Category: Music
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EP Review: Rival Bones – Strangefruit
2018 is going to be the third year in a row Rival Bones will be featuring in both our overall Top 40 of the year as well as the Halfway 2 Nowhere unsigned/undiscovered Top 40, showcasing them to be one of the best rock bands operating in the UK at present. Last…
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Single Review: Runaway Hounds – Nightlight
Earlier in the year, Halfway 2 Nowhere got very excited when upcoming Wolverhampton band Runaway Hounds released their track “Sophie”. Described as a “must listen for fans of the likes of Catfish And The Bottlemen, Peace, and Swim Deep” the band had already established themselves as a band looking to make…
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Live: Off The Record Festival 2018
It may not attract the huge names or the air craft hanger venues but Manchester’s Off The Record festival in mid November is a must do event for anyone into the indie scene. The marketing strap line of “discover your new favourite band” is no boast. This year over 40…
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News: Set It Off announce new album “Midnight” out 1st February 2019
Set It Off and Fearless Records are pleased to announce that the band will release its label debut album, Midnight, on the 1st February. The album was produced by Mike Green (Neck Deep, All Time Low, State Champs) and additional production by Brandon Paddock (Panic! At the Disco, Papa Roach,…
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News: Drenge announce 2019 Tour and third album “Strange Creatures”
DRENGE have announced their third album, STRANGE CREATURES, produced by long-time collaborator Ross Orton [Arctic Monkeys, M.I.A, The Fall] will be released on 22 February 2019 via Infectious Music. The follow up to their critically acclaimed albums DRENGE [2013] and UNDERTOW [2015] as well as this year’s AUTONOMY EP, the…
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News: Scruff of the Neck announce huge Year’s End Festival party
Following a year crammed full of gigs, tours and festivals, it seems only fitting that Scruff of the Neck & Distiller should want to celebrate in what’s rapidly become their trademark style. Building on the success of previous events the two have worked together on, Year’s End is a multi-venued…
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News: Neighourhood Weekender: First Wave Announced
Following last year’s acclaimed inaugural festival, Neighbourhood Weekender is back for round two on Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th May 2019 with headliners George Ezra and Richard Ashcroft taking the helm alongside a stellar line up. George Ezra is one of the biggest selling male artists of the decade. His…
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Single Review: The Attic Doctors – Feed the Pig
There is a theory that political activists can achieve their goals by worming their way into establishment roles and to slowly subvert the organisation from within. This thought comes to mind listening to Bolton’s The Attic Doctors latest single Feed The Pig. This is a track you could happily spin to…
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News: Live at Leeds 2019: Wave One Announcement
Heading up the lineup this year are some of Live At Leeds’ true success stories, led by returning guitar heroes Sundara Karma. Since forming in Reading, their blend of infectious hooks and direct lyrics have taken on the globe – with a debut album that took them to headline nights…
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Live: Havanas – Leeds
H2N Editor Adam is right when he highlights that Sheffield band Sheafs are so on point at the moment it is only a matter of time before they take over the world. My 4th experience of Sheafs live (at Leeds Oporto this time), once again blew me away, but the evening…
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Live: Sheafs – Fulford Arms, York
Sheffield band Sheafs are currently in the middle of an epic, nationwide, 17-date tour bringing their protest sounds and heavy rock anthems to cities across the country. We were lucky enough to catch them in York last week and were treated to one hell of a show. The Fulford Arms in York…
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Single Review: Oceans on Mars – Cold Blooded
It must be a serious dream for any unsigned sixth form college band to find one of their tracks featured on Match of the Day one idle Sunday, and it has certainly given Cheshire band Oceans on Mars a flying start. It must have been frustrating for these 17 year…
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Live: Neighbourhood Festival 2018
This year’s Neighbourhood Festival was so full of attraction my eyes were on catching some of the new up and coming young acts, together with a few old favourites to keep it all interesting. A little later than planned we arrived in the upstairs room at Oxford Road Revolution to…
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Apollo Junction release soaring new single Always Remember
I’m guessing those Leeds lads Apollo Junction must have changed their brand of Yorkshire Tea or something this year, as following their solid debut singles of 2017 they have clearly taken something and developed exponentially. Thus the tag end of 2018 finds Apollo Junction on the cusp of releasing some…
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Single Review: The Briar Woods – Time For Change (3am)
The Briar Woods is the new collaboration between Liverpool based Glen Skelhorn and Ben Curtis. Their first track 3AM is a promising retro 1960’s hippy pop ditty with a lot of wholesome cherry pie on top. The trumpet and flugelhorn of Emily McDaid add a pleasing layer of class which…
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Live: Backspace and The Elephant Trees – Wardrobe, Leeds
When you look forward to a gig a little too much you risk being disappointed. Fortunately both Backspace and the Elephant Trees live at the Leeds Wardrobe in October 2018 were top notch. I’d wanted to catch young Guiseley based Backspace all summer but wasn’t in town for any of…
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Stereo Honey reach the skies with new single Icarus
You know it’s a band you love when they fit all snugly around you like a well loved trainer. I’ve been locked in a near-cupboard at home all day on a decade old laptop twice a week to help clear a horrendous work backlog and one of the bands I’ve…
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Beat-Herder 2019 tickets on sale now
Beat-Herder, the weirdest, wildest and most reliably wonderful festival in the UK, will be returning for another instalment of beats and barminess among the rolling green pastures of Lancashire’s Ribble Valley from 12th – 14th July 2019. 2018 proved to be a vintage year for Beat-Herder. A sell-out success and bathed in sunshine, headliners included Orbital, Soulwax and Django…
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Live: Spear of Destiny – Parish, Huddersfield
Music is littered with people who were once the next big thing. In the early 1980’s singer Kirk Brandon had two strong stabs at music immortality with the bands Theatre of Hate and Spear of Destiny. Theatre of Hate were a band that became indie darlings in the early 1980’s…
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Single in 150 words – The Sunset Radio – Old Goodbyes
There’s always plenty of space in our house for a pure and clear octane fuelled indie banger, and earlier this year Selby based four piece The Sunset Radio obliged with their excellent single Old Goodbyes. There’s something of the optimistic fresh 90’s style of the likes of Ash in this…
The Setlist & The Script 