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GETRZ smash it with new EP Think Of The Future
I’m sure you can imagine our inbox at Halfway 2 Nowhere is pretty busy, so it takes quite something for a track to stand out from the crowd. Released on 23rd August, Swindon’s finest GETRZ hit the spot immediately with intro track Insomniac Waltz. In its scant 90 seconds there’s…
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Festival Review: Indietracks
Indietracks is a very different sort of festival. It isn’t just that it is based at Midland Railway Centre and to get to the festival site you have to get a train. It isn’t the bands they book. It isn’t the owls or the can crusher, although they certainly mark…
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Review: Swallows and Amazons, York Theatre Royal – ★★★★☆
22 years after Damian Cruden started his York Theatre Royal journey, his time theatre has come to an end with his final show, Swallows and Amazons, this year’s August run. Cruden finishes his glittering York career with the swashbuckling pirate adventure, a summer family show that marvels and entertains people…
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Festival Review: Tramlines 2019
As a Yorkshireman, there’s nothing I look forward to more during the summer festival season than Tramlines Festival in Sheffield. Set in the shadow of Hillsborough Stadium, the festival, now 11 years old, hosts some of the UK’s best talent from yesterday, today and importantly tomorrow. Halfway 2 Nowhere always…
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Festival Review: Deeper Cuts Festival
Deeper Cuts Festival is an eclectic collection of 20+ bands and DJ’s, brought together by Liverpool Music Blog Getintothis and spread out over 3 venues – Phase One, Kazimier Garden and Stockroom, all on Liverpool’s answer to Broadway – Seel Street. The first band of the day however was rather…
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Nos Alive ’19: Primal Scream and Idles
Nos Alive is our summer festival of choice. Not only is it held in our favourite city, Lisbon in sunny Portugal, we don’t have to endure the drunk 4am rendition of Wonderwall at the campsite because we use a hotel up the road. While this year, the quality of the…
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Single Review: Nana White Pepper – Tear The World Apart
Having caught Blackpool’s Nana White Pepper live a couple of times this summer, they have quickly become one of a select group of my must-see live bands. The band have a nice blend of aggressive and punchy guitar music and a strong and thoughtful vocal. If you adore intelligent bouncing…
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Single Release: The Clause – In My Element
Those hardworking feisty Brummy lads The Clause always have an element of surprise and shape shifting in their dna as they deftly swerve from musical genre to genre. This time new track In My Element reminds me of a deliciously melded mix of clean 60’s rock-pop and post Manchester baggy.…
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Single Review: Gold Baby – 500/1
Catching London based band Gold Baby play live was by far the best thing about my recent birthday trip to London (along with having a great early bird meal at the Istanbul bistro attached to Great Portland Street tube). We had pre booked train tickets and hotel to see the…
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Leeds Festival announces BBC Introducing Stage –
Today, Tuesday 9 July, Reading & Leeds Festivals revealed the BBC Music Introducing Stage line up that will showcase the best in UK emerging talent, as well as Dance To The Radio names and Piccadilly Party, for Leeds Festivalgoers only. Limited weekend and day tickets are available at http://www.readingandleedsfestival.com. Since…
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Live: Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott – Edgeley Park
I’d been to Edgeley Park once before. My cousin James took me to watch Stockport play Maidstone United in the fourth round of the FA Trophy. My abiding memory of the day was the quality of the catering. Excellent and abundant chilli and rice at a reasonable price. The game…
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Single Review: The Maitlands – Dissatisfied
Those hardworking fans of Derker near Oldham, The Maitlands, are at it again with their new single Dissatisfied, one of two new tracks being birthed this summer. I always admire The Maitlands as they pretty much embody what grass roots music is about; keeping it local, being kind and supportive…
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Live: Sheafs + Narrow Margins, Manchester
While being older certainly has its comforts and benefits, I can often define the bands I see live on 3 levels; whether they don’t move me, whether they make me wish I was young or whether they actually do make me younger. With the line up of Narrow Margin, Matter…
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Single Review: Purple Thread – I’m All About You
Leeds quartet Purple Thread are Halfway 2 Nowhere favourites because of their assured, sassy rocky style, and either live or on record, this band are always a tonic (or ear drops), for bored ears. This time around lead vocalist Liz Mann and her band of merry men (believe me, that…
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EP Review: Gauranga – Miles Apart
Having recently caught and enjoyed local Bradford-Way guys Gauranga playing at the Huddersfield Parish, I was delighted to wheedle an advance sampler of the band’s new EP Miles Apart (released on 14 June 2019). This 6 track EP really shows a considerable jump in complexity and style for Gauranga and…
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Review: Driving Miss Daisy, York Theatre Royal – ★★★☆☆
Driving Miss Daisy, York Theatre Royal, until June 29. Tickets available at at yorktheatreroyal.co.uk This year’s early summer run at the Theatre Royal in York is Driving Miss Daisy, on until Saturday June 29th and I cannot recommend anything more right now, than you go and buy your tickets now!…
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White Denim return with two huge Oxford and Sheffield shows showcasing new record
Less than a year after their last album Performance, the ever-prolific White Denim returned in March with their eighth record Side Effects and have recently announced two huge shows in Sheffield on 31st July and Oxford August 2nd. More in line with the experimental, freewheeling spirit of their fan-favourite record Last Day of Summer than anything…
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Festival Review: Camden Rocks 2019
It was an inauspicious start to my now annual trip to Camden Rocks Festival. Liverpool Lime Street Station looked like a refugee staging post for badly dressed, stumbling Liverpool supporters. Apparently, they won a football match the previous evening. The journey to London was uneventful and my train pulled into…
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Exciting new Leeds live music venture for Under 18’s – Assembly
We over 18’s can all remember the angst of discovering the gig you have been waiting an age for is at a venue with a lower age limit, meaning you can’t join the party. I can only imagine the greater frustration caused when you are part of a talented young…
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Live: The Rah’s – Zanzibar, Liverpool
If you come out of Liverpool Central Station and fight your way through the hordes of stag and hen do’s (literally on some occasions), make a couple of turns, and you’ll find yourself at Zanzibar. If you are unprepared enough to not check stage times with the venue, you’ll also…
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