Author Archives: Rachel Young

About Rachel Young

Likes: Ponchos, cornflakes and Almost Famous. Dislikes: Egg with any red food, Leicester's seagull population and having no ID.

INTERVIEW: John McCullagh and The Escorts

Day 2 of Bingley Music Live, and after some technical issues involving a Dictaphone and some steep, concrete steps – Gigslutz sat down for a quick chat with John McCullagh and one of his Escorts to talk poetry, Dylan and…

BINGLEY MUSIC LIVE, 31/08/14, DAY 3 (SUNDAY)

It’s Sunday morning – the weather is as far from the mini hurricane of Friday and irritating showers of Saturday. Sun, at last. But it seemed that the fun of Saturday night has taken its toll on some people, and…

BINGLEY MUSIC LIVE, 30/08/14, DAY 2 (SATURDAY)

With no sign of Jason not so Derulo, lost wellies or £3 plastic ponchos from ASDA, stuck in trees; Friday was fantastic. Not to mention it had staged equally fantastic music, a busy Saturday had a lot to contend with….

BINGLEY MUSIC LIVE 29/08/14, DAY 1 (FRIDAY)

“I say Jason, you say Derulo… Jason?” “Derulo!” and that sums up my shuttle bus from V Festival, home to rural Leicestershire. But how does this have anything to do with Bingley Music Live, you may be wondering? After Jason…

PREVIEW: Bingley Music Live, 29th – 31st August 2014

Relatively small and relatively new Bingley Music Live has had its fair share of popular headliners over its short life span. From The Undertones, The Human League and The Coral to Wretch 32, Professor Green and Tinchy Stryder. Although, compared…

Findlay LIVE @ Strawberry Fields Festival 08.08.14

Rating: Girl Power? That sounds like a very big understatement when describing Manchester’s flamboyant female Findlay. Festival domination seems to cut it better. Natalie Findlay and her band made the most of the atmospheric evening, high placement on the bill…

Kasabian LIVE @ Victoria Park, Leicester 21.06.14

Rating: For weeks, if not months, Leicester has been buzzing with the prospect that its biggest export (apart from Walkers Crisps) would be coming home in style. Having not seen an outdoor music event on this scale since 2003 Victoria…