Latitude Festival celebrated it’s tenth anniversary last weekend by pulling out all the stops across the variety of music, literature, poetry, dance and comedy acts on offer across Henham Park, bringing back classic acts as well as the best of…
The Pilton Festival (as Glastonbury was originally known) took place on 19th September, 1970. Tickets were £1 each (including free milk) and 1500 people turned up to watch headliners Tyrannosaurus Rex. At Glastonbury 2015 dinosaurs still rule the land, as evidenced by the huge…
Manic Street Preachers first arrived on the scene as a bunch of flamboyantly dressed, troubled Welsh misfits in 1991. Nicholas Allen Jones, better known as Nicky Wire, adopted the position of spokesman with his competitively solemn bandmate Richey Edwards. The…
Because the world is crying out for another 2014 best of list, we present the top five albums of 2014 according to the Gigslutz editorial team… Listen to our Best of 2014 Playlist here Dan Bull, Reviews Editor 1. The Jezabels – The Brink…
Kate Bush’s Hammersmith Apollo residency… Prince’s small, almost-secret shows… Metallica’s controversial headlining slot at Glastonbury… To say 2014 has been a memorable one for big gigs by huge names would be an understatement, but at Gigslutz our reviewers prefer shows that are…
Rating: Any stranger passing by the Roundhouse last Monday could be forgiven for thinking that a full-scale militia had descended upon Chalk Farm Road; albeit an army with tiaras and feather boas to go with the military jackets and berets….
Last time GigSlutz asked me to review some singles, I had to listen to The Saturdays – I’d be lying if I said our friendship hasn’t suffered greatly. I mean, I don’t know what I’d done to deserve that, clearly…
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…
“Nothing is harder to understand than a symbolic work. A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.” Albert Camus The Holy Bible arrived on…
Here is a treat for Manic Street Preachers fans. Ahead of the release of their new album ‘Futurology’ the band have streamed a new song ‘Europa Geht Durch Mich’ Click below to have a listen…. ‘Futurology’ is set to be…