Rating: Radkey have been making a lot of noise recently, and my word what a noise they make. The critically lauded punk rock outfit from St Louis, Missouri have an intense live show comprising a maturity far beyond their tender…
As you venture outside, there’s no doubt that you will now be surrounded by topless men with the unsightly combination of beer-belly’s and dodgy sun-tans, along with tango-d women in the shortest shorts you’ve ever seen and flip-flops. This can…
In support of their second album World Of Joy, Minneapolis’ surf-punk Howler popped into Birmingham on March 28 to play a set crammed full of boisterous antics and amps turned up loud enough to make sure no-one could leave without…
Shepherd’s Bush Empire always takes me a bit by surprise. Not just because it’s so pretty – although it is – but because I always forget just how intimate gigs here can feel. If you turn around on the ground…
Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen is the epitome of East London: dark and dingy but undeniably cool. The EP plugging was shameless, but no doubt effective, being greeted with a table full of EPs before I’d barely stepped through the door….
Ever been to a party at your local community centre? To see your mates band at the pub? You walk in and everyone is awkwardly standing at the edges of the room, drinks in hand. You can almost taste the…
“Thank you for coming to our first gig as a top ten band,” Metronomy’s founder and frontman Joseph Mount tells a surprisingly lively Monday night crowd, continuing with how saying that felt (with a bang on the drum for each…
‘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. …
The Twang have coined this tour ‘intimate’. Well if you consider a cramming a few hundred club kids, football hooligans and lairy couples into a beer soaked underground intimate…well maybe we need to redefine intimate. As a group they are…
“I’m pretty unconvinced, but my girlfriend made us come so yeah…” The anonymous man standing stage left’s comment goes a long way in describing the type of crowd that’s packed out the iconic upstairs room of The Old Blue Last…