My turn to look over the single releases that will be bothering you for 99p from Monday, and as it’s officially August expect sun, sea, sand and… bumblebeees. Clean Bandit Feat. Stylo G ‘Come Over’ The steel drum hasn’t ever been…
What do you call a skinny, old, bearded man in a cupboard? The hide and seek world champion, 1974. Ouch. Not quite as good as hiding (particularly since the dawn of the download) is the hidden album track. A musical…
Rating: The Jezabels make rock music with a strong sense of pop rules, or pop music with rock sensibilities. Fronted by Hayley Mary (described as “a really dark Kylie” by someone leaving the venue), the four piece Australian band are…
Rating: As the frontman of a-ha, Morten Harket delivered high notes via sculpted cheek bones, making for a huge teen fan base and untouchable electro-pop numbers. While they struggled to gain the critical acclaim their later work deserved (Coldplay and…
Now in its tenth year, Wireless is essentially a festival for those who don’t fancy the full festival experience: Three stages of music from 1.30 until 11.00pm (at the very latest) over two sites at London and Birmingham. While initially…
Rating: “Me, Serge and Chris started this band in a shed in 1997,” a clearly overwhelmed Tom Meighan tells 60, 000 revellers in Leicester’s Victoria Park, following thanks and praise to the crowd from other members of the band throughout…
Listening to Kasabian ahead of tomorrow’s homecoming show, it’s one track from new album 48:13 that really stands out. One song that, just when you think it’s heading to the fade, becomes a whole other, completely different entity; the band’s…
Rating: How Robbie Williams compressed his ego to fit almost seamlessly back into Take That is perhaps one of pop music’s biggest mysteries. Stood behind Gary Barlow’s piano, adding backing “oohs” and “aahs” to ‘A Million Love Songs’, this was…
Deadmau5, Eric Prydz, Pete Tong, Simian Mobile Disco and Skream are just some of the names playing the Sunday of SW4, and you could be heading to Clapham Common to delve into the dance music madness yourself. We really do…
In one of the most unforeseen comebacks, The Beautiful South’s Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott played to a sold-out Leadmill (or “DMILL” according to the retro, vertical, lit-up sign over the entrance) last night – on the seventh part of…