Rating: Last year Manic Street Preachers were taking a solemn approach to their past with the angst-ridden ‘Rewind The Film’ which took them back to Thatcher-era Blackwood, full of social decay and backwards politics. However less than a year later…
Rating: Hyde Park last night was graced by The Libertines as they continued their second reunion together. Following on from their two intimate warm up shows in Glasgow last weekend they performed in front of 60,000 at Hyde Park and boy they…
Anticipation and spirits are high walking down into the bowels of The Ruby Lounge, the slight smell of beer and piss is accompanied by the broken noise of first support Ablebody. Sadly this is a somewhat deflating start, the adolescent-ish…
Rating: Jack White is a man of many faces. From the fresh-faced early days of the White Stripes and the infamous Alicia Keys/James Bond/‘Zorro on doughnuts’ phase (thanks for that one, Noel Gallagher), to the Raconteurs and the Dead Weather,…
Starting life as a duo back in 2012, with just Liv Willars and Jen Calleja, Feature have now gained a third member – Heather Perkins. Having just released their debut EP, this freshly formed trio deliver cheerful, fuzzy punk-pop with…
Rating: “I don’t get what the hype’s all about” mutters my friend as we are making our way to Hyde Park for her first ever Arcade Fire show. Indeed, if one’s sole knowledge of the Montreal indie act consists of…
Having just experienced my first time at Glasto, I could go on forever about my ‘highlights’ and the truly wonderful time I had… The sheer excitement and joy at being surrounded by music, mud and friends for five days, in…
Psychedelic rock seems to be on the rise now again nowadays, and the latest album to be added to The Moons’ arsenal, Mindwaves, provides us with clear evidence why. Opener ‘Luna’ leaves us anxiously waiting for what is about to…
Rating: I’ve always found it interesting seeing a band that are often billed as ‘one-hit wonders’ by music fans outside of Indie music. Indie-pop trio Foster The People broke into the mainstream charts a couple of summers ago with their hit single…
Arriving on Clapham Common from it’s usual Hyde Park setting, Calling Festival attempted to ease the pain for everyone who didn’t get a Glastonbury ticket and with Aerosmith and Stevie Wonder headlining, the certainly made people forget about Worthy Farm…