Category: Music
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Single Review: VENUS – Deranged
It’s not often I get genuinely “blown away” by debut singles. On the whole they’re often safe, just a glimmer of a band’s real potential and don’t really sound too ambitious. It’s not often I swear in my reviews either – it just isn’t professional – but that being said…how…
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EP Review: IST IST – Everything Is Different Now
With my beloved working in London, there was chance this week, for me to reorganise the living room so I could recover the turntable out of the small pile in the corner (in my world, a tidy house indicates you just don’t have enough going on), play the new IST…
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Wombats Live Show: First Direct Arena – 26th January – SOLD OUT
The Wombats are about to embark on their highest profile and biggest UK headline tour to date. Six huge shows across the isles, including a night at Leeds’ First Direct Arena this Saturday, will see the 2019 tour further cement the band’s meteoric rise to one of the country’s biggest guitar acts.…
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Isle of Wight Announces First Wave: Noel Gallagher, Biffy Clyro and George Ezra to headline
FIRST ACTS ANNOUNCED FOR THE ISLE OF WIGHT FESTIVAL 2019 The incredible Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds headline the opening night of The Isle of Wight Festival 2019, returning to the Festival for the first time since 2012. Chart-topping British singer-songwriter George Ezra will headline the Main Stage on Saturday…
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Single Review: Working Men’s Club – Bad Blood
Many young bands take quite tentative steps when releasing their first single, so the jaunty, confident and bouncing sound of Todmorden band Working Men’s Club,and their debut released track Bad Blood is a revelation. I caught the band playing support to the mighty Goa Express in Todmorden in August and despite…
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This Feeling Big in 2019: BUTE
Of the vast list of artists This Feeling chose to be in their Big in 2019 list, one I hadn’t come across prior to the names being announced, was Welsh indie band BUTE. Hailing from Cardiff, the four piece are a band that seemingly have a range of influences from…
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Live at Leeds Festival – Exclusive Line-up reveal show
LIVE AT LEEDS FESTIVALANNOUNCE ‘EXCLUSIVE 2019 LINE-UP REVEAL’ SHOW – THU 31 JANUARY 2019 – LIVE AT LEEDS FESTIVAL is to reveal another 60+ artists of its 2019 line up at a special launch show later this month. In proud association with Independent Venue Week, the ‘Exclusive Line Up Reveal’ event will take place…
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Feature: Kilnsey Green
Yorkshire is a region thriving right now when it comes to new music and fresh artists experimenting with styles and genres. Leeds is a hotbed for bands and solo artists, York is producing some fine young talent, and an emerging area of West Yorkshire, is without doubt Bradford and Bingley,…
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Interview: Jack Perrett
Writing a series of features focusing on all the great artists This Feeling have picked to make it “Big in 2019” is a ridiculously exciting plan and one that has already led me to speaking with some of the great musicians in their long list of 30. One of the…
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Single Review Sounds like a Storm – Law and Order
2018 was, to put it simply, an incredible year for Leeds band Sounds like a Storm. With a slot on the NME stage at Reading and Leeds Festivals a major highlight for Sennen Ludman and co, the Yorkshire four piece are fast becoming the band to watch from the big city. Their latest…
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Single Review: The Clause – Where Are You Now?
A deceptively simply and catchy tune that’s taken my ear by storm this month comes from Birmingham’s hotly tipped The Clause. The band have released five tracks since late 2016; each one shows an increasing development and an unwavering ear for what goes down. The latest track Where Are You…
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News: Rifffest 2019 adds Adore // Repel to lineup
LEEDS LENDING ROOM | SATURDAY 26 JANUARY 2019 | 5pm – 11pm Following the recent announcement of Brooders Presents … RIFFFEST, the band’s first one-day festival celebrating the best and the brightest that the Yorkshire, Humberside and Lancashire areas can bring for a feast of riffs for all to come…
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Single Review: Sea Legs – Head in the Sand
It’s not too often you hear a fully formed sound on a first track but that’s what you get with Leeds trio Sea Legs and their November debut release Head in the Sand. There’s plenty of complexity and polish in this crisp song which instantly has something of the quality,…
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Single Review: Bengal Lancers – Big Ideas
Perhaps Christmas is the season to remind ourselves that those grand ideas and plans for the future created down the pub after a few jars with the lads and the lasses never quite turn out to be quite so wonderful the following morning. London based indie bouncers Bengal Lancers take…
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Single Review: roves – beneath my skin
Reading based roves are exactly the reason why my long quest for the perfect sound will never be at an end. Just when I think I’ve finally found it, along come along a band like roves luring me onto the choppy dangerous, but exciting rocks of the ocean with their…
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Live: Razorlight, O2 Academy, Leeds
Fresh from the release of Johnny Borrell’s bands’ first studio record in 10 years, we headed to Leeds to see how the new tracks of today held up with the indie classics of yesteryear. Olympus Sleeping was released in October giving fans plenty of time to get familiar with the new songs…
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Halfway 2 Nowhere Top 40 of 2018
2018 has been a year that indie-rock and rock n’ roll have come right back to the mainstream. Bands like Nothing But Thieves, Bring Me The Horizon and across the pond Shinedown and Black Stone Cherry have had major releases that have given hope to the grassroots that rock music…
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Single Review: The Flatline – Isn’t she Pretty?
I like a band with presence and plenty of swagger and young Manchester/ Oldham/ Huddersfield band The Flatline have it in spades. After last year’s excellent Arctic Monkey rock tinted Sub Pressure Sessions EP, the guys (lead singer Jack Dunning, Will Leslie on guitar, Jamie Walton with bass and drummer…
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EP Review: Backspace – Boys
It’s been quite a year for Guiseley based Backspace. The band wowed Halfway 2 Nowhere at the start of the year with their cool lo-fi first releases (Final Shout and Don’t Stunt Your Growth) and after a series of well received gigs over the summer months and autumn, they certainly…
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Album Review: Demons of Ruby Mae
Manchester based duo Demons of Ruby Mae popped out a self titled album of sheer luxury and pleasure at the end of October. The Demons of Ruby Mae (Adam Rowley and Jonny Gavin) originally from Leicester formed the band five years ago, since then releasing a string of increasingly sublime…
The Setlist & The Script 