Category: Music
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Review: Sounds Like a Storm – Emission
Sounds like a storm are: Sennen Ludman, Cormac Connolly, Joseph Schofield and Connor Passey Imagine being told only an hour before a show that you’d be playing a show. No preparation, no time to think about setlists, chances are it would be a bit of a mess. When we first saw…
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Review – Luke Rainsford – I Feel At Home With You
For those who haven’t heard of Luke Rainsford, what are you doing with your life? Luke’s debut album “I’m Nothing Like My Dad Turned Out To Be” was one of the most personal and genuine records released for some time and cemented himself, for me, as one of the UK’s brightest…
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Review – The Shtooks – Follow Me
The Shtooks are: Andrew Hubbard, Lawrence Felice, Carlo Felice and Yann Mounot It’s very rare a band comes along and you struggle to define a genre, compare to a mass market artist or say to yourself “I haven’t heard anything like that before”. The Shtooks however are a band that aren’t…
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Review: The Cult Collective – Seeking Thrills
The Cult Collective are: Jake Goodman, Dale Medlicott, Ben Gibbs Genre: Britpop, indie For fans of: Noel Gallagher, The Strokes, Reverand and the Makers When you come across a band with just 63 followers on Twitter, it might be easy to assume that they aren’t going to be the most exciting group in the world.…
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Review: Stillia – Let Me In
It’s pretty safe to say it’s been a whirlwind start to 2017 for the lads from St Helens. After confirming the date for the release of this single as the 3rd February, Stillia have been announced at new Manchester venue Jimmy’s, chosen as one of “This Feeling’s” Big in 2017 and…
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Dead Natives – Ones to Watch in 2017…
Dead Natives are: Liam Dutch, Nick Lemon, Robbie Ferguson and Adam Payne Genre: Alt. rock/Brit pop For fans of: Oasis, The Smiths, The Stone Roses You’re looking out over lush sandy beaches from a hotel balcony in the Mediterranean. You close your eyes; take a deep breath, then listen to…
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Review: Howland – No Way
Howland are: Tyler Adams, Lee Vincent, Joe Barnes and Jake Saunders Genre: Pop-rock/indie For fans of: The Hunna / Vant / Sundara Karma Following the incredibly successful Hide, released in 2016, it was only amount of time before Brighton based four-piece Howland released their next huge indie track. Unlike Hide though, which is so raw and powerful, No Way…
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Review: Nobody’s Watching – SHEAFS
SHEAFS are: Lawrence Feenstra (lead vocals), Chris Goodacre (guitar and backing vocals), Callum Wright (bass and backing vocals), Charles Mellor (guitar) and Charlie Eastap (drums) Genre: Indie/rock For fans of: The Sherlocks, The Libertines, Arctic Monkeys At first, it appears effortless for a band to gain social media followers as…
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SINGLE REVIEW – KASHMERE – PORCELAIN
Genre: Indie Rock Hometown: Stockport Members: Joe Newey (Vocals/Guitars), Charlie Cole (Guitar), Andy Law (Vocals/Drums), Dave Pennington (Bass) For fans of: Two Door Cinema Club, The Vaccines H2N are willing to bet that 2017 will be an exciting year for Kashmere – and we’re not the only ones. This…
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Live: Double Denim – Verve, Leeds
Halfway to Nowhere’s first Double Denim Live of 2017 was without doubt a resounding success. Four bands with masses of potential took to the stage over three hours of heavy indie vibes, guitar solos and killer vocals. All the way from London, Lighthouse were the first act out. With their…
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Live: Native City – Fibbers, York
After the atrocious year that was 2016, what better way to get back in the party mood than good old pop-rock from local band Native City. Headlining Fibbers for the first time since reforming last year the guys showed they still know how to get a crowd up for a…
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EP Review – Stealing Signs – A Different Time
Genre: Alternative/Indie Hometown: South Woodham Ferrers For fans of: The Magic Numbers, Foals, The 1975 Hailing from Essex, England, Stealing Signs recently released their highly anticipated follow up to 2015’s Hide and Seek. The energetic band from a small town in Chelmsford, continue their trend of merging extremely catchy pop melodies with indie vocals…
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Top 40 of 2015: 5-1
This is it! We’ve reached the conclusion of the countdown of the best 40 songs of what has been an incredible year of music! Bands from the USA, Canada, Australia and all over Europe have been included in this amazing countdown but the top five belongs to the UK (except…
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Single Review – Native City – Tomorrow
Genre: Pop-rock Hometown: Selby Members: Robbie Cliff (Vocals), Richy Jones (Bass), Max Shaw (Drums), Ryan Mellor Davis (Lead guitar) and Jack Randles (Rhythm Guitar) For fans of: 5SOS, All Time Low, Lacey Born from local heroes Premonition, Native City are a hot new band hailing from North Yorkshire ready to steal teen hearts and make a dent in a…
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Top 40 2016: 10-6
Into the final ten, the best ten songs of 2016, and isn’t this just so exciting! So far we have seen some simply stunning tracks from some of the worlds most established bands, freshest new bands and exciting alternative artists. It’s making my mouth water just thinking about these top ten…
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Top 40 of 2016: 20-11
Into the top 20 we go and as you’ll be expecting, there are some serious “tunes” in the final half of the countdown. With only a few days to go, we will rattle through the next ten and then countdown the final ten from tomorrow. 20 – The Chaser –…
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Top 40 of 2016: 25-21
It’s Christmas Day which means we are perilously close to revealing the top ten and best track of 2016. On this, a day in which 2016 has taken another musical great George Michael, it felt right to write a post celebrating fantastic music as it was something George Michael did all…
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Top 40 of 2016: 30-26
Now we’re getting serious, the best 30 songs of 2016. Bear in mind, at some point in 2016 over 300 songs were considered for this prestigious list so these final 30 really are quite special. 30 – Blink-182 – Bored to Death I honestly didn’t think I’d be sat here in 2016…
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Single Review – RedFaces – Kerosene
Genre: Alt-Rock, Indie Hometown: Sheffield Members: Harry Lyon (Vocals/Guitar) Isaac White (Bass/ Backing Vocals) Ryan Laycock (Guitar/Backing Vocals) Charlie Yapp (Drums) In 2015, RedFaces, a new indie band from Sheffield put up a demo track on Spotify titled Katie Come Home. It was an excellent track which helped them gain support slots with the Courteeners and festival sets…
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Top 40 of 2016: 35-31
Continuing the countdown, the next five songs see artists from all over the globe from Orange County, USA to the Czech Republic and of course, God’s own county Yorkshire. 35 – Asylums – Alternative Occupations Asylums are a band who are going to very quickly become one of the most…
The Setlist & The Script 