• Y Not Festival releases first names on bumper lineup: White Lies, Anteros, Sea Girls, YMA6

    Y Not Festival releases first names on bumper lineup: White Lies, Anteros, Sea Girls, YMA6

    Y Not Festival returns with the UK’s biggest indie line-up of 2019, featuring rising stars alongside a range of musical icons. Crossing the Peaks to kick things off are local legends, Elbow. The critically-lauded Mancunian band, lead by frontman Guy Garvey, are known for their beautifully soaring anthems such as…

  • Truck Festival Announces First Wave of Artists: Don Broco, YMA6, Foals

    Truck Festival Announces First Wave of Artists: Don Broco, YMA6, Foals

    From July 25th – 28th, Truck Festival will once again return to its beloved Hill Farm in Steventon for the 22nd edition of the UK’s longest running and most cherished small festival. This year Truck is thrilled to welcome local legends Foals back to Hill Farm – twelve years on from their last appearance…

  • Album Review: Calva Louise – Rhinoceros

    Album Review: Calva Louise – Rhinoceros

    Sometimes I like thoughtful reflective music; other times I like music that makes me feel like I’m driving a cool car fast along a deserted beach with the sun and wind in my hair. This spring take Calva Louise’s debut album Rhinoceros with your key fob, sunnies and sun cream.…

  • Single Review: Callow Youth –  Did It Really Matter?

    Single Review: Callow Youth – Did It Really Matter?

    There is a glut of super talented 18 year olds in indie at the moment; proof enough that guitar music is on the cusp of resurgence; can’t you just feel it bubbling everywhere at the moment? Manchester’s (Moston) Callow Youth are amongst the best of this new emerging generation, and…

  • Single Review: My Octopus Mind – Elska

    Single Review: My Octopus Mind – Elska

    Given the easier migration of travellers and workers from Eastern Europe and beyond, moving around the world over the past 20 years, perhaps it is not a surprise that a new wave of that rather hypnotic easy flow of traditional European folk music has travelled alongside them, and lodged itself…

  • Stereophonics join Foals and Noel Gallagher at This Is Tomorrow

    Stereophonics join Foals and Noel Gallagher at This Is Tomorrow

    Welsh rock royalty Stereophonics will be joining Noel Gallagher and Foals as headliners for this year’s eagerly anticipated event. Led by the enigmatic Kelly Jones, one of the UK’s most prolific singer-songwriters, the band will perform on the festival’s new site of Exhibition Park on Sunday 26th May.  Stereophonics’ This is Tomorrow date follows the band’s 2017 gold-certified album ‘Scream Above The…

  • Live at Leeds adds over 80 acts to lineup: The Snuts, Spinn, The Sherlocks included

    Live at Leeds adds over 80 acts to lineup: The Snuts, Spinn, The Sherlocks included

    Renowned as the unrivalled home of music discovery, scooping awards and plaudits across the board as a springboard for the latest and greatest new talent – Live At Leeds returns in 2019 with the definitive new music lineup of the year, bringing together the bands and artists primed to soundtrack…

  • Tramlines Festival Reveals Phase 1 Line Up: Sea Girls, Lewis Capaldi, Oddity Road, Easy Life

    Tramlines Festival Reveals Phase 1 Line Up: Sea Girls, Lewis Capaldi, Oddity Road, Easy Life

    Sheffield’s biggest ever party,Tramlines Festival, has announced the first wave of acts to play its 11th edition from Friday 19th – Sunday 21st July at Hillsborough Park. Headliners include Two Door Cinema Club (Friday), Courteeners (Saturday) and Nile Rodgers & Chic (Sunday), plus a slew of other top talent in the form of Manic Street…

  • 50 Acts added to Reading and Leeds Lineup – Circa Waves, Wombats, Frank Carter

    50 Acts added to Reading and Leeds Lineup – Circa Waves, Wombats, Frank Carter

    Reading and Leeds Festival has today lifted the lid on another fifty acts who will play at this year’s event – with chart heavyweights Charli XCX, Royal Blood (UK festival exclusive), CHVRCHES, Lil Uzi Vert, Enter Shikari, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes (UK festival exclusive), Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals (UK festival exclusive) and You Me…

