Brighton singer-songwriter Hayley Ross is releasing her debut EP, Barracuda, on Barracuda Recordings this Friday (11 March). The four track EP features ‘Barracuda’, ‘Go Slow’, ‘Kids Again’ and a remix of the title track by Merz. Watch the video for ‘Barracuda’…
The Pilton Festival (as Glastonbury was originally known) took place on 19th September, 1970. Tickets were £1 each (including free milk) and 1500 people turned up to watch headliners Tyrannosaurus Rex. At Glastonbury 2015 dinosaurs still rule the land, as evidenced by the huge…
Kate Tittley has no love for the contemporary trend towards hip hop / dance crossovers… This morning I listened to a little Usher and Nelly albums circa late 90’s/early 00’s. In my opinion, when they were actually good. As I bopped…
They started out as a rock ‘n’ roll covers band and ended up defining their own genre. Pete Cary catches up with The Jam’s former drummer Rick Buckler to talk about his newly-released autobiography, That’s Entertainment: My Life in the…
1995 was the year that Britpop exploded and saw the British music scene riding high on the waves of a nostalgic revival. Unfortunately, by this point the movement had become rather self-aware and bloated with swaggering ego. Despite the growing…
Welcome to Tunbridge Wells. Royal Tunbridge Wells. The embodiment of Conservative Middle England. Tory since 1974, when the consituency began, it’s perhaps the last place you’d expect to find a Sleaford Mods gig. But sleepy towns like this need waking…
“What d’ya reckon?” asks the man in front of me of his companion. “Yeah. Like Mark Lanegan fronting the Verve.” We’re literally (use it properly, kids) in a dingy basement in Lincoln, watching Pusher, five lads from Barnsley who don’t look old enough…
Adele – 21 The sophomore release from Adele Laurie Blue Adkins is not just an album of heartbreaks and make-ups; it’s a record depicting the struggles of a hardly-worth-it relationship and coming through at the end to realise what you’re really worth. There’s no…
Tree of Wolves is is a five piece band from Carmarthen, Wales comprising Aled Thomas (vocal/guitar), Gruffydd Wyn Owen (guitar), Mark Howells (bass), Ray Thomas (drums) and Charli Bicknell (vocal/keys). Their debut single ‘Icy Water’ was recorded with John Lawrence (Gorky’s Zygotic…
Beyond the rage, over on the other side of the cathartic ritual of released pent-up frustration and anger, there exists something else that unites the two men on stage and the Electric Ballroom crowd. It’s that rare thing you get…