Tonight a predominantly female audience has turned up to watch Angel Haze perform at Heaven, with a couple of bearded men thrown in for good measure. As my gig companion wryly puts it ‘the Candy Bar may have shut down…
Solo English singer-songwriter, Nick Mulvey, has released two EPs – The Trellis and Fever to the Form – but is best known for his catchy 2014 single Cucurucu which featured as Zane Lowe’s hottest record of the week and reached number…
Hello you! It’s been a while hasn’t it…I just needed some time, a little space…can we look past this and move on? Yeeeeaaah we can! Spring has sprung and I’m feeling perky, so this week we’re all about big melodies,…
CHVRCHES’ synth-pop story (sounding like a reworking of Limahl’s Giorgio Moroder-produced Never Ending one in parts, come to think of it) continued with a stop at Leeds Met Uni on Sunday, where their joyous melodic electronica filled the poster-filled four…
Free shows are in a sense the musical equivalent of a glory hole, you don’t really know what you’re getting into and you may or may not enjoy it in the end. More often than not, the majority of people…
For months, I’ve been anticipating a new record from my favourite surfer pop-rockers, Real Estate, and at last it has arrived: ‘Atlas’ was out last week, and lead single ‘Talking Backwards’ is a pretty promising slice of what we can…
This four piece band, based in South East London, is a fairly odd bunch: a former Thai monk, a Goldsmith’s graduate, a bookworm and, well, the fourth guy. However, somehow it works. Ziegler Co.’s folk-rock-indie echoes Latin American rhythms and…
‘It all started here’ says Este to the Brighton crowd at the Dome tonight, ‘we really wanted to play for you guys’. Haim has embarked on a rapid upward trajectory since their Brighton debut at the Great Escape in 2012. …
11 hours after leaving for London the day before, I crashed at 5am underneath the rising sun with a faint ringing in my ears. Backtrack a bit and it’s coming up to something-past-six in Wycombe station. I’ve never met a…
Is it coincidence that the week Pharrell Williams released his first solo album in eight years, the sunshine returned to the shores of the UK? Of course it was, he’s not magic. What ability Pharrell lacks in weather manipulation however…