Reading articles and festival brochures commenting on how ‘hot’ and ‘in’ Peace are, I had dismissed this as typical trivialisation and hype. A few minutes into their set however, and a realisation strikes me about the relevance of this well…
Night Dials Release Double A Side Single ‘I’ve Done More Things’ and ‘I’ll Sleep When I Die’. Night Dials headline This Feeling London May 30th at Amersham Arms. For more info & an exclusive free download click here. Gary Byfield…
It’s the final date of their UK tour with Swervedriver and Toronto band, Dearly Beloved, are ready to go out with a bang. As the sound of whirring reverb welcomes the band onto the stage, my excitement swells as I…
Although having taken a battering overnight, the North Stage had soon brightened up just in time for Judas. Finally feeling like a festival in a field and not on a cold dockyard, Judas brought the sunshine and managed to transport…
Rating: This album celebrates it’s fifteenth anniversary this year. Which prompts a question: What is the significance of the release? It’s not the twentieth, or the twenty-fifth. Fifteen is the Michael Gove of numbers. For those who don’t have it,…
Liverpool-based sextet, RongoRongo, take their name from a “system of as yet undeciphered proto-writing discovered on Easter Island…” The music they create is just as interesting. Having released their debut EP on Cassette Store Day last year, RongoRongo have since…
Rating: After the long four years since Ceremonials – for both fans and Florence herself – Florence + The Machine are back with their third album, How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful. It’s a return to reality for Welch, written straight…
I am often kept awake at night concerned at that Rock N Roll is dead. Then the leather-jacketed, black-mop haired Ryan Jarman stomps onto a stage erected in an abandoned Liverpool dockside, lobs a can of Fosters into the crowd, grabs…
Flo Morrissey stares doe-eyed down the barrel of a Sound City Saturday afternoon crowd, her petite frame looking ever more wispy under the weight of an acoustic guitar. For most 19-year-olds or folk musicians for that matter, the concept of playing…
The indie 4-piece from Exeter release ‘Hey (What’s Your Name)’ on May 20th. Available from iTunes, Amazon and Spotify. Swarm play ‘This Feeling’ in London May 30th. For info & an exclusive free download click here. For Fans Of: The La’s, Supergrass…