Taking place the day after the festival, Live At Leeds have announced a finale show, set to see the weekend out in style. Headlining the closing show are Geordie icons, Maximo Park are bringing their art-rock hits (‘Apply Some Pressure’,…
Name: 1-2-3-4 Festival Where: Three Mills Island, London When: Saturday 3rd September Headliners: The Cribs, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Carl Barat and The Jackals Also featuring: Spector, TOY, The Wytches, Telegram, Thomas Cohen, Bo Ningen, Milk Teeth, No Joy, Claw Marks A…
Rating: 2012: With the heavily patriotic backdrop of the imminent Olympic Games, Swim Deep released a grungy, homebodied video for an anthem of the short lived B-TOWN scene, ‘King City’. A few months later, DIIV presented Oshin; forty minutes and…
Telegram Setting the bar high for the rest of the weekend at the Jägerhaus tent, Telegram – all skinny jeans and sunglasses – owned the stage with unapologetic force. Before entering the tent the festival seemed relatively empty (as you’d…
Spector fans had to wait an excruciating amount of time for any real news relating to the band, then came the bombardment of new singles left, right and centre. As the crowd grows increasingly eager in London’s renown 100 club,…
Festivals belong in fields, or so I once thought. “Just 20,000 people standing in a field” sang Jarvis sardonically – written, mind, before Pulp’s seminal Glastonbury performance in 1995. All you need to accurately recreate the typical festival experience is…
Rating: Set in the abyss of Derbyshire countryside, Y Not Festival is widely regarded as one of the best of the smaller festivals that the country has to offer. Arriving early meant that I could pitch my tent in the Kashmir…