Category: Music
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Isle of Wight’s 50th Anniversary Poised to be Best Year Yet!
Depeche Mode / The Killers Kasabian / Liam Gallagher Also joining this year’s line-up: The Script / Van Morrison / James Bay Blossoms Tickets today went on sale for the 50th Anniversary of the Isle of Wight Festival 2018. Announced in wave one were headliners Depeche Mode, The Killers,…
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Carnation – Fatal Attraction
2017 has been a huge year for the heavier side of indie-rock music. Whilst recent times has seen “funky” bands such as No Hot Ashes and Corella come out strong, this year has seen fuzzier tracks from bands like Cabezudos and Reverend and the Makers return to the front of…
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Live: Kazoopa Festival 2017
With few winter month music festivals, grass roots indie Kazoopa Festival in Leeds in late November is particularly eagerly anticipated. It was thus a frustrated Halfway 2 Nowhere reviewer arriving at the Lending Rooms two hours later than anticipated (a better than expected gig by veterans The Undertones and having…
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Liam Fray to make huge return to Leeds this Thursday
In recent times, Manchester band Courteeners have been subject to countless superlatives from mainstream and underground media sources. The rise of the band has been catastrophic ending with their Old Trafford headline show this May. Front man Liam Fray has been the driving force of the success and has been…
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Ormstons – Bridgewater Way
Ormstons are an indie-rock band from Leeds, and have begun to create a bit of a buzz with support slots at venues like The Wardrobe, and a headline show at The Key Club this weekend that celebrated the release of their debut single, Bridgewater Way. ‘Bridgewater Way’ is a raucous…
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DEAD! announce huge UK tour and debut album release
DEAD! have announced the release of their debut album, THE GOLDEN AGE OF NOT EVEN TRYING, via Infectious BMG on 26 January 2018. “There’s blood, sweat, arguments, defining moments and some of the best and worst times of our lives in this album. But every band should have that in…
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The perfectly named Stereo Honey evoke Morecambe ghosts with “The Bay”
For fans of Wild Beasts, Radiohead, Nothing But Thieves As I age it becomes more difficult to remember which decade I’m in; I guess I’m slowly building up to a time for where current life becomes so unpalatable I can gently retreat into comfortable memories. At the recent wondrous first…
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Kazoopa 2017 – Six not to miss
Kazoopa Festival in Leeds on November 25th is the one that Halfway 2 Nowhere has been waiting for most of the year. There’s over 70 acts of greatness descending on our main Yorkshire city in venues dotted across the city centre starting at lunchtime. If you want to discover just…
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Dead Natives – I Got Menace
Single review: Dead Natives For fans of : Arctic Monkeys / Redfaces October 13th – mark your calendars for the release of this hot new single from Dead Natives, in my opinion their best work to date. After a short crescendo to kick things off, they leap straight into the…
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The Hubbards are Body Confident
Single review: The Hubbards For fans of: Pavement / Weezer I’m in aural heaven when I hear a jangling guitar and a good beat, so one of the tunes of last year came from those clean and crisp sounding Hull guys, The Hubbards, and in particular their track Merv from…
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Atlanta House – Home
Atlanta House’s debut EP Home is slick, classic sounding Indie-Rock with a quietly swaggering confidence. The band, for those who don’t know, are an emerging Indie-Rock outfit from Leeds, consisting of Matt Hirst (Lead Vocals), Jake Ingleson (Rhythm Guitar & Backing Vocals), Luke Williams (Lead Guitar), Nigel Ngwenya (Bass Guitar…
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Corella make 2 huge Yorkshire stops on upcoming October tour
This October, Manchester’s funkiest indie rock-band make two giant stops in York and Leeds touring recent single Barcelona Girl. Having performed alongside some of the cities biggest artists in recent years, the band are finally embarking on a headline run, stopping at York Basement and Leeds Lending Room. Both shows…
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Deep City Diver – Deep City Diver
Album review: Deep City Diver For fans of: The War on Drugs, Echo and the Bunnymen, Aztec Camera It says something very creditable about the faith in unsigned Hackney based trio Deep City Diver that they were able to use that lifeline Kickstarter to raise £1600 towards the printing and production…
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Reverend and the Makers release new album on Cooking Vinyl
Reverend & The Makers have now released their new album ‘The Death Of A King’ via Cooking Vinyl. The sixth studio album ‘The Death Of A King’, which was recorded at Karma Sound Studios Thailand, is the followup to the Top 20 album‘Mirrors’, and is available on CD, Deluxe edition CD, 12” Vinyl, limited edition 12”…
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Newton Faulkner reveals new video for Hit The Ground Running
NEWTON FAULKNER has unveiled the official animated video for his latest single, HIT THE GROUND RUNNING, taken from his brand new sixth studio album of the same name, out now on Battenberg Records via Absolute. When he first emerged in 2007, NEWTON FAULKNER was the fleet-fingered prince of sparkling guitar…
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Embrace announce new album and intimate tour
20 years into their recording career Embrace are making an epic and emphatic return with their seventh studio album. With three Number One albums, six Top 10 singles, sold out arena shows and over two million album sales behind them, EMBRACE returned triumphantly three years ago with their Top 5…
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Jackobins – Outside
Single review: Jackobins For fans of: Kaiser Chiefs; Killers; JUDAS ‘Outside’ is one of those eagerly anticipated singles you can’t be disappointed with, particularly on your first listen. The Liverpudlian band who’s single ‘Hasty’ was titled BBC Radio X’s track of the week have maintained and strengthened their awesome indie…
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RedFaces – Take It Or Leave It
Single review: RedFaces For fans of: Catfish and the Bottlemen; The Wombats; RedFaces are getting Halfway 2 Nowhere extremely excited for the future of indie. Their latest single ‘Take it or Leave It” combines an edgy vocal with a mega catchy beat and synth to match. With lyrics that scream…
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Ravellas – Colour Me Sweet
Single review: The Ravellas For fans of: Catfish and the Bottlemen; Arctic Monkeys; RedFaces With a Catfish-esque sound, the Ravellas latest release, ‘Colour Me Sweet’ certainly doesn’t disappoint. Starting with a powerful bass beat from Aiden and continuing throughout, The Ravellas make it virtually impossible not to tap your feet…
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Review: Bang Bang Romeo – Natural Born Astronaut
Single review: Bang Band Romeo For fans of: Anastacia / Evanescence / Pink There aren’t many gaps left in the rock and alt genre of the music industry right now. Synth rock is taken by The Shimmer Band; heavy, rousing music is dominated by The Blinders and indie rock is…
The Setlist & The Script 