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News: Live at Leeds 2019: Wave One Announcement
Heading up the lineup this year are some of Live At Leeds’ true success stories, led by returning guitar heroes Sundara Karma. Since forming in Reading, their blend of infectious hooks and direct lyrics have taken on the globe – with a debut album that took them to headline nights…
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Live: Havanas – Leeds
H2N Editor Adam is right when he highlights that Sheffield band Sheafs are so on point at the moment it is only a matter of time before they take over the world. My 4th experience of Sheafs live (at Leeds Oporto this time), once again blew me away, but the evening…
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Live: Sheafs – Fulford Arms, York
Sheffield band Sheafs are currently in the middle of an epic, nationwide, 17-date tour bringing their protest sounds and heavy rock anthems to cities across the country. We were lucky enough to catch them in York last week and were treated to one hell of a show. The Fulford Arms in York…
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Single Review: Oceans on Mars – Cold Blooded
It must be a serious dream for any unsigned sixth form college band to find one of their tracks featured on Match of the Day one idle Sunday, and it has certainly given Cheshire band Oceans on Mars a flying start. It must have been frustrating for these 17 year…
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Live: Neighbourhood Festival 2018
This year’s Neighbourhood Festival was so full of attraction my eyes were on catching some of the new up and coming young acts, together with a few old favourites to keep it all interesting. A little later than planned we arrived in the upstairs room at Oxford Road Revolution to…
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Apollo Junction release soaring new single Always Remember
I’m guessing those Leeds lads Apollo Junction must have changed their brand of Yorkshire Tea or something this year, as following their solid debut singles of 2017 they have clearly taken something and developed exponentially. Thus the tag end of 2018 finds Apollo Junction on the cusp of releasing some…
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Single Review: The Briar Woods – Time For Change (3am)
The Briar Woods is the new collaboration between Liverpool based Glen Skelhorn and Ben Curtis. Their first track 3AM is a promising retro 1960’s hippy pop ditty with a lot of wholesome cherry pie on top. The trumpet and flugelhorn of Emily McDaid add a pleasing layer of class which…
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Live: Backspace and The Elephant Trees – Wardrobe, Leeds
When you look forward to a gig a little too much you risk being disappointed. Fortunately both Backspace and the Elephant Trees live at the Leeds Wardrobe in October 2018 were top notch. I’d wanted to catch young Guiseley based Backspace all summer but wasn’t in town for any of…
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Stereo Honey reach the skies with new single Icarus
You know it’s a band you love when they fit all snugly around you like a well loved trainer. I’ve been locked in a near-cupboard at home all day on a decade old laptop twice a week to help clear a horrendous work backlog and one of the bands I’ve…
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Beat-Herder 2019 tickets on sale now
Beat-Herder, the weirdest, wildest and most reliably wonderful festival in the UK, will be returning for another instalment of beats and barminess among the rolling green pastures of Lancashire’s Ribble Valley from 12th – 14th July 2019. 2018 proved to be a vintage year for Beat-Herder. A sell-out success and bathed in sunshine, headliners included Orbital, Soulwax and Django…
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Live: Spear of Destiny – Parish, Huddersfield
Music is littered with people who were once the next big thing. In the early 1980’s singer Kirk Brandon had two strong stabs at music immortality with the bands Theatre of Hate and Spear of Destiny. Theatre of Hate were a band that became indie darlings in the early 1980’s…
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Single in 150 words – The Sunset Radio – Old Goodbyes
There’s always plenty of space in our house for a pure and clear octane fuelled indie banger, and earlier this year Selby based four piece The Sunset Radio obliged with their excellent single Old Goodbyes. There’s something of the optimistic fresh 90’s style of the likes of Ash in this…
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Single Review: The Madding Crowd – You Give Us Hope
You have to love a band that evokes thoughts of a Thomas Hardy book in their name. While Hardy’s novel was somewhat ironic as it suggested that the rather chaotic world he created was some kind of a rural idyll, The Madding Crowd’s last EP 2016’s The 78th Bridge on…
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Single Review: Roves – All We Came To Know
roves are one of the bands I’ve been really excited about discovering this year; their music and attitude are exactly what I still enjoy searching for. I particularly admire the way roves have been fully focused on their own sound; a deliciously atmospheric, ambient, slightly sad and intelligent vibe. It…
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Single Review: The Maitlands – Daunting from Derker
Self described Oldham’s least favourite sons The Maitlands have just released their new track, Daunting From Derker, the fourth track out this year from these busy lads. For those not in the know, Derker is home to an Oldham metro tram stop sadly renowned in recent times for violent hammer…
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Guiseley band BACKSPACE to support H2N heroes Elephant Trees at Leeds Wardrobe
Young Guiseley alt-pop firecrackers, BACKSPACE are back this autumn and will be supporting fellow Guiseley born band Elephant Trees at the Leeds date of their nationwide “Uncomfortable” tour. “This will be a brilliant gig for us” said Harry Turner BACKSPACE’S drummer, “we’ve had a fantastic summer season and it’ll be…
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Single Review: ABQ – Takes So Long
Belfast but London based band ABQ (aka Albuquerque) clearly have gutsy ambition to join and succeed those behemoths in rock of the likes of Imagine Dragons, Snow Patrol and Biffy Clyro. With their debut single, Takes So Long ABQ have released a strong statement of intent for the future. Takes So…
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Live Interview: The Sherlocks at Bingley Music Live
I remember the moment I first heard The Sherlocks like it was yesterday. I was in a dodgy B&B in Ireland listening to some generic background music on YouTube getting ready for an evening out with the family and a song came on that caught me the second the first riff…
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Single Review: The Sheratons – These Kids
The first track we reviewed in 2018 was one by The Sheratons and we described it as “a solid indie-pop song that will help bring in fans before the band unleash their true musical potential”. We thought at the time Better Days was good but perhaps not as good as the band could be; last…
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Album Review: shambolic – World Torn Apart
If they are really lucky, angry young men lose nothing of their edge as time moves on and so it proves for the guys in Huddersfield based band shambolic. The band have been going strong for over 20 years with the same line up, the same punk energy and biting…
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