Rating: Gum Takes Tooth are a London based electronic duo who take all the preconceived notions of what electronic music can sound like and toss them out the window. The band’s sound is strong rooted in a DIY ethic and…
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 Summer Series at Somerset House continues Friday evening (11th Jult) saw Irish outfit Kodaline take to the stage supported by current festival-favourite minor act Sons and Lovers. Kodaline are not a particularly innovative band, as their music is rather…
Rating: As the clock strikes 9pm, the crowd grow with increasing eagerness as the next band on the bill of the well-received, newly established Liverpudlian one day festival approach their slot. Catfish And The Bottlemen are due on stage in…
Rating: It doesn’t get much better than seeing one of your favourite bands in a small venue. As a warm up for their T in The Park and Benicassim festival appearances, on Friday night (July 11th) The Charlatans made that…
Rating: If I have learned one thing in my time on this planet, it is not to try and second-guess a Super Furry Animal. The experimental Welsh rock band’s overall style has always managed to be at once immediately distinctive…
Who: George Ezra Where: BBC Introducing Stage secret set performance When: 17:20 – 17:50 A festival wouldn’t be a miraculous success without a special ‘secret’ pop-up performance sprouting out of nowhere. Half an hour after his storming set in the…
Rating: Peace have received endless plaudits after the success of their debut album ‘In Love’. Now in just over a year they have put a new set of songs together, whilst the release date is still unknown, Peace are poised…
Rating: Who: Pixies Where: King Tut’s Wah Wah Tent When: 22:35-23:50 Seeing your favourite band live, in the flesh, singing and preforming the tracks from an album you’ve constantly played to death on your record player, is something magically special…
Rating: Who: Drenge Where: King Tut’s Wah Wah Tent When: 15:45 – 16:15 Top dogs, d’ya know what I mean? Cue the two Loveless brothers entering stage right with a swaggering surge of energy, sending the entirety of the heaving…