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PREVIEW: Field Day 07.06.14 – 08.06.14

Field Day stands out amongst the festival listings as a platform for new bands; one of the smaller festivals with two stand alone days of some of the newest and most exciting music around. Last year, I was lucky enough…

Gigslutz guide to european festivals 2014

It’s that time of year again where not only are your eyes streaming from hay fever, but from the pain of the expensive British festivals you know you can’t really afford.  To further intensify the pain, while you’re sobbing into…

ALBUM REVIEW: Klaxons ‘Love Frequency’

Four years of stinging silence is what followed Klaxons’ sound of experimental branching out on second album ‘Surfing The Void’. Combine the fact their debut album, ‘Myths of the Near Future’, won the prestigious Barclaycard Mercury Prize, cementing the boundary-pushing…

ALBUM REVIEW: Coldplay ‘Ghost Stories’

Before digging out the Ouija board and tipping the glasses upside down to try and solve the mystery of Coldplay’s ‘Ghost Stories’, let’s first look at where the other greats were by album #6. (Because, love them or hate them,…

ALBUM REVIEW: Towns ‘Get By’

This month, we celebrated the 20th anniversary of Oasis´ debut single; an essential track in the aftermath of Cobain´s suicide and the decline of grunge, it marked – along with the likes of Blur, Suede, The Verve or Pulp –…

ALBUM REVIEW: Coves – ‘Soft Friday’

In a year in which ‘psychedelic revival’ seems to be on the tongue of every music journalist around, I can’t help feeling that something is missing. We have the krautrock elements in TOY, the dreamy, shoegaze influenced DIIV and the…

Tom Hickox LIVE @ Union Chapel Bar, 25.03.14

The Union Chapel on Upper Street is one of North London’s survivors. Twenty-odd years ago it was just a slightly dilapidated church on a busy road, in need of a bit of love. Following extensive restoration and the attentions of…