have completed a full sell out tour…
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Single Release: Working Men’s Club – Suburban Heights
Todmorden based Working Men’s Club created the first big 2019 buzz with their first single Bad Blood; 3 weeks on the Radio 6 playlist, selling out their limited edition vinyl before it was released and generating towards 100,000 plays on Spotify. The two articles H2N have published featuring the band…
The Setlist & The Script 