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Single Review: SWEARS – Subliminal
Class heavy and grungy Middlesbrough band SWEARS have released an edgy new video as a perfect accompaniment to their angst ridden recent single Subliminal. Since their inception in 2017 SWEARS have been busy learning their craft as the development in their 5 released tracks amply prove. On this track Subliminal,…
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Tomorrow’s artists today: This Is Tomorrow Preview
Last year, a brand new festival led the way in the North East, and once again the curators of This Is Tomorrow festival have concocted one of the lineups of the summer. Showcasing major headliners Stereophonics, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds and Foals, the festival has the best in big…
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cleopatrick: a brief history
there’s something special about bands that have known each other almost for the entirety of their being. the special relationship and bond that is made, usually makes for exciting, synchronised music that can rarely be topped by artists who get together later in life. it is no surprise to me…
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Barn on the Farm announces further 16 artists!
Barn on the Farm is pleased to announce a further 16 artists confirmed for Saturday and Sunday’s music line-up. They are as follows: Maverick Sabre – Zak Abel (Sat Outdoor Stage Headliner) –Swim Deep – Gabrielle Aplin – Nina Nesbitt – The Japanese House (Sat Wooden Barn Stage Headliner) –Youngr – Sea…
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Album Review: Cherry Pickles – Cherry Pickles Will Harden Your Nipples
If 60’s surf music met Phil Spector while shooting the breeze with Lou Reed and Nico then the end studio result would probably end up something like Birmingham base duo Cherry Pickles’ spiky new debut album Cherry Pickles Will Harden Your Nipples. The band (Brazilian born Priscila B on vocals…
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Live at Leeds: 5 Unmissable Artists
Spring has officially sprung, and the festival season is now so tantalisingly close now you can virtually feel the buzz of the amps being plugged-in for an electric summer of live music ahead. Officially named ‘The Best Festival For Emerging Talent’ at the UK Festival Awards this year, in 2019 Live At…
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Live: Red Rum Club – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
It’s difficult to understate the vitality that those Liverpool trumpet muffins Red Rum Club gave to the room on a dank March evening. I don’t think there was a soul in the place missing a loping easy grin by the end of the band’s tight and punchy performance. Earlier, lead…
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TRUCK FESTIVAL gets even bigger – new names added to bill!
Following on from the first line-up news for the 22nd edition of the festival, which saw Wolf Alice, Foals and Two Door Cinema club announced and 75% of tickets for the festival sold in just a month, Truck Festival has now unveiled even more exciting, big names for 2019. Johnny Marr,…
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Johnny Marr, Lewis Capaldi, Ride and more added to This is Tomorrow Line-up
With tickets selling fast for the eagerly anticipated launch of This is Tomorrow Festival at its new larger site in Exhibition Park, Newcastle, organisers have today revealed that Smiths icon Johnny Marr and the chart-topping Scottish singer-songwriter Lewis Capaldi have been added to the Stereophonics headlined date on Sunday 26th May. Meanwhile, indie legends Ride have also…
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Live: Kid Kapichi – Oporto, Leeds
I’ve always loved music to be dirty, pulsing and prepared to fight in the dust to the death, so when I discovered that Hastings based Kid Kapichi were supporting Calva Louise at that lovely little class Leeds mosh pit Oporto on a Tuesday evening, I decided I’d worry about what…
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Live: The Clause and Callow Youth – Jimmy’s, Manchester
There’s been a lot of buzz about Birmingham based The Clause, and when I found they were playing Manchester Jimmy’s with Callow Youth it had to be done. However their future career may turn out, The Clause will rightly be hugely proud to have completed a full sell out tour…
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Single Release: Working Men’s Club – Suburban Heights
Todmorden based Working Men’s Club created the first big 2019 buzz with their first single Bad Blood; 3 weeks on the Radio 6 playlist, selling out their limited edition vinyl before it was released and generating towards 100,000 plays on Spotify. The two articles H2N have published featuring the band…
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The Georgian Theatre stage is announced for Stockton Calling 2019 with British Sea Power as headliners
Stockton Calling is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2019 and the multi-venue music festival is pleased to announce the line-up for The Georgian Theatre stage. Headlining the stage are Mercury Prize nominated conceptual indie art-rock ensemble British Sea Power. Last seen in the north-east packing out Newcastle’s Boiler Shop…
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Hit The North 2019: 3 reasons and 9 artists that make it unmissable
This year’s Hit The North is once again, a huge celebration of classic and fresh new music taking place on Sunday 5th May. We’ve had the pleasure of listening to every artist and checking out the venues announced so far and have chosen our top three reasons you cannot afford…
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Local Talent: Motherland – Where I Belong
What better way to shake off the dank weather of winter than a classic rock anthem? With an opener that has all of the grand pomp of the offspring of Won’t Get Fooled Again, Motherland’s first single of 2019 starts with bold intent. The rest of the track from this…
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EP Review: roves – a strung out pilot
How better to follow four class 2018 single releases but with a first EP to cement their sound? Reading based roves follow in their daring push-the-boundaries style with their fresh new EP a strung out pilot. While I tend to post reviews only about tracks I enjoy, there are some…
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Live: The Amazons – Key Club, Leeds
Towards the end of 2018, one of the most beautiful shows I’ve been at, to date, took place at the Brudenell Social Club. The Amazons played to a sell-out crowd in support of Joe Glew, a young man who died from Leukaemia, not long before the show. It was a…
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Artist Feature: Foreign TV
There are always those early morning hours at the end of an evening where we just need a little reflective musical pick up; nothing too busy or banging but something fairly gentle, flowing and lacy intricate delicate. South London Epsom based Foreign TV are turning this early hours need into…
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Single Review: The Elephant Trees – 4100
A cold clinical synth beat, a tinkle of music, then a tribal holler and a beating pulse opens the song. A few seconds later, Martha Phillips’ trade mark crystal clear voice wriggles through the sound like a stalking python. I suspect that on hearing the intro only a small proportion…
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Live: White Lies – O2 Academy, Leeds
It seems like an age ago that the gloomy, dark, To Lose My Life was released by London band White Lies. In 2009 they were a band that seemed set on creating dark post-punk sounds and their debut charted at Number 1 in the UK Charts in some style. Ten years on, the band…
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The Setlist & The Script 