NAME: Boardmasters Festival WHERE: Newquay, Watergate Bay & Fristal Beach WHEN: 5-9th August HEADLINERS: Faithless Rudimental Bastille BACKGROUND: Beginning back in the 1980s, Boardmasters has become the festival that marries music with surf. Taking place in two of Newquay most iconic…
The world was a strange place in July 1980. The hood of Thatcher had opened to reveal a big bad wolf; nuclear war was a distinct (sometimes accidental) possibility. Liverpool was still in a post-Beatles hangover, shutting its ears to…
JOLTA have had quite the first year to their career. The recently released ‘Sunset Surrender EP’, had the likes of BBC introducing and XFM support as well as a wealth of blog coverage, many deeming them ‘ones to watch’. The…
Consumption target #1: “You’re the NME, you used to be big!” Corporation Capo: “I am ‘big’. It’s the world that got small.” This week has seen the Greek people tell the EU to ‘Ay gamisou’, women’s football showing the men…
Cardiff based “psychedelic pop” six piece Hipicat beat off a strong field to win the #PlayNoz competition and secure themselves a slot on the main stage at this years Nozstock Festival. We caught up with the band to see what…
Pusher have debuted the video for their new 7″ single, ‘Here She Comes’. The video reveals a hitherto unseen lighter side of the band, and is an amusing take on the Western genre, via the West Yorkshire countryside. Check it out below….
The Charlatans showed once again why they are still one of the best live acts around at their ‘homecoming’ Castlefield Bowl show this weekend (4th July). Manchester for a change was blessed by intense sunshine as around 8,000 fans congregated…
No stranger to Gigslutz pages, Asylums are your ‘This Feeling Track Of The Day’ with the brilliant ‘Joy In A Small Wage’ The track comes on like Orange Juice gene-spliced with Mudhoney, all pop hooks wrapped in barbed wire and…
Signed to Fierce Panda, things there is a bright future for Pesky! Unsurpisingly the ‘Smells Like Tween Spirit’ EP (due for release on 24th July) is their first ever release. We say ‘unsurprisingly’, because Pesky! are still at school. In…
A set of British Summer Time gigs that didn’t include at least one example of musical royalty would, I expect, leave the public feeling some what robbed. Seeing as this is the case, festival goers felt anything but disenfranchised when…