Music Venue Mania: London
Since the callous demon of gentrification has swept across England like a bad smell, its capital and the venues that make it one of the best clubbing cities in Europe has faced the rough and tumble. However, it is not…
Author Archives: Ruby Munslow
INTERVIEW: Gary Stringer from Reef
When a band takes 18 years off producing albums, you may believe the end is nigh. The rough and tumble of being a ‘rock ‘n’ roll star’ may have got the best of them, or, the glue that gelled band…
World Meditation Day @ fabric, London, 15.05.18
fabric is the place that has been through thick and thin, coming out on top after facing the closure two years ago. Each year the award-winning venue continues to prove how the dance scene is so much more than clubbing,…
LIVE: Arcadia Festival, London, 12.05.18
It’s the time of year when the child of the gawpingly impressive Arcadia spider skittles over from Glastonbury (or wherever it takes shelter) into the pearly gates of London’s Queen Elizebeth Olympic Park. It’s the weekend that fills the overground…
LIVE: Iceage @ Scala 08/05/2018
It had been a matter of days since the release of the outstanding Beyondless before Iceage were parading, and rightly so, around the stage of London’s Scala in their signature tipsy manner. It was always going to be a packed…
LIVE: Nicholas Allbrook @ The Social, London 26/04/2018
Nicholas Allbrook – who had jaunted and thrashed around as if in the midst of a seizure – had perfectly encapsulated the mad hatter on amphetamine at his show at The Social, London, on April 26, 2018. It was a…
LIVE: Soma Fest 21/04/2018
Chelsea, what with its perfectly pruned gardens, is the last place you’d expect a storm of punk and indie bands to be flocking to. These sun-kissed weekends have been letting loose on the all-dayers, and after a long, torturous winter,…
TRACK: Iceage – Take It All
Copenhagen and its pivotal punk scene continue to spit out bands that balance poetry and cacophonous sounds flawlessly. When the two are combined, you are left with the end result, Iceage. Straight from their ‘Pain Killer’ collaboration with Sky Ferreira, frontman…
Latitude Festival adds Gabrielle Aplin and NAO to 2018 bill
Not a day passes by without a festival announcement, each one riles us up for those summer days, holding pints in our mud-covered festival gear and the latest is courtesy of Latitude Festival 2018. The latest additions to be added…
Touring Scandinavia with Peter Doherty – Part 2
Wednesday 14 Travel day / Thursday 15 Show day Aarhus 3pm marks the time of departure. It’s 10 hours to Denmark, with a good old ferry to break up the long haul journey. It’s 3pm and Peter’s in a guitar…