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Live: Bingley Music Live 2018
The finale of UK festival season as far as H2N is concerned, is always Bingley Music Live. Taking place the weekend after the manic Leeds Festival, BML offers a relaxed but vibrant end to the summer and this year’s festival was without doubt the best we’ve attended so far. With…
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Single Review: Freeda – Go Home
The guitar has formed an integral part of sound in popular music for decades and the importance of the instrument within the mix of a band’s particular sound always fascinates. Manchester (Mossley) five piece Freeda (Sean Rowles – Lead Vocals, Callum Hignett – Lead Guitar, Cameron Meekums-Spence (a man bringing…
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Single Review: Gently Tender – 2 Chords Good
With allegations of abuse currently swirling around one of the most energetic bands I’ve seen live, Chicago’s The Orwells and feeling desperately sad for both the alleged victims and the couple of band members who appear clean of accusation, it brought me to reflecting about happier times where your heroes…
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Live: Goa Express + Working Men’s Club – Golden Lion, Todmorden
While it’s generally all about the music sometimes the venue also gladdens the heart, and while somewhat painful for me to get to via public transport I always look out to see what’s going at the wonderful Golden Lion in Todmorden. The pub is so friendly that I don’t mind…
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Live: DZ Deathrays + Gardenback + These New South Whales – Band on the Wall, Manchester
It’s not every day you have the chance to catch top Aussie band DZ Deathrays so I cut short a work leaving do to hotfoot it over to Manchester’s Band on the Wall. As I waited for the bands I spotted my future; an elderly gentleman of about 70 with…
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Single Review: Mercury Machine – Aurora
The 80’s wasn’t just about bright bubblegum coloured clothes and dodgy fake sun dyed hair; this is an image of the decade that is about as realistic as a happy go lucky George Michael chatting up a woman on an early Wham! video. The 80’s were also about a time…
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Album Review: Cullen Omori – The Diet
A band I adored a few years back were those soft lo-fi retro Chicago rockers The Smith Westerns. While the guitar work wasn’t perfect live, the gentle but persuasive bounce of the Smith Westerns’ music shone through and they were one of the bands of Reading/Leeds for me back in…
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R&L 2018 – Artist of the Weekend, Sounds Like a Storm
This weekend marks the best three days in the British music calendar as Reading and Leeds Festivals take place. We have picked one artist, opening up the Radio 1 Stage, as our artist of the weekend who you simply cannot miss – they’re Leeds band Sounds Like a Storm. For about…
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Single Review: Melancholy Ray – Lampshade
With a name like Melancholy Ray, you’d be forgiven for assuming the music that would be produced by the Callum Fewell’s project would be laid back easy listening. Far from it though as the Leeds band have just released their fourth, energetic single Lampshade. The track is a three minute blast through all…
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Single Review: The Attic Doctors – Sauce
North-west five piece The Attic Doctors came across our radar at the start of this month when they released their third single Sauce. The track, which was one of the first to be written by the band was always going to benefit from a successful release due to already becoming a fan favourite…
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EP Review: The Goa Express – Use Your Brain
Burnley based The Goa Express have taken time out of their busy local gig schedule to release their third single; this time a four track EP Use Your Brain. Once again the boys treat us to a psych/baggy extravaganza. Opening track My Day Monday starts the EP off fairly sedately with some good…
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Single Review: Courtyards – Backseat
The first time we saw Courtyards in January 2017, we knew they were a real talent. One of the songs on a setlist on my wall still (sad I know!) has a whole host of tracks that are now sing-a-longs at any Courtyards show – but there’s been just one…
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Single Review: The Hope State – Just Survive
Earlier this summer, The Hope State released their new track “Just Survive” to great acclaim from the Halfway 2 Nowhere team. The Toronto based band are the latest in a string of Canadian bands to make it onto our playlists and their infectious, honest lyrics in “Just Survive” really caught my attention…
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Sauce // Magick Trick
Fresh Manchester band Sauce and their new cheeky little track Magick Trick serves up a devilishly clever melding. I’ll resist the temptation to suggest it’s as good as the day I discovered the mix of hot chilli and barbeque. Magick Trick gives me a feel for the heyday of 60’s…
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Album Review: Massive Wagons, Full Nelson
The North-West is often mistaken for being synonymous with Manchester and that, unfortunately is not the case. Many cities and towns have seen a plethora of mediocre artists come and go in the area and it often feels like Blackburn, Chester and the likes will never create a real artist…
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Single Review: Able’s Army, Private Eye
The first time I saw Able’s Army back in 2016, I described them as “Britpop Beatles”. Since then they have gone to prove me wrong by being a great indie-rock band with the releases of Crawl and Astronaut. This month though, the Huddersfield based band released their new single Private Eye which is 100%…
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Lazy Sunday Afternoon: Sunday 19th August @ Wharf Chambers
Following the beautiful vibes, glorious sun and killer line up of last summer’s LAZY SUNDAY AFTERNOON, the curators – Bradford’s cinematic alt-rock quartet GLASS MOUNTAIN – have upped the ante with another eclectic and exciting line up, including THE GOLDEN AGE OF TV, THE HOWL & THE HUM, DREAM ENGLISH…
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Live: Y Not Festival 2018
Y Not Festival holds a special place on the live music circuit. Few festivals combine the talent of tomorrow with the legends of yesterday quite like them which is why, year on year the festival grows both in capacity, and in stature. Following on from the disaster that was 2017,…
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The Maitlands // Kisses For The Masses
A new song that has snuck under the covers into my consciousness comes from Manchester based The Maitlands. The June released track Kisses For The Masses has confidence in spade; it’s not a long track but nevertheless the riffs and the tune appear to meander gently along before the band…
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Purple Thread // Life’s A Drag
There’s no shortage of pomp and flash when Leeds band Purple Thread are around. This July saw the release of their latest track Life’s A Drag. Like its immediate predecessor, Glitter, the song has swagger, funk, punk and bounce in equal measure; it’s impossible to stay down when Purple Thread…
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