Over 2500 people can fit inside Manchester’s Academy 1; A big black box full to the brim with people. Guys with shirts off and girls with heels strut around, some more rowdily than others, trying to get the best spot…
Rating: LOCO, London’s premium comedy film festival is back for its 5th year and looks set to be the biggest yet, packed with premieres, director Q&As and unique events. For the first time, the festival is programmed over twelve days,…
Rating: “That rare and thrilling moment when the record you’re working on crosses the threshold into Classic Status #tlsp2”: The Tweet that, perhaps too obviously, announced the return of The Last Shadow Puppets last October. Owen Pallett brought the strings…
The best thing about discovering a band at the start of their musical journey is the opportunity to watch them improve, grow and evolve. Man Made are back in their hometown, for what seems like the thousandth time, but I’m…
For most, including me, The Feeling were the best of the best when it comes to mid noughties indie. 2006 saw ‘Fill My Little World’ and ‘Never Be Lonely’ leap into the Top 10, when Razorlight and The Fratellis were…
Sometimes it’s difficult to differentiate dreams from waking life. Like when you take an afternoon nap having convinced yourself that you’d done everything that needed to be done in the day. When you hadn’t. It is those few moments of…
Introducing the night with incredibly talent enthused support acts, the entirety of the line up supplied the audience with a spectacular night. First, the vastly first-rated Flor, performing their biggest track ‘Heart’ and ‘Back Again’, resembling the likes of an electro…
Mere months after their triumphant headlining European tour, Everything Everything take a step forwards towards the arenas but backwards to a supporting slot; so a step sideways, without the spectacular light-show that backdropped their own dates, yet with the tricks…
Rating: Rams is an Icelandic film about sheep farming. From that very short synopsis, you may not expect much from this indie film that won Un Certain Regard at Cannes 2015, but you’d be wrong. Rams is a beautiful, quiet…
With his album due out very shortly, North London rapper Jordan Sefton has decided to share a new track from the upcoming project, entitled ‘Love Me‘. Some clever reverb-drenched sampling underpins this beauty and acts as the perfect foil for…