  • Single Review: Gently Tender’s – Some Hard Advice

    Single Review: Gently Tender’s – Some Hard Advice

    A band that used to make me insanely happy was London’s Palma Violets. Lead vocalist Sam Fryer and two of his former band mates (Pete Mayhew and Will Doyle) are now touting for business as members of Gently Tender (together with The Big Moon’s Celia Archer, and guitarist Adam Brown…

  • Kendal Calling Announces Huge 2019 Lineup: Courteeners / Gerry Cinammon / IDLES

    Kendal Calling Announces Huge 2019 Lineup: Courteeners / Gerry Cinammon / IDLES

    After selling out for thirteen years in a row, the UK’s most picturesque festival announces another huge lineup for2 019. Courteeners, Doves, Manic Street Preachers, NileRodgers & Chic and Orbital will headline a four-day weekend of music, arts, comedy, food and drink in the Lake District’s Lowther Deer Park between 25th – 28th July. Courteeners have a new album on the horizon…

  • Live: The Wombats – First Direct Arena, Leeds

    Live: The Wombats – First Direct Arena, Leeds

    It’s 2019 – 12 years since the release of The Wombats’ debut record A Guide To Love Loss and Desperation and what a rollercoaster of a career it has been so far for the Liverpool indie-rockers. Saturday night saw the band headline their first arena show in Leeds, marking a huge step for the band, signalling a…

  • Single Review: VENUS – Deranged

    Single Review: VENUS – Deranged

    It’s not often I get genuinely “blown away” by debut singles. On the whole they’re often safe, just a glimmer of a band’s real potential and don’t really sound too ambitious. It’s not often I swear in my reviews either – it just isn’t professional – but that being said…how…

  • EP Review: IST IST – Everything Is Different Now

    EP Review: IST IST – Everything Is Different Now

    With my beloved working in London, there was chance this week, for me to reorganise the living room so I could recover the turntable out of the small pile in the corner (in my world, a tidy house indicates you just don’t have enough going on), play the new IST…

  • Wombats Live Show: First Direct Arena – 26th January – SOLD OUT

    Wombats Live Show: First Direct Arena – 26th January – SOLD OUT

    The Wombats are about to embark on their highest profile and biggest UK headline tour to date. Six huge shows across the isles, including a night at Leeds’ First Direct Arena this Saturday, will see the 2019 tour further cement the band’s meteoric rise to one of the country’s biggest guitar acts.…

  • Isle of Wight Announces First Wave: Noel Gallagher, Biffy Clyro and George Ezra to headline

    Isle of Wight Announces First Wave: Noel Gallagher, Biffy Clyro and George Ezra to headline

    FIRST ACTS ANNOUNCED FOR THE ISLE OF WIGHT FESTIVAL 2019 The incredible Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds headline the opening night of The Isle of Wight Festival 2019, returning to the Festival for the first time since 2012. Chart-topping British singer-songwriter George Ezra will headline the Main Stage on Saturday…

  • Single Review: Working Men’s Club – Bad Blood

    Single Review: Working Men’s Club – Bad Blood

    Many young bands take quite tentative steps when releasing their first single, so the jaunty, confident and bouncing sound of Todmorden band Working Men’s Club,and their debut released track Bad Blood is a revelation. I caught the band playing support to the mighty Goa Express in Todmorden in August and despite…

  • This Feeling Big in 2019: BUTE

    This Feeling Big in 2019: BUTE

    Of the vast list of artists This Feeling chose to be in their Big in 2019 list, one I hadn’t come across prior to the names being announced, was Welsh indie band BUTE. Hailing from Cardiff, the four piece are a band that seemingly have a range of influences from…

  • Live at Leeds Festival – Exclusive Line-up reveal show

    Live at Leeds Festival – Exclusive Line-up reveal show

    LIVE AT LEEDS FESTIVALANNOUNCE ‘EXCLUSIVE 2019 LINE-UP REVEAL’ SHOW – THU 31 JANUARY 2019 –  LIVE AT LEEDS FESTIVAL is to reveal another 60+ artists of its 2019 line up at a special launch show later this month.  In proud association with Independent Venue Week, the ‘Exclusive Line Up Reveal’ event will take place…

  • Feature: Kilnsey Green

    Feature: Kilnsey Green

    Yorkshire is a region thriving right now when it comes to new music and fresh artists experimenting with styles and genres. Leeds is a hotbed for bands and solo artists, York is producing some fine young talent, and an emerging area of West Yorkshire, is without doubt Bradford and Bingley,…