Category: Music
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The Georgian Theatre stage is announced for Stockton Calling 2019 with British Sea Power as headliners
Stockton Calling is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2019 and the multi-venue music festival is pleased to announce the line-up for The Georgian Theatre stage. Headlining the stage are Mercury Prize nominated conceptual indie art-rock ensemble British Sea Power. Last seen in the north-east packing out Newcastle’s Boiler Shop…
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Hit The North 2019: 3 reasons and 9 artists that make it unmissable
This year’s Hit The North is once again, a huge celebration of classic and fresh new music taking place on Sunday 5th May. We’ve had the pleasure of listening to every artist and checking out the venues announced so far and have chosen our top three reasons you cannot afford…
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Local Talent: Motherland – Where I Belong
What better way to shake off the dank weather of winter than a classic rock anthem? With an opener that has all of the grand pomp of the offspring of Won’t Get Fooled Again, Motherland’s first single of 2019 starts with bold intent. The rest of the track from this…
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EP Review: roves – a strung out pilot
How better to follow four class 2018 single releases but with a first EP to cement their sound? Reading based roves follow in their daring push-the-boundaries style with their fresh new EP a strung out pilot. While I tend to post reviews only about tracks I enjoy, there are some…
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Live: The Amazons – Key Club, Leeds
Towards the end of 2018, one of the most beautiful shows I’ve been at, to date, took place at the Brudenell Social Club. The Amazons played to a sell-out crowd in support of Joe Glew, a young man who died from Leukaemia, not long before the show. It was a…
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Artist Feature: Foreign TV
There are always those early morning hours at the end of an evening where we just need a little reflective musical pick up; nothing too busy or banging but something fairly gentle, flowing and lacy intricate delicate. South London Epsom based Foreign TV are turning this early hours need into…
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Single Review: The Elephant Trees – 4100
A cold clinical synth beat, a tinkle of music, then a tribal holler and a beating pulse opens the song. A few seconds later, Martha Phillips’ trade mark crystal clear voice wriggles through the sound like a stalking python. I suspect that on hearing the intro only a small proportion…
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Live: White Lies – O2 Academy, Leeds
It seems like an age ago that the gloomy, dark, To Lose My Life was released by London band White Lies. In 2009 they were a band that seemed set on creating dark post-punk sounds and their debut charted at Number 1 in the UK Charts in some style. Ten years on, the band…
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Y Not Festival releases first names on bumper lineup: White Lies, Anteros, Sea Girls, YMA6
Y Not Festival returns with the UK’s biggest indie line-up of 2019, featuring rising stars alongside a range of musical icons. Crossing the Peaks to kick things off are local legends, Elbow. The critically-lauded Mancunian band, lead by frontman Guy Garvey, are known for their beautifully soaring anthems such as…
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Truck Festival Announces First Wave of Artists: Don Broco, YMA6, Foals
From July 25th – 28th, Truck Festival will once again return to its beloved Hill Farm in Steventon for the 22nd edition of the UK’s longest running and most cherished small festival. This year Truck is thrilled to welcome local legends Foals back to Hill Farm – twelve years on from their last appearance…
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Album Review: Calva Louise – Rhinoceros
Sometimes I like thoughtful reflective music; other times I like music that makes me feel like I’m driving a cool car fast along a deserted beach with the sun and wind in my hair. This spring take Calva Louise’s debut album Rhinoceros with your key fob, sunnies and sun cream.…
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Single Review: Callow Youth – Did It Really Matter?
There is a glut of super talented 18 year olds in indie at the moment; proof enough that guitar music is on the cusp of resurgence; can’t you just feel it bubbling everywhere at the moment? Manchester’s (Moston) Callow Youth are amongst the best of this new emerging generation, and…
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Single Review: My Octopus Mind – Elska
Given the easier migration of travellers and workers from Eastern Europe and beyond, moving around the world over the past 20 years, perhaps it is not a surprise that a new wave of that rather hypnotic easy flow of traditional European folk music has travelled alongside them, and lodged itself…
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Stereophonics join Foals and Noel Gallagher at This Is Tomorrow
Welsh rock royalty Stereophonics will be joining Noel Gallagher and Foals as headliners for this year’s eagerly anticipated event. Led by the enigmatic Kelly Jones, one of the UK’s most prolific singer-songwriters, the band will perform on the festival’s new site of Exhibition Park on Sunday 26th May. Stereophonics’ This is Tomorrow date follows the band’s 2017 gold-certified album ‘Scream Above The…
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Live at Leeds adds over 80 acts to lineup: The Snuts, Spinn, The Sherlocks included
Renowned as the unrivalled home of music discovery, scooping awards and plaudits across the board as a springboard for the latest and greatest new talent – Live At Leeds returns in 2019 with the definitive new music lineup of the year, bringing together the bands and artists primed to soundtrack…
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Tramlines Festival Reveals Phase 1 Line Up: Sea Girls, Lewis Capaldi, Oddity Road, Easy Life
Sheffield’s biggest ever party,Tramlines Festival, has announced the first wave of acts to play its 11th edition from Friday 19th – Sunday 21st July at Hillsborough Park. Headliners include Two Door Cinema Club (Friday), Courteeners (Saturday) and Nile Rodgers & Chic (Sunday), plus a slew of other top talent in the form of Manic Street…
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50 Acts added to Reading and Leeds Lineup – Circa Waves, Wombats, Frank Carter
Reading and Leeds Festival has today lifted the lid on another fifty acts who will play at this year’s event – with chart heavyweights Charli XCX, Royal Blood (UK festival exclusive), CHVRCHES, Lil Uzi Vert, Enter Shikari, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes (UK festival exclusive), Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals (UK festival exclusive) and You Me…
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Single Review: Gently Tender’s – Some Hard Advice
A band that used to make me insanely happy was London’s Palma Violets. Lead vocalist Sam Fryer and two of his former band mates (Pete Mayhew and Will Doyle) are now touting for business as members of Gently Tender (together with The Big Moon’s Celia Archer, and guitarist Adam Brown…
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Kendal Calling Announces Huge 2019 Lineup: Courteeners / Gerry Cinammon / IDLES
After selling out for thirteen years in a row, the UK’s most picturesque festival announces another huge lineup for2 019. Courteeners, Doves, Manic Street Preachers, NileRodgers & Chic and Orbital will headline a four-day weekend of music, arts, comedy, food and drink in the Lake District’s Lowther Deer Park between 25th – 28th July. Courteeners have a new album on the horizon…
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Live: The Wombats – First Direct Arena, Leeds
It’s 2019 – 12 years since the release of The Wombats’ debut record A Guide To Love Loss and Desperation and what a rollercoaster of a career it has been so far for the Liverpool indie-rockers. Saturday night saw the band headline their first arena show in Leeds, marking a huge step for the band, signalling a…
The Setlist & The Script 