Author Archives: Hannah Tinker

Welcome To The World Of Dentcha

Craftily named by one of their founding fathers after a misspelling of ‘denture’, these gig promoters represent those artists lost in the maze of genres and subcultures. Shane Dickinson and Dan Caldwell are both members of Mold, started back in 2016…

TRACK: Ella Grace – ‘Run’

London-newcomer Ella Grace presents whimsical pop track ‘Run’ in a follow-up to her acclaimed debut ‘Here We Are Again’. Her music offers a raw approach to tougher topics a lot of mainstream artists stray from, like the painful side of…

INTERVIEW: DMA’s

The DMA’s arrived on our shores with the whir of a klaxon as they dropped their second studio album For Now on April 27th 2018. It came complete with a signing and brief acoustic performance at Rough Trade East, before…

Cabbage

LIVE: Cabbage @ Manchester Art Gallery, 03.04.18

The arrival of Cabbage‘s debut album Nihilistic Glamour Shots is one that has been long-awaited. Dreamt about, written about, we have eagerly anticipated the launch of their (hopefully) long-chain of albums as an active band. Knowingly controversial, Cabbage is indie music’s…

TRACK: Ben Howard – ‘A Boat To An Island On The Wall’

A lot has happened since 2014; topically, typically and technologically. It’s a different world since Ben Howard’s last studio album. I Forget Where We Were summarised the ideologies of many of his youthful fanbase. The subsequent arena tour, and his top…

All Talk: An Ode to Foals and 10 years of Antidotes

Having formed in Oxford over ten years ago, life for an indie millennial is unimaginable without Foals. Whether it’s that ‘Hummer’ or ‘Spanish Sahara’ come to mind when ever you think of Skins or you spent a long Summer with ‘What…

LIVE: Stereophonics @ Manchester Arena 09.03.18

The 90s are synonymous with the broken down, derivative and quintessentially indie. But survivors have some how managed to transcend the ordinary and fixate themselves as legendary. Call it a commiseration for enduring the 1990s. Amongst them are the Welsh-born-and-bred…

Track: Cabbage – ‘Preach To The Converted’

Mention the words ‘Cabbage’ and ‘album’ and ears prick up. Reactions are gauged and opinions voiced by any music fan with an ear close to the vast ground paced by the Mossley punk-rock quintet. It seems all too surprising Cabbage haven’t…